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Someone investigates a minor crime, or possibly something as major as murder, but finds something much bigger going on behind it. The first crime might be part of a Revealing Cover-Up, or it might be just a Red Herring; it can also be both the cause and effect of Crime After Crime. This is extremely common in crime fighting action films where the plot is more about building up a lead in from normal life and confronting the big secret; in other fiction there might be all manner of twists, turns and dead ends before it all links up. This is a staple of the detective variety of Film Noir. Some of the more complex Evil Plans may stretch from the most trifling crimes to the mind-bogglingly evil in a mind-bogglingly complex manner. Sometimes the Anti-Villain is revealed to be quite heinous; in other cases, the Anti-Villain teams up with the heroes to fight the Big Bad. Works in which several different crimes are committed (e.g., a Police Procedural TV series) sometimes follow the pattern that every Minor Crime reveals a Major Plot — the main characters can't investigate any crime, big or small, without stumbling upon an Evil Plan involving several different people and six- or seven-digit sums of money. This is largely an Acceptable Break From Reality: of course, in Real Life, thousands of crimes are committed each day without any sort of plan or conspiracy behind them — burglars sneak into homes to steal some small cash, people are killed when petty arguments get out of hand, dastardly villains cross streets in illegal ways to get to the other side faster — but it makes for a more interesting story to have your master detectives slowly uncover the villainous plot of a Diabolical Mastermind than to have them book random mugger after random mugger. Contrast Infraction Distraction, where a minor crime is committed to conceal a greater one. Also contrast Not the First Victim, which refers to the tendency of killers in fiction to be Serial Killers, but their stories usually begin with a major crime revealing a series of other major crimes. Cases can result from Evil Is Petty. Truth in Television. Real Life professional criminals will bend over backwards to make sure they don't trip up over something minor because it's happened before. The best way to avoid capture is to not attract attention — at all. However, many criminals do not maintain professional standards and are caught for things like not paying fare on the subway, or expired license plates. It's given rise to the expression "Only break one law at a time". As this is a trope about plots, many of the examples will contain spoilers. You have been warned. When it's the criminal who only intended to commit a minor crime, it's Unintentionally Notorious Crime. Not to be confused with Wanted Meter. Compare Working the Same Case, where two or more seemingly unconnected cases turn out to be connected to the same plot. See also Currency Conspiracy, where a crime like the theft or counterfeiting of cash can lead to a conspiracy. |
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Molly's Game: Molly moves from California to New York, and asks a New York lawyer if it's legal to run high-stakes poker games. He tells her yes, subject to certain conditions, but adds "Don't break the law while you're breaking the law." It will be easier for her to get away with running an illegal poker game if she isn't dealing drugs or prostitutes on the side. | |
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Predator 2. The movie starts with an investigation into a gang war between rival drug organizations, complete with Jurisdiction Friction between the LAPD cops and the DEA. It eventually becomes a hunt for an extraterrestrial killer who's slaughtering both cops and drug criminals. | |
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Predator: Rescue of some government official —> Search & destroy mission of a bunch of South American rebels backed by Russians. Once the mercenaries are killed, however, the stakes get way higher than just politics. | |
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Above the Law (1988): Regular drug raid against the Chicago Mafia reveals the Mafia is smuggling C-4 plastic explosives into the city -> bomb made utilizing said C-4 goes off in a Catholic church mid-Mass, killing the officing priest and wounding many people -> CIA plan to kill a witness to the many drug-related atrocities they do in Central America to fund their operations. | |
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Avataro Sentai Donbrothers: Discussed. The reason Tsubasa is released after Tsuyoshi rats him out in a jealous rage is because the police force had already been on the receiving end of this trope early in the show. The Cat Juto that kidnapped and replaced the missing persons at the end of Episode 9 (Notably, Detective Kenji Sayama) caused so many minor disturbances due to their limited ability to adhere to The Masquerade that the investigator assigned to the case is convinced the missing people Came Back Wrong and that a conspiracy's afoot, (It is.) enlisting the Donbrother to help her in exchange for amnesty. | |
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Watchmen: Investigating the murder of an ex-superhero → uncovering a plot to prevent nuclear war by destroying a city. | |
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Beverly Hills Cop III: A raid on a Detroit chop-shop gone awry (which gets Inspector Todd killed by the Big Bad) leads to Axel Foley discovering a major counterfeit operation hidden inside of an Expy of Disneyland. | |
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A variation in Super Troopers. Two crimes end up hinting at the major plot, but neither can be considered minor. A routine traffic stop reveals a major marijuana smuggling operation through Vermont. A body found in a Winnebago ends up revealing that the local Spurbury police are running protection for the Canadian smugglers. The latter is subverted in that the state troopers don't really figure it out until Ursula pretty much has to show them what's going on. They do get credit for apprehending all the culprits, though. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society begins with a crime that is no means minor, but over the course of the story, explodes into an absolutely massive Milkman Conspiracy that actually tramples two other conspiracies going on at the same time: Suicides of several members of a deposed Korean military junta → a gigantic socio-economic engineering project led by Japan's invalid and elderly, via abducting at-risk children and manipulating legal records. | |
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Dr. No: Disappearance of British agent and his secretary → plot by Evil Genius to shut down the missile launches at Cape Canaveral while selling the missile's secrets to Moscow. | |
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Thud!: The murder of a rabble-rousing dwarf, and the theft of a painting → a plot to prevent peace between dwarfs and trolls by obfuscating their shared history. | |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The break-in at Gringotts → Voldemort attempting to rise back to power. | |
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In the éX-Driver film, Soichi Sugano and his friends happen to discover that Angela Gambino caused two AI cars to go out of control in Los Angeles and at the racetrack, only for them to realize that it was part of Angela's plot to stop her father Rico from betting on the race. | |
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Die Hard Die Hard 2: McClane sees a man with a gun at an airport —> Hijackers plan to crash every plane until a political prisoner is released. Die Hard with a Vengeance: Series of bombings —> Robbery of the Federal Reserve . |
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20th Century Boys: Murder of an old classmate → conspiracy to Take Over the World with a cult. | |
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In Ravenor, the titular inquisitor's investigation into the flect trade reveals that a cabal of rogue traders are smuggling Chaos-tainted computers onto the sub-sector capital. This, in turn, reveals that a cult lead by highly-influential members of the sub-sector government is using those computers to reconstruct a dead Language of Magic in order to become gods. | |
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Happens constantly in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. For example, in "Death on the Vine" a simple case to investigate the origin of some mysterious photographs ends up exposing a Town with a Dark Secret. | |
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The Desert Storm: The sequel's Haunting arc starts out with Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos being assigned by the Jedi Council to investigate reports of an illegal drug ring in Coruscant's undercity. His investigation sees him uncover a string of assassinations being carried out by a Dark Side cult and eventually leads to the discovery that one of the Jedi Order's reclaimed Padawans is a mole for the Sith. | |
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Dark Winds: The Navajo Police investigating suspected Domestic Abuse against Sally Growing Thunder reveals the Buffalo Society, a radical group who had committed the armored car robbery and murders which the series opens with. | |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Surveillance of an affair → Hollywood mogul killing his daughter as part of an Inheritance Murder | |
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Goldfinger: Richest man in England cheating at cards and smuggling gold → absolutely insane plot to blow Fort Knox open with a nuke and steal all the gold. Bond even lampshades this trope at one point in the book, musing how he went from simple investigation to being tangled up in Goldfinger's scheme. | |
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YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG: Investigate the disappearance of a woman in an elevator. → Stop a conspiracy meant to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "The Price of Love", Charlie and Lucien discover a murder (and later all kinds of dark goings-on at a military base) when Charlie stops a car for speeding, and Lucien notices blood dripping from the boot. | |
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Arrow: The Hood taking out corrupt people → A conspiracy to destroy the impoverished part of the city. Season 2: An unethical bid by an opportunist to be Mayor → The Big Bad's goal to destroy the entire city to spite The Hero. |
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Bones: A recovered skull → A cannibalistic serial killer who ends up recruiting Zack as his apprentice. | |
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RoboCop (1987): Gas station robbery —> Robocop's own murder —> Partnership of OCP Vice-President and biggest crime lord in Detroit. | |
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In the Decoy episode "Death Watch", Casey infiltrates a ring of department store shoplifters and discovers that they're also working as hitmen. | |
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Summer Knight: Investigating a suspicious death → averting a faerie war. | |
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The Naked Gun: Part 1: Drug smuggling at the docks → plot to assassinate the Queen of England. Part 2½: Bombing —> Conspiracy by big energy companies to kidnap of an environmental scientist to prevent adoption of pro-environmental policies. |
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Shadowrun for the Super NES has a Whodunnit to Me? that reveals a major conspiracy to take control of the entire Internet. | |
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Psych: "True Grits" revolves around Shawn and Gus trying to prove the innocence of Thane Woodson who was wrongfully imprisoned for a theft he did not commit. They find the real thief and DNA analysis proves Thane's innocence. However, the thief's DNA is revealed to be a familial match to a DNA sample found at the scene of an unsolved murder from 1981. It turns out that the murder was committed by the thief's father who wanted to keep his son's DNA out of the national database to avoid this very outcome. | |
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Fatherland: An alternate history in which Germany won WWII and a Nazi Protagonist detective discovers the truth about the Holocaust after investigating a series of murders and suicides (the government officially claimed that Jews and other Holocaust victims were being resettled in Eastern Europe). | |
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Weeds subverts the hell out of this early in the third season. The second season Cliffhanger ends with Silas arrested for petty vandalism with a trunk full of marijuana but Celia drives away in his car before the cop sees it, and a few episodes later a DEA agent shows up at the Botwins' door while they're bagging product but never gets in the door so he doesn't notice it. Also played straight at the end of the third season: stolen cross → new grow house. |
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Dolphin kidnapping → murder of the head of operations for the Miami Dolphins, and the kidnapping, and attempted murder of NFL star Dan Marino by a vengeful ex-kicker who blamed him for the failed field goal that cost the Dolphins the Super Bowl. When Nature Calls: Bat kidnapping → plot to wipe out two indigenous African tribes and seize their land. |
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Honor Harrington: In On Basilisk Station, routine policing to stop smuggling and the murder of several local cops leads to the discovery of a plot for invasion. Amusingly played with in that the people doing the plotting try to call the invasion off and would have been able to do it unmolested if their plot hadn't been so revealed. | |
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Subverted in Dexter. In season 1, while pursuing the Ice Truck Killer, the Miami PD comes across a man named Neil Perry due to his having traffic tickets issued near the scenes of the Killer's kidnappings. The subversion comes because the man is actually a computer hacker who specifically planted those minor pieces of evidence in order to lead the police to himself. Therefore he could falsely confess for the killings and be famous. | |
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Happens in several episodes of The Simpsons: "Bart the Fink": Bart not getting a check signed by Krusty the Clown himself → Krusty is arrested for tax fraud (all in less than 5 minutes!). "24 Minutes": Bullies steal expired yogurt from the Kwik-E-Mart → Plot to unleash a stink bomb on the school's bake sale. "Mother Simpson": Homer fakes his death to get out cleaning a highway for work → Homer's mother is alive (Grandpa lied to Homer and said his mother died) and on the run from the cops for destroying germ weapons. "Mona Leaves-a": Homer fulfills his late mother's final wishes → Uncovering Mr. Burns' plan to send a rocket full of radioactive waste to the Amazon rainforest. |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The team investigating how an Average Joe gained superpowers → The discovery of Project Centipede → The season-long investigation into this group and its enigmatic leader, The Clairvoyant → The uncovering of HYDRA's plot to destroy SHIELD from within. | |
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Cellular starts off as trying to trace a woman who was kidnapped by unknown men but soon found out some of the cops in involved in a greater plot | |
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Octopath Traveler II: The pontiff of a local church has been murdered → these murders were performed by a man operating on behalf of the Moonshade Order → the Moonshade Order massacred the Kal clan in the recent past → the last survivor of the Kal Clan has taken control of the Sanctum Knights and is using them to try and eradicate the Order of the Sacred Flame because she blames them for her clan's destruction. This investigation ends, but sparks another. The Church was in possession of an evil artifact called the Darkblood Bow → the Moonshade Order has absconded with the bow and other Darkblood artifacts, and has smothered the Sacred Flames around the world, shrouding it in eternal darkness so that they may bring about the return of the dark god Vide the Wicked. In a strange irony, Temenos also discovers that the leader of the Sanctum Knights had nothing to do with the pontiff's murder. The pontiff was murdered by the leader of the Moonshade Order because the pontiff had learned just what the leader was up to and was trying to warn Temenos about them. So Temenos went on an entirely different investigation, the loose ends of which somehow led him right back around to the true culprits of the first one. | |
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The Big Lebowski: A pair of thugs break into The Dude's house and pee on his rug → kidnapping, embezzlement and a web of connections between a young runaway, a gang of toe-cutting nihilists, a pornographer and the chief of police of Malibu. | |
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In 1995, Montreal animator Claude Robinson sued production company CINAR for allegedly plagiarizing the concept of Robinson Sucroe from a 1986 pitch he'd made to the company. In the ensuing investigation, Canadian authorities discovered that CINAR's co-founders, Ronald Weinberg and Micheline Charest, had embezzled millions from the company via offshore bank accounts, including money earmarked for Canadian content development. Weinberg and Charest wound up fired in 2001 and CINAR went down the tubes for a few years, until its assets were purchased by Nelvana founder Michael Hirsh. As for Robinson, the court ruled in his favor and awarded him $5.2 million in damages. | |
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Moonraker: National hero cheating at cards → plot to nuke London with the most powerful missile ever built by said national hero, who is actually an ex-Nazi. | |
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Castle: This appears to have been the case for Beckett's mother's murder. Decade-old murder of a lawyer → wide-ranging corruption and conspiracy, the full extent of which has yet to be revealed. Also, murder of a taxi driver → plot to detonate a Dirty Bomb in New York. But subverted with a second season episode where vehicular homicide of a bike messenger → terrorist attack. The attack idea came out of the sender being listed S. Nadal Matar, who turns out to be on the terror watch list. ESU breaks down a door to discover an old lady named Sally Neidermeyer. Also subverted in "The Lives of Others": evidence of foul play and possible murder in the apartment across the street → birthday party for Castle! |
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The World Is Not Enough. Murder of a prominent businessman → A plot to force a nuclear sub into meltdown, nuke Istanbul, and contaminate 90% of the world's oil supply. | |
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In Eye of the Storm (KisekiMa), Shirou looks for Sakura that went missing. With the girl being both a lesser grail and in presence of a Servant, it is obvious that it will lead him to current Holy Grail War. | |
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In The Rookie: Feds episode "Countdown", the investigation into a missing scientist who spent his time looking for Bigfoot reveals a plan to destroy Los Angeles with two dirty bombs. | |
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Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard starts with Admiral (ret.) Picard receiving a Distress Call from Doctor Crusher to save her and her son from bounty hunters. In answering her call, he discovers that the bounty hunters are part of a group of Changelings who have infiltrated Starfleet to assist the Borg in assimilating Starfleet and destroying The Federation. | |
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Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia: Mysterious crash involving a runway made to appear out of whack and subsequent murder of the latest client of the Lovely Angels → a Social Darwinist's attempt to remake the universe in his own image. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: Ann learns about her brother's disappearance when thugs from the Factio Pugni show up looking for him → then she finds out Ryan picked up a clue on the elusive cure-all, N540 → which leads Ann to discovering it was a ploy devised by C to capture her in order to retrieve an Artifact of Doom that could potentially destroy the world. | |
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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Goons attempting to strongarm Professor Rowan and steal from an energy company → An attempt to restart the world with all humans as Empty Shells. | |
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Beverly Hills Cop II: A series of crimes base on the alphabet leads to a major gun-running operation. | |
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An episode of the revival of Magnum, P.I. sees Magnum's search for a missing cat lead to a murdered FBI agent. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist has at least two points that could be considered either the crime with the warrant that turns out too small or the far more sinister plot. They both go from the Elric brothers' attempt at human transmutation to the murder of Maes Hughes all the way up to outing and defeating an Ancient Conspiracy which may as well be called Amestris' very own Illuminati. | |
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The Letters Of The Devil is started by Cedric's investigation into Rita Carey's fraudulent business practices, and we discover a plethora of other, more heinous crimes as his investigation progresses. | |
