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[[folder: Case Three: "The Set Up"]]
Roy Earle invites Cole Phelps to a boxing match that is meant to be thrown by English boxer, Albert Hammond. Albert beats his opponent instead and causes a massive manhunt for him, including by his manager, Carlo Arquero. Investigating the flop house he's staying at, they find evidence leading to his girlfriend, Candy Edwards. Cole rescues her as she's being beaten by Carlo Arquero. Candy picks up a massive amount of money bet on him and is then killed by Carlo Arquero. Cole and Roy head to the Egyptian theater and have a shootout with Albert before Cole lets Albert go. Much to Roy's disgust.
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* BadassBoast: Cole gives Mickey Cohen one of these when he mentions he shot his brother in law.
* BadassInDistress: Albert Hammond is a prize fighter hunted by his manager and the mob.
* BullyingADragon: Cole lets Albert go despite the fact the man took money from Roy Earle as well as many of his crooked friends. This possibly contributes to Roy Earle's ultimate betrayal of Cole.
* {{Expy}}: Albert Hammond is one for Butch Coolidge from ''Film/PulpFiction.''
* TheFool: Albert Hammond's plan is ''incredibly stupid'' and gets his girlfriend killed. It only works out, somewhat, because Cole guns down his attackers.
* HonorBeforeReason: Albert refuses to take a dive despite agreeing to do so because his Marine's honor takes precedence.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Roy Earle points out that Albert has defrauded a bunch of betters in the LAPD as well as other people having "hot tips" to make his escape.
** Carlo points out that Albert put his life at risk as well as his girlfriends by defrauding Mickey Cohen. Not that it justifies Candy's murder.
* KnifeNut: Carlo is one of these, carrying a switchblade and later killing Candy with it.
* {{Pride}}: Albert is motivated by this but a good argument is he's also motivated by {{Greed}}.
* ThrowIngTheFight: Albert makes a deal with his bookie to throw a fight, only to promptly win it.
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Roy Earle invites Cole Phelps to a boxing match that is meant to be thrown by English boxer, Albert Hammond. Albert beats his opponent instead and causes a massive manhunt for him, including by his manager, Carlo Arquero. Investigating the flop house he's staying at, they find evidence leading to his girlfriend, Candy Edwards. Cole rescues her as she's being beaten by Carlo Arquero. Candy picks up a massive amount of money bet on him and is then killed by Carlo Arquero. Cole and Roy head to the Egyptian theater and have a shootout with Albert before Cole lets Albert go. Much to Roy's disgust.
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* BadassBoast: Cole gives Mickey Cohen one of these when he mentions he shot his brother in law.
* BadassInDistress: Albert Hammond is a prize fighter hunted by his manager and the mob.
* BullyingADragon: Cole lets Albert go despite the fact the man took money from Roy Earle as well as many of his crooked friends. This possibly contributes to Roy Earle's ultimate betrayal of Cole.
* {{Expy}}: Albert Hammond is one for Butch Coolidge from ''Film/PulpFiction.''
* TheFool: Albert Hammond's plan is ''incredibly stupid'' and gets his girlfriend killed. It only works out, somewhat, because Cole guns down his attackers.
* HonorBeforeReason: Albert refuses to take a dive despite agreeing to do so because his Marine's honor takes precedence.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Roy Earle points out that Albert has defrauded a bunch of betters in the LAPD as well as other people having "hot tips" to make his escape.
** Carlo points out that Albert put his life at risk as well as his girlfriends by defrauding Mickey Cohen. Not that it justifies Candy's murder.
* KnifeNut: Carlo is one of these, carrying a switchblade and later killing Candy with it.
* {{Pride}}: Albert is motivated by this but a good argument is he's also motivated by {{Greed}}.
* ThrowIngTheFight: Albert makes a deal with his bookie to throw a fight, only to promptly win it.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Howard Parnell employs illegal immigrants despite the fact that he's racist himself. He also laments the end of WW2 because he manufactured so much soup for the war effort.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Roy drops numerous hints that he has dirt on Cole while the latter is always calling out Roy's corruption. Cole misses these as anything other than good natured (or not so good natured) teasing, when it's actually {{Blackmail}}.
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[[folder: Case Two: "Reefer Madness"]]
Phelps and Earle head to meet Freddie Calhoun, a junkie and police informer. Freddie tells them about a massive reefer smuggling ring bringing in fifty pounds a week. Heading to the house, they're almost immediately forced into a shoot out. Investigating the house after killing the suspects, they find clues that lead them to the Parnell Soup Company. Speaking with Howard Parnell, they find out the soup company is being used to smuggle marijuana through the 20th Century Market. After arresting Airto Sanchez, another shoot out at Parnell's Soup Company, they find a puzzle in silver dollars given to each of the drug dealers. This leads them to Masangkay Metals and the boss of the reefer ring, Victor Sanders.
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* TheCartel: It initially appears to be one of these but ends up controlled by a white man.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Howard Parnell employs illegal immigrants despite the fact that he's racist himself. He also laments the end of WW2 because he manufactured so much soup for the war effort.
* DirtyCops:
** Roy Earle pockets a $1000 dollars from a crime scene, which would be about $14,000 today.
** Victor Sanders all but states that Vice has known about him for years but he pays them off.
* TheDon: Victor Sanders is the head of an organized interstate drug ring.
* DrugsAreBad: A Zig-Zagged Trope as the pot dealers are the most violent aggressive
organization in the entire game. However, generally treats reefer as a harmless pasttime that poses no real threat.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Earle makes several remarks about Cole's sexuality that imply he knows about Cole's affair with Elsa.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Why Victor Sanders would put the name of his factory on five separate silver dollars.
* InsultBackfire: If you talk to the secretary after Cole's sexist remarks, she offers to go out with him after she gets off work.
* KarmaHoudini: Victor Sanders is implied to get off scott free despite the massive amount of bloodshed in the mission from his men.
* SayingTooMuch: Victor Sanders is not remotely subtle about his relationship with Vice.
* TheStoner: Oddly, averted. No actual pot users are depicted in the mission.
* TakeThat: At the end, reefer is said to be as great a threat to America's youth as communism.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlySolution: The pot smugglers repeatedly pull out guns and start shooting versus risk arrest.
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Phelps and Earle head to meet Freddie Calhoun, a junkie and police informer. Freddie tells them about a massive reefer smuggling ring bringing in fifty pounds a week. Heading to the house, they're almost immediately forced into a shoot out. Investigating the house after killing the suspects, they find clues that lead them to the Parnell Soup Company. Speaking with Howard Parnell, they find out the soup company is being used to smuggle marijuana through the 20th Century Market. After arresting Airto Sanchez, another shoot out at Parnell's Soup Company, they find a puzzle in silver dollars given to each of the drug dealers. This leads them to Masangkay Metals and the boss of the reefer ring, Victor Sanders.
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* TheCartel: It initially appears to be one of these but ends up controlled by a white man.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Howard Parnell employs illegal immigrants despite the fact that he's racist himself. He also laments the end of WW2 because he manufactured so much soup for the war effort.
* DirtyCops:
** Roy Earle pockets a $1000 dollars from a crime scene, which would be about $14,000 today.
** Victor Sanders all but states that Vice has known about him for years but he pays them off.
* TheDon: Victor Sanders is the head of an organized interstate drug ring.
* DrugsAreBad: A Zig-Zagged Trope as the pot dealers are the most violent aggressive
organization in the entire game. However, generally treats reefer as a harmless pasttime that poses no real threat.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Earle makes several remarks about Cole's sexuality that imply he knows about Cole's affair with Elsa.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Why Victor Sanders would put the name of his factory on five separate silver dollars.
* InsultBackfire: If you talk to the secretary after Cole's sexist remarks, she offers to go out with him after she gets off work.
* KarmaHoudini: Victor Sanders is implied to get off scott free despite the massive amount of bloodshed in the mission from his men.
