Awesome / Criminal Case

Awesome moments in Criminal Case:

Grimsborough

• Jones's Shut Up, Hannibal! moment to Tony Marconi in Into the Viper's Nest, after the other man declares that they both do what they have to do to protect the community.
  Jones: You've got it all wrong, Marconi: you think you're above the law, and I'm here to remind you the law is above EVERYBODY!
• During a side-quest in Into the Viper's Nest, your player character and Jones find a box with a combination-lock. Since the player has a good track record for figuring out puzzles, Jones dares you to try opening the box in the time it'll take him to say the alphabet (and figuring out the combination takes the form of a mini-game). The player character opens the box before Jones gets to the letter F.
• Ramirez gets a moment to subvert his usual Police Are Useless label in The Rorschach Reaper. Specifically, by rescuing Jones and the player from the Rorschach Reaper in a combination of Big Damn Heroes and Spanner in the Works—he knocks out a mind-controlled Jones to save the player from being murdered.
  • He also does the same thing in There Will Be Blood to save Jones and the player from the district killer and leader of the Crimson Order, Milton Grimmes.
  Ramirez: Rule number one: Never go anywhere without your trusted frying pan!

Pacific Bay

• Killing Time. During his trial, Fredo threatens to blow up the courtroom, but is stopped when he's shot by Hannah.
  Hannah: Time's up, Fredo!
• As evil as Duncan Young is, teaching himself to walk again to avoid being wheelchair-bound for life and Obfuscating Disability for years are impressive feats.
• After the emotional trauma she went through in the last few cases, there's something so satisfying about Amy finally standing up to her mother in The End of the Night.
• Smart Money has a drone attack Amy Young and the player until Frank Knight comes out of nowhere and shoots it down.
• In The Final Countdown, a deranged Bobby Prince threatens to kill Amy for not being in love with him. Instead of being afraid, Amy pulls out her own gun and shoots him down before he can hurt her or the player.

World Edition

• In Die by the Sword, Jonah Karam thwarting Omar Bahir, aka The Sword's, plan to kill the player and Carmen by firing at him out of nowhere.
• At the end of Countdown to Murder, The SOMBRA satellite being taken control by The Bureau, thanks to Elliot's skills and Nikolai's program.
  • Marina, after being dismissed by the Bureau each time, is proven to be right about her mother's untrustworthiness. She's the one who personally arrests her mother for betraying the entire world.
• In Plagued by Death, we get to see Angela's Determinator side. Not only does she work alongside Lars for days to help cure a plague spreading through Bangalore, but even when Lars gets the plague she swears to not give up and sets out to find the cure after discovering that the killer didn't have it. When she finds out that one of the suspects had been withholding information about it, she gets so angry that she manages to scare her into sharing her research with the Bureau. After creating the cure and distributing it to the remaining sick people of Bangalore, she makes sure to confiscate all the leftover virus samples and any research that went into it so it wouldn't fall back into the wrong hands.
• In The Murder Games, Jonah manages to grab a crossbow bolt out of the air after it was fired.
  • In the same case, while Hiroshi's death is a major Tear Jerker, it turns out that the reason was because he refused to obey SOMBRA's orders to partake in a child-killing competition. To put it in perspective, Hiroshi was a lost, possibly defenseless kid, and he still had the guts to stand up to SOMBRA.
  • There's also Elliot using the hacked satellite to rescue the children from The Hunt.
• In A Stab in the Dark, Elliot is able to hack into a device from SOMBRA that the owner claims is unhackable. Too bad this gets him kidnapped.
  • However, Jonah saves him by shooting Elliot's kidnapper in the hand.
• In In Plain Sight, Jonah saves Carmen from a deadly assassin, shooting him in the head before he can harm her.
• The King's Shadow has the very satisfying arrest of El Rey, who had killed Michelle Zuria before being discovered by the Bureau. Not only that, but the player also manages to arrest the founding members of SOMBRA, dealing a huge blow to the organization.

Mysteries of the Past

• In Last Stand for Justice, during the showdown, Justin Lawson shoots Isaac in the heart, only for Isaac to reveal that he's wearing a bulletproof vest. He then shoots Lawson in the heart.

