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Motive

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Motive	comment	A Canadian crime/mystery drama which started running in 2013, set in Vancouver, British Columbia. It blends elements of Police Procedural and Criminal Procedural in a unique format: the audience already knows the murderer and the victim; what the audience learns, through a combination of the unfolding investigation, conducted by Detectives Angelika "Angie" Flynn and Oscar Vega, as well as flashback sequences, are the events leading up to the murder and the motive for that murder.It premiered on CTV following the Super Bowl; its first season finished on May 16, 2013 and the show was renewed for a second season, airing starting March 6, 2014. A third season aired starting on March 8, 2015 and ending June 7, 2015. A fourth and final season aired from March 22, 2016 to August 30, 2016.The series also got picked up by ABC for a summer run of its first season in 2013, but after poor season 2 ratings in the United States, ABC stopped airing the show. Since then, however, it was picked up by USA Network and they aired seasons 3 and 4 for American viewers. It has since been made available on DVD and through iTunes.There is a parallel show of sorts, the TV series "The Dark Corner", which fits roughly sometime within the period of Season 1.Be aware that possible episode plot twists or reveals may not be spoiler-tagged unless they occur in Season 4, or would spoil major arc-based reveals in Seasons 1 through 3.
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Motive / int_1122f435	type	Pregnant Hostage
Motive / int_1122f435	comment	Pregnant Hostage: Det. Mazur is briefly held hostage when a woman brings a bomb into the squad room in "The Dead Hand". Angie—who is the only one to know Mazur is pregnant—comes up with a plausible reason for her to be one of the first hostages released without divulging her pregnancy.
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Motive / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Motive / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: One Victim of the Week in "The Amateurs" is a compulsive gambler. He has been reduced to gambling in underground mahjong dens run by the Triads, because he has been banned from every other joint in town. As a result, he is deeply in debt to the Triads when he is murdered.
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Motive / int_1171ed72	type	Sexy Shirt Switch
Motive / int_1171ed72	comment	Sexy Shirt Switch: In "Pushover", a waitress seduces a customs officer as part of a scheme she's orchestrating. The morning after, she is wearing his uniform shirt and nothing else as she delivers him breakfast in bed.
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Motive / int_12c1a10e	type	Reusable Lighter Toss
Motive / int_12c1a10e	comment	Reusable Lighter Toss: In "Abandoned", the killer uses a Zippo to ignite her Fiery Cover Up: turning on all the gas in the diner kitchen and dropping the lit Zippo on the floor. Justified as a) she hadn't planned the crime and needed a source of flame in a hurry, b) she knew exactly where the lighter was kept in the kitchen, and c) it wasn't her lighter.
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Motive / int_151bc113	type	Cover Identity Anomaly
Motive / int_151bc113	comment	Cover Identity Anomaly: In "The Vanishing Policeman", the murderer is posing as a police officer in order to stage a fake suicide. However, in watching video of the 'suicide', Angie notices that he was wearing his baton on his right side. Angie knew that the officer in question had been wounded the week before and, as the baton rubbed against his stitches, he had moved it from the right hand side of his belt to the left.
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Motive / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
Motive / int_18e11001	comment	In "The Score", the Victim of the Week and his killer get into a fight in a barroom that ends when the victim slams his head into a beer tap.
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Motive / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Motive / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: The Victim of the Week in "Overboard" is married to a gay entrepreneur; allowing him to continue seeing his boyfriend while maintaining an acceptable facade for his Catholic family, with the wife to be richly rewarded after five years of marriage. Although the cops investigate this angle, it turns out to be a Red Herring that has nothing to do with the murder.
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Motive / int_1d8f9329	type	Deadly Bath
Motive / int_1d8f9329	comment	Deadly Bath: In "Index Case", the Victim of the Week is killed when his murderer releases toxic gas in his flotation tank.
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Motive / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
Motive / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: In "Creeping Tom", when the police arrive at the scene of the crime, they find the Body of the Week is guarded by an angry guard dog that barks at anyone who tries to approach the body. Later Angie realises that while the dog barked at all the police, it did not bark when the intruder was in the house, meaning it was someone the dog knew and trusted.
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Motive / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Motive / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: A variant in "Overboard", the killer murders a woman and frames her boyfriend for the murder, because the boyfriend murdered the killer's sister and got away with it years ago.
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Motive / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Motive / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: The killer in the season 3 opener frequently uses the phrase "Do us both a favour". This actually helps to identify him, as a woman he attacked while masked recognises him when he says the same thing to her with his face uncovered.
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Motive / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Motive / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A common bit as often the killer (and sometimes the victim) is revealed to be less innocent than they seem. In "Bad Blonde", Heather turns out to be controlling and manipulative. She's the killer, and she ropes in another person who is too nice to turn her down even when she's making impossible demands. In a twist, it turns out her friend, Gordon, also qualifies because he goaded her into attacking the victim by making it appear as though the victim was cheating on her. A key one is "The Frog and the Scorpion" as when a murder occurs similar to a past one, it seems the woman in jail for the crime is innocent. It's revealed that it was the woman's therapist who committed the recent murder and framed an unstable patient for it as he'd fallen in love with the convict and believed in her innocence. After he pulls it off and she's freed, they unite only for her to stab him and as he lays dying, he realizes too late she was guilty after all and using him to get free. While not as murderous, Rick Wyatt from "Frampton Comes Alive" is an incredibly nasty piece of work. Among other things, he all but poisons a celiac co-worker, blackmails a client with a cancer-stricken son, harasses his neighbour incessantly and ultimately kills the neighbour's dying wife by cutting off the power to her medical equipment. And why? The neighbour would occasionally have friendly conversations with his wife. Fittingly, his neighbour, a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, murders him in retaliation.