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Community: Investigation into who ruined a biology class project → catching a serial backpack thief → uncovering supplies being stolen for a meth lab. Subverted in that they don't care about those things and remain solely focused on who killed their yam. | |
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Eternal Darkness: Investigate your grandfather's violent murder → Stop a two-thousand-year-old "liche" from summoning a world-destroying Eldritch Abomination. | |
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The Fifth Elephant: The murder of a rubber goods manufacturer and the theft of a replica Scone of Stone → a plot to overthrow the Low King of the Dwarfs. | |
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RWBY: In the pilot episode, Ruby foils a local criminal's attempt to rob a Dust shop. When Dust robberies keep happening, and seem to also involve the terrorist White Fang organisation, Team RWBY begins a vigilante investigation that eventually drags them and their friends into a vast, global conspiracy that has spent millennia waging a Secret War to decide the fate of humanity which eventually ends up resulting in the destruction of one of the four remaining Kingdoms of Humanity. | |
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Black Dynamite: Murder of the protagonist's brother → government conspiracy to shrink black men's penises. | |
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Batman: Black and White: "Blackout", set in World War II, starts with Batman investigating a window that's showing a light in defiance of the blackout order, which leads to him discovering a jewel robbery in progress, which leads to him learning that the owner of the jewels was using them to fund a Nazi spy ring. | |
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The Tuxedo: Murder of a CSA agent → a company's diabolical scheme to monopolize water by poisoning the U.S.' water supply with a fully dehydrating bacterial strain. | |
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Clear and Present Danger starts off with the Coast Guard pulling over suspicious yacht, only to discover the men aboard it have murdered the family of a wealthy American businessman, which leads to the discovery of his connections to a Colombian drug cartel. | |
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Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night: Bad Moon Rising → alien conspiracy from the antiquity. | |
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The Stupids think that there is a conspiracy since their garbage is always being stolen (disposed). It leads them to a corrupt army colonel who sells arms to terrorists. | |
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From Russia with Love. Rosa Klebb coerces Tatiana Romanova to defect to MI6 → Elaborate scheme hatched by SPECTRE to steal Lektor decoding machine from the Russians and selling it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No. | |
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Diamonds Are Forever. Diamond smuggling → Plot to hold the world for ransom with a laser-armed Kill Sat. | |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Bond getting kidnapped by Corsican mob boss → scheme to stop Blofeld from devastate England with biological weapons made at a health clinic in Switzerland. | |
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Constantine: Suicide of a woman → a plot to bring the Devil's son to Earth and bring about Armageddon. | |
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Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The break-in at Gringotts → Voldemort attempting to rise back to power. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The escape of a famous convict → A devoted servant trying to rejoin with Voldemort. The "devoted servant" being actually a snivelling coward who framed said convict. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The disappearance of a Ministry official → a genocidal maniac planning to return to power. |
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In The Day of the Jackal, the French police are baffled by a series of seemingly-unconnected bank robberies and jewelry heists. It turns out they're being orchestrated by the OAS terrorist group to fund the titular assassin's plot to kill Charles de Gaulle. | |
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In the Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note series, Aya discussed this trope with Kuroki during The Backyard Knows, expressing some disappointment that the crime involved in the arc was indeed minor, performed by a perennial small-time criminal without more apparent complexities. But the story does go that way, although still downplayed: it lead to a case of museum theft which causes the loss of some expensive butterfly specimens. | |
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Dead Rising 2: Chuck Greene, contestant of Terror Is Reality is filmed setting off a bomb that releases the zombies meant to be killed for entertainment onto the people of Fortune City, Nevada → Plot to frame him so that, Tyrone "TK" King, the controversial host of Terror Is Reality, can rob the casinos in the confusion → The Reveal is that TK was paid to frame Chuck for releasing the zombies as a way for Phenotrans to harvest more of the pheromone needed to keep selling Zombrex, their anti-zombification medicine, and that Phenotrans was behind the outbreak in Las Vegas that killed Chuck's wife, and is revealed to be planning more zombie outbreaks to keep producing Zombrex. In Off the Record, After his bout in Terror is Reality, Frank West photographs T.K. giving a Briefcase Full of Money to a C.U.R.E. activist as well as a bomb. Said activist is then seen setting off the bomb, and freeing a zombie horde on Fortune City. → Plot to cast C.U.R.E. as Bomb-Throwing Anarchists while T.K. robs the cash from the casinos in the confusion → The Reveal that T.K. was bribed to set up the activist so he could release the zombies, as a way for Phenotrans to harvest queens from zombies to extract the pheromone needed for Zombrex, and the fact that Phenotrans has plans to keep creating more outbreaks as a way to keep manufacturing Zombrex. |
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We Own This City: A drug dealer is robbed the night before the police are about to execute a search warrant for his apartment. When leaving the scene, one of the police goes to retrieve a GPS tracker they had placed on the suspect's car, only to find two police issue trackers on the car, the other of which is not being on file as being used for an investigation. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has sent an investigator to look into police corruption in Baltimore, and is at every turn told about officer Hershl, a notorious thief with a badge. These two lines of inquiry soon lead to the Gun Trace Task Force, a unit with a suspicious rate of succesfull vehicle searches, and spending habits beyond their paychecks. | |
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In the second Paramedium game, the protagonists are sent to investigate reports of a ghost being a hazard to traffic. It turns out that the ghost was one of a group of kidnapped school children, and haunts the road because she was hit by a truck while trying to escape and fetch help. Following her reveals the kidnapper, who had otherwise managed to escape justice for twenty or thirty years. | |
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X-Men Noir: Open-and-shut gangland murder → a secret brotherhood of Dirty Cops. In the sequel, X-Men Noir: Mark of Cain: Murder of Cain Marko → a secret government agency training criminals to be the ultimate spies and assassins. |
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Moonraker. Disappearance of a space shuttle → A plot to kill all humans on Earth. | |
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Cold Days: Killing an immortal (Maeve) to... stopping an Outsider plot to rule the world, and nuke half of Chicago. | |
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Judge Dredd: Murder of an investigative reporter → assassination of the Judges' Council and a coup d'etat. | |
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The Dresden Files does this almost once per book. Storm Front: Hired to find a woman's missing husband and help the police with a murder → uncovering an Axe-Crazy practitioner of Black Magic. Summer Knight: Investigating a suspicious death → averting a faerie war. Death Masks: Recovering a stolen religious artifact → preventing a souped-up Black Plague. Dead Beat: Finding a certain book for a vampire → preventing some necromancers from achieving godhood. White Night: Investigating the murders of a few low-level witches → stopping a coup in the White Court. Small Favor: Checking out an attack on Marcone → preventing Ivy from becoming a Denarian. Turn Coat: Giving the defamed Morgan asylum → outing The Mole in the White Council. Changes: Saving Harry's daughter from Red Court kidnappers → Killing the entire Red Court. Cold Days: Killing an immortal (Maeve) to... stopping an Outsider plot to rule the world, and nuke half of Chicago. |
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Stone Ocean: The hit-and-run incident that got Jolyne sent to prison was masterminded by Enrico Pucci to have Jotaro Lured into a Trap by stealing his memories containing the full extent of DIO's Evil Plan that Pucci seeks to fulfill. | |
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24: Season 1: Plane crash → assasination attempt on David Palmer. Season 3: Prison escape → terrorist plot by Jack Bauer's former ally to use a virus. Season 4: Train bombing → launch of a nuclear missile. Season 5: Terrorists seize airport → Nuclear missile launch Season 6: Terror bombings —> Nuclear bombing on US soil |
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Meta Runner: Sudden disappearance of a TASCorp Meta Runner → Plot by insane Mad Scientist to trap every Meta Runner in the world inside his digital simulation. | |
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This is the plot of Moriarty the Patriot from Deuteragonist Sherlock's point of view. He stumbles across an odd death that is clearly a disguised murder, then finds himself framed for murder, and uncovering that only reveals that his suspicions that there is a mastermind behind the crimes is accurate. | |
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Discworld City Watch novels: Men at Arms: A break-in at the Assassins' Guild → a plot to overthrow the Patrician. Feet of Clay: The death of a palace maid's grandmother → solving the otherwise-unsolvable poisoning of the Patrician. The Fifth Elephant: The murder of a rubber goods manufacturer and the theft of a replica Scone of Stone → a plot to overthrow the Low King of the Dwarfs. Thud!: The murder of a rabble-rousing dwarf, and the theft of a painting → a plot to prevent peace between dwarfs and trolls by obfuscating their shared history. Snuff: The death of a goblin (not strictly murder except in the soul of Sam Vimes) → a massive smuggling ring and slave plantations. Vimes actually lampshades this while talking with another character, referencing a case wherein a man had killed his dog, with Lord Vetinari ordering Vimes to search the man's house, stating that "where one finds little crimes, one often finds larger crimes." Vimes confirms to the other character that they did find larger crimes connected to the dog-killer. |
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Just like the films, James Bond had this as a common trope: Moonraker: National hero cheating at cards → plot to nuke London with the most powerful missile ever built by said national hero, who is actually an ex-Nazi. Dr. No: Disappearance of British agent and his secretary → plot by Evil Genius to shut down the missile launches at Cape Canaveral while selling the missile's secrets to Moscow. Goldfinger: Richest man in England cheating at cards and smuggling gold → absolutely insane plot to blow Fort Knox open with a nuke and steal all the gold. Bond even lampshades this trope at one point in the book, musing how he went from simple investigation to being tangled up in Goldfinger's scheme. For Your Eyes Only has one in "Risico": Bond contracted to kill famous smuggler → working with said famous smuggler to kill Bond's client, who is a major drug lord. Thunderball: Attempted murder of Bond at health clinic → plot to destroy Miami with two stolen nuclear warheads by Nebulous Evil Organization. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Bond getting kidnapped by Corsican mob boss → scheme to stop Blofeld from devastate England with biological weapons made at a health clinic in Switzerland. You Only Live Twice: Meeting with MI6 ally in Japan → final attempt to assassinate Blofeld for once and for all. The Man with the Golden Gun: Brainwashed and Crazy Bond attempting to kill M → plot to assassinate psychotic Cuban hitman. Colonel Sun: M gets kidnapped → plot by former Nazi and sadistic PLA Colonel to mortar a peace conference. Trigger Mortis: Going undercover at Nuremberg Rally to protect British racing driver → plot to blow up the Empire State building by South Korean millionaire. |
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Elementary: Murder of a conspiracy theorist → A member of a group that created a terrorist plot for a government training simulation that worked too well killing/mentally incapacitating the other members of said group to prevent knowledge of their plot from spreading. It turns out that the two cases are completely unrelated; the conspiracy theorist was killed by another conspiracy theorist over a disagreement about a different theory. Someone attempts to poison a prize racehorse → the capture of a world-infamous drug cartel assassin. An older man is found dead of an apparent heart attack dressed in a leather gimp suit → the nanny of the dead man's children was accused of killing her abusive father in a similar way → turns out the dead man was a child molester who sexually abused his older son; the older son poisoned his father to prevent his little brother from being abused, and tried to frame the nanny. Detective Bell is investigating a break-in at a dockside warehouse → discovers his boss is a Mafia plant and barely averts a city-wide mob war. Played in an episode where a van runs a red light and crashes into a construction truck. The van driver and a bystander die in an explosion and the investigators find that the van was full of gasoline. The police immediately jump to traffic accident -> terrorist bomb triggered prematurely. However, Sherlock's investigation uncovers that the van driver was a thief who was transporting stolen gasoline. The investigation appears to be closed but Sherlock is curious about people who knew the dead driver insisting that he was a Consummate Professional and would never run a red light while transporting stolen goods. Sherlock keeps investigating and discovers that the traffic lights were hacked. The investigation now balloons into: van full of stolen gasoline -> nefarious hacker sabotaging New York City's traffic systems. It looks like it might expand to reveal a government conspiracy but, as witnesses come forward, it starts to deflate again till the truth is revealed: van full of stolen gasoline -> plot by construction company owner to sabotage a rival construction company and get a lucrative government contract. Dock security guard being beaten into a coma → grand larceny of millions of dollars worth of maple syrup. Lampshaded by Sherlock at the end of "Possibility Two", when Joan has discovered that Sherlock's "favorite" dry cleaners are the front for a smuggling/arms dealing operation: "A good detective knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes. I live my life alert to this possibility." |
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In the third season of Engrenages, an apparently trivial incident in which a child was bitten by an inadequately-trained security dog leads to the uncovering of large-scale council corruption (the use of the dangerous dog was a sign of general corrupt penny-pinching). | |
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The Repairman Jack novels by F. Paul Wilson often start with Jack being asked to solve a small mystery, such as a missing person or a robbery. This mystery invariably turns out to be related in some way to the bigger 'Adversary Cycle' arc that spans the whole series. | |
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Played with in The Karma of Lies: After Hawkmoth is unmasked and arrested, Lila tearfully confesses to her mother that she'd secretly taken a modeling job with Agreste Fashion, a significantly lesser crime. She then invokes this while giving her statement to the police, painting herself as an Unwitting Pawn whom Gabriel and Adrien tricked into providing information about her classmates so that Hawkmoth could exploit their emotional states by akumatizing them. She plays the role to the hilt, tearfully defending Adrien upon 'realizing' their rising suspicions, asserting he couldn't possibly be involved in a way that ensures they don't believe her. | |
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Showtime: A drug bust leads to the discovery of a dangerous new weapon that is about to hit the streets. Admittedly, it's difficult to call a drug deal operation a "minor crime", but still. Also, the Big Bad was extremely upset that the drug dealer used one of his prototype guns, tipping off the cops. | |
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First Try Series: In Team Tetsuo, Naruto tells Sasuke about Mizuki being a traitor, leading Sasuke to suspect his education was sabotaged. Tetsuo tests them on their history, revealing that their textbooks are missing massive swatches of information, spurring an investigation that leads to a massive overhaul of their educational system, with everyone who'd graduated over the last six years being retested. | |
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Conversations with a Cryptid: Izuku has a talent for uncovering these: Conversations with a Cryptid: Izuku attempts to uncover All for One's long, long criminal history → Discovery of a two-centuries-long and ongoing conspiracy. Kidnapping of a Cryptid: Izuku, Mineta and Mei investigate why it's illegal for pro-heroes to use their own Support items for private use as prosthetics. Which reveals the government's massive human rights violations and corruption and how the anti-quirk laws are actually extremely unconstitutional. |
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Babylon Berlin: Pornographic filmmaking (extremely illegal in 1920s Germany) and blackmail of public figures with the same → robbery, illegal arms trade, murder & conspiracy to commit high treason. | |
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Changeling. The kidnapping of Walter Collins → the vast corruption in the LAPD. | |
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Hot Fuzz: Series of murders made to look like accidents → part of a decades-old conspiracy that mercilessly executes anyone who would jeopardize the reputation that Sandford, Gloucestershire has for serenity and cleanliness. "Have you ever wondered why the murder rate in this town is so low, and yet the accident rate is so high?" | |
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FBI: Most Wanted: In "Hairtrigger", Doug Timmons' car gets rear-ended by a drunk driver and a passing cop stops to investigate. When the cop goes to look in Doug's busted trunk, Doug panics and shoots the cop and then the drunk driver. Investigating this crime puts the FBI on the trail of a planned massacre. | |
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The Usual Suspects: Truck hijacking → massacre at the docks → manhunt for a legendary and enigmatic crime lord | |
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Dream Park: In The Barsoom Project, electronic tampering with a high-tech LARP → multiple acts of lethal sabotage in support of covert corporate takeover scheme. | |
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Ben 10: Alien Force's 1st two-part episode has alien weapon smugglers on Earth. Magister Labrid was correct saying "That's just the tip of the iceberg", as it's discovered later on that said smugglers were gathering enough cash in the black market to fund their Galactic scale Apocalypse How plan. | |
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S.W.A.T. (2017) has the team finding much bigger cases off a run-of-the-mill call. For example, a couple of teens break into a house and the girl fires the owner's rifle at a cop. The team subdues the pair only to find the owner is selling illegal assault weapons and just made an order for a deadly attack. | |
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Dreamscape: Murder of a woman while dreaming → creating a psychic assassin to kill the President of the United States in his dreams. | |
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More like Major Crime Reveals Major Crime, but in Who Silenced Elly Patterson, investigating Elly Patterson's death ended up opening a cold case on a woman's disappearance when Gavin Caine came under suspicion of Elly's death and a house search found the woman's body. To make things worse, the woman was his first wife. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: A private eye hired to take some "dirty" pictures → the murders of Marvin Acme and R.K. Maroon, probate fraud, the attempted destruction and gentrification of Toontown and genocide of its residents, the toons. | |
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Sensation Comics: Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor meet a poor boy and are concerned about his home life due to some things he says, when Diana looks into it she discovers that not only is the uncle he and his sister and mother live with so incredibly abusive their mother is terrified that he's going to kill the kids, he's also running a huge racketeering ring from his basement and plotting the armed robbery of a bunch of gold. | |
