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* ThereIsNoCure: Adrian, seeing that Ambrose has eaten what he believes is the last poisoned candy bar, yells for Natalie to call an ambulance. Ambrose recognizes the name of the poison, and calmly tells his brother not to bother, there is no antidote.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The characters never point this out, but considering it's ''Halloween'' when Gilstrap tried his serial killer plot, it's very likely at least one of the victims would have been a kid.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The characters never point this out, but considering it's ''Halloween'' when Gilstrap tried his serial killer plot, it's very likely at least one of the victims would have been a kid.kid.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: When Adrian describes Paul Gilstrap's SerialKillingsSpecificTarget plot to murder his wife, Ambrose (who's been poisoned by one of Gilstrap's tainted candy bars), nods and says, ''"that's a good plan."''
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* LetThemDieHappy: Ambrose, believing he's dying, asks Adrian to give TheSummation, because Ambrose doesn't want to die without knowing the reason why.
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* FingerForcedSmile: While they're waiting at Ambrose's door, Natalie uses her fingers to make Julie smile.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Ambrose when he is believed to be fatally poisoned. He calmly tells Adrian not to rush to save him because there is no antidote, asks to know why the candy bar was poisoned, and tells Adrian he loves him. The inverse happens when it turns out Ambrose just has food poisoning from expired chocolate, and the brothers and Natalie share hearty laughs of relief.
* FingerForcedSmile: While they're waiting at Ambrose's door, Natalie uses her fingers to make Julie smile.
* FingerForcedSmile: While they're waiting at Ambrose's door, Natalie uses her fingers to make Julie smile.
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: The driver's gunshot wounds. Gilstrap shot him repeatedly when the man collapsed from being poisoned, in hopes that would be enough to make an autopsy seem redundant.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: No real reason is given for Paul wanting to kill his wife. For all we know, Paul is doing this murder (which if he hadn't been caught with the poison, would have dragged several innocent people down with his wife) purely out of spite.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: [[TheUnreveal No real reason is given for Paul wanting to kill his wife.wife]]. For all we know, Paul is doing this murder (which if he hadn't been caught with the poison, would have dragged several innocent people down with his wife) purely out of spite.
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* BlandNameProduct: The Neptune bar is an invented product, perhaps a reference to another planet-named candy, the Mars bar. A ProductPlacement associated with poison could be problematic.
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%%* CelebrityParadox: When Stottlemeyer and Disher are going over the police sketch of the gunman created based on the eyewitnesses' description, Randy comments that the sketch has an uncanny resemblance to Creator/KieferSutherland.
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* MaybeEverAfter: Natalie gently turns down Ambrose when he asks her on a date because dating her boss's brother could get messy. However, she tells him "maybe" if someday she has another job. Then, at the end of the episode, Natalie asks about the date, apparently due to something she said to him when they thought he had eaten a poisoned Neptune bar.
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* MaybeEverAfter: Natalie gently turns down Ambrose when he asks her on a date because dating her boss's brother could get messy. However, she tells him "maybe" if someday she has another job. Then, at the end of the episode, Natalie asks about the date, apparently due to something she said to him when they thought he had eaten a poisoned Neptune bar.date.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: No real reason is given for Paul wanting to kill his wife. She seems like a nice woman when we see her with Monk and Julie, and it doesn't look like Paul is hurting for money if he can afford $400 Italian loafers. For all we know, Paul is doing this murder (which if he hadn't been caught with the poison, would have dragged several innocent people down with his wife) purely out of spite.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: No real reason is given for Paul wanting to kill his wife. She seems like a nice woman when we see her with Monk and Julie, and it doesn't look like Paul is hurting for money if he can afford $400 Italian loafers. For all we know, Paul is doing this murder (which if he hadn't been caught with the poison, would have dragged several innocent people down with his wife) purely out of spite.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Paul Gilstrap plotted to kill his wife with a poisoned candy bar. He poisoned several other bars in the grocery store to obscure the intended target, but had to abandon the plot after he was caught sneaking the poison back into the lab he stole it from. While trying to recover all the poisoned bars, he saw that the armored car driver had already bought one and was eating it. Gilstrap knew that if the driver simply collapsed and died in the parking lot, the police would order an autopsy that would reveal the poison in his system]]. Once the driver began to succumb to the poison, Gilstrap grabbed his pistol and shot him, expecting that the police wouldn't look for poison in an autopsy on a gunshot victim.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Once again, it's really obvious that Ambrose is Adrian's brother given his particular idiosyncrasy about Halloween candy and [[InsistentTerminology insisting the guy who attacked him was dressed as "Frankenstein's monster", ''not'' Frankenstein]].
