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* FashionShow: The episode "Killer Fashion" in season four is about a young model's death backstage at a fashion show. Alexa goes undercover as a model agent and Madison as a new model.

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* FashionShow: The episode "Killer Fashion" in season four three is about a young model's death backstage at a fashion show. Alexa goes undercover as a model agent and Madison as a new model.

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* HighVoltageDeath: In "All That Glitters", the VictimOfTheWeek is a DragQueen is dies in a seeming accident after faulty stage lights electrify the stage. However, Detective Harry Henare is not convinced and asks Alexa to investigate.

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* HighVoltageDeath: In "All That Glitters", the VictimOfTheWeek is a DragQueen is who dies in a seeming accident after faulty stage lights electrify the stage. However, Detective Harry Henare is not convinced and asks Alexa to investigate.


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* KillerOutfit: The murderer in "Killer Fashion" uses a poisoned garment to kill.

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* EdibleBludgeon: In "Can't Stand the Heat", the killer smashes the VictimOfTheWeek's head in with a frozen chicken in the kitchen of a cooking school. They then arrange the body to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident make it look like he slipped in spilled oil and hit his head on the metal bench]]. They put the chicken back in the freezer and it is cooked and cut up during the next day's lesson.

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* EdibleBludgeon: In "Can't Stand the Heat", the killer smashes the VictimOfTheWeek's head in with a frozen chicken in the kitchen of a cooking school. They then arrange the body to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident make it look like he slipped in spilled spilt oil and hit his head on the metal bench]]. They put the chicken back in the freezer and it is cooked and cut up during the next day's lesson.



* FashionShow: The episode "Killer Fashion" in season four is about a young model's death backstage at a fashion show. Alexa goes undercover as a model agent and Madison as a new model.



* TimeDelayedDeath: The VictimOfTheWeek in "Another Bloody Podcast" dies after being punched and [[DeathByFallingOver falling and hitting his head on a paving stone]]. He stood up again and the killer left, assuming he was fine, only for him to expire shortly afterward from a bleed on the brain.

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* TimeDelayedDeath: The VictimOfTheWeek in "Another Bloody Podcast" dies after being punched and [[DeathByFallingOver falling and hitting his head on a paving stone]]. He stood up again and the killer left, assuming he was fine, only for him to expire shortly afterward afterwards from a bleed on the brain.brain.
* ThePrimaDonna: Former supermodel "Faith Cooper" is the main suspect in the episode "Killer Fashion." Her self-centeredness is part of the cause for the episode's murder.
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* BoulderBash: In "Lividity in Lycra", the killer swaps the VictimOfTheWeek's water bottle with an identical one [[TamperingWithhFoodAndDrink spiked with monkshood]]. However, they miscalculate the dose and it is not enough to kill their target, and they forced to finish the job by hitting him on the head with a rock.

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* BoulderBash: BoulderBludgeon: In "Lividity in Lycra", the killer swaps the VictimOfTheWeek's water bottle with an identical one [[TamperingWithhFoodAndDrink [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink spiked with monkshood]]. However, they miscalculate the dose and it is not enough to kill their target, and they forced to finish the job by hitting him on the head with a rock.



* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "Lividity in Lycra", the killer swaps the VictimOfTheWeek's water bottle with an identical one spiked with monkshood. However, they miscalculate the dose and it is not enough to kill their target, and they forced to finish the job by [[[BoulderBash hitting him on the head with a rock]].

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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "Lividity in Lycra", the killer swaps the VictimOfTheWeek's water bottle with an identical one spiked with monkshood. However, they miscalculate the dose and it is not enough to kill their target, and they forced to finish the job by [[[BoulderBash [[BoulderBludgeon hitting him on the head with a rock]].

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* BoulderBash: In "Lividity in Lycra", the killer swaps the VictimOfTheWeek's water bottle with an identical one [[TamperingWithhFoodAndDrink spiked with monkshood]]. However, they miscalculate the dose and it is not enough to kill their target, and they forced to finish the job by hitting him on the head with a rock.



* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "Lividity in Lycra", the killer swaps the VictimOfTheWeek's water bottle with an identical one spiked with monkshood. However, they miscalculate the dose and it is not enough to kill their target, and they forced to finish the job by hitting him on the head with a rock.

