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Well, this season HAS some very notable things none of the seasons beforehand have for obvious reasons... Like a certain buttwipe dying twice.

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* BreakingOldTrends: Of course, since you do quite a lot of TimeTravel...
** In Summer of Death, you get to see [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase03TheSaddestOfAllKeys Ian Devine]] in his youth, same goes for Janis, the team's coroner as a teen.
** [[spoiler: In the last case of this season, we come to find out that Nebet is the victim, a suspect, [[TemporalSuicide AND the killer]] ''all at the same time.'']]
** [[spoiler: Also, in the same case and the one beforehand, we have [[AssholeVictim Ammon die twice.]] [[SarcasmMode Not like he had both coming...]]]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The chapter art of the Renaissance is a parody of "The Last Supper", with [[spoiler:Nebet]] being depicted as Judas. Guess who turns out to be [[spoiler:this season's traitor]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The chapter art of the Renaissance is a parody of "The Last Supper", "Art/TheLastSupper", with [[spoiler:Nebet]] being depicted as Judas. Guess who turns out to be [[spoiler:this season's traitor]].
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** Cisneros [[spoiler:has UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci arrested in ''Hell to Pay'' and turns out to be the killer of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII's bride, Lady Fiore, in ''Till Death Do Us Part'']], which is justified in the sense that [[spoiler:both of these events, particularly Henry's marriage, were the results of alterations in time]].

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** Cisneros [[spoiler:has UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci Creator/LeonardoDaVinci arrested in ''Hell to Pay'' and turns out to be the killer of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII's bride, Lady Fiore, in ''Till Death Do Us Part'']], which is justified in the sense that [[spoiler:both of these events, particularly Henry's marriage, were the results of alterations in time]].
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Nothing indicates that Bucky knew for sure he encountered time travelers.


** [[spoiler:Case This is played with during the next season when not only does Bucky Johnson make a reappearance, he mentions he still remembers the events of Travel In Time which prompted him to join the CIA.]]
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** One of the clues in Case 6, found under a pile of flowers dedicated to the victim, is a paragraph from a book where the protagonist comes to terms with committing this, which is written by the killer. [[spoiler:This later turns out to be true; the killer, a local military general accidentally killed the victim after trying to protect them in what was a PTSD-induced episode.]]
** While Case 21's killer attempted to remove evidence of murder, they [[spoiler:were simply trying to give the victim a shave, but due to the boat rattling and the victim being inebriated, the victim's neck accidentally hit off the blade and killed him.]]
** In Case 24, the victim had been hit over the head with a bottle, [[spoiler:though it turns out that the killer had only done so to try and scare him away, and had no idea it would kill him.]]
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Case 30 reveals that, despite all the trouble the Temporal Crimes Division went through to try fix the timeline, both their and the Ptolemy Dynasty's mere presence in the past would irreversibly destroy the timeline. Even their last hope of going back to 47 [=BCE=] to arrest Nefertiti and Ammon, the last point where history was intact, could have created another paradox if they came into contact with themselves when they were investigating Julius Caesar's murder.]]

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** One of the clues in Case 6, ''Summer of Death'', found under a pile of flowers dedicated to the victim, is a paragraph from a book where the protagonist comes to terms with committing this, which is written by the killer. [[spoiler:This later turns out to be true; the killer, a local military general accidentally killed the victim after trying to protect them in what was a PTSD-induced episode.]]
** While Case 21's the killer in ''Anchors Aweigh!'' attempted to remove evidence of murder, they [[spoiler:were simply trying to give the victim a shave, but due to the boat rattling and the victim being inebriated, the victim's neck accidentally hit off the blade and killed him.]]
** In Case 24, ''Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered'', the victim had been hit over the head with a bottle, [[spoiler:though it turns out that the killer had only done so to try and scare him away, and had no idea it would kill him.]]
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Case 30 [[spoiler: ''The Wrath of Khan'' reveals that, despite all the trouble the Temporal Crimes Division went through to try fix the timeline, both their and the Ptolemy Dynasty's mere presence in the past would irreversibly destroy the timeline. Even their last hope of going back to 47 [=BCE=] to arrest Nefertiti and Ammon, the last point where history was intact, could have created another paradox if they came into contact with themselves when they were investigating Julius Caesar's murder.]]



