History Recap / PennyAndAggieMissingPersonTheBellevilleInterviews

* AscendedMeme: When [=McBell=] asks Lynda if his team can check her browser history, as she claims to have been working at home at the time of Cyndi's abduction, she blushes, grins sheepishly and says "If...if you promise [[TheInternetIsForPorn confidentiality]]." Given that certain fans have long been vocal about their PerverseSexualLust for Lynda, leading to an ongoing forum meme jokingly suggesting she gets up to kinky activities when Rob's not around...well, draw your own conclusion.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Lisa, the comic's resident jester, makes a two-panel, silent appearance early in this chapter, and then is nowhere to be seen through the rest of "Missing Person," the darkest ''PennyAndAggie'' arc.

Cyndi's boyfriend Braz calls her parents when she fails to show up that evening at her friend Meg's party. They in turn contact the police who, using the car's recovery antenna, find the vehicle abandoned in an alley some distance away from the school, as well as a bloodied lacrosse stick. From this evidence, plus the lack of a ransom demand, [=McBell=] theorizes that the kidnapping was a crime of passion by a peer. The Kristoffers surrender her laptop to the investigators, who mine her {{Facebook}}, {{Twitter}} and e-mail history for potential suspects. Aggie also gives an extensive account of Cyndi's misdeeds. From all these sources, it appears the suspect list is large indeed. [=McBell=] observes that Cyndi has a pattern of making online and offline friends and then quickly replacing them with others; however, he notices that Meg is the closest she has to an ongoing, in-person friend, and so talks to her first. This leads from the agent's narration to the "interviews" portion of the chapter.

Meg, mildly concerned about her friend's safety, doesn't provide any leads, but does reveal more about her personality, in that neither she nor Cyndi have any use for "touchy-feely" friendships. She also dismisses the notion that Cyndi considered the class presidency all that important, nor even the high school stage of life itself, the latter apparently because Meg herself claims not to. Next is the anxious Braz, who admits to having menaced Jack with a lacrosse stick, in order to scare Stan out of running against Cyndi, but insists in a panic that he only meant the threat "ironically."

--> It doesn't even feel like she's gone. It feels like this is just another game she's playing. And she never tries to win. She just tries to make everyone else lose.

* AscendedMeme: When [=McBell=] asks Lynda if his team can check her browser history, as she claims to have been working at home at the time of Cyndi's abduction, she blushes, grins sheepishly and says "If...if you promise [[TheInternetIsForPorn confidentiality]]." Given that certain fans have long been vocal about their PerverseSexualLust for [[HotMom Lynda]], leading to an ongoing forum meme jokingly suggesting she gets up to kinky activities when Rob's not around...well, draw your own conclusion.

* RedHerring: [[WordOfGod Campbell]], after the conclusion of "Missing Person," admitted on the forum that [[spoiler: the stain on Braz's hand]] was this.

* AbusiveParents - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Duane, with regard to Charlotte.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness - [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Meg, who rejects this idea.
* AscendedMeme - When [=McBell=] asks Lynda if his team can check her browser history, as she claims to have been working at home at the time of Cyndi's abduction, she blushes, grins sheepishly and says "If...if you promise [[TheInternetIsForPorn confidentiality]]." Given that certain fans have long been vocal about their PerverseSexualLust for [[HotMom Lynda]], leading to an ongoing forum meme jokingly suggesting she gets up to kinky activities when Rob's not around...well, draw your own conclusion.

* BigSecret - Aggie resists telling the [=FBI=] about Brandi's assault on Xena, and the role she and her friends played in covering it up, but finally caves.
* DaddysGirl - Cyndi. Her father Carl, when [=McBell=] questions him about the phone calls and e-mails they'd received about her misdeeds, dismisses them as "harassment" and continues to insist on her innocence. (He also spoils her by lending her a collectible Porsche for driving to school.) [=McBell=] notices that her mother Trisha is much less adamant about her daughter's good name.
* TheDitz - Bob.

* DumbJock - Braz.
* EveryoneIsASuspect - Cyndi has that many enemies.
* TheFaceless - For most of the chapter, either [=McBell=], as the narrator, is shown in silhouette or with face partially obscured, or else the scene is shown from his perspective, while he speaks from off-panel. However, towards the end of the chapter his face appears in either full or partial profile, and the final panel shows his face from the front.
* ICanExplain / SayingTooMuch - Braz, in a panic, admits to the police that he'd threatened Jack with a lacrosse stick.

* MirandaRights - Charlotte is the only character to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] her right not to answer questions without an attorney.
* OutOfGenreExperience - This chapter is in the form of a PoliceProcedural.
* RedHerring - [[WordOfGod Campbell]], after the conclusion of "Missing Person," admitted on the forum that [[spoiler: the stain on Braz's hand]] was this.

* RalphWiggum - Bob.
--> '''[=McBell=]:''' Humiliating diarrhea gives you the motive...\\
'''Bob''' (''grinning vacantly''): Popsicles gave me the craps, not Cyndi! Cyndi's not a popsicle. [-'Cept in my dreams.-] And what's a motive?

Meg, mildly concerned about her friend's safety, doesn't provide any leads, but does reveal more about her personality, in that neither she nor Cyndi have any use for "touchy-feely" friendships; she also dismisses the notion that Cyndi considered the class presidency all that important, nor even the high school stage of life itself, the latter apparently because Meg herself claims not to. Next is the anxious Braz, who admits to having menaced Jack with a lacrosse stick, in order to scare Stan out of running against Cyndi, but insists in a panic that he only meant the threat "ironically."