History Recap / ColdCaseS3E1Family

** Also, Jimmy never told Quinn ''who'' he made a deal with to adopt their baby. Had Quinn known it was their math teacher Mr. Wyatt, it could've solved Jimmy's case and given her closure sooner. At the worst, she probably would've given him their daughter after Jimmy's death instead of abandoning her.

** Coach Bruce Johnson, who maintained the facade of a caring father figure to Jimmy despite [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] his girlfriend. When he found out Quinn was pregnant, Bruce abused Jimmy's trust by lying about her fidelity, which drove a wedge between the couple. Years later, he stalks and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Jimmy and Quinn's troubled daughter, Claire, by lying that he's her father, planning to rape her [[HistoryRepeats like he did to her mother]].

* AllForNothing: Wyatt killed Jimmy to adopt his daughter, since Jimmy didn't tell anyone else he wasn't going through with the adoption. However, Wyatt never found Claire and got the one thing he didn't want anyway: a divorce from his wife.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: It's implied that their struggle with infertility has strained the Wyatt's marriage, leading to his affair, and he believes that adopting Jimmy and Quinn's baby will fix things. Thus explaining why he snaps so badly when Jimmy changes his mind.

* AllForNothing: Wyatt killed Jimmy to adopt his daughter since he didn't tell anyone else he wasn't going through with the adoption, but he never found Claire and got the one thing he didn't want, divorced from his wife, anyway.

** Also, Jimmy never told Quinn ''who'' he made a deal with to adopt their baby. Had Quinn known it was their math teacher Mr. Wyatt, she probably would've at least given him their daughter after Jimmy's death instead of abandoning her. This knowledge also could've solved Jimmy's case and given her closure sooner.

* ParentalSubstitute: Coach Johnson was this to Jimmy, whose father [[DisappearedDad abandoned him]] while his mother was [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]]. He even lent Jimmy money to pay for Quinn's abortion. This is why Jimmy refused to believe the coach had assaulted her.

* BrokenBird: Both Quinn and Claire; the former due to the loss of her boyfriend and daughter, the latter due to her rough upbringing in foster care. Reuniting and learning the truth of what happened to Jimmy seems to set them on the road to recovery.

** Coach Bruce Johnson, who maintained the facade of a caring father figure to Jimmy despite [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] his girlfriend. When he found out Quinn was pregnant, Bruce abused Jimmy's trust by lying about her fidelity, which drove a wedge between the couple. Years later, he stalks and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Jimmy and Claire's troubled daughter, Claire, by lying that he's her father, planning to rape her [[HistoryRepeats like he did to her mother]].

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: It's implied that their struggle with infertility has strained the Wyatt's marriage, leading to his affair and he believes that adopting Jimmy and Quinn's baby will fix things. Thus explaining why he snaps so badly when Jimmy changes his mind.

* DramaticIrony: A rather cruel variation. In the present day, Claire gradually comes to trust that a strange man (her father's gym coach) who claims he's her biological father. As it turns out, Claire was too close for comfort to the man who not only attacked her mother years before, but intended to do the same to her.

** Coach Bruce Johnson, who maintained the facade of a caring father figure to Jimmy despite [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] his girlfriend. When Jimmy initially came to him for help to get Quinn an abortion, Bruce abused Jimmy's trust by lying about her fidelity, which drove a wedge between the couple. Years later, he stalks and manipulates Jimmy and Claire's troubled daughter, Claire, by lying that he's her father, planning to rape her [[HistoryRepeats like he did to her mother]].

* PapaWolf: The victim was killed because he wouldn't give away his recently born daughter to the person who wanted to adopt her: he'd already grown to love both her and her mother.

** When Jimmy told Quinn "It's over", she thought he was talking about their relationship. But in reality, he meant "The deal to give away our baby is over." Had he been more specific to Quinn before he went to his soon-to-be killer to call it off, Quinn might've known Jimmy still loved her, kept their baby, and saved both mother and child the heart-ache.
** Also, Jimmy never told Quinn ''who'' he made a deal with to adopt their baby. Had Quinn known it was their math teacher Mr. Wyatt, she would've at least given him their daughter after Jimmy's death instead of abandoning her. This knowledge also could've solved Jimmy's case and given her closure sooner.
* PromBaby: Jimmy and Quinn's baby was born during prom. They had to slip away from the dance and deliver the baby in the locker room.

After Claire Tate, a 17-year old girl in foster care, is a contacted by a man claiming to be her father, the team reopen the 1988 case of Jimmy Tate, an 18-year old high school student who was murdered in a hit-and-run on the same night Claire was born.

* HateSink: Nurse Laura, who frightened out Jimmy out of getting an abortion for his girlfriend with gruesome pictures of aborted fetuses, and ran an abortion clinic worker off the road. But in spite of her moralizing, she engages in adultery with a married teacher.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The [[TheFundamentalist prim, proper, self-righteous]] SchoolNurse is fooling around with Mr. Wyatt, which Jimmy discovers when he walks in on them making out in a classroom.

* PoorCommunicationKills: when Jimmy told Quinn "It's over", she thought he was talking about their relationship. But in reality, he meant "The deal to sell our baby is over." Had he been more specific to Quinn before he went to his soon-to-be killer to call it off, Quinn might've known Jimmy still loved her, kept their baby, and saved both mother and child the heart-ache.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The prim, proper, self-righteous school nurse is fooling around with Mr. Wyatt, which Jimmy discovers when he walks in on them making out in a classroom.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The school nurse is more interested in preaching her anti-abortion views upon vulnerable teenagers than offer any meaningful support for two teens without the means to raise a family. This all led to the tragedy on prom night and destroyed the lives of three people.

* CreepyGymCoach: The gym coach raped Quinn as a teenagers, and preyed upon her lonely and love-starved daughter years later.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Quinn though Jimmy had abandoned her and their newborn daughter in the bathroom. But really, he left to tell Mr. Wyatt that he had changed his mind and planned to stay with Quinn and raise their baby himself, for which he was killed.

* PoorCommunicationKills: when Jimmy told Quinn "It's over", she thought he was talking about how their relationship was over. But in reality, he meant "The deal to sell our baby is over." Had he been more specific to Quinn before he went to his would-be killer to call it off, Quinn might've known Jimmy still loved her, kept their baby, and saved both mother and child the heart-ache.
* PromBaby: Jimmy and Quinn's baby was born during prom. They had to slip away from the dance and deliver the baby in the locker room.

* PoorCommunicationKills: when Jimmy told Quinn "It's over", she thought he was talking about how their relationship was over. But in reality, he meant "The deal to sell our baby is over." Had he been more specific to Quinn before he went to his would-be killer to call it off, Quinn might've known Jimmy still loved her, kept their baby, and saved the both mother and child the heart-ache.

* [[PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure Plot-mandated Relationship Failure]]: Jimmy broke up with his girlfriend when he learns she was attacked by his gym coach, unable to believe his father figure would do such a thing. This sets up the girlfriend's belief that Jimmy didn't want her or their baby, especially under the belief the baby wasn't his own.

* [[PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure Plot-mandated Relationship Failure]]: Jimmy broke up with his girlfriend when he learns she was attacked by his gym coach. This sets up the girlfriend's belief that Jimmy didn't want her or their baby, especially under the belief the baby wasn't his own.

* PapaWolf: The victim was killed because he wouldn't give away his recently born daughter to the person who wanted to adopt her: he'd already grown to love both her and her mother.