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* CreatorCameo: In the film version, author Creator/DennisLehane can be seen waving from the back of a convertible in the parade sequence.
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* AMinorKidroduction: Jimmy, Sean and Dave all first as kids playing hockey in the street before Dave is abducted. The action them jumps to the present day.
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* VillainProtagonist: Gradually the fitting title for Jimmy, an ex-con. [[spoiler:While at first he seems like an AntiHero, the reveal of his murder of Just Ray and then of Dave along with his decision to cover it up, place him in this trope]].
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* VillainProtagonist: Gradually the fitting title for Jimmy, an ex-con. [[spoiler:While at first he seems like an AntiHero, the reveal of his murder of Just Ray and then of Dave along with his decision to cover it up, place him in this trope]].trope.]]
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: At the beginning, Annabeth only complained about Katie. Our first view on her, is that she is WickedStepmother to her. But after hearing about Katie's murder, it's more than clear, Annabeth did, in fact, love her step-daughter, and is heartbroken by her death.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: The film plays with the idea that Dave killed Jimmy's daughter because the four days he spent with the predators as a child broke him. Dave himself is fixated on the idea that he is becoming a monster (he uses the metaphor of becoming a werewolf or a vampire, with the implication being that he's scared of becoming a paedophile or a murderer). At the end of the film, it is revealed that [[spoiler:he killed a child molester the night of Jimmy's daughter's death, and had been clumsily trying to communicate this information to his wife]].
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: The film plays with the idea that Dave killed Jimmy's daughter because the four days he spent with the predators as a child broke him. Dave himself is fixated on the idea that he is becoming a monster (he uses the metaphor of becoming a werewolf or a vampire, with the implication being that he's scared of becoming a paedophile or a murderer). At the end of the film, it is revealed that [[spoiler:he killed a child molester the night of Jimmy's daughter's death, and had been clumsily trying to communicate this information to his wife]].
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: At the beginning, Annabeth only complained about Katie. Our first view on her, is that she is WickedStepmother to her. But after hearing about Katie's murder, it's more than clear, Annabeth did, in fact, love her step-daughter, stepdaughter, and is heartbroken by her death.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: The film plays with the idea that Dave killed Jimmy's daughter because the four days he spent with the predators as a child broke him. Dave himself is fixated on the idea that he is becoming a monster (he uses the metaphor of becoming a werewolf or a vampire, with the implication being that he's scared of becoming apaedophile pedophile or a murderer). At the end of the film, it is revealed that [[spoiler:he killed a child molester the night of Jimmy's daughter's death, and had been clumsily trying to communicate this information to his wife]].
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: The film plays with the idea that Dave killed Jimmy's daughter because the four days he spent with the predators as a child broke him. Dave himself is fixated on the idea that he is becoming a monster (he uses the metaphor of becoming a werewolf or a vampire, with the implication being that he's scared of becoming a
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Jimmy's two hired thugs take Dave to the bar, he sits in the back seat, staring out of the back window. It's an almost shot-for-shot of the earlier scene, where Dave is abducted by the child predators. The implication is that Dave cannot escape the trauma of his past.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Jimmy's two hired thugs take Dave to the bar, he sits in the back seat, staring out of the back window. It's an almost shot-for-shot recreation of the earlier scene, where scene at the beginning of the movie in which Dave is abducted by the child predators. The implication is that Dave cannot escape the trauma of his past.
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* ILied: [[spoiler: Jimmy says that he will let Dave live if he admits to killing Katie. Dave does so to save himself, but Jimmy kills him anyway.]]
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* NotProven: By the end of the story, Sean is sure that Jimmy was involved in the deaths of both "Just Ray" [[spoiler:and Dave]] - if not the killer himself - but also knows how smart Jimmy is, and that he'll never prove it. But he lets Jimmy know that he knows.
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* NotProven: By the end of the story, Sean is sure that Jimmy was involved in the deaths of both "Just Ray" [[spoiler:and Dave]] - Dave]], if not the killer himself - but himself. But also knows how smart Jimmy is, and that he'll never can't prove it. But he He lets Jimmy know that he knows.knows, though.
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** InUniverse, [[spoiler:the man soliciting a child prostitute that Dave kills.]]
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* RayOfHopeEnding: Sure, they catch the killer, but [[spoiler:it's just a kid after a prank went wrong, and Jimmy kills Dave because he thinks ''he'' did it and he gets away with it. But Sean swears to himself that he will make him answer for his crime and finds something good to feel in his newborn daughter. There's still plenty of conflict between these two.]]
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** InUniverse, [[spoiler:the man soliciting a child prostitute that Dave kills.]]
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* RetiredOutlaw: Jimmy Marcus, by the time of the novel's present day.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Katie was killed not by any of the suspects the police consider, but as the result of a DeadlyPrank]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Katie was killed not by any of the suspects the police consider, but as the result of a DeadlyPrank]].