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Star Trek: Insurrection: Data goes berserk on an alien planet → conspiracy to rob said alien planet of its Phlebotinum → vengeful genocide of planet's inhabitants. | |
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Death Masks: Recovering a stolen religious artifact → preventing a souped-up Black Plague. | |
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In Death: Origin in Death: Murder of a "saintly" doctor → massive decades-old illegal human-cloning and people-made-to-order operation. Born in Death: Murder of two young accountants → tax fraud and other financial crimes → baby-selling ring. Faithless in Death: Murder of artist → Breeding Cult involved in Human Trafficking and related crimes. |
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In The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, a routine EPA investigation into a potential leak at an industrial waste dump uncovers a conspiracy to revive a God of Evil. | |
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Die Hard 2: McClane sees a man with a gun at an airport —> Hijackers plan to crash every plane until a political prisoner is released. | |
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(æ)mæth: When Masumi is being plagued by nightmares involving Duel Monsters she's never seen or heard of before, she decides to look their names up in her school database. That's when she finds out they've been erased, implying that not only are they real, but that her dream might not have been a dream after all. | |
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Max Payne: Max Payne: Murder of Alex Balder → Massive government conspiracy involving a failed attempt to create a Super Serum for the military which Max's family was killed to protect. Max Payne 2: Investigating a break-in at a workshop suspected of housing an illegal gun shop → a massive crime war between The Mafia and a secret society and The Mafiya, the uncovering of a paramilitary group complicit in the cover-ups of hundreds of murders, the death of a corrupt NYPD Detective in love with the Russian mob boss and nearly all parties involved dying, with Max arrested for murder at the end. Max Payne 3: Kidnap attempt on Rodrigo Branco + kidnap of his wife Fabiana → cooperation between illegal paramilitaries and Dirty Cops → organ harvesting of the poor, staged by a Sleazy Politician to get himself elected on an anti-crime ticket, with those cops being his private army. |
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The Order of the Stick: Murder/robbery of Eugene Greenhilt's mentor → Multiverse-spanning plot to gain control of an Eldritch Abomination that could destroy the world and kill the gods. | |
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Resident Evil: The entireity of the series and its mess of a biological war can be traced back to the first game and its prequel - an investigation of the murder of ten people, seemingly eaten, allows the massive conspiracy behind Umbrella and its viruses to come to light. In Resident Evil 5, The attempted arrest of an international arms dealer selling a highly dangerous biological weapon → a plot by the series' Big Bad to conquer the world by spreading the biological weapon everywhere. |
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In Rainbow Six, the FBI carries out a search for a missing woman, believing it to be part of a kidnapping or serial killing, only to find a plan to wipe out most of humanity. Clear and Present Danger starts off with the Coast Guard pulling over suspicious yacht, only to discover the men aboard it have murdered the family of a wealthy American businessman, which leads to the discovery of his connections to a Colombian drug cartel. |
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Skyrim: The sidequest "Laid to Rest". Investigate a suspicious house fire that killed a woman and a child → Break up a plot by vampires to take over the town and enslave its inhabitants. The Thieves' Guild questline. Investigate why someone is trying to drive a patron of the Guild out of business → uncover the truth behind the death of the previous Guild Master and the treachery of the current one against both your guild and their patron deity, along with reclaiming an artifact with reality-warping powers. |
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Persona 3 has your team investigating the mystery of the Dark Hour and why your school turns into a freaky tower every night. You end up saving the world | |
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Persona 4 has you and your team exploring the Midnight Channel and stopping people from being killed by facing their enemies without. You end up uncovering a Killer Cop and an Assimilation Plot by the goddess Izanami to turn everybody into Shadows and form one, collective conscience. | |
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Persona 5 has you and your gang of vigilantes using the Metaverse to perform Heel–Face Brainwashing on untouchable or hidden criminals. Then you discover a conspiracy that's also using the Metaverse to pull off assassinations or engineer disasters in order to install their leader as Prime Minister, and that the events of the game were started by the Knight Templar god Yaldabaoth in order to give itself the moral justification to enslave mankind. | |
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Snuff: The death of a goblin (not strictly murder except in the soul of Sam Vimes) → a massive smuggling ring and slave plantations. Vimes actually lampshades this while talking with another character, referencing a case wherein a man had killed his dog, with Lord Vetinari ordering Vimes to search the man's house, stating that "where one finds little crimes, one often finds larger crimes." Vimes confirms to the other character that they did find larger crimes connected to the dog-killer. |
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Fallout: New Vegas: Find the man that shot you and stole the package you were supposed to deliver, get said package back, and finish the delivery → decide which of the factions vying for control of New Vegas and the rest of the Mojave Wasteland emerges triumphant, or make your own power play and take over for yourself. Prostitutes being abused → Omertas plotting to attack the Strip. Sabotage of an NCR base → a terrorist attack on the monorail. False radio reports → high treason. |
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A common trope in the James Bond series: Dr. No. Murder of a British agent → Dr. No's SPECTRE operation to destroy American missiles. From Russia with Love. Rosa Klebb coerces Tatiana Romanova to defect to MI6 → Elaborate scheme hatched by SPECTRE to steal Lektor decoding machine from the Russians and selling it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No. Goldfinger. Cheating at Gin Rummy, murder of Jill Masterson and gold smuggling → A plot to nuke Fort Knox. Thunderball. Attempted murder of Bond → A plot to hold the world ransom with two stolen nuclear warheads. You Only Live Twice. American and Russian spacecraft are stolen → Elaborate plan by SPECTRE to start a nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Ernst Stavro Blofeld claims title of 'Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp' → Plan by SPECTRE to abduct women from around the world and use them as pawns to spread a dangerous virus that is capable of destroying crops and livestock unless he gets a pardon for his past crimes. Diamonds Are Forever. Diamond smuggling → Plot to hold the world for ransom with a laser-armed Kill Sat. Live and Let Die. Deaths of three British agents → Massive heroin smuggling operation. The Man with the Golden Gun. 007 receives gold-plated bullet → Theft of device used for controlling solar energy. The Spy Who Loved Me. Disappearing nuclear submarines → A plot to start a nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Moonraker. Disappearance of a space shuttle → A plot to kill all humans on Earth. For Your Eyes Only. British spy ship containing Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), which controls nuclear subs gets sunk → A plot to steal ATAC for the Soviets. Octopussy. Smuggling stolen Faberge Eggs and murdering a British agent → Nuclear sabotage, wiping out an American military base along with nearby cities and World War III. A View to a Kill. A scheme by Max Zorin of systematic doping in thoroughbred horse racing → A scheme by Max Zorin aimed at destroying Silicon Valley (though these two plot points don't directly connect) The Living Daylights. Faked sniping attack on a fleeing general → Attacks on British agents and an illegal weapons smuggling network in the middle of the war between U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan. The movie, however, also counts as an inversion. The villains are pitting British and Russian spies against each other by trying to convince the former that the latter are targeting them all for elimination - hoping that they will respond by eliminating the KGB director supposedly responsible for the operation. This is being done to protect their scheme of misusing KGB resources to turn a huge profit smuggling drugs and weapons, which the director is on the verge of exposing. It's a serious crime, but nowhere near as potentially destructive as inciting a war of assassins between the KGB and its Western counterparts (which as Koskov said, in the worst case scenario, could conceivably even lead to nuclear war). Licence to Kill. Felix Leiter gets injured while his wife gets killed → A plot to smuggle cocaine dissolved in petrol into Asia and sell it disguised as fuel to drug lords. GoldenEye. Theft of a prototype helicopter → A revenge scheme by a traitorous MI6 agent aimed at crippling London with an EMP-based Kill Sat to cover up a massive electronic bank robbery. Tomorrow Never Dies. An unusually fast newspaper article on a ship sinking → A scheme aimed at starting a war to gain exclusive media rights in China. The World Is Not Enough. Murder of a prominent businessman → A plot to force a nuclear sub into meltdown, nuke Istanbul, and contaminate 90% of the world's oil supply. Die Another Day. Rogue North Korean colonel trades in smuggled diamonds for weapons and is presumably killed for it → Plot by said rogue colonel, who is revealed to have been Faking the Dead all along, to use a solar-powered Kill Sat to cut a path through the Korean DMZ, allowing North Korea to launch an invasion of South Korea. Daniel Craig's Bond gets one that spans two movies: elimination of a bomber-for-hire → the shut down of a banker to terrorist cells around the world → The Reveal of an N.G.O. Superpower. Skyfall: Attempt to recover an encrypted hard drive containing the identities of every active undercover NATO agent goes wrong → MI6 comes under intense government scrutiny for the mishap → An attempt a by rogue agent turned cyber-criminal to destroy MI6 and get his revenge against M for selling him out to the Chinese. Spectre: Unauthorized mission by 007 to foil terrorist plot in Mexico City → A campaign to shut down the 00-agent section and replace it with an intelligence-sharing program called "Nine Eyes" → The Reveal that said N.G.O. Superpower whom Bond fought against in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace was also behind events of Skyfall, hopes to use the "Nine Eyes" program to stop any investigation into their operations, and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld is revealed to be Bond's estranged step-brother, who masterminded the tragedies 007 faced since Casino Royale (2006). No Time to Die: Russian Scientist gets kidnapped → Stopping an assassin's attempt to destroy the world by wiping out half of the world's population with Nanobots. |
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Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos Human campaign: Death cult spreads plague —> Arthas becomes a Fallen Hero to conquer Lordaeron. The Frozen Throne's bonus campaign: Disruption of thunder lizard habitat —> Renegade humans trying to start another war with the Horde. |
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In Nerve Zero, the hero just wanted to find an old flame to get her off-world and ended up discovering a cult, an investigation by the secret police, and a plot to evacuate the planet. | |
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Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism: Strange creatures from Beneath the Earth → nuclear conspiracy going out of hand. | |
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir: Sabotage of a trade ship → yuan-ti plot to take over the world. | |
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Minority Report: Review of an old Precrime murder case → Precrime's systemic incarceration of potentially innocent people → A top precop's future murder being an elaborate frameup to keep him from discovering the real culprit behind that old case was actually Precrime's founder (and his friend) to use the victim's clairvoyant daughter to create Precrime in the first place. | |
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In the Sano Ichiro novel The Samurai’s Wife, Sano’s investigation into the death of the imperial left minister eventually exposes a plot to overthrow the Tokugawa government and reinstate the emperor as ruler of Japan. | |
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The People Under the Stairs: Two men attempt to burgle the house of one of the men's former landlords to steal money for his dying mother. In doing so, they discover that the landlords have been abducting children for years. Director Wes Craven based the plot on a news story he read in the 1970s about two burglars who broke into a Los Angeles household and in doing so, revealed to the police two children who had been locked away by their parents. | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun: Brainwashed and Crazy Bond attempting to kill M → plot to assassinate psychotic Cuban hitman. | |
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In Resident Evil 5, The attempted arrest of an international arms dealer selling a highly dangerous biological weapon → a plot by the series' Big Bad to conquer the world by spreading the biological weapon everywhere. | |
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Chinatown: Who killed Hollis Mulwray? → rape, incest, and massive corruption of the LAPD. | |
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Fuuto P.I. begins with a man asking the heroes for help in retrieving his stolen bag, which ends up revealing the existence of a parallel dimension where a new group of Gaia Memory users live and fight against the Kamen Riders. | |
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In Perfection Is Overrated Hitomi using Mind Control to force people to make withdrawals from their bank accounts (which later escalates to murder) → plot by SUEs to kill all the Himes and reshape the world. | |
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Wrongfully Accused: The murder of an Eccentric Millionaire → A scheme to assassinate the United Nations Secretary-General, Sir Robert McKintyre. | |
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Starlight Over Detrot starts with the investigation of a murder outside a swanky hotel, and quickly turns into a race to stop a plot that could destroy the whole city. | |
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American Dad!: Parodied, and played straight. Steve does a research project on peanut butter and discovers a secret conspiracy dating back to the days of Abraham Lincoln. The parody occurs earlier in the episode in the form of a Noodle Incident where Snot claims that he gave up sleuthing after "the case of a missing bike horn turned into a double rape homicide". | |
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Blue Thunder: Murder of an LA city councilwoman → a U.S. government conspiracy to eliminate political undesirables with the title combat helicopter. | |
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For the King: The Lost Civilization DLC has a plot involving a Mayincatec civilization attempting to end the world from their secret jungle temple, but it starts with the protagonists investigating a case of poultry smuggling. | |
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Doubled in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, when the motive for the Victim of the Week's murder almost always turned out to be far more complicated than implied in the opening sequence. | |
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Slayers: Destroying a bandit hideout and looting some of the contents reveals a plot to revive THE Darkest Lord of the Demonic forces and possibly destroy the world. | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun. 007 receives gold-plated bullet → Theft of device used for controlling solar energy. | |
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This is the standard structure for Pathfinder Adventure Paths, to justify starting at level 1 (when everything is kobolds and copper pieces, and you get excited over a potion of barkskin) and ending at 15-20 (when you can pick fights with legendary monsters and win): adventurers go to Town X at the behest of Patron Y, and whatever happens there starts them on a path to stopping the evil plan of Potentially Setting-Reshaping Threat Z. Rise of the Runelords begins with a bunch of goblins attacking a town during a local festival, leading to an investigation that reveals that sevent ancient tyrants seek to be resurrected so they can retake their power. Legacy of Fire begins with a mysterious fire killing a merchant princess's personal astrologer, and the investigation ends with a crazed genie and his minions attempting to steal the power of an Eldritch Abomination. Kingmaker begins with a group of people being sent into an unclaimed land to form a new kingdom, which leads to the reveal of an exiled mad nymph seeking to bottle said unclaimed land in an attempt to regain her old life. Iron Gods begins with someone sabotaging the purple "flame" that fuels most of the town of Torch's industry and ends with an unhinged AI launching a bid for godhood from within the confines of an ancient crashed spaceship. Carrion Crown starts with the apparently accidental death of a scholar, with the player characters being old friends attending his funeral, and winds its way through various horror tropes to an attempt to bring back an ancient lich. |
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Happens a few times in NUMB3RS "In Plain Sight": While trying to decrypt the computer of an escaped drug kingpin/cop killer, Charlie discovers that he is also concealing pornographic images of his very young daughter on his hard drive. "Black Swan": An apparent innocent bystander at the scene of a drug raid flees from the cops, and the FBI discovers that he's involved in a domestic terrorist plot. An Invoked Trope in "Robin Hood"; a high-tech bank robbery turns out to be just one piece in an intricate scheme to expose the misdeeds of the bank's president. "Assassin": While busting a passport forger, the FBI discovers evidence of a plot to murder the last member of an influential South American political family. "Waste Not": A sinkhole suddenly forms underneath an elementary school playground, killing a teacher and injuring several children. During the investigation into why it happened, it's revealed that a construction company has been dumping toxic waste underneath the playgrounds they've built at several low-income schools. |
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Sin City: Murder of a hooker and frameup of the guy who was with her → uncovering a cannibal farm boy and a corrupt priest who has pretty much the entire city in his pocket. | |
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Monsters, Inc.: The eponymous power company's scare floor being used after hours by Randall, resulting in Boo breaking loose and wreaking havoc in Monstropolis → a dangerous machine designed to extract screams from children as part of a scheme by Randall and Mr. Waternoose. | |
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White Night: Investigating the murders of a few low-level witches → stopping a coup in the White Court. | |
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Pokémon Gold and Silver: Slowpoke losing their tails in Azalea Town → An attempt to restore Team Rocket to its former glory by a few senior operatives trying to get the former Boss Rocket's attention. | |
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Turn Coat: Giving the defamed Morgan asylum → outing The Mole in the White Council. | |
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Big Hero 6: Theft of Hiro's microbots and death of his older brother Tadashi → plot by Hiro's former mentor Professor Callaghan to destroy Alistair Krei for causing his daughter's death by using the stolen microbots and Krei's teleportation portal. | |
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Foxfire (Rahar_Moonfire): Investigating some ghost sightings morphs into having to stop a powerful spirit from hurting innocents in her quest for vengeance by tracking down her adulterous, child-murdering ex-lover. | |
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. Death (murder) of Doc's father → a plot to steal Indian land in Central America that contains a giant pool of gold. | |
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Max Payne: Murder of Alex Balder → Massive government conspiracy involving a failed attempt to create a Super Serum for the military which Max's family was killed to protect. | |
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Max Payne 3: Kidnap attempt on Rodrigo Branco + kidnap of his wife Fabiana → cooperation between illegal paramilitaries and Dirty Cops → organ harvesting of the poor, staged by a Sleazy Politician to get himself elected on an anti-crime ticket, with those cops being his private army. | |
