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Love is in the air.

During Lola Vallez's wedding, the groom, Walter Banks, dies when his aerobatics show goes wrong and his jet crashes on site due to a sabotage.

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  • Alliterative Name: Walter's ex-wife, Molly Mocard.
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption:
    Jones: I'm afraid King really won't be happy if we don't solve this case soon, <Player's Name>!
    Chief King: You're damn well right I won't be, Jones!
  • Big Brother Instinct: Esteban tries to justify why he murdered Walter with this, saying that he had to protect his sister Lola from a man who was clearly interested on her money. Judge Hall is quick to dismiss this, saying that he was just angry Lola had decided to stop giving him money under Walter's orders.
  • Big "WHAT?!": Twice, both coming from Jones. First after Ramirez tells you he has already solved the case, and latter when Yan tells you Molly is about to commit suicide.
  • Call-Back: Adam Bentley and Lola Vallez reappear as suspects.
  • The Casanova: Walter had been cheating on Lola with multiple women at once, though she refused to believe it no matter how evident it became.
  • Continuity Nod: Serena Johnson makes a cameo during Lola's wedding.
  • Convenient Photograph: Molly's camera managed to catch the killer sneaking behind Walter's plane just at the right moment.
  • Driven to Suicide: Molly after Walter's death. Fortunately, you manage to save her.
  • Foot-Dragging Divorcee: Molly Mocard, Walter's first wife, hadn't been able to get over their divorce for a long time, hence why she's been trying to sabotage all of his posterior marriages and continues referring to him as "her husband."
  • Happily Failed Suicide: After you manage to save Molly from killing herself, she thanks you for snapping her out of it, promising to turn her life back around.
  • Interrupted Suicide: You manage to catch Molly before she throws herself off the Maple Heights bridge.
  • Make It Look Like an Accident: The killer sabotaged the victim's plane to make it crash and make it appear an accident. Fortunately, Lola's insistence makes you investigate and discover that it was a murder.
  • Nouveau Riche: As we learn, the Old Money people from Maple Heights look down on Adam since he's not part of any influential family, so he befriended Adam as a way to flip them off.
  • Paper Destruction of Anger: Chief King tore apart Ramirez' magazine off-screen after the latter told him that the answers to solve the case were there.
  • Pet the Dog: Once again, Lola is shown to threat Ramirez with genuine respect, even saying she's glad to see him during the Additional Investigation.
  • Right Behind Me: Implied after Chief King appears with an Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption.
    Jones: I'm afraid King really won't be happy if we don't solve this case soon, <Player's Name>!
    Chief King: You're damn well right I won't be, Jones!
    Jones: Argh! Wha... How... I mean, I didn't see you there, Chief! Were you hiding or something?
    Chief King: I was standing right here, Jones, but you obviously never see ANYTHING!!!
  • Shout-Out:
  • Spooky Photographs: Adam sent Walter an album full of crashed planes as a "wedding gift" to creep him out, since he discovered Walter had been using him to boost his status.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Molly, Walter's ex-wife, had been following him for years and even installed a camera on his hangar to spy on him.
  • There Are No Coincidences: Jones says this to Adam, finding strange how another one of his rich "friends" has died during an important event.
    Jones: Cut the pleasantries, Adam! Care to explain why every powerful man you get close to ends up dead?
  • Vehicular Sabotage: The killer put a fake de-icing product on Walter's plane that actually made it freeze faster, prompting it to crash.
  • Worst Wedding Ever: For Lola. Nothing worse than your own brother sabotaging your fiance's plane and making it crash right onto the altar, then becoming a suspect yourself for his death.
    Lola: The whole world came to witness our union... and instead they saw my dream of a happy future crash and burn.
  • You Monster!: Lola yells this at Esteban during his trial.

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