Video Game / Murder in the Alps

Murder in the Alps is a Hidden Object Game developed by Nordcurrent and released in October 2018. It tells about Anna Myers, a journalist from Zürich who lives in the time period between the World Wars. Anna tends to find herself involved in mysterious stories and strange events, using her investigative skills to find out the truth behind them. She must do that by finding clues, gathering helpful objects, and solving puzzles.

The game has been divided into several parts which all have their own chapters.

• Part 1 takes place in Hotel Reger and a nearby town called Cima di Vren in the Swiss Alps in 1932-1933.
  • Chapter 1, Deadly Snowstorm: Anna takes a small vacation at the remote Hotel Reger just as a snowstorm secludes it from the rest of the world. The hotel guests start dying one by one under mysterious circumstances, so Anna must figure out which one of her fellow guests is the murderer.
  • Chapter 2, The Phantom: Immediately after their arrest, the murderer of the previous chapter becomes a murder victim. Anna must find out who has killed them and why.
  • Chapter 3, Atlantic Connection: A month after the conclusion of Deadly Snowstorm, Anna is asked by Otto Reger, Hotel Reger's owner, to aid in finding his friend who has gone missing in circumstances involving smuggling.
  • Chapter 4, Dancing with the Beasts: Anna is forced to find a solution to the catalyst that started the misfortunes of Hotel Reger.
• Part 2 takes place in the Italian town of Porto Ceso in 1929, at the foothills of the Italian Alps.
  • Chapter 1, The Heir: Anna is invited to a press event in Milan, but on the train ride, the president of the renowned Molinelli Industries becomes murdered.
  • Chapter 2, Exiled Dead: A week after the conclusion of The Heir, Porto Ceso is spooked out by the dead supposedly leaving their graves and appearing across the streets, something that happens every two nights per month. Not believing in ghosts, Anna decides to find out what's truly going on with the "walking dead".
  • Chapter 3, Unforgiven: While on her way to the first court hearing of the murderer of The Heir, Anna stops by at Porto Ceso and ends up uncovering the truth behind a tragedy that took place a decade earlier.
  • Chapter 4, The Only Redemption: Porto Ceso is celebrating Maria's feast day, and Anna is invited by Officer Cozzi to take part in it. Unfortunately, the small holiday ends up turning into another murder case.
• Part 3 takes place in Zürich later in the year 1933.
  • Chapter 1, The Dada Killer (released in December 2021): While Anna's doing her everyday work, one of her colleagues becomes the first victim in a string of murders. She teams up with the police lieutenant Judit Halle to catch the serial killer who seems to be obsessed about Dadaism.
  • Chapter 2, Ladies of the Night (released in June 2022): Anna stumbles onto another murder while working on an article about prostitution.
  • Chapter 3, Grey Nature (released in December 2022): Anna is asked to help investigate the apparently accidental death of one of the doctors who was developing a poliomyelitis vaccine.
  • Chapter 4, Forgotten Memento (released in July 2023): Anna suddenly finds herself in a cell with no memory as to how she got there and needs to remember how she got there and to get out.
  • Chapter 5, No Quarter (released in April 2023): Anna finds herself investigating another unusual murder where the killer has scattered clues publicly for people to take with the enticement of money.
  • Chapter 6, Wiped Out is current unreleased.

Be careful of Late Arrival Spoilers listed under the sequels.

