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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Annie Blackwood's spirit ''might'' have returned in the body of a parrot, or it might have just been repeating lines it heard earlier.
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* EsotericMotifs: For the occult ritual Edward draws a pentacle on the floor.
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* HermeticMagic: For the occult ritual to work, Edward has to draw the Seal of Solomon on the floor.
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* OutGambitted: Reggie schemed to kill Annie and then buy her house, expecting to find either the money or something that would lead him to it. He got as far as buying the house - but her initial plan to hide the money was so good that he never found it.
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* RealMenHateAffection: Edward doesn't like to be hugged by his brother.
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* SecretlyWealthy: Annie lived on welfare, and Harry didn't know about her stolen millions until after her death.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: The not-so-smart Reggie gets the "s" wrong when mentioning Sherlock Holme and Miss Marples.
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* AsYouKnow: Edward tells Harry that he didn't get on with their mother which is something Harry knew but not the audience.
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* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Frances supposedly has seen so much gore and violence as the crime boss' wife that she calmly walks away after killing her husband to catch up on her favorite show.
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* DisposingOfABody: Discussed. Reggie talks about cutting up Edward and Harry into pieces and burying the bits in a nearby forest.
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* EsotericMotifs: For the occult ritual Edward draws a pentacle on the floor.
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* SayMyName: Characters constantly address each other by their first name for the sake of the audience.
* ShoutOut: Famous detectives Literature/SherlockHolmes, Literature/MissMarple and Literature/FatherBrown are mentioned.
* SiblingMurder: Attempted by Edward but Harry gets saved by the returning home owners.
* ShoutOut: Famous detectives Literature/SherlockHolmes, Literature/MissMarple and Literature/FatherBrown are mentioned.
* SiblingMurder: Attempted by Edward but Harry gets saved by the returning home owners.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: It's implied that Reggie killed Annie by slipping something into her drink.
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* ChekhovsGunman: A non-human variant. Annie's parrot flies away in the opening scene, and then becomes her conduit when Harry and Edward actually do summon her.
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* ChekhovsGunman: A non-human variant. Annie's parrot flies away in the opening scene, and then becomes her returns at the end - potentially as a conduit when Harry for her having been summoned for real.
* CrazyPrepared: Frances andEdward actually do summon her. Reggie have an electric knife and plastic sheeting ready to murder someone at a moment's notice.
* CrazyPrepared: Frances and
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Annie come back as a parrot? The two men certainly believe this to be the case, but we never hear the parrot answer the question of where she hid the money, and its only lines were those which it had said earlier on in the episode.
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* AmbiguousSituation: AmbiguousEnding: Did Annie come back as a parrot? The two men certainly believe this to be the case, but we never hear the parrot answer the question of where she hid the money, and its only lines were those which it had said earlier on in the episode.
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* TheUnreveal: So where did Annie hide her money? We'll never know, as it cuts to credits just as her sons have posed the question to her apparent conduit.
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* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Reggie wears a Hawaii shirt to indicate his status as a returned tourist.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Edward getting his right foot cut off with an electric knife is played for drama.
* CelestialDeadline: Apparently, Necromancy only works up to a year after the person's death.
* CelestialDeadline: Apparently, Necromancy only works up to a year after the person's death.
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* InternalHomage: Edward's clumsy break-in using a StockingMask recalls the similarly inept burglars from season one's second episode "[[Recap/InsideNo9S1E2AQuietNightIn A Quiet Night In]]".
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* ProphecyTwist: Frances wants to go through with the ritual because a tarot reader told her that something would happen to change her life. It does, when she subsequently kills Reggie. Earlier in the episode, Reggie references the time when a psychic predicted Frances would be attacked by a tiger. It came true - when a box of Frosties (Frosted Flakes) fell on her in the supermarket.
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* ProphecyTwist: ProphecyTwist:
** Frances wants to go through with the ritual because a tarot reader told her that something would happen to change her life. It does, when she subsequently kills Reggie.
** Earlier in the episode, Reggie references the time when a psychic predicted Frances would be attacked by a tiger. It came true - when a box of Frosties (Frosted Flakes) fell on her in the supermarket.
** Frances wants to go through with the ritual because a tarot reader told her that something would happen to change her life. It does, when she subsequently kills Reggie.
