Michelle: <Player's Name>, looks like one heck of a party rolled through here. Unfortunately, a deadly one!
The Bureau attends the Olympic Games ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discover what SOMBRA is trying to accomplish by sending genetically-enhanced athletes from Luzaguay to participate in the event. Sensing something might happen at the Copacabana Beach area where celebrations are taking place, Chief Ripley sends Michelle and the player to investigate there, where they find the body of Luzaguayan athlete Oscar Rojas with a syringe sticking out of his neck.
Tropes:
- Accidental Murder: Edson Caetano, the killer, didn't actually mean to kill Oscar, but he was tricked by SOMBRA into injecting him with a drug that was supposed to just make him high and unable to compete, not knowing it was a lethal composition. For this reason, Judge Adaku only gives him a 5-year sentence.
- Anguished Outburst: Edson was under so much pressure about winning the 200 meters competition that the thought of losing against the doped Oscar made him snap, which made it easy for SOMBRA to trick him into accidentally killing Oscar.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Jack and Michelle are shocked when they accidentally ingest ayahuasca
thinking it was coffee.Lars: That's... ayahuasca. The hallucinogenic drug. It's from the bag of vines and sticks you brought me earlier.Jack and Michelle: IT'S WHAT?! - Babysitter from Hell: During her Intoxication Ensues moment, Michelle relieves a bunch of Repressed Memories of her nanny, who apparently locked her in the closet a bunch of times.
- Call-Back:
- Yamil Albarran recalls how the Luzaguayan athletes went to a training camp in Indonesia and returned better than ever.
- O.M. MediLab is revealed to be the ones behind the murder of Oscar, as they're the ones who tricked Edson into injecting him with poison.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Michelle attempts to make a joke herself during one of Lars' analyses, which ends up being... not so good.Michelle: What did the chemist say to solids, liquids, and gases?... Does it even matter?
Get it? Because all these are matter? - The Casanova: Hector Montoya, the South American goodwill ambassador, is introduced by being surrounded by women who he calls "their dears", and later attempts to flirt with Michelle by calling her beautiful.
- Chaos Is Evil: Chief Ripley deduces that the reason why SOMBRA killed one of their own recruits then attempted to do the same with other athletes was because they wanted to evoke chaos in the Olympics and nothing else.
- Cliffhanger: The case ends with the Bureau rushing to a small town in Colombia where SOMBRA was born, hoping to find something that will put an end to the organization once and for all.
- Crippling the Competition: Edson was tricked into killing Oscar by injecting him a syringe full of ayahuasca mixed with brugmansia, which Edson believed would just drug Oscar and make him unable to compete.
- Dance Battler: One of the killer's traits is that they practice capoeira, since the killer incapacitated the victim with a kick only used in the martial art.
- Drugs Are Bad: In addition of being genetically-enhanced by SOMBRA, Oscar was also taking steroids to boost his performance, which enraged Edson since he had lost the 100 meter competition to Oscar. For this reason, he decided to drug him with ayahuasca but ended up killing him.
- Fun with Homophones: Olga tells you she tried to ruin Oscar's gold medal because he was a cheater, something that makes Michelle assume Olga knew he was taking steroids. Nope, he actually cheated on her with a synchronized swimmer.
- Go Back to the Source: Thanks to an old SOMBRA flyer to find in the Additional investigation, you discover the organization was first conceived on a small town in Colombia, which prompts the Bureau to rush there and learn more about SOMBRA's origins.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Oscar had a severe case of anger management issues, as you find videos of him screaming, trashing a bar, and punching his coach in the eye for accusing him of taking steroids, all in the same day.
- Improbable Sports Skills: Due to the SOMBRA recruits receiving Bio-Augmentation, the Luzaguayan athletes were breaking records at the Olympics all on their own, which made some people suspicious about the ingest of steroids.
- Intoxication Ensues: Jack and Michelle accidentally get high on ayahuasca after mistaking it for coffee on Lars' desk, with Jack hugging and telling Lars how much he loves him and Michelle relieving stressful memories of her childhood.
- Jar Potty: You find one as a clue pertaining to Oscar, which Hector had requested to see if he was really taking steroids. As in turns out, he was.
- Love at First Sight: Olga Chizhova tells you how she and Oscar fell in love since they saw each other in the opening ceremony and were dating, though they broke up after Olga found out he had cheated on her.
- No Sense of Humor: Michelle demonstrates this when she ruins Lars' "Knock Knock" Joke.Michelle: Harris who?
Oh! I know... The "hair is" in the bowl...
Lars: The hair is in-
Wait, you're not supposed to guess!
Michelle: Sorry, Lars. I'm not good with jokes. - The Olympics: The case's setting.
- Playing with Syringes: The victim was killed after being injected with a mix of ayahuasca and brugmansia, which Grace explains creates a lethal concoction if combined.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite being something of a Casanova, Hector Montoya is shown to be a pretty efficient goodwill ambassador, as he was trying to make the competition fair by attempting to bust athletes using steroids and even gives you very useful information regarding SOMBRA, albeit indirectly.
- Redemption Rejection: Edson tried to talk Oscar out of consuming steroids, trying to make the competition fair, but he tells you how Oscar refused and instead laughed on his face.
- Regime Change: At the start of the case, Michelle informs the Bureau that Luzaguay has democratically elected a new leader after Herrera's death, meaning that SOMBRA no longer holds any kind of power over the country.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: During the Additional Investigation, you find an old revolutionary flyer from SOMBRA calling people to topple politicians and tyrants for a better future, and given how SOMBRA has been executing said ideologies for the past years...
- Seers: Mãe Janaína de Iemanjá, a Brazilian priestess you meet as a suspect, claims she's able to see the future, and even warned the victim about his imminent death which triggered his anger management issues.
- Shout-Out:
- The case's setting is based on the 2016 Summer Olympics, which were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- In the Olympic Parade scene, there is a magenta teddy bear.
- In the Olympic Stadium scene, there's the Discobolus statue.
- In the Favela Bar scene, there is a cap with the logo of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
- In the Bar Table scene, there is a soda can resembling Coca-Cola and a ketchup bottle resembling Heinz.
- Technicolor Eyes: As with every other SOMBRA recruit, Oscar had yellow eyes that quickly allows Michelle to identify him as one.
- Tickertape Parade: You find the body near the inactive Olympic parade, which you don't get to see in action as Michelle and the player purposefully arrived early to avoid the crowds of people.
- Trauma Button: Michelle and her childhood memories come to hit her after accidentally getting high on ayahuasca, remembering how her nanny used to lock her in the closet.Michelle: I could've done without rehashing my childhood traumas. Why did I have to remember my nanny?!
- Turn Off the Camera: Oscar does this when you find a news report of him trashing the bar around during one of his many rage outbursts.Oscar: The world will know my name! And there's nothing you can do to stop that!
Get that camera out of my fa-! - Woman Scorned: Olga attempted to ruin Oscar's gold medal by scribbling it with chalk after she found out he had cheated on her with a swimmer.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After winning the 100-meter competition, SOMBRA saw no more use for Oscar and tricked Edson into killing him, as a winning athlete dying in the middle of the Olympics would stir a lot of chaos and trouble, something that SOMBRA wanted in the first place.
