History Recap / TheKindaichiCaseFilesLegendOfBrokenHeartLakeMurderCase

* AnAxeToGrind:
** The culprit wields an ax to commit murders.
** This is also how the killer committed murders in a case Itsuki himself wrote in a report ten years ago.

** The man with a BriefcaseFullOfMoney, in his moment of desperate panic after witnessing -- alongside everyone else -- the bridge being burned down (which creates the ClosedCircle effect for all but the culprit) and the drawing of the first murder victim by the MadArtist afterwards, [[TooDumbToLive decides to leave the resort area by himself]], claiming that he'd rather die in the woods than staying in wait to be the next victim. He certainly gets his wish when he encounters the culprit, [[AnAxeToGrind axe]] and all, as he runs deeper into the woods.

Miyuki's cousin shows up one day and gives a ticket for a yet-to-be-opened lake resort to Miyuki, telling her to find a guy to go in his stead, and Kindaichi eagerly takes the ticket. Kindaichi and Miyuki reach the campground at Lake Hiren, which is located in Nagano, alongside several others, as a test tourist group, not knowing the resort itself is actually the stage for an upcoming serial murder case.

* BluffTheEavesdropper: Kindaichi finds a bugging device after the MadArtist has fallen victim to the murderer. Afterwards, he stages an argument with the rest of the survivors and walks out of the cabin where he found the bug in order to BluffTheMurderer and trick said murderer LuredIntoATrap.

* KillEmAll: The culprit plans to do this with all the survivors from the Oriental [[ThemeInitials whose names had the initials S.K.]] Since he couldn't figure out which one was responsible for Keiko's death, he was just going to slaughter them all indiscriminately.

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: This case arc begins with Kindaichi being informed by a male classmate of his that he had sex during the summer... but not feeling all that excited now that it's done.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: The man with a BriefcaseFullOfMoney is placed inside a refrigerator after the culprit murders him and [[FacialHorror mutilates his face]].

* TooDumbToLive: Even after the bridge is burned away, which creates the ClosedCircle effect, and knowing a serial murderer can be anywhere in close vicinity, the man with a BriefcaseFullOfMoney insists on getting out by himself, which makes him an easy target for the culprit and ends with him being killed. After regaining composure shortly after Kindaichi finds his body StuffedIntoTheFridge, his wife remarks to herself that he's never been the brightest person she's ever met.

* TakeAThirdOption: Discussed for heartwarming effect at the end of the case arc. As Kindaichi and Miyuki talk about the Oriental Cruise accident, they surmise that the culprit probably would have chosen death in order to give Keiko a better chance for survival had he been with her in that situation, before Miyuki asks Kindaichi what he would have done if they were there. Kindaichi's response is to think of a way to save ''both'' of them.

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: A dark example. The culprit in the case Itsuki reported ten years ago was a man in his 20's who confused himself with the characters he saw on TV and spent money on surgeries to look like his favorite actors that he saw, until his face began falling apart after years of facial surgeries, at which point he saw himself resembling Jason from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and went on a murderous spree that started with his family and claimed 13 villagers before he was arrested.

* PosthumousCharacter: The serial murderer in the case Itsuki wrote in his report a decade ago turns out to have died in prison a year ago, as Kenmochi relays to Kindaichi near the end of the case arc.