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You Only Live Twice: Meeting with MI6 ally in Japan → final attempt to assassinate Blofeld for once and for all. | |
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Death of Egon Spengler → first ghosts sightings in two decades → reemergence of Gozer, who is once again trying to bring about the Apocalypse. | |
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The theft of Khura'in's national treasure and the murder of the guard looking after it in Spirit of Justice → A coup d'état plotted by the very Justice Minister of the kingdom and a popular revolution involving basically every known character up to Case 5. The plot is so big, its influence encompasses Japanifornia, thousands of miles away. But wait, there's more: in investigating the coup d'état, the truth about the queen's assassination 23 years ago comes to light, which further shakes the kingdom as the current queen was responsible for that arson and the law that killed off all lawyers in the land. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey: In Murder Must Advertise, the murder of an advertising copywriter → massive cocaine-smuggling ring. | |
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Unreal Tournament III: Attack on a mining colony by an alien force → planet-scale invasion from another MegaCorp-backed alien faction → the MegaCorp that rescued The Protagonist and his friends/family from the aforementioned mining colony onslaught was behind all of the events of the game, including said mining colony invasion. | |
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Call of Cthulhu supplement Masks of Nyarlathotep. The murder of author Jackson Elias by cultists leads to a worldwide conspiracy to open a Gate and let the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos conquer the Earth. | |
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Borderlands: One that spans across the entire franchise: four Bounty Hunters going to a Death World in order to acquire riches and loot → the reveal of an ancient alien race, its Phlebotinum and its legend, alongside an universal threat → a low-level corporative code monkey becoming the universe's biggest threat because of his hatred of bandits → an intergalactic war threatening to take the universe down with it while the Mega Corps are battling one another. | |
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The entireity of the series and its mess of a biological war can be traced back to the first game and its prequel - an investigation of the murder of ten people, seemingly eaten, allows the massive conspiracy behind Umbrella and its viruses to come to light. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the two-parter "Improbable Cause"/"The Die Is Cast", the bombing of Garak's shop → the Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order making a preemptive strike on the Dominion. | |
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Sneakers: The theft of a black box and the murder of its creator → a plot to cause the collapse of the world economy. | |
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The A-Team: In the episode "Steel", the Team is hired by a construction company manager to deal with a villainous Crooked Contractor who is trying to muscle the company out of a demolition contract. The Team eventually finds out that the reason the crooked contractor is so determined is because he is under the thumb of "Crazy Tommy T", the local kingpin, who got rid of one of his former fellow kingpins and dumped his corpse in the foundation of the now-condemned building. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: Sky pirates stealing a crystal → the same pirates hijacking an airliner → a Mayor Pain and his secretary burning down an orphanage in a real estate scheme → a coup by the country's intelligence division, who were manipulating the sky pirates and the mayor → the head of the intelligence division attempting to unseal an ancient superweapon → a branch of an Ancient Conspiracy having brainwashed all aforementioned parties to carry out step one of their Evil Plan. | |
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Defied in Pulp Fiction. The Wolf asks Jules and Vincent if there is anything wrong with the car, which they had just cleaned thoroughly, so that if he is pulled over by the police, he knows any problems to talk about - and the police won't have a reason to inspect the vehicle, and find any hint of the body or blood the Jules and Vincent had spent time cleaning. | |
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: A minor noble from Lycia goes missing, and another minor noble plots rebellion → A mad sorcerer was using those nobles to try to summon dragons to destroy the world. | |
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Twin Peaks: The murder of a teenage girl → otherdimensional demonic conspiracy (to confuse the audience). | |
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Zootopia: A series of seemingly unrelated missing mammals → the Mayor's imprisonment and cover-up of predator species who have inexplicably "gone savage" → the Assistant Mayor's plot to create and exploit anti-predator sentiment for political gain. | |
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Mass Effect: In the first game, an unprovoked attack on a human colony → The destruction of all sentient life by Eldritch Abominations. The sequel gives us: Human colonies disappearing → Creation of an Eldritch Abomination. The Arrival DLC has: Admiral Hackett's friend Dr. Kenson has been kidnapped by Batarians → the Reapers will arrive and begin the galactic extermination in 2 days. The Leviathan DLC features a scientist's assistant killing his boss with no apparent motive in a case that is indistinguishable from indoctrination except that he now seems normal but has amnesia → the Leviathan, who created the Reapers, are now trying to cover their tracks during the Reaper invasion. |
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Implacable: Taylor is press-ganged by the Wards to avoid juvie when she lashes out at Sophia during her trigger event. Director Piggot tries to bury the investigation once it's clear the end result would see Sophia in juvie and Taylor free from the Wards. This eventually leads to the Youth Guard discovering the Wards ENE are so badly mismanaged that their charter is revoked and Piggot ends up under investigation. This apparently triggered more investigations countrywide as it's mentioned other Wards departments are being shuttered due to their own scandals. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey: In the Fate of Atlantis DLC, people getting kidnapped → two Isu turning innocent humans into bioweapons to take over Atlantis. | |
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Better Call Saul: Jimmy notices some minor overbilling on the part of his elderly client's nursing home. Digging further, he finds that the home's entire parent corporation has been engaging in outright fraud on its clients to the tune of millions of dollars. | |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Ernst Stavro Blofeld claims title of 'Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp' → Plan by SPECTRE to abduct women from around the world and use them as pawns to spread a dangerous virus that is capable of destroying crops and livestock unless he gets a pardon for his past crimes. | |
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In Case 3 of The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, a death during a public experiment at London's Great Exhibition uncovers a conspiracy within the British government that faked the execution of a notorious Serial Killer a decade prior. Scotland Yard's chief coroner took part in the murder plot due to being blackmailed about her false autopsy report of the convict. | |
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In With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, King Candy initially gets arrested for tax fraud, but when the police search his house, they discover videotapes of him sexually abusing his kids, the Sugar Rush racers (except Vanellope). | |
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A View to a Kill. A scheme by Max Zorin of systematic doping in thoroughbred horse racing → A scheme by Max Zorin aimed at destroying Silicon Valley (though these two plot points don't directly connect) | |
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The Way of the Gun: Parker and Longbaugh kidnap a surrogate mother hired by mob accountant Hal Chidduck and hold her for ransom. Chidduck can't pay the ransom because it would expose the money laundering services he's been providing to the mob, who would kill him before letting their financial get threatened by the resulting investigation. | |
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This seems to be the point of the Buddy Cop Show, The Good Guys. An old Noble Bigot with a Badge Cowboy Cop is paired with a young By-the-Book Cop and sent to investigate minor crimes (vandalism, shoplifting, etc.) to keep them out of trouble, but the duo almost always stumble across something much bigger (drug smugglers, car theft ring, etc.). | |
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The Golden Child: Kidnapping of a child → attempt to bring Hell to Earth. | |
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Lethal Weapon 2: A traffic stop (of a car with a trunk full of Krugerrands) → an international drug smuggling conspiracy by South African government officials. | |
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Lethal Weapon 3: A botched armor truck robbery → A corrupt officer stealing weapons from impound and selling them on the black market. | |
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Lethal Weapon 4: A ship full of smuggled Chinese immigrants → A plot to sneak four Chinese Triad bosses into the country. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. A routine hostage situation turns out to be an attempt to hijack a starship. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The murder of the Klingon chancellor is part of a bigger co-conspiracy between the Federation and the Klingon military to remain in a state of perpetual cold war, otherwise each side's admirals and generals would have no purpose in life. Star Trek: Insurrection: Data goes berserk on an alien planet → conspiracy to rob said alien planet of its Phlebotinum → vengeful genocide of planet's inhabitants. Star Trek Into Darkness: A series of devastating attacks by a mysterious terrorist → conspiracy to militarize Starfleet from within and deliberately instigate a war with the Klingon Empire which they deemed inevitable. |
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes: As is the story on which it is partially based ("The Six Napoleons"), an investigation into the seemingly motiveless crime of someone smashing plaster busts of Napoleon uncovers a case of grand theft and murder. | |
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Possibly the case in Daughter for Dessert. At the beginning of the story, the crime that Mortelli investigated is the theft of the toaster at the protagonist's diner. It isn’t clear how Mortelli gets dragged into investigating the protagonist for defrauding Lainie’s family lawyer, but he suspects a connection between the two investigations. | |
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The mid-war Philip Marlowe novel The Lady in the Lake starts with finding a missing (possibly run away on her own) wife and leads to three murders and mafia involvement in defense industries. | |
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Dead Beat: Finding a certain book for a vampire → preventing some necromancers from achieving godhood. | |
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Gargoyles begins with Elisa investigating the relatively minor crimes of property damage and theft, and this investigation exposes her to the major plot from the very beginning. | |
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The Cartoon Man trilogy: Missing persons case. → A plot by said missing person to enslave the world. | |
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True to its genre, L.A. Noire has some: Apparent drunk driving crash → statutory rape → blackmail → attempted murder → giant shoot-out with mobsters on the set of Intolerance. Series of house fires → a giant real estate scheme. |
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In The Snows Of Haz: Finding Dimali's murderer → foiling a plot to topple The Empire. | |
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"Coldheart", a novella in the League of Magi collection of the same name, starts with a missing woman and goes into hundreds of kidnappings, immortal sorcerers, superpowered beings, monsters, and oh yeah, a ritual summoning of a wendigo. | |
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In the Neptunia fanfic Rei Ryghts: Ace Attorney Turnabout Of The Night, the murder of the CFO of a sunscreen manufacturer eventually leads to a conspiracy by a vampire to bring about The Night That Never Ends. | |
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Invoked in Yes, Minister. James Hacker hears of Italian Red Terrorists somehow being in possession of British bomb-making equipment and decides to tell the Prime Minister so there can be an investigation. His Permanent Secretary tells him not to get involved or it could lead to all sorts of things coming out, citing Watergate as an example and saying in politics you shouldn't get involved in anything that doesn't concern you. Hacker is then frightened off from telling the PM by the Chief Whip, who tells him it could be diasterous to some of his Cabinet colleagues along with the PM. | |
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NewBlood is founded on one of these when the two investigators realise that their murder and fraud investigations are linked to each other and indicative of a larger conspiracy. | |
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In In the Line of Fire, the identity of would-be presidential assassin "Boothe" is exposed when they trail him to an incident where he crippled someone he accused of stealing one of his model car designs. | |
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I, Robot: Suicide (performed with an apparently malfunctioning robot, meaning U.S. Robotics wishes to sweep the event under the rug as "industrial accident") → Zeroth Law Rebellion | |
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Burden of Truth: Taylor follows a john who beats up sex workers. She finds out he is one of many people being blackmailed by the seemingly reformed Sam Mercer. | |
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Licence to Kill. Felix Leiter gets injured while his wife gets killed → A plot to smuggle cocaine dissolved in petrol into Asia and sell it disguised as fuel to drug lords. | |
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It (2017) A series of missing children in a small town → A horrifying demonic creature that lives in the sewers of the town that wakes up every 27 years to feed on any child who crosses its path. | |
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The Merchant Princes: A few ships vanishing on another state's territory → a general of the Galactic Empire using the state as a proxy and beachhead for his conquest plans on the Periphery. | |
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Ghost Trick: The protagonist wanting to find out who murdered him → foreign government trying to steal a meteorite and gain its mysterious powers. Worsened by a certain individual with said powers who wants to take his personal vendetta on those who ruined his life ten years ago by killing them or framing them for murder. Said individual also manipulated two people into divulging national secrets and seizing a police station. | |
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Skyfall: Attempt to recover an encrypted hard drive containing the identities of every active undercover NATO agent goes wrong → MI6 comes under intense government scrutiny for the mishap → An attempt a by rogue agent turned cyber-criminal to destroy MI6 and get his revenge against M for selling him out to the Chinese. | |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The disappearance of a Ministry official → a genocidal maniac planning to return to power. | |
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Looker: Murder of female models → company conspiracy to brainwash customers with subliminal advertising. | |
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NCIS: "Enemies Foreign" starts with the team busting an identity thief. One of the identities she stole leads them to a pair of Mossad agents who are in D.C. in advance of Director Eli David—who is being followed by Palestinian terrorists who want him dead. “Kill Screenâ€� starts out with a cop witnessing a pickpocket lifting a purse from a crowd of customers at a hotdog stand. The bag has the cut-off fingertips and teeth of a recently-killed corporal, which gets NCIS involved. The case then spirals to a game developer's plot to wipe out every military computer on the Pentagon’s grid using his new video game and its mainframe to generate enough power to break through the firewalls. "Troll" starts with a typical murdered sailor—and leads to a four-episode battle with international terrorists who create Child Soldiers via the internet, set off several bomb attacks (one of which kills Ned Dorniget), and almost-fatally shoot Gibbs. One episode starts with the team investigating a chop shop run by navy personnel. One of the stolen cars has a severed head in the trunk. |
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In a few Monk episodes: In "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", the murder of a retired college nurse leads Monk to discover a murder plot involving Trudy's freshman roommate. In "Mr. Monk Is On the Run" (both parts), Monk is framed for a shooting by a dirty county sheriff. Once Monk escapes, he finds the shooting tied to a plot to assassinate the governor. In "Mr. Monk Buys a House", the death of a wheelchair-handicapped man who fell down a flight of stairs in his own house is tied to money from an unsolved robbery. In "Mr. Monk and the Magician", Monk's upstairs neighbor Kevin is killed by Karl Torini the night he debuts as an amateur magician → discrepancies in Torini's airline receipts that were evidence of Torini's involvement in a drug trafficking ring. In the Tie-In Novel Mr. Monk In Outer Space, the heart-attack death of a fast-food company CEO that is dressed up as a shooting → exposure of an embezzlement scam. In "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", the investigation on who killed the paperboy who delivered Monk's paper led him to find out the plan of a girl to play Black Widow to a multi-million-dollar lottery winner who lived in the same building (and who didn't even knew he had won, because the plan included keeping him ignorant of this fact). A somewhat unusual case, as the initial crime leads Monk to coincidentally solve two completely unrelated crimes while operating under the assumption the killer was trying to prevent him from seeing the newspaper. In "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", the investigation of a drive-by shooting in which Stottlemeyer gets shot in the shoulder turns out to be tied to an upcoming armored car robbery. In "Mr. Monk, Private Eye", a dent car case leads Monk to a murder of a woman caused by the person who dented the car. "Mr. Monk and the Election": attempted assassination on Natalie —> domestic terrorism |
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Pokémon Red and Blue: Fossil theft in Mt. Moon → A plot by Team Rocket to Take Over the World and enslave all Pokémon. | |
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Goldfinger. Cheating at Gin Rummy, murder of Jill Masterson and gold smuggling → A plot to nuke Fort Knox. | |
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Persona: Persona 3 has your team investigating the mystery of the Dark Hour and why your school turns into a freaky tower every night. You end up saving the world Persona 4 has you and your team exploring the Midnight Channel and stopping people from being killed by facing their enemies without. You end up uncovering a Killer Cop and an Assimilation Plot by the goddess Izanami to turn everybody into Shadows and form one, collective conscience. Persona 5 has you and your gang of vigilantes using the Metaverse to perform Heel–Face Brainwashing on untouchable or hidden criminals. Then you discover a conspiracy that's also using the Metaverse to pull off assassinations or engineer disasters in order to install their leader as Prime Minister, and that the events of the game were started by the Knight Templar god Yaldabaoth in order to give itself the moral justification to enslave mankind. |
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9/11 started filming as a documentary about the journey of Tony Benetatos, a probationary firefighter aspiring to become a full-fledged firefighter in New York City. On September 11, 2001, while Tony's battalion investigated a supposed gas leak at Church and Lispenard, co-director Jules Naudet captured one of the only three known recordings to clearly show American Airlines Flight 11 crashing into the World Trade Center's North Tower. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Outpost scientist is turned to stone → plot by another outpost scientist and planetary resident to make money by stealing Starfleet information and selling it on the black market. To an extent, Rutherford's entire story arc through the first three seasons: engineering ensign creates Ax-Crazy AI helper with unstable coding → said ensign's cybernetic implant begins to malfunction and causes repressed memories and old personality to resurface → revelation of plot by Insane Admiral to make a name for himself by creating automated Starfleet ships...which then kill him after he attempts to cover it up and rampage until the entire fleet of ships they were supposed to replace destroy them. |