* SayingTooMuch: Victor Sanders is not remotely subtle about his relationship with Vice.
* TheStoner: Oddly, averted. No actual pot users are depicted in the mission.
* TakeThat: At the end, reefer is said to be as great a threat to America's youth as communism.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlySolution: The pot smugglers repeatedly pull out guns and start shooting versus risk arrest.
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[[folder: Case One: "The Black Caesar"]]
Cole Phelps and Roy Earle are sent to investigate the overdose of two black morphine users. After discovering that the morphine was sold from a nearby food hut called The Black Caesar, they arrest fry crook Fleetwood Morgan. Following up on some betting slips to Merlon Ottie, they discover he's now involved in drug sales as well. From there, they head to the Ramrez Removals Address and arrest Jose Ramez and discover that he's been storing morphine in giant ice blocks in his furniture store. From there, they go to Polar Bear Ice to get into a fatal shoot out with Lenny Finkelstein, Mickey Cohen's brother.
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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: The mission has an unusually high body count with multiple shoot outs with Mickey Cohen's gang. {{Justified}} because they're the KosherNostra.
* CultureClash: Cole immediately finds himself on the end of this as the culture of Vice is entirely different from Traffic and Homicide. The Vice cops don't consider their job to stop vice but just contain it.
* DirtyCop: Jermaine Jones is annoyed with Roy Earle's presence because he pays money to the LAPD to leave him alone.
* DrugsAreBad: Zigzagged. Roy basically explains that drug use is no different from alcohol use but numerous people have been killed by the high grade morphine being peddled on the streets by Mickey Cohen.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: ''The Black Caesar'' is the first case to deal with the morphine distribution ring that has been built up in the optional newspapers this entire time as well as leads to all the other major plot threads being resolved. It is treated as just another case when you play through it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Fleetwood Morgan runs, gets in a fistfight with you, is incredibly uncooperative, and then asks for clemency for the "help" he gave.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Roy effectively takes a progressive view that drugs are no different from alcohol and the war on them is a waste of resources as well as outright dangerous to the public. Cole is shocked.
* KosherNostra: Mickey Cohen's gang is primarily made of Jewish mobsters, which is TruthInTelevision.
* NoSympathy: Cole is unusually pissed off with the criminals here due to the fact they're violent, resist arrest, and ask for clemency only after fighting it out.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The release of incredibly high potency morphine on the marlet is killing people due to the otherwise experienced users expecting a more typically cut potency.
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[[folder: Case One: "The Black Caesar"]]
Cole Phelps and Roy Earle are sent to investigate the overdose of two black morphine users. After discovering that the morphine was sold from a nearby food hut called The Black Caesar, they arrest fry crook Fleetwood Morgan. Following up on some betting slips to Merlon Ottie, they discover he's now involved in drug sales as well. From there, they head to the Ramrez Removals Address and arrest Jose Ramez and discover that he's been storing morphine in giant ice blocks in his furniture store. From there, they go to Polar Bear Ice to get into a fatal shoot out with Lenny Finkelstein, Mickey Cohen's brother.
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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: The mission has an unusually high body count with multiple shoot outs with Mickey Cohen's gang. {{Justified}} because they're the KosherNostra.
* CultureClash: Cole immediately finds himself on the end of this as the culture of Vice is entirely different from Traffic and Homicide. The Vice cops don't consider their job to stop vice but just contain it.
* DirtyCop: Jermaine Jones is annoyed with Roy Earle's presence because he pays money to the LAPD to leave him alone.
* DrugsAreBad: Zigzagged. Roy basically explains that drug use is no different from alcohol use but numerous people have been killed by the high grade morphine being peddled on the streets by Mickey Cohen.
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: ''The Black Caesar'' is the first case to deal with the morphine distribution ring that has been built up in the optional newspapers this entire time as well as leads to all the other major plot threads being resolved. It is treated as just another case when you play through it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Fleetwood Morgan runs, gets in a fistfight with you, is incredibly uncooperative, and then asks for clemency for the "help" he gave.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Roy effectively takes a progressive view that drugs are no different from alcohol and the war on them is a waste of resources as well as outright dangerous to the public. Cole is shocked.
* KosherNostra: Mickey Cohen's gang is primarily made of Jewish mobsters, which is TruthInTelevision.
* NoSympathy: Cole is unusually pissed off with the criminals here due to the fact they're violent, resist arrest, and ask for clemency only after fighting it out.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The release of incredibly high potency morphine on the marlet is killing people due to the otherwise experienced users expecting a more typically cut potency.
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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: One of the missions, "Commies!", is a bank heist that involved dead police based on their attempt to redistribute the wealth.
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[[folder: Case Six: "The Quarter Moon Murders"]]
Another letter is sent to the police by the Black Dahlia Killer that sends Cole and Galloway on scavenger hunt throughout the city to find all of the killer's clues related to Percy Shelly. They visit the fountain at Pershing Square, the Hall of Records, the LA Public Library, Westlake Tar Pits, the LA County Art Museum, the Intolerance Set, Christ Crown of Thorns church, and finally have a chase throughout the catacombs that ends in the death of the suspect.
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* AncientTomb: The climax takes place in a set of catacombs under an abandoned Los Angeles church.
* CallingCard: Garrett Mason uses Percy Shelly's poems to send Cole and Galloway around the city.
* CriminalMindGames: Having successfully framed multiple suspects for his crimes, Garrett Mason starts leaving clues to his identity like the Riddler.
* CoverUp: Captain Donnelly decides to keep the Black Dahlia Killer's identity secret due to his being half-brother to a prominent political family.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: Garrett Mason is a fan of Percy Shelly but makes no art of his own, merely plagiarizes others.
* HedgeMaze: A prominent one by the LA Museum of Art is the location for one of the clues.
* LinkedListClueMethodology: All of the clues leave evidence that confirm Garrett Mason was behind the previous murders.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Averted. All of the wrongfully convicted murder suspects will be released on technical issues.
* SerialKiller: Garrett Mason is revealed to be the Black Dahlia Killer AKA The Werewolf.
* WorthyOpponent: Garrett Mason believes Cole to be this. Cole is simply irritated with the serial killer.
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Another letter is sent to the police by the Black Dahlia Killer that sends Cole and Galloway on scavenger hunt throughout the city to find all of the killer's clues related to Percy Shelly. They visit the fountain at Pershing Square, the Hall of Records, the LA Public Library, Westlake Tar Pits, the LA County Art Museum, the Intolerance Set, Christ Crown of Thorns church, and finally have a chase throughout the catacombs that ends in the death of the suspect.
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* AncientTomb: The climax takes place in a set of catacombs under an abandoned Los Angeles church.
* CallingCard: Garrett Mason uses Percy Shelly's poems to send Cole and Galloway around the city.
* CriminalMindGames: Having successfully framed multiple suspects for his crimes, Garrett Mason starts leaving clues to his identity like the Riddler.
* CoverUp: Captain Donnelly decides to keep the Black Dahlia Killer's identity secret due to his being half-brother to a prominent political family.
* DelusionsOfEloquence: Garrett Mason is a fan of Percy Shelly but makes no art of his own, merely plagiarizes others.
* HedgeMaze: A prominent one by the LA Museum of Art is the location for one of the clues.
* LinkedListClueMethodology: All of the clues leave evidence that confirm Garrett Mason was behind the previous murders.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Averted. All of the wrongfully convicted murder suspects will be released on technical issues.
* SerialKiller: Garrett Mason is revealed to be the Black Dahlia Killer AKA The Werewolf.
* WorthyOpponent: Garrett Mason believes Cole to be this. Cole is simply irritated with the serial killer.
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Some of the missing jewelry from the previous murders shows up at a pawn shop. Phelps and Galloway also find another dead body in Evelyn Summers at the railway station. There, they find a John Ferdinand Jamison who was kissing the corpse. Tracking down Walter Robbins, they find out Evelyn was a known associate of Grosvenor McCaffrey, a communist writer, and James Tiernan, who is a bowling alley employee. Picking up both, they discovers Grosvenor killed a woman in Basic training and is trying to frame Tiernan.
