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* TokenGoodCop: Sheriff Fuller is a thorough and dedicated investigator, while his three deputies are [[CluelessDeputy bunglers]] who only ever do anything useful by accident.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Arriving at the first crime scene, where the victim has a hatchet buried in his skull, Sheriff Fuller makes a comment about having 'a splitting headache'. Thinking the sheriff as making a pun, his CluelessDeputy Ernie proceeds to make a Hurricane Of Puns about axes, to the sheriff's growing bewilderment.
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* InappropriateHunger: Sheriff Fuller surveys the crime scene where Wade Hutchinson's body has been hacked into pieces with a [[MacheteMayhem machete]] while eating a box of popcorn he takes off his deputy.
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* TheBenchwarmer: Amy constantly talks about being on the basketball team. However, her father Ben eventually learns that she has never played in a game, and she explains that the coach needed eight players for a team, and only eight girls showed up for the tryouts.
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* TheBenchwarmer: Amy constantly talks about being on the basketball team. However, her father Ben Ken eventually learns that she has never played in a game, and she explains that the coach needed eight players for a team, and only eight girls showed up for the tryouts.
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* CatapultNightmare: The opening scene has Ben suffering a FlashbackNightmare where he is tortured by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the basketball team. He sits up suddenly as he wakes, only to discover he is late for work.
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* CatapultNightmare: The opening scene has Ben Ken suffering a FlashbackNightmare where he is tortured by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the basketball team. He sits up suddenly as he wakes, only to discover he is late for work.
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* DesiresPrisonLife: Sheriff Fuller asks Ben why he was willing to [[FalseConfession take the fall for crimes he hadn't committed]], and Ben replies that everything on the outside is so confusing that being sent back to the asylum where there is order and routine seemed like a good option.
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* DesiresPrisonLife: Sheriff Fuller asks Ben Ken why he was willing to [[FalseConfession take the fall for crimes he hadn't committed]], and Ben Ken replies that everything on the outside is so confusing that being sent back to the asylum where there is order and routine seemed like a good option.
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* FalseConfession: Ben doesn't exactly confess to the murders, but he offers no defence either, because he is NotUsedToFreedom and being sent back to the asylum is looking pretty inviting to him. Sheriff Fuller figures it out when Ben doesn't know anything about the notes the killer sent the police.
* FlashbackNightmare: Ben has a recurring flashback nightmare to when he was BoundAndGagged and tortured by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the high school basketball team.
* FlashbackNightmare: Ben has a recurring flashback nightmare to when he was BoundAndGagged and tortured by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the high school basketball team.
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* FalseConfession: Ben Ken doesn't exactly confess to the murders, but he offers no defence either, because he is NotUsedToFreedom and being sent back to the asylum is looking pretty inviting to him. Sheriff Fuller figures it out when Ben Ken doesn't know anything about the notes the killer sent the police.
* FlashbackNightmare:Ben Ken has a recurring flashback nightmare to when he was BoundAndGagged and tortured by the {{Jerk Jock}}s on the high school basketball team.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The inverted form. Sheriff Fuller is convinced Ben is making a FalseConfession, and talks to him about the notes the killer sent: saying he found the one reading "I am a monster" particularly chilling. Ben says "Thank you", and Fuller then tells him that there never was a note reading that. The "I am a monster" note was from the 'Son of Sam' case.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The inverted form. Sheriff Fuller is convinced Ben Ken is making a FalseConfession, and talks to him about the notes the killer sent: saying he found the one reading "I am a monster" particularly chilling. Ben Ken says "Thank you", and Fuller then tells him that there never was a note reading that. The "I am a monster" note was from the 'Son of Sam' case.
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* NotUsedToFreedom: Sheriff Fuller asks Ben why he was willing to [[FalseConfession take the fall for crimes he hadn't committed]], and Ben replies that everything on the outside is so confusing that being sent back to the asylum where there is order and routine seemed like a good option.
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* NotUsedToFreedom: Sheriff Fuller asks Ben Ken why he was willing to [[FalseConfession take the fall for crimes he hadn't committed]], and Ben Ken replies that everything on the outside is so confusing that being sent back to the asylum where there is order and routine seemed like a good option.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Played with by Sheriff Fuller (whose comments show him to be highly intelligent). He tells Ben that chess is his way of escaping from his problems. He doesn't play the game but, for some reason, thinking about it calms him down.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Played with by Sheriff Fuller (whose comments show him to be highly intelligent). He tells Ben Ken that chess is his way of escaping from his problems. He doesn't play the game but, for some reason, thinking about it calms him down.
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* CluelessDeputy: Sheriff Fuller's head deputy Ernie. Arriving at the first crime scene, where the victim has [[AnAxeToGrind a hatchet buried in his skull]], the sheriff makes a comment about having 'a splitting headache'. Thinking the sheriff as making a pun, Ernie proceeds to make a HurricaneOfPuns about axes, to the sheriff's growing bewilderment. And, according to the sheriff, his other two deputies are even worse (they can't even properly surround a crime scene with tape).
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* CluelessDeputy: Sheriff Fuller's head deputy Ernie. Arriving at the first crime scene, where the victim has [[AnAxeToGrind a hatchet buried in his skull]], skull, the sheriff makes a comment about having 'a splitting headache'. Thinking the sheriff as making a pun, Ernie proceeds to make a HurricaneOfPuns about axes, to the sheriff's growing bewilderment. And, according to the sheriff, his other two deputies are even worse (they can't even properly surround a crime scene with tape).
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* AnAxeToGrind: The first victim is found with a hatchet buried in his head.
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* Sandbox/ApparentlyUnrelatedMurders: The killings are this to the sheriff (although the viewer knows the connection from the start). Following a EurekaMoment triggered by a comment from his CluelessDeputy, he discovers that the victims all played on the same high school basketball team.
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* OldCopYoungCop: The intelligent but not infallible sheriff is about the same age as his girlfriend, who's a grandmother. His pun-making CluelessDeputy is decades younger.