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Kim Possible has this happen quite a few times. The biggest example is from Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama where the attempted kidnapping of a toy magnate was merely the first step in Drakken's most ambitious Take Over the World plot yet. In one episode this trope is also implied when it is mentioned that Kim once brought an end to an interstate police chase that was set off by a driver having a broken brake light, but no further details are given. | |
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Storm Front: Hired to find a woman's missing husband and help the police with a murder → uncovering an Axe-Crazy practitioner of Black Magic. | |
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Every case in the fourth game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has this: The murder of an unknown guy in a restaurant, which spans the entire game - The victim is actually the protagonist's step-father and the defendant's old client, and the real murderer's motive is tied to the events of seven years ago. A non-fatal hit-and-run, a panty-snatching and the theft of a noodle stand led to a murder where the defendant is the son of the city's biggest crime boss, who's unaware that he's on the verge of death thanks to a turf war that caused him to get shot in the heart. The murder of a singer's manager during a concert is pretty big, but when that manager turns out to be an Undercover Interpol Agent who was killed by a smuggler, who was funneling a controlled substance that is on the top of Interpol's list of illicit contraband into the country, it gets even bigger. An isolated painter is found dead in his home. Oh, and he happens to have drawings depicting all the cases that the titular character has worked on up to that point. And as if that wasn't enough, he turns out to be a forger who was apparently responsible for making the evidence that got Phoenix disbarred seven years ago. And to top it all off, it turns out that his murder was actually supposed to happen seven years ago during those events, but the "time bomb" that the killer set for him got delayed thanks to some luck, that happens to tie into Apollo's sister's family being a group of famous magicians... Quite a complex web for a case that starts out as your run-of-the-mill murder. Even Phoenix himself notes this throughout the case. |
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The bombing of Courtroom No. 4 in Dual Destinies → an international spy destroying evidence that would reveal his identity and his guilt in a seven-year-old murder, and the murder and impersonation of a police detective, and two consecutive terrorist attacks on the Space Center. | |
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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers: Investigate seven ritualistic murders → Stop an ancient cult that has taken over New Orleans and cursed your family for centuries. The Beast Within: Investigate the possible presence of a werewolf killing people in Munich → Become entangled with the much older, Manipulative Bastard werewolf who turned the aforementioned werewolf in the first place, and had previously inflicted the same curse on Ludwig II of Bavaria → Discover a secret unpublished opera created by Ludwig and Richard Wagner whose music can expose werewolves by forcing them to transform prematurely. Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned: Get hired to stand guard over the youngest child of a Royal Blood line whose family have been known to suffer sporadic fits of anemia after waking up with a pair of puncture marks on their neck → Witness the child's kidnapping by a shadowy figure and pursue said figure to a remote country town → Uncover an Ancient Conspiracy of vampiric cultists who want to sacrifice the infant, who is descended from Jesus, in order to become Physical Gods and Take Over the World. A different angle from the same: Investigate a local legend about a treasure buried in the area → Realize that every single person staying at the local inn is trying to find the treasure, including a sleazy treasure hunter, a couple of economically humbled aristocrats, an undercover CIA agent, an undercover French Intelligence agent, an undercover agent from the Vatican, and the Wandering Jew himself → Eventually discover that the legend points to an ancient underground temple, and the treasure is the body of Jesus, who was entombed there. |
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Octopussy. Smuggling stolen Faberge Eggs and murdering a British agent → Nuclear sabotage, wiping out an American military base along with nearby cities and World War III. | |
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Spectre: Unauthorized mission by 007 to foil terrorist plot in Mexico City → A campaign to shut down the 00-agent section and replace it with an intelligence-sharing program called "Nine Eyes" → The Reveal that said N.G.O. Superpower whom Bond fought against in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace was also behind events of Skyfall, hopes to use the "Nine Eyes" program to stop any investigation into their operations, and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld is revealed to be Bond's estranged step-brother, who masterminded the tragedies 007 faced since Casino Royale (2006). | |
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A different angle from the same: Investigate a local legend about a treasure buried in the area → Realize that every single person staying at the local inn is trying to find the treasure, including a sleazy treasure hunter, a couple of economically humbled aristocrats, an undercover CIA agent, an undercover French Intelligence agent, an undercover agent from the Vatican, and the Wandering Jew himself → Eventually discover that the legend points to an ancient underground temple, and the treasure is the body of Jesus, who was entombed there. | |
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All the President's Men is about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Washington Post investigation into the Watergate scandal, a scandal which is itself a real-life example of this trope. | |
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The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries: In book 2, Charlie is invited to James Delacorte's house to inventory his rare book collection, since Delacorte thinks a family member has stolen from him. This puts Charlie in place to investigate Delacorte's subsequent murder, which is actually committed for unrelated reasons. | |
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Shadowrun Returns Dead Man's Switch campaign: Investigating the murder of your old runner buddy Sam Watts → victim of an organized organ-harvesting plot → mastermind is also part a plan to create an Insect Spirit hive in Seattle and kill its entire population. Now, granted, homicide is normally a not a minor crime, but take our word for it, in this context, the death of the town drunk is small fry. Dragonfall starts with a simple burglary gone awry, which leads to the resurfacing of a man and a dragon who were thought dead for decades, the discovery of a rogue AI, the destruction of a non-insignificant portion of Berlin and a plot to kill off all dragons and cause The End of the World as We Know It. Hong Kong starts with an awkward family reunion that gets derailed by the main character's foster father being kidnapped and a firefight with corrupt Hong Kong police officers. Investigations into the events later reveal that the foster father was in fact the son of a Corrupt Corporate Executive responsible for making a city projects district a residential den for Eldritch Abominations by sapping Chi to fuel the executive's ill-gotten fortunes. |
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Police Academy 6: Zig-zagged. A spree of armed robberies is discovered to be ground work for a real estate scam. The robberies are all committed along the proposed path of a new and still undisclosed railway line which would drive up property prices. The Big Bad is using the crime wave he orchestrated to drive property prices down before the reveal, so he can buy up the land for next-to-nothing and then watch the value go to the moon when the railway plans are revealed. What makes this a zig-zag is the fact that the real estate scam would be so staggeringly lucrative that a couple of gunmen knocking over local businesses really is the lesser crime in this case. | |
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JoJolion: Josuke's first encounter with a Rock Human has him discovering the existence of the Locacaca Fruit that is tied to his Mysterious Past and that an organization is seeking to take the fruit for their own purposes. | |
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Daredevil (2015): The exposure of a numbers racket inside Union Allied Construction LLC → the uncovering of a powerful figure controlling Hell's Kitchen. | |
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Super 8: Man derails a train with his truck making something come out of the wreckage → Bizarre occurrences throughout a small Ohio town → The liberation of a captive extraterrestrial creature synthesizing various Earth objects to construct a vessel and finally go home. | |
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Tell No One: Two bodies are discovered in the woods → an eight-year-old murder and the cover-up behind it. | |
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Case Closed has the Black Organization. It looked like a simple case of blackmail, but they're actually an elite group of murderers that owns huge biological research facilities. | |
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Men at Arms: A break-in at the Assassins' Guild → a plot to overthrow the Patrician. | |
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In Police Quest 3: The Kindred, the endgame involves the investigation of a house linked to a series of murders. When it turns out that the place is fortified, the player must go back to the courthouse and get authorization to use the departmental battering ram, which uncovers a cocaine manufacturing ring. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall: Exorcise a walking spirit and deliver a letter → Shape the future of The Empire. Morrowind: Investigate a pair of cults becoming more active in the eponymous province → stop a deranged Physical God from taking over the world. Skyrim: The sidequest "Laid to Rest". Investigate a suspicious house fire that killed a woman and a child → Break up a plot by vampires to take over the town and enslave its inhabitants. The Thieves' Guild questline. Investigate why someone is trying to drive a patron of the Guild out of business → uncover the truth behind the death of the previous Guild Master and the treachery of the current one against both your guild and their patron deity, along with reclaiming an artifact with reality-warping powers. |
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This has happened frequently on CSI: Miami. To provide a few examples: Gang shooting (that was pretty unusual for a Miami gang shootout because it ended with various gang members vaporized and literally splattered all over a warehouse's wall) → evidence of conspiracy to sell classified military weaponry (an Expy of the "Metal Storm") to foreign enemies. Junkie appears with his neck snapped → dead junkie turns out to be a radiological hazard, leading the Miami police to suspect potential nuclear terrorism → local crusading lawyer turns out to have been poisoned with radioactive dye, which leads to the suspicion that a local medical company (that the lawyer was investigating for corrupt and incompetent practices) had performed the (slow and very painful) assassination → Stalker with a Crush informant within the company that provided the lawyer with important evidence for her case had taken the fact that she didn't like him back very badly, leading to him stealing the dye from the company's nuclear medicine supplies to poison her, and snapping the neck of the junkie when he tried to steal the syringes that carried the dye, believing them to be drugs. Zig-zagged all over the place, and at least the lawyer was able to pass away knowing that her poisoner had been caught and the company was going to get the book tossed at it for both the malpracticing she was investigating and allowing the dye to be so easy to steal. An accidental death in a child beauty pageant → serial kidnapping and raping of 6-year-old girls by a pederast. |
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Cast a Deadly Spell: Theft of a book and killing of the thief → conspiracy to call Cthulhu to Earth. | |
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Not a few Law & Order episodes start with some minor problem, such investigating a noise in an alley, lead to a dead body (or two), and often then into something much, much worse, often involving murder, prostitution, and/or financial skulduggery. Fairly common on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, but turns up on the other variations as well. An early episode involves the murder of an off-duty officer who was a childhood friend of Logan's. As the cops investigate, they find that the dead cop was on the trail of a former priest who was a serial child abuser, and that said former priest lives only a few blocks from where the victim's body was found. The detectives eventually determine that the cop's death was actually a suicide and the responding officers staged it as a murder so his family could get his pension, but by then, the case against the priest is starting to take shape. One episode opened with a dispatching error sending Briscoe and Curtis to what they think is a murder, but turns out to be the discovery of a dead horse instead. Much to their frustration, their Lieutenant tells them to look into it anyway (there being no other pressing cases at the time) and their investigation eventually leads to a con artist who may have murdered his millionaire patron. In another episode, a jogger had a heart attack in the park. When one of the officers on scene stepped into the bushes to, ah, take care of some business, he found a murder victim. (Of course, it turns out the jogger was actually murdered too, it just takes them awhile to figure that part out.) In another, the burglary of a safety-box depository uncovers wads of cash being stored there that date to an armed robbery/homicide from the 1960s. In one episode, a man receives an email from his uncle where the uncle confesses to killing his wife. That investigation is fairly straightforward, but then they learn the email was sent as part of a program designed to send out messages in the event of the Rapture; the system was inadvertently activated when one of the men behind the scheme was murdered, and that case isn't so simple. A pair of cops are asked by a couple to find their missing dog. They think it's just a waste of time only to find the dog among others being used for an illegal dog fighting club by some rich guys who the cops immediately arrest. The detectives are then called in as one of the dead dogs has a human finger in their stomach, leading to a murder committed to cover up how a multi-millionaire has been selling "rare" wine that's actually quite cheap. This can sometimes be done to a ridiculously huge degree. One episode involves finding the body of what looks like a hobo in a stairwell and ends up with a UN trial involving the Russian mafia. In one SVU episode, a schizophrenic man kidnaps a child after mistaking the boy for his own estranged son and kills the man who tries to stop him. The detectives ultimately determine that the group home he had been living at was corrupt and their negligence had led to the death of another resident, which they attempted to pass off as a suicide; the man had witnessed this, so the group home had intentonally messed with the man's treatment so that his symptoms would return and he wouldn't be taken seriously if he tried to report what he saw. The 14th season finale of SVU involves the arrest of a man for indecent exposure; he eventually turns out to have perpetrated multiple sex crimes, up to and including sexual torture and murder, in several different states, but has managed to escape conviction in every case. The 18th season opening starts with a unattended child in Central Park whose supervising adult got run over by a bike and whose bag contained a gun. This eventually builds up to a reveal of his parents being terrorists and a mass shooting event. Doubled in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, when the motive for the Victim of the Week's murder almost always turned out to be far more complicated than implied in the opening sequence. In the mothership episode "Birthright", the murder of local vendor leads Fontana and Green to a dimwitted negligent mother, who suddenly dies in custody, which in turn leads them to a secret plot to sterilize scores of poor black and Hispanic women. |
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The Castle of Cagliostro: Lupin discovers the casino he robbed only has counterfeit money → Lupin uncovers an Ancient Conspiracy as well as a plot by the Big Bad to claim a large amount of wealth. | |
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The Paper: During the course of their investigation, Henry, Martha and McDougal find out there's more involved than just a couple of white businessmen getting gunned down in Williamsburg. Turns out they may have been the victims of retaliation for losing a fortune in Mob money, with the assassins spray-painting a racial epithet on their car as a Red Herring. | |
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Happens quite a bit with the villain teams in Pokémon. For example: Pokémon Red and Blue: Fossil theft in Mt. Moon → A plot by Team Rocket to Take Over the World and enslave all Pokémon. Pokémon Gold and Silver: Slowpoke losing their tails in Azalea Town → An attempt to restore Team Rocket to its former glory by a few senior operatives trying to get the former Boss Rocket's attention. Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: Burglars targeting Devon Corporation → An eco-terrorist plot to either expand humanity's grip on the Earth or return what humans stole to Pokémon (depending on the version), involving a very powerful Legendary. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Goons attempting to strongarm Professor Rowan and steal from an energy company → An attempt to restart the world with all humans as Empty Shells. |
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Many Tintin stories tend to be built around this premise. Cigars of the Pharaoh and its sequel The Blue Lotus: Disappearance of an Egyptian archaeologist → Uncovering a secret brotherhood of international opium smugglers. King Ottokar's Sceptre: Kidnapping of an expert on Syldavian history → coup d'état. The Crab with the Golden Claws: A dead sailor found with counterfeit coins → another opium smuggling ring |
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Not That Kinda Fired: When Izuku is sent to supervise Rei's annual mental health assessment, he realizes that Rei should have been released already and notices the doctors act fishy. He finds a project to recreate the Nomus, and promptly reports it to Burnin'. Downplayed with the triplets from Accounting. Harassing Izuku at work by forcing them to do their work for them is bad enough, but it's later revealed that as accountants, foisting their work onto someone else automatically makes them guilty of account-tampering in a Pro-Hero agency. This gets them fired by Endeavor and arrested. |
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The Beekeeper: An elderly woman is conned out of her life savings in a phishing scam → a conspiracy to illegally manipulate a presidential election. | |
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Once the villain of Emil and the Detectives is arrested for stealing a few bills off a kid, a further search reveals him to carry the cash from a recent bank robbery. | |
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A bomber in the third season of The West Wing is busted when he gets pulled over for a broken taillight. | |
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Colonel Sun: M gets kidnapped → plot by former Nazi and sadistic PLA Colonel to mortar a peace conference. | |
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Heartbeat: Investigating a string of incidents in which Mogwai are being assaulted and having their cores stolen by an abnormally powerful wisp → stopping a mad Mogwai queen from annihilating humanity. | |
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SiN: The bank robbery led by Tony Mancini at the beginning of the game eventually leads HardCorps to discover that Mancini has ties with SinTEK's head honcho Elexis Sinclaire and eventually her plans to Take Over the World as Mother Nature, kickstarting the rest of the plot. | |
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Juxtapose: Investigating Izuku's old middle and elementary schools for their neglect in letting Katsuki bully other students reveals a potentially nation-spanning conspiracy by the Meta Liberation Army to indoctrinate people with strong Quirks. | |
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Small Favor: Checking out an attack on Marcone → preventing Ivy from becoming a Denarian. | |
