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* GreyRainOfDepression: [[TruthInTelevision It rains]] ''a lot'' in Northern California, contributing to the film's brooding atmosphere.
** A notable moment when it occurs is [[spoiler:Robert's less-than-amicable final interaction with Paul, where he [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids outright tells Robert to get real and give up his Zodiac search]]; while it wasn't raining when Robert arrived, it's pouring pretty heavy when he leaves, mirroring his sadness]].
** A notable moment when it occurs is [[spoiler:Robert's less-than-amicable final interaction with Paul, where he [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids outright tells Robert to get real and give up his Zodiac search]]; while it wasn't raining when Robert arrived, it's pouring pretty heavy when he leaves, mirroring his sadness]].
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* GreyRainOfDepression: [[TruthInTelevision It rains]] ''a lot'' in Northern California, contributing to the film's brooding atmosphere.
**atmosphere. A notable moment when it occurs is [[spoiler:Robert's less-than-amicable final interaction with Paul, where he [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids outright tells Robert to get real and give up his Zodiac search]]; while search]]. While it wasn't raining when Robert arrived, it's pouring pretty heavy when he leaves, [[EmpathicEnvironment mirroring his sadness]].]]
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** [[spoiler: Similar to his failure with Paul, Robert also tries to reach out to Dave Toschi but Dave isn't interested, noting that they haven't heard from Zodiac in years, there have been no other developments or new discoveries and there have been hundreds of other murders in the city since then. The Zodiac case, as big and sensationalised as it was, was ultimately just one case to Dave and other cops, not a life's pursuit or obsession, and they have to look ahead.]]
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** [[spoiler: Similar to his failure with Paul, Robert also tries to reach out to Dave Toschi but Dave isn't interested, noting that they haven't heard from Zodiac in years, there have been no other developments or new discoveries discoveriesof evidence or witnesses and there have been hundreds of other murders in the city since then. The Zodiac case, as big and sensationalised as it was, was ultimately just one case to Dave and other cops, not a life's pursuit or obsession, and they have to look ahead.ahead to the murders they can close rather than obsessively chasing one killer.]]
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* LogoJoke: The film begins with the Paramount and Warner Bros logos of the era.
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* [[spoiler: NeverTrustATitle: The Title, and much of the promotional material, implies that the movie is about the Zodiac killings and the impact it had on the Bay Area. However the three on screen Zodiac murders all happen in the first 25 minutes and the resulting hysteria around the region fades within the first 45 minutes leaving the last hour and 45 minutes to be about the frustrating investigation and Robert’s growing obsession.]]
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* TakeThat: Inspector Toschi delivers a pretty epic one when watching Film/DirtyHarry when he walks out and later points out that it must be easy to solve cases when you don’t have to worry about following due process.
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* JurisdictionFriction: Subverted in that there’s no friction between the various Police Departments and Sheriff’s Departments investigating the murders. But since each has their own files, policies, technology, etc. and this was way before online systems to organize everything, lost items and miscommunications make everything a jumbled mess.
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** Inspector Toschi calls out Paul Avery for printing a theory that Zodiac murdered [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Cheri_Jo_Bates Cheri Jo Bates]] in Riverside several years earlier. He points out that by publishing the theory the Riverside PD and DA will never be able to make a case since any halfway decent defense attorney will be able to use the Zodiac theory as cause for reasonable doubt.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Arthur Leigh Allen may or may not be intelligent, but he is very good at providing enough detail to make him look suspicious, but not enough to incriminate himself. Implying that he sees the entire ordeal as a game. [[spoiler: If he is guilty (as the ending strongly implies) then he could be seen as a MagnificentBastard.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Paul Avery slowly gets addicted as time goes on and his career suffers.
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** Paul Avery is the crime report initially assigned to the case.
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** Paul Avery is the crime report initially assigned to the case.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Melvin Belli is a very famous Lawyer, but he can't read a room and seems to think policemen working a murder case are interested in his safari holiday.
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* RedFlagRecreationMaterial: The Zodiac Killer's first letter remarks on the joys of hunting his victims as "[[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame man is the most dangerous animal of all]]," which Robert Graysmith identifies as a reference to ''Literature/TheMostDangerousGame''. As such, police get very interested when the prime suspect, [[spoiler: Arthur Allen Leigh]], admits that it's his favourite book.
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* HandwritingAsCharacterization: Invoked, discussed and inverted as various suspects' written samples are compared and evaluated with the original killer's published letters by a graphologist -- he concludes that some samples match better than there are other evidences that point to that specific suspect. To make matters worse, one of the suspects is ambidextrous while another is a cinema's poster designer and calligraphist while the letters themselves have an iconographic cipher.
