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* CluelessMystery: Once again like "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase01TheDeathOfRosaWolf The Death of Rosa Wolf]]" and all the other mobile exclusive tutorial cases before it, while the game gives you the physical evidence to find the killer in the mobile exclusive tutorial case "The Dead and the Beautiful", the game never explains ''why'' Brandon Cummings killed Jennifer Tanaka in the first place.
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* CluelessMystery: Once again like "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase01TheDeathOfRosaWolf The Death of Rosa Wolf]]" and all the other mobile exclusive tutorial cases before it, while the game gives you the physical evidence to find the killer in the mobile exclusive tutorial case "The Dead and the Beautiful", the game never explains ''why'' Brandon Cummings killed Jennifer Tanaka in the first place.
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* TheBusCameBack: David Jones, Cathy Turner, Eduardo Ramirez, and Harper Stone all return from [[VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough Season 1]] in this case, the former three as members of your team and the latter as a suspect.
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* TheBusCameBack: David Jones, Cathy Turner, Eduardo Ramirez, and [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase50SnakesOnTheStage Harper Stone Stone]] all return from [[VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough Season 1]] in this case, the former three as members of your team and the latter as a suspect.suspect.
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* HopelessWithTech: Jones messes up with Nathan's so badly Cathy spends hour trying to unlock it.
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* HopelessWithTech: Jones messes up with Nathan's phone so badly Cathy spends hour trying to unlock it.
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: Brandon Cummings in the mobile exclusive tutorial wears glasses and murdered Jennifer Tanaka. For... [[CluelessMystery reasons?]]
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* SlashedThroat: Jennifer Tanaka, the victim of the mobile exclusive tutorial case "The Dead and the Beautiful", is killed this way.
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-->'''Kit:''' I stole into the terrarium, took the most poisonous snake I could find...
-->...And I used it to kill Nathan like the treacherous snake in the grass he was!
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-->'''Kit:''' I stole into the terrarium, took the most poisonous snake I could find...
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... And I used it to kill Nathan like the treacherous snake in the grass he was!
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* CluelessMystery: Once again like "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase01TheDeathOfRosaWolf The Death of Rosa Wolf]]" and all the other mobile exclusive tutorial cases before it, while the game gives you the physical evidence to find the killer in the mobile exclusive tutorial case "The Dead and the Beautiful", the game never explains ''why'' Brandon Cummings killed Jennifer Tanaka in the first place.
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* NotProven: Nathan, Vince, and Harper were trying to prove Jackson Peacock was part of an animal trafficking operation, but couldn't find enough to put him under arrest. Is up to the player and Jones [[WeNeedToGetProof to find evidence]] of this during the Additional Investigation, which you accomplish.
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* NotProven: Nathan, Vince, and Harper were trying to prove Jackson Peacock was part of an animal trafficking operation, but couldn't find enough to put him under arrest. Is It's up to the player and Jones [[WeNeedToGetProof to find evidence]] of this during the Additional Investigation, which you accomplish.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c232chp1_2.png]][[caption-width-right:350: Welcome back to Grimsbourough, detective.]]
The player returns to the Grimsborough Police Department, to the joy of their old team. Jones is still a detective, and he's ready to take you out to the zoo to visit the PD's former coroner Nathan Pandit, who has become a veterinarian at the zoo since the player left. He hopes to show you the team, old and new soon. Unfortunately, that time comes very soon indeed when they find Nathan tied up and dead from several snake bites.
The player returns to the Grimsborough Police Department, to the joy of their old team. Jones is still a detective, and he's ready to take you out to the zoo to visit the PD's former coroner Nathan Pandit, who has become a veterinarian at the zoo since the player left. He hopes to show you the team, old and new soon. Unfortunately, that time comes very soon indeed when they find Nathan tied up and dead from several snake bites.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c232chp1_2.png]][[caption-width-right:350: Welcome back '''Chief Parker:''' Hello, <Player's Name>. As the police Chief, it's my pleasure to Grimsbourough, detective.]]
welcome you to Grimsborough! I know you've worked here a few years ago, and I heard you did great, so I won't waste time explaining the job of a homicide detective to you!]]
