Nightmare Fuel / Criminal Case

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Criminal Case is about finding murder victims, so it's unsurprising that some of the deaths are horrific, but even then, a few of them stand out:

Grimsborough

• The victim in The Grim Butcher (pictured above) deserves a special mention. She was burned with cigarettes and then cut open, her heart cut out, and then her body hung up alongside pig carcasses in a butcher's storehouse. And you're told that she was alive when she was being cut open.
  • Later in that case, you find out what happened to her heart. It was wrapped in paper and given to her mother.
    • And keep in mind, this is only Case 3. This game does not mess around.
• Death by Crucifixion involves a man stripped, beaten, and crucified like Jesus Christ, and left there until he bled to death.
  • One of the suspects is Linda Lovara, the local madwoman. Here's a picture◊ of what she gets to be like when she's angry.^note Don't worry, the horns aren't real; they're only for cosmetic purposes.
• The victim in Beautiful No More was a lovely young dancer named Trixie Velvet, who got a note from a secret admirer asking to meet her after work. As it turned out, it was her fellow bartender, who had a lesbian attraction to her. Trixie, being straight, was confused, and then laughed. The killer snapped and literally beat her so much that her face was unrecognizable.
• The victim in Burned to the Bone was burned alive. Even worse, he was trying to give up the gangster life for his girlfriend, and the person who offered him a job killed him because he didn't believe he turned over a new leaf.
• Blood on the Trading Floor involves the victim, Samuel Rye, being butchered with a samurai sword and disemboweled while alive, his arms tied to sides in a crucifix-like pose. Later it's mentioned that he broke both arms trying to escape due to the extreme pain. It's both sickeningly violent and very disturbing to witness.
• How the victim in The Last Supper was killed is frightening because of the nature of the death. It was an accident. The killer, a chef, tried to kill a food critic and killed the victim by mistake.
• A Deadly Game. The killer tortured the victim in a creepy basement, ripped his fingers off and used one as a caviar spoon, ate the victim's liver, and then finally killed him in an iron maiden. Even Judge Hall is terrified.
• The victim in The Secret Experiments is Rachel Priest. She was injected with a serum designed to give a soldier superhuman strength. But since the serum was only designed for men, her skin literally split apart as her bones grew to an abnormal size. Then, she was decapitated after death and thrown into a vat of acid.
• The victim in Anatomy of a Murder was taxidermied. Alive.
• The Summoning is full of this. For starters, the victim was killed in a room used for a pagan ritual, and the Necronomicon shows up to play a role in the case. Then there's the Grimsborough Cemetery, its hidden objects, and natural scenery alike, especially those evil eyes in the sky...
• Not only does the killer in Dog Eat Dog kill several dogs in addition to a person, but it's the sweet old lady Margaret Littlewood, who was so helpful to you in several cases. She also poisons your partner Jones. The fact that she does give the antidote to him and saves his life matters so little.
• In Murder on Campus, the victim, Rani, died as a result of a colony of ants invading her throat and asphyxiating her on a hunt for the sugars in all the alcohol she was forced to drink. It doesn't help that her killer had only intended to humiliate her; she had no idea the ants were there, and the Rorschach Reaper had hypnotized her beforehand.
• Take a good look at the victim's face◊ in Killing Me Softly. Have fun with that humongous Slasher Smile.
• The Devil's Playground involved the victim, who genuinely loved his Amish girlfriend, getting stabbed with a pitchfork several times and left as a scarecrow by her Ax-Crazy father.
• The Reveal of the Rorschach Reaper as Tess Goodwin. Not only does the Reaper get others to kill their own family and friends, but they're also doing it solely to get a thesis. When exposed, they try to slip out by trying to get Jones to murder the player, which is fortunately prevented by Ramirez knocking Jones out with a frying pan.
• Good Girls Don't Die involves the death of Abigail Price. Not only is her own mother's reaction chillingly cold, but she was murdered by her best friend for not helping the girl cheat her way into college, using a hair removal laser. The hole burned through her skin was so deep that her ribcage was exposed.
• The Reveal in It All Ends Here. Your chief, Samuel King, is the killer. And, instead of telling you what happened, he blows his brains out in front of you and Jones. Jones is so traumatized he can't sleep and grows some stubble afterward.
• A Brave New World has Stuart Huckabee get murdered by his own sister, who slit his throat while alive, then pulled out his tongue — to Jones's disgust.

