>>American cop show format:
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>>The main protagonist is very good, although somewhat maverick in his/her methods.
>>He/she ALWAYS gets results and is about the best in the dept.
>>Notwithstanding, he/she at some point has to go and see the captain (for some reason always a 7", 300 lb black guy) to get chewed out and threatened (totally ignoring the cop's track record)
>>He/she gets 24/48 hours to deliver results or ...
>
>...which doesn't really matter, because about 20 minutes before the end he'll be suspended, will have to hand his badge and artillery, but will then still deliver the solution by calling for owed favors, courting the nerd girl (who will invariably have glasses and/or be somewhat fat) to pull something out of the database at the risk of losing her job. He then gets beaten once or twice, smashes a few cars, saves someone's life and gets to have a fight with the main villain. In the end, he gets a critique, badge, gun and tap on the shoulder. One half-joke or a smart remark, closing credits.

Yep, and I must say after 30 years of doing this on a daily basis (cops never get a vacation on tv either), I'm starting to get a little tired.