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* FaintInShock: Marlon comforts Parker that lots of people faint before their first skydive - albeit usually not before they've even boarded the plane.
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* BodyInABreadbox: The victim is found hanging from a tree by a parachute harness, with a knife in his back. As soon as the team establishes that he was alive when he jumped out of the plane, and that it would be virtually impossible to have stabbed him after he landed, they're left with wondering how he could possibly have been stabbed in midair.
-->'''Marlon''': So what you're saying is... the sky is our crime scene?
* BrokenPedestal: Zach Ogilvy was revered throughout the world as a genius entrepreneur, but in reality he was an abusive, emotionally manipulative tyrant.
-->'''Marlon''': So what you're saying is... the sky is our crime scene?
* BrokenPedestal: Zach Ogilvy was revered throughout the world as a genius entrepreneur, but in reality he was an abusive, emotionally manipulative tyrant.
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* BodyInABreadbox: The victim is found hanging from a tree by a parachute harness, with a knife in his back. As soon as the team establishes that he was alive when he jumped out of the plane, and the coroner confirms that it would be virtually impossible to have stabbed him after he was dead before he landed, they're left with wondering how he could possibly have been stabbed in midair.
-->'''Marlon''': Sowhat you're saying is...would that mean that... the sky is our crime scene?
* BrokenPedestal: Zach Ogilvy was revered throughout the world as a genius entrepreneur, butin reality everyone who went to work for his company quickly learned that he was an abusive, emotionally manipulative tyrant.
-->'''Marlon''': So
* BrokenPedestal: Zach Ogilvy was revered throughout the world as a genius entrepreneur, but
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* NeverMyFault: Zach triggered his killer's BerserkButton by saying he can't be held accountable for his son's death; the boy had a preexisting heart condition, it's not Zach's fault is some people are just born with ''"bad genes."''
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* NeverMyFault: NeverMyFault:
** Zach triggered his killer's BerserkButton by saying he can't be held accountable for his son's death; the boy had a preexisting heart condition, it's not Zach's faultis if some people are just born with ''"bad genes."''"''
** On a more humorous note, Parker's attempt to ''"inspect the crime scene"'' by skydiving is interrupted when he faints before he even boards the plane. He says his harness must be too tight, making it hard for him to breathe.
** Zach triggered his killer's BerserkButton by saying he can't be held accountable for his son's death; the boy had a preexisting heart condition, it's not Zach's fault
** On a more humorous note, Parker's attempt to ''"inspect the crime scene"'' by skydiving is interrupted when he faints before he even boards the plane. He says his harness must be too tight, making it hard for him to breathe.
* NotWorthKilling: Interviewing Zach's best friend and business partner Chad, the latter admits to most of the ugly things the team has discovered about Zach, but insists that murdering him wasn't necessary: after the company went public, Zach was answerable to a board of directors, and the ''"wheels were already in motion"'' to force him out.
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* TemptingFate: When Parker comes into the station in the morning, he reminds Naomi and Marlon that Florence will be absent for most of the day, but hopefully it should be a quiet day. Then the phones light up.
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* TemptingFate: TemptingFate:
** When Parker comes into the station in the morning, he reminds Naomi and Marlon that Florence will be absent for most of the day, but hopefully it should be a quiet day. Then the phones lightup.up.
** Marlon asks Parker if he has any interest in skydiving; Parker, deadpan, asks if he looks like that sort of person, and Marlon, Florence, and Naomi all share a chuckle. Near the end of the episode, Parker feels he has no choice but to jump out of a plane to ''"inspect the crime scene."''
** When Parker comes into the station in the morning, he reminds Naomi and Marlon that Florence will be absent for most of the day, but hopefully it should be a quiet day. Then the phones light
** Marlon asks Parker if he has any interest in skydiving; Parker, deadpan, asks if he looks like that sort of person, and Marlon, Florence, and Naomi all share a chuckle. Near the end of the episode, Parker feels he has no choice but to jump out of a plane to ''"inspect the crime scene."''
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* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: As Parker and the team delve deeper, everyone in his entourage admits to a motive for wanting him dead.
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* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: As Parker and the team delve deeper, everyone in his entourage admits to a motive for wanting him Zach dead.