The player returns tothe Grimsborough Police Department, after five years and, to the joy of their old team. Jones team, once again joins its police department. Jones, now a Senior Detective, is still a detective, and he's ready to take you out to the zoo to visit the PD's former coroner Nathan Pandit, who has become a veterinarian at the zoo there since the player left. He hopes to show you the team, old and new soon. Unfortunately, that time comes this touching reunion becomes your very soon indeed first murder investigation when they you find Nathan Nathan's body tied up and dead from several snake bites.
The player returns to
*AmicableExes:
**Gloria and her ex-husband Jake appear to be in such good terms he has no problem with Gloria moving to Grimsborough to be closer to their son.
**{{Averted}} with Nathan and Harper, who ended in pretty sour terms after Nathan kept trying to salvage their relationship against Harper's wishes.
**Gloria and her ex-husband Jake appear to be in such good terms he has no problem with Gloria moving to Grimsborough to be closer to their son.
**{{Averted}} with Nathan and Harper, who ended in pretty sour terms after Nathan kept trying to salvage their relationship against Harper's wishes.
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* BackForTheDead: This case’s victim is none other than Nathan Pandit.
* DirtyCop: Nathan was murdered because he wouldn't be one for Kit's sake.
* DownerBeginning: The first case of the season, and already Jones and the player character are investigating the murder of their old friend, Nathan.
* PapaWolf: Deconstructed. When Kit and Nathan worked on a drug bust ten years ago, Kit begged Nathan to doctor the evidence so his son Zachary wouldn’t go to prison, but he refused. This led to Kit murdering Nathan because he blamed him for his son’s incarceration.
* WhamShot: The sight of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less).
* DirtyCop: Nathan was murdered because he wouldn't be one for Kit's sake.
* DownerBeginning: The first case of the season, and already Jones and the player character are investigating the murder of their old friend, Nathan.
* PapaWolf: Deconstructed. When Kit and Nathan worked on a drug bust ten years ago, Kit begged Nathan to doctor the evidence so his son Zachary wouldn’t go to prison, but he refused. This led to Kit murdering Nathan because he blamed him for his son’s incarceration.
* WhamShot: The sight of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less).
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*AnimalLover: Apart from Nathan and Harper, this case introduces Vince Moon, a zookeeper who claims to be capable of talking with animals and hated Nathan for putting down sick animals despite that being his job.
*BabiesEverAfter: Cathy and Alex got married while the player was away, and they've already had a baby named [[DeadGuyJunior Sammy.]]
* BackForTheDead: This case’s victim is none other than NathanPandit.
Pandit, your previous colleague back in Season 1.
-->'''Jones:''' I never expected our reunion with Nathan to end up with us investigating his murder! We owe it to him to see this through!
*BoundAndGagged: Nathan was bound with ropes by his killer to prevent him from escaping in case he woke up during the murder.
*TheBusCameBack: David Jones, Cathy Turner, Eduardo Ramirez, and Harper Stone all return from [[VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough Season 1]] in this case, the former three as members of your team and the latter as a suspect.
*CameFromTheSky: During the Additional Investigation, you learn a satellite fell from the sky a year ago in the forests of Grimsborough. According to Jones, most people have already forgotten about it by now.
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Vince Moon, a zookeeper who believe he can talk to animals and heal them with his "special powers," appears as a suspect.
*ContinuityNod:
**When you meet up with Ramirez for the first time, Jones mentions how he was working as a private investigator back in [[VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay Pacific Bay]] before returning to Grimsborough.
**Louis Leroux, the reporter you see in the DVD, works for CCN, the same news outlets [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughFinancialCenterDistrict Rachel Priest]] worked for.
*CoolTeacher: Despite her harsh demeanor towards Nathan. Pippa Goldfinch seems to be a genuinely kind teacher who looks after her students, even getting worried sick about the fact Nathan let them touch snakes during their zoo visit.
