It's just that when he's faced with the impossible situations that Monk so often runs across, his Cloud Cuckoolander nature kicks in, and he tries to find implausible explanations when logical ones don't seem to make sense to give just one example: he once guessed that a suspect so obese that he couldn't walk got liposuction, went out and killed someone, then got "reverse liposuction" to become fat again.
Psych has Carlton "Lassie" Lassiter, who serves as this. Inspector Morse : Sgt Lewis for Morse. Lewis's "weakness" is that compared to Morse he has a private life, and he's more "people" orientated than Morse's fact focus. Columbo famously subverts this by looking like he is the Lestrade, although he himself would probably say otherwise. Ellery Queen : Simon Brimmer in the adaptation. He is the host of a radio mystery series who fancies himself a real detective.
He proves to have a knack for ferreting out useful information but always names the wrong person as the killer. In the same series, the reporter Frank Flanagan will often try to beat the police to a killer. He too is invariably wrong. In their defence, they're both incredibly competent in the day-to-day things a small-town sheriff would have to do.
Jonathan Creek doesn't have a recurring Lestrade character, but individual episodes sometimes have one. One example is Inspector Gideon Pryke from "Black Canary", who like a good Lestrade spots several clues, impresses Jonathan by figuring out part of the case, but cannot solve it all himself note Pryke does identify the correct culprit, but it takes Jonathan's skills to actually prove that they did it and resolve the bizarre circumstances around the crime.
Pryke returns in "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb". Jonathan isn't quite a straight example, however, as the mysteries he gets roped into solving with varying degrees of reluctance involve hugely elaborate feats of misdirection, sleight-of-hand, or preparation note Jonathan explains to Maddie in the first episode that nearly all of magic is about doing way more work than people are prepared to believe you would actually put in so that they jump to "Magic!
Even the very best detective would struggle to unpick those Sherlock : Detective Inspector Greg Lestrade is both a helpful, self-aware version of this trope, as well as being a Friend on the Force. The DVD commentary reveals that an important part of casting Lestrade was finding someone who the audience could believe would, if Sherlock Holmes did not exist, eventually solve the crimes on his own. Anderson and Donovan play this trope straight, though. Elementary : Lestrade's role is taken by his friend and rival from the books, Tobias Thomas in the show Gregson.
In this iteration, his Friend on the Force status is heavily emphasised — he's the one who makes the arrests after Sherlock finds the bad guy, and always has police backup on hand for tough situations. Gregson himself isn't an idiot you don't become a police captain by being one.
There are a number of times he advises Sherlock on a case and turns out to be right. When Sherlock finally decides to come out to Gregson about his heroin addiction, Gregson reveals that he has known about it from the start he doesn't bring in a "consulting detective" without doing a thorough background check.
Gareth Lestrade is introduced in season 2 and he's a deconstruction of this trope. The show reveals how damaging this kind of relationship would be when the secret of Lestrade's success Holmes left suddenly and Lestrade still craved the limelight but didn't have the skills to back it up.
He is disgraced and laughed off the force when a case blows up in his face and he falls back to his fame-hungry ways after Sherlock solves the case for him. However, it should be mentioned that Lestrade is right about that particular case. He just doesn't know how the bad guy pulled it off. There's also Detective Marcus Bell, who is assigned to most of the cases that Sherlock ends up being brought in.
He doesn't particularly like Sherlock but learns to appreciate his input. He's also a fairly good detective in his own right and knows the streets of New York fairly well. Both Gregson and Bell are subversions in that, unlike the source material, Sherlock holds both men in high esteem as detectives. Various characters of this type show up throughout the entire run of Doctor Who.
In a variation on this trope, UNIT is usually insistent on The Doctor helping them, whether he wants to or not, but often disagree with him on the proper course of action. Beringar always arrests the most likely suspect, but having been himself subjected to Cadfael's investigative skills, is always willing to listen to the good brother and gives him leeway.
