History Recap / ColdCaseS6E9PinUpGirl

* TheAtoner: Lilly suggests that Betty Sue became a nun to atone for [[spoiler:killing Rita]].

* DiesWideOpen: How Rita ended up after being shot, [[spoiler: owing to the shock and horror of her best friend killing her in a drunken and jealous rage.]]

** Betty Sue, Rita's best friend, was jealous of her success and ended up [[spoiler:shooting her over it]].

* HidingBehindReligion: Present day Betty Sue. Even as [[spoiler:she's about to be arrested for Rita’s murder]], she tries to justify the means to an end by saying that as a nun, she's done "a lifetime of good work".

* ParentalSubstitute: Rita's manager, Monty, served this role for her (as her own father was abusive and her mother was deceased). It was even him that her ghost appeared to.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: A bar scene has a group singing "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" in the background. If you don't know that the Music/TheyMightBeGiants version is a cover, this would give you pause.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The killer always wanted to be in front of the camera and the center of attention, and she got it...during her mugshot (and the ensuing trial and the attention it will most likely bring.)

* FriendToAllChildren: Several of Rita’s pictures are of random neighborhood children playing. Even at one point she happily poses with a Black child and a Hispanic child, both of whom seem at ease with her.

* HidingBehindReligion: Present day Betty Sue. Even as [[spoiler:she's about to be arrested for Rita’s murder]], she tries to justify the means to an end by saying that as a nun that she's done "a lifetime of good work".

* ThePollyanna: Rita: even with losing her mother at a young age and having an abusive father, she was able to make something of herself, see the good in people and be there for her best friend while she was struggling with her troubled life.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The JerkAss that Betty Sue thought she had a date with, who only went out with her to get Rita's autograph.

''Pin Up Girl'' is the ninth episode of the sixth season of ''Series/ColdCase''. Set in [[TheFifties 1953]], it entails the case of a popular cover girl, Rita Flynn, who found murdered in her home.

* BenevolentBoss: Monty is surprisingly progressive and compassionate for a modeling boss in the fifties. Most bosses in that era would react to Rita quitting modeling to switch to photography by laughing and telling her to “stick to being pretty”. But not Monty. He recognized Rita had talent, even saying himself to the detectives that she “had more talent behind the camera than in front of it.”, and planned to even publish her shots himself.
* CelebrityIsOverrated: Implied with Rita. Although she liked the world of modeling, her life motto was "Ordinary life can be beautiful too", she was just as comfortable with fans and strangers as she was with people in the industry and was more content with being behind the camera than in front of it.

* ThePollyanna: Rita: even with losing her mother at a young age and having an abusive father, she was able to make something of herself, see the good in people and be there for her best friend as she still struggles with her troubled life.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The JerkAss that Betty Sue thought she had a date with, who only went out with her to get Rita's autograph.

** Betty Sue, Rita's best friend, was jealous of her success and ended up shooting her over it.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Rita accidentally takes a picture of one at Betty Sue's strip club, causing him to almost attack her. He was initially a suspect, but then he told investigators that he apologised to her and that she actually helped him, even accompanying her during her impromptu photography session taking various pictures around Philadelphia.

* FriendToAllChildren: Several of Rita’s pictures are of random neighborhood children playing, even at one point happily posing with a Black child and a Hospanic child, both of whom seem at ease with her.

* DiesWideOpen: How Rita ended up after being shot.

%%* ThePollyanna: Rita.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The killer always wanted to be in front of the camera and the center of attention, and [[spoiler: she got it...during her mugshot (and the ensuing trial and the attention it will most likely bring.)]]

** [[spoiler: Betty Sue, Rita's best friend, was jealous of her success and ended up shooting her over it.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Rita's manager, Monty, served this role for her (as her own father was abusive and her mother was deceased). [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments It was even him that her ghost appeared to.]]
* ThePollyanna[=/=]BlitheSpirit: Rita.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The killer always wanted to be in front of the camera and the center of attention, and [[spoiler: she got it...during her mugshot (and the ensuing trial and the attention it will most likely brung.)]]
* DiesWideOpen: How Rita ended up dying.

** Rita's boyfriend was also jealous of her talent as a photographer and that she was a ''better'' one than he was, even as that being his profession.