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Motive / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Motive / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: In "Interference", a man returns home from a trip to learn that his wife was dead and his sickly son abducted. Bad enough, but then he finds out that his wife had been poisoning his son for months and had already killed another child the same way.
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Motive / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Motive / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: In "The Dead Name", a blackmailer thinks that the wife of a famous footballer is having an affair and threatens to expose her secret if not paid off. However, the wife's secret is actually that she is really a trans-woman, and she has been meeting up with her ex-wife. However, because the blackmailer never specifies what the secret is, she believes he knows something that would be far more scandalous. This confusion results in the murder of both the wife and the blackmailer.
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Motive / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Motive / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Vega abandoned seminary to be a cop and is shown to be surprisingly knowledgeable in certain areas, including world religions and graffiti art.
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Motive / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
Motive / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: A few of the detectives have them, as is expected for a cop show. One that hangs over the series is the investigation in 'The Suicide Tree'. While the murder itself is solved at the end of the episode, during the investigation a burglar breaks into the morgue and attacks Betty. The effects of the attack drive most of the subplots in the final season.
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Motive / int_3069d72a	type	Attack Backfire
Motive / int_3069d72a	comment	Attack Backfire: In "Purgatory", Vega tells a suspect to drop their lighter. Their response? "As you wish", upon which they drop the lit lighter right into the pool of gasoline surrounding the intended victim.
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Motive / int_306dece3	type	Office Golf
Motive / int_306dece3	comment	Office Golf: In "In Plain Sight", a sleazy Private Investigator the murderer of the week visits is practicing putting when she arrives in his office.
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Motive / int_30cffab7	type	Illegal Gambling Den
Motive / int_30cffab7	comment	Illegal Gambling Den: In "The Amateurs", the Victim of the Week is Ken Leung, the deputy leader of the ruthless Golden Tiger Triad, the largest criminal organization in the city. The triad makes money in part through their illegal mahjong gambling den.
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Motive / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Motive / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: The detectives and M.E. for Lucas and Sung during the first two seasons.
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Motive / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Motive / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: The Victim of the Week in "A Problem Like Maria" is killed by being thrown face first through a 7th storey window.
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Motive / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
Motive / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: A large chunk of "Bad Blonde" consists of the killer and her best friend attempting to work out the best way to dispose of the corpse of the Victim of the Week. They still have the body when they are arrested.
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Motive / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Motive / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: In "Ruthless", the killer poisons the room service breakfast being delivered to hotel room of her victim. However, the victim was not eating breakfast and the meal was for her lover whom the killer did not know was spending the night.
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Motive / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Motive / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Flynn to Vega in "Crimes of Passion", covering her hand with a file folder. She then does it later, under her coat, as the prosecutor walks away from her.
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Motive / int_372027ea	type	Stalker Shrine
Motive / int_372027ea	comment	Stalker Shrine: In "The Scorpion and the Frog", the detectives discover a very creepy shrine (the photos all have the subject's eyes scratched out) in the apartment of the paranoid schizophrenic that is being framed for the murder of the Victim of the Week.
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Motive / int_3856d429	type	Shear Menace
Motive / int_3856d429	comment	Shear Menace: In "The One Who Got Away", the Victim of the Week is stabbed to death with a pair of garden shears.
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Motive / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Motive / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: For the most part, Flynn and Vega manage to catch their culprit. There are some exceptions: "The One Who Got Away" has a killer who manages to escape being captured by committing suicide. His accomplice dies in a police shooting. While technically they did arrest a murderer in "Six Months Later" per the episode formula, he's bumped off in prison shortly after and Flynn and Vega are very sure that it was so he couldn't spill his boss's (Neville's) secrets. While "Natural Selection" sees the murderer arrested, the episode ends without any indication that the same thing happens to his wife, who found out what he'd done and tried to help him cover it up.
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Motive / int_439e50f7	type	What Have We Ear?
Motive / int_439e50f7	comment	What Have We Ear?: In "The Vanishing Policeman", a comedian and magician pulls a condom out of his sister-in-law's ear, leading to some playful banter between the two. This is apparently a trick he has been performing since age 13 in the hope of getting laid.
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Motive / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
Motive / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: In "The Amateurs", Flynn, Vega and Lucas begin investigating three separate homicides. However, forensic evidence soon shows that the three cases are linked. The question then becomes: how?
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Motive / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Motive / int_4781adbb	comment	While not as murderous, Rick Wyatt from "Frampton Comes Alive" is an incredibly nasty piece of work. Among other things, he all but poisons a celiac co-worker, blackmails a client with a cancer-stricken son, harasses his neighbour incessantly and ultimately kills the neighbour's dying wife by cutting off the power to her medical equipment. And why? The neighbour would occasionally have friendly conversations with his wife. Fittingly, his neighbour, a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, murders him in retaliation.
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Motive / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Motive / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Detective Brian Lucas, but starting to be averted in season two as he's ahead of all of Angie Flynn's and Oscar Vega's requests and even manages to answer the Superintendent when put on the spot about a case. In a bit of a Brick Joke, Angie nicks his coffee and then a couple episodes later, is the one bringing three coffees: one for her, one for Vega, and one for Lucas. In Season 3, Angie is so happy to be back in the saddle she starts butting in on Lucas's work again.
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Motive / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Motive / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "For You I Die": It's likely the court case Sgt. Cross has to testify in may be fatally weakened unless the replacement prosecutor can swing the crime gang boss's confession in return for a plea bargain.
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Motive / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
Motive / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: Discussed in "The Scorpion and the Frog" (as might be guessed from the title). Paula wonders what could have happened to make the murderer the way she was. Angie replies that she doesn't think anything happened, it was just her nature just like the fable of the scorpion and the frog. Some people are just born bad.
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Motive / int_54adb6a3	type	Staircase Tumble
Motive / int_54adb6a3	comment	Staircase Tumble: The Victim of the Week in "The Dead Hand" breaks her neck when she is shoved down a flight of stairs in the killer's basement.
