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There's a Serial Killer on the loose! He may or may not be the poetic kind, but there is one thing we know about him: he picks his locations very carefully. So carefully, in fact, that it's almost inevitable that each death connects with each other death to make the shape of... something. Maybe it's a inverted pentagram or just a big arrow. Alternatively, there's no killer, just a lot of weird stuff happening. To find the Weirdness Magnet, you have to map out where all the weird stuff is and find the exact center. Related is the String Theory trope, which is more about connecting evidence and people together with string on a cork board, rather than on a large map. See also Map Stabbing for when a map is stabbed once to mark a specific location. |
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A Night in the Lonesome October uses the weirdness magnet version. A contest between magic-users is fated to take place at a Place of Power which none of the contestants knows the location of at first; they have to map out certain significant events to figure out where it is. It takes them most of the story to find the place because one of the events they're all including in their calculations is actually just a coincidental piece of unrelated weirdness. The narrator recalls that one year's iteration of the contest had to be called off entirely because none of the contestants could figure out the location for the showdown. | |
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One Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode had a killer lining up the arms on his victims to resemble a line of paper dolls when the crime scene photos were placed side by side. | |
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Happens in Sherlock Holmes (2009), due to the villain trying to make it look like he is an Evil Sorcerer and therefore marking out a pentagram, and later a cross, with the murders. | |
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In Split Second (1992), the monster kills its victims in specific places in order to draw a dot-to-dot version of an astrological symbol on the city map. | |
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In Count Cain, the evil organization Delilah were buying up properties which, when plotted on a map, formed a pentagram in order to use the entire city of London in a resurrection spell. | |
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Done in the Angel episode "Apocalypse, Nowish" using a map of recent mystical disturbances to find out where the Beast was heading. | |
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CSI: NY: Inverted when a killer is identified because he'd turned on the lights in his downtown office suite, breaking the pattern of lights in which the victim had spelled out "Marry Me," as a grand romantic gesture. Played straight in another episode when Mac plots the three locations where a victim's body parts have been found, but whose head is still missing, and discovers that the sites are corners of the neighborhood formerly known as Hell's Kitchen. When they search the fourth corner, they find the missing head. |
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Grimm season 5 episode "Star-Crossed" features a Wesen serial killer who ritualistically crucifies his muggle victims- mapped out, the kills follow the shape of the big dipper. | |
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Also in the movie Detective Conan Film 13: The Raven Chaser has connected murder cases with Mahjong tiles placed near the victims. It's later found out the crime scenes mapped out a star constellation. | |
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Parodied (what else) in The Simpsons episode "Homer The Vigilante": the police are investigating a series of robberies (not murders) using the map technique. After the titular family reports theirs and the police add it to the map... | |
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The 'weirdness magnet' version was often used on Eureka by Carter and the scientists to track down the cause/source/solution to the mad science problem of the week. Good example: in "The Ex Files", using rocks and other items to stand in for locations allows Carter and hallucinatory Stark to realize the resonance-frequency oscillations which are shaking things apart are moving toward G.D. not away—and thus the device at G.D. they thought was the cause was actually the target. | |
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Fringe actually did this with the mysterious Pattern in the first series finale. Each of the Pattern incidents were located near existing weak spots in the fabric of reality, and the Weirdo of the Week was attempting to open a doorway to another universe at these weak points. | |
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In the second episode of Re: Cutie Honey, one of the villains goes on a rampage in the city, trashing buildings in a pattern which forms a kanji message insulting the heroine when viewed from above. | |
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The ABC Murders: A serial killer is murdering victims in alphabetical order. They killed the first two to cover up their motive for the third. | |
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A Pocket Full of Rye: The killer is following the nursery rhyme. | |
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Three Act Tragedy: The first and third victims had nothing to do with the killer's goal (one was chosen at random and the other was implied to have known something due to planted evidence) and were killed in order to draw attention away from the second victim, which was the important one. | |
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Averted/Played With in an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, when crossover guest Abby was the only person to discern that a serial killer's victims were unusually random mixes of ages, races, and sexes (and possibly killing techniques). When he captures her, he notes that he'll be able to cross "Caucasian Female" off his list. | |
