Edward and Harry's mother, Annie Blackwood, was a terrible person, and the Lady Macbeth to her gangster husband. A year after her death, Edward and Harry plan to find out where Annie hid her missing millions.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: The not-so-smart Reggie gets the "s" wrong when mentioning Sherlock Holme and Miss Marples.
- Ambiguous Ending: Did Annie come back as a parrot? The two men certainly believe this to be the case, but we never hear the parrot answer the question of where she hid the money, and its only lines were those which it had said earlier on in the episode.
- An Arm and a Leg: Edward getting his right foot cut off with an electric knife is played for drama.
- As You Know: Edward tells Harry that he didn't get on with their mother which is something Harry knew but not the audience.
- Celestial Deadline: Apparently, Necromancy only works up to a year after the person's death.
- Chekhov's Gunman: A non-human variant. Annie's parrot flies away in the opening scene, and then returns at the end - potentially as a conduit for her having been summoned for real.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Frances supposedly has seen so much gore and violence as the crime boss' wife that she calmly walks away after killing her husband to catch up on her favorite show.
- Crazy-Prepared: Frances and Reggie have an electric knife and plastic sheeting ready to murder someone at a moment's notice.
- Disposing of a Body: Discussed. Reggie talks about cutting up Edward and Harry into pieces and burying the bits in a nearby forest.
- Failed Attempt at Drama: Harry interrupts his brother's dramatic Summoning Ritual by pointing out that baking powder and vinegar would be a good remedy for red wine stains on the wooden floor.
- Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Reggie wears a Hawaii shirt to indicate his status as a returned tourist.
- Heel–Face Turn: A few minutes after trying to kill Harry himself, Edward tries to save him from Frances and Reggie, asking them to kill him instead.
- Hermetic Magic: For the occult ritual to work, Edward has to draw the Seal of Solomon on the floor.
- Home-Early Surprise: Frances and Reggie return from their holiday a day earlier than expected due to Reggie having got sick. It completely messed with Edward's plans.
- Internal Homage: Edward's clumsy break-in using a Stocking Mask recalls the similarly inept burglars from season one's second episode "A Quiet Night In".
- London Gangster: The elder Harry Blackwood was one, as is Reggie, and both were in a gang together.
- Love Forgives All but Lust: Frances is extremely calm about the (presumably a lot of) torture and murder committed by her husband Reggie. On the other hand, she's enraged when she finds out about his long-running affair with Annie, and stabs him to death as a result.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Edward is strongly suggested to be Reggie's son, not Harry's.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Annie Blackwood's spirit might have returned in the body of a parrot, or it might have just been repeating lines it heard earlier.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Frances killing Reggie not only saves Edward and Harry's lives, but it also enables them to complete the ritual for real, since Annie actually loved Reggie.
- Out-Gambitted: Reggie schemed to kill Annie and then buy her house, expecting to find either the money or something that would lead him to it. He got as far as buying the house - but her initial plan to hide the money was so good that he never found it.
- Prophecy Twist:
- Frances wants to go through with the ritual because a tarot reader told her that something would happen to change her life. It does, when she subsequently kills Reggie.
- Earlier in the episode, Reggie references the time when a psychic predicted Frances would be attacked by a tiger. It came true - when a box of Frosties (Frosted Flakes) fell on her in the supermarket.
- Prophet Eyes: While pretending to be possessed by his mother's spirit, Edward pulls his eyes back to invoke this trope.
- Real Men Hate Affection: Edward doesn't like to be hugged by his brother.
- Say My Name: Characters constantly address each other by their first name for the sake of the audience.
- Secretly Wealthy: Annie lived on welfare, and Harry didn't know about her stolen millions until after her death.
- Shout-Out: Famous detectives Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and Father Brown are mentioned.
- Sibling Murder: Attempted by Edward but Harry gets saved by the returning home owners.
- Stupid Sacrifice: Edward is determined to save Harry and offers up himself. Frances and Reggie cut off his foot, but it's pointless; Annie doesn't care enough about him to come back from the dead.
- Summoning Ritual: Edward tries to get a secret out of his late mother trying to summon her spirit by occult means.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: It's implied that Reggie killed Annie by slipping something into her drink.
- Trashy True Crime: Gangster's wife Frances is used to helping him out with torture and murder, and is obsessed with true crime, especially Women Who Kill, which inspires her to kill Reggie after she learns he cheated on her.
- The Unfavorite: Edward was very much this for Annie.
- The Unreveal: So where did Annie hide her money? We'll never know, as it cuts to credits just as her sons have posed the question to her apparent conduit.
- With Catlike Tread: In the opening scene, Edward enters the house through the kitchen window with a lot of noise.
- Woman Scorned: Frances stabs Reggie to death upon finding out that he had an affair with Annie for many years and is probably Edward's real father.
- Women Are Wiser: Frances is more practical and less rash than Reggie. Also applies to Annie, who managed to keep her stolen fortune hidden for the rest of her life, while her husband was swiftly caught, tortured, and murdered.
