There’s just something about ‘official’ partnerships that cause me to root for the ‘unofficial’ romantic partnerships between many investigative duos or as I like to say: romantic crime-fighting duos with sexual tension.
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Spending all that time together, saving one another from scrapes, and just downright needing to trust their ‘partner,’ definitely leaves the door wide open for feelings to develop, whether that be unrequited, ambiguously teased, or fully explored right from the start. From classics like Moonlighting to supernatural (or alien) crime fighting (or solving) duos, I give you my top 25.
TOP 25 Romantic Crime/Alien/Supernatural Fighting Duos in Television
#25 Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills from Sleepy Hollow
#24 Annie and Auggie from Covert Affairs
#23 Audrey and Nathan from Haven
#22 Abby and Connor from Primeval
#21 Sydney and Vaughn from Alias
#20 Maddie and David from Moonlighting
#19 Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper from Torchwood
#18 Booth and Brennan from Bones
#17 Olivia and Peter from Fringe
#16 Castle and Kate from Castle
#15 Stabler and Benson from Law & Order: SVU
#14 Laura Holt and Remington from Remington Steele
#13 Max and Logan from Dark Angel
#12 Linden and Holder from The Killing
#11 Ned and Chuck from Pushing Daisies
#10 TIE — Michael and Nikita from La Femme Nikita/Nikita — Photos: Warner Brothers/CW
#9 Chloe and Clark from Smallville
#8 Vicki and Henry from Blood Ties
#7 Sarah and Chuck from Chuck
#6 Veronica and Logan from Veronica Mars
#5 Oliver and Felicity from Arrow
#4 Detective Inspector Jack Robinson and Miss Phryne Fisher from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
#3 The Doctor and Rose from Doctor Who
#2 Mick and Beth from Moonlight
#1 Scully and Mulder from The X Files
Who are your favorite crime-fighting romantic duos? Sound off in the comments…
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Nathan and Audrey from Haven!
-Brooke
I’m glad to have landed on your planet!
Great choices. I look forward to watching some of these suggestions.
However,
Where I’m from THE #1 crime fighting romantic duo show is by far the Mentalist!
Huge omission faux pas on your part!
This is an OLD article! Haha. Before we ever saw The Mentalist. They’re great! We wrote a romantic moment about them.