History Recap / DiagnosisMurderS6E2TillDeathDoUsPart

* ComplexitAddiction: What ends up ultimately undoing Cindy and Phillip is that their plan is so complex with so many twists that all it takes is one bit of mistiming to throw it completely off kilter. Mark lampshades how a far easier scheme would have let them get away with it.

* ThePerfectCrime: The point of the episode, showing how Cindya and Phillip came up with this well-planned, expert and nearly foolproof plan...and then how when they try to execute it, ''nothing'' goes to plan. Yet they still nearly pull it off despite all that, except for Mark realizing there's no way Denise could be so incompetent to pull off a murder with so many obvious mistakes.

* BreatherEpisode: After the harrowing four-part case that ended with the prior episode, this one is far more comedic, at its major focus is on a pair of bumbling murderers.

Cindy Garrett and Philip Kobler have more to celebrate than their upcoming wedding. They have come up with the perfect crime: a way to kill off Cindy's father Wayde, frame her stepmother Denise for the murder, and get all of Wayde's money all to themselves. They even have it in the plan to use Mark to be the one to "bust" Denise. With such a brilliant plan, nothing could go wrong for the nefarious newlyweds...right?

* PsychologicalProjection: Cindy and Philip's ImagineSpot casts Denise and Wayde as money-obsessed assholes that resent them for no good reason. The first show of this is Wayde getting angry that the wedding flowers are suddenly more expensive that he'd originally planned. When they wake up the next day and Cindy learns the floral arrangements had been changed due to something outside of anyone's control, she starts yelling...and it soon becomes clear in multiple instances that they had been talking about ''themselves'' instead of their parents.

* BluffingTheMurderer: Steve tells the couple he, Mark, and the other cops plan to check the photos of the wedding photographer to "check" Denise's alibi and see if she was where she shouldn't have been. Of course, the couple realize the photos could expose Philip's injury happening before he told Jesse it happened. They break into the studio, burn the picture, and take a real shot in the dark on who's waiting for the duo.

!This episode contains examples of the following tropes:

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Cindy has quit smoking as part of the murder plot[[note]]The couple's plan involves planting a receipt for a pharmacy with the drug used to kill Wayde that also has cigarettes on it. That way if Denise tries to claim that Cindy must be the one to have gotten the drug, it wouldn't make sense for her to buy cigarettes since she's quit smoking[[/note]]. As the plan starts to unravel, Philip offers Cindy a smoke. When she protests, he says it's fine because the plan can be adjusted. That, and they forgot to actually plant the receipt.

* EpicFail: Put it this way; what goes right for Cindy and Philip's plan is that Wayde dies...and that's literally it.

* HisCodeNameWasMarySue: Philip's ImagineSpot can't help but paint him as the ultimate charmer who easily sweet-talks Amanda. In reality...[[CasanovaWannabe not so much.]]

* PsychologicalProjection: Cindy and Philip's ImagineSpot casts Denise and Wayde as money-obsessed assholes that resent them for no good reason. The first show of this is Wayde getting angry that the wedding flowers are suddenly more expensive that he'd originally planned. When they wake up the next day, Cindy begins yelling pretty much the ''same words'' she had ascribed to her father, making it very clear they were talking about ''themselves'' when describing their targets.

* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: An interesting variant; the evidence against Denise is quite sound at first, but Mark learns that the dog had been fed the intended poison and starts wondering why that would happen. He eventually realizes it could only have been due to the murder attempt going wrong...making him wonder about the bride's strange behavior during the search for the inhaler.

* AssholeVictim: {{Subverted}}. In the first act, Wayde is portrayed as dismissive of Philip and overly focused on the cost of the wedding, while Denise is snide and self-obsessed. It is then revealed that the first act is in fact Cindy and Philip planning the murder before it's pulled off for real the next day. In fact, Cindy's father and stepmother are both genial, good natured people, while Cindy and Philip are the actual jackasses.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The first act ''appears'' to be an UnfoldingPlanMontage detailing the newlyweds plan to kill Wayde, before being revealed as an ImagineSpot of the couple going over the plan one last time the night before. Naturally when it's time for the real thing everything comes apart.

* InheritanceMurder: The whole basis for the murder is Cindy and Philip trying to kill Wayde and frame Denise to have his money.

* EpicFail: Put it this way; what goes right for Cindy and Philip's plan is that Wayde dies...and that's literally it.

Cindy Garrett and Philip Kobler have more to celebrate than their upcoming wedding. They have come up with the perfect crime: a way to kill off Cindy's father Wayde Garrett, frame her stepmother Denise Garrett for the murder, and get all of Wayde's money all to themselves. They even have it in the plan to use Mark to be the one to "bust" Denise. With such a brilliant plan, nothing could go wrong for the nefarious newlyweds...right?

* ActorAllusion: Once again, it is said that Mark has [[Series/TheDickVanDykeShow has tripped over an ottoman.]]