*TheCoroner: Kit Partridge, an old classmate of Nathan, used to be a coroner before he retired and became a zoo regular just like him.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jackson Peacock, the owner of the zoo and self-proclaimed wealthiest entrepreneur of Fairview, is revealed to be corrupt when you discover he's been trafficking baby pandas to make a cash.
*CruelAndUnusualDeath: According to [[TheCoroner Martine]], the poison from the Eastern coral snake would've caused Nathan to experience slurred speech, double vision and muscular paralysis, followed by a fatal heart attack. Jones is understandably horrified.
*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Vince Moon, who claims to speak with animals, turns out to be right when he tells you his lemur told him he saw Jackson Peacock throwing Nathan's phone in the trash, putting at question whether [[SpeaksFluentAnimal his supposed abilities]] are real or not.
*CutenessProximity: Jones and the baby panda Jackson is seen carrying before you arrest him.
-->'''Jones:''' And we'll fine him on behalf of the Grimsborough Animal Protection Services too, won't we, cute little panda?
*DeadGuyJunior: Sammy, Cathy and Alex's son, is named after Samuel King, Cathy's [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase51ItAllEndsHere late grandfather.]]
* DebutQueue: In the mobile-exclusive "The Dead and the Beautiful" tutorial, only [[DaChief Chief Parker]], [[NonPlayerCompanion Jones]], and [[TheCoroner Martine]] are introduced, with the rest of the team properly appearing in the case itself.
* DirtyCop:Nathan {{Defied}} by Nathan, who was murdered because he wouldn't be one for falsify information to let Kit's sake.
son evade jail for drug possession.
* DownerBeginning: The first case of the season, andalready Jones and the player character are already investigating the murder of their old friend, Nathan.
*EarlyBirdCameo:
**Louis Leroux is seen talking in a DVD before he's properly introduced in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase08Stonewalled Case 8.]] He also mentions Dr. Greg Gibbs before he appears in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase02HellIsOtherPeople the next case.]]
**Judge Powell mentions her daughter before she appears in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase22ColorMeMurdered Case 22.]]
**Gloria talks about her son Carter and her ex-husband Jake Hayes before they properly appear in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase05TooCruelForSchool Case 5]] and [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase41TrickOrTreat Case 41]], respectively.
*FiringDay: Pippa Goldfinch, a teacher at the local high school, wanted Nathan to get fired because he allowed her students to touch snakes during their zoo visit.
*{{Foreshadowing}}:
**Coupled with FreezeFrameBonus, take a closer look of the footage of the satellite falling from the sky into the forest. [[spoiler:Notice its rock-like appearance?]]
**During the Additional Investigation, you discover a shipment of amlodipine, an experimental drug used to treat high blood pressure in humans and animals, has been stolen from the zoo, leading to a few questions that won't be answered until [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase03TheSaddestOfAllKeys Case 3.]]
*GratuitousFrench: Martine is introduced this way, as she's a model from France who has come to Grimsborough to work as a coroner.
*HatesBeingNicknamed: Gabriel expresses his dislike for being called Gabe when Jones does this.
*HopelessWithTech: Jones messes up with Nathan's so badly Cathy spends hour trying to unlock it.
-->'''Cathy:''' <Player's Name>, please don't let Jones do anything silly like trying to unlock a phone again! It took me ages to reconfigure it!
*HouseHusband: Cathy informs you Alex has become this, staying in their house taking care of her son while she works as the tech expert of the department.
*IntergenerationalFriendship: Apart from being lab partners and coworkers, Rupert (who is 61) and Amir (who is 25) seem to be in good terms and very friendly to each other.
*KindlyVet: Nathan left his job as the coroner of the Police Department to become a veterinary at the zoo due to being an AnimalLover.
*KnowledgeBroker: Ever since he returned from Pacific Bay, Ramirez has become the Grimsborough's police department official consultant, providing them with information and results of his private investigations despite not being part of the department anymore.
