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* FireForgedFriends: As the flashbacks progress, its shown this trope between Bettie, Carmen, Anne, Zelda, and Anton, due to no small part on Betty's efforts to befriend them.

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* FireForgedFriends: As the flashbacks progress, its shown this trope between Bettie, Carmen, Anne, Zelda, and Anton, Anton become this, due to no small part on Betty's Bettie's efforts to befriend them.



* PublicExposure: It's revealed that a day before her death, Bettie had convinced Anton to let her and the girls draw him nude under Carmen's guidance. Unfortunately, Anika caught them and, this being the proverbial straw that broke on the camel's back, is what had Carmen assigned to a lobotomy by the hospital and her family, leading to Bettie's death.
* SpannerInTheWorks: After Bettie's lobotomy under Carmen's name, she was supposed to be sent to a private hospital that Carmen had paid for. However, a snowstorm caused road closures, so Bettie was sent back to the asylum, where the head doctor discovered Anika and Anton's plan.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bettie's husband ends up being this when he tells her he plans to move on with another woman due to her manic depression being uncurable and him being unable to raise his son by his lonesome, since it pushes her to switch with Carmen in a vain attempt to cure herself and remain with her son, with the trope above following.

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* PublicExposure: It's revealed that a day before her death, Bettie had convinced Anton to let her and the girls draw him nude for an art class under Carmen's guidance. Unfortunately, Anika caught them and, this being the proverbial straw that broke on the camel's back, is what had Carmen assigned to a lobotomy by the hospital and her family, leading to Bettie's death.
* SpannerInTheWorks: After Bettie's lobotomy under Carmen's name, she was supposed to be sent to a private hospital that Carmen Carmen's family had paid for. However, a snowstorm caused road closures, so Bettie was sent back to the asylum, where the head doctor discovered Anika and Anton's plan.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bettie's husband ends up being this when he tells her he plans to move on with another woman due to her manic depression being uncurable incurable and him being unable to raise his their son by his lonesome, since it pushes her to switch places with Carmen in a vain attempt to cure herself and remain with her son, with the trope above following.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bettie's husband ends up being this when he tells her he plans to move on with another woman due to her manic depression being uncurable and him being unable to raise his son by his lonesome, since it pushes her to switch with Carmen in a vain attempt to cure herself with a lobotomy, with the trope above following.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bettie's husband ends up being this when he tells her he plans to move on with another woman due to her manic depression being uncurable and him being unable to raise his son by his lonesome, since it pushes her to switch with Carmen in a vain attempt to cure herself and remain with a lobotomy, her son, with the trope above following.

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* FireForgedFriends: As the flashbacks progress, its shown this trope between Bettie, Carmen, Anne, Zelda, and Anton, due to no small part on Betty's efforts to befriend them.



* SpannerInTheWorks: After Bettie's lobotomy under Carmen's name, she was supposed to be sent to a private hospital that Carmen had paid for. However, a snowstorm caused road closures, so Bettie was sent back to the asylum, where the head doctor discovered Anika and Anton's plan.

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* PublicExposure: It's revealed that a day before her death, Bettie had convinced Anton to let her and the girls draw him nude under Carmen's guidance. Unfortunately, Anika caught them and, this being the proverbial straw that broke on the camel's back, is what had Carmen assigned to a lobotomy by the hospital and her family, leading to Bettie's death.
* SpannerInTheWorks: After Bettie's lobotomy under Carmen's name, she was supposed to be sent to a private hospital that Carmen had paid for. However, a snowstorm caused road closures, so Bettie was sent back to the asylum, where the head doctor discovered Anika and Anton's plan.plan.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bettie's husband ends up being this when he tells her he plans to move on with another woman due to her manic depression being uncurable and him being unable to raise his son by his lonesome, since it pushes her to switch with Carmen in a vain attempt to cure herself with a lobotomy, with the trope above following.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Carmen lived the rest of her life under Bettie's name. Though their initial plan was only to switch places, without anyone dying.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: After Bettie's lobotomy under Carmen's name, she was supposed to be sent to a private hospital that Carmen had paid for. However a snowstorm caused road closures, so Bettie was sent back to the asylum, where the head doctor discovered Anika and Anton's plan.

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* SpannerInTheWorks: After Bettie's lobotomy under Carmen's name, she was supposed to be sent to a private hospital that Carmen had paid for. However However, a snowstorm caused road closures, so Bettie was sent back to the asylum, where the head doctor discovered Anika and Anton's plan.
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* KarmaHoudini: Posthumous for the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else's lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal. By the time the truth is revealed, the head doctor has been dead for years, meaning he'll never suffer punishment for what he did.

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* KarmaHoudini: Posthumous Posthumously for the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else's lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal. By the time the truth is revealed, the head doctor has been dead for years, meaning he'll never suffer punishment for what he did.
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* KarmaHoudini: Posthumous for [[spoiler:the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else's lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal]]. By the time the truth is revealed, [[spoiler:the head doctor]] has been dead for years, meaning he'll never suffer punishment for what he did.

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* KarmaHoudini: Posthumous for [[spoiler:the the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else's lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal]]. scandal. By the time the truth is revealed, [[spoiler:the the head doctor]] doctor has been dead for years, meaning he'll never suffer punishment for what he did.

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* KarmaHoudini: Posthumous for [[spoiler:the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else's lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal]]. By the time the truth is revealed, [[spoiler:the head doctor]] has been dead for years, meaning they’ll never suffer punishment for what they did.

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* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: As the head doctor is long dead, Anika and Anton are arrested for carrying out his plan, despite their remorse.
* KarmaHoudini: Posthumous for [[spoiler:the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else's lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal]]. By the time the truth is revealed, [[spoiler:the head doctor]] has been dead for years, meaning they’ll he'll never suffer punishment for what they he did.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Bettie was manic depressive, but this being the mid-1950’s, nobody would know very much about manic depression until later.



* KarmaHoudini: Post-humous for [[spoiler:the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else’s lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal]]. By the time the truth is revealed, [[spoiler:the head doctor]] has been dead for years, meaning they’ll never suffer punishment for what they did.

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* KarmaHoudini: Post-humous Posthumous for [[spoiler:the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else’s else's lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal]]. By the time the truth is revealed, [[spoiler:the head doctor]] has been dead for years, meaning they’ll never suffer punishment for what they did.did.
* MoodSwinger: Bettie was manic depressive, but this being the mid-1950s, nobody would know very much about manic depression until later.
* SpannerInTheWorks: After Bettie's lobotomy under Carmen's name, she was supposed to be sent to a private hospital that Carmen had paid for. However a snowstorm caused road closures, so Bettie was sent back to the asylum, where the head doctor discovered Anika and Anton's plan.
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* TheDeadGuyDidIt: The head doctor who convinced Anika and Anton to abandon Bettie outside where she froze to death has already died when the Cold Case team figure it out.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Bettie was manic depressive, but this being the mid-1950’s, nobody would know very much about manic depression until later.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Bettie was manic depressive, but this being the mid-1950’s, nobody would know very much about manic depression until later.later.
* KarmaHoudini: Post-humous for [[spoiler:the head doctor of the mental hospital. After he found out Bettie had undergone someone else’s lobotomy, he forced Nurse Anika and Anton to ditch her in the snowstorm and leave her for dead to cover up the scandal]]. By the time the truth is revealed, [[spoiler:the head doctor]] has been dead for years, meaning they’ll never suffer punishment for what they did.
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Directed by Creator/AlexZakrzewski

Written by Creator/LizWGarcia

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Bettie was manic depressive, but this being the mid-1950’s, nobody would know very much about manic depression until later.

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