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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Charlotte, literally. Every flashback shows her as a prim and modestly coiffed and dressed woman--who was an abusive drunk who eventually murdered her husband.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Charlotte, literally.Charlotte. Every flashback shows her as a prim and modestly coiffed and dressed woman--who was an abusive drunk who eventually murdered her husband.
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renamed to Prefers Going Barefoot and rewritten to focus on characters who explicitly dislike wearing shoes. also, slippers are footwear, thus she's not barefoot
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: The opening scene has Charlotte walking through a graveyard with slippers on. Implied to be due to her mental illness - i.e BarefootLoon.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Not literally, but Ryan takes the second phone call from Judy (who was fairly confident she didn't make a second phone call). When Charlotte finds out she controls Ryan and says he can't go to the dance.
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* PlotIncitingInfidelity: The murder occurs because Mitchell is cheating on his abusive wife.
* PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. It was a fairly straight forward case with a lot of clues that he missed. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from 1988-1994.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Charlotte has Alzheimer's in the present. Ryan cares for her.
* ShootTheMessenger: Not literally, but Ryan takes the second phone call from Judy (who was fairly confident she didn't make a second phone call). When Charlotte findsout out, she controls Ryan and says he can't go to the dance.
* PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. It was a fairly straight forward case with a lot of clues that he missed. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from 1988-1994.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Charlotte has Alzheimer's in the present. Ryan cares for her.
* ShootTheMessenger: Not literally, but Ryan takes the second phone call from Judy (who was fairly confident she didn't make a second phone call). When Charlotte finds
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* TheMistress: Potentially Judy. It is unclear how long the affair has been going on for, but she definitely expects him to park and enter the motel when Mitchell arrives.
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* TheMistress: Potentially Judy. It is unclear how long the affair has been going on for, but she definitely expects him Mitchell to park and enter the motel when Mitchell he arrives.
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* PlotIncitingInfidelity: The murder occurs because Mitchell is cheating on his abusive wife.
* PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. It was a fairly straight forward case with a lot of clues that he missed. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from 1988-1994.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Charlotte has Alzheimer's. Ryan cares for her.
* PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. It was a fairly straight forward case with a lot of clues that he missed. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from 1988-1994.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Charlotte has Alzheimer's. Ryan cares for her.
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* ChurchgoingVillain: Even before the revelation that she was an abusive drunk, Charlotte seemed pretty obsessed with portraying the family as the typical Christian nuclear family.
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* ADeadlyAffair: Although she'd been snacking him around for a while, it's learning of her husband's infidelity that makes Charlotte finally kill him.
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* ADeadlyAffair: Although she'd been snacking smacking him around for a while, it's learning of her husband's infidelity that makes Charlotte finally kill him.
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* ADeadlyAffair: Although she'd been snacking him around for a while, it's learning of her husband's infidelity that makes Charlotte finally kill him.
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The Alzheimer’s afflicted widow of a slain church organist begins having flashbacks about her husband’s murder, leading Lilly to reopen the case.
The victim, Mitchell Baye, was found stabbed, left in an alley in a rough part of town, surrounded by pornography and crack vials. Mitchell’s widow, Charlotte Baye, remembers that she was suspicious that he was cheating on her with a fellow church member. Charlotte’s son, Ryan, who is also her keeper, asks Lilly to close the investigation, and Charlotte’s daughter, Tina, who hasn’t seen Ryan in years, also wishes to keep the case closed. ”Good families don’t talk about these things.”
We learn that the night of the murder, Tina was with Mitchell in their green van, begging Mitchell to stop cheating on Charlotte. That night he breaks off their affair. Lilly visits Ryan again, noting the door is unlocked. She grills Ryan, asking about the night in question. She mentions the door was unlocked. Ryan eventually tells her what happened that night.
Charlotte was teaching him to dance for that night, a school dance. Charlotte, it seems, would be abusive when she drank. She controlled Ryan then, and since Ryan had to care for her now, he would leave the door unlocked, since Charlotte would often walk off on her own, and if the door happened to be unlocked, and something happened to Charlotte, then Ryan would be free. He remembers that Charlotte was drinking, and that she was angry at Mitchell for cheating on her. Mitchell told Ryan he would take him to the dance, but Charlotte, ever controlling, wouldn’t allow him. Charlotte went after Mitchell with a metal spike, and stabbed him in the bathroom. She ordered Ryan to help dispose of the body. They drove to the alley, and Charlotte made Ryan spread dirty magazines and crack vials around Mitchell’s body. The whole murder was a setup by Charlotte. Charlotte is arrested, and Ryan and Tina reunite.