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Later in the late 1970s, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone attempted to infiltrate mob-affiliated truck hijacking and burglary crews by posing as a jewelry thief named "Donnie Brasco". Barely getting past by the fences that were his initial target, Pistone found himself making contacts in the Bonnano family to the point of being proposed for membership. The intel gathered by his investigation revealed the existence and scope of the Mafia Commission, links between the various Mafia families in the country, mob involvement in labor racketeering, and a large-scale drug-running operation between the United States and Sicily. | |
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A common plot in games in the Touhou Project: Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night: Bad Moon Rising → alien conspiracy from the antiquity. Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism: Strange creatures from Beneath the Earth → nuclear conspiracy going out of hand. Inverted in Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object: cultists trying to awaken Pandemonium monstrosity → decent people wanting their saintly leader back. Inverted again in Touhou Shinkirou ~ Hopeless Masquerade: people mysteriously losing hope → innocent newborn youkai trying to regain control of her emotions. Touhou Shinpiroku ~ Urban Legend in Limbo and Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom: Urban Legends suddenly start to become real → Invasion by the Lunarians, forced about as a result of a resentful divine spirit laying siege to their homeland. Touhou Gouyoku Ibun ~ Sunken Fossil World: Mysterious oil spillage happening around Gensokyo → crime boss from Hell trying to become strong enough to take over both Hell and Gensokyo. Notably, the latter had nothing to do with the former incident, and it was all set up to raise awareness of the latter. |
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Ghostbusters Ghostbusters (1984): Sudden surge of paranormal activity in New York City → Demonic Possession of two people by hellhound demigods → The arrival of a shapeshifting Jerkass God summoned decades ago to destroy Earth and, possibly, the universe. Ghostbusters II: Resurgence of paranormal activity in NYC emanating from a pink slime → the resurrection of a centuries-dead Evil Overlord to reincarnate himself in the body of an infant to one day restart his tyrannical reign and conquer the world. Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Death of Egon Spengler → first ghosts sightings in two decades → reemergence of Gozer, who is once again trying to bring about the Apocalypse. |
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For Your Eyes Only. British spy ship containing Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), which controls nuclear subs gets sunk → A plot to steal ATAC for the Soviets. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: In the Dissension novel, Agrus Kos is sent to infiltrate the Simic Combine to find out their involvement in a potential Dimir plot...and is surprised and chagrined when guildleader Momir Vig begins monologuing about his own, completely unrelated plan to Take Over the World. | |
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Happened on occasion in Due South. One notable example was Frasier and Vecchio stopping to ticket a man who had parked in a fire lane, only to discover the guy's trunk was full of illegal firearms. The show also had a fair bit of fun playing with this, showing us Frasier doggedly pursuing someone (through a blizzard, say, or over a waterfall) only to charge them with a minor-sounding crime which turned out to be far, far more serious than the description made it sound. (E.g. "That's the last time he'll fish over the limit!" → The crook's catch was measured in tons since he had been blast-fishing, and Frasier has also confiscated all the explosives and donated the fish to local tribes.) |
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Trigger Mortis: Going undercover at Nuremberg Rally to protect British racing driver → plot to blow up the Empire State building by South Korean millionaire. | |
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Lethal Weapon: A simple suicide → a heroin-smuggling operation run by Vietnam War special forces troops. | |
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Eroninja: Naruto saves Kurenai from some Naughty Tentacles; this ends up uncovering Furofuki's plot to become the another Kaguya-like figure. | |
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1973-74 Super Friends episode "The Planet Splitter". The theft of diamonds weighing 100+ carats → A plot to split Cygnus Uno, a planet in another solar system. | |
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Crazy Like a Fox: In "Sunday in the Park with Harry," finding a pickpocketed wallet leads to the discovery of a murder scheme. | |
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Alien Nation: Murder of a cop during a robbery → re-introducing a devastating alien drug. | |
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The Spy Who Loved Me. Disappearing nuclear submarines → A plot to start a nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. | |
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Beverly Hills Cop: Murder of a man in Detroit → international drug smuggling operation in Los Angeles. Beverly Hills Cop II: A series of crimes base on the alphabet leads to a major gun-running operation. Beverly Hills Cop III: A raid on a Detroit chop-shop gone awry (which gets Inspector Todd killed by the Big Bad) leads to Axel Foley discovering a major counterfeit operation hidden inside of an Expy of Disneyland. |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean: The hit-and-run incident that got Jolyne sent to prison was masterminded by Enrico Pucci to have Jotaro Lured into a Trap by stealing his memories containing the full extent of DIO's Evil Plan that Pucci seeks to fulfill. JoJolion: Josuke's first encounter with a Rock Human has him discovering the existence of the Locacaca Fruit that is tied to his Mysterious Past and that an organization is seeking to take the fruit for their own purposes. The JoJoLands: The team's sneaking into Rohan's villa to steal a blue diamond instead has them discovering much more valuable Worthless Yellow Rocks, then learn that others were intent on obtaining the rocks as well. |
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Rise of the Dragon: Mayor's daughter takes a killer drug, Mayor hires an ex-cop turned private eye to find the dealer → Foiling a plot by a Chinese mafia turned apocalypse cult to pollute Los Angeles' water with said killer drug. | |
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L.A. Confidential: Theft of a suitcase of cocaine → a massive corruption ring in the LAPD and an attempt to control all of Los Angeles' organized crime | |
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FAITH: The Unholy Trinity: Exorcise a teenage girl → Prevent a Satanic cult from unleashing the UNSPEAKABLE to cause Hell on Earth. | |
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Feet of Clay: The death of a palace maid's grandmother → solving the otherwise-unsolvable poisoning of the Patrician. | |
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Dr. No. Murder of a British agent → Dr. No's SPECTRE operation to destroy American missiles. | |
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For Your Eyes Only has one in "Risico": Bond contracted to kill famous smuggler → working with said famous smuggler to kill Bond's client, who is a major drug lord. | |
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Morrowind: Investigate a pair of cults becoming more active in the eponymous province → stop a deranged Physical God from taking over the world. | |
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You Only Live Twice. American and Russian spacecraft are stolen → Elaborate plan by SPECTRE to start a nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. | |
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Star Trek Into Darkness: A series of devastating attacks by a mysterious terrorist → conspiracy to militarize Starfleet from within and deliberately instigate a war with the Klingon Empire which they deemed inevitable. | |
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State of Play starts off with a murder, an affair and a suicide which are all investigated by the newspaper who find that they are all related to a much larger government conspiracy. | |
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Several Leverage episodes do this, albeit on a smaller scale than a lot of the examples: "The Homecoming Job". Coverup of a friendly fire investigation → multi-billion-dollar money-laundering scheme. "The Snow Job". Negligent home contracting job → nationwide foreclosure-related fraud. "The Stork Job". Spanish Prisoner scam with orphans → weapons smuggling. "The Gone-Fishin' Job". People being scammed by fake IRS agents → anti-government militia planning a terrorist attack. The canon novel "The Con Job". Dealing with a forger stealing original work from aging comic artists → preventing a Japanese real estate developer/crime boss from killing everyone at Comic-Con with a car bomb so he can set it up in his own hotel(!). There are some big ones from Season 3 onwards, however; "The Inside Job". A theft from an agricultural company → plot to cause a global famine so the company can profit from its monopoly on blight-resistant wheat. "The Double-Blind Job". Accidentally foiled kidnapping/assassination → plot to knowingly release a toxic drug nationwide, killing anywhere from thousands to millions, earning the Evil Drug Company billions for a 15% fine. "The Big Bang Job". Investigation of international criminal → plot to destroy Washington DC with a prototype EMP city-buster. |
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Stranger Things: In Season 1, a missing boy leads the main characters to a secretive government conspiracy involving psychic children, a mysteriously decaying otherworld, and an Eldritch Abomination that wants to devour the world. In Season 2, a bad pumpkin crop that local farmers attribute to sabotage reveals a powerful Eldritch Abomination is beginning to cross the threshold into our world. Exaggerated in season 3, where the instigating incident is barely even a crime. Joyce and (reluctantly) Hopper investigating why the refrigerator magnets in Hawkins have stopped working leads to them discovering a secret Soviet experiment into alternate dimensions on American soil. Similarly, Nancy and Jonathan trying to write a story on why rats are suddenly eating fertilizer uncovers an Eldritch Abomination building a Body of Bodies for itself. |
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In The Yiddish Policemen's Union, a man's murder (while stretching the limits of minor crime) eventually reveals a plot by conservative Jews in collaboration with right-wing America to overthrow Palestine (which in this Alternate Universe is still a widely recognized sovereign state, Israel only having existed in the modern world for a few months) by blowing up the al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, which is dramatically worse. | |
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Young Justice (2010): The first outing (unofficial, at that) of the Team is to investigate a fire at Cadmus Labs. The fire allows them to uncover a vast secret project to create genetically engineered soldiers... including Superboy. It's also the first glimpse into the operations of the Light, who are secretly responsible for every villainous act in the series. | |
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Live and Let Die. Deaths of three British agents → Massive heroin smuggling operation. | |
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The Lone Ranger (2013): Dangerous outlaw escapes —> Plot to steal the land of the Comanche which is rich in silver. | |
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Basic: A training exercise gone wrong with an elite Army unit (with one person confirmed dead and others missing) → a case of multiple murders, a major drug dealing/drug smuggling scandal on the base involving highly placed personnel, and even rumors of a group of former special forces soldiers that have started their own drug cartel and are settling scores from their old Army days. | |
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Dredd: Flaying and murder by very high fall of three men → elaborate plan to put slum tower on lockdown to kill the responding Judges and keep the massive drug market from being revealed, combined with four corrupt Judges helping the drug clan with this. Not that Judge Dredd sees this as being particularly eventful. | |
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Played with in Hamilton, where Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and James Madison's search for dirt on Alexander Hamilton leads them to a supposed tip that he's been engaging in embezzlement of government funds. What they actually uncover is a considerably less criminal enterprise - Hamilton's affair with Maria Reynolds. Their fishing trip might have been an embarrassment for them, except that Hamilton is so paranoid about being accused and so arrogant about his own talent for maneuvering that he decides to publish a pamphlet admitting to the affair, which turns it into a huge scandal that tarnishes his reputation and almost ends his marriage. | |
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The Incredibles: Mysterious disappearance of a lawyer known for fighting for the rights of supers → a scheming Arms Dealer's murderous plan to make himself a figure of public adulation. | |
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The Jennifer Morgue: Go to a conference for occult intelligence across the EU → get roped into a James Bond plot and have to stop a mad billionaire from resurrecting an ancient cyborg war god. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: This happens with amusing regularity to COMMISSAR CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!. With the caveat that "minor crime" is usually a planet-engulfing war, and "major plot" is something with the potential to severely upset the balance of power across the galaxy. There's also a Running Gag that Cain will find or contrive some piece of busywork on scant evidence to avoid the serious fighting and fall face-first into the real threat or a faceoff with the enemy leaders. In Ravenor, the titular inquisitor's investigation into the flect trade reveals that a cabal of rogue traders are smuggling Chaos-tainted computers onto the sub-sector capital. This, in turn, reveals that a cult lead by highly-influential members of the sub-sector government is using those computers to reconstruct a dead Language of Magic in order to become gods. |
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One Shadowrun supplement, about Lone Star Security, mentions how police in the Robbery division often wind up investigating major crimes: ones that'd started out looking like a simple robbery due to cover-up efforts by the perpetrators. | |
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Illuminatus! starts off with this. Murder of a news columnist → Wheels within wheels conspiracy for control of Earth, involving rock bands, undead Nazis and Eldritch Abomination(s). | |
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Ghostbusters II: Resurgence of paranormal activity in NYC emanating from a pink slime → the resurrection of a centuries-dead Evil Overlord to reincarnate himself in the body of an infant to one day restart his tyrannical reign and conquer the world. | |
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Arachnid: Alice's uncle is assassinated for his debts to a criminal syndicate → both that and the covered-up murder of Alice's mother were part of a plan to make Alice into the ultimate assassin and the right-hand woman to an ageless Shadow Dictator with parasitic powers who wants to curb Japan's population. | |
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Age of Mythology: In the original game's campaign, a pillage caused by a bandit group → A continent-spanning plot to subvert the gods and bring about The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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The Laundry Files usually has Bob, one of the titular organization's field agents/computational demonologists/IT guys sent out on a minor call, only to pull the string on something larger: The Atrocity Archive: Extract a British national being kept inside America by the CIA's occult wing → stop an Eldritch Abomination from crossing over from a world where the Nazis won World War II. "The Concrete Jungle": Get sent to Milton Keynes because there are one too many concrete cows → uncover and prevent an internal coup within the Laundry. The Jennifer Morgue: Go to a conference for occult intelligence across the EU → get roped into a James Bond plot and have to stop a mad billionaire from resurrecting an ancient cyborg war god. The Apocalypse Codex: Get sent to oversee an external contractor who's looking into a televangelist's close relationship with the Prime Minister → stop said televangelist from summoning an Eldritch Abomination in the middle of Colorado Springs. |
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In Son of the Sannin, Naruto's first C-Rank mission has him and his teammates sent to protect a village from bandits. They end up discovering Orochimaru's takeover of the Land of Rice fields much earlier than in canon. | |
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Hallowe'en Party: The death of a young girl at a Hallowe'en party → a conspiracy revealed to have murdered several people for the sake of securing an inheritance. | |
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Boldores And Boomsticks: Team RWBY is sent off on a mission to find out why the Grimm in the area have been ignoring their normal targets. They end up falling through a portal to the world of Pokémon, which Salem had been trying to prevent contact with. | |
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In A Game of Thrones, the investigation into the murder of Jon Arryn leads Eddard Stark to evidence that none of the heirs to the throne are actually the children of the king and the assumption that Arryn was murdered to cover up this fact. This knowledge eventually leads to a succession crisis called the War of the Five Kings, and Stark's own execution. Ironically, it is revealed later that Arryn wasn't murdered to cover up the Queen's affair at all, but rather because Arryn's wife wanted to be free to marry the man she'd been having an affair with for years. | |
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Without a Trace. The reason behind the disappearance of the Victim of the Week was almost always far more complicated than indicated in the opening sequence. | |
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StrikerS Sound Stage X of Lyrical Nanoha: Murder of various Old Belka researchers → Terrorist plot to attack Mid-childa with the undead army of a legendary Dark King. | |
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Chrono Trigger: Save the Princess → Prevent The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Zoolander: Disappearance of renowned male model —> Assassination of the Malaysian Prime Minister. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Daleks in Manhattan", the Doctor and Martha land in 1930 New York City and find that the local Hooverville shantytown is dealing with a swathe of abductions of its residents. As you may have guessed from the title, they find out upon investigating that the Daleks are behind it. | |
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Men in Black: Disappearance of a man after encountering a UFO and a suicide → theft of a galaxy and possible destruction of the Earth. | |
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Fair Game (1995): Drive-by shooting attempt on a divorce lawyer (which then escalates to trying to blow her up in her apartment) → Stern Chase of said attorney all over Florida by bunch of renegade Russian spies plotting to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from shadow accounts for their own profit and using the boat that was being disputed over in said divorce as base of operations. | |
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Get Out (2017): Missing African-Americans turn up in an upstate New York community exhibiting bizarre behavior → Conspiracy among the local elderly whites and a neurosurgeon to transplant their brains into "superior" black bodies as a form of immortality. | |
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Apparent drunk driving crash → statutory rape → blackmail → attempted murder → giant shoot-out with mobsters on the set of Intolerance. | |
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Monster: Murder of a patient and incidental framing of his doctor → plans to create an Übermensch and take over Germany, and a separate plan to kill as many Germans as possible For the Evulz. | |
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Amsterdam: The murder of a Senator and his daughter → the uncovering of a secret conspiracy to overthrow the American government and replace it with a fascist state. | |
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Happens regularly in Person of Interest. Attempt to murder one person equals exposure of whatever crime they were trying to use the murder to cover up. This is actually The Machine's job, finding the simple links that would prevent terrorist attacks. The fact that it finds the same connections in more conventional crimes was purely accidental. | |
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Happened many times on NYPD Blue. One notable example is in "Bombs Away", where a Romanian immigrant has a fender-bender with Sipowicz and Simone. The detectives hear a woman yelling and pounding in the man's trunk; he's brought in for questioning, which leads to a search of his apartment and the discovery of IEDs and a list of wealthy families in New York. He finally reveals to Sipowicz that he's holding a rich family for a million-dollar ransom, having tied them up and attached bombs to them in their home. | |