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Motive / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Motive / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Played with as the third season opens. Angie actually requested reassignment to the training academy, claiming she's felt "burnt out". Meanwhile, Vega is still in his old job. Angie comes back as of the end of "Six Months Later".
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Motive / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Motive / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: The Victim of the Week in "The Vanishing Policeman" is a cop who is physically abusing his wife and emotionally abusing his son. He is murdered by his estranged brother who sees him turning into a clone of their abusive father.
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Motive / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Motive / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: In "A Problem Like Maria" it's revealed that Maria Snow is actually Neville's daughter. Since she knew of this, it explains why she broke off her engagement with Robert; she would have been marrying her half-brother. Averted in "Natural Selection". It is (apparently) revealed that the murderer, who is the father of a friend of the victim's, has a rather inappropriate interest in a woman who appears to be his daughter. It is, however, revealed that in fact he is a bigamist and his "daughter" is actually his wife.
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Motive / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Motive / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: In "Purgatory", the killer ties her final victim to a chair and soaks him in gasoline; planning to set him on fire. She manages to do so despite Vega's interference, and Vega is forced grab a fire extinguisher and put him out.
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Motive / int_5eb81651	type	SchoolNewsPaperNewsHound
Motive / int_5eb81651	comment	School Newspaper News Hound: The Victim of the Week in "The Dead Hand" is one. She is first seen exposing one of her teachers for selling good grades. One of her later pieces of investigative journalism gets her killed.
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Motive / int_607ee22	type	Chute Sabotage
Motive / int_607ee22	comment	Chute Sabotage: In "Pitfall", the Victim of the Week is murdered when the killer swaps out his parachute for one that has the lines on both the main and reserve canopies cut.
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Motive / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Motive / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Detective Brian Lucas is a fussy Camp Straight junior detective who is constantly teased by the others, but he's also extremely competent and is fiercely dedicated to his job.
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Motive / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Motive / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: The Victim of the Week in "Pilot Error" is cracked over the head with a bottle, which — unusually for this trope — does not shatter on impact. The blow does not kill her but knocks her out. She dies when the killer, thinking she is dead, hides her in the deep freeze.
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Motive / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Motive / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: In "Abandoned", the killer shoves the Victim of the Week during a heated argument and the victim falls and strikes her head on a kitchen bench. Thinking the victim is dead, the killer panics. However, the victim is still alive. Or, she was, until the killer decided to stage a Fiery Cover Up. In "The Score", the Victim of the Week and his killer get into a fight in a barroom that ends when the victim slams his head into a beer tap.
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Motive / int_6e0d882e	type	Vehicle-Roof Body Disposal
Motive / int_6e0d882e	comment	Vehicle-Roof Body Disposal: In "Fallen", the Victim of the Week is shoved off an overpass where he is struck by the top of a container truck passing underneath. He would have wound up on top of the truck had he not been tied to the bridge.
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Motive / int_714019ac	type	Coffin Contraband
Motive / int_714019ac	comment	Coffin Contraband: In "Fallen Angel", a cache of stolen diamonds is buried in an old grave in a no longer active cemetery. However, the thief was arrested and sent to prison so the diamonds stayed there for 20 years.
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Motive / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Motive / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: The killer in "Out of the Past" is a Serbian Morally Ambiguous Doctorate and war criminal who participated in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the Yugoslav Wars. She stole a dead Czech doctor's identity and fled to Canada, where she got married, had a child and worked as a pediatrician.
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Motive / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Motive / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: In "For You I Die", Dirty Cop Slater pulls his gun on Angie, saying that he won't go to prison. Angie realises that he wants her to shoot him (especially as he has just let a hostage go), and calls his bluff: saying this case has already taken too many lives and lowering her gun. Slater continues to advance, however, only to be shot by Vega. The murderer attempts this in "The Vanishing Policeman"; firing shots into the air and claiming that he intends to kill another cop. Angie is able to talk him down and reveals that he was actually wielding a starting pistol.
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Motive / int_74d9d78f	type	Hate at First Sight
Motive / int_74d9d78f	comment	Hate at First Sight: Flynn embodies this for the new supervisor, Mark Cross. It turns out they had an affair some time before, and she took it quite hard. He doesn't help matters by obviously showing favoritism to Brian Lucas, as well as butting in on areas Angie feels are her turf, such as the details of ongoing investigations before they're wrapped up. It turns out the affair may have been precipitated over being rookies involved in a cover-up regarding a shootout during a standoff.
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Motive / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Motive / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Officer Wendy Sung, a regular character in Season 2 who disappears starting with the Season 3 premiere "6 Months Later".
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Motive / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Motive / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: A common motif, as the final flashback revealing the true reason behind the murder shows the situation to be far different than what the other flashbacks seem to indicate. Quite often, it's a different motive behind the murder, and at times, the "victim" turns out to be not so innocent after all. A key example is "Pilot Error," as the flashbacks indicate that a pilot named Brad Calgrove was cheating on his fiancee with a pastry chef named Chelsea Richmond, who boasts an engagement ring and photos of them together as she prepares for their wedding. When Brad is arrested, the final flashback reveals that Chelsea was just someone who sat next to Brad on a flight and began stalking him, photoshopping them together, planning their wedding and creating their "relationship" out of nothing. When Brad confronted her about it, she attacked him and he killed her in self-defense. A darker example is shown in "Interference," as the flashbacks and the events in the episode suggest that music teacher Cindy Vernon killed online blogger Tracy Blaine to abduct her stepson. During Cindy's arrest, the final flashback revealed that Tracy was a Munchausen by Proxy poisoner who killed one boy and made her stepson ill, and Cindy killed Tracy during a confrontation to save the stepson. The events and the flashbacks of "In Plain Sight" suggest that Chloe Wilson, who was killed by her older sister Jessica, escaped the clutches of Jeremy Sheridanâ€”her father and the ex-husband of her mother Ava Wilson. Making her way back to Nanaimo, she went by the alias Ruby and worked as a stripper, performing sexual favors for her clients at times. However, by the episode's end, it's revealed the real Chloe died alongside Jeremy in a car accident outside of Mexico City seven years prior. The episode's victim was Misha Vanni, who was conspiring to split her half of Ava's estate with Private Detective Ian Mitchell and fatally asphyxiate Ava with helium. As if that wasn't enough, the final flashback divulged Ava was paying Misha to kill her since she didn't want Jessica to keep watching her suffer or be held back from living a full life. Not knowing about any of it until Angie informed her, Jessica killed Misha.