** Kushari appears as a profile clue in the first case in Ancient Egypt and has a minor appearance during the Age of Sail, even though Kushari wasn't invented until the 19th Century.
** In Case 4, one of the clues is that the killer eats tzatziki, a yogurt sauce of Ottoman origin dating from the 14th century, even though the case takes place during Ancient Greece.

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** Kushari appears as a profile clue in the first case in Ancient Egypt ''Death as Old as Time'' and has a minor appearance during the Age of Sail, even though Kushari wasn't invented until the 19th Century.
** In Case 4, ''A Greek Tragedy'', one of the clues is that the killer eats tzatziki, a yogurt sauce of Ottoman origin dating from the 14th century, even though the case takes place during Ancient Greece.



* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: In Case 29, Jack is swift to arrest Buyantu, a Mongolian monk in Japan, for being the shogun's killer after finding an assassination order on a prayer wheel. [[spoiler:It turns out that it's actually Oume, the teahouse owner, who had attempted to assassinate the shogun, although her plan failed in the end.]]

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* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: In Case 29, ''A Slice of Death'', Jack is swift to arrest Buyantu, a Mongolian monk in Japan, for being the shogun's killer after finding an assassination order on a prayer wheel. [[spoiler:It turns out that it's actually Oume, the teahouse owner, who had attempted to assassinate the shogun, although her plan failed in the end.]]



*** In Case 24, [[spoiler:Jorge de la Cruz]] had developed romantic feelings for the victim which were reciprocated, but homosexuality was heavily disapproved of during the Age of Sail. [[spoiler:When the victim tried to start a relationship with Jorge, the latter is frightened and tries hitting him with a bottle to scare him off, but ends up killing him by accident.]]
** As TheSixties arc revolves around the RedScare, anti-Soviet sentiment also pops up. In Case 8, [[DisproportionateRetribution a suspect accused the victim of being a communist for simply drinking vodka]], and in the final case, [[spoiler:a Soviet ambassador is killed by a senator in the hopes of provoking war with the Soviet Union.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In [[spoiler:the final case of the Altered Present]], a hologram shows [[spoiler: Ramses XLIII]] sweet-talking [[TheMole Ravi]], who claims he'd do anything to prove his loyalty to him. Later on, [[spoiler:Shabaka claims that Ramses would send her and Nefertiti out to do errands so he could have flings with the slaves.]] One has to wonder [[spoiler:[[SleepingWithTheBoss how Ravi got Ramses off his back]].]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the season finale, after being stranded in time for several months and having to deal with being fugitives, being stuck in a wrong present, preventing at least 3 destructive wars from happening, and being betrayed by a FalseFriend, all the original members of the team manage to survive and return to New York in 2029, where Chief Scott is alive, the timeline is intact as if nothing happened, and the team celebrates with a BBQ.]]

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*** In Case 24, ''Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered'', [[spoiler:Jorge de la Cruz]] had developed romantic feelings for the victim which were reciprocated, but homosexuality was heavily disapproved of during the Age of Sail. [[spoiler:When the victim tried to start a relationship with Jorge, the latter is frightened and tries hitting him with a bottle to scare him off, but ends up killing him by accident.]]
** As TheSixties arc revolves around the RedScare, anti-Soviet sentiment also pops up. In Case 8, ''Houston, We Have a Problem'', [[DisproportionateRetribution a suspect accused the victim of being a communist for simply drinking vodka]], and in the final case, ''Crime and Punishment'', [[spoiler:a Soviet ambassador is killed by a senator in the hopes of provoking war with the Soviet Union.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In [[spoiler:the final case of the Altered Present]], [[spoiler:''Fool's Gold'']], a hologram shows [[spoiler: Ramses XLIII]] sweet-talking [[TheMole Ravi]], who claims he'd do anything to prove his loyalty to him. Later on, [[spoiler:Shabaka claims that Ramses would send her and Nefertiti out to do errands so he could have flings with the slaves.]] One has to wonder [[spoiler:[[SleepingWithTheBoss how Ravi got Ramses off his back]].]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the season finale, [[spoiler:''Time's Up'', after being stranded in time for several months and having to deal with being fugitives, being stuck in a wrong present, preventing at least 3 destructive wars from happening, and being betrayed by a FalseFriend, all the original members of the team manage to survive and return to New York in 2029, where Chief Scott is alive, the timeline is intact as if nothing happened, and the team celebrates with a BBQ.]]



