History Recap / ColdCaseS1E12Glued

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Overwhelmed with her [[BrattyHalfPint bratty]] kids and newborn, Nicole prayed to God to relieve her burdens. That night, Tim was murdered. Nicole feels responsible for his death, believing that this was God's twisted way of answering her prayer.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Nicole, a {{Housewife}} overwhelmed with her three children, sneaks out for cigarettes.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After 24 years, the real killer is caught, Latrell is reunited with his mother after years on the run, Nicole is relieved that she didn't cause the death of Tim, and Stillman can finally put ThatOneCase behind him.
* TheGhost: Tim's siblings are only shown in the flashbacks. They are living in opposite coasts in the present day.
* MistakenForMurderer: As Latrell was last seen interacting with Tim and he wasn't exactly an upstanding citizen, he knew he'd be blamed for Tim's murder sooner or later, so save his mom from further burdens, Latrell went on the run. By the time the detectives found him, Latrell is living in a drug house under an assumed name.

* DirtyCoward: The killer, Sean Murphy, is racist towards blacks but when it was time to confront them he went after a little white boy.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The murder's motive is this. It's one thing when a kid shoplifts, that normally calls for calling their parents or a talking to about why stealing is wrong. But when he learned the victim shoplifted glue from his store for the gangsters who pressured him into stealing it for them, the murderer takes it a little too far. First, he takes it out on the boy (''rather than'' the gang who bullied him to do it in the first place) because in his own bigoted way, he sees the boy's act as "betrayal". Second, he knocks the boy out and leaves him in the cold to die from hypothermia, leading to a race riot. All because of prejudice and a stolen glue stick.

* RagsToRiches: Sean the former manager of a discount store is now the owner of a real estate company.

-->'''Vera''': Heard that you were the last to see him.
-->'''Murphy''': Me and whoever killed him.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Radiation experimentation on children was both considered necessary and patriotic in the 1950's

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Overwhelmed with her bratty kids and newborn, Nicole prayed to God to relieve her burdens. That night, Tim was murdered. Nicole feels responsible for his death, believing that this was God's twisted way of answering her prayer.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Nicole, overwhelmed with her three children, sneaks out for cigarettes.

* ThatOneCase: For Stillman, who missed the birth of his own daughter to work on the case

* ThatOneCase: For Stillman, who missed the birth of his own daughter.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After 24 years, the real killer is caught, Latrell is finally reunited with his mother after years on the run, and Nicole is relieved that she didn't cause the death of Tim.

* BittersweetEnding: After the real killer is caught, Latrell is finally reunited with his mother after years on the run, and Nicole is relieved that she didn't cause the death of Tim.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Nicole, overwhelmed with her three children, sneaks out for cigarettes.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Overwhelmed with her crazy kids and newborn, Nicole prayed to God to relieve her burdens. That night, Tim was murdered. Nicole feels responsible for his death, believing that this was God’s twisted way of answering her prayer.
* {{Confessional}}: The killer confessed to the murder in a confessional, so the priest cannot divulge the important information, even when he’s retired.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The murder's motive is this. It's one thing when a kid shoplifts, that normally calls for calling their parents or a talking to about why stealing is wrong. But when he learned the victim shoplifted glue from his store for the gangsters who pressured him into stealing it for them, the murderer takes it a little too far. First, he takes it out on the boy (''rather than'' the gang who bullied him to do it in the first place) because in his own bigoted way, he sees the boy's act as "betrayal". Second, he knocks the boy out and leaves him in the cold to die from hypothermia. All because of prejudice and a stolen glue stick.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Nicole, overwhelmed with her three children, has a cigarette.
* ThatOneCase: For Stillman.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The murder's motive is this. It's one thing when a kid shoplifts, that normally calls for calling their parents or a talking to about why stealing is wrong. But when he learned the victim shoplifted glue from his store for the gangsters who pressured him into stealing it for them, the murderer takes it a little too far. First, he takes it out of the boy (''rather than'' the gang who bullied him to do it in the first place) because in his own bigoted way, he sees the boy's act as "betrayal". Second, he knocks the boy out cold and leaves him for dead in the hypothermia. All because of prejudice and a stolen glue stick.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Nicole, overwhelmed with her three children, has a cigarette.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The murder's motive is this. It's one thing when a kid shoplifts, that normally calls for calling their parents or a talking to about why stealing is wrong. But when he learned the victim shoplifted glue from his store for the gangsters who pressured him into stealing it for them, the murderer takes it a little too far. First, he takes it out of the boy (''rather than'' the gang who bullied him to do it in the first place) because in his own bigoted way, he sees the boy's act as "betrayal". Second, he knocks the boy out cold and leaves him for dead in the hypothermia. All over glue and prejudice.