

In the Blood: Nina's mother is also a police officer.The Infiltration: The team's undercover assignments.She was brought back via Magical Defibrillator. Flatline: This happened to Moreno in the season 2 finale and season 3 premiere.Cooper (a white woman), Moreno (a latino woman) and McNamara (a white man).

Five-Token Band: Season 3 had Williams (a black man), Torres (a latino man), Lt.Finger in the Mail: Danny Cort murdered and cut off the middle finger of a rival in the drug-dealing business and sent it to Williams.Fair Cop: To varying degrees and more realistic than the model-types frequently seen on other police shows, but overall, a very good-looking collection of officers.Orlando Maldone, the drug lord who shot Nina in the season 2 finale, loved and doted on his young daughter, Lucia.Danny Cort had his kid brother, a law school student and their mother, who pretty much disowned him after her younger son's death.Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Many of the most vicious criminals still have loved ones that they genuinely care about.The next scene is of the bear slowly falling to the ground. Empathy Doll Shot: In the aforementioned episode of the motorcycle gangs, after her mother is killed, the daughter then wanders out of her room, unbeknownst to what just occurred and holding a teddy bear.Dropped a Bridge on Him: Torres in the season 3 finale.We know what happens next, even with the scene cutting to black over their agonized screams. As an act of revenge, the killers are then hanged by their arms and had a chain attached to each leg which was attached to a motorcycle. It involved two rival motorcycle gangs and had members from one gang kill the family of one of the rival gang's members. Cruel and Unusual Death: Happens from time to time, but one episode had a particularly nasty example.Emil Skoda showed up occasionally as well. Crossover: When Nina seeks counseling for her PTSD after being shot, her therapist is none other than Elizabeth Olivet of Law & Order (which was also created by Dick Wolf), meaning the two exist in a Shared Universe.Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Said to an ex-con sex offender on the run by one of the cops.

