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* IgnoredEpiphany: While listening to the recording of the phone call where she exploited Rita and harassed her with threats of being sued, Jeanette refuses to believe for a single instant that her "Every sob story is a lie" philosophy doesn't apply to everyone. Michael looks at her with great disgust as the call continues, but she ''defends herself'' by claiming that she honestly didn't know Rita had a tumor or a mortal fear of judges.
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!!Payment Overdue
Jeanette Simpson is a collection agent who harasses her clients and sells them ludicrous insurance. One day, Jeanette receives troubling news: client Rita Valdez committed suicide due to Jeanette threatening to sue her over missed payments. Rita's representative attorney, Michael Nelson, decides to pay a visit to sort things out. However, Jeanette will discover her judgmental attitude toward Rita and Michael will result in a harrowing twist.
!!Tropes:
* AmbiguousEnding: We leave Jeanette in the exact position Rita was in, with Michael leaving her to her fate. We don't see what happens next, but given how she ended up in this situation to begin with...
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Rita's mindset when she threw herself to her death. Not too long ago, Jeannette threatened to get the courts involved, unaware Rita was afraid of judges because she equated them with the death sentence. Figuring she was about to be put to death, Rita took her chances and took her own life.
* BlatantLies: Jeanette's company has no standing to take anyone to court...but that doesn't stop her from threatening people with it.
* DrivenToSuicide: Unknown to Jeannette, she pushed Rita (who was suffering from a painful brain tumor) to jump out the window when she claimed she would take her "overdue payment" to a judge. For context, Rita's late husband was sentenced to death by a cruel judge back in her country, giving Rita a life-long fear of judges.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The entire prologue shows how unscrupulous Jeannette is to her clients. Be they young or old, disabled or otherwise, she will scam them out of their money.
* FreudianExcuse: Jeannette wasn't always as well-off as she is today. She grew up being taught that the world is full of leeches who are out to take advantage of generous people with made up sob stories of being unfortunate. And it didn't help that her brutish ex-husband was one such leech.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Micheal may be an archangel, but he is pretty unforgiving when he punishes Jeannette.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Jeanette acts like she's a good person who struggled in life and worked hard to get by where she is. However, she earned her money by collecting it from lower class people and tricking others into paying her for insurance they don't even need. To an even worse extent, she claims that she's also a fair debt collector before telling off those who ''actually can't pay her''.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Whilst listening to the recording of her exploiting Rita and harassing her with threats of being sued, Jeannette refuses to believe for one instant that her "Every sob story is a lie" philosophy doesn't apply to everyone.
* KarmicDeath: Michael dooms Jeannette to vicariously live out Rita's final moments of life, particularly during the call she made to Rita saying her payment was "overdue".
* KarmicTransformation: Michael transforms Jeannette into the woman she Drove to suicide, crappy apartment and all.
* LazyBum: According to Jeannette, she was married to one for at least a year.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Quite literally, in this case. On Jeannette's end, wasn't aware that Rita had a traumatic experience with judges and came to equate them with a death sentence. On Rita's end, she didn't know that in America, being taken to a judge would simply mean a relatively lenient fine or imprisonment. Either way one looks at it, the misunderstanding leads to Rita panicking and taking her own life. ''However'', it does ''[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse not]]'' make Jeannette any less accountable for pushing a woman to her death all in the name of greed.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Jeanette takes this view, that life is made up of "Doers" and "Takers", and the Doers (like her) owe nothing but scorn to the Takers.
* TemptingFate: Jeannette claims that if she were in any of her clients' shoes, she would be able to get out of debt easily. In the end, she ends up as Rita, who lives in a destitute room without air-conditioning, has little money, barely knows English (much less big English vocabulary), and is suffering a painful brain tumor. [[FromBadToWorse All while her real self badgers her for money over the phone]].
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Jeannette's father once told her the world is full of two kinds of people, "Doers" and "Takers". 'Takers' will take advantage of generosity, whilst 'Doers' work hard and mustn't be suckered in by the Takers' sob stories, according to her.