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Motive / int_7d68f571	type	...Or So I Heard
Motive / int_7d68f571	comment	...Or So I Heard: Happens twice while the team an investigating what appears to be a bondage session gone wrong in "Angels with Dirty Faces". Angie remarks that it is odd that the victim wasn't using quick-release handcuffs as bondage fetishists usually want an easy escape route, which earns a glance from Oscar and is followed by "Or so I've head". Later Betty is discussing the autopsy findings and says that the lack of drugs isn't unusual as downers would take the edge of the adrenaline rush you get from being tied up. This gets a glance from Angie and is followed by "Or so I've heard".
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Motive / int_7e5b0184	type	Time-Delayed Death
Motive / int_7e5b0184	comment	Time-Delayed Death: In "Chronology of Pain", a makeshift explosive rigged to a judge's barbecue goes off but does not seem to do any major harm to the judge. However, the shockwave had damaged her lungs, causing a slow build-up of fluid, and she painfully asphyxiates several hours later.
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Motive / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Motive / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: In "Remains to be Seen", the Victim of the Week is decapitated with a katana.
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Motive / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
Motive / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: A high-class call girl was the last person to see the Victim of the Week alive in "A Bullet for Joey"; conducting 'business' with him in his office. Initially a suspect, Angie and Oscar dismiss her from their inquiries once her alibi checks out.
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Motive / int_7f9b12a6	type	Chairman of the Brawl
Motive / int_7f9b12a6	comment	Chairman of the Brawl: In "The Score", a bar owner being strong-armed by a couple of mob types has a stool broken over his head.
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Motive / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Motive / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Done for the victim and the killer in the beginning of each episode. Often, the introduction foreshadows developments that aren't immediately apparent that come into play during the episode. For example, the victim in "Pilot Error" is shown as a romantic perfectionist... who's quite ready to let her romantic ideals override what other people actually want.
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Motive / int_816694e7	type	Body of the Week
Motive / int_816694e7	comment	Body of the Week: As this is a homicide Police Procedural show, there is usually a dead body involved.
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Motive / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
Motive / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: In a few cases in the series, most notably "Pitfall".
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Motive / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
Motive / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Because the show has to appeal to an American audience as well as a Canadian one, "Crown counsel" is replaced by "prosecution", and Angie and Oscar speak of "felony offences" rather than "indictable offences". Other changes like this are in the show.
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Motive / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Motive / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Stephanie Carson, the killer in "Calling the Shots", a tightly-wound woman with a constant strained smile on her face, is maintaining her suburban paradise by running a Ponzi Scheme and bilking her friends and neighbours. When the Victim of the Week threatens to bring her perfect life tumbling down about her ears, Stephanie kills her.
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Motive / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Motive / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Angie is rocked when a judge she considered her mentor and good friend is murdered. She's more stunned when, in the course of the investigation, she discovers the judge had been taking kickbacks for sending juvenile offenders to a certain "boot camp" jail.
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Motive / int_8950ea66	type	"Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder
Motive / int_8950ea66	comment	"Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder: The murder in "Undertow" turns out to be a case of this. However, the second man gets cold feet and cannot go through with his part of the bargain.
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Motive / int_8a16409a	type	Shovel Strike
Motive / int_8a16409a	comment	Shovel Strike: In "Fallen Angel", the Victim of the Week is killed with a shovel: first a blow to the head that does not drop him, followed by a slash with the blade that cuts his throat.
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Motive / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Motive / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Season 3's "Pilot Error" reveals Chelsea is this. After hinting throughout the episode that she's the "other woman" involved with pilot Brad, it turns out that she was just someone he sat with on a single plane ride and invented the relationship from there. She stole the ring he gave to his real fiancee, photoshopped a photo of them together and is convinced Brad is only marrying his fiancee for the money to support her. When he confronts her on this, she attacks him and he kills her in self-defense.
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Motive / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Motive / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: British Columbia has a single-payer health insurance system, so "Frampton Comes Alive" is a bit of an inaccurate portrayal of the extent to which "extended medical" companies' insurance denial can affect people. Then again, considering that the episode centres on a manipulative, passive-agressive Asshole Victim, it's entirely possible he'd just been lying to blackmail his clients for kickbacks.
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Motive / int_8d80bc0d	type	Private Profit Prison
Motive / int_8d80bc0d	comment	Private Profit Prison: Respected judge Natalie Rodman is murdered in "Chronology of Pain". The team discovers that when she was a juvenile court judge, she accepted kickbacks to give out harsher sentences and send juvenile delinquents to a privately owned "rehabilitation camp". The man running the camp was a sadist who tortured the kids he did not like.
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Motive / int_8e00db94	type	Mystery of the Week
Motive / int_8e00db94	comment	Mystery of the Week: The format of the show. Each episode introduces a new killer and victim (sometimes multiple). After its first season, the show introduces season-long arcs that play out at the same time, but there's always a murder mystery to follow.
