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--> "More [[StealthPun pie]], Aunt?" [[labelnote:note]][[IncrediblyLamePun Humble pie.]][[/labelnote]]
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--> "More [[StealthPun pie]], Aunt?" [[labelnote:note]][[IncrediblyLamePun [[labelnote:note]][[{{Pun}} Humble pie.]][[/labelnote]]
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* BuryYourGays: One of the victims. [[spoiler: Poor Mac has to pretend to a strictly professional attendance at her funeral.]]
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* BuryYourGays: One of the victims. [[spoiler: Poor Mac has to pretend to a strictly professional attendance at her funeral.]]
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* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: The normally unflappable Dr. Macmillan is particularly hard hit upon responding to the emergency call at the factory for one of the victims, and requires a rather stiff belt of whiskey before she can talk about the case at all, let alone look at the crime scene photos. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that: she was romantically involved with the victim.]]
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* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: The normally unflappable Dr. Macmillan is particularly hard hit upon responding to the emergency call at the factory for one of the victims, and requires a rather stiff belt of whiskey before she can talk about the case at all, let alone look at the crime scene photos. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that: she was romantically involved with the victim.]]
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* VomitingCop: Hugh loses his breakfast, and yesterday's lunch, upon seeing the gruesome scene at the factory. As a result, his report has quite a few holes in it, which Phryne promptly points out as an excuse to start her own sleuthing.
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* VomitingCop: Hugh loses his breakfast, and yesterday's lunch, upon seeing the gruesome scene at the factory. As a result, his report has quite a few holes in it, which Phryne promptly points out as an excuse to start her own sleuthing.sleuthing.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Jack calls Phryne by her first name when she takes an axe to the control panel of the machinery to stop it (and nearly electrocutes herself in the process).
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Jack calls Phryne by her first name when she takes an axe to the control panel of the machinery to stop it (and nearly electrocutes herself in the process).
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Deep in the bowels of a factory late at night, two people are seen arguing. The noise of the machinery makes it impossible to tell who is speaking or what's being said, but the argument rapidly heats up... and ends with one of the participants pushed into the running mills.
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Deep in the bowels of a factory late at night, two people are seen arguing. The noise of the machinery makes it impossible to tell who is speaking or what's being said, but the argument rapidly heats up... and ends with one of the participants pushed into the running mills.
mills. Also the first episode not to be based on any of the novels.
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* BadBoss: Two of them, one arguably worse (running off-the-books extra shifts at the factory and skimming the profits).
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* BadBoss: Two Three of them, one arguably worse (running off-the-books extra shifts at the factory and skimming the profits).
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* CondescendingCompassion: Aunt Prudence, so very much. Phryne's application of snark when Prudence has to recant her earlier MoralGuardian high dudgeon is truly delicious.
--> "More [[StealthPun pie]], Aunt?" [[labelnote:note]][[IncrediblyLamePun Humble pie.]][[/labelnote]]
--> "More [[StealthPun pie]], Aunt?" [[labelnote:note]][[IncrediblyLamePun Humble pie.]][[/labelnote]]
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* DepravedHomosexual: The killer, who is very clearly contrasted with the several sympathetic gay characters in the episode.
* DestinationDefenestration: The killer's second victim dies this way, exiting from an office window in the factory's clock tower and landing smack in front of Dot.
* DestinationDefenestration: The killer's second victim dies this way, exiting from an office window in the factory's clock tower and landing smack in front of Dot.
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* DepravedHomosexual: [[PsychoLesbian Depraved Homosexual]]: The killer, who is very clearly contrasted with the several sympathetic gay characters in the episode.
* DestinationDefenestration: The killer's second victim dies this way, exiting froman office a window in the factory's clock office tower and landing smack in front of Dot.
* DestinationDefenestration: The killer's second victim dies this way, exiting from
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Mac is so badly unnerved at one point that Phryne tells Mr. Butler to skip the breakfast and bring the doctor strong coffee and a stiff one. She proceeds to chug the entire glass neat, and decidedly looks like she'd want a refill.
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* MedicationTampering: One victim's medication is found to be spiked with bleach. It only partially works, leaving the victim weakened but not dead; the actual death comes by way of DestinationDefenestration.
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* MedicationTampering: One victim's medication is found to be spiked with bleach. It only partially works, leaving the victim weakened but not dead; the actual death comes by way of DestinationDefenestration.elsewhere.
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* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: The normally unflappable Dr. Macmillan is particularly hard hit upon responding to the emergency call at the factory for one of the victims, and requires a rather stiff belt of whiskey before she can talk about the case at all, let alone look at the crime scene photos. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that.]]
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* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: The normally unflappable Dr. Macmillan is particularly hard hit upon responding to the emergency call at the factory for one of the victims, and requires a rather stiff belt of whiskey before she can talk about the case at all, let alone look at the crime scene photos. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that.]]that: she was romantically involved with the victim.]]
* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: The Gaskins use their clout with the hospital board to try and get Mac suspended from practice at one point, using this as the excuse: that she's distributing "indecent and unnatural" advice to the factory women on contraception.
