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While being visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and her friend are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes. .

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While being visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and her friend are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes. .\n



** A perfume bottle Jessica notices in the Gillen household.

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** A perfume bottle Jessica notices in the Gillen household. It's from a new line that just hit the town shelves, and the clerk says no one besides Jessica bought one. She hypothesizes her boss took one for a lady friend, and Jessica notes that it's a suggestive present to give a married woman. He turns out to have been involved with Mrs. Gillen, who needed him to obtain the nitrogen used to kill her husband.



** Neal Gillen's video of smoking shortly before his death.

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** Neal Gillen's The video of smoking shortly Neal in his study before his death.death showed him having to relight his cigar an unusual number of times. Nitrogen doesn't burn, and the room was filling with nitrogen gas.



* GasChamber: The method of murder for this episode is the victim's own study which was slowly filled with [[DeadlyGas nitrogen]].

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* GasChamber: The method of murder for this episode is the victim's own study which was slowly filled with [[DeadlyGas nitrogen]].nitrogen]].
* GoldDigger: One of the locals claims that Anne lured Neal away from his first wife and only wanted his money.
* NearVillainVictory: Mrs. Gillen almost succeeds in convincing Jessica and Sean that Neal died of a heart attack or aneurysm with the video tape of his last night. Then Sean mentions Jessica's perfume and Jessica remembers seeing the same perfume on Mrs. Gillen's dresser, reviving her suspicions.
* TogetherInDeath: The backstory of the house involves a woman and her husband, a sea captain who built the tower for her so she could watch him come home. One stormy night, as she watched, his ship crashed and sank with all hands. Distraught, she threw herself from the tower to join her husband.
* YouJustToldMe: Jessica closes the door to Neal's study and tells Mrs. Gillen that she thinks she found something that would prove her husband was murdered, turning on the light and leafing through the book Neal was reading when he died. Mrs. Gillen makes a number of excuses not to stay in the room and becomes hysterical when she can't get the door open. For some reason, she then pounces on the desk lamp, turning it off. Jessica purposely set things up to prove that Mrs. Gillen knew the desk lamp triggered a DeadlyGas.
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* FakeNationality: Of all the cast members, [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240474/ Shay Duffin]] is the only one actually born in Ireland.
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Written by: Creator/JMichaelStraczynski\\
Directed by: Walter Grauman

While being visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and her friend are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes. .

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* ChekhovsGun: Several.
** A perfume bottle Jessica notices in the Gillen household.
** The infamous [[ScreamingWoman Screaming Lady spirit]] heard in the house, which some characters also claim to have seen, sometimes appearing as a man or a woman.
** Neal Gillen's video of smoking shortly before his death.
* ContinuityNod: Sean Culhane is on sabbatical [[Recap/MurderSheWroteS8E17ToTheLastWillIGrappleWithThee from his teaching position]] in the same school Jessica teaches in.
* FakeNationality: Of all the cast members, [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240474/ Shay Duffin]] is the only one actually born in Ireland.
* GasChamber: The method of murder for this episode is the victim's own study which was slowly filled with [[DeadlyGas nitrogen]].

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