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Motive / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Motive / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: At the end of "Oblivion", Angie is informed by Maria Snow of a recording that purports to prove Neville Montgomery ordered a hit on Derek Caster, his fixer. "A Problem Like Maria" reveals that Maria Snow is Neville Montgomery's daughter, and in fact is not even the real Maria Snow. "Natural Selection" ends with the surprise retirement of Oscar Vega. "We'll Always Have Homicide" for the first time ever has Angie in near mortal danger at the hands of a suspect.
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Motive / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
Motive / int_8e20b0f7	comment	The events and the flashbacks of "In Plain Sight" suggest that Chloe Wilson, who was killed by her older sister Jessica, escaped the clutches of Jeremy Sheridanâ€”her father and the ex-husband of her mother Ava Wilson. Making her way back to Nanaimo, she went by the alias Ruby and worked as a stripper, performing sexual favors for her clients at times. However, by the episode's end, it's revealed the real Chloe died alongside Jeremy in a car accident outside of Mexico City seven years prior. The episode's victim was Misha Vanni, who was conspiring to split her half of Ava's estate with Private Detective Ian Mitchell and fatally asphyxiate Ava with helium. As if that wasn't enough, the final flashback divulged Ava was paying Misha to kill her since she didn't want Jessica to keep watching her suffer or be held back from living a full life. Not knowing about any of it until Angie informed her, Jessica killed Misha.
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Motive / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Motive / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Depends on who the Victim of the Week is. Can also be applied to the killer, too. A definite "asshole murderer", if ever there was one, is Stephanie Carson in "Calling the Shots". "Glass Houses" features a definite asshole victim in the form of a controlling douchebag who is strongly implied to have abducted a child approximately a decade before the events of that episode. "Pilot Error" features a stalker, Chelsea, who is killed in self-defence by Brad. "Fallen" has Perry, who impersonates another artist to profit off him and uses this assumed identity to goad an eager fan into becoming his fall guy.
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Motive / int_90c30080	type	Bunker Woman
Motive / int_90c30080	comment	Bunker Woman: The Victim of the Week in "Frampton Comes Alive" turns out to be keeping his wife prisoner in a bunker beneath their garage.
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Motive / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Motive / int_93cb144a	comment	Unhand Them, Villain!: A variant. In "Purgatory", the killer is holding a lit lighter while standing over a man who is tied to a chair and soaked in petrol. Vega tells her to "put the lighter down". She complies by dropping the lighter into the pool of fuel at the victim's feet.
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Motive / int_94a8519b	type	The Real Remington Steele
Motive / int_94a8519b	comment	The Real Remington Steele: In "Fallen", the Victim of the Week is a graffiti artist who claims to be a famous anonymous street artist known as 'Contagion', so he can sell out and make money out of Contagion's name and fame. For much of the investigation, the detectives are working on the assumption that the victim was Contagion, until one of the suspects turns out to be the real Contagion.
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Motive / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Motive / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Generally averted, as the killers are too emotionally drained from the events of the episode to make much of a fuss on being caught. One notable exception is the killer in "Natural Selection", who starts screaming to absolutely no-one when all his crimes are exposed.
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Motive / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Motive / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The victim in one episode is a seemingly gregarious Nice Guy who is revealed to actually be an immensely petty, passive aggressive Jerkass. He revenges every imagined slight through ways as minor as putting glue on a toilet seat to cutting his neighbour's power and causing his terminally ill wife's life support to fail.
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Motive / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Motive / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Often, the Motive Misidentification twist will make viewers watch the episode again in a new light.
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Motive / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Motive / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Averted in "Pitfall". It turns out that the victim wasn't even involved in the car accident that caused the killer's PTSD. Invoked in other episodes, however.
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Motive / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Motive / int_a1b0bde2	comment	Revealing Cover Up: The killer in "Oblivion" had a pitch-perfect murder scheme that honestly might've been dismissed as an accident, but she decided that the best alibi for herself was to fake her own death. Investigating her apparent death leads the cops to her victim's murder and her eventual capture.
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Motive / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Motive / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Angie to her son, Manny. She catches him with his rather well-endowed girlfriend, doesn't throw a fit, and casually wonders how much the boob job cost. Both of Angie's supervisors, Boyd Bloom and Mark Cross, are fair-minded and are not abusive. In the fourth season, Angie's supervisor is Oscar Vega, who continues to be the same thoughtful and fair-minded man he was as her partner.
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Motive / int_a247b609	type	The Murder After
Motive / int_a247b609	comment	The Murder After: In "Best Enemies", a sleazy photographer wakes up following a drunken party next to the Body of the Week. She's his assistant whom he had been pressuring to have have sex with him.
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Motive / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Motive / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstructed in "Bad Blonde". The female killer's male best friend is clearly in love with her despite being married to another woman. He engineers breakups between her and all her boyfriends so he won't lose her to another man and she'll always need him for emotional support. He also constantly neglects his wife in favour of her and his marriage is on the rocks. For her part, the killer is aware of it and even slightly strings him along, i.e. "why can't I meet a guy like you?". She uses his feelings for her to manipulate him despite not being interested in him romantically, to the point of getting him to help her dispose of the body. He's still trying to protect her when she frames him for the murder.
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Motive / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Motive / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": In "Crimes of Passion", a mayoral candidate has his laptop password as "I've got your back": which was his campaign slogan and prominently displayed on a poster in his study.
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Motive / int_a3a4a800	type	Too Clever by Half
Motive / int_a3a4a800	comment	Too Clever by Half: The killer in "Oblivion" had a pitch-perfect murder scheme that honestly might've been dismissed as an accident, but she decided that the best alibi for herself was to fake her own death. Investigating her apparent death leads the cops to her victim's murder and her eventual capture.
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Motive / int_a57e5d1f	type	EyeTwitch
Motive / int_a57e5d1f	comment	Eye Twitch: Angie apparently has one, though she vehemently denies this.
