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{{quote| '''Gene:''' And maybe Enoch Powell's throwing one up [[Shirley Bassey]].}}

* [[Armed Blag]]

{{quote| '''Gene:''' I'm not a Catholic meself, {{spoiler|Mr. Warren}}, but isn't there something about "Thou shalt not [[Hookers and Blow|suck off rent boys]]"?}}

* [[As You Know]]: In the series finale, Sam is secretly taping an 'interrogation' in the lost and found. When Gene handcuffs the suspect to a chair, Sam describes for the benefit of the tape, to which Gene says '[[Leaning On the Fourth Wall|What're you, the narrator?]]'

* [[Call Back]]: In 1973, Annie prevents Sam from leaping off the police station roof. {{spoiler|In 2007, he takes the plunge}}.

* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Both reversed and subverted, interestingly enough.

* [[Chained to A Bed]]: Sam ends up like this (and naked) after standing up to a crime lord, so that they can take blackmail pictures of him. Gene, to whom Sam has been ranting about 'coppers have to be above reproach', ends up discovering him and is beside himself with glee at the sight. So much so, that he invites DC Annie Cartwright into the room. Moral of the story: don't piss off crime lords. Or Gene Hunt. (Cartwright later admits she rather liked [[Shirtless Scene|what she saw though]].)

* [[Clear My Name]]: Gene, in an ironic reversal.

* [[Confessional]]

* [[Counterfeit Cash]]

* [[Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon]]: "You so much as ''spit'' out of line, and I'll have your scrotum on a barbed-wire plate."

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Sam's habit of inviting every girl he wants to help back to his apartment, although sweet, isn't necessarily the wisest course of action.

* [[Facial Composite Failure]]: Which inspires Sam to pull in a caricaturist as a sketch artist.

* [[Fair Cop]]: A lot of the cast are really good looking, especially Annie Cartwright and Chris Skelton. Of course, fandom is gaga for Gene Hunt, <s>even when</s> ''especially'' when he's running around in bad seventies swims and pasty white skin. And if you're not too keen on Gene's looks (*ducks fruit*), there's always Sam in those open-necked shirts and those tight flares that show off his legs ''marvelously''.

* [[Fauxreigner]]: Nelson the barman, who pretends to have a natural Jamaican accent.

* [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]]: Sam identifies heroin by taste.

* [[Giving Radio to The Romans]]: Sam tries to introduce mid-Noughties police techniques (recording interviews on tape, surveillance, modern forensics and so forth) to coppers in 1973, as well as other ideas like having a television in the pub.

* [[A Glitch in The Matrix]]: Images and sounds from the future are frequently shown seeping into the 70s.

* [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: Layla backs out of aborting her child, who turns out to be {{spoiler|Maya in the past}}.

* [[Good Guy Bar]]: The [[My Local|Railway Arms]].

* [[The Great British Copper Capture]]

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: {{spoiler|Harry Woolf bumps off Dickie Fingers for this reason}}.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Superintendent Harry Woolf}}.

* [[Odd Couple]]: Sam and Gene (one's [[By-The-Book Cop|by the book]], the other's bring your own bottle), but also Chris and Ray.

* [[Off On a Technicality]]: Sam's supposition that his 2007 case against Tony Crane fell apart while he was in a coma.

* [[Ontological Mystery]]

* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: "Toolbox" Terry and "Big Bird".

* [[Police Lineup]]

* [[Police Procedural]]

* [[Rape Is Ok When It Is Female On Male]]: Subverted--the act is shown as nightmarish and disconcerting, and everyone at the station assumes Sam planned to get laid, essentially blaming Sam for his own assault.

{{quote| '''Chris:''' Someone called for you, sir. Told 'em you were [[Obligatory Joke|all tied up]].}}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Sam and Gene.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Morgan.}}

** The finale of the first series:

{{quote| '''Sam:''' Oh my God. {{spoiler|''Dad''}}?}}