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* RetiredOutlaw: Jimmy Marcus, Jimmy, by the time of the novel's story's present day.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Katie was killed not by any of the suspects the police consider, but as the result of aDeadlyPrank]].DeadlyPrank.]]
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Jimmy's surname is Marcus in the novel and Markum in the film.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Katie was in a relationship with Brendan Harris, whose family her father Jimmy hates [[spoiler: as a result of Brendan's father having sent him to prison]].
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* FaceFramedInShadow: Dave's face is half covered in shadow when he [[spoiler:is being interrogated by Jimmy.]]
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* FaceFramedInShadow: Dave's face is half covered in shadow when he [[spoiler:is being interrogated by Jimmy.]]Jimmy]].
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: However, the ending heavily implies that [[spoiler:Sean will be on Jimmy's case from now on, having heard him all but confess to murdering Dave.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:One of the real killers turns out to be the youngest son of "Just Ray" Harris himself.]]
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* StockMonsterSymbolism: Dave develops a fixation on vampires and werewolves after his traumatic experience being molested because of their association with predatory urges and transformation, as he's afraid of becoming a molester himself.
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* SkywardScream: Jimmy does this when he arrives at the murder scene and figures out that the victim is his daughter.
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* HollywoodNewEngland: Well, it is set in Bahstahn, yah?
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* HollywoodNewEngland: Well, it Averted, actually. The movie is set in Bahstahn, yah?Boston and the characters do speak with distinctive [[{{Southies}} Southie]] accents, but as Dennis Lehane is actually from the city and the movie was filmed on location there it is a reasonably accurate portrayal.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: A variation. It doesn't happen in a traditional police interrogation setting, but [[spoiler: Sean and Whitey figure out that the 911 callers who reported Katie's abandoned and bloodied car were involved in her death because one of them refers to her as "she" during the call when they would have had no way to know the driver's gender based on what they were claiming to have seen]].
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: A variation. It doesn't happen in a traditional police interrogation setting, but [[spoiler: Sean and Whitey figure out that the 911 callers who reported Katie's abandoned and bloodied car were involved in her death because one of them refers to her as "she" during the call when they would have had no way to know the driver's gender based on what they were claiming to have seen]].
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Years ago, Dave Boyle escaped with his life after [[RapeAsDrama two men who disguised themselves as cops to abduct him in front of his friends and violate him for days in the forest.]] In present day Boston, he is reunited with his childhood friends, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine, when the former's eldest daughter is found dead in a ditch. Sean, now a detective, and Jimmy, an ex-convict, both vow to find the killer themselves. Unfortunately, Dave, who came home to his wife all bloody the night of the murder, is their prime suspect...
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Years ago, Dave Boyle escaped with his life after [[RapeAsDrama two men who disguised themselves as cops to abduct him in front of his friends and violate him for days in the forest.]] In present day Boston, he is reunited with his childhood friends, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine, when the former's eldest daughter is found dead in a ditch. Sean, now a detective, and Jimmy, an ex-convict, both vow to find the killer themselves. Unfortunately, Dave, who came home to his wife all bloody the night of the murder, is their prime suspect...
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** InUniverse, [[spoiler:the man soliciting a child prostitute that Dave kills.]]
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Years ago, Dave Boyle escaped with his life after [[RapeAsDrama two men pretending to be who disguised themselves as cops abducted to abduct him in front of his friends and violated violate him for days.days in the forest.]] In present day Boston, he is reunited with his childhood friends, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine Devine, when the former's eldest daughter is found dead in a ditch. Sean, now a detective, and Jimmy, an ex-convict, both vow to find the killer themselves. Unfortunately, Dave, who came home to his wife all bloody the night of the murder, is their prime suspect...
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: ''The New York Times'' described the abduction and violation of Dave as the "primal violation of innocence" that sets the stage for the conflict.
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Years ago, Dave Boyle escaped with his life from [[YouDontWantToKnow mysterious men]] in Boston. In present day Boston, he is reunited with his childhood friends, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine when the former's eldest daughter is found dead in a ditch. Sean, now a detective, and Jimmy, an ex-convict, both vow to find the killer themselves. Unfortunately, Dave, who came home to his wife all bloody the night of the murder, is their prime suspect...
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Years ago, Dave Boyle escaped with his life from [[YouDontWantToKnow mysterious men]] after [[RapeAsDrama two men pretending to be cops abducted him in Boston. front of his friends and violated him for days.]] In present day Boston, he is reunited with his childhood friends, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine when the former's eldest daughter is found dead in a ditch. Sean, now a detective, and Jimmy, an ex-convict, both vow to find the killer themselves. Unfortunately, Dave, who came home to his wife all bloody the night of the murder, is their prime suspect...