* FireForgedFriends: The main team becomes this as the season progresses. They weren't particularly close in the beginning, and had even started getting sick of each other in Case 12 after being stranded for so long. However, the hardships they go through for the rest of the season [[spoiler:like Nebet's betrayal, being stuck and constantly hunted down in the Altered Present, getting lost at sea and having to prevent an all-out war between two nations]] brings them much closer than they could've imagined.

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* FireForgedFriends: The main team becomes this as the season progresses. They weren't particularly close in the beginning, and had even started getting sick of each other in Case 12 ''Hell to Pay'' after being stranded for so long. However, the hardships they go through for the rest of the season [[spoiler:like Nebet's betrayal, being stuck and constantly hunted down in the Altered Present, getting lost at sea and having to prevent an all-out war between two nations]] brings them much closer than they could've imagined.



** Case 1 revolves around the murder of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar three years before his actual death, with UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus and UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII appear as suspects. During the Ancient Times arc, Mark Antony and UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} also appear, with Antony ultimately being a victim.
** Case 11 features UsefulNotes/CatherineOfAragon as the victim with both UsefulNotes/HenryVIII and UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn appearing as suspects.

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** Case 1 ''Death as Old as Time'' revolves around the murder of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar three years before his actual death, with UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus and UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII appear as suspects. During the Ancient Times arc, Mark Antony and UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} also appear, with Antony ultimately being a victim.
** Case 11 ''A Tudor Murder'' features UsefulNotes/CatherineOfAragon as the victim with both UsefulNotes/HenryVIII and UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn appearing as suspects.



** Cisneros [[spoiler:has UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci arrested in Case 12 and turns out to be the killer of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII's wife, Lady Fiore, in Case 15]], which is justified in the sense that [[spoiler:both of these events, particularly Henry's marriage, were the results of alterations in time]].

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** Cisneros [[spoiler:has UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci arrested in Case 12 ''Hell to Pay'' and turns out to be the killer of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII's wife, bride, Lady Fiore, in Case 15]], ''Till Death Do Us Part'']], which is justified in the sense that [[spoiler:both of these events, particularly Henry's marriage, were the results of alterations in time]].



* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Case 14's killer poisons another suspect's parrot because the parrot [[spoiler: would expose her secret affair with the Sultan's favourite concubine, who the victim had tasked the killer to assassinate.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Case 12's victim, a Spanish Inquisition executioner, was brutally tortured and killed [[spoiler:after his maiden found out he had executed her father for rejecting him]]. Rather than hand them over to the Inquisition, Jack convinces the cardinal to simply excommunicate and banish the killer.

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* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Case 14's The killer in ''Pride Comes Before the Fall'' poisons another suspect's parrot because the parrot [[spoiler: would expose her secret affair with the Sultan's favourite favorite concubine, who the victim had tasked the killer to assassinate.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Case 12's victim, The victim in ''Hell to Pay'', a Spanish Inquisition executioner, was brutally tortured and killed [[spoiler:after his maiden found out he had executed her father for rejecting him]]. Rather than hand them over to the Inquisition, Jack convinces the cardinal to simply excommunicate and banish the killer.



** Case 4 revolves around Kai falling sick with only an Ancient Greek doctor knowing how to solve his illness. Unfortunately, said doctor is accused of murder during the case, halting Kai from being cured until the actual killer is found.
** Case 24 kicks off with [[BodyHorror Zara's skin becoming blue and scaly]] after finding Blackbeard's treasure, resulting in the team having to seek the help of a witch doctor.

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** Case 4 ''A Greek Tragedy'' revolves around Kai falling sick with only an Ancient Greek doctor knowing how to solve his illness. Unfortunately, said doctor is accused of murder during the case, halting Kai from being cured until the actual killer is found.
** Case 24 ''Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered'' kicks off with [[BodyHorror Zara's skin becoming blue and scaly]] after finding Blackbeard's treasure, resulting in the team having to seek the help of a witch doctor.