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Motive / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Motive / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: The murderer in "Natural History" is a fundamentalist Christian who believes that polygamy is God's law, and a character the viewer had been led to assume was his daughter is actually his second, much younger, wife.
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Motive / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
Motive / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: In "Angels with Dirty Faces", the Victim of the Week is killed when the murderer injects a lethal dose of morphine into their saline drip. This leads to Angie and Oscar wondering why you would kill someone who was already brain dead.
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Motive / int_aa3d3d1a	type	Motive Misidentification
Motive / int_aa3d3d1a	comment	Motive Misidentification: Quite common, as the flashbacks will make it appear to the audience that the reasons behind the murder were one thing but the final flashback reveals the truth to be different. For example, a woman appears to have murdered a call girl because of an affair with the woman's husband. It turns out that the call girl had discovered the woman was running a ponzi scheme and killed to keep it quiet.
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Motive / int_aa822c89	type	Disappointed by the Motive
Motive / int_aa822c89	comment	Disappointed by the Motive: In "The Dead Hand", Angie is rather underwhelmed to learn that what set off a series of Disaster Dominoes resulting in a double homicide, a Miscarriage of Justice and a hostage situation (where she was the hostage) was a guy wanting to be with his new girlfriend without the hassle of a divorce.
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Motive / int_ab176783	type	Nail 'Em
Motive / int_ab176783	comment	Nail 'Em: A nail gun is the weapon used to murder the Victim of the Week in "In Plain Sight". A realistic take on the trope, the nail gun was a weapon of opportunity; still connected to the compressor; and used by pressing it against the victim's body before firing the nails.
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Motive / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Motive / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: In "Foreign Relations", the killer slips the Victim of the Week a mickey so she can abduct and interrogate him. However, she miscalculates the dose needed and he dies of an overdose.
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Motive / int_abfa92a3	type	Jack the Ripoff
Motive / int_abfa92a3	comment	Jack the Ripoff: In "The Scorpion and the Frog", the murderer deliberately uses the highly unusual M.O. of a previous murder, including inserting a string of pearls into the victim's throat. He is doing this because he has fallen in love with original killer, and by copying her crime he can get her released by putting her guilt in question.
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Motive / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Motive / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Flynn is a race car nut (as is her son) and her knowledge of cars comes in handy in "Crimes of Passion", and then again in "Raw Deal".
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Motive / int_ad54954f	type	Punk in the Trunk
Motive / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: In "Remains to be Seen", the killer wraps the headless corpse of the Victim of the Week in a tarp and dumps it in the boot of his car.
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Motive / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Motive / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In "Fallen", Vega eats popcorn that a suspect was in the process of making during a raid. Lucas tells him to stop since, it could be evidence.
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Motive / int_b39b810e	type	Fiery Coverup
Motive / int_b39b810e	comment	Fiery Cover Up: Done by the killer in "Abandoned". After the Victim of the Week suffers Death by Falling Over in the kitchen of a diner, the killer turns on all the gas and then uses a Reusable Lighter Toss to ignite it. What she does not realize is that her victim is still alive as the fireball goes off.
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Motive / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
Motive / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: Given a dark twist in "Abandoned", where an emotionally Abusive Parent learns they have a grandchild. Rather than making amends with their estranged son, they'd rather 'start over' with the new baby, and harass the mother until she murders them to protect her son and his adoptive family.
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Motive / int_b4ac1655	type	Molotov Cocktail
Motive / int_b4ac1655	comment	Molotov Cocktail: One is used to torch Angie's precious car in "Frampton Comes Alive".
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Motive / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
Motive / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: In "The Dead Hand", a woman wearing an explosive vest takes over the squadroom and hold Angie hostage. The bomb is linked to dead man's switch consisting of a heart rate monitor: if her heart stops, the bomb goes off.
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Motive / int_b8e2279c	type	Crowbar Combatant
Motive / int_b8e2279c	comment	Crowbar Combatant: In "Purgatory", the killer smashes a lawyer over the head with a crowbar before tying him to a chair and planning to turn him into a Man on Fire.
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Motive / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Motive / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: In "Purgatory", a strip club owner returns to his car to find it has been broken into. He climbs inside, and is surprised by the killer in his back seat who proceeds to interrogate him. He then goes for the gun he has hidden in the car, only to learn the killer has already found it and taken it. Things then get worse for him.
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Motive / int_bd620d3c	type	In Love with the Mark
Motive / int_bd620d3c	comment	In Love with the Mark: In "Raw Deal", one of the men involved in a hit-and-run runs across the victim's then-girlfriend. He falls in love with her and by the time of the episode, she's his fiancÃ©e. Played with in "Six Months Later". London Montgomery admits to having manipulated Derek, in order to get drugs. She, in turn, was manipulated by Dale, the lawyer.
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Motive / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Motive / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: This is the defining personality trait of Liz Kerr, the Victim of the Week in "Natural History". Growing up in foster care, she lives as a free spirit and is dating several men and women. Despite the initial suspicions of the cops, her promiscuous lifestyle turns out to be only peripherally connected to the motive for her murder.
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Motive / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Motive / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: In "The Dead Hand", Det. Mazur (who has just learned that she is pregnant) is one of the detectives in the squad room when a woman with a bomb walks in and threatens to blow the place up. Angie arranges, knowing that Mazur is pregnant, arranges for her and Lucas to be released to investigate the woman's case. Mazur is later ashamed that she accepted so readily and left Angie to face the danger alone, but Angie tells her she absolutely should have prioritised her and her unborn child's safety over Angie's.
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Motive / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Motive / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: In-Universe in "Pilot Error". Brad made a stalking complaint against Chelsea in Florida, but the cop marked it "no action required", because as far as he was concerned, a man being aggressively pursued by an attractive woman is a lucky guy, not a victim of a crime.