* TranquilFury: Even as he puts Jeannette through a KarmicTransformation, he never raises his voice.
* WhamLine: Rita's ghost calling out to her angel "Michael", all the while Jeannette looks upon her new friend ''Michael''.
* WouldHarmASenior: Of the take-advantage variety. Jeannette fools an old man with mental health issues into thinking he "forgot" to pay, when he had already paid before.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least, "would trick a child". She tells a little girl that her mommy is "in trouble" and scams her into paying so much money on her mother's behalf.
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Jeanette Simpson is a collection agent who harasses her clients and sells them ludicrous insurance. One day, Jeanette receives troubling news: client Rita Valdez committed suicide due to Jeanette threatening to sue her over missed payments. Rita's representative attorney, Michael Nelson, decides to pay a visit to sort things out. However, Jeanette will discover her judgmental attitude toward Rita and Michael will result in a harrowing twist.
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* AmbiguousEnding: We leave Jeanette in the exact position Rita was in, with Michael leaving her to her fate. We don't see what happens next, but given how she ended up in this situation to begin with...
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Rita's mindset when she threw herself to her death. Not too long ago, Jeannette threatened to get the courts involved, unaware Rita was afraid of judges because she equated them with the death sentence. Figuring she was about to be put to death, Rita took her chances and took her own life.
* BlatantLies: Jeanette's company has no standing to take anyone to court...but that doesn't stop her from threatening people with it.
* DrivenToSuicide: Unknown to Jeannette, she pushed Rita (who was suffering from a painful brain tumor) to jump out the window when she claimed she would take her "overdue payment" to a judge. For context, Rita's late husband was sentenced to death by a cruel judge back in her country, giving Rita a life-long fear of judges.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The entire prologue shows how unscrupulous Jeannette is to her clients. Be they young or old, disabled or otherwise, she will scam them out of their money.
* FreudianExcuse: Jeannette wasn't always as well-off as she is today. She grew up being taught that the world is full of leeches who are out to take advantage of generous people with made up sob stories of being unfortunate. And it didn't help that her brutish ex-husband was one such leech.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Micheal may be an archangel, but he is pretty unforgiving when he punishes Jeannette.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Jeanette acts like she's a good person who struggled in life and worked hard to get by where she is. However, she earned her money by collecting it from lower class people and tricking others into paying her for insurance they don't even need. To an even worse extent, she claims that she's also a fair debt collector before telling off those who ''actually can't pay her''.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Whilst listening to the recording of her exploiting Rita and harassing her with threats of being sued, Jeannette refuses to believe for one instant that her "Every sob story is a lie" philosophy doesn't apply to everyone.
* KarmicDeath: Michael dooms Jeannette to vicariously live out Rita's final moments of life, particularly during the call she made to Rita saying her payment was "overdue".
* KarmicTransformation: Michael transforms Jeannette into the woman she Drove to suicide, crappy apartment and all.
* LazyBum: According to Jeannette, she was married to one for at least a year.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Quite literally, in this case. On Jeannette's end, wasn't aware that Rita had a traumatic experience with judges and came to equate them with a death sentence. On Rita's end, she didn't know that in America, being taken to a judge would simply mean a relatively lenient fine or imprisonment. Either way one looks at it, the misunderstanding leads to Rita panicking and taking her own life. ''However'', it does ''[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse not]]'' make Jeannette any less accountable for pushing a woman to her death all in the name of greed.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Jeanette takes this view, that life is made up of "Doers" and "Takers", and the Doers (like her) owe nothing but scorn to the Takers.
* TemptingFate: Jeannette claims that if she were in any of her clients' shoes, she would be able to get out of debt easily. In the end, she ends up as Rita, who lives in a destitute room without air-conditioning, has little money, barely knows English (much less big English vocabulary), and is suffering a painful brain tumor. [[FromBadToWorse All while her real self badgers her for money over the phone]].
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Jeannette's father once told her the world is full of two kinds of people, "Doers" and "Takers". 'Takers' will take advantage of generosity, whilst 'Doers' work hard and mustn't be suckered in by the Takers' sob stories, according to her.