Pacific Bay

• Smoke and Mirrors is pretty terrifying. The victim's eyes were taken out, and then an incredibly drunk Harvey Fitchner finds them. It does not end well.
  Harvey Fitchner: The eyes... Look into her eyes...
• The murders in the Inner City section are quite horrifically murdered, especially since several of them involve organ theft:
  • Heartless: The victim had her heart ripped out and her body was hung by a racist Russian politician, who was angered that the victim had secretly married her brother.
  • Eastern Promises: The victim was impaled on a decoration and had his lungs ripped out, at his daughter's wedding, no less.
  • Spineless: The victim had his lungs burst with helium, his spine removed, and was attached to a St. Patrick's Day float.
  • Murder-Go-Round: The victim had her coffee spiked with a lethal dose of blood thinners, causing her to bleed out from her eyes and mouth. The kicker is that the victim is her son's nanny, who had come to resent the victim's neglect of her son, to the point of refusing to vaccinate him.
  • Killing Time: The victim was strapped to a clock, which suffocated him as the clock moved forward in time. Bonus points go to the killer, Fredo Mancini, attempting to suicide-bomb the courtroom during his trial, which would have killed everyone had Hannah not intervened.
  • Under the Skin: Nikolai Kamarov was partially skinned alive and attached to a heritage parade float. It revealed that his killer, his and Sue Xiong's illegitimate son, had skinned him and planned to do the same to his mother, and had local doctor Mark McKenzie steal the missing body parts from above and transplant them into his own body, as he had grown sick of the Russo-Chinese feuds. Even the humorous Judge Dante is disturbed.
• After the Storm involved the victim dismembered and hung on tram lines as musical notes, mocking his career as a musician.
• Though unrelated to his death, the victim of Cloudy with a Chance of Murder is discovered to have been seeing a therapist prior to his death. Said therapist so thoroughly despised him that she intentionally prescribed him high dosage medication, in hopes that the medicine's side effects would trigger suicidal urges and cause the man to kill himself.
• The victim of Open Wounds was killed with a live cannonball during a reenactment. The damage to his body was so intense that he needed to be stitched back together. According to the doctor who performed his autopsy, this took three hours.
• Of Rats and Men has the victim eaten alive by rats.
• The district also offers another serial murderer called the Puppeteer, who cuts his victims into pieces and strings them up like marionettes.
• The Hunger Planes involves a plane crash, but what's truly horrific is that the pilot is not only roasted alive but eaten afterward. The cherry on top is that it's Bobby Prince, Amy's former boyfriend.
  • In The Final Countdown, Bobby is revealed to have become completely obsessed with Amy, to the point where he kills Frank because he's told that he's the only thing standing in his way. Amy is horrified at this, and when he hears that Amy is with Russell, he can't bear it and tries to kill her, forcing Amy to shoot him in self-defense.
• The story arc of White Peaks involves an Urban Legend called the Night Walker, who is said to have been responsible for numerous kidnappings and murders. It also wears a creepy mask that looks like a melted face. He also happens to be Duncan Young, a former cop and the beloved older brother of Amy Young.
• Once Upon a Crime involves a teenage movie star getting slammed into a mirror and slashed to death. And the killer is her own mother, jealous of her daughter's success and her own fading memory.
• The victim in Wild Wild Death is drawn and quartered alive: his limbs were tied to four horses that ran in opposite directions.
• The victim in Star Crime was melted in such strong acid that the only thing left of his abdomen was his spine.
• The victim in Temple of Doom was tied up, stabbed, and had his heart removed. The killer wanted to use the victim as a sacrifice to summon aliens, from which the killer believed he was a descendant of.
• The victim in Crystal Death was decapitated and his head is found on a post. It's not the scariest death, but the true meaning behind it is pretty frightening. A xenophobic border control officer killed him because the victim lied to him constantly about being a citizen to smuggle drugs. He used his severed head as a warning to other immigrants to stay away from Rhine Canyon.
• The victim in No Place Like Home was autopsied alive. Although, since the person inside was actually an alien, it's easier to swallow.
• The victim in Uncivil Rights was crushed into a human cube.
• The victim in Blood in the Blender has arguably the most gruesome death of not only anyone else in Innovation Valley, but in all of Pacific Bay. She is sliced up into pieces with a saw and then blended in three blenders, leaving only a hand, a foot, and her head, with a horrifying expression on her face. Not only is this worthy of both Nightmare Fuel and Nausea Fuel, but her killer is none other than her own seemingly devoted husband who fell in love with her clone.
• The victim in Immortal Sin is pushed into a tank of jellyfish and stung to death. The killer turns out to be her own mother, who was jealous of her daughter's beauty. When her daughter didn't share her immortality studies with her, the mother killed her as punishment, not knowing that the victim had a terminal disease that caused her to study it in the first place.
• The victim in Programmed to Kill is fairly standard fare, but the killer, Aphro-Dyte (who is a robot), deserves special mention. She tried to inject all humans with nanobots so they would worship robots as their creator. When she's caught, she pulls a Taking You with Me and sets the robots of Innovation Valley loose.
• A Killer Among Us has almost all of the suspects as your partners in the police department: Frank, Hannah, Russell, and Roxie. Roxie gets the added horror of having to autopsy the killer of her boyfriend. To make matters worse, Frank, your partner, is the killer, and Andrea is held hostage by Karen in order to help him escape.
• Into the Wastes has a disturbing death of a man fallen into radioactive waste causing massive organ failure, but the really terrifying thing is when Yann goes over a blood sample from Amy and the player and tells them that they will shortly die unless they leave the area. But they can't leave.
• The Sting of Death has Karen Knight killed by scorpions, and then her eyes were gouged out.

