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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Jack at least thinks so regarding the penguin research lab you investigate.
-->'''Jack:''' Did you see that penguin hologram, <Player's Name>? How cool is that?!
-->You're right, I should stay focused on finding clues. There's a killer out there we need to find... but still, penguins!

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* AmnesiacDissonance: Blair didn't have memories of him killing Julia until you try to arrest him for the murder, where he slowly starts remembering everything on a painful manner.

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* AlliterativeName: '''E'''rnest '''E'''merson.
* AmnesiacDissonance: Blair didn't have memories of him killing Julia until you try to arrest him for the murder, where he slowly starts remembering everything on in a painful manner.



** Grace recalls [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughUniversityDistrict how she used to have a fiance back in Grimsborough.]]

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** Grace recalls [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughUniversityDistrict how she used to have a fiance fiancé back in Grimsborough.]]



* GenkiGirl: Dr. Kane Glazebrook claims Julia acted like this, as she was overly naive yet excitable and curious about everything he did, which got onto his nerves pretty fast.

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* GenkiGirl: Dr. Kane Glazebrook claims Julia acted like this, as she was overly naive naïve yet excitable and curious about everything he did, which got onto his nerves pretty fast.



* LadyOfAdventure: Grace tells you how she left Grimsborough and her fiance to travel around the world for fun, eventually joining the Antarctic station to start a new research.

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* LadyOfAdventure: Grace tells you how she left Grimsborough and her fiance fiancé to travel around the world for fun, eventually joining the Antarctic station to start a new research.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: The murder weapon is a kayak paddle.

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* ImprobableWeaponUser: ImprovisedWeapon: The murder weapon is a kayak paddle.
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* BoldExplorer: During the Additional Investigation, you find an old newspaper article detailing how SOMBRA sent an exploration cew to Antarctica to colonize it and expand territory, though it didn't bear fruit.

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* BoldExplorer: During the Additional Investigation, you find an old newspaper article detailing how SOMBRA sent an exploration cew crew to Antarctica to colonize it and expand territory, though it didn't bear fruit.
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Chief Ripley:''' Everyone's done some soul-searching after learning that someone we trusted and relied upon was actually in league with our greatest enemy! Which is why we've come here, to Antarctica, to recruit a replacement coroner, Grace Delaney.]]

The Bureau travels to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica to recruit Grace Delaney, [[VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough a previous teammate of the player]], as the new coroner of the Bureau due to Angela's arrest. However, their heartfelt reunion gets abruptly cut short when they get informed about a murder just outside of the station, which prompts Jack and the player to rush there, finding the body of climate change activist Julia Lloyd with multiple stab wounds.