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* YouKilledMySon: The killer's motive.
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* YouKilledMySon: [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Son]]: The killer's motive.
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* TwoConversationsOneDialogue: Naomi takes a call on one line to report a missing skydiver; Marlon takes a call on another line from a pair of hikers who reported finding a body in a tree hanging from a parachute. Once they hang up, they realize they've just heard about the same person.
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* TwoConversationsOneDialogue: TwoScenesOneDialogue: Naomi takes a call on one line to report a missing skydiver; Marlon takes a call on another line from a pair of hikers who reported finding a body in a tree hanging from a parachute. Once they hang up, they realize they've just heard about the same person.
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* TwoDialoguesOneConversation: Naomi takes a call on one line to report a missing skydiver; Marlon takes a call on another line from a pair of hikers who reported finding a body in a tree hanging from a parachute. Once they hang up, they realize they've just heard about the same person.
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* TwoDialoguesOneConversation: TwoConversationsOneDialogue: Naomi takes a call on one line to report a missing skydiver; Marlon takes a call on another line from a pair of hikers who reported finding a body in a tree hanging from a parachute. Once they hang up, they realize they've just heard about the same person.
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** An early scene finishes the CliffHanger ending of Episode 8, revealing whether or not Neville [[CannotSpitItOut finally screwed up his courage and asked Florence out]]. He didn't; before he could get the words out she swatted a mosquito on his nose and inadvertently caused him to face-plant on her porch, spending the rest of the evening stanching a bloody nose and waving off her apologies.
** Dwayne left midway through Season Eight to spend more time with his estranged father; in this episode he admits to Marlon that his father is back in London, seriously (perhaps terminally) ill.
** Dwayne left midway through Season Eight to spend more time with his estranged father; in this episode he admits to Marlon that his father is back in London, seriously (perhaps terminally) ill.
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A young tech-company CEO is found with a knife in his back and hanging from a tree after skydiving out of a plane. Evidence confirms that he wasn't stabbed before he exited the plane or after he landed, and the seemingly inescapable conclusion is that he was stabbed in mid-air.
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* BodyInABreadbox: The victim is found hanging from a tree by a parachute harness, with a knife in his back. As soon as the team establishes that he was alive when he jumped out of the plane, and that it would be virtually impossible to have stabbed him after he landed, they're left with wondering how he could possibly have been stabbed in midair.
-->'''Marlon''': So what you're saying is... the sky is our crime scene?
* BrokenPedestal: Zach Ogilvy was revered throughout the world as a genius entrepreneur, but in reality he was an abusive, emotionally manipulative tyrant.
* CallBack: Commissioner Patterson takes Florence to the scene where she was shot and her fiancee was killed, in Season Eight.
** An early scene finishes the CliffHanger ending of Episode 8, revealing whether or not Neville [[CannotSpitItOut finally screwed up his courage and asked Florence out]]. He didn't; before he could get the words out she swatted a mosquito on his nose and inadvertently caused him to face-plant on her porch, spending the rest of the evening stanching a bloody nose and waving off her apologies.
** Dwayne left midway through Season Eight to spend more time with his estranged father; in this episode he admits to Marlon that his father is back in London, seriously (perhaps terminally) ill.
* ChekhovsGun: Marlon is fascinated with the specs of the aircraft the victim jumped from, particularly its rapid takeoff and landing capabilities. The rest of the team brushes him off, until he mentions to Parker, after the plane has departed without him, that it will be back on the ground within ten minutes.
* ControlFreak: Zach Ogilvy.
* FaceYourFears: Parker overcomes his terror of heights and prepares to skydive, believing that ''"someone has to inspect the crime scene."''
* NeverMyFault: Zach triggered his killer's BerserkButton by saying he can't be held accountable for his son's death; the boy had a preexisting heart condition, it's not Zach's fault is some people are just born with ''"bad genes."''
* NeverSuicide: Parker is able to rule out suicide fairly quickly, since the knife in the victim's back was in a position that he couldn't possibly have reached himself.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Parker, panting, tells Florence that he's learned that a person has to [[FaceYourFears face their fears]] head-on; he's talking about his resolve to skydive from a plane and emulate the victim's last moments, but Florence hears what she needs to finally accept the undercover assignment in Jamaica.