Prescotte, meanwhile, always views cases as open-and-shut, resents Cadfael's interference, and tends to fall for the frame-ups that the real murderers construct. Agatha Raisin has DI Wilkes, who generally starts each case by telling Agatha to stay out of police business, comes up with entertainingly wrong theories of the crime that are gently debunked by Bill, and ends up making the arrest and getting the credit after Agatha has solved the crime.
Inspector Ames in Colonel March of Scotland Yard usually fails to spot the intricacies of a case, ignores any incongruent evidence as inconvenient, and is always keen to arrest the most obvious suspect. However, he is willing to admit that March is usually right, and is the officer that March most relies on at the Yard.
Video Games. Dojima of Persona 4. He figures out a great deal about the murders, and that his Heroic Mime nephew is involved in the case. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that he's living in an Urban Fantasy setting so he really can't do much. And then he's handed the Idiot Ball. Dojima is more Locked Out of the Loop than this trope. He manages to stay relatively close with the Investigation team on solving the murders with only about half or less of the clues and later on, he's the only cop still working on the case despite the fact that the rest of the department believes that it has been closed.
A better example would be his partner, Adachi, from whom the main characters learn much about the police investigation Dojima himself remains tight-lipped about the subject though it turns out that Adachi is the real killer and has spent the entire game misleading you. Inspector Chelmey of the Professor Layton games fits this trope to a T. He jumps to conclusions regarding the second game's murder case, and Layton must set him straight.
Chelmey apparently has a reputation for being a detective who gets solid results Something the game notes as being a tad presumptuous about his abilities. In fact, his treating the matter as a murder at all casts doubts on his competence. You can't have a murder investigation without proof that somebody died, and non-medical personnel cannot legally declare someone to be dead unless the body is in pieces.
So he is investigating a murder — and actually tries to arrest a man for that murder — without any evidence that a murder took place at all.
This becomes especially clear at the end, where it is revealed that not only was there no foul play involved in what happened to the doctor, he hadn't actually died. He also plays this role in the first game. Except that he's actually the villain in disguise, who is trying to cover up his own "murder," so it's not actually him.
Even so, the disguised villain portrays him remarkably well, minus one telltale flaw that has nothing to do with this trope. Sheriff George Woodman of Deadly Premonition is a no-nonsense guy who's pretty good at rounding up normal small-town criminal elements but is a bit outclassed when it comes to dealing with the outlandish murders that start occurring in his town. Or that's what he wants you to think In particular, he arrests the Exile, Atton, and Kreia for destroying Peragus — to be fair, a dark side Exile might have done it anyway, but they still didn't create the circumstances that led to it.
He would probably be more capable if he had the manpower he needed, a fact he laments. After it's cleared up, you can also get sidequests from him that consist of crimes that the security forces haven't been able to solve. The village in Hometown Story eventually gets saddled with two of them. One is trying to make it as a private detective, the other is the closest thing the village has to a police officer. The Player Character turns out to be better at resolving mysteries than both of them and is supposed to be a Shopkeeper.
Visual Novels. With The Great Ace Attorney : Adventures being a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Tobias Gregson takes the role in the first game, and Lestrade here Gina Lestrade takes over for the sequel after having a supporting role in the first game. Gregson is also the Lestrade equivalent in the in-universe Adventures of Herlock Sholmes series Western Animation. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser.
Lestrade's not exactly a well-rounded character: he mostly appears in just "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" and "The Noble Bachelor," and mainly only to prove how skilled and versatile Holmes is. Lestrade is an official police officer one of three named officers who appear in these stories, along with Inspector Bradstreet and Peter Jones and is a self-proclaimed "skeptic" Valley.
Lestrade is living proof of why it's a good thing that Holmes can operate outside of the law: the inspector's not a bad guy, by any means.
But the pressures of "[having] to deal with a hard-headed British jury" Valley. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs. The Treasures of Agra.
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