* WhamEpisode: Case 17 of ''Travel in Time'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Nebet had never been Cleopatra's slave, but a princess of the Ptolemy dynasty in the Altered timeline, and she had been working against the team this whole time. This case also has Orlando's husband (who had died in the original timeline) make a surprise appearance after being casually mentioned in a few past cases.]]

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* WhamEpisode: Case 17 of ''Travel in Time'', ''Rebel Without a Pulse'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Nebet had never been Cleopatra's slave, but a princess of the Ptolemy dynasty in the Altered timeline, and she had been working against the team this whole time. This case also has Orlando's husband (who had died in the original timeline) make a surprise appearance after being casually mentioned in a few past cases.]]
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*** In Case 14, the killer, [[spoiler:Serap]], is in a secret affair with Roxalena, and her motive for murder was to protect her.
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** Homosexuality is seen as an undesirable trait.

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** Homosexuality is seen as an undesirable trait.trait, whether it be undesirable in general or undesirable in a public figure.
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* BisexualLoveTriangle: One forms between Zara, Theo and Kai through out the story which ends in the three of them forming a stable relationship between the trio.
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* TimeTravelingJerkass: [[spoiler:Ammon Bast]] and [[spoiler:Nefertiti]], who manipulate events so [[spoiler:Ammon]] can manipulate time to give rise to a tyrannical empire.
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* ExplodingCigar: The final victim of the Age of Sail is killed this way.
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** [[spoiler:Case This is played with during the next season when not only does Bucky Johnson make a reappearance, he mentions he still remembers the events of Travel In Time which prompted him to join the CIA.]]
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* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Case 14's killer poisons another suspect's parrot because the parrot [[spoiler: would expose her secret affair with the Sultan's favourite concubine, who the victim had tasked the killer to assassinate.]]
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*ADayInTheLimelight: Every new main character in the player's team (i.e. not Amy, Jack, or Marina) gets a little bit of spotlight in a different era, be a case focused on them, a full storyline across said district, or just more relevance in general during that arc. There's Ancient Times for Kai, The 1960s for Janis, Renaissance for Penelope, Altered Present for Orlando, Age of Sail for Zara, Medieval Asia for Theo, and The End for Nebet.

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** Ancient Times: Great Consul Octavian, who is planning to burn Egypt to the ground so he can keep power over the Roman Republic.
** The 1960s: [[spoiler:Congressman Graham Winslow]], who kills [[spoiler:Soviet Ambassador Lev Romanov]] in the district's finale so the United States and the Soviet Union go from a UsefulNotes/ColdWar to a nuclear one.
** Renaissance: Cardinal Cisneros, leader of UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition and the one responsible for incarcerating Leonardo da Vinci in the first place.
** Altered Present: A BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler:the members of the Ptolemy Dynasty, composed of King Ramses XLIII, Queen Shabaka, and Princess Nefertiti AKA [[TheMole Nebet]]]].
** Age of Sail: [[spoiler:Ammon Bast]], the main lackey of the [[spoiler:Ptolemy Dynasty and saboteur of the TimeMachine]] who is now planning to stop the team from fixing the timeline.
** Medieval Asia: Ogedei Khan, who is planning to destroy China with weapons brought from the future by [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Ammon Bast]]]].

