Recap / Criminal Case: Pacific Bay - Case 49: Immortal Sin

Hannah: I'm saying that the helmet on the hamster's head was used to swap his mind with a dog's! The first ever barking, bone-chewing, tail-wagging rodent!

Chief Marquez orders Amy and the player to investigate an underwater lab built by Meteor Systems, the tech company that has been causing trouble all over the district. There, you find the body of Meteor Systems CEO Teresa Turing, floating in the water and stung to death by jellyfishes.

Tropes:

• Androids Are People, Too: Aphro-Dyte is treated like a normal suspect here.
• Animal Testing: A theme in this case, from experimenting on jellyfishes to achieve immortality to hamsters and dogs to swap minds and create cyborgs. According to Rascher, there's no law forbidding animal experimentation on Pacific Bay.
• Bilingual Bonus: You can probably pinpoint Greta Meduse as the killer when you meet her if you know French (or any romance language, as the word sounds similar), since her surname in that language literally means "jellyfish".
• Body Backup Drive: Aphro-Dyte served as this for Teresa.
• Brain Uploading: Teresa was planning to upload her brain on Aphro-Dyte in case her immortality research failed.
  Aphro-Dyte: YES. She wanted her MEMORIES to be downloaded into my BRAIN. Like putting OLD files into a NEW computer. She wanted to live FOREVER.
• Brutal Honesty: Aphro-Dyte when talking about Teresa.
  Aphro-Dyte: Yes. I am her HELPER robot. I am programmed to help humans with things that they CANNOT do themselves. Teresa needs a LOT of help. She is not a BRIGHT human.
  Amy: Whoa, you sure like to speak your mind.
• Call-Back: Karen Knight reappears as a suspect.
• Cliffhanger: The case ends with Chief Marquez informing you that there's been a break-in at a Meteor Systems factory and you need to be there as soon as possible.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Amy recalls how the victim was the wife of the man who got killed by his own robot.
  • After the killer is arrested, Amy says she knows well enough that your own family can't be trusted.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: According to Roxie, the victim died by being stung by multiple jellyfishes.
• For Science!: The only reason why Dr. Rascher agreed to help Teresa in her immortality research and asked for a blood sample from her diseased body was all in the name of science.
• Fembot: Aphro-Dyte.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: You discover a hamster that had its mind swapped with a dog, which was part of Teresa's research for living forever.
  Rascher: That hamster was our first successful experiment with mind swapping! It's going to be a famous rodent!
• Humans Are Bastards: Aphro-Dyte thinks this about humanity.
  Aphro-Dyte: Humans are GREEDY. If they become IMMORTAL, they'll still want MORE. More power, more DESTRUCTION... They act like GREEDY children.
• Hypocrite: Dr. Rascher accuses Amy of this, telling her she didn't even blink at the thought of Meteor Systems experimenting with jellyfish but a dog makes her feel scandalized.
• Immortality Seeker: Teresa was researching a way to live forever since she was Secretly Dying.
• I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Greta, the victim's mother, wanted to be beautiful again and was trying to get her daughter to pay for her Botox.
  Greta: I never wanted a child, all the stress and wrinkles that come with it... Then seeing my daughter grow up beautiful while I got old... She's the reason for my pain!
• I Just Want to Be Free: Aphro-Dyte's whole purpose was being an Body Backup Drive for Teresa, which as a sentient robot obviously didn't set well with her.
  Aphro-Dyte: But I do not want to DIE. I want to LIVE. I am SO relieved she will not take my BODY!
  This equates to my FREEDOM. I am free. I am FREE!
• Mad Scientist: Dr. Rascher, a scientist who is researching how to swap bodies between animals and people, even succeeding in giving a hamster the mind of a dog. During the Additional Investigation, you also discover that he's trying to create cyborg dogs.
• Offing the Offspring: The victim was murdered by her own mother.
• Only One Name: Dr. Rascher's first name wasn't revealed.
• Poor Communication Kills: The reason why Greta killed Teresa was because the latter wouldn't share her "immortality trick" with her mother, leading to Greta to believe that Teresa was selfishly trying to hog all the beautyness for herself when in reality she needed said immortality because she was Secretly Dying.
  Greta: My baby girl! Why didn't she tell me she was dying?! Was that why she went and paid for all those science experiments?
  Amy: Precisely. Your daughter was studying immortality not to stay young, but to stay alive! But since you've ruined any chance of that, <Player's Name> is putting you under arrest!
• Ridiculously Human Robot: Like Per-Sephone and Sunny before her, Aphro-Dyte behaves like a normal person with some Robo Speak.
• Secretly Dying: Apart from Dr. Rascher, no one knew about Teresa's terminal illness prior to her death until Roxie analyzes her body.
• Shout-Out:
  • Greta Meduse resembles Joan Rivers, and her surname is the French word for "jellyfish", the murder weapon.
  • In the Aqua Laboratory scene, there is a picture of a mermaid resembling Ariel.
• Shown Their Work: The idea of an "immortal jellyfish" is based on an actual species. The turritopsis dohrnii is able to revert itself back to a polyp when it becomes old or sick, then grow into a healthy adult jellyfish again; since this process can be repeated indefinitely, they truly can live forever (so long as they're not killed by predators).
• Tap on the Head: Teresa was first knocked out with a hand weight before being thrown at the jellyfishes.
• Your Days Are Numbered: Teresa was terminally ill, which is why she was researching immortality with jellyfishes and Body Backup Drives.