World Edition

• The victim of The Impossible Dream was slowly roasted alive in a brazen bull, while nobody could hear her scream due to the device transforming the screams into the sound of an angry bull. And, to top it all off, the team was rushing to stop the bombs spread across various monuments in Europe by the Promethean Cult.
• In I Spy a Mummy, the victim was mummified and had his brain pulled out with an ancient hook. While he was still alive.
• While the murder in The Parting Shot wasn't as bad as the ones listed above, the Additional Investigation has Ambassador Stern's little son get kidnapped. Not only is Stern crying tears of fright the entire time, but it's discovered that everything that happened from Chief Ripley's 'death' was a trap created by the Sword for the player. And it ends with the team finding out that Stern's son was taken from Dubai to Iraq...
• In Die by the Sword, the player and Carmen are forced to watch two of their teammates get badly poisoned, and another one was taken hostage. Then they themselves are nearly killed by the criminal they'd finally cornered. If it hadn't been for Jonah Karam, this case would've ended badly.
• Bad Medicine has the victim be killed by liquid morphine, which the killer slipped into her water bottle without her noticing. The nature of the death is frightening and can cause some Paranoia Fuel.
• Plagued by Death has a plague sweeping across the country where the case is taking place. Angela and Lars are pushing themselves to the brink of their bodies' limits and still no progress.
  • The entirety of this case runs on Nightmare Fuel. The victim's body is shown to be half-decayed and covered in bugs; then it's revealed that he was the first victim of the virus, which turned out to be man-made and released by the killer. This overlaps with Tear Jerker when Lars gets sick with the plague, and won't survive unless a cure is discovered. When the killer is finally caught, it turns out that he released this virus as a means for him to control India's population, and is sickeningly proud of himself for doing so. Even as a furious Judge Adaku gives him a life sentence, he pulls a Slasher Smile and continues to rant about how much good he's doing for the country.
• The victim in Peace and Dead Quiet died of blood loss after his arm was chopped off with an ax. In the end, it's revealed that he had forced his adopted daughter to marry him, and the man who loved her had killed him to set her free.
• Insides Out really takes the cake: One of the nicest characters in the series is gutted and his bones broken, then his skin used to make a ritual drum. Unlike most victims, he did nothing to deserve this, and the killer, Warren Goodfellow, finally drops his kind facade and reveals himself to be a depraved individual who was also behind South Asia's SOMBRA activities as well as framing the equally innocent Om Padmasana for his actions.
• The whole of East Asia seems to be going for this since the focus of the region is on SOMBRA's link to disappearing children as well as the search for the man behind Warren Goodfellow. The first two cases don't hold back on the Nightmare Fuel: The Killer in the Rice begins with the grisly murder of a teenage boy, and throughout the investigation, it's discovered that the children in the area had suddenly begun acting mercilessly cruel, with one of them having committed the murder because "The weak die. It's nature's way." The AI of Dead in the Water reveals that the victim discovered that there was a mass disappearance of children all over East Asia, many of them being orphans. It didn't help that in both cases, Angela and Lars' daughters wandered off, causing their parents to freak out until they were found safe.
• The Murder Games is frightening because it establishes that SOMBRA definitely Would Hurt a Child to accomplish their plans. The killer gathered up children to force them to partake in a Hunger Games-style slaughter and killed one when he refused to compete. The one behind all of this turns out to be a seemingly sweet old lady that the Bureau kept bumping into throughout the region, similar to Margaret Littlewood's case in Grimsborough.
  • Also, in chapter 3 of that case, June tries to shoot an apple off of April's head. Luckily, Jonah arrives just in time to catch the arrow, but imagine what would have happened if he was too late...
• When it's time to arrest the criminal of A Stab in the Dark, Elliot asks if he can do the honors, and is kidnapped as a result. The entire team is horrified.
  • The kicker is probably when Carmen goes looking for Elliot and only finds a bloody tie where he was last seen. Lars discovers that it's Elliot's blood on the tie, and deduces that he was gagged by the criminal and could very well be dead at this point. Both Carmen and Lars are horrified at this and don't want to believe it.
  • To make matters worse, it's only Jonah's Big Damn Heroes moment that gets Elliot out alive, and he's still covered in bruises and cuts on every visible bit of skin, and probably even more we can't see.
• Out of the Blue has Jack and the player investigating the case, when suddenly, tremors start coming out of nowhere. Then, Elliot shows up and informs them that a volcano's about to erupt at any minute, and the rest of the case is spent trying to gather up all the evidence while the tremors and eruptions grow stronger.
• In Diamond in the Rough, Jonah is not happy when his half-sister, Lily, is flagged as a murder suspect. Marina is in a panic when she asks for the player's help to calm him down, and when Jonah actually shows up, he gives off a frightening Death Glare before storming off to possibly maim someone to prove Lily's innocence.
• In Plain Sight is similar to A Killer Among Us from Pacific Bay, where all the suspects are main members of the Bureau. Angela, who is normally calm, is downright hostile to the player in this case, and she's also the SOMBRA mole who had been with them the entire time. No one had expected it to be her, since she was one of the more sane characters with a happy family life.
  • Halfway through the case, Carmen calls the player and (with no context) tells them to forgive her for what's about to happen and to take care of Sanjay. It's even more horrifying in context since she had been abducted by a hired gun and the call was made to lure the player into a trap, and it's only thanks to Jonah's deduction that the player even realizes what happened.
• Ice Rage is full of this. The victim's gruesome death was caused by someone who attacked her in rage, and the suspects are all somewhat unhinged thanks to being isolated for many months in a lab in Antarctica. One of the suspects had suggested electroshock therapy on the victim despite her normal mental state, and a conspiracy theorist insists that a sabertooth tiger came back from the dead and killed her. The actual killer had felt alone and thought he and the victim were meant to be, and angrily killed her when she rejected him.
• Murder, He Wrote has Lars returning from his leave, but he is still in a broken state and Jack has to restrain him. When he first appears he makes a very dark joke about Angela's treachery, then at the end of Chapter 2, he shows up out of nowhere, threatening to slit his own throat.
• Operation Spyfall has the player going to find the downed SOMBRA satellite, only to find spy Jean Connerie dead from countless stab wounds. Right after that, Asal appears in the same state as Jean and frantically begs the player to help her before collapsing from her injuries. To top it all off, the killer turns out to be Anya Ivanova, a former MGB agent who had been amiable towards the Bureau when they last met and even helped them. She reveals that she had joined SOMBRA because she thinks they're the only ones who appreciate her and coldly taunts her former allies at the Bureau. This case clearly shows that even the so-called good guys can turn on you when you least expect it.
  • To make things worse, Elliot had been present when the player found Jean and Asal, and is clearly distressed by what he sees. It's no wonder that Carmen was worried for him.
• Down to the Wire has the Prime Minister of Canada brutally murdered and when El Rey, who is revealed to be Hector Montoya, is arrested, we see his removed wig revealing horrid burns underneath.

Mysteries of the Past

• The first district deals with a subplot involving immigrants essentially being sold in slavery. Though this is resolved, it's all but stated that this is only the tip of the iceberg and it doesn't help that there's a lot of discussion about corruption in the police force, the very thing that the Flying Squad was created to stop.
• In Eyes Wide Shut, a pimp was brutally stabbed to death in the eyes, causing an unsettling setting in the brothel.
• In Bridge Over Troubled Water, a taxi driver was disemboweled and hung up like a pig in the slaughterhouse. A lot like The Grim Butcher, only this time we get to see the results.
• In Hold Your Tongue, Commissioner Baldwin was smashed in the skull with an adze and got his tongue cut out post-mortem.
• In Burning Bridges, a teenage plumber the player had previously met is decapitated. Worse, the killer is her friend who had taken to carrying a machete due to the increasing violence, and when she took him by surprise he swung instinctively, only seeing who it was too late.
• In Talk of the Town, the victim dies after ingesting sulfuric acid his sundae was laced with. When his body is collected, there is a gaping hole in his throat.
• In The Heart of the Matter, Deputy Mayor Hwang was strangled and got her heart ripped out post-mortem.
• Tipping the Scales has Archie Rochester sawed in half and left on the scales of justice.
• Justin Lawson's development from a genuinely kind-hearted and righteous person into a complete despot over the course of Arrow of Injustice and The New Truth! is seriously unnerving. In the latter case, when presiding over the killer's trial, he sentences her to death by beheading despite the death penalty having been abolished in Concordia for fifty hears.