** Earlier in the episode, Reggie references the time when a psychic predicted Frances would be attacked by a tiger. It came true - when a box of Frosties (Frosted Flakes) fell on her in the supermarket.
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* HeelFaceTurn: A few minutes after trying to kill Harry himself, Edward tries to save him from Frances and Reggie, asking them to [[HeroicSacrifice kill him instead.]]
* HomeEarlySurprise: Frances and Reggie return from their holiday a day earlier than expected due to Reggie gotten sick. It completely messed with Edward's plans.
* HomeEarlySurprise: Frances and Reggie return from their holiday a day earlier than expected due to Reggie gotten sick. It completely messed with Edward's plans.
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* HeelFaceTurn: A few minutes after trying to kill Harry himself, Edward tries to save him from Frances and Reggie, asking them to [[HeroicSacrifice [[TakeMeInstead kill him instead.]]
* HomeEarlySurprise: Frances and Reggie return from their holiday a day earlier than expected due to Reggiegotten having got sick. It completely messed with Edward's plans.
* HomeEarlySurprise: Frances and Reggie return from their holiday a day earlier than expected due to Reggie
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* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Frances is extremely calm about the (presumably ''a lot'' of) torture and murder committed by her husband Reggie. She's also enraged when she finds out about his long-running affair with Annie, and stabs him to death as a result.
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* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Frances is extremely calm about the (presumably ''a lot'' of) torture and murder committed by her husband Reggie. She's also On the other hand, she's enraged when she finds out about his long-running affair with Annie, and stabs him to death as a result.
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* AbusiveParents: Annie not only didn't tell her sons about the millions of pounds she had, preferring to live off state benefits, but she disliked Edward so much that even him getting his foot cut off wasn't enough to summon her.
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* WithCatlikeTread: In the opening scene, Edward enters the house through the kitchen window with a lot of noise.
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* SummoningRitual: Edward tries to get a secret out of his late mother trying to summon her spirit by occult means.
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* WithCatlikeTread: In AbusiveParents: Annie not only didn't tell her sons about the millions of pounds she had, preferring to live off state benefits, but she disliked Edward so much that even him getting his foot cut off wasn't enough to summon her.
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* ProphetEyes: While pretending to be possessed by his mother's spirit, Edward pulls his eyes back to invoke this trope.
* AbusiveParents: Annie not only didn't tell her sons about the millions of pounds she had, preferring to live off state benefits, but she disliked Edward so much that even him getting his foot cut off wasn't enough to summon her.
* ChekhovsGunman: A non-human variant. Annie's parrot flies away in the opening scene, and then becomes her conduit when Harry and Edward actually do summon her.
* HeelFaceTurn: A few minutes after trying to kill Harry himself, Edward tries to save him from Frances and Reggie, asking them to [[HeroicSacrifice kill him instead.]]
* AbusiveParents: Annie not only didn't tell her sons about the millions of pounds she had, preferring to live off state benefits, but she disliked Edward so much that even him getting his foot cut off wasn't enough to summon her.
* ChekhovsGunman: A non-human variant. Annie's parrot flies away in the opening scene, and then becomes her conduit when Harry and Edward actually do summon her.
* HeelFaceTurn: A few minutes after trying to kill Harry himself, Edward tries to save him from Frances and Reggie, asking them to [[HeroicSacrifice kill him instead.]]
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* StupidSacrifice: Edward is determined to save Harry and offers up himself. Frances and Reggie cut off his foot, but it's pointless; Annie doesn't care enough about him to come back from the dead.
* ProphetEyes: While pretending to be possessed by his mother's spirit, Edward pulls his eyes back to invoke this trope.
* StupidSacrifice: Edward is determined to save Harry and offers up himself. Frances and Reggie cut off his foot, but it's pointless; Annie doesn't care enough about him to come back from the dead.
* SummoningRitual: Edward tries to get a secret out of his late mother trying to summon her spirit by occult means.
* StupidSacrifice: Edward is determined to save Harry and offers up himself. Frances and Reggie cut off his foot, but it's pointless; Annie doesn't care enough about him to come back from the dead.
* SummoningRitual: Edward tries to get a secret out of his late mother trying to summon her spirit by occult means.
* WithCatlikeTread: In the opening scene, Edward enters the house through the kitchen window with a lot of noise.
* WomanScorned: Frances stabs Reggie to death upon finding out that he had an affair with Annie for many years and is probably Edward's real father.