* TranquilFury: Even as he puts Jeannette through a KarmicTransformation, he never raises his voice.
* WhamLine: Rita's ghost calling out to her angel "Michael", all the while Jeannette looks upon her new friend ''Michael''.
* WouldHarmASenior: Of the take-advantage variety. Jeannette fools an old man with mental health issues into thinking he "forgot" to pay, when he had already paid before.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least, "would trick a child". She tells a little girl that her mommy is "in trouble" and scams her into paying so much money on her mother's behalf.
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* AmbiguousEnding:
* ArchangelMichael: He takes the guise of city welfare worker Michael Nelson, testing Jeanette's character and punishing her for driving Rita to suicide.
* AssholeVictim: ''JEANETTE.'' One of the biggest in the whole series, she ends up being turned into the woman who she drove to suicide in the name of sheer greed, moments before the suicide in question.
* AsYouKnow: The first half has Michael spelling out Rita's history, circumstances, and suicide to both Jeanette and the audience.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As she chats with Michael, Jeanette offers to be put in the shoes of one of her clients to prove that she can get out of such a "pitiable" state in no time. Her wish is granted with extreme prejudice when Michael reveals himself to be a certain archangel who turns Jeanette into the woman she drove to suicide, moments before the suicide in question.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: This was Rita's mindset when she threw herself to her death. Not too long ago,
* BlatantLies:
* CallBack: One of Jeanette's callers in the opening act is Mary Jane, the possessed girl from the season 2 episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheDarksideS2E9TheTroubleWithMaryJane The Trouble with Mary Jane]]", and she scams the girl into paying $51 on behalf of Mrs. Nugent, who Jeanette thinks is her mother.
* CouldSayItBut: Michael's lecture about guardian angels exacting vengeance against those who made their charges suffer in life very obviously hints that he's preparing to do this to Jeanette.
* DomesticAbuse: Jeanette alludes to Michael that a big part of her hatred for "Takers" is because she was married to one of them for a year, a brutish drunk who would smack her around while waiting for his welfare checks.
* DrivenToSuicide: Unknown to Jeanette, her lies pushed Rita (who was also suffering from a painful brain tumor) to jump out the sixth floor window when she claimed she would take her "overdue payment" to a judge. She wasn't aware that Rita's late husband was sentenced to death by a cruel judge in El Salvador, giving Rita a life-long fear of judges.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Just before Michael confirms that Jeanette indirectly pushed Rita
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Jeanette wasn't always as well-off as she is today. She grew up being taught that the world is full of leeches out to take advantage of generous people with made up sob stories of being unfortunate, and it didn't help that she was
* GoodIsNotSoft: Michael may be an archangel, but he's pretty unforgiving when he punishes Jeanette.
* GuardianAngel: The Archangel Michael himself serves as Rita's guardian angel, indicating that her circumstances were so unfortunate that a high-ranking Biblical figure like him had to look after her. He carries an artist's depiction of himself that he shows to Jeanette during his visit, alluding to his true nature.
* HorribleHousing: Rita's apartment. When Jeanette is given her KarmicTransformation into Rita, Michael turns her lavish studio apartment into the same derelict tenement as part of the suffering she must now endure, including:
** No air conditioning, resulting in perpetual sweltering temperatures day and night.
** The back
** Frequent noise coming from the street below, allowing for very little chances to sleep.
** The only furniture and appliances being a
* FreudianExcuse: Jeannette wasn't always as well-off as she is today. She grew up being taught that the world is full of leeches who are out to take advantage of generous people with made up sob stories of being unfortunate. And it didn't help that her brutish ex-husband was one such leech.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Micheal may be an archangel, but he is pretty unforgiving when he punishes Jeannette.
* IgnoredEpiphany:
* KarmicDeath:
-->'''Jeanette''': Now, how was I supposed to know that she was really sick? Or what a judge meant to her? How?\\
'''Michael''': [[YouDidntAsk You could've asked.]] At 4:15, she dropped the reciever and jumped.\\
'''Jeanette''': (''shocked'') Are you saying
'''Michael''': No. [[ShutUpHannibal You just didn't]] ''[[ShutUpHannibal listen.]]'' Not a grave sin... not ''normally.''