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Die Hard with a Vengeance: Series of bombings —> Robbery of the Federal Reserve . | |
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Hercule Poirot: In "The Adventure of the Clapham Cook", the disappearance of a cook from her employer's place → the murder of a bank clerk and a plan to spirit away thousands of pounds in securities. In Hickory Dickory Dock, Poirot gets interested in a student hostel because of a series of petty thefts. A kleptomaniac seems to be stealing random items, most of them with no real value. Poirot's investigation ends up uncovering connections between the owner of the hostel and smuggling operation. Hallowe'en Party: The death of a young girl at a Hallowe'en party → a conspiracy revealed to have murdered several people for the sake of securing an inheritance. |
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The Wire: Season One: the unit intercepts a phonecall about a pickup at the housing projects, and when they stop the driver, he is found to be an assistant of State Senator Clay Davis. The suspicious event, and the speed at which Davis' lawyer comes up with a convinient excuse to why the driver had a large bag of cash in his car leads the unit to start looking into the finances of the Barsdale group. Season Two: Stevedores' Union leader Frank Sobotka with suspicious amounts of money buys a stained window for a church → bulk smuggling of drugs, prostitutes and goods; multiple ethnic gangs, murders agogo. Hilariously, or depressingly, the guy who tipped the unit off to the church windownote Stanislaus Valchek, Commander of the Southeastern District doesn't give a shit about the vast criminal network they uncovered, he just wants his slobby dockworker nemesis to pay big-time, and he'll gladly fuck his own people over if it will ensure that it happens. |
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JAG: In "Brig Break", a handful of prisoners busting out of the brig gradually escalates into a plot to destroy the base with a nuclear explosion and selling stolen nuclear weapons to Saddam Hussein. | |
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The Avengers (1998): Sabotage of a weather control project → holding Britain to ransom with the threat of a weather attack that will destroy London. | |
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An investigation by the Wall Street Journal for sexual misconduct and infidelity in 2022 led to Vince McMahon resigning as chairman and CEO from WWE after revealing the head honcho had been involved in extramarital affairs with four other women, and he shelled out cash on them as a way to keep their mouths shut. | |
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Criminal Minds: DEA raid on a suspected meth lab → an impending terrorist attack using nerve gas. Investigating a series of spree stabbings in New York City → Uncovering a massive terrorist plot. |
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Thunderball: Attempted murder of Bond at health clinic → plot to destroy Miami with two stolen nuclear warheads by Nebulous Evil Organization. | |
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Beast Wars: Pursuit of a crew of rogue Predacons that ends in a crash landing on an unknown planet -> an attempt from said rogue crew to Ret-Gone the Autobots out of existence. | |
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. books; Death Warmed Over: Divorce settlement → Van Helsing Hate Crime via pharmaceuticals. Hair Raising: Complaint about body-parts store's service → Organ Theft ring. |
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Ghostbusters (1984): Sudden surge of paranormal activity in New York City → Demonic Possession of two people by hellhound demigods → The arrival of a shapeshifting Jerkass God summoned decades ago to destroy Earth and, possibly, the universe. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero: Breaking up a fight between two delinquent gangs → The Mafia preparing for a Mob War with Heiyue by training war hounds → an assassination attempt on the mayor → an Auction of Evil run by The Mafia endorsed by the city's politicians and given a blind eye by the police → rescuing a human child from the auction → The Remnant of a devil-worshipping, child-abusing cult using mind-altering drugs to control The Mafia and the army and turn the rescued child into their god. | |
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In God Save the Esteem's version of "Murder, She Snored", someone attacks Kevin shortly after he's accused of cheating on the test, hospitalizing him with minor injuries; Daria and Cindy have to investigate why. In the process, they discover that Kevin got his test answers from a massive operation spanning multiple schools, which they get shut down. (Amusingly, Kevin's attack had nothing to do with this—he was cheating with some other guy's girlfriend and just got jumped as revenge.) | |
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Hightown: A single young woman's murder turns out to be tied into the work of a major crime syndicate. | |
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In Quarantine (1992), an investigation into the disappearance of a severely developmentally delayed woman from a care home eventually reveals a plot to radically alter the nature of reality at a quantum level. | |
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Kill la Kill: Investigating your father's murder → fighting a fascist allegory Absurdly Powerful Student Council while mostly naked → becoming the central figure in a war against aliens that engineered the evolution of the human race for a food source. The murderer was working for a human that aligned themselves with the aliens, and the father was the founder of an organization fighting them. | |
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The Batman (2022): Murder of the incumbent mayor by a Serial Killer → The reveal of massive systemic corruption in Gotham's government enabled by stealing funds from the Wayne family → Serial Killer and his vengeful Western Terrorists plotting to flood Gotham and kill the survivors. | |
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Wild Wild West: A threat is sent to the White House → A die-hard ex-Confederate builds a Spider Tank to force the surrender of the United States | |
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Big Trouble in Little China: The kidnapping of a girl with green eyes → David Lo Pan's plan to rule the universe from beyond the grave. | |
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: The kidnapping of some German scientists → A plot to build a spaceship that will destroy all life on Earth. | |
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The Other Guys: Abduction from police custody of a hedge fund manager —> Attempted theft of the police pension to cover up a corporation's financial loss. | |
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. A routine hostage situation turns out to be an attempt to hijack a starship. | |
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Kingsman: The Secret Service: Reported kidnapping of a college professor (who, strangely, was seen walking freely in public after the report) → Plot to kill off most of the human population via a cellphone-distributed Hate Plague. | |
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Pluto: Serial murder of the World's Strongest Robots → plot of a military superpower to Take Over the World and establish robot control over humans. | |
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City of Devils starts with a simple missing mummy case and spirals into the discovery of a ring of powerful monsters including some law enforcement, illegally kidnapping humans and turning them into monsters on film as a bizarre form of pornography. The sequel ups the ante by starting with a couple missing persons (and one missing toad) cases and a secret admirer, and turns into the creation of Godzilla. |
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Touhou Gouyoku Ibun ~ Sunken Fossil World: Mysterious oil spillage happening around Gensokyo → crime boss from Hell trying to become strong enough to take over both Hell and Gensokyo. Notably, the latter had nothing to do with the former incident, and it was all set up to raise awareness of the latter. | |
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Teen Wolf: A dead woman is found in the woods → Werewolves exist, so do some other creatures, and there's a war-type-thing going on between the werewolves, the other creatures, and the people who hunt them. | |
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Hellblazer: Inverted in one story where John reveals to a journalist that The British Royal Family are in fact snake people from space who had Diana killed because she was trying to resist the Body Horror required for her to give birth to their spawn, that Kennedy was killed by The Greys (a Servant Race to the aforementioned reptilians) because he saw his wife quite enjoying sex with a reptilian, and that the Earth is hollow, filled with tunnels that allow easy transportation beteen the continents. John then fakes his death, ostensibly by governmental spooks. It's all lies, of course: the journalist was getting uncomfortably close to a perfectly mundane drug-supplying ring in Buckingham Palace and John was hired to scare him off. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Princess Peach contacts Mario about a treasure map but gets kidnapped by X-Nauts → sinister plot to revive an ancient Eldritch Abomination sealed inside a crypt and possess the princess, and said Eldritch Abomination will then throw the Mushroom World into chaos. | |
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Rivers of London: The Hanging Tree starts off with Peter having to fulfill his owed favour to Lady Ty by making sure her daughter isn't implicated in a suspicious death by drug overdose, which is tied into an investigation of how the teenagers at the party in question got access to a flat in the highly-secure One Hyde Park. This leads to the identity of the Faceless Man being exposed. | |
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The Legend of Heroes - Trails: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: Sky pirates stealing a crystal → the same pirates hijacking an airliner → a Mayor Pain and his secretary burning down an orphanage in a real estate scheme → a coup by the country's intelligence division, who were manipulating the sky pirates and the mayor → the head of the intelligence division attempting to unseal an ancient superweapon → a branch of an Ancient Conspiracy having brainwashed all aforementioned parties to carry out step one of their Evil Plan. The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero: Breaking up a fight between two delinquent gangs → The Mafia preparing for a Mob War with Heiyue by training war hounds → an assassination attempt on the mayor → an Auction of Evil run by The Mafia endorsed by the city's politicians and given a blind eye by the police → rescuing a human child from the auction → The Remnant of a devil-worshipping, child-abusing cult using mind-altering drugs to control The Mafia and the army and turn the rescued child into their god. |
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The Living Daylights. Faked sniping attack on a fleeing general → Attacks on British agents and an illegal weapons smuggling network in the middle of the war between U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan. The movie, however, also counts as an inversion. The villains are pitting British and Russian spies against each other by trying to convince the former that the latter are targeting them all for elimination - hoping that they will respond by eliminating the KGB director supposedly responsible for the operation. This is being done to protect their scheme of misusing KGB resources to turn a huge profit smuggling drugs and weapons, which the director is on the verge of exposing. It's a serious crime, but nowhere near as potentially destructive as inciting a war of assassins between the KGB and its Western counterparts (which as Koskov said, in the worst case scenario, could conceivably even lead to nuclear war). | |
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Half Moon Investigations has the young detective investigating a series of sabotaging attacks on various members of the community, but in the process, he discovers that several of the events were carried out by a separate conspiracy. YMMV as to which conspiracy was the major or minor, but the fact that the one accidentally discovered was being carried out by ten-year-old girls with all the efficiency of an adult... | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: In Chapter 22 the main story, the strange behavior of Poison-type Pokémon in the Crimson City area is revealed to be part of a plan to attack the Gringy City power plant. A side story has Gym Leader Clay helping the local police with a ship whose paperwork is out of line. This leads to League authorities encountering Shadow Pokémon for the first time. |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The escape of a famous convict → A devoted servant trying to rejoin with Voldemort. The "devoted servant" being actually a snivelling coward who framed said convict. | |
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The Atrocity Archive: Extract a British national being kept inside America by the CIA's occult wing → stop an Eldritch Abomination from crossing over from a world where the Nazis won World War II. | |
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No Time to Die: Russian Scientist gets kidnapped → Stopping an assassin's attempt to destroy the world by wiping out half of the world's population with Nanobots. | |
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Lois & Clark: Frogs being stolen from a pet shop → A conspiracy to replace the President of the United States with a clone who'd then sign a pardon for Lex Luthor. | |
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High School High: High school proficiency tests being tampered with —> Organized crime | |
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Dragon Age II: Sneak a free Qunari mage out of Kirkwall → Halt a Chantry plot to spark open conflict between humans and Qunari. Humorously played with in the Bone Pit mine, going from an invasion of small dragons to a Coterie plot to steal shipments to a High Dragon taking over. One of the miners called it, too. |
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Dude, Where's My Car?: Two hungover, Lazy Bum stoners look for their missing car → Two extraterrestrial factions vying over a powerful device capable of universal destruction. | |
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The New Order: Last Days of Europe Japan path: Tokyo Metropolitan Police investigate embezzlement of state funds by the Minezaka trading company → investigation of a murder at a dockyard has a corpse blown up with a booby-trapped hand grenade → police find out how a military hand grenade was somehow found its way outside of the IJA → eventual realization that all parts of the government, IJA and IJN included were aware of the embezzlement and allowed it, resulting in a massive corruption scandal called the Yasuda Crisis | |
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Tenchu 2: Kidnapping of peasants by renegade ninja and pirates —> Building of a warship to bring down the samurai | |
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Bazil Broketail: Thrembode enchanting Relkin and drugging Bazil to prevent them interfering with his plot to assassinate the king reveals it later to Lessis when she investigates after treating them. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Code Monkeys, when both Dave and the United Nations believe that: the theft of the new Impalavision game console from the US, along with two video-game developers → create a computer-powered superweapon capable of launching nukes at the US. The actual plot is much smaller, if not weirder: steal consoles and kidnap developers → restore Khakistan's coffers by selling the consoles back to Americans at a discount to make tons of cash (the programmers were needed to make games, as apparently the Impalavision's launch titles weren't great). | |
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Unreal series: One that spans the entire series and acts as a Zig Zagging of the trope: a Prison Ship gets attracted to an alien planet overran by a Proud Warrior Race → an intergalactic war that brings humanity to its near-extinction → the creation of a government-backed Blood Sport in order to contain the masses. Unreal Tournament III: Attack on a mining colony by an alien force → planet-scale invasion from another MegaCorp-backed alien faction → the MegaCorp that rescued The Protagonist and his friends/family from the aforementioned mining colony onslaught was behind all of the events of the game, including said mining colony invasion. |
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Changes: Saving Harry's daughter from Red Court kidnappers → Killing the entire Red Court. | |
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The first episode of The Night Of follows, in parallel, the detectives investigating a bloody murder scene and the street cops arresting a reckless driver who refuses to take a breathalyzer. We already know him as the guy who, earlier in the episode, woke up to a damning The Murder After scenario and fled in a panic, but it's tense seeing the two investigations converge. | |
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In Forest Hill a school bully repeatedly running away from home, and what at first seems to be an unrelated incident of a 5-year-old girl sexually molesting a boy → the school bully is being prostituted by his father to other pedophiles and the girl is the daughter of one of his clients, who has been forcing the two of them to have sex. | |
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Pico's School: Survive a school shooting → Stop an Alien Invasion. | |
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Happens very often in the Ace Attorney series. In the second case of the first game, trying to solve the murder of your mentor leads to you discovering a massive blackmail chain. It gets better too: the investigation reveals a reference to the "DL-6" incident, which becomes prominent later on. Investigating the murder of a lawyer in the middle of a lake (case 1-4) quickly reveals a connection to the assassination of another lawyer 15 years ago which has been unsolved all this time. Turns out this was just the result of a fifteen-year-long revenge scheme against Miles Edgeworth, ace prosecutor. A police detective was murdered in "Rise from the Ashes" so he wouldn't leak the truth about the assassination of Prosecutor Neil Marshall 2 years ago, the constant extortion of the current Chief Prosecutor, and an evidence forgery to convict a serial killer for Marshall's murder (which he didn't commit). Unfortunately for the mastermind behind this incident, Phoenix exposed everything in court, so in the end it was All for Nothing. The theft of a priceless (in the worst sense of the word; it's worth nothing) historical treasure in Case 3-2 → a series of blackmails and thefts of 100,000-dollar items and the murder of a security company's CEO. The poisoning of a genius programmer in a restaurant → a million-dollar debt with the mafia's don (not on behalf of the programmer, but his killer) and the infection of the entire precinct's computer network with a virus the programmer created. In the last case of the third game, the murder of a children's book author is ultimately tied into a gigantic revenge scheme. In Investigations, the seemingly disconnected murders of a police officer, a plane flight passenger, a prosecutor and a defendant over the course of a few days → All of them were involved in an international smuggling ring. One that had a politician/ambassador of a country on the edge of war as the ringleader, incidentally. Every case in the fourth game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has this: The murder of an unknown guy in a restaurant, which spans the entire game - The victim is actually the protagonist's step-father and the defendant's old client, and the real murderer's motive is tied to the events of seven years ago. A non-fatal hit-and-run, a panty-snatching and the theft of a noodle stand led to a murder where the defendant is the son of the city's biggest crime boss, who's unaware that he's on the verge of death thanks to a turf war that caused him to get shot in the heart. The murder of a singer's manager during a concert is pretty big, but when that manager turns out to be an Undercover Interpol Agent who was killed by a smuggler, who was funneling a controlled substance that is on the top of Interpol's list of illicit contraband into the country, it gets even bigger. An isolated painter is found dead in his home. Oh, and he happens to have drawings depicting all the cases that the titular character has worked on up to that point. And as if that wasn't enough, he turns out to be a forger who was apparently responsible for making the evidence that got Phoenix disbarred seven years ago. And to top it all off, it turns out that his murder was actually supposed to happen seven years ago during those events, but the "time bomb" that the killer set for him got delayed thanks to some luck, that happens to tie into Apollo's sister's family being a group of famous magicians... Quite a complex web for a case that starts out as your run-of-the-mill murder. Even Phoenix himself notes this throughout the case. The bombing of Courtroom No. 4 in Dual Destinies → an international spy destroying evidence that would reveal his identity and his guilt in a seven-year-old murder, and the murder and impersonation of a police detective, and two consecutive terrorist attacks on the Space Center. The theft of Khura'in's national treasure and the murder of the guard looking after it in Spirit of Justice → A coup d'état plotted by the very Justice Minister of the kingdom and a popular revolution involving basically every known character up to Case 5. The plot is so big, its influence encompasses Japanifornia, thousands of miles away. But wait, there's more: in investigating the coup d'état, the truth about the queen's assassination 23 years ago comes to light, which further shakes the kingdom as the current queen was responsible for that arson and the law that killed off all lawyers in the land. In Case 3 of The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, a death during a public experiment at London's Great Exhibition uncovers a conspiracy within the British government that faked the execution of a notorious Serial Killer a decade prior. Scotland Yard's chief coroner took part in the murder plot due to being blackmailed about her false autopsy report of the convict. |