The Conspiracy

• In Snake in the Grass, a lethal snake attacks Jones... only for the player character to grab and dispose of it, with their bare hands.
• For Stonewalled, the player solves another murder as usual. However, for this particular case, the murder happened 4 years ago!
• As crazy and evil as Shweta Noorani is, she manages to create a bomb out of a lightbulb in Breaking News, and succeeds, to boot.
  • In the same case, all four of the surviving Ad Astra gain superpowers from the Berzelium, and they single-handedly manage to defeat the player and their partners, who came prepared!
• Newmark’s AI pic is pretty outstanding for a hidden object game, especially given the fact that it's the last AI pic for the season. The pic features the four remaining Ad Astrans showing off their powers in what looks to be a fiery background. See here for yourself.
• In Blaze of Glory, Rita takes the super-powered, but lethal, Berzelium to save Grimsborough from Denise's superhumans is this and a massive Tear Jerker.
  Rita: I know what I'm sacrificing, and I know what I'm leaving behind. But the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.
  • Jones manages to survive DreamLife's dome exploding, only to lose his left eye. He also leaves the hospital just to watch Rita destroy the superhumans.
    • And keep this in mind: The last thing we knew about him before getting to the station, was that he was at the Intensive Care Unit, a location in the hospital guarded 24/7 for patients that are at the verge of death, and aside, he was in a lot of pain. Both Gabriel and Jones had to run from the hospital to there without getting caught.

Travel In Time

• In Back to the Future, the team is captured and thrown into jail. During their escape, when a guard tries to stop them, Penelope sneaks up behind him and knocks him out with a crowbar.
  • Later, when the killer is arrested, he threatens to turn the team in to the authorities at knifepoint. Before he can, Kai puts him in a chokehold, allowing the team to capture him instead.
• Being able to arrest Nebet for murder and finally getting her back for her betrayal.
• Just as Queen Shabaka is ordering the execution of the entire Resistance, Kai sets off an explosion to break them out of jail, and succeeds. Plus, Isabelle and Sirius are able to escape the wrath of the guards for the time being, in spite of a shootout occurring after the escape.
• The team making a narrow escape to their time machine and heading to the Age Of Sail where they proceed to end the Ptolemy Dynasty.
• Just before Ammon can attack the crew while on the island, Mary and Jorge arrive just in time to stop him and bring the crew to their ship.
• When Jack tries to extinguish the fires in Going Once, Going Twice, Dead! and only cause his fire blanket to catch on fire, Kai saves the day by putting it out with a bucket of water.
• In The Wrath of Khan, the team finally manages to get back at Ammon, finding evidence that he killed Santiago Sanchez to spark a war between China and Mongolia, and presenting it all to the Khan to prove his guilt. When Ammon taunts Ogedei Khan, believing himself to be untouchable, he is immediately executed by him.

Supernatural Investigations

• In Immortal Combat, when confronting Eric Zwart for beheading Dr. Aculus, Luke realized that he has taken invincibility elixir and quickly stakes him with a wooden stake with Mina Reynolds' virgin blood on it, killing him instantly.
• In Gut Out, Luke shoots the chupacabra dead just as it pounces on him.
• In the climax of Hashtag Murder, when Tiffany nearly attacks the player and Gwen, an alerted Gwen quickly shots her, killing her.
• In Dead Heat, Luke has a race against Lilly Karam and wins.
  • Earlier in the case, George Mathison uses his FBI position to convince the police to hand the investigation over to the team.
• Before Zeke Davis is able to kill the player, Jacob and Ben, Arthur Darkwood comes in just in time and manages to banish him to the Netherworld.
• After being pestered by Florence Brucker for half of This American Death, there's just something so satisfying about Luke using the Hunters' connections with the FBI to get her to back down after she calls the police on them.
• In Scry for Help, Morgana Blackhawk is stripped of her powers by Felix and the children she had kidnapped and intended to eat to strengthen her powers. Even better, Avery Mitchell, one of her potential victims gets to go with the player to confront her afterwards.
• In Divided We Fall, when Fabien is revealed to have killed Roxanne to stop her from helping the evil demons enslave everyone on Earth. Unlike most circumstances like this, everyone agrees that he's a hero, and as such he gets acquitted of all charges.
  • Later, when Arthur disappears Priya is called on to lead the Supernatural Alliance in his stead. She does an amazing job, with both Felix and Zander praising her leadership skills.
• In To Hell and Back, Hope transfers her spirit into Arthur Darkwood's body to gain the power to defeat the demon queen. She easily defeats the Queen's guards, then blasts the Queen herself in midair, disintegrating her and sealing the hole in the veil between Earth and the Underworld.
  • The Netherworld itself is quite awe-inspiring, especially in the crime scenes.

City Of Romance

• The team finally being able to catch and arrest Antoine Macaron when they managed to find a walkie talkie that exposed his Animal Smuggling plan.