* KarmicTransformation: Michael transforms
* KickTheDog: Jeanette loves to inform people that their payments are overdue and kick them out on the streets. One of these people included Rita, a poor, dying woman who begged for more time to pay. Shamelessly, albeit ignorantly, Jeanette [[LackOfEmpathy ignored those pleas]] and ended up driving her to suicide by threatening to take her payment before a judge, unaware that she had a mortal fear of judges. She gets [[KarmicTwistEnding what she deserves in the end when Michael puts her in Rita's place]].
* LackOfEmpathy: Despite Rita furiously pleading with her to have a little more time to pay, Jeanette ignored her pleas and still demanded money, threatening to take her before a judge to recieve the payments and driving Rita to suicide in the process.
* LazyBum: According to
* NeverMyFault: Jeanette firmly washes her hands of any involvement in Rita's suicide, even as the evidence is insurmountable and her just desserts are unavoidable.
* NoSympathy: Jeanette has none of the stuff regarding the clients she scams, automatically thinking that every single sob story ever told his false. That also includes the destitute Rita, who was slowly dying of a brain tumor.
* OffscreenAfterlife: Rita's ghost mentions how the place she's ended up after killing herself is cold, dark, and lonely, leaving it unclear whether it's Hell or Purgatory. Either way, it's not pleasant in the slightest.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Archangel Michael takes the form of city welfare worker Michael Nelson, and he uses his miraculous abilities to turn Jeanette into Rita, the woman she drove to kill herself in the name of cold, hard cash, in every single way but name. In particular, he massages her throat to get her to mimic Rita's thick accent, and kisses her on the forehead to give her Rita's brain tumor.
* PhoneCallFromTheDead: Rita's ghost repeatedly manages to get through to Jeanette's private line after her suicide. Throughout the episode, she also manages to contact Jeanette through her clock radio, TV, stereo, and intercom, calling for Michael to settle her score with the debt collector.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Quite literally, in this case. On
* RecurringRiff: A rapid synth tune plays when Jeanette, and later Michael, is at her computer.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Michael essentially submits Jeanette to one of these, and her refusal to admit her role in Rita's death means she fails miserably, allowing for Michael to turn Jeanette [[KarmicTwistEnding into Rita herself]].
* SelfMadeWoman: Jeanette is a debt collector who ''claims'' to be self-made, but as the episode unfolds, we learn that she's a hypocritical robber baron who takes her place in life for granted and enjoys making others suffer to take their riches, even assuming that everyone could live a life like hers if they just tried. She ends the episode stuck in a situation where she doesn't have these privileges anymore by the Archangel Michael, who was sent to punish her for driving Rita to suicide.
* ShutUpHannibal: Michael shoots down every argument Jeanette makes about her role in Rita's suicide, showing that she just didn't ''listen'' to her claims instead of not knowing about them.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Jeanette
* TakeThat: As Jeanette's attitude shows, this episode is a giant one to the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality of the 1980s, as the ArchangelMichael himself condemns Jeanette into experiencing the final moments of Rita, the poor Hispanic refugee seeking asylum and sanctuary in the USA who she drove to suicide in the name of money.
* TemptingFate:
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld:
* TranquilFury: Even as he puts
* VengefulGhost: Rita becomes one when she manages to possess Jeanette's appliances, shouting about how "The scores must be evened!" and pleading for Michael to avenge her.
* WhamLine: The first act ends with Rita's ghost calling out to her guardian angel "Michael",
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Rita's worst fear is of judges, as an exceptionally cruel one sentenced her husband to death back in El Salvador. Jeanette partially caused her suicide by threatening to take her to court if she didn't get the payment Rita owed her, unaware of her mortal fear of judges.
