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* HopeSpot: The beginning of the Autumn section. At this point, the shoe’s (seemingly) been returned to its owner and gone from the house. David is revealed to have finally gone back to work and seems to be excelling at his new job. Thus, all the signs suggest that they're on the mend, then David nearly has a breakdown at his daughter reciting a nursery rhyme. Whilst he manages to remain calm, it's made clear by his and Louise's reaction that his issues are just bubbling under the surface, setting up the ending.
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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: This is the first episode where the No. 9 of the show's title refers to something other than a building (in this case, the inside of a shoe.)
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This is the first episode where the No. 9 of the show's title refers to something other than a building (in this case, the inside of a shoe.)
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:It's not clear whether David killed Ted, Sally, or both.]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:It's It's not clear whether David killed Ted, Sally, or both.]]
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* DeletedScene: The script book released in November 2020 contained a final scene set months later where [[spoiler:it was revealed David had been sent to a mental health facility but had no memory of what happened and was close to being released (he hadn't killed Ted but had injured him badly enough to the point he was "barely off his crutches" while nothing had happened to Sally). Chris, who is now in a relationship with Louise, gives her a copy of the CCTV footage showing David placing the shoe for him to find]]. Whilst it was cut solely for time, Shearsmith and Pemberton note in their commentary that they think the episode is clearly better without it.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:The death of David's son was apparently this for him.]]
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* DeletedScene: The script book released in November 2020 contained a final scene set months later where [[spoiler:it it was revealed David had been sent to a mental health facility but had no memory of what happened and was close to being released (he hadn't killed Ted but had injured him badly enough to the point he was "barely off his crutches" while nothing had happened to Sally). Chris, who is now in a relationship with Louise, gives her a copy of the CCTV footage showing David placing the shoe for him to find]].find. Whilst it was cut solely for time, Shearsmith and Pemberton note in their commentary that they think the episode is clearly better without it.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The house number 22, the house having matching pairs of everything, and the nursery rhyme.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The The house number 22, the house having matching pairs of everything, and the nursery rhyme.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: Possibly {{Invoked}} -- the biggest hint that David [[AmbiguousEnding may have]] [[spoiler:killed Sally]] is a cryptic IronicEcho that [[spoiler:she and her dead twin brother]] are two halves of a whole, and "they should be together".
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: We find out at the very end that David and Louise had twins, and one of the twins died. This is the reason for David's erratic behavior. ]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The ambiguous ending potentially suggests that David may have killed Sally.]]
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: We find out at the very end that David and Louise had twins, and one of the twins died. This is the reason for David's erratic behavior. ]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The ambiguous ending potentially suggests that David may have killed Sally.]]
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* TogetherInDeath: Possibly {{Invoked}} -- the biggest hint that David [[AmbiguousEnding may have]] [[spoiler:killed Sally]] killed Sally is a cryptic IronicEcho that [[spoiler:she she and her dead twin brother]] brother are two halves of a whole, and "they should be together".
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* EducationMama: A mild example - Louise coaches Sally academically, encourages her to mix with well to do classmates, and asks David to assess the competition at Sally's school.
* TheEndingChangesEverything: It's revealed that one of the twin childre died earlier but the real twist comes during the closing credits when we see surveillance footage of David placing the shoe himself.
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* EducationMama: A mild example - Louise coaches Sally academically, encourages her to mix with well to do well-to-do classmates, and asks David to assess the competition at Sally's school.
* TheEndingChangesEverything: It's revealed that one of the twinchildre children died earlier but the real twist comes during the closing credits when we see surveillance footage of David placing the shoe himself.
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* NotHisBlood: Louise gets concerned when she notices blood on David. When he denies that he is bleeding and talks about seeing Ted, it dawns on her that the blood is in fact not David's.
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* NotHisBlood: Louise gets concerned when she notices blood on David.David's hand. When he denies that he is bleeding and talks about seeing Ted, it dawns on her that the blood is in fact not David's.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: It's revealed that one of the twin childre died earlier but the real twist comes during the closing credits when we see surveillance footage of David placing the shoe himself.
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* NotHisBlood: Louise gets concerned when she notices blood on David. When he denies that he is bleeding and talks about seeing Ted, it dawns on her that the blood is in fact not David's.
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