The victim, Mitchell Baye, was found stabbed, left in an alley in a rough part of town, surrounded by pornography and crack vials. Mitchell’s widow, Charlotte Baye, remembers that she was suspicious that he was cheating on her with a fellow church member. Charlotte’s son, Ryan, who is also her keeper, asks Lilly to close the investigation, and Charlotte’s daughter, Tina, who hasn’t seen Ryan in years, also wishes to keep the case closed. ”Good families don’t talk about these things.”
We learn that the night of the murder, Tina was with Mitchell in their green van, begging Mitchell to stop cheating on Charlotte. That night he breaks off their affair. Lilly visits Ryan again, noting the door is unlocked. She grills Ryan, asking about the night in question. She mentions the door was unlocked. Ryan eventually tells her what happened that night.
Charlotte was teaching him to dance for that night, a school dance. Charlotte, it seems, would be abusive when she drank. She controlled Ryan then, and since Ryan had to care for her now, he would leave the door unlocked, since Charlotte would often walk off on her own, and if the door happened to be unlocked, and something happened to Charlotte, then Ryan would be free. He remembers that Charlotte was drinking, and that she was angry at Mitchell for cheating on her. Mitchell told Ryan he would take him to the dance, but Charlotte, ever controlling, wouldn’t allow him. Charlotte went after Mitchell with a metal spike, and stabbed him in the bathroom. She ordered Ryan to help dispose of the body. They drove to the alley, and Charlotte made Ryan spread dirty magazines and crack vials around Mitchell’s body. The whole murder was a setup by Charlotte. Charlotte is arrested, and Ryan and Tina reunite.
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The victim, Mitchell Baye,
We learn that the night of the murder, Tina was with Mitchell in their green van, begging Mitchell to stop cheating on Charlotte. That night he breaks off their affair. Lilly visits Ryan again, noting the door is unlocked. She grills Ryan, asking about the night in question. She mentions the door was unlocked. Ryan eventually tells her what happened that night.
Charlotte was teaching him to dance for that night, a school dance. Charlotte, it seems, would be abusive when she drank. She controlled Ryan then, and since Ryan had to care for her now, he would leave the door unlocked, since Charlotte would often walk off on her own, and if the door happened to be unlocked, and something happened to Charlotte, then Ryan would be free. He remembers that Charlotte was drinking, and that she was angry at Mitchell for cheating on her. Mitchell told Ryan he would take him to the dance, but Charlotte, ever controlling, wouldn’t allow him. Charlotte went after Mitchell with a metal spike, and stabbed him in the bathroom. She ordered Ryan to help dispose of the body. They drove to the alley, and Charlotte made Ryan spread dirty magazines and crack vials around Mitchell’s body. The whole murder was a setup by Charlotte. Charlotte is arrested, and Ryan and Tina reunite.
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* GainingTheWillToKill: [[spoiler:Charlotte]] would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
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* GainingTheWillToKill: [[spoiler:Charlotte]] Charlotte would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
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* TheUnfairSex: Averted a lot. Charlotte is clearly portrayed as the abusive,controlling murderer that she is.
* UnstoppableRage: leads to the murder
* UnstoppableRage: leads to the murder
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* TheUnfairSex: Averted a lot. Charlotte is clearly portrayed as the abusive,controlling abusive, controlling murderer that she is.
* UnstoppableRage:leads Leads to the murdermurder.
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* HidingBehindReligion: Charlotte Bayes promotes her family as the perfect Christian home, and uses that to cover up her husband’s murder. When the police came to inform her that his naked body was found in a place where druggies and hookers hung out, she put on a tearful act and pretended like she couldn’t believe Mitchell would do such sinful acts, saying that they were [[TitleDrop “churchgoing people”]].
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Good Adultery Bad Adultery requires two affairs that are portrayed sympathetically
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* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: See Sympathetic Adulterer below.
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Season 1, Episode 4 of ''Series/ColdCase''.