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** Ancient Times: '''Ancient Times''': Great Consul Octavian, who is planning to burn Egypt to the ground so he can keep power over the Roman Republic.
** The 1960s: '''The 1960s''': [[spoiler:Congressman Graham Winslow]], who kills [[spoiler:Soviet Ambassador Lev Romanov]] in the district's finale so the United States and the Soviet Union go from a UsefulNotes/ColdWar to a nuclear one.
** Renaissance: '''Renaissance''': Cardinal Cisneros, leader of UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition and the one responsible for incarcerating Leonardo da Vinci in the first place.
** Altered Present: '''Altered Present''': A BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler:the members of the Ptolemy Dynasty, composed of King Ramses XLIII, Queen Shabaka, and Princess Nefertiti AKA [[TheMole Nebet]]]].
** Age '''Age of Sail: Sail''': [[spoiler:Ammon Bast]], the main lackey of the [[spoiler:Ptolemy Dynasty and saboteur of the TimeMachine]] who is now planning trying to stop the team from fixing the altered timeline.
** Medieval Asia: '''Medieval Asia''': Ogedei Khan, who is planning to destroy China with weapons brought from the future by [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Ammon Bast]]]].Bast]]]].
** '''The End:''' [[spoiler:[[BigBadDuumvirate Nefertiti and Ammon]]]].
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*ArcVillain:
**Ancient Times: Great Consul Octavian, who is planning to burn Egypt to the ground so he can keep power over the Roman Republic.
**The 1960s: [[spoiler:Congressman Graham Winslow]], who kills [[spoiler:Soviet Ambassador Lev Romanov]] in the district's finale so the United States and the Soviet Union go from a UsefulNotes/ColdWar to a nuclear one.
**Renaissance: Cardinal Cisneros, leader of UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition and the one responsible for incarcerating Leonardo da Vinci in the first place.
**Altered Present: A BigBadDuumvirate between [[spoiler:the members of the Ptolemy Dynasty, composed of King Ramses XLIII, Queen Shabaka, and Princess Nefertiti AKA [[TheMole Nebet]]]].
**Age of Sail: [[spoiler:Ammon Bast]], the main lackey of the [[spoiler:Ptolemy Dynasty and saboteur of the TimeMachine]] who is now planning to stop the team from fixing the timeline.
**Medieval Asia: Ogedei Khan, who is planning to destroy China with weapons brought from the future by [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Ammon Bast]]]].
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*BreatherEpisode:
**Right after learning about the mysterious saboteur and experiencing the tension-filled 1960s culminating in stopping [[spoiler:a nuclear war]], the Renaissance arc is much more light-hearted and less tense, featuring the zany [[spoiler:Leonardo da Vinci]] as a GuestStarPartyMember ComicRelief and having a silly but heartwarming subplot about the team members growing tired of each other but eventually having a reconciliation.
**Likewise, after the very bleak and outright depressing Altered Present comes the Age of Sail, which has a less complex plot without any shocking twists like [[spoiler:Nebet's betrayal]] and much more cheerful characters such as Mary Read backing up the team.

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!!''Criminal Case: Travel in Time'' provides examples of:



* WhamEpisode: Case 17 of ''Travel in Time'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Nebet had never been Cleopatra's slave, but a princess of the Ptolemy dynasty in the Altered timeline, and she had been working against the team this whole time. This case also has Orlando's husband (who had died in the original timeline) make a surprise appearance after being casually mentioned in a few past cases.]]

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* WhamEpisode: Case 17 of ''Travel in Time'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Nebet had never been Cleopatra's slave, but a princess of the Ptolemy dynasty in the Altered timeline, and she had been working against the team this whole time. This case also has Orlando's husband (who had died in the original timeline) make a surprise appearance after being casually mentioned in a few past cases.]]]]
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"Criminal Case: Travel in Time" is a 2019 game of the VideoGameCriminalCase series.

The player is taken to the year 2029 by a future version of Jack Archer, where they join the Temporal Crimes Division, who protect history from disturbances caused by time travel before getting stuck through different time periods. The season features seven time periods - Ancient Times (set from 47 BCE to 37 BCE), The 1960s, the Renaissance, the Altered Present, the Age of Sail, Medieval Asia, and The End.

