Absurdly Elderly Mother: Amy Hearn's youngest Andy, enlisted when he was 19 and disappeared afterward, 15 years earlier. That means he's now 34 when his mother turns 80, meaning Amy had him when she was 46.
Attending Your Own Funeral: Charles helps elderly Amy Hearn stage her own funeral to draw out her long-estranged children.
Bait-and-Switch: When the priest arrives, unaware that Amy Hearn is just pretending she died, Amy shows up to him and the Ingalls family think she'll confess everything to him and pull off her scheme when she asks to talk to him in private. Instead, she just pretended to be a friend of herself and the scheme goes on.
Death by Despair: Amy's friend and roommate Maddie Elder dies shortly after receiving another letter from her daughter informing she won't visit again. Her death, along with Laura's comment on how people skip birthday parties but never funerals kickstarts Amy's scheme.
Easily Forgiven: After briefly showing anger at their mother and the latter's verbal beatdown of them for essentially abandoning her there, the Hearns are quick to make amends and everyone present takes the scheme in stride, including the priest who was told Amy was a friend of herself and made an Unwitting Pawn to her scheme.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After revealing herself during her wake, Amy quickly silents her children when they try to call her out on faking her own death and points out how they abandoned her for years and it took them thinking she was dead to reunite, especially her long-lost youngest Andy, who disappeared after enlisting to the war fifteen years earlier.