The Conspiracy

• Snake in the Grass has our old friend Nathan tied up and covered in snake bites. To top it all off, he was murdered for refusing to sacrifice his ethical code so that the killer's son wouldn't be arrested, ten years before the case.
• In Hell is Other People, the victim is killed by multiple shots from a nail gun. The killer's motive for this gruesome murder turns out to be extremely petty as well, being that the victim (while drunk) accidentally threw up on her flower bushes, ruining her chances at winning a gardening contest.
• The victim in Too Cruel for School, who was only a teenager, had her face burnt with sulfuric acid and then strangled with a computer cable. And the killer is Coach Kirk, who murdered her to stop her from telling people he was perving on his students in the shower.
• The Arc Villain of Fairview, school principal Rosamund Wilcox, is a serial killer who poisons adults, specifically those who've fallen out with their kids, with a poisonous mixture of amlodipine and Rocket Cow. By the end of the district, she's killed 12 parents (one of whom she was dating, no less) and nearly attempted to kill Gloria in the span of 6 cases.
• Stonewalled deals with the game's only cold case. The victim, a lawyer, has been dead for 4 years, and her body has rotted considerably. However, a real nightmare fuel no less. Her killer turns out to be her socialite best friend, who murdered her because she was about to expose her as the daughter of a drug baron.
• In Money Mile, anything having to do with Meera Kat. She's introduced as a callous artist who thinks nothing of using disasters to gain social media likes, and even openly displays injured or deceased earthquake victims as "art" without any regard for their well-being. Later we find out more about her personality, including how she dismissed Ruby Armstrong's near-death experience as another piece of art, and even the implication that she killed her childhood cat to create her first "masterpiece." Even her own mother sees her sociopathic tendencies and calls her a monster.
• In The Art of Murder, Meera is killed by being locked inside a cage and dunked into lava, while her killer sat back and watched her suffer. While the case goes deeper into her disturbed personality, her killer turns out to be even worse than she was in that regard. Meera's killer, Christian Bateman, had sick fantasies of torturing women and was so ambitious and driven that he became devoid of all emotion and empathy. He managed to fall in love with Meera, but when she rejected him, he snapped and killed her, enjoying the sounds of her screaming as she died. And if all that wasn't enough for you, this is what he tells you as he laughs about the murder.
  Christian: You think I'm crazy? I'm the sanest person in this room! I'm the only one honest enough to face my darkest fantasies!
• The victim in Buzz Kill fell head-first into a beehive. When you recover his body, his entire face is covered in lumps and blood, and you're then told he suffered close to 3,000 stings alone (for sake of reference, Martine explains that much venom is capable of killing a horse). The murder wasn't even intentional; His secretary attempted to confront him about trying to impregnate her without her consent (which is horrifying in itself) and hit him too hard, causing him to stumble onto the beehive.
  • In the same case's AI, Annie Schmidt is found at a café, having passed out from spending too much time on a VR game. Luckily, she turns out to be alive, but it's still frightening.
• In Game Over, the victim is killed by an exploding VR headset, and when her body is retrieved it's clearly shown that a large chunk of her head had been blown off. The killer turned out to be her brother, who booby-trapped her headset because he was furious over her neglect of their dying father.
• In The Truth Hurts, Steven Crowe is stabbed in the eyes by his own earrings.
• The victim in Light my Fire was immolated with absinthe during her own award ceremony.
• In Blood in the Water, Mayor Martha Price ends up being eaten to death by the Demon Fish that were captured in the penultimate case of the area. The killer turns out to be her cousin, the eccentric scientist Ernest Emerson. Ernest, who had been studying the Demon Fish for a while, was glad to have discovered them after looking for so long and was angered when Martha wanted to exterminate the species to protect Grimsborough. When she didn't suck up to his For Science! beliefs, he proceeded to release them through Maple Heights, which ended up killing her and at least 20 other people.
• In Things Fall Apart, lab chief Rupert Winchester had his killer spray hemlock-laced gas on him, which shut down his nervous system as he tried to escape the dome. When the killer is caught, she reveals that she knew the real Pickering and Rupert allowing her to blow his cover, shocking the Grimsborough PD as she was the only thing they weren't able to account for on Rupert's mission. In spite of having known Rupert, she shows no remorse for killing him and says that she would do it again if she could.
• The victim in A Rock and a Hard Place, the rather cold Barb Bellamy, had her head sawed right off her body, five minutes before the police arrived at the crime scene.
• While the murder in Death in My Hand is standard fare, after the killer Zoe Kusama is arrested, it is revealed that Dreamlife had been running human experimentation under the dome, kidnapping several unsuspecting civilians and using them to test the new drugs the company is developing. The victim had been the one to perform those experiments, and when Zoe sees him again, the horrible memories come flooding back to her and enrage her so much that she ends up beating the victim to death with a rock.
• In Cold Blood.
  • The victim, Wendy Stokes, and an aversion of Asshole Victim, was used as an experiment and frozen to death by a liquid nitrogen gun. This came right after her desire to leave the dome.
  • Her killer, Rosie Summers, was forced into murdering Wendy. She was experimented on, which caused her to temporarily lose her sense of emotion, and then was given the gun. As Rosie had no control over what happened, she ended killing the person she looked up to. Luckily, she's given psychological rehab rather than jail time.
  • DreamLife finally cross the Moral Event Horizon when it's revealed that experimenting with the fallen meteor caused the earthquake responsible for ravaging Grimsborough earlier in the storyline. It is revealed that Protozane, a drug made from Berzelium extracted from the meteorite and what caused Zoe to lose her memory and the deaths of millions of DreamLife's human guinea pigs, suppresses emotions and has no antidote.
    • It also turns out that the drug is being sent out into Grimsborough by Shweta Noorani, the same person behind making the virus from Plagued by Death in World Edition. By the time you arrest Shweta, the drug's shipment is about to head into Grimsborough.
• In Up in Flames, Tony Marconi is burned alive by a Molotov cocktail. The killer is the son he'd spent the season trying to protect, who truly believed that Protozane would do good for Grimsborough and refused to side with Marconi because of his past as a mobster.
• Most if not all of the murders that take place in the University are quite gruesome in one way or another. It says something when being slashed and stabbed in the neck is the least violent death in the district.
  • Final Cut: The victim was sawed in half, alive, and recorded by the killer just to finish off the film she was starring in.
  • Pain in the Neck: The victim was slashed to death with a fork.
  • Deadeye: The victim was shot in the eye using a modified paintball gun. And it happened during a seemingly normal game of paintball, where the shots fired aren't supposed to hurt anyone.
  • Game, Set, Murder: The victim suffered a particularly gruesome death. The victim was knocked unconscious and then tied to a table and workbench vise, before waking up as her head was being crushed in by the vise. When you retrieve her body, blood is coming out of her mouth and eyes. Her killer turns out to be the Jerkass groundskeeper, who killed her because she caught him hiding the body of his long-deceased wife, who met a similar fate.
  • Trick or Treat takes place during Halloween, and the actual murder itself is fittingly terrifying: The victim is sliced nearly in half by a scythe, and his guts are actually shown spilling out. One of the crime scenes, Lily Chen's costume shop, has a similarly creepy aura to it. The killer turns out to be the victim's younger brother, who was in love with the victim's girlfriend and couldn't stand it when she rejected his advances, deciding to take his brother out of the equation.
  • After an entire district of brutal murders, the University's finale in Lashing Out has the victim, Kevin Charles, whipped to death. To make it worse, all five of the suspects, all Ad Astra members, took part in the murder, given the orders by Rozetta to protect her former colleagues.
• Spring Fields also has pretty gruesome cases:
  • Fields of Murder: The victim was shotgunned to the point his heart was exposed and then left in a burning field.
  • A Crime Like No Udder is very similar to Trick or Treat; The victim has her skull crushed by a cattle bold and her chest branded. The killer, a cheesemaker called Tallulah Shropshire, committed the murder not just because she thought the priest had a crush on both of them, but that the victim had stolen Tallulah's previous boyfriend.
  • A Pointy End: The victim was poisoned with a heavy amount of cyanide, causing her to suffer seizures as she died.