*NewspaperThinDisguise: Ramirez is introduced when he appears hiding behind a newspaper with holes for his eyes, prompting Jones to mistake him for a stranger and order him reveal himself.
*NoodleIncident: During the DVD recapping what happened in Grimsborough during the last year, Louis Leroux mentions the town suffered from a measles epidemic and a three-legged cat named Charlie saved a toddler from drowning.
*NotGoodWithRejection: Surprisingly, Nathan didn't accept Harper breaking up with him very well, to the point he insisted to keep their relationship going by giving her unwanted presents.
*NotProven: Nathan, Vince, and Harper were trying to prove Jackson Peacock was part of an animal trafficking operation, but couldn't find enough to put him under arrest. Is up to the player and Jones [[WeNeedToGetProof to find evidence]] of this during the Additional Investigation, which you accomplish.
*OffScreenRomance / OffscreenBreakup: Nathan and Harper began and ended their relationship while the player was out of Grimsborough for five years.
* PapaWolf:Deconstructed. {{Deconstructed}}. When Kit and Nathan worked on a drug bust ten years ago, Kit begged Nathan to doctor the evidence so his son Zachary (who was involved in it) wouldn’t go to prison, but he refused. This led to Kit murdering Nathan because he blamed him for his son’s incarceration.
*PrecisionCrash: Thankfully {{Averted}} with the falling satellite that crashed in Grimsborough a year ago, as its landing point was the city's forest.
*PrivateDetective: Ramirez is shown to now be working as this in addition to being a KnowledgeBroker for the department.
*PulledFromYourDayOff: Jones and the player's visit to the zoo is put to a halt when you're thrown into your first murder investigation right inside of it.
*PursueTheDreamJob: Nathan quit being a coroner for the PD to become a zoo vet because of this.
*{{Revenge}}: Kit's ultimate reason for murdering Nathan is the fact he refused to falsify evidence to spare his son from jail, leading him to seek revenge.
*ShoutOut:
**One of the killer's traits is that they read ''Literature/TheJungleBook''.
** Pippa Goldfinch is holding a book titled "[[ParodiesForDummies Biology for Schmucks]]".
** During his second interrogation, Vince sings "[[Theatre/WestSideStory I smell pretty, oh so pretty...]]"
** Louis Leroux is a parody of Creator/LouisTheroux, and he works for CCN, a parody of CNN.
*SkewedPriorities: When you inform [[BadBoss Jackson Peacock]] of Nathan's murder, he seems more worried about how a murder inside the zoo will be bad for business and how finding a good vet is hard these days.
*SpeaksFluentAnimal: Vice Moon claims to do so, and judging by his TheCuckoolanderWasRight moment described above, he appears to be completely genuine.
*TapOnTheHead: Nathan was first knocked out with a stick used to handle snakes before being murdered.
*TemptingFate: When Jones offers take you to the zoo to see Nathan, he mentions how crazy it is he went from working with dead bodies to treating patients that can bite. Oh, he got bitten alright...
*TitleDrop: Kit says one during his arrest and MotiveRant for killing Nathan.
-->'''Kit:''' I stole into the terrarium, took the most poisonous snake I could find...
-->...And I used it to kill Nathan like the treacherous snake in the grass he was!
*VisitByDivorcedDad: GenderInverted example with Gloria, who moved to Grimsborough to be closer to her son Carter as her ex-husband got full custody of him due to her dangerous work situation.
*WeUsedToBeFriends: Nathan and Kit were friends and coworkers before Nathan refused to falsify evidence to avoid Kit's son going to jail, which led to his murder.
*WelcomeToTheBigCity: {{Inverted}}. Gloria, your second partner, hails from the big city of Chicago, and has just moved to the "[[InformedAttribute small]]" town of Grimsborough.
* WhamShot: The sight of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less). Kinda tells you [[DarkerAndEdgier what tone this season will have compared to the first one...]]
*WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jones is apparently terrified of snakes, which leads to him being frightened during certain parts of the case.
-->'''Jones:''' The reptiles are staring at me, I know it! Let's see what you found and get out of this creepy place!
*BabiesEverAfter: Cathy and Alex got married while the player was away, and they've already had a baby named [[DeadGuyJunior Sammy.]]
* BackForTheDead: This case’s victim is none other than Nathan
-->'''Jones:''' I never expected our reunion with Nathan to end up with us investigating his murder! We owe it to him to see this through!
*BoundAndGagged: Nathan was bound with ropes by his killer to prevent him from escaping in case he woke up during the murder.
*TheBusCameBack: David Jones, Cathy Turner, Eduardo Ramirez, and Harper Stone all return from [[VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough Season 1]] in this case, the former three as members of your team and the latter as a suspect.
*CameFromTheSky: During the Additional Investigation, you learn a satellite fell from the sky a year ago in the forests of Grimsborough. According to Jones, most people have already forgotten about it by now.
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Vince Moon, a zookeeper who believe he can talk to animals and heal them with his "special powers," appears as a suspect.
*ContinuityNod:
**When you meet up with Ramirez for the first time, Jones mentions how he was working as a private investigator back in [[VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay Pacific Bay]] before returning to Grimsborough.
**Louis Leroux, the reporter you see in the DVD, works for CCN, the same news outlets [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughFinancialCenterDistrict Rachel Priest]] worked for.
*CoolTeacher: Despite her harsh demeanor towards Nathan. Pippa Goldfinch seems to be a genuinely kind teacher who looks after her students, even getting worried sick about the fact Nathan let them touch snakes during their zoo visit.
*TheCoroner: Kit Partridge, an old classmate of Nathan, used to be a coroner before he retired and became a zoo regular just like him.
*CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jackson Peacock, the owner of the zoo and self-proclaimed wealthiest entrepreneur of Fairview, is revealed to be corrupt when you discover he's been trafficking baby pandas to make a cash.
*CruelAndUnusualDeath: According to [[TheCoroner Martine]], the poison from the Eastern coral snake would've caused Nathan to experience slurred speech, double vision and muscular paralysis, followed by a fatal heart attack. Jones is understandably horrified.
*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Vince Moon, who claims to speak with animals, turns out to be right when he tells you his lemur told him he saw Jackson Peacock throwing Nathan's phone in the trash, putting at question whether [[SpeaksFluentAnimal his supposed abilities]] are real or not.
*CutenessProximity: Jones and the baby panda Jackson is seen carrying before you arrest him.
-->'''Jones:''' And we'll fine him on behalf of the Grimsborough Animal Protection Services too, won't we, cute little panda?
*DeadGuyJunior: Sammy, Cathy and Alex's son, is named after Samuel King, Cathy's [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase51ItAllEndsHere late grandfather.]]
* DebutQueue: In the mobile-exclusive "The Dead and the Beautiful" tutorial, only [[DaChief Chief Parker]], [[NonPlayerCompanion Jones]], and [[TheCoroner Martine]] are introduced, with the rest of the team properly appearing in the case itself.
* DirtyCop:
* DownerBeginning: The first case of the season, and
*EarlyBirdCameo:
**Louis Leroux is seen talking in a DVD before he's properly introduced in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase08Stonewalled Case 8.]] He also mentions Dr. Greg Gibbs before he appears in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase02HellIsOtherPeople the next case.]]
**Judge Powell mentions her daughter before she appears in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase22ColorMeMurdered Case 22.]]
**Gloria talks about her son Carter and her ex-husband Jake Hayes before they properly appear in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase05TooCruelForSchool Case 5]] and [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase41TrickOrTreat Case 41]], respectively.
*FiringDay: Pippa Goldfinch, a teacher at the local high school, wanted Nathan to get fired because he allowed her students to touch snakes during their zoo visit.
*{{Foreshadowing}}:
**Coupled with FreezeFrameBonus, take a closer look of the footage of the satellite falling from the sky into the forest. [[spoiler:Notice its rock-like appearance?]]
