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* TitledAfterTheSong: Or lyric, in this instance - "A case of do or die" comes from the song "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} As Time Goes By]]".
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* TitledAfterTheSong: Or lyric, in this instance - "A case of do or die" comes from the song "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} As Time Goes By]]".By]]".
* WeddingDeathJuxtaposition: Not only does the victim die at her rehearsal dinner, a few days before she was to be married, at her funeral, held in the very church where the ceremony would have taken place, her fiancé imagines her walking down the aisle in her dress.
* WeddingDeathJuxtaposition: Not only does the victim die at her rehearsal dinner, a few days before she was to be married, at her funeral, held in the very church where the ceremony would have taken place, her fiancé imagines her walking down the aisle in her dress.
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Ballard and Bayliss get the case of Kimberly Cullen, a woman who died in a creek area of a fall, but are unable to determine if she killed herself, was murdered, or merely slipped and fell. Mike and Sheppard investigate the death of a man at a movie theater.
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Ballard and Bayliss get the case of Kimberly Cullen, a woman who died fell to her death in a creek area of ravine in a fall, city park, but are unable to determine if she killed herself, was murdered, or merely slipped and fell. Mike and Sheppard investigate the death of a man at a movie theater.
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* SpecialGuest: Michael Blowen, the cinema victim, is named after and played by the ''Boston Globe'' cinema critic of the same name.
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* ItsPersonal: Ballard empathises with Kimberly Cullen, as before she came to Baltimore she broke off her engagement two weeks before the wedding.
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* ShoutOut: Among the movies the man murdered at the movie theater talked during were ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/CitizenKane'', ''Film/DoctorZhivago'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/TaxiDriver'', and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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** Among the movies the man murdered at the movie theater talked during were ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/CitizenKane'', ''Film/DoctorZhivago'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/TaxiDriver'', and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** Among the movies the man murdered at the movie theater talked during were ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/CitizenKane'', ''Film/DoctorZhivago'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/TaxiDriver'', and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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* AssholeVictim: The murder victim at the movie theater apparently loudly gave away the plot points of all the movies he attended, including spoiling the endings, which make the theater patrons, and manager Frank Hopper (Creator/WallaceShawn), angry at him. When she's arresting Hopper for the murder, Sheppard even admits she sympathizes with what he did.
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* AmbiguousSituation: We never find out if Kimberly Cullen was mugged, was DrivenToSuicide (even though Kimberly's sister - played by Creator/AmyRyan - admits Kimberly called her up a couple of weeks before the wedding nervous and hysterical), or simply slipped and fell.
* AssholeVictim:The Michael Blowen, the murder victim at the movie theater apparently loudly gave away the plot points of all the movies he attended, including spoiling the endings, which make the theater patrons, and manager Frank Hopper (Creator/WallaceShawn), angry at him. When she's arresting Hopper for the Blowen's murder, Sheppard even admits she sympathizes with what he did.
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* ObligatoryJoke: When Mike and Sheppard find out their murder victim died during a double feature of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''Film/TheBigSleep'', but the audience has left so they have no one to interview:
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* ObligatoryJoke: When Mike and Sheppard find out their murder victim Blowen died during a double feature of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''Film/TheBigSleep'', but the audience has left so they have no one to interview:
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* RunawayBride: Ballard reveals to Bayliss she was one of these, as she ran out on her fiancee two weeks before the wedding.
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* RunawayBride: Ballard reveals to Bayliss she was one of these, as she ran out on her fiancee two weeks before the wedding.wedding.
* ShoutOut: Among the movies the man murdered at the movie theater talked during were ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/CitizenKane'', ''Film/DoctorZhivago'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/TaxiDriver'', and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** As he's being arrested for Blowen's murder, Hopper grouses, "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} Of all the movie theaters in all the cities in all the world, he had to go into mine!]]"