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* AccidentalMurder:
** One of the clues in Case 6, found under a pile of flowers dedicated to the victim, is a paragraph from a book where the protagonist comes to terms with committing this, which is written by the killer. [[spoiler:This later turns out to be true; the killer, a local military general accidentally killed the victim after trying to protect them in what was a PTSD-induced episode.]]
** While Case 21's killer attempted to remove evidence of murder, they [[spoiler:were simply trying to give the victim a shave, but due to the boat rattling and the victim being inebriated, the victim's neck accidentally hit off the blade and killed him.]]
** In Case 24, the victim had been hit over the head with a bottle, [[spoiler:though it turns out that the killer had only done so to try and scare him away, and had no idea it would kill him.]]
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Case 30 reveals that, despite all the trouble the Temporal Crimes Division went through to try fix the timeline, both their and the Ptolemy Dynasty's mere presence in the past would irreversibly destroy the timeline. Even their last hope of going back to 47 [=BCE=] to arrest Nefertiti and Ammon, the last point where history was intact, could have created another paradox if they came into contact with themselves when they were investigating Julius Caesar's murder.]]
* AnachronismStew:
** Kushari appears as a profile clue in the first case in Ancient Egypt and has a minor appearance during the Age of Sail, even though Kushari wasn't invented until the 19th Century.
** In Case 4, one of the clues is that the killer eats tzatziki, a yogurt sauce of Ottoman origin dating from the 14th century, even though the case takes place during Ancient Greece.
** Nebet has a golden streak in her hair. While hair dye did exist in Ancient Egypt, it was extremely primitive and usually only came out in black. [[spoiler:Although considering Nebet is really a princess from an altered version of 2029, it may have been intentional.]]
* BadPresent: The fourth district of the season takes place in the Altered Present, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 2029 but heavily changed as]] [[ForWantOfANail the result of numerous alterations in history starting with Caesar's premature murder]]. In this case, [[spoiler:[[EgyptIsStillAncient Ancient Egypt]] has conquered the city of New York, which has become a {{Dystopia}} ruled by the Ptolemy Dynasty, a family descended from Cleopatra and Mark Antony. In addition, time travel is hidden from the government and the Temporal Crimes Divisions are wanted criminals.]]
* BaitAndSwitchAccusation: In Case 29, Jack is swift to arrest Buyantu, a Mongolian monk in Japan, for being the shogun's killer after finding an assassination order on a prayer wheel. [[spoiler:It turns out that it's actually Oume, the teahouse owner, who had attempted to assassinate the shogun, although her plan failed in the end.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Right as Ammon is about to kill Amy and the player while stranded on an island, UsefulNotes/MaryRead steps in and evacuates the team.]]
* TheBusCameBack: Amy Young and Jack Archer return as the team co-ordinator and partner, respectively, and Marina Romanova reappears, reprising her role as TheProfiler.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Much like ''Mysteries Of The Past'', several examples of this are seen within the season.
** Homosexuality is seen as an undesirable trait.
*** In Ancient Rome, [[AdaptationalSexuality Brutus]] was on the risk of being outed by a political opponent.
*** The first victim in the 1960s is a gay man who faced disownment from his father, while the second victim of the 1960s got into a physical alteration with a bartender who suspected him of being gay.
*** In Case 14, the killer, [[spoiler:Serap]], is in a secret affair with Roxalena, and her motive for murder was to protect her.
*** In Case 24, [[spoiler:Jorge de la Cruz]] had developed romantic feelings for the victim which were reciprocated, but homosexuality was heavily disapproved of during the Age of Sail. [[spoiler:When the victim tried to start a relationship with Jorge, the latter is frightened and tries hitting him with a bottle to scare him off, but ends up killing him by accident.]]
** As TheSixties arc revolves around the RedScare, anti-Soviet sentiment also pops up. In Case 8, [[DisproportionateRetribution a suspect accused the victim of being a communist for simply drinking vodka]], and in the final case, [[spoiler:a Soviet ambassador is killed by a senator in the hopes of provoking war with the Soviet Union.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In [[spoiler:the final case of the Altered Present]], a hologram shows [[spoiler: Ramses XLIII]] sweet-talking [[TheMole Ravi]], who claims he'd do anything to prove his loyalty to him. Later on, [[spoiler:Shabaka claims that Ramses would send her and Nefertiti out to do errands so he could have flings with the slaves.]] One has to wonder [[spoiler:[[SleepingWithTheBoss how Ravi got Ramses off his back]].]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the season finale, after being stranded in time for several months and having to deal with being fugitives, being stuck in a wrong present, preventing at least 3 destructive wars from happening, and being betrayed by a FalseFriend, all the original members of the team manage to survive and return to New York in 2029, where Chief Scott is alive, the timeline is intact as if nothing happened, and the team celebrates with a BBQ.]]
* EgyptIsStillAncient: [[spoiler:New Cairo and the Altered Present take heavy influence from Ancient Egypt. Justified in the sense that New Cairo is the result of several alterations to history that gave Egypt an upper-hand, even in scenarios where they were the under-dog..]]