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In General

• Aborted Arc: Exiled Dead begins with Anna reading from the newspaper that with both Aldo Molinelli and Mario Molinelli dead and the company stock dropped, it's unknown what will happen to Molinelli Industries. Anna wonders on the side if Aldo's widow Silvia will take over. This gave potential for Silvia to return in the following chapter which was originally titled as The Widow. However, that chapter had a completely different story to offer and was eventually retitled as Unforgiven. Said chapter gave another Fauxshadow due to Anna being invited to the first court hearing in the trial of her former friend Osvald Bernstein, with her waiting for it in Porto Ceso. With the next chapter titled as The Only Redemption, it was easy to expect that it would be some kind of a closure for Osvald and Molinelli Industries. However, The Only Redemption takes place two months after Unforgiven, with nothing mentioned about Osvald, Silvia or Molinelli Industries. However, it's revealed in Part 3 that Silvia is still keeping Molinelli Industries running.
• The Alcoholic:
  • Fabio Verno from The Heir drinks constantly and acts aggressively as the result, especially towards his boss Aldo Molinelli.
  • The murder victim of Unforgiven, Flavio Riva, became a heavy drinker after he returned from World War I. It got worse after his best friend Roberto Fiore died by his hand. The fisherman Adriano who's introduced in the same chapter is another example.
• All There in the Manual: Many of the characters's backstories are revealed in Nordcurrent's social media accounts for Murder in the Alps, not actually in-game.
• Art Evolution:
  • Anna's hair was originally long enough to reach her shoulders with her appearance's art style looking more photorealistic, but when Unforgiven was released, her hair became shorter with her appearance being slightly more stylistic, which was applied to all the released chapters.
  • It's subtle, but Otto and Professor Clark in Dancing with the Beasts have slightly different character designs from previous chapters of Part 1. Their physical features are still the same, but the change in their art style remains clear.
• Big Bad Friend:
  • In Atlantic Connection, Otto Reger's friend and smuggling partner, Gerhard Wagner, turns out to be a Sturmabteilung agent who has pretended to be Otto's friend for all the years they've known each other, murders Father Lenz, and tries to force Otto to let the Brownshirts continue using his hotel for their smuggling operation.
  • In The Heir, Osvald Bernstein is Anna's old acquaintance and very supportive of her. However, he's the one who murdered Aldo Molinelli, and he tries to murder Anna when she investigates too much for his liking.
• Bomb Disposal: One of the minigames of Atlantic Connection has the task of defusing an explosive. There's an identical minigame in Forgotten Memento, which hints to the return of the villain responsible for the first explosive.
• Catchphrase: The recurring characters in Porto Ceso tend to express their shock by saying "Mio Dio".
• Company Cross References: Nordcurrent previously released a hidden object game called The Curse of the Werewolves. The font for Ashley (the protagonist of The Curse of the Werewolves)'s diary is reused for Anna's diary. The font of the in-game comments and hidden object scenes text is also reused for Murder in the Alps's in-game dialogue, comments, and hidden object scenes text. The text "Great! I found [insert item]" upon collecting an item is also reused for Murder in the Alps.
• Connected All Along:
  • It's revealed during the course of Deadly Snowstorm that some of Hotel Reger's guests are more connected than was previously let on. Mr. Petersen foiled Giovanni's effort to release a record and get a promotion in La Scala. Professor Clark and Professor Kinsky studied at the same university and were good friends until Kinsky eloped with the girl Clark was going to marry. Walter is a fan of Professor Clark's work.
  • It's revealed in the climax of The Heir that Osvald Bernstein is the cousin of his murder victim Aldo Molinelli through Aldo's estranged aunt Flora Molinelli.
• Creepy Basement: Hotel Reger's cellar has some of the most creepy discoveries and moments to offer. In Deadly Snowstorm, the body of Dr. Hartmann is discovered at its entrance, and later Anna is trapped there by the murderer until she manages to unlock the door. In Atlantic Connection, Father Lenz is found murdered there, and Anna must defuse the time bomb she finds there.
• Cut-and-Paste Note:
  • The Heir has the blackmail letter Vincent Freeman gives to the murderer.
  • Several of the letters Anna receives from the Dada Killer in The Dada Killer are made in this fashion.