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Some of the missing jewelry from the previous murders shows up at a pawn shop. Phelps and Galloway also find another dead body in Evelyn Summers at the railway station. There, they find a John Ferdinand Jamison who was kissing the corpse. Tracking down Walter Robbins, they find out Evelyn was a known associate of Grosvenor McCaffrey, a communist writer, and James Tiernan, who is a bowling alley employee. Picking up both, they discovers Grosvenor killed a woman in Basic training and is trying to frame Tiernan.
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* TheAlcoholic: Evelyn Summers is called one of these by Walter Robbins.
* AssholeVictim: Grosvenor may not be the Black Dahlia murderer but he's a complete scumbag.
* TheCoverUp: Captain Donnelly suppresses evidence that they're dealing with a SerialKiller rather than a series of copycats.
* DirtyCommunists: Grosvenor is a communist and a murderer of women [[spoiler: even if he's not guilty here.]]
* FrameUp: Grosvenor attempts to frame Tiernan for the murder of Evelyn Summers.
* ILoveTheDead: John Jamison is a necrophile and gets clubbed by Galloway for his actions.
* MayDecemberRomance: Evelyn Summers is much older than James Tiernan.
* OrgyOfEvidence: {{Subverted}} due to the fact that Grosvenor comes up with multiple excuses for all of it despite it being planted.
* PhonyVeteran: Grosvenor was dishonorably discharged before seeing any real combat.
* SerialKiller: Cole and Doctor Carruthers are convinced that the Black Dahlia murderer is responsible for all of the deaths by this point.
* SmugSnake: Grosvenor acts like a smug intellectual writer as well as man of the people. He actually looks down on people he views as less intelligent or classy.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: James Tiernan doesn't remember his actions the night before and Grosvenor convinces him that he might be Evelyn's killer.
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Some of the missing jewelry from the previous murders shows up at a pawn shop. Phelps and Galloway also find another dead body in Evelyn Summers at the railway station. There, they find a John Ferdinand Jamison who was kissing the corpse. Tracking down Walter Robbins, they find out Evelyn was a known associate of Grosvenor McCaffrey, a communist writer, and James Tiernan, who is a bowling alley employee. Picking up both, they discovers Grosvenor killed a woman in Basic training and is trying to frame Tiernan.
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* TheAlcoholic: Evelyn Summers is called one of these by Walter Robbins.
* AssholeVictim: Grosvenor may not be the Black Dahlia murderer but he's a complete scumbag.
* TheCoverUp: Captain Donnelly suppresses evidence that they're dealing with a SerialKiller rather than a series of copycats.
* DirtyCommunists: Grosvenor is a communist and a murderer of women [[spoiler: even if he's not guilty here.]]
* FrameUp: Grosvenor attempts to frame Tiernan for the murder of Evelyn Summers.
* ILoveTheDead: John Jamison is a necrophile and gets clubbed by Galloway for his actions.
* MayDecemberRomance: Evelyn Summers is much older than James Tiernan.
* OrgyOfEvidence: {{Subverted}} due to the fact that Grosvenor comes up with multiple excuses for all of it despite it being planted.
* PhonyVeteran: Grosvenor was dishonorably discharged before seeing any real combat.
* SerialKiller: Cole and Doctor Carruthers are convinced that the Black Dahlia murderer is responsible for all of the deaths by this point.
* SmugSnake: Grosvenor acts like a smug intellectual writer as well as man of the people. He actually looks down on people he views as less intelligent or classy.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: James Tiernan doesn't remember his actions the night before and Grosvenor convinces him that he might be Evelyn's killer.
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[[folder: Case Four: "The White Shoe Slaying"]]
Theresa Taraldsen is found murdered after a rainstorm. Getting a witness' testimony that a large hobo was seen nearby, Phelps and Galloway head to the Taraldsen residence and speak with Lars Taraldsen. They proceed to discover she left a party early and went to a bar where she was hit on by two men. Chasing down one, they proceed to find the second has turned himself in. They later head down to a hobo camp where they confront Stuart Ackerman. After a violent confrontation with his followers, they arrest Ackerman and find evidence tying him to the murder.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Averted. Lars Taraldsen argues with his wife but has never hurt her.
* TheAlcoholic: Theresa Taraldsen is yet another woman with alcohol problems.
* BoringButPractical: This is one of the most realistic cases in that you spend most of it interviewing witnesses to minor events, running down mostly useless leads, and driving across the map.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Theresa Taraldsen is subject to sexual assault by both James Jessop and Richard Bates but it is more or less brushed off as them getting handsy.
* DirtyCommunists: Richard Ackerman is called a Red and "comrade" while being insulted. He also uses words like fascists as well as class rhetoric.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Phelps gets extremely frustrated if the tracking down of a bus driver takes too long, getting called out on his hypocrisy by Galloway, since earlier he claimed this was the true essence of police work.
* OrgyOfEvidence: Once more all the evidence needed to convict someone is found in Ackerman's shack.
* PoliceAreUseless: Cole and the medical examiner are now greatly frustrated with the deliberate obstruction of any inquiry into a possible serial killer.
* PoliceBrutality: Galloway kills a couple of hobos who threaten him, using a shotgun.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Cole and the medical examiner are both increasingly of the mind they're dealing with a SerialKiller and their fellow police are in denial.
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Theresa Taraldsen is found murdered after a rainstorm. Getting a witness' testimony that a large hobo was seen nearby, Phelps and Galloway head to the Taraldsen residence and speak with Lars Taraldsen. They proceed to discover she left a party early and went to a bar where she was hit on by two men. Chasing down one, they proceed to find the second has turned himself in. They later head down to a hobo camp where they confront Stuart Ackerman. After a violent confrontation with his followers, they arrest Ackerman and find evidence tying him to the murder.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Averted. Lars Taraldsen argues with his wife but has never hurt her.
* TheAlcoholic: Theresa Taraldsen is yet another woman with alcohol problems.
* BoringButPractical: This is one of the most realistic cases in that you spend most of it interviewing witnesses to minor events, running down mostly useless leads, and driving across the map.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Theresa Taraldsen is subject to sexual assault by both James Jessop and Richard Bates but it is more or less brushed off as them getting handsy.
* DirtyCommunists: Richard Ackerman is called a Red and "comrade" while being insulted. He also uses words like fascists as well as class rhetoric.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Phelps gets extremely frustrated if the tracking down of a bus driver takes too long, getting called out on his hypocrisy by Galloway, since earlier he claimed this was the true essence of police work.
* OrgyOfEvidence: Once more all the evidence needed to convict someone is found in Ackerman's shack.
* PoliceAreUseless: Cole and the medical examiner are now greatly frustrated with the deliberate obstruction of any inquiry into a possible serial killer.
* PoliceBrutality: Galloway kills a couple of hobos who threaten him, using a shotgun.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Cole and the medical examiner are both increasingly of the mind they're dealing with a SerialKiller and their fellow police are in denial.
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[[folder: Case Three: "The Silk Stocking Murder"]]
Captain James Donnelly informs Phelps and Galloway of another brutally murdered woman nearby city hall. Investigating the crime scene, they discover the victim's name was Antonio Maldonado. Investigating her boarding house, they meet with Barbara Lapenti who directs her to the El Dorado Bar as well as her husband, Angel Maldonado. After discovering a second note from the Black Dahlia Killer has been sent to the police, they journey to the Just Picked Fruit Market and meet Clem Feeney. Clem has some items implicating him as the killer and he is captured after a car chase.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Angel Maldonado is yet another spouse who was hated by their wife for his cruelty.
* TheAlcoholic: Antonio was driven to this by her husband's abuses.