**During the Additional Investigation, you discover a shipment of amlodipine, an experimental drug used to treat high blood pressure in humans and animals, has been stolen from the zoo, leading to a few questions that won't be answered until [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase03TheSaddestOfAllKeys Case 3.]]
*GratuitousFrench: Martine is introduced this way, as she's a model from France who has come to Grimsborough to work as a coroner.
*HatesBeingNicknamed: Gabriel expresses his dislike for being called Gabe when Jones does this.
*HopelessWithTech: Jones messes up with Nathan's so badly Cathy spends hour trying to unlock it.
-->'''Cathy:''' <Player's Name>, please don't let Jones do anything silly like trying to unlock a phone again! It took me ages to reconfigure it!
*HouseHusband: Cathy informs you Alex has become this, staying in their house taking care of her son while she works as the tech expert of the department.
*IntergenerationalFriendship: Apart from being lab partners and coworkers, Rupert (who is 61) and Amir (who is 25) seem to be in good terms and very friendly to each other.
*KindlyVet: Nathan left his job as the coroner of the Police Department to become a veterinary at the zoo due to being an AnimalLover.
*KnowledgeBroker: Ever since he returned from Pacific Bay, Ramirez has become the Grimsborough's police department official consultant, providing them with information and results of his private investigations despite not being part of the department anymore.
*NewspaperThinDisguise: Ramirez is introduced when he appears hiding behind a newspaper with holes for his eyes, prompting Jones to mistake him for a stranger and order him reveal himself.
*NoodleIncident: During the DVD recapping what happened in Grimsborough during the last year, Louis Leroux mentions the town suffered from a measles epidemic and a three-legged cat named Charlie saved a toddler from drowning.
*NotGoodWithRejection: Surprisingly, Nathan didn't accept Harper breaking up with him very well, to the point he insisted to keep their relationship going by giving her unwanted presents.
*NotProven: Nathan, Vince, and Harper were trying to prove Jackson Peacock was part of an animal trafficking operation, but couldn't find enough to put him under arrest. Is up to the player and Jones [[WeNeedToGetProof to find evidence]] of this during the Additional Investigation, which you accomplish.
*OffScreenRomance / OffscreenBreakup: Nathan and Harper began and ended their relationship while the player was out of Grimsborough for five years.
* PapaWolf:
*PrecisionCrash: Thankfully {{Averted}} with the falling satellite that crashed in Grimsborough a year ago, as its landing point was the city's forest.
*PrivateDetective: Ramirez is shown to now be working as this in addition to being a KnowledgeBroker for the department.
*PulledFromYourDayOff: Jones and the player's visit to the zoo is put to a halt when you're thrown into your first murder investigation right inside of it.
*PursueTheDreamJob: Nathan quit being a coroner for the PD to become a zoo vet because of this.
*{{Revenge}}: Kit's ultimate reason for murdering Nathan is the fact he refused to falsify evidence to spare his son from jail, leading him to seek revenge.
*ShoutOut:
**One of the killer's traits is that they read ''Literature/TheJungleBook''.
** Pippa Goldfinch is holding a book titled "[[ParodiesForDummies Biology for Schmucks]]".
** During his second interrogation, Vince sings "[[Theatre/WestSideStory I smell pretty, oh so pretty...]]"
** Louis Leroux is a parody of Creator/LouisTheroux, and he works for CCN, a parody of CNN.
*SkewedPriorities: When you inform [[BadBoss Jackson Peacock]] of Nathan's murder, he seems more worried about how a murder inside the zoo will be bad for business and how finding a good vet is hard these days.
*SpeaksFluentAnimal: Vice Moon claims to do so, and judging by his TheCuckoolanderWasRight moment described above, he appears to be completely genuine.
*TapOnTheHead: Nathan was first knocked out with a stick used to handle snakes before being murdered.