    • In the same case, you discover the reason behind the cornfields being burnt. Fornax, who is revealed to be AgriMeadow CEO Julia Brine, was sent Rozetta's Protozane shipment. She then grew resilient corn seedlings laced with the Protozane before hiring the killer in Fields of Murder to burn the field, intending to sell the drugged seedlings to the farmers in an intend to brainwash all of Grimsborough.
  • Like a Pig to the Slaughter might take the cake for the most gruesome case in the game. The victim was cut into pieces and left in a pig trough. To make things worse, the victim is Mia Loukas's father, and Jones is incredibly hesitant to tell her that he was murdered in such a brutal fashion.
    • In the same case, it is revealed that Christian Bateman, one of the most unhinged killers in the series, was released from prison as he had been declared mentally distressed and not responsible for the murder. Considering how his last appearance went, it's unsettling that the warden would let him walk free again.
  • In Vino Veritas has Christian's mother drowned to death in her own wine. The killer doesn't turn out to be her son, but her best friend. However, the AI turns out to be very unsettling; Ad Astra intends to go ahead with "Plan Supernova", and Christian is very much aware of Julia's arrest. And during the end of the case, a bomb goes off, leaving the player at a cliffhanger.
  • To Kingdom Come is this and a Tear Jerker; The car bomb in the previous case is revealed to have killed the young rookie cop, Mia Loukas. And to make it worse, Mia wasn't the intended victim; it was you.
    • During the finale, you learn that Mayor Joe Warren is not only part of Ad Astra, but wanted you dead. This is in spite of the fact that in his past appearances, he was a fairly friendly person, even helping the team shut down Dreamlife.
• Even though Lights Out is not very gruesome (as the victim was shot to death), it involves a city-wide blackout occurring, which wouldn't be too unusual if it wasn't part of Ad Astra's plan, and when electricity is restored, it's revealed that Ad Astra may be getting their hands into human enhancement. Considering that they already perfected emotional suppression and mind control, this makes the enhancement part much more terrifying.
  • In the AI of the same case, Judge Powell gets kidnapped and beaten up by the sons of Case 49's killer. Luckily, she turns out to be fine, but it's very upsetting, especially for her daughter Olivia.
• In Out of Breath, the victim Doris Black was beaten and strangled to death with her own apron. This is yet another case of Mundane Made Awesome, after René Narcisse's death. The killer turns out to be her own brother, simply because she didn't want him getting into affairs with the meteor.
  • You also learn why Ad Astra was pursuing human enhancement; they wanted to use it on themselves to become completely invincible, which makes their goals all the more unsettling.
• Head Case, like To Kingdom Come, doubles as a Tear Jerker. Jones' girlfriend, Zoe Kusama dies of getting her head bashed in, which is ironic as she killed a scientist in a similar way. The killer turns out to be one of her friends, journalist Louis Leroux, who didn't even want to kill her, just render her unconscious as she didn't tell him about her telekinetic abilities, which she has because Dreamlife mistakenly injected her with their superhuman serum instead of Protozane.
• The victim in Playing Dead was attacked with acid, leaving burn marks on her face. Even Martine is disturbed when she does the autopsy.
• The victim in Breaking News, Louis Leroux, really takes the cake. He ends up getting blown to death in his prison cell, his limbs scattered all over the floor.
  • His death was ordered by someone who felt Ad Astra had outlived their usefulness. Think about that. Five extremely powerful and influential criminals were working for someone else the whole time. In the AI, it is revealed that the remaining Ad Astrans kidnapped Jake and Carter Hayes and each has a different superpower. Christian has cryokinesis, Joe has telekinesis, Julia can create poison gas, and Rozetta has electrokinesis. To top it all off, the four of them are legitimately terrified for their lives despite these powers. One can only imagine as to who could possibly have them so scared?
• The murder in Running Scared isn't a gruesome one, but the context behind it is terrifying. Previously, Ad Astra had kidnapped Gloria's ex-husband and son and handed them over to an accomplice who shot Jake to death when he tried to fight back. Carter (who is only 12 years old) is forced to watch as his father is killed right in front of him. As the investigation continues, we are constantly reminded that Carter is still in the killer's clutches, and his life depends on us catching them. Then it's revealed that the killer was tricked into thinking that Jake was a political enemy, and killed him to stay on the Mayor's good side.
• The victim in To Eternity and Beyond, Trishna Joshi, was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in just three minutes. The killer turned out to be an egotistical retired astronaut, who killed her just because she didn't sterilize his spaceship properly, making him lose his job.
  • In addition, this case also reveals that Denise Daniels, S.A.R.A.'s fairly affable leader, was really the mastermind behind Ad Astra. In addition, she's also ''Rozetta's estranged mother'', who created Rozetta in an attempt to create a perfect human being, only to abandon her when she's no different than anyone else. That's right; everything Rozetta had done up to this point was really her mother's own work.
• Reap What You Sow has Christian Bateman get killed with a deadly Tranquilizer Dart, proving that not even superpowers can prevent the Ad Astrans from dying. The context behind the murder is also harrowing; Mayor Warren had no choice but to perform a coup de grace, as the super serum had not only caused illness for the Ad Astrans, but because it had caused Bateman to completely lose his mind. And you're told that the serum may possibly kill the Ad Astrans.
  • The Additional Investigation proves that not only did Denise Daniels never approve of Rozetta's attempts to impress her, but that she had baited Rozetta into doing her dirty work with the meteorite after estranging her years prior. Then afterwards, betray her and her friends again to do something that even Rozetta and Louis are terrified of what she's doing with it.
• The victim in Extinguished was bashed in the head so much that his brain was exposed. It gets worse when the killer (his wife) is arrested, she reveals that she found out he had been helping Denise Daniels create superhumans and subjecting them to horrifying tests, and killed him hoping to put a stop to the experiments.
  • In the AI, the team finds out exactly what Denise Daniels plans on doing next: she wants to use the core of the meteorite to cause an even bigger earthquake than the one that hit money mile, effectively destroying Grimsborough.
• The victim in Eve of Disaster had his organs liquefied by a sonic boom gun intended for mining, deflating his entire body. And to make it worse, he was killed trying to prevent one of Denise Daniels' cronies (in this case, her lawyer) from carrying out her plan to destroy Grimsborough.
  • And right after the killer is confronted in jail, Denise fries him to death with a microchip she had implanted in that brain. Not only has Denise gone batshit crazy at this point, but she has so much control over those around her that she's able to plant microchips in people's brains and kill them with the blink of an eye.
  • The AI of this case is terrifying as well. Denise's plan for an earthquake involves fusing the meteorite's Berzelium into the nuclear plant to create a nuclear explosion, destroying almost all of Grimsborough. To make it worse, she had a fairly innocuous nuclear plant worker do her dirty work or risk having her family killed. While the nuclear explosion plan is stopped just in time by Jasper, she's already released her superhuman army into the public.
  • Later, the three remaining Ad Astra members team up to stop Denise and the superhumans at the dome. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, with their superpowers proving worthless against Denise and her army. She then swiftly shoots dead Rozetta without any remorse and tosses a grenade at Joe and Julia, causing the case to end at a cliffhanger.
• Blaze of Glory involves stopping the neohuman army, who solely intend on completely destroying Grimsborough. However, during the riots, you find not only Rozetta and Julia's bodies, but also Denise's head on display at the courthouse.
  • The way Denise went out. She was tied up, brutally beaten into submission, and then decapitated, all with the intention on taking over her army. And to make it worse, the neohumans have a Hive Mind; The fact that Denise is dead doesn't matter to them, as long as they are still given orders to cause mayhem and destruction. To make it worse, they're near indestructible.
  • One of the crime scenes, DreamLife's dome, is engulfed in flames and on the verge of collapsing entirely. During Chapter 3, Jones and the player end up being hospitalized when an explosion goes off. Luckily, neither of them die, albeit with Jones losing an eye in the process.
  • One of the biggest shocks is that the killer turns out to be Otto Kessel, Denise's inconspicuous assistant. During his arrest, he reveals that he was really a neohuman who usurped Denise to free his fellow neohumans.
  • Amir finds a way to counter the neohumans by overpowering the effects of Berzelium, at the cost of the person using it dying in the process. This crosses over with Tear Jerker when Rita volunteers to do the job. During the final battle with Otto and the neohumans, her powers end up becoming too much as she tells the player to run for their life, before exploding, killing her and the neohumans in the process.