* WouldHarmASenior:
* WouldHurtAChild:
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Jeanette Simpson is a collection agent who harasses her clients and sells them ludicrous insurance. One day, Jeanette receives troubling news: client Rita Valdez committed suicide due to Jeanette threatening to sue her over missed payments. Rita's representative attorney, Michael Nelson, decides to pay a visit to sort things out. However, Jeanette will discover her judgmental attitude toward Rita and Michael will result in a harrowing twist.
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Jeanette Simpson is a collection agent who harasses her clients and sells them ludicrous insurance. One day, Jeanette receives troubling news: client Rita Valdez committed suicide due to Jeanette threatening to sue her over missed payments. Rita's representative attorney, Michael Nelson, decides to pay a visit to sort things out. However, Jeanette will discover her judgmental attitude toward Rita and Michael will result in a harrowing twist.
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* {{Hypocrite}}:Jeanette {{Hypocrite}}: Jeanette acts like she's a good person who struggled in life and worked hard to get by where she is. However, she earned her money by collecting it from lower class people and tricking others into paying her for insurance they don't even need. To an even worse extent, she claims that she's also a fair debt collector before telling off those who ''actually can't pay her''.
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* KarmicDeath: Micheal dooms Jeannette to vicariously live out Rita's final moments of life, particularly during the call she made to Rita saying her payment was "overdue".
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* KarmicDeath: Micheal Michael dooms Jeannette to vicariously live out Rita's final moments of life, particularly during the call she made to Rita saying her payment was "overdue".
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Rita's mindset when she threw herself to her death. Not too long ago, Jeannette threatened to get the courts involved, unaware Rita was afraid of judges because she equated them with the death sentence. Figuring she was about to be put to death, Jeannette took her chances and took her own life.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Rita's mindset when she threw herself to her death. Not too long ago, Jeannette threatened to get the courts involved, unaware Rita was afraid of judges because she equated them with the death sentence. Figuring she was about to be put to death, Jeannette Rita took her chances and took her own life.
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* TheSocialDarwinist: Jeanette takes this view, that life is made up of winners "Doers" and losers, "Takers", and the winners Doers (like her) owe nothing but scorn to the losers.Takers.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Quite literally, in this case. On Jeannette's end, wasn't aware that Rita had a traumatic experience with judges and came to equate them with a death sentence. On Rita's end, she didn't know that in America, being taken to a judge would simply mean a relatively lenient fine or imprisonment. Either way one looks at it, the misunderstanding leads to Rita panicking and taking her own life. ''However'', it does ''[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse not]]'' make Jeannette any less accountable for pushing a woman to her death all in the name of greed.
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* TemptingFate: Jeannette claims that if she were in any of her clients' shoes, she would be able to get out of debt easily. In the end, she ends up as Rita, who was suffering a brain tumor, living lives in a destitute room without air-conditioning, has little money, barely knows English (much less big English vocabulary), and afraid of judges.is suffering a painful brain tumor. [[FromBadToWorse All while her real self badgers her for money over the phone]].
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* NeverMyFault: Jeannette has a habit of justifying her scams, claiming her victims are just pretending to be poor or disabled. The highlight of her denial is when she tries to justify that she wasn't at fault for (even indirectly) driving Rita Valdez to her death, despite that she ''did'' try to scam her out of her money.
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Jeannette tells Michael that the world is full of two kinds of people, "Doers" and "Takers". 'Takers' will do as the name suggest and take advantage of anyone's pity, and it's the 'Doers' job to keep their distance from the former.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Jeannette tells Michael that the world is full of two kinds of people, "Doers" and "Takers". 'Takers' will do as the name suggest and take advantage of anyone's pity, and it's the 'Doers' job to keep their distance from the former.
