The day after predicting her own murder in a Voodoo ceremony, an elderly woman is found dead in the science classroom of the local high school. Everything, including the prophecy, points to her son-in-law, the school headmaster Nicholas Dunham. D.I. Poole and D.S. Bordey must discover if she really did predict her murder or if the headmaster is being framed.
Tropes:
- Bitter Almonds: Fidel sniffs the two glasses next to the murdered woman and smells bitter almonds. Poole tests the glass and there is cyanide in the glass.
- Blatant Lies: Dwayne was among the crowd when the elderly woman foretells her own death, and he tells this to everyone else, clearly buying into the prediction. During the climax when Poole explains everything, he says that she recognized Dwayne in the crowd and knowing that he was a policeman, foretold her death to frame Nicholas Dunham for her death. But Dwayne proudly boasts that he did not believe it. Nobody buys it.
- Constructive Body Disposal: Averted Trope. The initial investigation dug up Nicholas Dunham's newly built patio when his wife disappeared fifteen years ago, but found nothing. The actual method he used turns out to be far more sinister.
- Foreign Queasine: How Poole feels about the local cuisine, especially seafood. He is delighted when Camille's mother cooks him roast beef.
- Framing the Guilty Party: Courtesy of the Victim of the Week. The murderer of the week had blood on his hands from a previous murder (that of her daughter/his wife), which no one was able to prove until her body was discovered.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: It's discovered the murderer needed to hide a body. What does he do? He dissolves most of the organs in lime, which only left a skeleton. Oh and he happens to be a teacher — and the anatomical skeleton in his classroom looks very real...
- Hollywood Voodoo: Poole has this idea of what voodoo consists of, but Camille and Catherine quickly correct him.
- It Tastes Like Feet: Poole comments that a local cocktail consisting of nothing but rum, lime and ice somehow tastes like paint stripper.
- Never Suicide / Always Murder / Suicide, Not Murder: Played With. Angelique's death ends up being a suicide, although one deliberately set up to look like murder. Her daughter Delilah, however, whose death was presumed suicide, turns out to have been murdered. Angelique was dying of a heart condition and decided to commit suicide in order to frame her son-in-law, who she is convinced killed her daughter fifteen years prior. The police eventually discover her deception, but not without uncovering the truth about her daughter's death.
- Refuge in Audacity: An elderly woman believes that Nicholas Dunham killed her daughter years ago. but this could never be confirmed. During the climax, Poole points out the evidence that proves his guilt. The skeleton that Nicholas has displayed in his classroom has the exact same injuries of the woman's daughter, meaning he not only killed her, he displayed her skeleton for everyone to see.
- Thanatos Gambit: A lady foretells her own death in front of Dwayne and poisons herself in the classroom of the man she believes killed her daughter to frame him. Ironically, she killed herself in plain view of the evidence that could - and does - bring him to justice.
- Too Good to Be True: All of the evidence points to one person. Naturally, Richard feels it's all too neat.