Travel in Time

• While Julius Caesar's murder in Death as Old as Time isn't actually graphic and has a rather humorous motive, it also ends up creating several problems for future events during the BC era, such as Octavian intending to destroy Egypt instead of conquering it, and causes history to be altered to the point where Ancient Egypt takes over the world.
• Octavian himself deserves a mention due to being incredibly violent, callous, and smug. Particularly, stringing along the vestal virgin murderer of When in Rome and convincing her to kill her mother, a political opponent of his, to get her out of her lifestyle, only to excommunicate her when she actually does so.
• In Summer of Death, it's discovered that the malfunctioning of the time machine was intentionally done by a saboteur, without any clear motive as to why.
• Ambassador Lev Romanov's murder in Crime and Punishment is nearly enough for both the US and the USSR to declare war, which is what the killer of the case intended to do in the first place.
• In A Tudor Murder, Catherine of Aragon was brutally beaten to death with a mace, cutting off her own ear and knocking out several of her teeth in the process.
• The Altered Present district. Created by all the previous errors in time and the sabotage of the time machine, the Altered Present is a Dystopian future where Ancient Egypt has become a superpower and spread as far as New York, now known as New Cairo. As a result, T.I.M.E. doesn't exist, time travel has been hidden by the government, and worst of all, the Temporal Crimes Division is seen as wanted fugitives and arrested on the spot.
• Back to the Future revolves around the murder of Chief Scott, who hadn't made any appearances since the tutorial case. To make it worse, he was killed because not only was he a subversive to the regime, but he was aware he was trapped in an altered timeline.
  • In the same case, Nebet ends up being captured by the guards and taken away the second the team arrives in New Cairo.
• The victim in Rebel Without a Pulse, a Resistance member, was shot in the torso with a ray gun, creating a giant bloodless hole, similar to Dead Space of Pacific Bay. The motive is just as harrowing - his girlfriend killed him to stop him from suicide-bombing the Fifth of July celebrations. Even worse, he had planned on using his six-year-old son to help him plant the bombs.
  • The AI of the case contains one of the biggest shockers of the season. Nebet is revealed to really be Princess Nefertiti, the daughter of the Ptolemian leaders, who had been helping the saboteur to send the team to the Altered Present all along.
• The victim in Fool's Gold, the Ptolemian king, has molten gold poured over his head, killing him instantly with fourth-degree burns. The icing on the cake is that the killer is Nefertiti, who killed her father because he wanted to send her back to Egypt even after all she'd done to acquire riches for their family. She also has no remorse for betraying the team, which is probably the reason why it's so easy for her to betray her parents as well.
• The victim in Anchors Aweigh! had his throat slit by a razor. The killer's arrest also provides a good amount of Paranoia Fuel: the murder had been a complete accident, which happened when the crew's doctor was just shaving the victim when the boat rocked, causing the razor to cut his throat.
• A Pirate's Death for Me has Blackbeard try to befriend the team, only to bite into an orange and collapse dead from poisoning. To make things worse, Blackbeard had offered Jack and the player the orange before eating it, unaware that it had been poisoned.
  • At the end of the case, the team is trying to sail towards Blackbeard's treasure, only for the ship to be wrecked when it crashes into a reef.
• Shipwrecked! has the team stranded on an island inhabited by previous stowaways, only to find their leader speared to death. The motive behind her murder? She intended to feed the overweight killer to the other islanders.
  • In the AI of the case, Zara begins to turn blue and scaly. right after finding Blackbeard's treasure.
  • Upon firing a flare gun, Amy and the player are greeted by none other than Ammon Bast, who is ready to kill them right there. Luckily, Mary Read steps in at the right time and evacuates the team.
• The victim in Going Once, Going Twice, Dead! had his head blown off by an Exploding Cigar. When Amy recovers his head, the bottom half of it is entirely missing.
  • Near the end of the case, the team wins the auction for England...only for Ammon to show up, and in his fury over the loss, he shoots Orlando and runs away. Orlando recovers, but it's a frightening moment nonetheless. While Kai and Jack search for any sign of him, they discover guns and other revolutionary weapons that he plans to bring to Medieval Asia, which will have dire consequences for history if he manages to use them in that time period.
• The victim in A Slice of Death was sliced in half with a katana. To top it all off, the killer is a samurai who killed the shogun because he felt guilty when he killed innocents when fighting under his army, and he wanted to become a monk. He is even given a death sentence by the shogun's wife.