* CoolOldLady: Barbara Lapenti is supportive of Antonio leaving her husband despite the time period.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Angel blew up at Clem Feeney just for being friendly with his wife.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Divorce was something that Antonio clearly struggled with due to her Catholic faith.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Clem Feeney's bootlegging business leads to him becoming a suspect in the murder. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} as most players as well as Cole will have figured out there's a SerialKiller at work.]]
* NotHelpingYourCase: Angel and his brother attack Cole and Galloway, which get them arrested for assault.
* OrgyOfEvidence: The killer leaves behind not one but two, both at the crime scene and at Just Picked Fruit Market.
* PoliceAreUseless: Cole is already sick of ignoring the obvious connection between the murders despite pressure from both Captain Donnelly and his partner. Unfortunately, they continue to arrest obvious suspects over a connection under the ridiculous "copycat" theory.
* SerialKiller: Phelps becomes more forceful with his theory there's no copycats at work.
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Captain James Donnelly informs Phelps and Galloway of another brutally murdered woman nearby city hall. Investigating the crime scene, they discover the victim's name was Antonio Maldonado. Investigating her boarding house, they meet with Barbara Lapenti who directs her to the El Dorado Bar as well as her husband, Angel Maldonado. After discovering a second note from the Black Dahlia Killer has been sent to the police, they journey to the Just Picked Fruit Market and meet Clem Feeney. Clem has some items implicating him as the killer and he is captured after a car chase.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Angel Maldonado is yet another spouse who was hated by their wife for his cruelty.
* TheAlcoholic: Antonio was driven to this by her husband's abuses.
* CoolOldLady: Barbara Lapenti is supportive of Antonio leaving her husband despite the time period.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Angel blew up at Clem Feeney just for being friendly with his wife.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Divorce was something that Antonio clearly struggled with due to her Catholic faith.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Clem Feeney's bootlegging business leads to him becoming a suspect in the murder. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} as most players as well as Cole will have figured out there's a SerialKiller at work.]]
* NotHelpingYourCase: Angel and his brother attack Cole and Galloway, which get them arrested for assault.
* OrgyOfEvidence: The killer leaves behind not one but two, both at the crime scene and at Just Picked Fruit Market.
* PoliceAreUseless: Cole is already sick of ignoring the obvious connection between the murders despite pressure from both Captain Donnelly and his partner. Unfortunately, they continue to arrest obvious suspects over a connection under the ridiculous "copycat" theory.
* SerialKiller: Phelps becomes more forceful with his theory there's no copycats at work.
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* OrgyOfEvidence: The trunk of Hugo Moller's car is full of it, pointing to him as the primary suspect.
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[[folder: Case Three: "The Golden Butterfly"]]
Another murder fitting the Werewolf's pattern occurs. Heading to the crime scene, Cole and Galloway chase off some reporters before investigating. The victim, Diedre Moller, has been killed in the same way as the other victims but with the addition of a boot print. Heading to the Moller household, they interrogate Michelle Moller, her daughter, and her husband, Hugo Moller. After finding him burning evidence, Cole and Galloway arrest Hugo. They then bring in a pedophile named Eli Rooney, who has jewelry of the victim and was nearby a car full of more evidence.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Hugo Moller once hit his wife, which makes him a suspect.
* AssholeVictim: Everyone wants to arrest Eli Rooney as a pedophile even if the evidence (slightly) points more to Hugo Moller.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Cole and Galloway interrogate Michelle Moller despite her father not being home.
* MortonsFork: Most players agree that neither Hugo nor Eli is a likely suspect in the murder but you have to finger one of them for the crime.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Hugo burning his shoes makes him look guilty despite the fact it's rabbit's blood.
* OccamsRazor: Cole brings up this maxim to Galloway. Galloway agrees but only after its explained to him.
* PedoHunt: Eli Rooney is a child molester and the subject of everyone's scorn and hatred.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: You'll receive one of these from Captain Donnoly if you arrest Hugo rather than Eli.
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Another murder fitting the Werewolf's pattern occurs. Heading to the crime scene, Cole and Galloway chase off some reporters before investigating. The victim, Diedre Moller, has been killed in the same way as the other victims but with the addition of a boot print. Heading to the Moller household, they interrogate Michelle Moller, her daughter, and her husband, Hugo Moller. After finding him burning evidence, Cole and Galloway arrest Hugo. They then bring in a pedophile named Eli Rooney, who has jewelry of the victim and was nearby a car full of more evidence.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Hugo Moller once hit his wife, which makes him a suspect.
* AssholeVictim: Everyone wants to arrest Eli Rooney as a pedophile even if the evidence (slightly) points more to Hugo Moller.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Cole and Galloway interrogate Michelle Moller despite her father not being home.
* MortonsFork: Most players agree that neither Hugo nor Eli is a likely suspect in the murder but you have to finger one of them for the crime.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Hugo burning his shoes makes him look guilty despite the fact it's rabbit's blood.
* OccamsRazor: Cole brings up this maxim to Galloway. Galloway agrees but only after its explained to him.
* PedoHunt: Eli Rooney is a child molester and the subject of everyone's scorn and hatred.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: You'll receive one of these from Captain Donnoly if you arrest Hugo rather than Eli.
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[[folder: Case One: "The Red Lipstick Murder"]]
Cole Phelps has been a Burglary detective for six months when he's promoted to Homicide. His new partner, Rusty Galloway, and he are sent to investigate a murder bearing the signs of the Werewolf killer. The victim, Celine Henry, was at the Bamba Club the night before. Interrogating Dick [=McColl=], they investigate Jacob Henry, her husband, who just moved out. Later, they receive a tip on a man named Alonzo Mendez who was seen with Celine on the night of the murder. Findinga a box with the murder weapon in Alonzo's apartment, they arrest him after a chase.
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* TheAlcoholic: Celine Henry, despite being an accomplished pilot, had ended up one of these.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Celine and Jacob Henry are splitting up at the time of the murder. Jacob has already moved out.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Dick [=McColl=] has this view toward Celine Henry.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Jacob Henry doesn't help his case by getting into a fistfight with the police.
* OrgyOfEvidence: The murder weapon, bloody clothes, and other details point to Alonzo as the murderer.
* PoliceAreUseless: Galloway has no contributions to the case other than the husband is always the one who does it and to ignore any other suspects. He also drinks on the job and discourages Cole doing actual police work.
* RedBaron: The Werewolf is the name ascribed to the killer of Elizabeth Short and who is (possibly) behind this latest murder.
* StrawMisogynist: Most of Galloway's comments are dismissive of women and even suggestive that violence against them is justified.
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[[folder: Case One: "The Red Lipstick Murder"]]
Cole Phelps has been a Burglary detective for six months when he's promoted to Homicide. His new partner, Rusty Galloway, and he are sent to investigate a murder bearing the signs of the Werewolf killer. The victim, Celine Henry, was at the Bamba Club the night before. Interrogating Dick [=McColl=], they investigate Jacob Henry, her husband, who just moved out. Later, they receive a tip on a man named Alonzo Mendez who was seen with Celine on the night of the murder. Findinga a box with the murder weapon in Alonzo's apartment, they arrest him after a chase.
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* TheAlcoholic: Celine Henry, despite being an accomplished pilot, had ended up one of these.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Celine and Jacob Henry are splitting up at the time of the murder. Jacob has already moved out.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Dick [=McColl=] has this view toward Celine Henry.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Jacob Henry doesn't help his case by getting into a fistfight with the police.
* OrgyOfEvidence: The murder weapon, bloody clothes, and other details point to Alonzo as the murderer.
* PoliceAreUseless: Galloway has no contributions to the case other than the husband is always the one who does it and to ignore any other suspects. He also drinks on the job and discourages Cole doing actual police work.
* RedBaron: The Werewolf is the name ascribed to the killer of Elizabeth Short and who is (possibly) behind this latest murder.