* RoomDisservice: Dot gets a job as a tea lady at the factory in order to rifle through the Gaskins' account ledgers. As a result, she finds the evidence of the cooked books long before anyone else.
* SickbedSlaying: Attempted, with adulterated medications.
* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: The Gaskins use their clout with the hospital board to try and get Mac suspended from practice at one point, using this as the excuse: that she's distributing "indecent and unnatural" advice to the factory women on contraception.
* RoomDisservice: Dot gets a job as a tea lady at the factory in order to rifle through the Gaskins' account ledgers. As a result, she finds the evidence of the cooked books long before anyone else.
* SickbedSlaying: Attempted, with adulterated medications.
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* VomitingCop: Hugh loses his breakfast, and yesterday's lunch, upon seeing the gruesome remains of Daisy.
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* VomitingCop: Hugh loses his breakfast, and yesterday's lunch, upon seeing the gruesome remains of Daisy.scene at the factory. As a result, his report has quite a few holes in it, which Phryne promptly points out as an excuse to start her own sleuthing.
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* {{NoOSHACompliance}}: JustifiedTrope given the era, since there was no government agency to implement workplace safety precautions. This also forms a plot point: the BadBoss had removed the safety guards on the factory machinery to speed production, which made it all the easier for the killer to strike.
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* {{NoOSHACompliance}}: NoOSHACompliance: JustifiedTrope given the era, since there was no government agency to implement workplace safety precautions. This also forms a plot point: the BadBoss had removed the safety guards on the factory machinery to speed production, which made it all the easier for the killer to strike.
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Deep in the bowels of a factory late at night, two people are seen arguing. The noise of the machinery makes it impossible to tell who is speaking or what's being said, but the argument rapidly heats up... and ends with one of the participants pushed into the running mills.
Tropes in this episode:
* BadBoss: Two of them, one arguably worse (running off-the-books extra shifts at the factory and skimming the profits).
* BuryYourGays: One of the victims. [[spoiler: Poor Mac has to pretend to a strictly professional attendance at her funeral.]]
* CuttingCorners: The safety guards in the mill, which were removed to speed production and then replaced by factory staff right before the police arrived to investigate.
* DepravedHomosexual: The killer, who is very clearly contrasted with the several sympathetic gay characters in the episode.
* DestinationDefenestration: The killer's second victim dies this way, exiting from an office window in the factory's clock tower and landing smack in front of Dot.
* FamilyBusiness: The Gaskins, brother and sister, who own the factory and continually snipe at each other.
* IfICantHaveYou: Turns out to be the killer's motive: one victim was the killer's ex-lover, the other was killed to throw suspicion on said ex's current flame.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: The killer.
* MedicationTampering: One victim's medication is found to be spiked with bleach. It only partially works, leaving the victim weakened but not dead; the actual death comes by way of DestinationDefenestration.
* {{NoOSHACompliance}}: JustifiedTrope given the era, since there was no government agency to implement workplace safety precautions. This also forms a plot point: the BadBoss had removed the safety guards on the factory machinery to speed production, which made it all the easier for the killer to strike.
* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: The normally unflappable Dr. Macmillan is particularly hard hit upon responding to the emergency call at the factory for one of the victims, and requires a rather stiff belt of whiskey before she can talk about the case at all, let alone look at the crime scene photos. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Loosely played. The killer isn't actually a butler, but otherwise fulfills the trope.
* VomitingCop: Hugh loses his breakfast, and yesterday's lunch, upon seeing the gruesome remains of Daisy.
Tropes in this episode:
* BadBoss: Two of them, one arguably worse (running off-the-books extra shifts at the factory and skimming the profits).
* BuryYourGays: One of the victims. [[spoiler: Poor Mac has to pretend to a strictly professional attendance at her funeral.]]
* CuttingCorners: The safety guards in the mill, which were removed to speed production and then replaced by factory staff right before the police arrived to investigate.
* DepravedHomosexual: The killer, who is very clearly contrasted with the several sympathetic gay characters in the episode.
* DestinationDefenestration: The killer's second victim dies this way, exiting from an office window in the factory's clock tower and landing smack in front of Dot.
* FamilyBusiness: The Gaskins, brother and sister, who own the factory and continually snipe at each other.
* IfICantHaveYou: Turns out to be the killer's motive: one victim was the killer's ex-lover, the other was killed to throw suspicion on said ex's current flame.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: The killer.
* MedicationTampering: One victim's medication is found to be spiked with bleach. It only partially works, leaving the victim weakened but not dead; the actual death comes by way of DestinationDefenestration.
* {{NoOSHACompliance}}: JustifiedTrope given the era, since there was no government agency to implement workplace safety precautions. This also forms a plot point: the BadBoss had removed the safety guards on the factory machinery to speed production, which made it all the easier for the killer to strike.
* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: The normally unflappable Dr. Macmillan is particularly hard hit upon responding to the emergency call at the factory for one of the victims, and requires a rather stiff belt of whiskey before she can talk about the case at all, let alone look at the crime scene photos. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Loosely played. The killer isn't actually a butler, but otherwise fulfills the trope.
* VomitingCop: Hugh loses his breakfast, and yesterday's lunch, upon seeing the gruesome remains of Daisy.
