Crapsaccharine World: Unlike Grimsborough, Pacific Bay appears to be a generally peaceful place with many beautiful tourist attractions, but also hides many deadly conflicts and dark secrets, such as the fake voodoo craze in Bayou Bleu, the Chinese-Russian conflict and anarchy in Inner City, the man-made hurricanes and Serial Killer in Jazz Town, the Night Walker Urban Legend of White Peaks, the Utopian cult in Ivywood, the Alien conspiracy in Rhine Canyon, the robot uprising in Innovation Valley, and ultimately the digital Utopia that the Big Bad intended to build after destroying Pacific Bay.Conjoined Twins: One (Two?) of the suspects in Death at the Circus are a pair of conjoined twins.They are also responsible for more heinous activities such as brainwashing. Church of Happyology: The Ivywood Hills is run by a cult (that is very obviously based on Scientology) called "The Utopians" who promises aspiring celebrities a life of eternal youth and fame for a fee.Chest of Medals: One of the recurring suspects in Innovation Valley, Ambassador Lee, has a uniform decorated with medals.The characters in the final case of the Wastes (and therefore, of Season 2) are all previously indicted killers, even. The Bus Came Back: All (except one, who happens to be Season 2's Big Bad) characters that get involved in the Wastes' chapters are returning characters (including one from Grimsborough).Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: After solving the murder in Of Rats and Men, Frank will say that he's going to either get a beer or go to bed.This can go from pretty harmless stuffs like stealing and destroying a movie script to actually kidnapping a team member and holding them at gunpoint. Brainwashed and Crazy: The Utopian cult, who runs a brainwashing conspiracy, could make their victims do outrageous things.Brain Uploading: The Big Bad's ultimate plan is to build a digital Utopia where everyone's consciousness is built around a computer, and everyone would be subject to his rule.The Big Damn Kiss: Between Russell and Amy, in the finale of A Killer Among Us.He turns out to be the killer of the penultimate case of the district. Bait-and-Switch Boss: In Inner City, it seems that Fredo Mancini, Inner Chaos' leader, will be involved in the final case of the district.The latter killed Frank in the next case and was shot dead by Amy after he was revealed to be the killer. Before the player character could arrest him though, Frank shot him dead. The former returns as an Unexpected Character after being put away (supposedly for good), and was discovered to be the case's killer right after his return. Both Alden Greene and Bobby Prince invert this then play it straight.Played straight with David Rosenberg, an inventor from Innovation Valley who later ended up as the first victim in The Wastes.Inverted with Shelly Dulard, who came back from a district-long absence, then turned out to be the murderer in the same case that she returned in.Androids Are People, Too: This is the main focus of Innovation Valley, where robots are gaining conscience, becoming suspects and killers, agitating for more rights without any concern for humans, and one of them planning to subjugate, then exterminate, humanity with nanobots.Alien Episode: The entire Rhine Canyon arc qualifies as this since its Additional Investigation revolves around the question of whether or not aliens are real.
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