* StrawMisogynist: Most of Galloway's comments are dismissive of women and even suggestive that violence against them is justified.
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Cole and Bekowsky find a car wreck next to the police station where June Ballard and Jessica Hamilton were almost killed by being drugged before being put into a speeding car meant to crash them. June Ballard immediately fingers Mark Bishop but seems unconcerned with the police dealing with it, planning to involve her husband, Guy McAffee, in revenge. Interrogating Jessica Hamilton, they determine she was drugged and raped by Mark Bishop. Tailing June Ballard, they interrupt thugs going after Mark Bishop's wife, Gloria Bishop. Investigating Silver Screen Props, they discover that Mark Bishop was being blackmailed by June Ballard, so they rescue him from Guy McAffee's thugs on the set of ''Film/{{Intolerance}}.''
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[[folder: Case Five: "The Fallen Idol"]]
Cole and Bekowsky find a car wreck next to the police station where June Ballard and Jessica Hamilton were almost killed by being drugged before being put into a speeding car meant to crash them. June Ballard immediately fingers Mark Bishop but seems unconcerned with the police dealing with it, planning to involve her husband, Guy McAffee, in revenge. Interrogating Jessica Hamilton, they determine she was drugged and raped by Mark Bishop. Tailing June Ballard, they interrupt thugs going after Mark Bishop's wife, Gloria Bishop. Investigating Silver Screen Props, they discover that Mark Bishop was being blackmailed by June Ballard, so they rescue him from Guy McAffee's thugs on the set of ''Film/{{Intolerance}}.''
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Mark and Gloria Bishop, once it's realized the latter was a teenager when she married him and realizes he's now a serial rapist as well as predator.
* AssholeVictim: Mark Bishop is a rapist and man who preys on very young women. Likewise, June Ballard set her niece up to be raped in order to blackmail Mark Bishop.
* {{Blackmail}}: June Ballard films Mark Bishop sleeping with her drugged niece and planned to use it to force him to cast her in one fo his pictures.
* BlackmailBackfire: Mark Bishop's reaction to June's attempt to blackmail him was to try to kill her as well as her niece.
* CastingCouch: Mark Bishop enjoys doing this as part of his job as a movie producer. Making it worse is the fact his preferred victims are teenage girls.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Mark Bishop attempted to kill the wife of one of the most powerful mobsters in America.
* KarmaHoudini: June Ballard heads back to Las Vegas with absolutely no reprocussions due to her husband's influence.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Mark Bishop's plan to off June Ballard and Jessica. It notably fails miserably and the police immediately figure it out as a premeditated murder attempt.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: June Ballard is based on Guy McAffee's real-life wife, June Brewster.
* QuestionableConsent: Jessica Hamilton attempts to defend the sex she had with Mark Bishop as consensual, even citing that she's not a virgin. Cole and Bekowsky are having none of it even before the drugs involved.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mark Bishop is both a rapist and a predator of young women.
* SignatureScene: The shoot out on the set of ''Intolerance'' is one of the most remembered scenes from the game.
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Cole and Bekowsky find a car wreck next to the police station where June Ballard and Jessica Hamilton were almost killed by being drugged before being put into a speeding car meant to crash them. June Ballard immediately fingers Mark Bishop but seems unconcerned with the police dealing with it, planning to involve her husband, Guy McAffee, in revenge. Interrogating Jessica Hamilton, they determine she was drugged and raped by Mark Bishop. Tailing June Ballard, they interrupt thugs going after Mark Bishop's wife, Gloria Bishop. Investigating Silver Screen Props, they discover that Mark Bishop was being blackmailed by June Ballard, so they rescue him from Guy McAffee's thugs on the set of ''Film/{{Intolerance}}.''
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Mark and Gloria Bishop, once it's realized the latter was a teenager when she married him and realizes he's now a serial rapist as well as predator.
* AssholeVictim: Mark Bishop is a rapist and man who preys on very young women. Likewise, June Ballard set her niece up to be raped in order to blackmail Mark Bishop.
* {{Blackmail}}: June Ballard films Mark Bishop sleeping with her drugged niece and planned to use it to force him to cast her in one fo his pictures.
* BlackmailBackfire: Mark Bishop's reaction to June's attempt to blackmail him was to try to kill her as well as her niece.
* CastingCouch: Mark Bishop enjoys doing this as part of his job as a movie producer. Making it worse is the fact his preferred victims are teenage girls.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Mark Bishop attempted to kill the wife of one of the most powerful mobsters in America.
* KarmaHoudini: June Ballard heads back to Las Vegas with absolutely no reprocussions due to her husband's influence.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Mark Bishop's plan to off June Ballard and Jessica. It notably fails miserably and the police immediately figure it out as a premeditated murder attempt.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: June Ballard is based on Guy McAffee's real-life wife, June Brewster.
* QuestionableConsent: Jessica Hamilton attempts to defend the sex she had with Mark Bishop as consensual, even citing that she's not a virgin. Cole and Bekowsky are having none of it even before the drugs involved.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mark Bishop is both a rapist and a predator of young women.
* SignatureScene: The shoot out on the set of ''Intolerance'' is one of the most remembered scenes from the game.
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[[folder: Case Four: "A Slip of the Tongue"]]
Cole and Bekowsky chase down a stolen car, only to discover its owner, Cliff Harrison, had purchased it legally. Heading to Coombs Automotive, they interview the owner, Richard Coombs and discover that he purchased the car legally from a woman named Jean Archer. Interviewing a suspect in another car theft named James Belasco, they find out there's a large interstate car ring at work. Catching Jean Archer while she's cashing a check, they gain more insight into the car theft. Checking out the Marquee Printing Company, they interview Gordon Leivol, and that leads them to Steven Bigelow. Shooting it out with Steven Bigelow's men, they arrest him and then Gordon Leitvol.
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* AlwaysMurder: {{Subverted}} in that it is a car theft ring. Played with in that it ends in a bloody shoot out with a dozen dead.
* KillEmAll: Cole and Bekowsky kill the majority of the car ring.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Jean Archer mentions James Belasco's first name despite the fact they didn't mention it and is dying he knew him.
* StupidCrooks: The car theft ring is undone by the fact Jean Archer tried to sell one of the cars to an auto dealership before it was chopped up.
* TheSyndicate: The car theft ring is tied to a national syndicate implied to be TheMafia.
* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: Cliff Harrison is driving around a stolen car that he bought from a car dealership. {{Subverted}} with Richard Coombs who suspected the car was stolen but bought it anyway.
* WhiteCollarCrime: Steven Bigelow provides pink slips that allow him to "launder" the sales of car thefts.
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Cole and Bekowsky chase down a stolen car, only to discover its owner, Cliff Harrison, had purchased it legally. Heading to Coombs Automotive, they interview the owner, Richard Coombs and discover that he purchased the car legally from a woman named Jean Archer. Interviewing a suspect in another car theft named James Belasco, they find out there's a large interstate car ring at work. Catching Jean Archer while she's cashing a check, they gain more insight into the car theft. Checking out the Marquee Printing Company, they interview Gordon Leivol, and that leads them to Steven Bigelow. Shooting it out with Steven Bigelow's men, they arrest him and then Gordon Leitvol.
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* AlwaysMurder: {{Subverted}} in that it is a car theft ring. Played with in that it ends in a bloody shoot out with a dozen dead.
* KillEmAll: Cole and Bekowsky kill the majority of the car ring.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Jean Archer mentions James Belasco's first name despite the fact they didn't mention it and is dying he knew him.
* StupidCrooks: The car theft ring is undone by the fact Jean Archer tried to sell one of the cars to an auto dealership before it was chopped up.
* TheSyndicate: The car theft ring is tied to a national syndicate implied to be TheMafia.
* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: Cliff Harrison is driving around a stolen car that he bought from a car dealership. {{Subverted}} with Richard Coombs who suspected the car was stolen but bought it anyway.