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Motive / int_c1832fcb	type	Feet of Clay
Motive / int_c1832fcb	comment	Feet of Clay: Stan Matthews, the medical examiner murdered in "Deception", turns out to have been purposely slanting his testimony in child-death cases to make the parents look guilty (or guiltier, anyway). This hits Betty hard, since she looked up to him.
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Motive / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Motive / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Averted during "Fallen Angel", when Betty mimes the killer's actions, causing Angie Flynn to rear back suddenly, as she wasn't expecting it.
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Motive / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Motive / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot/Cut the Juice: In "Foreign Relations", a computer genius working for a white supremacist Western Terrorist group hacks into air traffic control towers and sets planes on a collision course. When the police bust into her hideout they find that the program is encrypted and they canâ€™t get in to stop it. So they just unplug the computer and stop it that way.
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Motive / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Motive / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out:
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Motive / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Motive / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The Victim of the Week in "Interference" is shoved on to a jagged branch that stabs her in the back. In a fit of anger, the killer continues to push the victim till the branch comes all the way out her chest.
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Motive / int_cb59db4e	type	Bikini Bar
Motive / int_cb59db4e	comment	Bikini Bar: "Undertow" opens in one (referred to as a 'strip club') that a drug dealer is using as his base of operations. Angie and Oscar later visit during the course of their investigation.
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Motive / int_cdb1c635	type	Side Bet
Motive / int_cdb1c635	comment	Side Bet: In "The Dead Hand", Lucas and Mazur have a side bet about whether Angie is actually going to take her vacation.
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Motive / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Motive / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: In "The Vanishing Policeman", the team investigates what appears to be the extremely public suicide of a police officer. The officer was actually murdered hours earlier and the 'suicide' was an elaborate piece of misdirection.
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Motive / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Motive / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: In "A Bullet for Joey", three brothers shoot the victim at the same time. However, two of the three guns are loaded with blanks; the idea being that they will never know which of them fired the fatal shot. But one of the brothers confesses to knowing which gun was loaded with the real bullet, and choosing that gun to ensure the murder happened. He is charged with murder, and his brothers are charged with conspiracy.
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Motive / int_d275c4f4	type	All Women Love Shoes
Motive / int_d275c4f4	comment	All Women Love Shoes: In "The Score", a waitress shows Paula and Angie the shoes that the Victim of the Week bought her, and Paula immediately identifies them as a $3000 pair of shoes. This is totally lost on Angie, who can only wonder at a pair of shoes that cost as much as a vacation in Costa Rica.
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Motive / int_d4f5426	type	Absence of Evidence
Motive / int_d4f5426	comment	Absence of Evidence: In "Creeping Tom", when the police arrive at the scene of the crime, they find the Body of the Week is guarded by an angry guard dog that barks at anyone who tries to approach the body. Later Angie realises that while the dog barked at all the police, it did not bark when the intruder was in the house, meaning it was someone the dog knew and trusted.
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Motive / int_db4975de	type	The CSI Effect
Motive / int_db4975de	comment	invokedThe CSI Effect: Lampshaded in "Crimes of Passion", when Detective Vega is texted by forensics, and Flynn looks at her watch and remarks that it was pretty fast. Weaponized by Angie in "Against All Odds". She manages to bluff the murderer into disposing her crowbar and implicating herself by claiming that technology can trace scratches to a specific crowbar.
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Motive / int_db8cb28b	type	Window Pain
Motive / int_db8cb28b	comment	Window Pain: In "Bad Blonde", the killer throws a half-brick through the windscreen of the Victim of the Week's classic car not long before the murder.
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Motive / int_dcb40127	type	The Killer Was Left-Handed
Motive / int_dcb40127	comment	The Killer Was Left-Handed: In "Natural History", Betty determines that the fatal blow came from the front and struck the left side of the Body of the Week's head, meaning the killer was almost certainly right-handed. This clears the prime suspect, who is left-handed.
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Motive / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
Motive / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: This exchange from "Oblivion":
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Motive / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Motive / int_df968cf	comment	Insurance Fraud: A collision between insurance fraud and Blackmail turns out to be the motive for murder in "The Dead Name".
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Motive / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
Motive / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: Mostly averted, but residents of Vancouver and environs will spot the occasional fudging of geography for dramatic or narrative purposes. Some examples: Homer and Pacific is not that close to West 7th; it is about a 40 minute walk. A rather egregious case is when a pawnshop near Metrotown in Burnaby is claimed to be a pawnshop in Richmond. It takes about an hour to get from Vancouver to Abbotsford - more than enough time for the killer to wipe out another victim. However establishing shots clearly show a mechanic shop somewhere in Vancouver proper.
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Motive / int_e1cee453	type	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife
Motive / int_e1cee453	comment	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: In "Foreign Relations", an extremely handsome and charming domestic terrorist seduces a plain and socially inept computer genius to recruit her into his group.
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Motive / int_e2b576a1	type	I Just Want to Be You
Motive / int_e2b576a1	comment	I Just Want to Be You: Rather disturbingly done in Episode 2.05, "Dead End", with a girl trying to become her older brother's girlfriend. This leads to a witness to the latter's murder misidentifying the killer—the former—as the victim. Turns out that the now ex-girlfriend was pregnant—but by the killer's father rather than by her older brother. The mother found out about the affair, though not the pregnancy, and attempted suicide, providing the motive.
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Motive / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Motive / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: London Montgomery resembles Kim Kardashian, and is a composite of various celebrities with drug addiction issues.
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Motive / int_ea2c8da6	type	Watch the Paint Job
Motive / int_ea2c8da6	comment	Watch the Paint Job: In "Frampton Comes Alive", Angie's beloved car is torched with a Molotov Cocktail.
