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* [[The Bad Guys Are Cops]]: {{spoiler|Captain Dudley and a large group of his men are setting themselves up as the new LA drug kingpins after Mickey Cohen goes to prison.}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' mistreat women around [[Wife-Basher Basher|Bud White]].
* [[Billing Displacement]]: Kevin Spacey is listed first, though Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce's roles are more substantial in the film. This is probably an effort to establish Spacey as a decoy protagonist considering he was the most famous actor in the film. Crowe was an unknown at the time, and only later became a "name" actor. The even lesser-known Pearce, who is arguably the main character, is given third billing after Crowe and Spacey.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: In the book, Exley has a case of hero worship/one-sided rivalry with his father, a legendary LAPD detective turned construction magnate. A big chunk of the story is Ed learning his father was not the paragon of virtue he thought him to be.
* [[The Cavalry Arrives Late]]: In the climactic showdown at the Victory Motel, {{spoiler|Bud is already wounded and Ed cornered before the cavalry shows up. Even then, the cavalry doesn't realize that one of their own has been behind the entire thing.}}
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