* FireForgedFriends: The main team becomes this as the season progresses. They weren't particularly close in the beginning, and had even started getting sick of each other in Case 12 after being stranded for so long. However, the hardships they go through for the rest of the season [[spoiler:like Nebet's betrayal, being stuck and constantly hunted down in the Altered Present, getting lost at sea and having to prevent an all-out war between two nations]] brings them much closer than they could've imagined.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The chapter art of the Renaissance is a parody of "The Last Supper", with [[spoiler:Nebet]] being depicted as Judas. Guess who turns out to be [[spoiler:this season's traitor]].
* ForWantOfANail: The Temporal Crimes Division's main role is to prevent these from happening, as time travel is a fairly recent invention in-canon and also attracts rogue time travelers. The plotline is actually kicked off by Julius Caesar being murdered by a rogue time traveler, which, [[spoiler:alongside various other anomalies in time, leads to the present becoming an Egyptian {{Dystopia}}.]]
* TheFuture: The arc is set in 2029, a decade after the events of ''The Conspiracy''.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** Case 1 revolves around the murder of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar three years before his actual death, with UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus and UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII appear as suspects. During the Ancient Times arc, Mark Antony and UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} also appear, with Antony ultimately being a victim.
** Case 11 features UsefulNotes/CatherineOfAragon as the victim with both UsefulNotes/HenryVIII and UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn appearing as suspects.
** Creator/LeonardoDaVinci plays a large role in the Renaissance arc, assisting the team in fixing the ship.
** Age of Sail has Captain Schadrach and Mary Read as major characters who help the team, while UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} appears as a case victim.
** Medieval Asia has Ogodei Khan (Genghis Khan's son) be sought after by both the team and Ammon Bast, while they also encounter general Subutai and his wives.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: UsefulNotes/MarcusJuniusBrutus is the son of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar and was only angered by the fact the latter had disowned him. Justified since the game starts off with Caesar being murdered by a T.I.M.E. agent three years before his actual death, so Brutus never conspired to murder him.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} is not only a ManipulativeBastard and [[SmugSnake egotistical]], but actually attempts to destroy Egypt rather than conquering it after Caesar's death. Luckily Jack and the player manage to trick him into giving up.
** Cisneros [[spoiler:has UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci arrested in Case 12 and turns out to be the killer of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII's wife, Lady Fiore, in Case 15]], which is justified in the sense that [[spoiler:both of these events, particularly Henry's marriage, were the results of alterations in time]].
* LaResistance: The team allies with one in the Altered Present after [[spoiler:solving Chief Scott's murder]]. Among their notable members are IronLady Isabelle Huxley, [[TheMole palace porter]] Ravi Jabari, and historian Sirius Atwood, who turns out to be [[spoiler:[[TheLostLenore Orlando's deceased husband from the original timeline]].]]
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The previous 5 seasons have always lasted between 56 to 60 cases. Travel in Time, and now Supernatural Investigations, only lasts for 30.[[note]][[spoiler: actually 31 in Travel in Time's case]].[[/note]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Case 12's victim, a Spanish Inquisition executioner, was brutally tortured and killed [[spoiler:after his maiden found out he had executed her father for rejecting him]]. Rather than hand them over to the Inquisition, Jack convinces the cardinal to simply excommunicate and banish the killer.
* RunningGag:
** Jack's fear of aging is the butt of several jokes from Theo.
** Janis using the morgue's crematorium to bake cookies and offering them to the player and their partner.
** [[{{Cockfight}} Both Kai and Theo pine for the attention of Zara]]. This results in several ShipTease moments such as Zara kissing Kai after he recovers from sickness, and then a potential threesome between all three. The conflict ends with them forming a three way relationship.
* SickEpisode:
** Case 4 revolves around Kai falling sick with only an Ancient Greek doctor knowing how to solve his illness. Unfortunately, said doctor is accused of murder during the case, halting Kai from being cured until the actual killer is found.
** Case 24 kicks off with [[BodyHorror Zara's skin becoming blue and scaly]] after finding Blackbeard's treasure, resulting in the team having to seek the help of a witch doctor.
* WhamEpisode: Case 17 of ''Travel in Time'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Nebet had never been Cleopatra's slave, but a princess of the Ptolemy dynasty in the Altered timeline, and she had been working against the team this whole time. This case also has Orlando's husband (who had died in the original timeline) make a surprise appearance after being casually mentioned in a few past cases.]]

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