A woman named Daisy Thompson is found poisoned on her own home.
Tropes:
- Apathetic Citizens: Jones continues with his crusade of calling out everyone in the Financial Center.Jones: Is ANYBODY in this town sad upon losing a relative?! They're all so cynical.
- Awful Wedded Life: Daisy and her husband Gabriel didn't love each other anymore, though they didn't divorce since doing so would've decreased their standard of living.
- Call-Back: Alfred Ziegler and the events of Case 13 appear/are mentioned again. His hot dog stall also reappears as a crime scene.
- Caustic Critic: Tobias Sharp, who absolutely tore apart Valentine's restaurant with one of his reviews. It's the reason why she tried to kill him.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Tobias and Valentine's relationship boils down to this: he had been trying to ruin her business because she ended up with her own restaurant and he's just a food critic despite being former classmates and she decides to solve his annoyance by poisoning him.
- Embarrassing Nickname: What Jones seems to think of Ashley calling Gabriel "stud muffin."
- Forgot the Disability: Jones forgets for a moment that Alfred is blind.Alfred: ...Jones. Are you holding a picture in front of me? Should I remind you I'm blind?Jones: Well, this isn't awkward at all...
- Green-Eyed Monster: Tobias is envious of Valentine's restaurant, so he has been giving her bad reviews so she goes out of business.Tobias: Yes, me and Valentine went to cooking school together. I had more talent than her, but SHE had the money.And just because of that, she ends up with her own restaurant, and I... end up a food critic.That's why I wrote an inflammatory review about her place, so she gets what she deserves. The woman has absolutely no talent!
- Guest-Star Party Member: Nathan briefly joins you in the first task of Chapter 1, as he needed to make sure the crime scene wasn't contaminated by toxic substances.
- Hair Color Dissonance: Grace calls the victim a ginger despite she clearly being a brunette.
◊ - Life Saving Misfortune: Tobias lists one of the reasons why he was so harsh on Valentine's restaurant as having received the wrong food. Good thing it happened, since the original meal he had ordered contained poison.
- Lost My Appetite: Grace after you send her a sample of the victim's vomit.Grace: Thanks for bringing me this right before my lunch break, guys, I don't think I'll have that hot dog after all then...
- Murder by Mistake: The murderer, Valentine Montgomery, wanted to kill Caustic Critic Tobias Sharp instead of Daisy, but the waiter accidentally switched orders and Daisy ended up with Tobias' meal instead.
- Not Now, Kiddo: Jones uses this to mock Ramirez after the latter comes claiming that he has clues for the case.Jones: Ramirez, this is a grown-up discussion. Don't you have some parking tickets to fill?
- Real Men Wear Pink: Gabriel.Gabriel: Are you actually making fun of me for using nail hardener, officers?This isn't the Middle Ages anymore, you know. Yes, I wear nail hardener, I even dye my hair to cover my grey hair and I cook. Satisfied?
- Red Herring: During the case, you learn about the victim's husband having an affair with his assistant, leading you to believe that this might be another Murder the Hypotenuse case where either him or said assistant murdered Daisy. However, the murder ends up happening for totally unrelated reasons.
- Shout-Out:
- The case's title comes from the painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Tobias Sharp resembles and has the same profession as Anton Ego.
- Something We Forgot: Ramirez forgets to unlock Ashley Collins from the suspect room in Chapter 2. Good thing she had nail polish to entertain herself.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: The victim was killed by having poison slipped onto her food.
- Time-Delayed Death: The killer added detergent to the poison she used to tamper with the victim's food, weakening it so she died hours later on her own house.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: The case features two seemingly unrelated plots going on: Daisy's death, which mainly focuses on her husband and his assistant, and Tobias and Valentine's rivalry. By the end, however, Jones and the player discover that these two were Connected All Along: Valentine tried to poison Tobias on her restaurant at the same time Daisy was also eating there, but their orders were mixed and she got the tainted food instead.Jones: I have to admit this case is baffling me! On one hand, we have Daisy's husband, who was cheating on her with his assistant...... and on the other hand, we've got a catfight between a food critic and a chef.But I can't link the two together!