Supernatural Investigations

• Being a season about hunting supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves, and ghosts, the player is bound to encounter a lot of horrific moments this season. Blood Lust is no exception; the victim was drained entirely of blood by a vampire which wasn't even what the killer had intended to do. The victim had wanted to become a vampire and asked the killer to turn her into one, only to be sucked dry because the killer hadn't tasted fresh blood in a long time and couldn't resist.
• The plotline of the West revolves around a vampire seeking complete immunity, starting by kidnapping an innocent girl for her virgin blood and leading the team on a wild goose chase. This culminates in Immortal Combat, where they behead Dr. Aculus during his own ball. The real shocker is that the vampire turns out to be Eric Zwart, who had appeared as the grief-ridden ex of the victim in ''Blood Lust'', who sought invincibility after being rejected by Aculus for being the youngest of his convent, only to kill him after he condemns Zwart for doing so.
• In Hour of the Wolf, Priya is held at gunpoint by Ruth Wu for no other reason than being a werewolf. One has to wonder what would have happened if Gwen hadn't arrived before she went ahead with it...
• In Immortal Combat, Gwen falls victim to a vampire bite from Bathsheba, and nearly again by Pierce during the ball.
• The victim in Gut Out had his insides ripped out by a Chupacabra, which later tries to kill Luke, who luckily is able to kill it before it can get too close to him. One could imagine how devastating it would be had he been unable to shake it.
  • The Additional Investigation of the case is also fairly harrowing. Justine Bankston, Gwen's girlfriend, gets jailed for beheaded her own sister, only to have complete amnesia as to how she did so. And that's before it's revealed that Justine's amnesia and use of a tarot card in the murder is the for the previous case's killer, Jesse Adams.
• Hashtag Murder has Marigold Carson decapitated and chopped up in The Island of the Dolls. The kicker is that her killer, Tiffany, is really an Evil Doll that came to life and chopped her up because she saw "darkness in her soul". She then goes for Gwen after being arrested but is killed when her head is shot off.
• Mad World really takes the cake, even for a season like Supernatural Investigations. The case deals with the murder of a doctor at Blackmoor Asylum, whose skull was cracked open by a trepanning tool. While the asylum certainly has an unsettling vibe, it's tame compared to the ways the victim had abused the asylum's patients which lead to her assistant trying to "fix" her lack of empathy, killing her by accident while attempting to do a trepanation. The victim's actions included sewing a pair of twins against their will to conjoin them, threatening and abusing her patients with solitary confinement (many of whom are claustrophobic), throwing her sane daughter into the asylum and drugging her to prevent her escape, and murdering several of her patients, using their body parts to create Adam Enstrom, her assistant. Gwen is shocked and disgusted throughout the case, even saying that the victim deserved to die at one point. It goes to show that in a season with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demons some of the worst monsters you find in it are humans.
• In A One-Wolf Open Slay, Ruth Wu gets mauled to death by a werewolf, who killed her out of revenge: She killed his son when he was just a cub. At least Ruth had it coming, though.
• The victim in Dead Heat is killed by a curse, causing his car to flip over during a race.
  • What makes this one even more disturbing is that the killer is none other than his grieving uncle, who claimed that he made a Deal with the Devil to make himself a famous racer. However, none of the Supernatural Hunters believe him since the claims were so ridiculous, and as such, chief Arrow then made it clear that the deal was nothing but a crazy dream he had, and in this universe, the Devil isn't real, and the way the uncle achieved his dream were through his efforts and never giving up, meaning that he killed his own nephew for nothing, and now his punishment is that he will have to be tormented by this guilt for the rest of his life.
• In The Tree of Death, the killer of Annette Strong turns out to be the fairly affable Zeke Davis. Upon being arrested, he reveals himself to be the demon they were searching for.
  • Zeke's demon form counts for being rather disturbing. As a human, his ginger afro and goatee, and unfitting fur trenchcoat make him look fairly goofy. His true form is bright red with massive black horns instead of an afro and ditches the clothing.
  • This is taken further in the Additional Investigation, where he melts Jacob and Ben's weapons and prepares to kill them and the player. One can imagine how bad things had got if Arthur Darkwood didn't come just in time to banish him to the Netherworld.
• While the murder in This American Death is standard fare, the circumstances behind it are extremely disturbing. The misogynistic victim had actually murdered his wife and replaced her with a submissive golem replica. She then realized that she was a replica of the victim and murdered him. To worsen matters, it turns out that their child had suddenly disappeared.
• Felix almost being killed by Clybourn Webster twice in Don't Die over Spilled Milk. He got shot in the elbow and was quickly brought back to the caravan and treated by Ben, then later held at knifepoint by Clybourn until Gwen manages to save him.
  • The murder itself is also pretty disturbing, with the victim having been sliced from crotch to throat with a hook. The MO was stated to be similar to that of the local urban legend, The Milkman. The killer's motive is also pretty harrowing; her mother died when she was young and since the killer was never found, she blamed The Milkman, and when the victim was about to reveal that the legend wasn't real, she couldn't stand having her illusion shattered and killed him.
• The victim in A Murder of Crows was tied up to a tree and pecked to death by crows in a fashion similar to that of The Birds. To make it worse, his death was planned by his employer as he couldn't bear to see him leave his job.
  • Later, we find out why the missing children had been kidnapped: some unscrupulous witches had planned on eating them on Walpurgis Night, the witches' Sabbath.
• Scry for Help has Belinda, an aversion of Asshole Victim, drowned in a cauldron of unknown green liquid. To make things worse, her own sister, Morgana, had masterminded the murder because Belinda was interfering with her plans to eat children on Walpurgis Night to strengthen her powers. She takes advantage of Heather Night's insecurities in order to coax her into killing Belinda and keeping her own hands clean.
  • During the case, Avery Mitchell runs off to help the team...only to end up kidnapped like the other children and at risk of being eaten by the witches. Luckily, the team manages to save her and the others.
  • Towards the end of the case, the team contacts Arthur Darkwood to ask why he was on Earth. He reveals that there had been a war in the demon world between the queen's supporters and rebels. Arthur, a rebel, was nearly killed in the war, and he awakens to find out that the queen had been defeated and locked up. However, in the present time, the demons had already found four of the five locks needed to free her, and if the queen does go free she could rip a hole between dimensions and allow demons to invade the Earth. The implications from that aren't pretty...
• The victim in No Leg to Stand On was stabbed in the stomach and had his legs fed to a kraken. To make it worse, he hadn't actually done anything to deserve this - A mermaid-turned human was pining for his girlfriend and decided to murder him as a result.
• The victim in Hocus Pocus, Agnes Leek, was hanged to death and had her tongue cut out. At the end of the second chapter, her ghost surprises Gwen and the player, threatening to haunt them forever if they don't find her killer. When the killer is arrested, he reveals that he killed Agnes to end a curse on his family put on them by her ancestor 400 years ago.
  • Mid-investigation, the player and Gwen are approached by Avery Mitchell, who is terrified as Gwen's mother is chasing after her with intent to kill her.
• In Scarab to Death, the victim, a rare aversion of Asshole Victim, is killed with a cursed amulet, which turned his arm black and eventually killed him with a heart attack. To top it all off, the murder was just an accident: An archaeology professor tried to give him the amulet, but she was unaware that it was cursed, killing the victim.
• The Third Degree features several.
  • The victim, Theresa Rosenthal, was killed in a pretty horrific way: she was drugged with a truth serum which caused her to experience Sensory Overload, then the "killer" inflicted a Mind Rape so distressful on her that she shot herself just to escape from the pain. Especially shocking is that the killer turns out to be Reggie Pratt, who reveals himself as the demon that had tortured Gwen's mind and that the demons have found the final key. Even Arthur Darkwood, who is himself a demon, is absolutely horrified at the way Theresa went out.
  • Near the end of the case, it's revealed that Hope Newman, who had gone AWOL only two cases ago, is really Rathimael's child and the final key to the cage. By the time Jacob, Arthur, and the player reach the demon's cage, Hope has already been kidnapped by Reggie to open the cage.
• The revelation that the demon queen turns out to have taken the body of none other than Lily Arrow, Jacob's dead wife. To make her appearance even creepier, she is seen trying to coax her husband upon being released.
• The victim in The Hunted Hunter, Dolores Harper, had been impaled with magic vines. Her killer turns out to be none other than Morgana Blackhawk, who had regained her powers after swearing her loyalty to the evil demons, and she uses her newfound abilities to elude arrest. To make things worse, Morgana isn't the only new ally the demons have; in the Additional Investigation, the team finds out that Chief Arrow had sided with the Demon Queen as well, most likely because he couldn't let go of his dead wife.
• Divided We Fall has Roxanne Vega get impaled with a stake and pushed out a window. The killer turns out to be Fabien de la Mort, her right-hand man, who she had threatened after he refused to go along with her plan to help the demons enslave all of humanity and supernatural creatures. Roxanne's actions were so horrific that the Supernatural Alliance acquitted him of all charges.
  • Throughout the case, Arthur Darkwood (who was supposed to moderate the meeting) was nowhere to be seen, worrying both the team and the Supernatural Alliance. When they finally try to look for him, all they find is his torn jacket, which could only mean that he had been kidnapped or already killed by the evil demons. The fact that not even a powerful demon like Arthur is safe makes it all the more harrowing when a demon guard shows up to take the team to the Netherworld, and the case ends on a cliffhanger.
• To Hell and Back takes place in the Netherworld, which is populated by demons. After being arrested in the previous case, the team finds Arthur slashed to death and drained of blood, and are all alone now that he can't protect them anymore. They are forced to solve the murder while quietly avoiding the Demon Queen's wrath wherever they go.
  • In the first chapter, the team finds that George Mathison had been a demon all along, and doesn't care that they had worked together for so many cases, and instead laughs and calls them fools for not seeing through his disguise.
  • The killer turns out to be Zeke Davis, the same demon that Arthur had banished to the Netherworld all the way back in The Tree of Death. He claims that he did it to save the Earth...not because he cared for the beings who lived on it, but because he enjoyed the resources and felt superior to its lifeforms. He also reveals that he had given Arthur's blood to the Chief for safekeeping, not realizing that the Chief had allied with the Queen and helped release her from her vessel.
  • While the team manages to defeat the evil demons once and for all and safely returns to the Earth, it's never revealed what happened to Morgana Blackhawk, the only other human seen in the Netherworld. She may have died along with the Queen since she had gotten her powers from her, but even if she didn't, the Netherworld isn't a great place to live in, and she might not be able to get out, trapped for all eternity. Now talk about Nothing Is Scarier in its ultimate form!

