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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Rodney sells a sub-machine gun to a 12-year-old boy, not knowing that the same boy is planning to shoot him with the same weapon, but misses and kills his little sister instead.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Rodney sells a sub-machine gun to a 12-year-old boy, not knowing that the same boy is planning to shoot him with the same weapon, but misses and kills his little sister instead.instead.
* VerySpecialEpisode: Aside from just solving the crime, this episode deals with America's complicated relationship with the arms trade.
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* AbusiveParents: The father of the boy who gave the murder weapon to the police had a right to be upset that his son stole his gun to trade for a new pair of sneakers. But when the boy pointed out that inadvertently giving the police a new lead in an unsolved murder was a good thing, the father made him take off the sneakers and walk home in the snow because "[[InsaneTrollLogic You're not profiting off some kid dying.]]"


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* {{Malaproper}}: Rodney likes to use big words, but he doesn't get them right. Examples include "pherecromes", "mercantiling", and "theftery".
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* IronicEcho: Darnell is told by Rodney "You're bad now, boy" after buying the gun. Darnell then says it to himself before he attempts to kill Rodney. Turns out that he's not bad.
* KarmaHoudini: Sam is portrayed as the "good" arms dealer despite being in the same trade as Rodney the "bad" arms dealer. He is last seen peddling firearms as usual

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* IronicEcho: Darnell is told by Rodney Rodney, "You're bad now, boy" after buying the gun. Darnell then says it to himself before he attempts to kill Rodney. Turns out that he's not bad.
* KarmaHoudini: Sam is portrayed as the "good" arms dealer despite being in the same trade as Rodney Rodney, the "bad" arms dealer. He is last seen peddling firearms as usualusual.



* PetTheDog: Rodney Johnson is a loutish homewrecker who sells automatic weapons to gangbangers, but he runs three blocks to reach a payphone and call an ambulance in a vain effort to save six-year-old Kayla Odoms after she is shot, [[DramaticIrony even though he doesn't learn that the shooter was really after him until years later, something which seems to trouble him]].

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* PetTheDog: Rodney Johnson is a loutish homewrecker who sells automatic weapons to gangbangers, but he runs three blocks to reach a payphone and call an ambulance in a vain effort to save six-year-old Kayla Odoms after she is shot, [[DramaticIrony even though he doesn't learn that the shooter was really after him until years later, later]], something which seems to trouble him]].him.

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* IronicEcho: Darnell is told by Rodney "You're bad now, boy" after buying the gun. Darnell then says it to himself before he attempts to kill Rodney. Turns out that he's not bad.
* KarmaHoudini: Sam is portrayed as the "good" arms dealer despite being in the same trade as Rodney the "bad" arms dealer. He is last seen peddling firearms as usual



* NotSoDifferentRemark: Rodney the "bad" arms dealer is going to jail while Sam the "good" arms dealer gets to continue peddling firearms.
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An MAC-10 that killed a little girl named Kayla Odoms in a drive-by shooting in 1987 is found. The team retraces the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.

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An MAC-10 that was used in a 1987 drive-by shooting which killed a little girl named Kayla Odoms in a drive-by shooting in 1987 is found. The team retraces the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.
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An MAC-10 that killed a young girl named Kayla Odoms in 1987 is found. The team retraces the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.

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An MAC-10 that killed a young little girl named Kayla Odoms in a drive-by shooting in 1987 is found. The team retraces the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.
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An automatic gun that killed a young girl named Kayla Odons in 1987 is found in a gun retrieval program. The team retraces the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.

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An automatic gun MAC-10 that killed a young girl named Kayla Odons Odoms in 1987 is found in a gun retrieval program.found. The team retraces the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.
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An automatic gun that killed a young girl in 1987 is brought out during a gun retrieval program, leading the team to try to retrace the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.

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An automatic gun that killed a young girl named Kayla Odons in 1987 is brought out during found in a gun retrieval program, leading the program. The team to try to retrace retraces the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.
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* BittersweetEnding: A very bitter one. The Odoms are devastated by the reveal of what happened and seeing their remaining child being arrested, while even Kayla's spirit doesn't seem to have found peace upon seeing her murder resolved and is shown to be sad and alone in the afterlife when she appears to Lily. At the very least, Rodney seem to have finally realized that his actions indirectly lead to the death of a little girl while the team's investigations lead Eric to finally search repentance to Trudy for getting her fired when she took the MC-10 away from him to save him.

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* BittersweetEnding: A very bitter one. The Odoms are devastated by the reveal of what happened and seeing their remaining child being arrested, while even Kayla's spirit doesn't seem to have found peace upon seeing her murder resolved and is shown to be sad and alone in the afterlife when she appears to Lily.Lilly. At the very least, Rodney seem to have finally realized that his actions indirectly lead to the death of a little girl while the team's investigations lead Eric to finally search repentance to Trudy for getting her fired when she took the MC-10 away from him to save him.