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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "Lividity in Lycra", the killer swaps the VictimOfTheWeek's water bottle with an identical one spiked with monkshood. However, they miscalculate the dose and it is not enough to kill their target, and they forced to finish the job by [[[BoulderBash hitting him on the head with a rock.rock]].
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* ClockTampering: In "Wild Life", following a EurekaMoment when the power going out in her apartment causes the oven clock to reset to 0:00, Alexa realises that the killer created an alibi by resetting all of the clocks in his house (including his wife's phone) ahead by twenty minutes to make it appear that a crucial phone call happened later than it actually did.
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* LockedInAFreezer: In "Sleep No More", the VictimOfTheWeek is drugged with sleeping pills and then locked in a walk-in freezer with a broken handle that means it cannot be opened from the inside.
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* CouldntFindAPen: In "Sleep No More", Alexa spends much of the case obsessing over a the fact the VictimOfTheWeek had a deep fresh cut on his finger, but there was no blood at the crime scene. She eventually works out that he had deliberately cut his finger on a meat hook after he was LockedInAFreezer and wrote his killer's name on the wall [[spoiler:only for the person who found his body to clean it off]].
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* WritingIndentationClue: In "Sleep No More", Alexa uses a crayon to bring out the indentation on the top sheet of pad. While the sheet reveals what appears to be a confession, the fact that is on the top sheet means that it could not have been written weeks ago on the night of the murder as claimed.
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* DragQueen: In "All That Glitters", Alexa's personal and professional lives collide when she investigates the death of a drag queen whose career was on the rise.

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* AccidentalMurder: In "Another Bloody Podcast", a fight [[spoiler:between brothers]] turned deadly when a punch caused one of the participants to [[DeathByFallingOver fall and hit his head on a paving stone]]. However, it was a TimeDelayedDeath and circumstances conspired to make it look like a hate crime.
* CoffinContraband: In "Remains to be Seen", the killer needs to dispose of the VictimOftheWeek's personal belongings to make it look like he skipped town, so they pack them into the oversized casket of someone due to be cremated the next day.

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* AccidentalMurder: AccidentalMurder:
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In "Another Bloody Podcast", a fight [[spoiler:between brothers]] turned deadly when a punch caused one of the participants to [[DeathByFallingOver fall and hit his head on a paving stone]]. However, it was a TimeDelayedDeath and circumstances conspired to make it look like a hate crime.
** In "All That Glitters", the killer only intended to set up an accident that would injure the victim and force them to pull out of the show. However, they did not foresee the 'accident' causing water to leak into the stage lights, resulting in a HighVoltageDeath.
* CoffinContraband: In "Remains to be Seen", the killer needs to dispose of the VictimOftheWeek's VictimOfTheWeek's personal belongings to make it look like he skipped town, so they pack them into the oversized casket of someone due to be cremated the next day.



* HighVoltageDeath: In "All That Glitters", the VictimOfTheWeek is a DragQueen is dies in a seeming accident after faulty stage lights electrify the stage. However, Detective Harry Henare is not convinced and asks Alexa to investigate.



* WeddingCrashers: In "Another Bloody Podcast", the VictimOfTheWeek was a gay man who was the best man at his brother's wedding. The wedding was crashed by the victim's extremely drunk partner, who was upset at not being invited and created a huge scene. When the best was murdered the same night, his partner became the number one suspect.

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* WeddingCrashers: In "Another Bloody Podcast", the VictimOfTheWeek was a gay man who was the best man at his brother's wedding. The wedding was crashed by the victim's extremely drunk partner, who was upset at not being invited and created a huge scene. When the best was murdered the same night, his partner became the number one suspect.suspect.
* YourOtherLeft: In "All That Glitters", Alexa is investigating the suspicious death of a DragQueen. She gets Madison to run through the dance routine the victim had been rehearsing when they died, and tells her:
-->''Now you need to turn to your left.'' ({{beat}}) ''Your other left.''
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* ManchurianAgent: In "Call of the Wild", a psychiatrist discovers that one of his patients is super-susceptible to hypnotism. He programs her to shoot anyone she sees wearing purple (knowing that his intended victim jogs at the same time every day, wearing the same outfit) on hearing a particular musical TriggerPhrase. He then programs that TriggerPhrase into her phone as the ringtone for the number he will call her from.


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* TriggerPhrase: In "Call of the Wild", a psychiatrist hypnotizes a patient into being his ManchurianAgent. He trigger phrase is a particular piece of music he programs into her phone as the ringtone for the number he will call her from when he knows she is in sight of the intended target.

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* CorpseTemperatureTampering: In "Can't Stand the Heat", the murder occurs in a commercial kitchen. The killer turns off the ventilation and turns all of the industrial ovens on full to keep the room hot and the body warm, and goes off to establish an alibi for the rest of the night. She makes sure she is the one to 'discover' the body, so she can turn off the ovens and ventilate the kitchen before calling the police.
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* DeathByFallingOver: The death in "Another Bloody Podcast" turns out to a case of AccidentalMurder caused by this. During a family quarrel, the killer threw a punch that caused the VictimOfTheWeek to fall and hit his head on a paving stone. However, the victim got up and the killer left thinking he was fine, only for him to suffer a TimeDelayedDeath shortly after from a bleed on the brain.