* WhiteCollarCrime: Steven Bigelow provides pink slips that allow him to "launder" the sales of car thefts.
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Cole, if he was involved in this many shootings, would either be in jail or nationally known as the bloodiest cop in history.
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* ActionBasedMission: The purpose is to kill a bunch of bank robbers Cole and his partner have trapped in the building.
* ActionBasedMission: Cole must chase down a parole violator before pummeling him into submission.
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* TheCameo: Characters from previous cases have a tendency to appear in missions like the old man from "The Consul's Car" or the witnesses from "A Marriage Made in Heaven."
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* CarChase: Cole has to run down William Shelton and disable his damaged car to apprehend him.
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[[folder: Case Three: A Marriage Made in Heaven]]
A man, Lester Pattinson, is found dead in the street after being hit with a red Lincoln Continental. Interviewing the bartender and a witness, Cole and Bekowsky head to the man's home and find his widow, Lorna Pattinson, shacked up with the bar's owner, Leroy Sabo. After apprehending the driver, William Shelton, they discover that Lester Pattinson died of a stab wound instead of being hit by the car. Going back to the Pattinson residence, Lorna is shot by Leroy before the latter is apprehended by Cole.
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* AlwaysMurder: An apparent hit and run turns into a premeditated murder.
* AssholeVictim: Leeroy was an abusive drunk who gambled away all of his family's money.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Leeroy and Lorna did not have a happy marriage. They married just before he went off to fight in [=WW2=] and had only known each other a week.
* FemmeFatale: Lorna seduced Leroy into helping her kill her husband. It was apparently also her plan from the beginning.
* KarmicDeath: Lorna is killed in the "best" ending by Leroy after she tries to get Cole and Bekowsky to kill him.
* KickTheDog:
** Lester suggested his wife turn tricks in order to get him the stake for a poker game.
** Leeroy takes an innocent African American girl hostage in the best ending. You can actually prevent it by firing a warning shot.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Lorna's plan was to stab her husband to death and throw him in front of an oncoming car. It almost worked.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Leeroy and Lorna plan to kill Lester in order to be together.
* SayingTooMuch: Leeroy confesses the entirety of their scheme after overhearing Lorna attempting to throw him under the bus.
* SkewedPriorities: Shannon Perry hopes to get her picture in the paper to help her acting career. This results in her withholding information during a ''vehicular homicide.''
* SmugSnake: Lorna and Leroy are particularly arrogant and not particularly smart crooks.
* StupidCrooks:
** Lorna and Leroy concoct a plan to murder Lester Pattinson for the insurance money. They raise the life insurance right before doing it, hide the knife nearby the murder scene in a dumpster, make no attempt to hide their affair, and are arrogant throughout the interrogation.
** Lorna also attempts to blame the murder on Leeroy ''within earshot'' of the bartender.
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A man, Lester Pattinson, is found dead in the street after being hit with a red Lincoln Continental. Interviewing the bartender and a witness, Cole and Bekowsky head to the man's home and find his widow, Lorna Pattinson, shacked up with the bar's owner, Leroy Sabo. After apprehending the driver, William Shelton, they discover that Lester Pattinson died of a stab wound instead of being hit by the car. Going back to the Pattinson residence, Lorna is shot by Leroy before the latter is apprehended by Cole.
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* AlwaysMurder: An apparent hit and run turns into a premeditated murder.
* AssholeVictim: Leeroy was an abusive drunk who gambled away all of his family's money.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Leeroy and Lorna did not have a happy marriage. They married just before he went off to fight in [=WW2=] and had only known each other a week.
* FemmeFatale: Lorna seduced Leroy into helping her kill her husband. It was apparently also her plan from the beginning.
* KarmicDeath: Lorna is killed in the "best" ending by Leroy after she tries to get Cole and Bekowsky to kill him.
* KickTheDog:
** Lester suggested his wife turn tricks in order to get him the stake for a poker game.
** Leeroy takes an innocent African American girl hostage in the best ending. You can actually prevent it by firing a warning shot.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Lorna's plan was to stab her husband to death and throw him in front of an oncoming car. It almost worked.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Leeroy and Lorna plan to kill Lester in order to be together.
* SayingTooMuch: Leeroy confesses the entirety of their scheme after overhearing Lorna attempting to throw him under the bus.
* SkewedPriorities: Shannon Perry hopes to get her picture in the paper to help her acting career. This results in her withholding information during a ''vehicular homicide.''
* SmugSnake: Lorna and Leroy are particularly arrogant and not particularly smart crooks.
* StupidCrooks:
** Lorna and Leroy concoct a plan to murder Lester Pattinson for the insurance money. They raise the life insurance right before doing it, hide the knife nearby the murder scene in a dumpster, make no attempt to hide their affair, and are arrogant throughout the interrogation.
** Lorna also attempts to blame the murder on Leeroy ''within earshot'' of the bartender.
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[[folder: "The Consul's Car"]]
An abandoned Packard is found nearby the police station with two of its wheels missing. Cole and Bekowsky find a notebook full of young men's numbers and soon deduce they are teenagers. Interrogating the Argenitian diplomat, Juan Fransisco Valdez, they determine he acquired the car to accept a bribe. Also, that he is an ephebophile. After conversing with car dealer, William Dewey, they determine the car thief was Gabriel Del Gado. Interrogating his pregnant girlfriend, Anna Rodriguez, they find he is a car thief of many more vehicles. Cole and Bekowsky then track him down and bring him in.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Gabriel's surname is a mistake as Delgado is traditionally one word.
* AssholeVictim: Valdez is a statuatory rapist and a RichBastard snob to boot.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Juan Fransisco Valdez is treated with disgust and loathing by all of the other characters, even more so for the age of his partners.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Gabriel might have gotten away with his crime if he didn't pick a random man's backyard to strip the car.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gabriel Del Gado steals Valdez's car because the latter came onto him.
* DownerEnding: Gabriel is off to jail and leaving his pregnant girlfriend behind. Valdez has diplomatic immunity for the crimes he's committed. It's also possible to kill Gabriel and end the case with nothing more than a stern chewing out.
* HairTriggerTemper: Gabriel is known to possess one of these according to his boss as well as Valdez.
* KarmaHoudini: Valdez possesses diplomatic immunity and thus would not suffer any criminal charges for his relationships.
* JustifiedCriminal: Anna Rodriguez tries to paint Gabriel as this but even if you buy he's allowed to steal a car because he was hit on by another man, it doesn't justify all of his other car thefts.
* PetTheDog: Cole refuses to investigate Valdez's liaisons once he realizes they're teenagers, knowing what sort of hell it would put them through.
* PoliceBrutality: {{Averted}} for once as Cole will get chewed out if he kills Gabriel, who is only a car thief and illegal street racer. It only affects your score, however.
* UpperClassTwit: Valdez is a high class snob who looks down on the police as well as Americans in general.
* WackyRacing: The street race is on the low end of this scale but involves all of the cars trying to destroy one another.
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An abandoned Packard is found nearby the police station with two of its wheels missing. Cole and Bekowsky find a notebook full of young men's numbers and soon deduce they are teenagers. Interrogating the Argenitian diplomat, Juan Fransisco Valdez, they determine he acquired the car to accept a bribe. Also, that he is an ephebophile. After conversing with car dealer, William Dewey, they determine the car thief was Gabriel Del Gado. Interrogating his pregnant girlfriend, Anna Rodriguez, they find he is a car thief of many more vehicles. Cole and Bekowsky then track him down and bring him in.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Gabriel's surname is a mistake as Delgado is traditionally one word.
* AssholeVictim: Valdez is a statuatory rapist and a RichBastard snob to boot.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Juan Fransisco Valdez is treated with disgust and loathing by all of the other characters, even more so for the age of his partners.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Gabriel might have gotten away with his crime if he didn't pick a random man's backyard to strip the car.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gabriel Del Gado steals Valdez's car because the latter came onto him.