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* NeverMyFault:
NeverMyFault: Jeannette has a habit of justifying her scams, claiming her victims are just pretending to be poor or disabled. The highlight of her denial is when she tries to justify that she wasn't at fault for (even indirectly) driving Rita Valdez to her death, despite that she ''did'' try to scam her out of her money.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld:Jeannette tells Michael that Jeannette's father once told her the world is full of two kinds of people, "Doers" and "Takers". 'Takers' will do as the name suggest and take advantage of anyone's pity, and it's the generosity, whilst 'Doers' job to keep their distance from work hard and mustn't be suckered in by the former.Takers' sob stories, according to her.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld:
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* DrivenToSuicide: Unknown to Jeannette, she pushed Rita to jump out the window when, suffering from a painful brain tumor, she claimed she would take her "overdue payment" to a judge. For context, Rita's late husband was sentenced to death by a cruel judge back in her country, giving Rita a life-long fear of judges.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Unknown to Jeannette, she pushed Rita to jump out the window when, (who was suffering from a painful brain tumor, tumor) to jump out the window when she claimed she would take her "overdue payment" to a judge. For context, Rita's late husband was sentenced to death by a cruel judge back in her country, giving Rita a life-long fear of judges.
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Jeannette
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* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least, "Would trick a Child".
* WouldHarmASenior: Of the take-advantage variety.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least, "Would trick a Child".
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Jeannette
Jeannette tells Michael that the world is full of two kinds of people, "Doers" and "Takers". 'Takers' will do as the name suggest and take advantage of anyone's pity, and it's the 'Doers' job to keep their distance from the former.
* WouldHarmASenior: Of the take-advantagevariety.
variety. Jeannette fools an old man with mental health issues into thinking he "forgot" to pay.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least, "Would trick a Child". She tells a little girl that her mommy is "in trouble", and scams her into paying so much money on her mother's behalf.
* WouldHarmASenior: Of the take-advantage
* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least, "Would trick a Child". She tells a little girl that her mommy is "in trouble", and scams her into paying so much money on her mother's behalf.
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInThisWorld: ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Jeannette
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* EstablishingCharacterMomentEstablishingCharacterMoment: The entire prologue shows how unscrupulous Jeannette is to her clients, and she isn't above tricking innocent children or senile elders either.
* FreudianExcuse: Jeannette wasn't always as well-off as she is today. She grew up being taught that the world is full of leeches who are out to take advantage of generous people with made up sob stories of being unfortunate. And it didn't help that her brutish ex-husband was one such leech.
* FreudianExcuse: Jeannette wasn't always as well-off as she is today. She grew up being taught that the world is full of leeches who are out to take advantage of generous people with made up sob stories of being unfortunate. And it didn't help that her brutish ex-husband was one such leech.
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IgnoredEpiphany: Whilst listening to the recording of her exploiting Rita and harassing her with threats of being sued, Jeannette refuses to believe for one instant that her "Every sob story is a lie" philosophy doesn't apply to everyone.
*KarmicDeathKarmicDeath: Micheal dooms Jeannette to vicariously live out Rita's final moments of life, particularly during the call she made to Rita saying her payment was "overdue".
* LazyBum: According to Jeannette, she was married to one for at least a year.
* NeverMyFault:
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInThisWorld: Jeannette
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* LazyBum: According to Jeannette, she was married to one for at least a year.
* NeverMyFault:
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInThisWorld: Jeannette
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* [[WouldHurtAChild Would WouldHarmASenior: Of the take-advantage variety.
* WouldHurtAChild: Or at least, "Would trick aChild]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: Unknown to Jeannette, she pushed Rita to jump out the window when, suffering from a painful brain tumor, she claimed she would take her "overdue payment" to a judge. For context, Rita's late husband was sentenced to death by a cruel judge back in her country, giving Rita a life-long fear of judges.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
* GoodIsNotSoft: Micheal may be an archangel, but he is pretty unforgiving when he punishes Jeannette.
* IgnoredEpiphany
* KarmicDeath
* [[WouldHurtAChild Would trick a Child]]
* [[WouldHurtASenior Would trick a Senior]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment
* GoodIsNotSoft: Micheal may be an archangel, but he is pretty unforgiving when he punishes Jeannette.
* IgnoredEpiphany
* KarmicDeath
* [[WouldHurtAChild Would trick a Child]]
* [[WouldHurtASenior Would trick a Senior]]