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Dramatically done in the Fullmetal Alchemist manga: it turns out that Amestris's worse moments of bloodshed throughout its history were carefully planned by the government to form a giant transmutation circle spanning the whole country. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Thief and Black Mage attack a series of towns so that their rampage will spell out "You are next" on a map of the Dwarven Kingdom (when we're shown the map, the t is still missing). In cursive. Naturally, the Dwarves can't figure it out. | |
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In The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, the location of a series of murders forms the shape of the Chackh'morg — basically an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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After the Funeral: The killer purposefully laid evidence to try and connect an otherwise natural death to the real murder in order to release herself from suspicion. | |
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Used in Another Note. The Serial Killer sends evidence that the next target lives in a particular condo complex, and has the initials B.B. Two people in the complex match that description, and Naomi and Rue evacuate them to a 5-star hotel. The last victim is actually Rue himself. It turns out he is the Serial Killer Beyond Birthday they've been looking for, and he had this planned all along. | |
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Judge Dee is unsurprised to discover that two or more of his murder cases are actually linked to the same criminal plot - even when the victims involved seem to have no connection at all. | |
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In the Alice Isn't Dead episode "Alice," the Narrator Implies that she collated, then eventually began to map out sightings of her missing and presumed dead wife Alice in the background of news reports on various deaths and disasters, leading her to become entangled in The Conspiracy Alice had been investigating prior to her sudden disappearance. | |
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Parodied in Brooklyn Nine-Nine when Jake tries to find a pattern by mapping burblaries in Brooklyn, ending up with a map just fully covered in pins. | |
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In World of Warcraft, this can be done by players. Unlike most other things in the game, player corpses do not despawn; they sit there on the ground for up to a week until reclaimed by their owners. This has, naturally, been abused for everything from rude jokes to gold advertising, by leaving elaborate patterns of corpses lying around a major city. | |
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An episode of RoboCop: The Series had a mad bomber, The Spider. When they plotted out his bomb sites, they turned up a picture of a particular type of spider web. | |
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The Magician: one villain sets fires in the city, Ace goes to the police station and shows that the locations form the letter M - as in Multifire (the name of the villain in question), then the officer arrests Ace, for being "the Magician" (his sign was also an M). | |
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The organizing principle of Reginald Hill's Dialogues of the Dead. There's just one problem: while Dalziel and Pascoe figure out the connections, they never realize that they've mistaken the killer's identity. | |
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In the teen newspaper drama Press Gang, Linda was locked in an airtight vault with a half-broken phone. When she didn't turn up at work and four co-workers all reported the same weird phone calls in the middle of the night, they drew a cross to find that X marked the spot. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Nale arranges a series of murders so that a map of their locations points to the city park, where he's setting a trap for Elan. | |
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Not quite the same, but in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, the Joker marks on a map possible targets for his Kill Sat, and NOT coincidentally they form a smiley face. | |
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In one episode of Inspector Gadget, a series of very minor crimes committed by MAD agents, when plotted out on a map of Metro city, spell out MAD. The intent of this plan was for Gadget to figure this out and be waiting for them at the final crime scene, where they had laid a trap for him. | |
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Done in one Don Martin Captain Klutz misadventure; the Captain plots Mervin the Mad Bomber's attacks on a map, which form an arrow pointing at the Captain's present location. The pin which marks the tip of the arrow is of course a disguised bomb. | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent once featured a murderer who tried to randomize his crimes, but plotting them on a map showed repetition of a certain irregular shape. He was found out because he had autistic tendencies, and constantly arranged things into that shape without realizing it. The cops spotted him because they noticed things all over his house placed in the same pattern— right down to the pushpins on his bulletin board. | |
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Played with in the sequel to Hinterlands. The Royal Guard suspect that the murders around Canterlot are meant to form a ritual circle, but conclude that it's unlikely since the murders are too random to form a proper circle. Turns out the initial hunch was right, the murderers were just really bad at ritual magic and it would've never worked. | |
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Also used in the Indigo Prime story "Killing Time", although with added killer rabbits, multidimensional trains and death-by-harp. | |
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An episode of The X-Files had a killer whose pattern formed an upside-down number nine (which was to be the intended number of victims). He was apparently unconsciously acting according to some numerological idea rather than doing it deliberately. | |
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Life: The Serial Killer from the "Find Your Happy Place" episode killed his victims by leaving them to suffocate in steamer trunks. When plotted out on a map, the trunk locations make a smiley face. | |