* DownerEnding: Gabriel is off to jail and leaving his pregnant girlfriend behind. Valdez has diplomatic immunity for the crimes he's committed. It's also possible to kill Gabriel and end the case with nothing more than a stern chewing out.
* HairTriggerTemper: Gabriel is known to possess one of these according to his boss as well as Valdez.
* KarmaHoudini: Valdez possesses diplomatic immunity and thus would not suffer any criminal charges for his relationships.
* JustifiedCriminal: Anna Rodriguez tries to paint Gabriel as this but even if you buy he's allowed to steal a car because he was hit on by another man, it doesn't justify all of his other car thefts.
* PetTheDog: Cole refuses to investigate Valdez's liaisons once he realizes they're teenagers, knowing what sort of hell it would put them through.
* PoliceBrutality: {{Averted}} for once as Cole will get chewed out if he kills Gabriel, who is only a car thief and illegal street racer. It only affects your score, however.
* UpperClassTwit: Valdez is a high class snob who looks down on the police as well as Americans in general.
* WackyRacing: The street race is on the low end of this scale but involves all of the cars trying to destroy one another.
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* AwfullyWeddedLife: AwfulWeddedLife: The Black marriage is a complete failure with Bekowsky willing to fake his death to get out of it. {{Subverted}} in the fake that Margaret is extremely nice, if a bit shy, and they are financially solvent.
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[[folder: Case One: "The Driver's Seat"]]
The newly promoted Cole is assigned to partner with Stefan Bekowsky, who is unpleasant and jealous of Cole's war record. The two of them find a abandoned automobile covered in blood before investigating the owner's, Adrian Black, wife, Margaret Black. Following up on his associate, Frank Morgan, they discover Adrian Black is alive and faked his death. Cole chases Adrian down and arrests him for fraud as well as conspiracy.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In "The Driver's Seat," the first Traffic case, when introduced to Stefan Bekowski the watch commander pronounces it '''Berkowski''. Probably an actor oversight; the in-game subtitles provide the correct name.
* AwfullyWeddedLife: The Black marriage is a complete failure with Bekowsky willing to fake his death to get out of it. {{Subverted}} in the fake that Margaret is extremely nice, if a bit shy, and they are financially solvent.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Cole and Bekowsky note that just leaving his wife would have been ''much-much'' easier.
* ExtremeDoormat: Margaret Black is an extremely nervous and submissive woman who ignores her husband's infidelity despite knowing about it. Bekowsky even comments she's too much of a shrinking violet to kick him out.
* FakingTheDead: Adrian Black attempted to fake his death to leave his wife and go live with his mistress in Seattle.
* {{Jerkass}}: Adrian Black's plan shows an ''incredible'' lack of empathy toward his wife.
* KarmaHoudini: Later in the game, you discover that Adrian Black got to Seattle and was soon kicked out by his mistress only to be taken back by his wife. This means whatever consequences he had for his crime, serious as it was, proved minor.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Frank Wilkey is objectively terrified during his conversation with the police, leading many players to assume he has something to hide. [[SubvertedTrope He doesn't, actually.]] He's just scared of being arrested for murder as a black man in the 1940s who tried to report a blood-filled car to the police.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Adrian Black slaughtered a pig and left its gore throughout the interior of his car.
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[[folder: Case One: "The Driver's Seat"]]
The newly promoted Cole is assigned to partner with Stefan Bekowsky, who is unpleasant and jealous of Cole's war record. The two of them find a abandoned automobile covered in blood before investigating the owner's, Adrian Black, wife, Margaret Black. Following up on his associate, Frank Morgan, they discover Adrian Black is alive and faked his death. Cole chases Adrian down and arrests him for fraud as well as conspiracy.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In "The Driver's Seat," the first Traffic case, when introduced to Stefan Bekowski the watch commander pronounces it '''Berkowski''. Probably an actor oversight; the in-game subtitles provide the correct name.
* AwfullyWeddedLife: The Black marriage is a complete failure with Bekowsky willing to fake his death to get out of it. {{Subverted}} in the fake that Margaret is extremely nice, if a bit shy, and they are financially solvent.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Cole and Bekowsky note that just leaving his wife would have been ''much-much'' easier.
* ExtremeDoormat: Margaret Black is an extremely nervous and submissive woman who ignores her husband's infidelity despite knowing about it. Bekowsky even comments she's too much of a shrinking violet to kick him out.
* FakingTheDead: Adrian Black attempted to fake his death to leave his wife and go live with his mistress in Seattle.
* {{Jerkass}}: Adrian Black's plan shows an ''incredible'' lack of empathy toward his wife.
* KarmaHoudini: Later in the game, you discover that Adrian Black got to Seattle and was soon kicked out by his mistress only to be taken back by his wife. This means whatever consequences he had for his crime, serious as it was, proved minor.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Frank Wilkey is objectively terrified during his conversation with the police, leading many players to assume he has something to hide. [[SubvertedTrope He doesn't, actually.]] He's just scared of being arrested for murder as a black man in the 1940s who tried to report a blood-filled car to the police.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Adrian Black slaughtered a pig and left its gore throughout the interior of his car.
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: Shoot outs and killing suspects are much more common in street crimes than the main game, whether the subjects are thieves or murderers. {{Subverted}} in that you can theoretically subdue them in order ways if you can get close to them.
* BoomHeadshot: Cole is forced to do this whenever a criminal takes a hostage as there's no way to talk them down.
* FlatCharacter: The majority of the encounters with criminals in Street Crime are violent encounters with ruthless individuals willing to do anything to escape. Which is in contrast to the main game.
* ShootTheHostageTaker: Very commonly the only way for Cole Phelps to resolve the ending of a crime as there's no other way to save a hostage.
* UncertainDoom: Cole will frequently call for an ambulance after his shoot outs, though other times he'll ask for a coroner or see a body carted off.
* WretchedHive: Los Angeles is full of shoot outs with the police, gang wars, and robberies occurring at any given time.
* AllCrimesAreEqual: Shoot outs and killing suspects are much more common in street crimes than the main game, whether the subjects are thieves or murderers. {{Subverted}} in that you can theoretically subdue them in order ways if you can get close to them.
* BoomHeadshot: Cole is forced to do this whenever a criminal takes a hostage as there's no way to talk them down.
* FlatCharacter: The majority of the encounters with criminals in Street Crime are violent encounters with ruthless individuals willing to do anything to escape. Which is in contrast to the main game.
* ShootTheHostageTaker: Very commonly the only way for Cole Phelps to resolve the ending of a crime as there's no other way to save a hostage.
* UncertainDoom: Cole will frequently call for an ambulance after his shoot outs, though other times he'll ask for a coroner or see a body carted off.
* WretchedHive: Los Angeles is full of shoot outs with the police, gang wars, and robberies occurring at any given time.
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* RankUp: In this case, solving this case is what makes Cole's name in the LAPD as well as gets him promoted to detective.
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! Patrol Desk
[[folder: Case One: "Upon Reflection"]]
Cole Phelps, Marine [=WW2=] veteran, is now a patrolman in the LAPD. He and his partner, Ralph Dunn, are eager to prove themselves. On their first night out, they are told by Detectives Floyd Rose and Rusty Galloway. They are sent to retrieve the gun involved in the murder of Scooty Peyton. Tracking down the gun based upon its unique build, they follow it from the nearest gun shop to its owner, Errol Schroeder. When confronted about the murder, Eroll denies his involvement then goes to fetch his gun only to find it missing. After a fistfight, he's subdued. Cole finds a book full of names, including Detective Rose, as well as numbers that indicate he's running a bookmaking business. However, Ralph persuades Cole to leave it be and accept their success.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Is Eroll Schroeder guilty of innocent? Was he framed by Detective Rose? We never find out what the truth is.
* DirtyCops: Even if Detective Rose isn't involved in the murder, he's heavily in debt to Eroll Schroeder via illegal gambling.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: If Cole got the wrong man, Rose becomes a KarmaHoudini.
