Law & Order: UK/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Speaks French.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Much like his US counterpart, he has a rocky relationship with both of his daughters thanks to his alcoholism and his two failed marriages (which are themselves due to his drinking problem).

* {{spoiler|[[Drowning My Sorrows]] / [[Off the Wagon]]: Comes ''very'' close to being played straight--note the scene in Matt's now deserted apartment where he stares at the beer bottles for what seems like an eternity--but is ultimately averted in "Survivor's Guilt" with the help of his new partner, Sam.}}

* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: Walsh, to simulate Brooks' [[Addiction Displacement|sugar craving acquired after he gave up alcohol]], gained two stone in weight.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Several--child abuse, established in the episode "Unloved", Alesha Phillips, established in [http://www.tv.com/law-and-order-uk/alesha/episode/1261417/recap.html?tag=episode_header;recap Alesha], and Ronnie Brooks, established in [http://www.tv.com/law-and-order-uk/honour-bound/episode/1294062/recap.html?tag=episode_header;recap Honor Bound].

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]/[[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]: He's a pretty nice guy. . .until/unless you tick him off, usually by pushing one of the abovementioned buttons.

'''Matt''': "Yeah, I know." }}

 

'''Ronnie''': "You wouldn't like him when he plays "bad cop". }}

* [[Blue Eyes]]: {{spoiler|and we get a heartbreaking close-up of them in his final moments}}

* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: We learn he has a cat in the episode "Deals", {{spoiler|and Ronnie is seen caring for it (and commiserating with it) in "Survivor's Guilt"}}.

* [[Raised Catholic]]: Mentions having lit a candle for a murder victim, "Once a Catholic. . .", but in the episode "Confession", he states that he hasn't been in a confessional in over 20 years, and the events of that episode offer a pretty strong indication of why he's become disillusioned with his faith. . .

 

=== DS Sam Casey ===

* [[Expy]]: Mike Logan, temper-wise. There are hints of Ed Green as well.

* [[Fair Cop]]

* {{spoiler|[[Hot Dad]]}}

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Oh, Sam. You had to know that {{spoiler|joking to a black suspect about what you have to do to get two weeks in Barbados [[Mistaken for Racist|would come back to bite you, right?]]}} No? Well how about {{spoiler|sleeping with a perp posing as a "victim?'}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Subverted; he leads him outside by the leash.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]:

** Not quite. Despite some obvious similarities with his predecessor--young, good-looking, absent (and possibly abusive) father, there are some equally obvious differences--Matt's temper was generally limited to [[Berserk Button|certain issues]], whereas Sam appears to have a short fuse about ''everything''. Matt also clearly cherished the surrogate father he had in Ronnie. Sam rebuffs such efforts--despite generally getting along, the two simply do not have the rapport that Matt and Ronnie did, though [[Fridge Brilliance|that could easily be chalked up to the short time that they've been paired, plus Ronnie's lingering grief]].

* [[Expy]]: Benjamin Stone

** And his penchant for bedding female colleagues is straight out of Jack McCoy's handbook.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]? His "win at all costs" method of handling a case has led him to do some borderline reprehensible things, all of which tend to have the same theme:

* [[Casanova]]: Much like James Steel, he seems to have bedded or flirted with nearly half the female lawyers in London.

* [[Expy]]: Jack McCoy, even moreso than his predecessor

 

=== Alesha Philips ===

* [[Berserk Button]]: Thanks to her experience, rape, as well as women [[False Rape Accusation|who lie about it]].

** As seen in the episode "Alesha", she also serves as a [[Berserk Button]] for everyone in the group--infuriated by what's happened to her, they go all out to bring her rapist to justice. And note that James can barely stand to watch the video of her rape, while Matt can't bring himself to watch it at all.

** She doesn't like sexist putdowns either, or people trying to play the race card to garner her sympathy for a cop killer--especially since said cop was her friend and [[Heroic Sacrifice|died saving her life]].

* [[Broken Bird]]: And ''how''. Raped by her doctor, loses her friend/mentor before they get a chance to explore their feelings for each other, and another friend is killed saving her life before ''they'' can explore their feelings for each other. Unlike most examples of this trope, she appears to have come out of each tragedy stronger than before.

* [[Expy]]: An interesting case, as she appears to be an amalgam of several of the original's female characters rather than being based on one in particular--Dr. Olivet's rape, Claire Kincaid's inexperience (initially), etc. She even shows a few flashes of Paul Robinette (the abovementioned scene where she bristles at a defense lawyer's race-baiting).

* [[Idiot Ball]]: In "Alesha", where she tries to entrap a doctor who touched her inappropriately and gets raped

** [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of the above. She essentially jumped on a grenade, knowing something bad would happen, in order to get justice for all of Merrick's other victims, and knowing he would never pay for her. Indeed, when Matt asks why she went back after he'd already assaulted her, she admits that she wasn't expecting him to rape her, but states, "Someone had to stop him. At least now we can lock the bastard up."

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Da Chief]]

* [[Expy]]: Adam Schiff

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Much like DI Chandler, is fiercely protective of his underlings, yet doesn't tolerate mistakes from them.

 

 

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