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In Batman: Arkham City, Azrael is the Weirdness Magnet, drawing random-looking patterns in the ground wherever Batman encounters him until they all line up and make a map to where you can find him. | |
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Referenced in Archer episode "Lo Scandalo" when Krieger gives the entire ISIS staff each a package containing part of a murder victim. He tells them specific dumpsters, to form a smiley face. Averted, however, as they just dump it wherever they feel like. | |
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In an episode of the Austrian series Inspector Rex, the main characters face off against a satanic cult that murders women and leaves their bodies so that they form a giant pentagram. | |
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Tortall Universe: In Terrier, Beka maps out the Shadow Snake kidnappings, since she knew her lord did something similar with his big cases, looking for patterns. | |
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In Batman/Spawn: War Devil, the villain plants explosives in the shape of a pentagram. | |
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In Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Sue realizes that the sites of a serial killer's murders form a constellation. One point doesn't fit the pattern, which leads them to a copycat killer. | |
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Parodied in People Like Us, when Roy follows around a police officer. One of the senior officers explains that a map of the borough covered with pins represents a string of recent thefts, and they're looking for a pattern. When Roy asks if they've found one, the officer replies. "Yeah - it looks like a rabbit." It does, in fact, look exactly like a rabbit. | |
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Detective Conan has a variation with criminal fires to write the kanji for well... "fire". Also in the movie Detective Conan Film 13: The Raven Chaser has connected murder cases with Mahjong tiles placed near the victims. It's later found out the crime scenes mapped out a star constellation. |
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Police Quest 3: The Kindred goes for the old standard pentagram killings. In defiance of the top quote, the player doesn't figure it out until after his wife stabbed into a coma. | |
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The "weirdness magnet" version shows up in Good Omens, where Anathema Device is charting ley lines and discovers said lines are forming a spiral converging on the town of Lower Tadfield. | |
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Subverted/criticized in Jonathan Creek, where a TV crime show decides that a serial killer is killing women if their names are the names of flowers, dubbing them the Daisy Chain Killer, purely because it makes a good story. In the end, it turns out the killer was just generally disturbed and killing randomly, and only one of their victims had a flower name — the second victim that supposedly started the pattern was killed by someone else for unrelated reasons, using the serial killer as cover. | |
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Practically every episode of NUMB3RS has some form of this. One of the early episodes ends up Double Subverting it as the killer is trying not to murder in a predictable pattern, but ends up doing so anyway because most people are actually terrible at trying to simulate randomness — the killer had inadvertently spaced his kills at roughly equidistant intervals (the main character demonstrates the human mind's tendency to do this by have the group of police officers he's advising try to place themselves randomly, then when they had finished pointed out that they had just spaced themselves out in the room rather evenly). Using this knowledge of negative correlation, he is able to narrow down where the killer might strike next. | |
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One theory, which is also presented in the Alan Moore graphic novel From Hell, is that Jack the Ripper's murders were to draw a pentagram on the London map. Another theory is that he actually did draw a cross, and was attempting to draw one of those Jesus Fish, as well, in some sort of Satanic Take That! against Christianity. This theory hasn't exactly caught on in most academic circles. To put it mildly. Also used in the Indigo Prime story "Killing Time", although with added killer rabbits, multidimensional trains and death-by-harp. |
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Strange example: The cover for the US manual of Heavy Rain has the deaths forming the shape of one of the origami figures. This...has absolutely nothing to do with the case at all in-game. | |
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On Get Smart, the Chief is showing Max a map of North America with pins representing identified KAOS agents. Max asks about the one "agent" with no obvious explanation, way up in Manitoba. He pulls out the pin and the entire map falls to the floors knocking out the other pins. | |
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In The January Man, the killer is murdering one woman per month starting in January: when seen on a map, the sites of the eleven murders form the constellation Virgo, and when photographs of the buildings are lined up, the floors on which the murders were committed are the notes on the scale that form the song "Calendar Girl". Yes, really. And the dates of the month on which the murders occur are, as the hero realizes when he sees a passing PRIME MEATS truck, prime numbers. As there are 12 that are less than or equal to 31, and 11 of them have been used on the eleven previous months, he's able to tell, which building, which floor, and which day the murder will occur. |
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Near the beginning of Glass (2019), The Overseer's son Joseph plots out the area where The Horde has been abducting his victims, but there's no pattern to it, and Joseph likens it more toward hunting grounds, with the Horde himself being located elsewhere, with easy accessibility to the abduction area. | |
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Arachnophobia uses this when Dr. Jennings is figuring out where the spiders' nest is. Naturally, given his crippling fear of spiders, it's his own house. | |