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* DeathByFallingOver: The death in "Another Bloody Podcast" turns out to a case of AccidentalMurder caused by this. During a family quarrel, [[spoiler:family quarrel]], the killer threw a punch that caused the VictimOfTheWeek to fall and hit his head on a paving stone. However, the victim got up and the killer left thinking he was fine, only for him to suffer a TimeDelayedDeath shortly after from a bleed on the brain.
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* MedicationTampering: In "Mirror Mirror", the murder laces the lidocaine cream being used on the VictimOfTheWeek's chest for a minor cosmetic procedure with barbiturates. This knocks the victim out several hours later and the killer force feeds her more barbiturates and then injects her with a fatal dose of botulinum toxin to make it look like a case of self-medication gone wrong.

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* MedicationTampering: In "Mirror Mirror", the murder murderer laces the lidocaine cream being used on the VictimOfTheWeek's chest for a minor cosmetic procedure with barbiturates. This knocks the victim out several hours later and the killer force feeds her more barbiturates and then injects her with a fatal dose of botulinum toxin to make it look like a case of self-medication gone wrong.
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* MedicationTampering: In "Mirror Mirror", the murder laces the lidocaine cream being used on the VictimOfTheWeek's chest for a minor cosmetic procedure with barbiturates. This knocks the victim out several hours later and the killer force feeds her more barbiturates and then injects her with a fatal dose of botulinum toxin to make it look like a case of self-medication gone wrong.
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* WackyCravings: In "Another Bloody Podcast", a pregnant woman sends her husband out for a Mars Bar and a jar of anchovies.

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* WackyCravings: In "Another Bloody Podcast", a pregnant woman sends her husband out for a Mars Bar and a jar of anchovies.anchovies.
* WeddingCrashers: In "Another Bloody Podcast", the VictimOfTheWeek was a gay man who was the best man at his brother's wedding. The wedding was crashed by the victim's extremely drunk partner, who was upset at not being invited and created a huge scene. When the best was murdered the same night, his partner became the number one suspect.
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* DeathByFallingOver: The death in "Another Bloody Podcast" turns out to a case of AccidentalMurder caused by this. During a family quarrel, the killer threw a punch that caused the VictimOftheWeek to fall and hit his head on a paving stone. However, the victim got up and the killer left thinking he was fine, only for him to suffer a TimeDelayedDeath shortly after from a bleed on the brain.

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* DeathByFallingOver: The death in "Another Bloody Podcast" turns out to a case of AccidentalMurder caused by this. During a family quarrel, the killer threw a punch that caused the VictimOftheWeek VictimOfTheWeek to fall and hit his head on a paving stone. However, the victim got up and the killer left thinking he was fine, only for him to suffer a TimeDelayedDeath shortly after from a bleed on the brain.
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* FakePsychic: In "Fake Empire", when Kieran presents Alexa with another unsolved murder--a nurse stabbed in the back a week after proposing to his girlfriend--Alexa declines until Kieran mentions the involvement of clairvoyant Chloe Angel, who knows details about the case not released to the public. Ever the skeptic, Alexa is determined find the killer and prove that Chloe is a phony. [[spoiler:She does.]]
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* PhonyPsychic: In "Fake Empire", when Kieran presents Alexa with another unsolved murder--a nurse stabbed in the back a week after proposing to his girlfriend--Alexa declines until Kieran mentions the involvement of clairvoyant Chloe Angel, who knows details about the case not released to the public. Ever the skeptic, Alexa is determined find the killer and prove that Chloe is a phony. [[spoiler:She does.]]
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* FakePsychic: In "Fake Empire", when Kieran presents Alexa with another unsolved murder--a nurse stabbed in the back a week after proposing to his girlfriend--Alexa declines until Kieran mentions the involvement of clairvoyant Chloe Angel, who knows details about the case not released to the public. Ever the skeptic, Alexa is determined find the killer and prove that Chloe is a phony. [[spoiler:She does.]]
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* HeadTiltinglyKinky: In "Fake Empire", Alexa and Madison are looking at photos the VictimOfTheWeek took of himself and his mistress. Madison cocks his head to one side, then asks:
-->'''Madison:''' How does he get his leg in that position.\\
'''Alexa:''' That's not his leg.
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* MurderByMistake: In "Old School", the murderer laid a trap for the deputy headmistress. However, the headmistress, who usually left precisely at 4:30 every day, stayed late because she was filling for the history teacher and wound up taking the bait instead.

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