* NotSoDifferent: Rodney the "bad" arms dealer is going to jail while Sam the "good" arms dealer gets to continue peddling firearms.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Rodney the "bad" arms dealer is going to jail while Sam the "good" arms dealer gets to continue peddling firearms.
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* NotSoDifferent: Rodney the "bad" arms dealer is going to jail while Sam the "good" arms dealer gets to continue peddling firearms.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Darnell is shown weeping bitterly upon realizing he inadvertently shot his own sister.

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* BittersweetEnding: A very bitter one. The Odoms are devastated by the reveal of what happened and seeing their remaining child being arrested, while even Kayla's spirit doesn't seem to have found peace upon seeing her murder resolved and is shown to be sad and alone in the afterlife when she appears to Lily. At the very least, Rodney seem to have finally realized that his actions indirectly lead to the death of a little girl while the team's investigations lead Eric to finally search repentance to Trudy for getting her fired when she took the MC-10 away from him to save him.



* BittersweetEnding: A very bitter one. The Odoms are devasted by the reveal of what happened and seeing their remaining child being arrested while even Kayla's spirit doesn't seems to have found peace upon seeing her murder resolved and seems to be sad and alone in the afterlife when she appears to Lily. At the very least, Rodney seem to have finally realized that his actions indirectly lead to the death of a little girl while the team's investigations lead Eric to finally search repentance to Trudy for getting her fired whe she took the MC-10 away from him to save him.
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* BittersweetEnding: A very bitter one. The Odoms are devasted by the reveal of what happened and seeing their remaining child being arrested while even Kayla's spirit doesn't seems to have found peace upon seeing her murder resolved and seems to be sad and alone in the afterlife when she appears to Lily. At the very least, Rodney seem to have finally realized that his actions indirectly lead to the death of a little girl while the team's investigations lead Eric to finally search repentance to Trudy for getting her fired whe she took the MC-10 away from him to save him.
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An automatic gun who killed a young girl in 1987 is brought out during a gun retrieval program, leading the team to try to retrace the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.

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An automatic gun who that killed a young girl in 1987 is brought out during a gun retrieval program, leading the team to try to retrace the history of the gun in hopes of solving the case.
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* PetTheDog: Rodney Johnson is a loutish homewrecker who sells automatic weapons to gangbangers, but he runs three blocks to reach a payphone and call an ambulance in a vain effort to save after six-year-old Kayla Odoms after she is shot, [[DramaticIrony even though he doesn't learn that the shooter was really after him until years later, something which seems to trouble him]].

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* PetTheDog: Rodney Johnson is a loutish homewrecker who sells automatic weapons to gangbangers, but he runs three blocks to reach a payphone and call an ambulance in a vain effort to save after six-year-old Kayla Odoms after she is shot, [[DramaticIrony even though he doesn't learn that the shooter was really after him until years later, something which seems to trouble him]].
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* PetTheDog: Rodney Johnson is a loutish homewrecker who sells automatic weapons to gangbangers, but he runs three blocks to reach a payphone and call an ambulance in a vain effort to save after six-year-old Kayla Odoms after she is shot, [[DramaticIrony even though he doesn't learn that the shooter was really after him until years later, something which seems to trouble him]].
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: All over the place, with the same MAC-10. Two kids are playing with guns in a hallway, and an adult is horrified to learn that one of the guns is real and fully loaded. Two college kids get their hands on the gun, and decide to randomly shoot some geese. They also end up hitting a nearby horse. Most heartrendingly, the killer of the episode shot at a crowded park and not only missed his target, but also killed his little sister.

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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: All over the place, with the same MAC-10. Two kids are playing with guns in a hallway, and an adult is horrified to learn that one of the guns is real and fully loaded. Two college kids get their hands on the gun, and decide to randomly shoot some geese. They also end up hitting a nearby horse. Most heartrendingly, the killer of the episode shot at a crowded park and not only missed his target, but also killed his little sister.sister.
* MurderByMistake: Darnell took a semi-auto to shoot at the man his mother was cheating with, but didn't know that his mother and little sister would be at that park late at night.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Rodney sells a sub-machine gun to a 12-year-old boy, not knowing that the same boy is planning to shoot him with the same weapon, but misses and kills his little sister instead.
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* ADeadlyAffair: The killer was trying to kill his mother's lover, but ended up killing his little sister.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Jessie was revealed to be having an affair.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Jessie was revealed IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: All over the place, with the same MAC-10. Two kids are playing with guns in a hallway, and an adult is horrified to be having an affair.learn that one of the guns is real and fully loaded. Two college kids get their hands on the gun, and decide to randomly shoot some geese. They also end up hitting a nearby horse. Most heartrendingly, the killer of the episode shot at a crowded park and not only missed his target, but also killed his little sister.
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Directed by Creator/TimHunter

Written by Creator/TylerBensinger

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* YourCheatingHeart: Jessie was revealed to be having an affair.

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