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Once again, it's really obvious that Ambrose is Adrian's brother given his particular idiosyncrasy about Halloween candy and [[InsistentTerminology insisting the guy who attacked him was dressed as "Frankenstein's monster", ''not'' Frankenstein]].
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Paul Gilstrap plotted to kill his wife with a poisoned candy bar. He poisoned several other bars in the grocery store to obscure the intended target, but had to abandon the plot after he was caught sneaking the poison back into the lab he stole it from. While trying to recover all the poisoned bars, he saw that the armored car driver had already bought one and was eating it. Gilstrap knew that if the driver simply collapsed and died in the parking lot, the police would order an autopsy that would reveal the poison in his system]].system. Once the driver began to succumb to the poison, Gilstrap grabbed his pistol and shot him, expecting that the police wouldn't look for poison in an autopsy on a gunshot victim.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Once again, it's really obvious that Ambrose is Adrian's brother given his particular idiosyncrasy about Halloween candy and [[InsistentTerminology insisting the guy who attacked him was dressed as "Frankenstein'smonster", ''not'' Frankenstein]].monster"]], ''[[InsistentTerminology not]]'' [[InsistentTerminology "Frankenstein"]].
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Once again, it's really obvious that Ambrose is Adrian's brother given his particular idiosyncrasy about Halloween candy and [[InsistentTerminology insisting the guy who attacked him was dressed as "Frankenstein's
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* WouldHurtAChild: The characters never point this out, but considering it's ''Halloween'' when he tried his serial killer plot, it's very likely at least one of the victims would have been a kid.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The characters never point this out, but considering it's ''Halloween'' when he Gilstrap tried his serial killer plot, it's very likely at least one of the victims would have been a kid.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: No real reason is given for Paul wanting to kill his wife. She seems like a nice woman when we see her with Monk and Julie, and it doesn't look like Paul is hurting for money if he can afford $400 Italian loafers. For all we know, Paul is doing this murder (which if he hadn't been caught with the poison, would have dragged several innocent people down with his wife) purely out of spite.
* NoNameGiven: We never learn the name of the armored truck guard Paul shot.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Paul Gilstrap plotted to kill his wife with a poisoned candy bar. He poisoned several other bars in the grocery store to obscure the intended target, but had to abandon the plot after he was caught sneaking the poison back into the lab he stole it from. While trying to recover all the poisoned bars, he saw that the armored car driver had already bought one and was eating it. Gilstrap knew that if the driver simply collapsed and died in the parking lot, the police would order an autopsy that would reveal the poison in his system]]. Once the driver began to succumb to the poison, :Gilstrap grabbed his pistol and shot him, expecting that the police wouldn't look for poison in an autopsy on a gunshot victim.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Paul's murder idea couldn't be more clearly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders Tylenol murders.]]
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Paul Gilstrap plotted to kill his wife with a poisoned candy bar. He poisoned several other bars in the grocery store to obscure the intended target, but had to abandon the plot after he was caught sneaking the poison back into the lab he stole it from. While trying to recover all the poisoned bars, he saw that the armored car driver had already bought one and was eating it. Gilstrap knew that if the driver simply collapsed and died in the parking lot, the police would order an autopsy that would reveal the poison in his system]]. Once the driver began to succumb to the poison,:Gilstrap Gilstrap grabbed his pistol and shot him, expecting that the police wouldn't look for poison in an autopsy on a gunshot victim.
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Paul Gilstrap plotted to kill his wife with a poisoned candy bar. He poisoned several other bars in the grocery store to obscure the intended target, but had to abandon the plot after he was caught sneaking the poison back into the lab he stole it from. While trying to recover all the poisoned bars, he saw that the armored car driver had already bought one and was eating it. Gilstrap knew that if the driver simply collapsed and died in the parking lot, the police would order an autopsy that would reveal the poison in his system]]. Once the driver began to succumb to the poison,
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Neptune Bars for Mrs. Gilstrap.
* WeNamedTheDogIndiana: Ambrose was named after his father's pet turtle.
* WeNamedTheDogIndiana: Ambrose was named after his father's pet turtle.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Paul Gilstrap poisoned several Neptune bars in order to make the murder of his wife seem like the work of a serial killer.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Neptune Bars for Mrs.Gilstrap.
Gilstrap. Paul tries to take advantage of this by killing her with a poisoned Neptune bar.
* WeNamedTheDogIndiana: Ambrose was named after his father's petturtle.turtle.
* WouldHurtAChild: The characters never point this out, but considering it's ''Halloween'' when he tried his serial killer plot, it's very likely at least one of the victims would have been a kid.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Neptune Bars for Mrs.
* WeNamedTheDogIndiana: Ambrose was named after his father's pet
* WouldHurtAChild: The characters never point this out, but considering it's ''Halloween'' when he tried his serial killer plot, it's very likely at least one of the victims would have been a kid.