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Hudson Hawk: Theft of several items → using a gold-making machine to destroy the world's economy. | |
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This happens with amusing regularity to COMMISSAR CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!. With the caveat that "minor crime" is usually a planet-engulfing war, and "major plot" is something with the potential to severely upset the balance of power across the galaxy. There's also a Running Gag that Cain will find or contrive some piece of busywork on scant evidence to avoid the serious fighting and fall face-first into the real threat or a faceoff with the enemy leaders. | |
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Subverted in Strange Days: While investigating the murder of a rapper and a prostitute, the hero learns that the murders are related to a massive police conspiracy involving "death squads". It turns out that the guy telling him all this is just making it up to distract the hero. It's really just a murder cover-up. | |
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Mega Man Battle Network: In each game, Lan and Mega Man's first battle with a Villain of the Week leads to the revelation that the incident caused was part of a larger plan conducted by the criminal organization responsible with their goal to Take Over the World. | |
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Kirby: Squeak Squad: Kirby's cake being stolen → a plot by the Squeaks to attain a chest that is said to grant ultimate power— which, unbeknownst to anyone (besides Meta Knight), contains an ancient Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Vantage Point: Assassination of the President —> Abduction of the real President. | |
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Daggerfall: Exorcise a walking spirit and deliver a letter → Shape the future of The Empire. | |
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Antz: Accidental abduction of Princess Bala —> Attempt to destroy the colony by its deranged general. | |
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The Last Witch Hunter: murder of Secret-Keeper → plan to resurrect Omnicidal Maniac and bring about The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Baldur's Gate: An Iron shortage due to bandit attacks → plot to spark a war between Baldur's Gate and Amn. Attempted assassination of some nobody orphan → resurrection/replacement of a dead god. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The murder of the Klingon chancellor is part of a bigger co-conspiracy between the Federation and the Klingon military to remain in a state of perpetual cold war, otherwise each side's admirals and generals would have no purpose in life. | |
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The Teresa Knight Trilogy: In Strip Poker Teresa looking into blackmail and an ordinary murder leads her to discovering an international conspiracy by corporations smuggling coltan mined inside the Democratic Republic of Cargo by forced child labor that's connected with brutal rebels who have committed countless atrocities. | |
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Sherlock Holmes stories had a lot of this. "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons". A madman is stealing Napoleon busts and smashing them → The recovery of a stolen pearl. "The Blue Carbuncle". Man loses his Christmas dinner → The recovery of the eponymous stolen gemstone (seriously). "The Red-Headed League". A man was a member of an exclusive club only for redheads → A bank heist using an underground tunnel. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches". A woman gets a too-good-to-be-true job offer → Turns out that she was there to take the place of the daughter of his employer who is imprisoned somewhere in the house. |
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The Macbeth Murder Mystery: Parodied when a Genre Savvy Detective Drama reader mistakes the book of ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'' for a Detective Drama, → The Reveal of the identity of the real murderer, menacing the Shakespearean canon of the last four hundred years. | |
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No. 6: One mysterious death, then more, leads to the truth of an entire utopian city being used as test subjects to revive Eliurias. | |
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The Robots of Dawn: A man damaging a valuable piece of his own property → an attempt to steal an important theory through Grand Theft Prototype. | |
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Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: Burglars targeting Devon Corporation → An eco-terrorist plot to either expand humanity's grip on the Earth or return what humans stole to Pokémon (depending on the version), involving a very powerful Legendary. | |
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A Drop of Poison: Iruka realizes that Naruto is being purposefully failed and shows the Hokage who has a dozen men look over the last ten years of exams. They find that at least a couple dozen students have been deliberately failed and all of them (barring Naruto and those who failed the previous year) are listed as Missing, Dead, or Presumed Dead. Naruto ends up discovering a plot of his own. He starts by investigating arson cases and other setbacks perpetrated by mysterious figures against Konoha businesses, including his own holdings. They turn out to be part of a conspiracy by the Merchant Council to create a monopoly of businesses held by a single bloc of voters. It's implied that Danzo's ROOT organization is connected to both of these plots, which would make this an instance of Working the Same Case. |
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Suske en Wiske: the album "Het Aruba dossier" ("The Aruba File"). The minor crime: two men ignore a red traffic light and crash into Professor Barabas' car, sending all three of them to the hospital. The major plot: once in the hospital, Barabas is accidentally given a briefcase that belongs to the other two men. In the briefcase, he finds a file that describes plans of a big criminal organisation to distribute a highly toxic substance as a new fertilizer for crops. | |
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The JoJoLands: The team's sneaking into Rohan's villa to steal a blue diamond instead has them discovering much more valuable Worthless Yellow Rocks, then learn that others were intent on obtaining the rocks as well. | |
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In Off the Record, After his bout in Terror is Reality, Frank West photographs T.K. giving a Briefcase Full of Money to a C.U.R.E. activist as well as a bomb. Said activist is then seen setting off the bomb, and freeing a zombie horde on Fortune City. → Plot to cast C.U.R.E. as Bomb-Throwing Anarchists while T.K. robs the cash from the casinos in the confusion → The Reveal that T.K. was bribed to set up the activist so he could release the zombies, as a way for Phenotrans to harvest queens from zombies to extract the pheromone needed for Zombrex, and the fact that Phenotrans has plans to keep creating more outbreaks as a way to keep manufacturing Zombrex. | |
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Happens several times in the Artemis Fowl books. The Arctic Incident: Gangsters smuggling AA batteries into Haven → high treason and an attempt to Take Over the World. The Eternity Code: LEP space probes being hijacked → a crooked businessman's plan to illegally destroy his competitors. The Opal Deception: A high-profile criminal escapes from prison → a plot to start an interspecies war. The Lost Colony: An imp being kidnapped by mysterious human criminals → an effort to exterminate the demon race. The Time Paradox: The theft of an endangered lemur → a conspiracy to achieve ultimate power. |
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BlazBlue: Attempt to destroy an underground magic device → Encounter with the hero's extremely dangerous Arch-Enemy → The destruction and re-creation of all existence. | |
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The Venus Prime series loves this trope. In the first book, the investigation into a case of sabotage leads to the uncovering of an elaborate plot to steal a very expensive book, which in turn flushes out a member of a hidden conspiracy involving eugenics and aliens. Similarly, the second book starts with the investigation into an attempted murder, which uncovers a secret drug ring, which ends up being connected to the above-mentioned conspiracy. The third book starts with an investigation into the murder of a colony administrator and exposes a nasty union fight, which again turns out to be connected to an ancient conspiracy... | |
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Burn Notice: "False Flag": Michael's Client of the Week is a CPA who reported some minor discrepancies in one of his client company's books. Said company hired an assassin to kill him and his entire family before he could reveal that they are the front for a huge smuggling operation. | |
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The Thinking Machine: In "The Problem of the Organ Grinder", the investigation of what appears to be a truly pointless crime — the murder of an organ grinder's monkey—leads the exposure of a major counterfeiting ring. | |
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The sequel ups the ante by starting with a couple missing persons (and one missing toad) cases and a secret admirer, and turns into the creation of Godzilla. | |
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Cyrus' storyline in Octopath Traveler: a collection of rare books has been stolen and sold to pay off a gambling researcher's debt → excerpts from a still-missing book are in the hands of a crazy guy trying to copy the evil research within → the headmaster of the academy and his assistant took the original book to learn how to gain ultimate power through dark magic and human sacrifice → the revival of a dark god by the assistant's main benefactor. | |
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Thunderball. Attempted murder of Bond → A plot to hold the world ransom with two stolen nuclear warheads. | |
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The Naked Sun: A man killed by his spouse in a fit of anger → a plot to conquer the Galaxy with automated warships. | |
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A common plot in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: "Catteries Not Included": Finding a missing kitten → foiling a plot by a mad scientist to devastate the city with lightning. "Song of the Night 'n Dale": Reuniting a nightingale with a Chinese ruler → foiling a plot by said ruler's sister to take over the throne. "Normie's Science Project": Helping a kid find his lost science project → foiling a plot by the same mad scientist wanting to level the city...again. "A Creep In The Deep": An attack on a fish truck → stopping a submarine full of seas creatures from flooding the city. Even their first mission in "To The Rescue" had a case of a stolen ruby turn out to be part of a scheme to rob the world gold depository. "A Pie In The Sky" even has Chip lampshading the idea: he doesn't want to help a bird who's lost her flock migrate to Capistrano because the case is "too small", only for it to turn into a case of a woman using a giant magnet to screw up birds' sense of direction in order to capture them and bake them into pies, which ends up bringing down an entire airplane in the end. |
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Can You Spare a Quarter?: It turns out that Jamie's parents are part of a much larger group of people who abuse children. And the investigation in the case of Jamie leads to the arrest of a number of people in high positions. | |
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While Spongebob Squarepants is picking up trash in the Krusty Krab parking lot, he calls the police on someone he sees littering. It turns out the guy was actually a dangerous criminal known as the "Tattletale Strangler", who vows to kill SpongeBob in revenge for turning him in. | |
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In Hickory Dickory Dock, Poirot gets interested in a student hostel because of a series of petty thefts. A kleptomaniac seems to be stealing random items, most of them with no real value. Poirot's investigation ends up uncovering connections between the owner of the hostel and smuggling operation. | |
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Tomorrow Never Dies. An unusually fast newspaper article on a ship sinking → A scheme aimed at starting a war to gain exclusive media rights in China. | |
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Another variation in Transylvania 6-5000 (1985). Two tabloid reporters get sent to Transylvania after their editor receives a tape—obviously fake—of a couple of tourists getting attacked by Frankenstein's Monster. But during the course of their investigation, they discover that something is indeed going on there which involves a disgraced doctor trying to clear his family name, while Transylvanian officials engage in a conspiracy to shut the doctor down. | |
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Die Another Day. Rogue North Korean colonel trades in smuggled diamonds for weapons and is presumably killed for it → Plot by said rogue colonel, who is revealed to have been Faking the Dead all along, to use a solar-powered Kill Sat to cut a path through the Korean DMZ, allowing North Korea to launch an invasion of South Korea. | |
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The Los Angeles Police Department Rampart Scandal in the late 1990s, which was the inspiration for the movie Training Day and the TV series The Shield: It started on March 18, 1997, when Rampart CRASHnote Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, the Rampart Division's anti-gang unit officer Kevin Gaines was shot dead in self-defense by undercover LAPD officer Frank Lyga. The resulting investigation revealed that Gaines not only had a history of road rage but lived a lifestyle far beyond his annual LAPD salary and was associated with Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, and it came out that Death Row had gang ties with the Bloods and hired off-duty LAPD officers as security guards. The investigation into Gaines also led to suspicions that he and other officers were involved in the fatal drive-by shooting of The Notorious B.I.G.. In March of 1998, eight pounds of cocaine worth $800,000 was stolen from an evidence room. Rampart CRASH officer Rafael Pérez was arrested for the theft, suspected to be an attempt at framing Frank Lyga in retaliation for Gaines's death; the cocaine stash was evidence in a prior arrest made by Lyga. Pérez was also suspected of knowing about the illegal activities of fellow CRASH officer David Mack, who'd robbed a bank his assistant manager girlfriend worked at in November 1997. When Pérez got a mistrial, he took a plea bargain and pled guilty to cocaine theft in exchange for providing prosecutors information about two "bad" shootings and three other Rampart CRASH officers engaged in illegal activity. Ultimately, over 4,000 pages of sworn testimony came out of Pérez, which resulted in more than 70 officers being implicated in serious misconduct. Worse, the scandal led to the Police Chief, District Attorney, and Mayor of Los Angeles all eventually being not re-appointed or re-elected (after allegations arose that the chief had tried to censor the lead investigators in the Rampart case, and one of these detectives resigned as a form of protest). Over 100 criminal convictions were also overturned as a result. |
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Adventures of a Screwed Up Clone: A minor mission Danny has with the League has him discover that there's a secret operation involving shades going on, which he could only discover because his powers allowed him to see through the invisibility. | |
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Captain America: Steve investigates his ex Bernie's sister going missing → a plot by Mother Night to indoctrinate teenagers en masse. And when it's over, Steve finds out Bernie's sister's disappearance was completely unrelated to this. | |
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All the time in the Alex Rider series, except for maybe Scorpia. Stormbreaker: murder of MI6 agent Ian Rider → plot to kill all of London's schoolchildren. Point Blanc: "accidental" deaths of a New York multibillionaire and an ex-KGB general → an apartheid scientist replacing the children of sixteen powerful men around the world with teenage clones of himself. Skeleton Key: sale of uranium to a former Russian general and death of the two men who delivered it → plan by the general to detonate a nuclear bomb among a fleet of decaying nuclear submarines, contaminating most of Europe, seizing power in Russia, and reinstating Soviet communism. Eagle Strike: attempted assassination of journalist Edward Pleasure → attempt to wipe out drugs by dropping 25 American nuclear missiles on worldwide drug sources. Ark Angel: attempted kidnapping of Paul Drevin → plan to drop the Ark Angel hotel from outer space onto Washington, D.C. Snakehead: two deaths of ASIS agents infiltrating a snakehead and the theft of a bomb prototype → plot to wipe out an island conference aiming at ending world poverty by creating a tsunami that will also wipe out most of Western Australia. Crocodile Tears: investigation into an accountant at a bio-research facility → the Big Bad's plot to create a famine in Africa via poisoned wheat, then claim millions of dollars through his charity. Scorpia Rising: This one's complicated. The murder of Levi Kroll plus a shooting at Alex's school → a plot to assassinate the American secretary of state and frame Alex (and by extension the British government) for the crime, thereby giving Scorpia leverage to force the British government to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Then at the end, it's revealed that the school shooting had nothing to do with Scorpia's plot. That was masterminded by Alan Blunt so Alex would think he was in danger and agree to go to Cairo for MI6. |
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The Fugitive. Murder of Dr. Richard Kimble's wife → drug company conspiracy to market a deadly medical drug to an unknowing public. | |
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The Shadow Line: The death of a drug baron → A Government Conspiracy using drug money to fund police pensions. | |
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Cold Case: "Late Returns". A homicide victim has a shrine to a woman who died years earlier. It leads the cold case team to a politician who was molested by his sister. "The Sleepover". Mentally challenged man kills someone → parental abuse and murder of a child. "The Red & The Blue". Wife shoots her cheating husband → murder of someone they both knew. "Lonely Hearts". Conman commits suicide → conman and his lover took advantage of and killed women. "The Road". Minor traffic incident → serial killer. "Bad Reputation". A raid into a drug den leads to a discovery that an infamous criminal was murdered a long time ago. "Breaking News". Wrongful employment termination → massive coverup by a plastics company whose employees are dying from asbestos exposure → murder of the investigating reporter. |
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Most of the campaigns in Age of Empires III have this as a plot: Blood: Attack on a Maltese fortress → the uncovering of an Ancient Conspiracy and a fountain whose water grants eternal life, whose main leader is the main character's mentor figure. Ice: Attack on an English colony by a Cherokee tribe → the same Ancient Conspiracy, now led by a war-minded noble, trying to conquer the New World. Steel: Attack on an American company's railroad → the same Ancient Conspiracy, now led by a french skin trader, with a plot to Take Over the World. Fire: Attack on a pair of Iroquois/Haudenosaunee settlements → A Mercenary group helping English royal forces to re-colonize the United States. Shadows: Attack on an American company's railroad → A corrupt Sheriff wanting to cleanse the lands of natives in order to claim their gold for himself. China: Attacks on the Imperial Fleet on China and India → the accidental discovery of the Americas and the prince of said Dynasty being behind all of the events of the campaign. |
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From the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-part episode "Unification Part 1/Part 2": Theft of a Vulcan ship from a scrapyard → Romulan plot to take over the planet Vulcan. | |
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Soylent Green: Murder of a businessman in an apparent burglary gone wrong → discovering a horrible truth about the entire food supply. | |
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