* SexualExtortion: Zach's lawyer admits to having an affair with him, and that he tried to blackmail her when she tried to end it.
* TemptingFate: When Parker comes into the station in the morning, he reminds Naomi and Marlon that Florence will be absent for most of the day, but hopefully it should be a quiet day. Then the phones light up.
* TwoDialoguesOneConversation: Naomi takes a call on one line to report a missing skydiver; Marlon takes a call on another line from a pair of hikers who reported finding a body in a tree hanging from a parachute. Once they hang up, they realize they've just heard about the same person.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: The killer, once arrested, says he's avenged the death of his son. Parker says yes, he has, but it doesn't seem to have brought him complete peace.
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: As Parker and the team delve deeper, everyone in his entourage admits to a motive for wanting him dead.
* WhosLaughingNow: Zach Ogilvy was clever enough to survive his killer's first attempt to murder him. Unfortunately, confronting that killer face to face, with no one watching, threw that cleverness out the window.
* YouKilledMySon: The killer's motive.
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* BodyInABreadbox: The victim is found hanging from a tree by a parachute harness, with a knife in his back. As soon as the team establishes that he was alive when he jumped out of the plane, and that it would be virtually impossible to have stabbed him after he landed, they're left with wondering how he could possibly have been stabbed in midair.
-->'''Marlon''': So what you're saying is... the sky is our crime scene?
* BrokenPedestal: Zach Ogilvy was revered throughout the world as a genius entrepreneur, but in reality he was an abusive, emotionally manipulative tyrant.
* CallBack: Commissioner Patterson takes Florence to the scene where she was shot and her fiancee was killed, in Season Eight.
** An early scene finishes the CliffHanger ending of Episode 8, revealing whether or not Neville [[CannotSpitItOut finally screwed up his courage and asked Florence out]]. He didn't; before he could get the words out she swatted a mosquito on his nose and inadvertently caused him to face-plant on her porch, spending the rest of the evening stanching a bloody nose and waving off her apologies.
** Dwayne left midway through Season Eight to spend more time with his estranged father; in this episode he admits to Marlon that his father is back in London, seriously (perhaps terminally) ill.
* ChekhovsGun: Marlon is fascinated with the specs of the aircraft the victim jumped from, particularly its rapid takeoff and landing capabilities. The rest of the team brushes him off, until he mentions to Parker, after the plane has departed without him, that it will be back on the ground within ten minutes.
* ControlFreak: Zach Ogilvy.
* FaceYourFears: Parker overcomes his terror of heights and prepares to skydive, believing that ''"someone has to inspect the crime scene."''
* NeverMyFault: Zach triggered his killer's BerserkButton by saying he can't be held accountable for his son's death; the boy had a preexisting heart condition, it's not Zach's fault is some people are just born with ''"bad genes."''
* NeverSuicide: Parker is able to rule out suicide fairly quickly, since the knife in the victim's back was in a position that he couldn't possibly have reached himself.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Parker, panting, tells Florence that he's learned that a person has to [[FaceYourFears face their fears]] head-on; he's talking about his resolve to skydive from a plane and emulate the victim's last moments, but Florence hears what she needs to finally accept the undercover assignment in Jamaica.
* SexualExtortion: Zach's lawyer admits to having an affair with him, and that he tried to blackmail her when she tried to end it.
* TemptingFate: When Parker comes into the station in the morning, he reminds Naomi and Marlon that Florence will be absent for most of the day, but hopefully it should be a quiet day. Then the phones light up.
* TwoDialoguesOneConversation: Naomi takes a call on one line to report a missing skydiver; Marlon takes a call on another line from a pair of hikers who reported finding a body in a tree hanging from a parachute. Once they hang up, they realize they've just heard about the same person.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: The killer, once arrested, says he's avenged the death of his son. Parker says yes, he has, but it doesn't seem to have brought him complete peace.
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: As Parker and the team delve deeper, everyone in his entourage admits to a motive for wanting him dead.
* WhosLaughingNow: Zach Ogilvy was clever enough to survive his killer's first attempt to murder him. Unfortunately, confronting that killer face to face, with no one watching, threw that cleverness out the window.
* YouKilledMySon: The killer's motive.