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*ThirtySecondBlackout: The power at the station momentarily goes out at the start of Chapter 3, though Elliot quickly fixes it.
*AccidentalPun:
-->'''Jack:''' Someone is dead and all you're thinking about is ratings?! That's pretty cold, Mr Foster!
-->'''Jazz:''' Ha, cold! Great pun, man! I'll have to remember that one!
*AgentScully: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. At the start of the case, Jack refuses to accept the victim was killed by a saber-toothed tiger like Dr. Emerson claims, but soon starts to believe it when you find no proof an animal didn't do it until Grace confirms the fact a human is the murderer.
*AmnesiacDissonance: Blair didn't have memories of him killing Julia until you try to arrest him for the murder, where he slowly starts remembering everything on a painful manner.
*AncientConspiracy: A {{Downplayed}} example. While they aren't actually ''ancient'', this case reveals that SOMBRA has been active since ''at least'' the 1950s, making them far older than the Bureau was led to believe throughout the season.
-->'''Elliot:''' Can you believe that, <Player's Name>? We had no idea SOMBRA had been operating for so long!
*BenevolentBoss: Blair Carpenter, the station manager, truly cares about the well-being of his workers, though this later gets slightly {{Subverted}} when you discover he's the murderer, although he didn't' actually mean to kill Julia.
*BigDamnReunion: Between Grace and the player, to the point [[TearsOfJoy she tears up]] the first time she sees you.
*BoldExplorer: During the Additional Investigation, you find an old newspaper article detailing how SOMBRA sent an exploration cew to Antarctica to colonize it and expand territory, though it didn't bear fruit.
*BravingTheBlizzard: Jack and the player are forced to look for clues outside the station in the middle of a blizzard. At some point, they even get lost when the storm gets harsher, though thankfully they manage to reach the station before freezing to death.
*TheBusCameBack: Grace Delaney from the [[VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough Grimsborough Police Department]] makes her official return in this case as the new coroner of the Bureau.
*ClosedCircle: The Bureau and the team at the Antarctic station are forced to be in the presence of a violent killer with no way to flee or get out due to being stranded there.
-->'''Jack:''' [[OhCrap Oh...]] you're right. [[AloneWithThePsycho That means we're stuck in this remote research laboratory with a killer who viciously stabbed Julia Lloyd to death!]]
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dr. Ernest Emerson, a scientist you meet in this case, firmly believes that the victim was killed by a saber-toothed tiger and is convinced that global warming is defrosting prehistorical creatures in the Antarctica. Blair even calls him a crackpot when you interrogate him.
*ContinuityNod:
**Grace recalls [[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughUniversityDistrict how she used to have a fiance back in Grimsborough.]]
**Michelle remembers how [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase35SixFeetDownUnder SOMBRA has a sunken ship in Australia.]]
*EerieArcticResearchStation: The case takes place in an Antarctic station where someone has bee murdered and now the team are forced to search for the killer before they decide to strike again.
*ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture: Sharon Jeung, the psychologist at the station, tried to get Julia into electroshock therapy due to her "inner problems", despite the fact that Julia was in perfect mental condition, which makes Marina question her psychologist abilities.
*EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Jack at least thinks so regarding the penguin research lab you investigate.
-->'''Jack:''' Did you see that penguin hologram, <Player's Name>? How cool is that?!
-->You're right, I should stay focused on finding clues. There's a killer out there we need to find... but still, penguins!
*GenkiGirl: Dr. Kane Glazebrook claims Julia acted like this, as she was overly naive yet excitable and curious about everything he did, which got onto his nerves pretty fast.
*GoMadFromTheIsolation: Both Blair and Sharon claim everyone on the station has been suffering from this. Coupled with a severe case of PolarMadness, and you have a recipe for disaster on your hands.
-->'''Blair:''' There are no local inhabitants and only a handful of researchers here at the station. We're extremely isolated, so everyone's on a knife edge!
*ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The victim was killed by being stabbed multiple times with a broken paddle.
*ImpededCommunication: During the Additional Investigation, the Bureau is unable to leave the Antarctica due to the recent snowstorm disabling communications. Good thing they had [[TeenGenius Elliot]] with them, or else they would have been stranded for days.
*ImportantHaircut: Grace now sports a shorter hairstyle as a result of deciding to become a LadyOfAdventure.
*ImprobableWeaponUser: The murder weapon is a kayak paddle.