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Motive / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Motive / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In "Best Enemies", the sister of the Victim of the Week shoots the sleazy photographer she thinks murdered her sister in the groin. As Brian notes, an inch the other way and she would have severed an artery, and she is charged with attempted murder.
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Motive / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Motive / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: In "The Scorpion and the Frog", the murderer, who is a psychiatrist, leaves himself bound and gagged as part of a scheme to frame one his patients for murder.
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Motive / int_eb48170d	type	Cramming the Coffin
Motive / int_eb48170d	comment	Cramming the Coffin: In "Fallen Angel", a thief used a grave in an old cemetery to hide a cache of stolen diamonds. He also uses the grave to dispose of the body of his partner, whom he has just murdered.
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Motive / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Motive / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: 'Brute Force' and 'The Vanishing Policeman' both involve a man killing his brother - and it's not necessarily the Cain of the family doing the killing.
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Motive / int_edd312d3	type	Münchausen Syndrome
Motive / int_edd312d3	comment	MÃ¼nchausen Syndrome: The murder victim in "Interference" is revealed as a woman who poisoned her stepson for attention, and had previously poisoned (and killed) another boy four years prior. She is killed by the deceased boy's music teacher, who had suspected her in the death.
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Motive / int_ee296d19	type	Autopsy Snack Time
Motive / int_ee296d19	comment	Autopsy Snack Time: Angie and Betty often share a glass of wine in the lab; although usually not while there is a body on the slab.
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Motive / int_f19b8b46	type	The Coroner
Motive / int_f19b8b46	comment	The Coroner: Betty Rogers. Some of her traits are similar to Alexx from CSI: Miami, although she doesn't do much of a "Speaker for the Dead" theme for the victims, unlike Alexx.
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Motive / int_f7f8f963	type	Dumbass Teenage Son
Motive / int_f7f8f963	comment	Dumbass Teenage Son: Manny is introduced like this in Season One but quickly subverts it, eventually maturing, travelling to Europe and becoming a chef.
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Motive / int_f8394279	type	Happier Home Movie
Motive / int_f8394279	comment	Happier Home Movie: In "Undertow", the killer is shown sitting at home alone watching a video of his dead son on a rocking horse. The death of his son provided the motive for the murder, and earlier he had been shown disposing of the rocking horse because he couldn't stand to look at it any longer.
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Motive / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Motive / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: Angie Flynn and Mark Cross have one. They reveal during the second season that they falsified a report about who shot first in a standoff with an abusive husband.
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Motive / int_f98356f	type	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic
Motive / int_f98356f	comment	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: The Christian Way in "Foreign Relations" is a right-wing white supremacist group. The Victim of the Week is initially thought to have been murdered by them, but he later later turns out to have been a member.
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Motive / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Motive / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: The murderer in "Oblivion", who meticulously fakes her own murder before going on to commit actual murder: being 'dead' being the perfect alibi for a crime.
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Motive / int_fb933192	type	Car Cushion
Motive / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: The Victim of the Week in "A Problem Like Maria" is thrown through a 7th storey window, coming to rest on/in a car that is parked in the street below.
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Motive / int_fb9941df	type	Platonic Co-Parenting
Motive / int_fb9941df	comment	Platonic Co-Parenting: In "Detour", an acrimonious custody battle is eventually resolved with the biological mother and the stepmother deciding to raise the child together after the father is murdered.
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Motive / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Motive / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: In "Foreign Relations", the killer attempts to slip a mickey to the Victim of the Week so she can interrogate him. However, she gets the dose wrong and he dies of an overdose.
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Motive / int_fd649e2	type	Fell Off the Back of a Truck
Motive / int_fd649e2	comment	Fell Off the Back of a Truck: In "The Score", the Victim of the Week steals a truck fill of stolen merchandise from a underworld middleman. Trying to on sell the stolen goods, his contact asks where the merchandise came from. The victim replies with a knowing "It fell off the back off a truck".
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Motive / int_fe61495d	type	Grail in the Garbage
Motive / int_fe61495d	comment	Grail in the Garbage: The motive for the murder in "Framed". A woman purchased a painting from a thrift shop, not realising it was a lost masterpiece. The used the painting as a canvas and painted a cat painting over the top of it. A gallery worker saw the painting and identified what it really was, and bought the painting; planning to strip off the cat painting. When the woman discovered the truth, she attempted to reclaim the painting and ended up killing the gallery worker.
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Motive	hasFeature	Family-Friendly Stripper / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Fell Off the Back of a Truck / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Fiery Coverup / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Grail in the Garbage / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Grievous Bottley Harm / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Happier Home Movie / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	High-Class Call Girl / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	I Just Want to Be You / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Illegal Gambling Den / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Imperiled in Pregnancy / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Jack the Ripoff / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Molotov Cocktail / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Motive Misidentification / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Münchausen Syndrome / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	My Greatest Second Chance / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Nail 'Em / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Office Golf / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	...Or So I Heard / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Polyamory / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Ponzi / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Pregnant Hostage / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Private Profit Prison / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Punk in the Trunk / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Ransacked Room / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Really Gets Around / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Reusable Lighter Toss / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Revealing Cover-Up / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Reverse Whodunnit / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	School Newspaper Newshound / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Sexy Shirt Switch / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Shear Menace / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Shovel Strike / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Side Bet / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Slipping a Mickey / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Staircase Tumble / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Stalker Shrine / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	"Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	The Beard / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	The Farmer and the Viper / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	The Gambling Addict / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	The Murder After / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	The Real Remington Steele / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Time-Delayed Death / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Trade Your Passion for Glory / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Trophy Violence / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Unhand Them, Villain! / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Vehicle-Roof Body Disposal / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	War Refugees / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Watch the Paint Job / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	What Have We Ear? / int_34caa86d
Motive	hasFeature	Working the Same Case / int_34caa86d

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