While accompanying Frank to a timber mill to ask its workers for bar directions, him and the player are greeted with the body of travel writer Paula Mahler instead, tied to a saw table and partially cut in half.
Tropes:
- Agent Scully: Just like Amy, Frank has his doubts while hearing about the Night Walker.Frank: Sounds like a story parents make up to keep their kids out of the woods at night...
- Beard of Barbarism: Allen Muir, a hermit living in the woods, sports one.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Discussed. Frank mistakes Allen Muir, one of the suspects, for Bigfoot.
- Buffy Speak: When Yann explains that the spores you found on a crime scene come from Agraricus sylvicola mushroom, Frank refers to them as "Agra-whatsit sylvi-whosit".
- Comically Missing the Point: When Ruthie tells you she saw the Night Walker and attempts to pin the murder on it, Frank wonders why would the Night Walker be out during daytime.
- Cuteness Proximity: At the start of the case, Chief Marquez happily remarks how she saw a snowshoe rabbit from her motel window.
- Dying Town: Logan's Pass, the small town where the case takes place, is slowly fading away from the tourist's interest, hence why Ruthie Samson, the Tourism Office Director, asked Paula to write about it on her travel guide. When she refused, Ruthie murdered her.Ruthie: I have wasted my whole life trying to put this little nowhere town on the map! Paula promised to help! She was my last chance to make Logan's Pass the next Aspen!But not only did she decide not to write about the hotel and shopping, she intended to remove Logan's Pass from her guide book entirely!So I decided to cut her just like she cut Logan's Pass from her travel guide!
- Flowery Insults: When Frank mistakes him for Bigfoot, Allen calls Frank a "fritzafrickinfrakkin idiot."
- Guest-Star Party Member: Duncan becomes your partner during the Additional Investigation, since he seems interested with investigating more about the Night Walker.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Subverted. The killer attempted to do this with Paula, but only managed to cut part of her head and shoulder.
- The Hermit: Allen Muir, a wild man who lives in the forest and people tend to mistake for the Night Walker, which he gladly accepts as it keeps people away from him.Allen: I don't know anyone named Paula. I don't know anyone around here! I'm a hermit. That's kind of the point.
- Holy Burns Evil: In the Additional Investigation, you find a bag full of crosses and Holy Water pertaining to Judd, who tells you he carries it around in case he needs to fight the Night Walker.
- Innocently Insensitive: As we learn throughout the case, Paula was this towards all of the suspects due to being The Ditz, such as accidentally defiling a sacred ground in front of an archaeologist or feeding a Mountie's horse with chocolate.Frank: Wow... That Paula Mahler sure made a lot of enemies in Logan's Pass, even if only by accident...
- Interrupted Suicide: Judd almost commits suicide due to his paycheck getting docked, which as a poor lumberjack means a lot of financial trouble for him. Fortunately, Frank manages to snap him out of it.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Frank refers to Duke, his turtle, as his best friend in the world.
- Mondegreen Gag: Hannah thinks Paula did something to Brian's hair when he was actually referring to his horse.
- Never Found the Body: According to the portion of the legend told by Melody, the bodies of the people the Night Walker kidnapped were never found again.
- NOT!: Frank's reaction when you find out that the killer wears hiking boots... in the middle of a mountain.Frank: So the killer wears hiking boots! Well, that really narrows down the list of suspects around here... NOT!
- I Owe You My Life: Paula became extremely grateful to lumberjack Judd Tucker after he saved her from a falling tree, up to inviting him for dinner. Unfortunately, this incident led to Judd failing to meet his quota for the day and get his pay docked.
- Protective Charm: In the Additional Investigation, you find out that inhabitants of White Peaks have been leaving these scattered on the forest, which supposedly work against the Night Walker.
- Pulled from Your Day Off: Frank and the player discover the body on their way to a bar since they weren't on duty yet.
- Shout-Out:
- The case's title is based on the musical of the same name.
- Judd Tucker resembles Tucker.
- Ruthie Samson resembles Paula Deen.
- Allen Muir is a parody of Alan Moore.
- Melody Rivers is a parody of River Song.
- In the Stone Circle scene, there is what appears to be a paper version of Captain America's shield.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Brian McKenzie, a RCMP who was taking a vacation in White Peaks, does this by accident with Paula and immediately regrets it.Brian: Well, Paula was her own worst enemy, if you get my meaning. She needed a lot of assistance. For someone writing about camping, she was pretty clueless about the subject.Oh, but I feel awful speaking ill of her now! How could I be such a monster?
- Was Once a Man: Allen and Melody tell you that in the Urban Legend of the Night Walker, said monster used to be a man before he transformed into the monster he is known to be today.Melody: Well... Here is what I can say for sure: the Night Walker hasn't always been a monster. He was a man once!He got disfigured during the Civil War. As a war veteran, you'd expect people would have treated him as a hero...But I guess his scarred face was so horrifying, the villagers started seeing him as a monster. He ended up taking refuge in the forest and was never seen again!
