Just Cause (TV series): Difference between revisions

* [[Amicably Divorced]]: Whit and all three of his ex-wives. His third marriage, in particular, split up because he was [[Married to the Job]], not because of any personality conflict.

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: In the pilot:

'''Whit:''' Your prison gut is going to get me disbarred. }}

* [[Character Name Alias]]: Alex's husband hides out under the aliases of famous literary figures, including [[Walt Whitman]] and [[Edgar Allan Poe]].

** In the pilot, Alex tells Whit that she "studied [her] a-- butt off" to earn her law degree.

** Alex to Whit again in "Buried Past":

* [[Cut Himself Shaving]]: Played with in "Above the Law": When Alex is talking to the crooked police officer responsible for the death of her fiend, she points out the suspicious scratches on his face and asks if he cut himself shaving.

* [[Diplomatic Impunity]]: In "Trial by Memory," diplomatic immunity protects a suspect. Oddly, the lawyers don't seem to remember it exists until the suspect invokes it.

* [[Dirty Cop]]: In "Above the Law," Alex believes corrupt police officers are behind the death of a friend who just got out of prison.

* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: In the pilot:

** Doubles as [[Self Deprecating Humor]].

* [[Hollywood Law]]: Alex frequently goes undercover to gather evidence about the opposing side of a case, which usually involves talking to them without their attorney present and without identifying herself as an employee of Whit's law firm. This is completely ignored in most episodes, although she gets in trouble for it once or twice when the plot requires a conflict.

* [[Reverse Psychology]]: In "Human Trials," the law firm gets around a court order not to release evidence against a drug company by roundaboutly getting the file into the hands of the D.A. and then telling him not to read it.

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: When Peggy tells Ted that her car was towed in "The Last to Know," he replies:

* [[Ship Tease]]:

** Ted and Peggy. The writers stick them together for three episodes that make it look like they're starting a relationship, beginning with him teaching her how to rollerblade and ending with her inviting him to a Christmas party at her parents' house. It's later implied that they talk regularly, although not necessarily that they're dating, but they [[Ships That Pass in the Night|never interact on screen again for the rest of the series]], before or after.