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* CryCute: Hope when she confesses what happened the night of Christine's murder.
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* ConstructiveBodyDisposal: A security guard was punched and fell into the concrete. It is uncovered due to his nose still just being visible.
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Directed by Creator/DavidBarrett

Written by Creator/AshleyGable & Creator/KenWoodruff (uncredited)

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* PapaWolf: A rather tearjerking example is Jack breaking down in tears after trying to attack Flipper whom she thought murdered his daughter.

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* PapaWolf: A rather tearjerking example is Jack breaking down in tears after trying to attack Flipper whom she he thought murdered his daughter.


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* TheReveal: Van Pelt states that Christine's story (mother killed in a car accident, alcoholic father) was the exact same thing that happened to Lisbon.


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* TerritorialSmurfette: Hope was jealous of Christine "stealing her place" in their all-male group of friends.
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The body of a young surfer girl is washed up on the Santa Marta Beach and Patrick socializes with her friends to find the killer.
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* AccidentalMurder: Danny punched a security guard who broke his skull in his fall, accidentally killing him.
* AlcoholicParent: Christine's father Jack fell into alcoholism since the death of his wife after a car accident. He lets Christine take care of his younger children while he sombers into alcohol.
* BatmanGambit:
** Jane provokes Dane into punching him so he can be interrogated.
** Jane pretended to hypnotize Christine's friends, and Hope pretending to see Danny's father confirmed for Jane that the tensions in the group are caused due to all having killed her.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hope might seem like a free-spirited, kind girl, but she was actually dead jealous of Christine, and was the one who knocked her out with a shovel before convincing her friends to kill her.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: All of Christine's friends, but especially Hope, who even tried to convince ''herself'' she was a good person.
* CryCute: Hope when she confesses what happened the night of Christine's murder.
* DirtyOldMan: Dane Kurtik.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hope seemed disgusted with Danny's father who had sex with 15 year old Christine.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Beach bum Flipper, who's an alcoholic stoner and was arrested for beating a girl, refused to try any sexual advances on Christine, since she was a minor. Even if he's a creep, he states he waits for them to be 18 and legally consenting.
* GreenEyedMonster: Both Jane and Danny state that Hope was jealous of Christine, which fueled her murderous rage.
* GranolaGirl: Christine was one.
* HarmfulToMinors: A minor example, but Christine's body was found by a little girl, who was quickly pulled away by her mother.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Christine was a kind girl with blonde hair.
* ManipulativeBitch: Jane was the only one who could see this face in Hope, who was the one who influenced her friends to kill Christine.
* MissingMom: Both Danny and Christine have lost their mothers in some way.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Danny when he accidentally killed the security guard.
** All the boys after having killed Christine.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Flipper.
* PaedoHunt: Dane Kurtik was having a secret relationship with Christine, who was 15 and couldn't legally give sexual consent.
* PapaWolf: A rather tearjerking example is Jack breaking down in tears after trying to attack Flipper whom she thought murdered his daughter.
* ParentalSubstitute: Christine filled her mother's place at a young age to take care of her younger siblings.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Christine was the only one who didn't want to keep Eddie Garcia's murder a secret and to rightfully tell the authorities. It lead to her own friends murdering her so no one would know about this.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: Hope wants to help Jane find Christine's killer, while she was actually the one who orchestrated her murder. Possibly out of guilt, and to incarcerate Danny's father who was sleeping with Christine.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Christine was murdered by her own friends, to keep the accidental murder of Eddie Garcia a secret.
* WouldHitAGirl: Flipper was charged with assault on a girl who poured diesel in the ocean.

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