-->'''Grace:''' It's no wonder I had trouble identifying the murder weapon during the autopsy, <Player's Name>. Who kills someone with a kayak paddle?
*{{Irony}}: During his interrogations, Blair explains how people tend to go crazy inside of the station due to being completely isolated with no communication in a barren wasteland, even citing Dr. Emerson as an example. Later, you discover he killed Julia for this exact same reason.
-->'''Blair:''' Honestly, people go a bit stir crazy out here, and this whole monster business is proof of that!
*LadyOfAdventure: Grace tells you how she left Grimsborough and her fiance to travel around the world for fun, eventually joining the Antarctic station to start a new research.
*LineOfSightName: A variation. SOMBRA decided to call the ship they used to explore Antarctica decades ago... SOMBRA.
*MayDecemberRomance: Blair, who is 57, was in love with Julia, who according to him was young enough to be his daughter.
*MysteriousPast: Due to discovering that SOMBRA has been around since the 1950s, the Bureau realizes how little they actually know about the organization, and decide to embark on a quest to dig up their past and use it to finish them once and for all.
*NewspaperBackstory: During the Additional Investigation, you find a newspaper article detailing how SOMBRA sent an exploration team to the Antarctica back in the 1950s, but had to abruptly return when the Argentinian government cancelled the expedition with no clear explanation. Thanks to this, the Bureau decides to travel to Argentina to discover more about SOMBRA's past.
*NotGoodWithRejection: Julia rejected Blair's advances during one of their trips outside of the station, which coupled with some GoMadFromTheIsolation and PolarMadness on his part led to him snapping and killing her.
*NotSoExtinct: Dr. Emerson ''thinks'' the victim was killed by a resurrected saber-toothed tiger, and even Jack starts to believe it until Grace comes and disproves it.
*OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: {{Averted}}. Dr. Emerson's financial supporters were threatening to cut off their funds if he didn't bring any proof that living prehistoric creatures were present in Antarctica, which put a lot of pressure on him. Jack even theorizes Emerson murdered Julia to make it look like a saber-toothed tiger attack and save his research.
*PolarMadness: Every suspect living in the Antarctic station appears to be suffering varying degrees of this: Kane is extremely grumpy and has a HairTriggerTemper, Ernest is convinced that the killer is none other than a saber-toothed tiger, Sharon is so under pressure about maintain everyone happy that she herself has started to crack and suggest electroshock therapies for healthy individuals, and Blair is suffering from dissociative amnesia that prevents him from remembering he murdered Julia after a RageBreakingPoint.
*PosthumousCharacter: Eduardo Ruiz, a high-ranking SOMBRA operative that traveled to Antarctica in the past, is mentioned multiple times during the Additional Investigation, but he's been long dead for some time according to Michelle.
*RageBreakingPoint: Being rejected by Julia was this for Blair, whose PolarMadness made him completely snap and kill her in the heat of the moment.
*RealityTV: Jazz Foster, one of the suspects, is a TV producer creating a reality TV show set in the Antarctica, something that displeased Julia due to fearing the penguins would be disturbed by the contestants.
*ShipShapeShipwreck: One of the crime scenes is a wrecked ship that the workers at the station take supplies from.
*ShoutOut:
** In the Snowy Rocks scene, there is a mechanical arm resembling [[Film/IronMan1 DUM-E]].
** In the Shipwreck scene, there is a compass strongly resembling the logo of Safari, the default search engine on all Creator/{{Apple}} products.
*TheShrink: Sharon Jeung, the psychologist inside of the station. She almost crosses the PsychoPsychologist line when you discover she tried to perform electroshock therapy on Julia despite being completely healthy, claiming that Julia was a ticking bomb. Marina deduces that Sharon is, in fact, the one succumbing to pressure and stress inside of the station,
*SkewedPriorities: Jazz seems to care more about his reality TV show than the fact someone at the station was murdered.
-->'''Jazz:''' Someone was killed?! That's perfect timing! Nothing like a bit of drama and intrigue to raise the stakes of a television show! Any chance she was murdered?
*ThisBearWasFramed: Dr. Emerson firmly believes that a saber-toothed tiger is the one responsible for Julia's death, even if the killer's intention was never framing an animal in the first place.
*TraumaInducedAmnesia: Murdering Julia due to his PolarMadness and RageBreakingPoint was this for Blair, who completely forgot about everything and didn't manage to remember until you tried to arrest him. For this reason, Marina decides to step in and suggests sending him to a psychiatric ward instead of prison.
*IWarnedYou: Ernest regarding the fact that Julia was apparently killed by a prehistorical creature.
-->'''Ernest:''' I warned you, didn't I?! I warned you all! A saber-toothed tiger has returned and it's killed Julia!

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