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In The Simping Detective, Jack does this after his new boss, Sector Chief Daveez tells him to suspend his investigation into a number of deaths around the sector. Jack initially thought the deaths involved were all unrelated, but Daveez's orders make Jack curious. He finds that the deaths all occur within a relatively short radius from a church, which turns out to be a front for the production of Crystal Blue. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Arachnids in the UK", Jade has a map showing all of the strange spider activity occurring in Sheffield. The Doctor starts drawing lines connecting them and, when she's finished, she has what looks like a spiderweb with Robertson's hotel at the center. | |
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A Justice Society of America arc had the Rival (an evil speedster and arch-enemy of Jay Garrick) run through the United States, killing people in a certain pattern. It spelled out "Edward Clariss," the Rival's real name...and Jay immediately figured out that the last target was Keystone City and his wife. | |
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In Central Park, Season 1 "Dog Spray Afternoon", A non-murder example. Owen, the park staff, and Molly sings "Method to This Madness", where they sing about finding a pattern on the Central Park map to predict where the "Shart" tagger will tag his next location. Molly is able to figure out the pattern when she connects to dots on the map of the tagger's tag and sees that he's trying to spell a giant "SHART" on the park. | |
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Happens often in The Wire but rarely for murder: In season two, McNulty who in on Punishment Detail in the Marine Unit finds the dead body of a young woman in the sea, and later, 12 bodies in a shipping container are found abandoned at the docks. McNulty, who had already earlier used tide charts to prove the floater died withing Baltimore Police juristiction, is able to connect the two events. Later in the season, the team uses GPS trackers under suspects' crs to find key locations of the port smuggling operation, including the warehouse and the Greek diner. In season three, after swiping one of the Burner Phones from Bodie, the Major Crimes Unit are able to trace the purchase of the phone and numbers it has called to a series of grocery stores outside Baltimore, and because of a slip-up earlier by the phone buyer, find one store where he bought six at the same time, which the store owners would remember unlike other stores where the buyer would have been just any customer. The third season also shows the full extent of Stringer Bell's real estate investments, and how they overlap with an urban renewal plan championed by Clay Davis In season four, McNulty is able to plot out the pattern in a rash of church burglaries, and lays in ambush with his patrol partner to catch the thieves in the act. |
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Averted on CSI, when confession-notes left on bathroom stall doors provided a clue to track a truck-driving serial killer. Although the graphic showing how all the restrooms' locations lined up resembled a Connect-The-Deaths diagram, the killer's girlfriend/accomplice is the one who left the clues, and the line merely plotted out the trucker's delivery route rather than a symbol. | |
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In the Criminal Minds episode "Masterpiece", Reid connects the sites of a series of murders to a Fibonacci spiral, with an incrementing number of deaths at each location, all centered around what he concludes must be the murderer's house. Another killer made a heart with his victims (well, with a little imagination it's a heart) to show his love for another serial killer's widow. |
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In Ghostbusters (2016), the team locates the villain's lair by mapping out recent hauntings. | |
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Firehouse Dog: Fire chief Connor Fahey has a conspiracy board behind his desk, which he uses to connect fires that he believes are connected. His son uses the map to determine the location of the next fire: the firehouse that he is currently sitting in. | |
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In the second Mercy Thompson book, the Big Bad is demon-possessed and causes violence by just being nearby. The good guys try to locate him by tracking the outbreaks of violence but no pattern is visible at first. The pattern shows up when they look at day-time incidents only - being a vampire, the villain can't move around to cover his tracks in daylight. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit crossover fic "Not All Monsters Are Demons", Buffy Summers, assisting the police in tracking down a serial killer, figures out that the bodies are aligned in such a way as to point to the next body's dumpsite, and that the entire thing makes up a gigantic mystic sigil of some sort... but that the killer is getting the details wrong so the "mystic ritual" the man is trying to put into play just isn't going to work. | |
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In Young Blades, Siroc connects several kidnapping sites on a map and adds another point to form an obelisk, predicting that this point is the site where the victims are being held. | |
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In a double episode of Diagnosis: Murder, a serial bomber wrote the name of her dead father on the city map. The absurdity of this is Lampshaded by Detective Steve Sloan, who draws a pig in the same pattern, though of course, Dr. Sloan is right. | |
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Kamen Rider Decade used this in the Kuuga story arc. The Grongi are killing policewomen as part of their Gegeru ("game"); Tsukasa/Decade, posing as a policeman, suggests that the victims' birthdays spell out "Kill everyone" in goroawase, letting them know who the fifth victim will be. Later he meets with a female detective and reveals that he lied about his first theory to cover up the truth, that the murders are based on proximity to the Grongi's sealed leader - which is precisely where they are. Then he spoils the Gegeru by punching the detective in the face, since an additional rule was to avoid bloodshed. | |
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