City Of Romance

• The victim in Party Like It's 1699 was decapitated inside her bedroom with a meat cleaver. To make it worse, her murderer turns out to be her son, who did so because she rejected the idea of converting their house into a bed and breakfast to maintain their wealth, while trying to frame the head chef.
• When Melodie Laurence's true colors finally show in Queen of Hearts. After initially coming across as a Dumb Blonde, she quickly reveals her true intentions with the Luvver app, while donning a Nightmare Face to follow.
• The death of Céleste Alouest in Out With a Bang, where her stomach explodes because of a cesium powder pill and splatters all over the place. Not only is it a terrifying sight, but the sound of it has left all the suspects shaken. To make it worse, the person responsible for adding the pill had no idea it would kill her - she simply assumed it would have made her sick.
• The penultimate episode has a bit of modern-day horrors, with a deepfake being used to discredit an innocent man by publicly posting what looks like him participating in an affair.
  • Also, as for the case itself, it's rather gruesome despite being bloodless due to the circumstances of the particularly nasty way Antoine is killed via suffocation with a plastic bag, and he's shown with a disturbing grimace etched on his face, complete with bulging bloodshot eyes and heck, that's not even getting into the fact that he has been stripped naked and has the words "DIE PIG" painted on his chest! What makes it worse is that the killer turns out to be radio show host Roland Nanty, who killed Antoine in brutal fashion out of revenge for the mobster ruining his life. Sure, Antoine had everything coming to him, but still, what a chilling way to go...