Maddie: <Player's Name>, nice to meet you! I'm so excited you're joining the Concordian Flying Squad. I can just tell that we're going to have a tremendous time together!
Upon arriving to the city of Concordia by ship and being greeted by Madeline "Maddie" O'Malley, their new partner, and Charles "Charlie" Dupont, the Flying Squad's inventor, the player character receives their first case right away when the body of immigration officer Frank Vogel appears poisoned at the docks.
Tropes:
- Acquired Poison Immunity: During the autopsy report, Dick claims that he has acquired immunity to arsenic by ingesting small does every day.
- An Immigrant's Tale: Father Donovan, Seamus O'Neill, and Harriet Patrick are all Irish immigrants who came looking for a better life in America, although only Father Donovan seems to doing well since both Seamus and Harriet are mostly impoverished.
- Asshole Victim: The victim was an Obstructive Bureaucrat that denied Irish immigrants citizenship for the most lenient "offenses" and didn't care about infecting women with syphilis even when it led to their deaths.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: This happens when Maddie introduces you to Viola for the first time.Maddie: This is Viola Pemberton, our lab chief. She's-Viola: Let me be mad then, by all means! Mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!Maddie: ... An amateur actress with a tendency to quote literature.
- The Bartender: Walter Lombardi, the owner of the The Old Ale House tavern where the victim used to drink and also was poisoned.
- Bribe Backfire: Seamus bribed the victim with all the savings he had so Frank would let his mother enter the city, since he had denied her citizenship for a misdeed back in Ireland. Unfortunately, Frank stole the money and still refused to let Seamus' mom live in Concordia.
- Buffy Speak: When Charles inform you that the strange machine you found is a sphygmomanometer, Maddie naturally has a loot of trouble pronouncing it, eventually just resorting to call it "that device".
- Call-Forward: Maddie suggests Charles to write down his adventures on a journal, as someone might be interested in reading them in the future.
- Clueless Mystery: Like the first case of Grimsborough and all the other mobile exclusive tutorial cases, while the player is given the physical evidence to solve the murder in "The Murder of Mrs. Stanbury", the game never explains why her husband murdered her.
- Constantly Lactating Cow: During the Additional Investigation, you help Charles test his milking machine on Harriet's cow without anything implying that said cow is pregnant.
- Cool Airship: The Flying Squad doesn't receive its name for nothing; their headquarters are literally flying, as they're located on a zeppelin.
- Debut Queue: In the mobile-exclusive "The Murder of Mrs. Stanbury" tutorial, only Chief Wright, Maddie, and Dick are introduced, with the rest of the team properly appearing in the case itself.
- Description Cut: When you're informed that Chief Wright has returned from his absence, Maddie excitedly tells you that he's probably going to brief you on the Squad's primary mission moments before Chief Wright barges in to greet you and say he doesn't have time to brief you on the Squad's primary mission.
- Dirty Cop: Raines, an officer from the Concordian Police Department, had been accepting bribes from Walter so he would turn a blind eye on his moonshine business. According to Chief Wright, this won't be the last instance of police corruption you'll see in Concordia.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: Maddie has this reaction when she sees Rose's pet rat Ratsputin during her introduction.
- Flea Episode: One of the killer's traits is that they have lice, which they represent by scratching their head on their sprites.
- Good Shepherd: Father Donovan, an Irish Priest who visits the docks every time a new ship full of immigrants arrives to give them his blessing. He even helps you with finding Harriet's cousin so she doesn't have to live in the streets during the Additional Investigation.
- Immigrant Parents: Maddie's parents come from Ireland.Maddie: Um, I'm afraid I don't understand Gaelic. My parents are Irish, but I'm a born-and-raised Concordian!
- Implied Death Threat: In the main investigation, you find that the victim anonymously received an obituary from poisoning as a threat, which allows the player to deduce the killer reads the newspaper from where the obituary was found.
- Internal Affairs: Chief Wright reveals that one of the main purposes of the Flying Squad is investigating the growing corruption inside of the Concordian Police Department, making them the police's police in addition to investigating crimes.
- It Has Only Just Begun: At the end of the case, Chief Wright tells you that your fight against the corruption growing in the city has just begun and you'll better be ready for it.
- Lack of Empathy: If an Irish immigrant committed even the most lenient "offense" or had a disease that couldn't be cured, Frank would sent them back to Ireland, no matter how impoverished they were or how cruel it would be.
- The Migration: As this case makes it clear, thousands of Irish immigrants are arriving to have a better life in America, and are forced to deal with poverty, discrimination, and exploitation in Concordia while they're at it.
- Mood Whiplash: Right when the Squad is celebrating the player's inclusion in the team and the good job they did on their first investigation, Evie rushes in to inform you that a fire has broken out in the city.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: The victim was the Lieutenant General of the New Haven Immigration Center, and rejoiced in sending immigrants away for the smallest things without any hint of empathy for them. He even stole Seamus' savings after breaking their agreement of letting his mom live in Concordia.
- The Promised Land: Harriet claims that America is this for the Irish immigrants, who believe is a paradise full of opportunities compared to their old country. Too bad she learns in this case that this might not be the case, as immigrants suffer discrimination and poverty in spades.
- Secret Relationship: Frank had one with Nellie Mortimer, a nurse in charge of checking immigrants didn't have serious diseases that could spread among others. When she broke up with him after he gave her syphilis, he threatened to expose the secret to everyone, which would've ruined her reputation.
- Shout-Out:
- Wormwood: A Drama of Paris is quoted.
- In the Tavern Chairs scene, there is artwork of a mermaid resembling Ariel.
- Slashed Throat: Not how the victim died in this case, but how the victim died in the mobile exclusive case.
- STD Immunity: Oh so Averted. During her arrest, Nellie reveals that the reason why she killed Frank was because he gave her syphilis and was planning on spreading it to other women, feeling that her duty as a nurse was protecting them from being infected.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: The victim was killed by having his drink poisoned with arsenic, which took 12 hours to kill him according to Dick.
- That Came Out Wrong: When Charles asks you to help him test his milking machine on Harriet's cow, he says he's got a particular interest on the animal... before hastily making it clear that it's nothing indecent.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: The mobile exclusive tutorial case "The Murder of Mrs. Stanbury" reveals that Victoria Stanbury was murdered by her husband, Percy. Why he did so is never explained.
- Unusual Euphemism: When you interrogate Nellie about her relationship with the victim, Maddie asks if she had a "horizontal refreshment" with him.
- Welcome Episode: Just look at the case's title.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Maddie berates Dick for experimenting with the victim's blood after the autopsy is done, though he claims he had to inspect it to get more leads about his death.
- You Are Already Dead: Nellie claims that she doesn't care about going to prison since having syphilis is already a death sentence, and at least she managed to get rid of Frank before he infected and killed other women.
