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* [[Dirty Business]]: All of the Minders are called on to do terrible things; none of them feel good about it. Much of the series shows Tara's resulting self-abuse and struggle with the psychological aftermath. (Ironically, stone-cold killers are the ''last'' thing Crocker wants for agents.)
{{quote|''Doctor Callard:'' You sent her to Kosovo to shoot a man in '''cold blood.''' You wouldn't want her in the Section if that '''didn't''' bother her.}}
* [[Downer Ending]]: A few times, things...don't end well. {{spoiler|A Gentleman's Game ends with Tom Wallace dead. Private Wars ends with the chessmaster of recent atrocities as President of Uzbekistan while Tara has to sacrifice more of her own soul to shoot the vengeful husband of the woman who'd been raped, tortured, and murdered at that President's behest to preserve stability in the region. In front of his own son. Only that her daughter is waiting back home for her gives this a glint of light.}}
* [[Expy]]: The series as a whole has a lot in common with ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'', but most characters are different in various significant ways. ''Most''. Paul Crocker and Tom Wallace are obviously modeled on Neil Burnside and Willie Caine, respectively.
* [[Firing One-Handed]]: And completely impractical, as shown with Russian gangsters.
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* [[Spy Fiction]]: Definitely, ''extremely'' in the Stale Beer category.
* [[The Spymaster]]: Paul Crocker, of course. Also Angela Cheng, the CIA Station Chief in London. Paul once jokes that at least a quarter of the staff at Security Services ([[MI 5]]) headquarters is on the CIA payroll. Given Angela's level of knowledge regarding what the Special Section is up to, this may not be entirely a joke.
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* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Averted, there is one (nicknamed "the Madwoman of the Second Floor") but due to the nature of their work, there's little she can do to help agents besides patch them up so they can return to the field and get demolished again...
* [[Funny Background Event|Unfunny Background Event]]: In Morningstar, the in backgrounds of two consecutive panels are a beggar with no hands bothering an agent, and then the same beggar being beaten up by the Taleban.
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