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* MurderInTheFamily: One murders Mitchell and another helps to cover it up.
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Directed by Creator/MarkPellington
Written by Creator/MeredithStiehm
Written by Creator/MeredithStiehm
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* DefectiveDetective: Sherman in 1990.
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* DefectiveDetective: Sherman in 1990.BitchInSheepsClothing: Charlotte, literally. Every flashback shows her as a prim and modestly coiffed and dressed woman--who was an abusive drunk who eventually murdered her husband.
* DefectiveDetective: Sherman in 1990.
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* DomesticAbuse: A great deal
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* DomesticAbuse: A great dealdeal.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted. Charlotte's behavior is portrayed as just as horrifying and ultimately deadly as it would have been were the genders reversed.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted. Charlotte's behavior is portrayed as just as horrifying and ultimately deadly as it would have been were the genders reversed.
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* StepfordSmiler: When we first meet the family, they appear to be the epitome of a nuclear Christian family. It turns out that the mother is an abusive drunk and they're all terrified of her.
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* TheAlcoholic/DefectiveDetective: Sherman in 1990.
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* TheAlcoholic/DefectiveDetective: DefectiveDetective: Sherman in 1990.
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* GainingTheWillToKill: [[Spoiler:Charlotte]] would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
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* GainingTheWillToKill: [[Spoiler:Charlotte]] [[spoiler:Charlotte]] would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Charlotte has Alzheimer's. Ryan cares for her
* TheUnfairSex: Averted a lot. Charlotte is clearly portrayed as the abusive,controlling murderer that she is.
* TheUnfairSex: Averted a lot. Charlotte is clearly portrayed as the abusive,controlling murderer that she is.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Charlotte has Alzheimer's. Ryan cares for her
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* TheUnfairSex: Averted a lot. Charlotte is clearly portrayed as the abusive,controlling murderer that sheis.is.
* UnstoppableRage: leads to the murder
* TheUnfairSex: Averted a lot. Charlotte is clearly portrayed as the abusive,controlling murderer that she
* UnstoppableRage: leads to the murder
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: The opening scene has Charlotte walking through a graveyard with slippers on. Implied to be due to her mental illness - i.e BarefootLoon.
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The Alzheimer’s afflicted widow of a slain church organist begins having flashbacks about her husband’s murder, leading Lilly to reopen the case.
The victim, Mitchell Baye, was found stabbed, left in an alley in a rough part of town, surrounded by pornography and crack vials. Mitchell’s widow, Charlotte Baye, remembers that she was suspicious that he was cheating on her with a fellow church member. Charlotte’s son, Ryan, who is also her keeper, asks Lilly to close the investigation, and Charlotte’s daughter, Tina, who hasn’t seen Ryan in years, also wishes to keep the case closed. ”Good families don’t talk about these things.”
We learn that the night of the murder, Tina was with Mitchell in their green van, begging Mitchell to stop cheating on Charlotte. That night he breaks off their affair. Lilly visits Ryan again, noting the door is unlocked. She grills Ryan, asking about the night in question. She mentions the door was unlocked. Ryan eventually tells her what happened that night.
Charlotte was teaching him to dance for that night, a school dance. Charlotte, it seems, would be abusive when she drank. She controlled Ryan then, and since Ryan had to care for her now, he would leave the door unlocked, since Charlotte would often walk off on her own, and if the door happened to be unlocked, and something happened to Charlotte, then Ryan would be free. He remembers that Charlotte was drinking, and that she was angry at Mitchell for cheating on her. Mitchell told Ryan he would take him to the dance, but Charlotte, ever controlling, wouldn’t allow him. Charlotte went after Mitchell with a metal spike, and stabbed him in the bathroom. She ordered Ryan to help dispose of the body. They drove to the alley, and Charlotte made Ryan spread dirty magazines and crack vials around Mitchell’s body. The whole murder was a setup by Charlotte. Charlotte is arrested, and Ryan and Tina reunite.
The victim, Mitchell Baye, was found stabbed, left in an alley in a rough part of town, surrounded by pornography and crack vials. Mitchell’s widow, Charlotte Baye, remembers that she was suspicious that he was cheating on her with a fellow church member. Charlotte’s son, Ryan, who is also her keeper, asks Lilly to close the investigation, and Charlotte’s daughter, Tina, who hasn’t seen Ryan in years, also wishes to keep the case closed. ”Good families don’t talk about these things.”