*TemptingFate: When Jones offers take you to the zoo to see Nathan, he mentions how crazy it is he went from working with dead bodies to treating patients that can bite. Oh, he got bitten alright...
*TitleDrop: Kit says one during his arrest and MotiveRant for killing Nathan.
-->'''Kit:''' I stole into the terrarium, took the most poisonous snake I could find...
-->...And I used it to kill Nathan like the treacherous snake in the grass he was!
*VisitByDivorcedDad: GenderInverted example with Gloria, who moved to Grimsborough to be closer to her son Carter as her ex-husband got full custody of him due to her dangerous work situation.
*WeUsedToBeFriends: Nathan and Kit were friends and coworkers before Nathan refused to falsify evidence to avoid Kit's son going to jail, which led to his murder.
*WelcomeToTheBigCity: {{Inverted}}. Gloria, your second partner, hails from the big city of Chicago, and has just moved to the "[[InformedAttribute small]]" town of Grimsborough.
* WhamShot: The sight of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less). Kinda tells you [[DarkerAndEdgier what tone this season will have compared to the first one...]]
*WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Jones is apparently terrified of snakes, which leads to him being frightened during certain parts of the case.
-->'''Jones:''' The reptiles are staring at me, I know it! Let's see what you found and get out of this creepy place!
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The player returns to the Grimsborough Police Department, to the joy of their old team. Jones is still a detective, and he's ready to take you out to the zoo to visit the PD's former coroner Nathan Pandit, who has become a veterinarian at the zoo since the player left. He hopes to show you the team, old and new soon. Unfortunately, that soon becomes very soon indeed when they find Nathan tied up and dead from several snake bites.
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The player returns to the Grimsborough Police Department, to the joy of their old team. Jones is still a detective, and he's ready to take you out to the zoo to visit the PD's former coroner Nathan Pandit, who has become a veterinarian at the zoo since the player left. He hopes to show you the team, old and new soon. Unfortunately, that soon becomes time comes very soon indeed when they find Nathan tied up and dead from several snake bites.
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* WhamShot: The sign of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less).
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* WhamShot: The sign sight of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less).
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[[caption-width-right:350: Welcome back to Grimsbourough, detective.]]
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* AnimalAssassin: The killer goaded an Eastern coral snake into biting Nathan multiple times.
* BackForTheDead:Poor Nathan.This case’s victim is none other than Nathan Pandit.
* BackForTheDead:
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* DownerBeginning: The first case of the season, and already Jones and the player character are investigating the murder of their old friend, Nathan.
* PapaWolf: Deconstructed. When Kit and Nathan worked on a drug bust ten years ago, Kit begged Nathan to doctor the evidence so his son Zachary wouldn’t go to prison, but he refused. This led to Kit murdering Nathan because he blamed him for his son’s incarceration.
* PapaWolf: Deconstructed. When Kit and Nathan worked on a drug bust ten years ago, Kit begged Nathan to doctor the evidence so his son Zachary wouldn’t go to prison, but he refused. This led to Kit murdering Nathan because he blamed him for his son’s incarceration.
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The player returns to the Grimsborough Police Department, to the joy of their old team. Jones is still a detective, and he's ready to take you out to the zoo to visit the PD's former coroner Nathan Pandit, who has become a veterinarian at the zoo since the player left. He hopes to show you the team, old and new soon. Unfortunately, that soon becomes very soon indeed when they find Nathan tied up and dead from several snake bites.
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* BackForTheDead: Poor Nathan.
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* BackForTheDead: Poor Nathan.Nathan.
* DirtyCop: Nathan was murdered because he wouldn't be one for Kit's sake.
* WhamShot: The sign of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less).
* DirtyCop: Nathan was murdered because he wouldn't be one for Kit's sake.
* WhamShot: The sign of Nathan's dead body (on your ''first'' case of the game, no less).
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[[caption-width-right:350: Welcome back to Grimsbourough, detective.]]
!Tropes
* BackForTheDead: Poor Nathan.
!Tropes
* BackForTheDead: Poor Nathan.
