An Agonizing Stomach Wound indeed.
A barge driver stumbles upon the body of a junkie named Dan Broke at the docks of the Industrial Area.
Tropes:
- Agonizing Stomach Wound: According to his killer, Dan slowly bled to death after being stabbed by him.
- Alliterative Name: Sally Stone.
- Breather Episode: In-Universe. Jones assures the player that this murder is not as gruesome as the last one, so you don't have to be reluctant about solving it.
- Cranky Landlord: Gloria Roach, the superintendent of the apartment building where the victim lived.
- Drugs Are Bad: The case's theme. The victim, Dan Broke, was a junkie who ended up murdered over a drug debt of $2000, and his girlfriend is pretty much the same. Fortunately, she appears to turn her life around at the end.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Joshua Kempe and his barbershop are mentioned before they properly debut in Case 10.
- The Vipers are also mentioned again, with their leader, Salvador Cordero, making an appearance in a photo provided by Bart Williams before he debuts in Case 9.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: In this case, there are only four aspects to the killer's profile instead of five. This is the only full case in the series that does this.
- Evil Redhead: Bulldog —a drug dealer and the murderer— is a redhead. His hair color is even used as a piece of evidence against him since the victim had traces of it on his fingernails.
- Flipping the Bird: Bulldog towards Jones and the player after his interrogation. Unfortunately for him, this ends up being used against him since by this point they already knew the killer was left-handed, which is the hand Bulldog used to flip them off.
- Grudging "Thank You": Sally after Jones and the player offer themselves to look for her antidepressants.
- Horrible Housing: The victim and his girlfriend live in a run-down apartment with barely any commodities.
- The Informant: Bart Williams.Jones: I guess we don't have any other choice... We must go see Bart. He's our snitch in Caribou Corner; knows everything that's happening there.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Jones tries to invoke this with the victim's girlfriend, although she manages to provide a convincing excuse.Sally: Alright! Me and Dan were dating. But I hadn't seen him in days, and I don't know who killed him!Jones: ...you know, we never told you Dan had been murdered.Sally: Why else would you be here? Cops only pay attention to people like us when we're DEAD!
- No Sympathy: Gloria doesn't seem much fazed about one of her tenants being dead.Gloria: If I know this man? Sure, he's got a girlfriend on the third floor. Got into trouble again?Jones: Actually, he's dead.Gloria: Oh! Oh well, at least he won't be throwing up on the stairs anymore, right?
- The Killer Was Left-Handed: During the Autopsy, it is stated that by the wounds, the killer's dominant hand is the left one.
- Recovered Addict: Sally after the case is solved and returns with her parents.
- You Won't Like Me When I'm Angry: Bulldog during the second time you interrogate him, which Jones uses to his advantage to learn more info on the former.