We learn that the night of the murder, Tina was with Mitchell in their green van, begging Mitchell to stop cheating on Charlotte. That night he breaks off their affair. Lilly visits Ryan again, noting the door is unlocked. She grills Ryan, asking about the night in question. She mentions the door was unlocked. Ryan eventually tells her what happened that night.
Charlotte was teaching him to dance for that night, a school dance. Charlotte, it seems, would be abusive when she drank. She controlled Ryan then, and since Ryan had to care for her now, he would leave the door unlocked, since Charlotte would often walk off on her own, and if the door happened to be unlocked, and something happened to Charlotte, then Ryan would be free. He remembers that Charlotte was drinking, and that she was angry at Mitchell for cheating on her. Mitchell told Ryan he would take him to the dance, but Charlotte, ever controlling, wouldn’t allow him. Charlotte went after Mitchell with a metal spike, and stabbed him in the bathroom. She ordered Ryan to help dispose of the body. They drove to the alley, and Charlotte made Ryan spread dirty magazines and crack vials around Mitchell’s body. The whole murder was a setup by Charlotte. Charlotte is arrested, and Ryan and Tina reunite.
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* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. Some emphasis on the wine bottle, and we know Mitchell was stabbed. The murderer actually grabs the wine bottle as a weapon, but then switches it for a metal spike, which becomes the murder weapon in the end.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Charlotte has Alzheimer's. Ryan cares for her
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GainingTheWillToKill: [[Spoiler: Charlotte]] would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
MurderInTheFamily: One murders Mitchell and another helps to cover it up.
ShootTheMessenger: Not literally, but Ryan takes the second phone call from Judy (who was fairly confident she didn't make a second phone call). When Charlotte finds out she controls Ryan and says he can't go to the dance.
SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Charlotte starts off a normal housewife, but drinks. Then she's physically abusive when drinking. Then eventually murders her family member.
TilMurderDoUsPart: Charlotte.
PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from 1988-1994
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*ByTheBookCop: See also Police are Useless below. While Lilly has good intuition and knows how to question subjects well, a lot of what she uncovers is found simply because she did her job properly (checking inventory, asking appropriate witnesses questions) that the previous detective did not do.
*DomesticAbuse: A great deal
*GainingTheWillToKill: [[Spoiler:Charlotte]] would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
*HighSchoolDance: Ryan is supposed to go to one the night Mitchell dies. He has a date that night. Charlotte teaches him how to dance in preparation.
*MurderInTheFamily: One murders Mitchell and another helps to cover it up.
*TheMistress: Potentially Judy. It is unclear how long the affair has been going on for, but she definitely expects him to park and enter the motel when Mitchell arrives.
*TilMurderDoUsPart: Charlotte.
*PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. It was a fairly straight forward case with a lot of clues that he missed. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from
*TheUnfairSex: Averted a lot. Charlotte is clearly portrayed as the abusive,controlling murderer that she is.
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GainingTheWillToKill: [[Spoiler: Charlotte]] would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
MurderInTheFamily: One murders Mitchell and another helps to cover it up.
ShootTheMessenger: Not literally, but Ryan takes the second phone call from Judy (who was fairly confident she didn't make a second phone call). When Charlotte finds out she controls Ryan and says he can't go to the dance.
SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Charlotte starts off a normal housewife, but drinks. Then she's physically abusive when drinking. Then eventually murders her family member.
TilMurderDoUsPart: Charlotte.
PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from 1988-1994
GainingTheWillToKill: [[Spoiler: Charlotte]] would usually be controlling and abusive, but eventually gains the will to murder.
MurderInTheFamily: One murders Mitchell and another helps to cover it up.
ShootTheMessenger: Not literally, but Ryan takes the second phone call from Judy (who was fairly confident she didn't make a second phone call). When Charlotte finds out she controls Ryan and says he can't go to the dance.
SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Charlotte starts off a normal housewife, but drinks. Then she's physically abusive when drinking. Then eventually murders her family member.
TilMurderDoUsPart: Charlotte.
PoliceAreUseless: In 1990, Sherman did little to nothing to solve the case. He later admits he was drunk and sloppy from 1988-1994