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Edward and Harry's mother, Annie Blackwood, was a terrible person, and the LadyMacbeth to her gangster husband. A yearon from after her death, Edward and Harry plan to find out where Annie hid her missing millions.
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* WithCatlikeTread: In the opening scene, Edward enters the house through the kitchen window with a lot of noise.
* SummoningRitual: Edward tries to get a secret out of his late mother trying to summon her spirit by occult means.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Harry interrupts his brother's dramatic SummoningRitual by pointing out that baking powder and vinegar would be a good remedy for red wine stains on the wooden floor.
* HomeEarlySurprise: Frances and Reggie return from their holiday a day earlier than expected due to Reggie gotten sick. It completely messed with Edward's plans.
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* WithCatlikeTread: In the opening scene, Edward enters the house through the kitchen window with a lot of noise.
* SummoningRitual: Edward tries to get a secret out of his late mother trying to summon her spirit by occult means.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Harry interrupts his brother's dramatic SummoningRitual by pointing out that baking powder and vinegar would be a good remedy for red wine stains on the wooden floor.
* HomeEarlySurprise: Frances and Reggie return from their holiday a day earlier than expected due to Reggie gotten sick. It completely messed with Edward's plans.
* ProphetEyes: While pretending to be possessed by his mother's spirit, Edward pulls his eyes back to invoke this trope.
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* LondonGangster: The elder Harry Blackwood was one, as is Reggie, and both were in a gang together.
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* WomenAreWiser: Frances is more practical and less rash than Reggie. Also applies to Annie, who managed to keep her stolen fortune hidden for the rest of her life, while her husband was swiftly caught, tortured, and murdered.
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* AbusiveParents: Annie not only didn't tell her sons about the millions of pounds she had, preferring to live off his benefits, but she disliked Edward so much that even him getting his foot cut off wasn't enough to summon her.
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* ProphecyTwist: Frances wants to go through with the ritual because a tarot reader told her that something would happen to change her life. It does, when she subsequently kills Reggie. Earlier in the episode, Reggie references the time when a psychic predicted Frances would be attacked by a tiger. It came true - when a box of Frosties (Frosted Flakes) fell on her in the supermarket.
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* TheUnfavorite: Edward was very much this for Annie.
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* WomanScorned: Frances stabs Reggie to death upon finding out that he had an affair with Annie for many years and is probably Edward's real father.
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* TrashyTrueCrime: Gangster's wife Frances is used to helping him out with torture and murder, and is obsessed with true crime, especially ''Women Who Kill'', which inspires her to kill Reggie after she learns he cheated on her.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Frances killing Reggie not only saves Edward and Harry's lives, but it also enables them to complete the ritual for real, since Annie actually loved Reggie.
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* ChekhovsGunman: A non-human variant. Annie's parrot flies away in the opening scene, and then becomes her conduit when Harry and Edward actually do summon her.
* HeelFaceTurn: A few minutes after trying to kill Harry himself, Edward tries to save him from Frances and Reggie, asking them to [[HeroicSacrifice kill him instead.]]
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Edward and Harry's mother, Annie Blackwood, was a terrible person, and the LadyMacbeth to her gangster husband. A year on from her death, Edward and Harry plan to find out where Annie hid her missing millions.
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* AbusiveParents: Annie not only didn't tell her sons about the millions of pounds she had, preferring to live off his benefits, but she disliked Edward so much that even him getting his foot cut off wasn't enough to summon her.
* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Frances is extremely calm about the (presumably ''a lot'' of) torture and murder committed by her husband Reggie. She's also enraged when she finds out about his long-running affair with Annie, and stabs him to death as a result.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Edward is revealed to be Reggie's son, not Harry's.
* WomanScorned: Frances stabs Reggie to death upon finding out that he is Edward's real father.
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* AbusiveParents: Annie not only didn't tell her sons about the millions of pounds she had, preferring to live off his benefits, but she disliked Edward so much that even him getting his foot cut off wasn't enough to summon her.
* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Frances is extremely calm about the (presumably ''a lot'' of) torture and murder committed by her husband Reggie. She's also enraged when she finds out about his long-running affair with Annie, and stabs him to death as a result.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Edward is revealed to be Reggie's son, not Harry's.
* WomanScorned: Frances stabs Reggie to death upon finding out that he is Edward's real father.