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Hopper drugged the butter for the popcorn the murder victim at his theater ate at every screening in hopes it would shut him up. He claims he never meant to kill the man.
* TitledAfterTheSong: Or lyric, in this instance - "A case of do or die" comes from the song "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} As Time Goes By]]".
* ShoutOut: Among the movies the man murdered at the movie theater talked during were ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', ''Film/CitizenKane'', ''Film/DoctorZhivago'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'', ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', ''Film/TaxiDriver'', and ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
** As he's being arrested for Blowen's murder, Hopper grouses, "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} Of all the movie theaters in all the cities in all the world, he had to go into mine!]]"
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Hopper drugged the butter for the popcorn the murder victim at his theater ate at every screening in hopes it would shut him up. He claims he never meant to kill the man.
* TitledAfterTheSong: Or lyric, in this instance - "A case of do or die" comes from the song "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} As Time Goes By]]".
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!A Case of Do or Die
->Directed By: Tim Van Patten
->Written By: Anya Epstein
Ballard and Bayliss get the case of Kimberly Cullen, a woman who died in a creek area of a fall, but are unable to determine if she killed herself, was murdered, or merely slipped and fell. Mike and Sheppard investigate the death of a man at a movie theater.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: The murder victim at the movie theater apparently loudly gave away the plot points of all the movies he attended, including spoiling the endings, which make the theater patrons, and manager Frank Hopper (Creator/WallaceShawn), angry at him. When she's arresting Hopper for the murder, Sheppard even admits she sympathizes with what he did.
* BaitAndSwitch: Giardello calls Mike into his office, and Mike naturally assumes he's going to be chewed out. Instead, Giardello reveals his daughter Charisse has had a baby boy, making him a grandfather and Mike an uncle.
* ImagineSpot: At the funeral, Marcus (Creator/DanFutterman), Kimberly's fiancee, imagines he sees Kimberly walk up the church aisle in her wedding dress, as if he was at their wedding instead of her funeral.
* ObligatoryJoke: When Mike and Sheppard find out their murder victim died during a double feature of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''Film/TheBigSleep'', but the audience has left so they have no one to interview:
-->'''Sheppard''': Well, I suppose there's only one thing left to do.\\
'''Mike''', '''Sheppard''': [[SpeakInUnison Round up the usual suspects]].
* RunawayBride: Ballard reveals to Bayliss she was one of these, as she ran out on her fiancee two weeks before the wedding.
->Directed By: Tim Van Patten
->Written By: Anya Epstein
Ballard and Bayliss get the case of Kimberly Cullen, a woman who died in a creek area of a fall, but are unable to determine if she killed herself, was murdered, or merely slipped and fell. Mike and Sheppard investigate the death of a man at a movie theater.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: The murder victim at the movie theater apparently loudly gave away the plot points of all the movies he attended, including spoiling the endings, which make the theater patrons, and manager Frank Hopper (Creator/WallaceShawn), angry at him. When she's arresting Hopper for the murder, Sheppard even admits she sympathizes with what he did.
* BaitAndSwitch: Giardello calls Mike into his office, and Mike naturally assumes he's going to be chewed out. Instead, Giardello reveals his daughter Charisse has had a baby boy, making him a grandfather and Mike an uncle.
* ImagineSpot: At the funeral, Marcus (Creator/DanFutterman), Kimberly's fiancee, imagines he sees Kimberly walk up the church aisle in her wedding dress, as if he was at their wedding instead of her funeral.
* ObligatoryJoke: When Mike and Sheppard find out their murder victim died during a double feature of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' and ''Film/TheBigSleep'', but the audience has left so they have no one to interview:
-->'''Sheppard''': Well, I suppose there's only one thing left to do.\\
'''Mike''', '''Sheppard''': [[SpeakInUnison Round up the usual suspects]].
* RunawayBride: Ballard reveals to Bayliss she was one of these, as she ran out on her fiancee two weeks before the wedding.