* OrgyOfEvidence: An extremely distinct gun in a not-too-hard-to-find place that they get the address of the owner from the local gun maker for is a very easy case to solve. This is something Ralph lampshades.
* PoliceAreUseless: Detective Rose and Rusty Galloway are shown to care nothing about the victim, whether they're involved in his murder or not.
* TutorialMission: This introduces you to the gathering of evidence.
* WhatHappenedTotheMouse: Detective Rose retires before any investigation into his activities can take place.
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[[folder: Case Two: Armed and Dangerous]]
Cole and Ralph receive word of a bank robbery and go to investigate. They immediately end up in a shoot out with the robbers, ending in killing them all. Ralph says that anytime the shotguns come out, you're going to get a bodybag or a citation.
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* BankRobbery: A fairly classic example of such with a bunch of armed thugs in suits robbing a savings and loan.
* GenreShift: This is a pure action-based shooting mission, unlike the previous investigation one.
* FlatCharacter: Unlike the majority of criminals in the game, the bank robbers are without any sort of characterization and only exist to be killed.
* KillEmAll: None of the robbers are willing to surrender and you're forced to kill them all.
* TutorialMission: This mission introduces you to gunplay.
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[[folder: Case Three: Warrants Outstanding]]
Cole and Ralph encounter Wendell Bowers, a parole violator Ralph put away, and chase him down. After an extensive chase that leads to a nearby rooftop, Cole and Wendell get into a fistfight leading to Wendell's arrest.
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* ChaseScene: Cole has his first one of these, going after a parole violator.
* CombatPragmatist: Wendell Bowers will sucker punch Cole after hiding behind an air conditioner.
* DevelopersForesight:
** If you walk around where Bowers is hiding rather than run after him, you won't get clotheslined.
** If you kill Wendell, he'll have his body hauled off by the morgue.
* PoliceBrutality: It is entirely possible to throw Wendell off the rooftop to his death. You will receive no consequences for this.
* TutorialMission: This mission teaches you how to chase subjects.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: You can't stop Bowers by firing a warning shot because that hasn't been taught to the player yet.
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[[folder: Case Four: Buyer Beware]]
Cole hears a gunshot and finds a dead body outside of a shoe store. A man, Everett Gage, has been murdered by multiple gunshots. After interrogating from saleswoman, Clovis Galletta, he discovers the killer is Jewish jewelry store owner, Edgar Kalou. After confirming his ownership of the murder weapon, Cole chases him down from his place of business then interrogates him back at the station. Edgar Kalou admits to the murder and that it was done to avenge the racism he'd suffered at the victim's hands.
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* AssholeVictim: Everett Cage was an antisemite as well as a horrible boss.
* BlatantLies: Edgar Kalou lies and says that Edgar Kalou is in the back and he's going to go get him when confronted.
* ChaseScene: Cole has to chase Edgar down in order to subdue him, though he can also fire a warning shot.
* SayingTooMuch: Edgar Kalou doesn't take too much to go on a rant about how Everett deserved to die.
* SkewedPriorities: Clovis Galletta is more interested in keeping her earrings than the fact she just witnessed a murder.
* StarMakingRole: In this case, solving this case is what makes Cole's name in the LAPD.
* SympatheticMurderer: Edgar Kalou has been a victim of antisemitism by the man he murdered for years.
* TutorialMission: Cole learns how to fire warning shots as well as how to interrogate subjects using evidence.
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! Patrol Desk
[[folder: Case One: "Upon Reflection"]]
Cole Phelps, Marine [=WW2=] veteran, is now a patrolman in the LAPD. He and his partner, Ralph Dunn, are eager to prove themselves. On their first night out, they are told by Detectives Floyd Rose and Rusty Galloway. They are sent to retrieve the gun involved in the murder of Scooty Peyton. Tracking down the gun based upon its unique build, they follow it from the nearest gun shop to its owner, Errol Schroeder. When confronted about the murder, Eroll denies his involvement then goes to fetch his gun only to find it missing. After a fistfight, he's subdued. Cole finds a book full of names, including Detective Rose, as well as numbers that indicate he's running a bookmaking business. However, Ralph persuades Cole to leave it be and accept their success.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Is Eroll Schroeder guilty of innocent? Was he framed by Detective Rose? We never find out what the truth is.
* DirtyCops: Even if Detective Rose isn't involved in the murder, he's heavily in debt to Eroll Schroeder via illegal gambling.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: If Cole got the wrong man, Rose becomes a KarmaHoudini.
* OrgyOfEvidence: An extremely distinct gun in a not-too-hard-to-find place that they get the address of the owner from the local gun maker for is a very easy case to solve. This is something Ralph lampshades.
* PoliceAreUseless: Detective Rose and Rusty Galloway are shown to care nothing about the victim, whether they're involved in his murder or not.
* TutorialMission: This introduces you to the gathering of evidence.
* WhatHappenedTotheMouse: Detective Rose retires before any investigation into his activities can take place.
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[[folder: Case Two: Armed and Dangerous]]
Cole and Ralph receive word of a bank robbery and go to investigate. They immediately end up in a shoot out with the robbers, ending in killing them all. Ralph says that anytime the shotguns come out, you're going to get a bodybag or a citation.
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* BankRobbery: A fairly classic example of such with a bunch of armed thugs in suits robbing a savings and loan.
* GenreShift: This is a pure action-based shooting mission, unlike the previous investigation one.
* FlatCharacter: Unlike the majority of criminals in the game, the bank robbers are without any sort of characterization and only exist to be killed.
* KillEmAll: None of the robbers are willing to surrender and you're forced to kill them all.
* TutorialMission: This mission introduces you to gunplay.
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[[folder: Case Three: Warrants Outstanding]]
Cole and Ralph encounter Wendell Bowers, a parole violator Ralph put away, and chase him down. After an extensive chase that leads to a nearby rooftop, Cole and Wendell get into a fistfight leading to Wendell's arrest.
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* ChaseScene: Cole has his first one of these, going after a parole violator.
* CombatPragmatist: Wendell Bowers will sucker punch Cole after hiding behind an air conditioner.
* DevelopersForesight:
** If you walk around where Bowers is hiding rather than run after him, you won't get clotheslined.
** If you kill Wendell, he'll have his body hauled off by the morgue.
* PoliceBrutality: It is entirely possible to throw Wendell off the rooftop to his death. You will receive no consequences for this.
* TutorialMission: This mission teaches you how to chase subjects.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: You can't stop Bowers by firing a warning shot because that hasn't been taught to the player yet.
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[[folder: Case Four: Buyer Beware]]
Cole hears a gunshot and finds a dead body outside of a shoe store. A man, Everett Gage, has been murdered by multiple gunshots. After interrogating from saleswoman, Clovis Galletta, he discovers the killer is Jewish jewelry store owner, Edgar Kalou. After confirming his ownership of the murder weapon, Cole chases him down from his place of business then interrogates him back at the station. Edgar Kalou admits to the murder and that it was done to avenge the racism he'd suffered at the victim's hands.
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* AssholeVictim: Everett Cage was an antisemite as well as a horrible boss.
* BlatantLies: Edgar Kalou lies and says that Edgar Kalou is in the back and he's going to go get him when confronted.
* ChaseScene: Cole has to chase Edgar down in order to subdue him, though he can also fire a warning shot.
* SayingTooMuch: Edgar Kalou doesn't take too much to go on a rant about how Everett deserved to die.
* SkewedPriorities: Clovis Galletta is more interested in keeping her earrings than the fact she just witnessed a murder.
* StarMakingRole: In this case, solving this case is what makes Cole's name in the LAPD.
* SympatheticMurderer: Edgar Kalou has been a victim of antisemitism by the man he murdered for years.
* TutorialMission: Cole learns how to fire warning shots as well as how to interrogate subjects using evidence.
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