• Depending on the Artist: Across the different Parts of this game, the comic cutscenes are drawn with distinguishable artstyles, with only Part 1 having significantly different artstyles across different chapters. In the case of Anna, she is noticably more expressive in the cutscenes of Part 3 than in previous Parts because of the different artstyle here.
• Dies Wide Open: When Professor Kinsky, Dr. Hartmann and Claudia are discovered dead, they have their eyes opened.
• Elopement: Two examples which happened years ago.
  • It's revealed at the end of Deadly Snowstorm that Professor Clark and Professor Kinsky's friendship ended because the girl Clark was going to marry ran away with Kinsky.
  • The one revealed in The Heir has a much larger impact on the plot. Osvald Bernstein's mother, Flora Molinelli, married Albert Bernstein even though her father didn't hide his dislike of Albert. Flora and Albert fled to South America to escape Mr. Molinelli's scorn, causing the latter to disinherit his daughter (as well as his future grandson Osvald) in retaliation.
• Fair Cop:
  • Luigi Affini is a good-looking police officer in Porto Ceso.
  • Lieutenant Judit Halle from Part 3 isn't bad-looking either. She looks especially pretty in the outfit she wears at the Cabaret Rousseau.
• Frame-Up: A recurring element.
  • After the murder spree of Deadly Snowstorm has continued for some time, Claudia attempts to implicate Giovanni Rossi in Mr. Petersen's death by leaving in the backyard the record Giovanni was unable to release because of Mr. Petersen. She also wears Giovanni's stolen shoes when she locks Anna up in the cellar, making him look all the more suspicious.
  • In The Phantom, Claudia and Helmut's murderer tries to make Professor Clark look guilty by carving on the corpses Shaivist symbols and placing a book written by the professor in Claudia's belongings. This fails because the assassin neglected to take into account that Professor Clark is specialized in Vedism instead of Shaivism, and while he wrote the book, it was owned by Walter McCain.
  • In The Heir, Osvald Bernstein plants around incriminating evidence so that either Silvia Molinelli or Fabio Verno will be deemed guilty of Aldo Molinelli's murder.
  • In Unforgiven, Rinaldo Fiore murders Flavio Riva and tries to frame the fisherman Adriano as the murderer.
  • In The Only Redemption, Adriano's girlfriend Regina Valentini and her secret lover Cesare Casale attack Officer Cozzi, tie him up against a tree, and try to incriminate Adriano so that they can be together more.
  • The Dada Killer has Gustav Meisner and Ruben Lefèvre becoming incriminated by the titular serial killer.
• Friend on the Force: Anna makes helpful friends with Cima di Vren's police officer, Luigi Affini, Judit Halle and Ulli Reiter.
• Gratuitous Italian: Giovanni Rossi in Deadly Snowstorm and the characters appearing in Porto Ceso.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Nazi Party in the first part. All the villains appearing in said part are Nazi operatives.
• Knockout Ambush:
  • When Anna and the policemen confront smugglers in Exiled Dead, the thugs manage to take them by surprise following a gunfight and knock them unconscious.
  • When Anna enters her apartment in Unforgiven, Rinaldo knocks her out with chloroform yet leaves her there to wake up in the morning.
• No Name Given: The names of some prominent characters, like the police officer of Cima di Vren and the two assailants from Dancing with the Beasts, are not revealed.
• Outliving One's Offspring:
  • The game's social media accounts reveal that Otto Reger had a son named Leon who died during World War I in the Battle of Verdun.
  • A newspaper reveals in the beginning of Exiled Dead that after Mario Molinelli heard about his son Aldo's murder in the previous chapter, he passed away. Since it's been only a week since the conclusion of The Heir, Mario ended up living just a few days longer than Aldo.
  • Rinaldo Fiore and Irene Hoffman lost their son Roberto in 1918 when his best friend Flavio accidentally pushed him off Porto Ceso's cliff.
  • A newspaper shows in the opening cinematic of Grey Nature a photo of grieving parents whose child was lost to poliomyelitis.
• Production Foreshadowing: The two chapters of Part 3 released directly before Nordcurrent released Murder By Choice hint towards the player's ability to make choices that impact how the story plays out in that game, only on a bigger scale there.
  • In Part 3, Anna can choose which of the two photos should she use for her article for every in-game day. The only time this matters is during The Dada Killer, where the dialogue branches based on whether Anna chooses a photo inside Vanessa's apartment or outside.
  • The dialogue can also branch by the end of Ladies of the Night where Anna can choose to either go through the Kurzgasse first to investigate the crime scene of Susi's murder to later face Max in the backstreet or go through the backstreet first to face Max to later investigate the crime scene.
  • In the minigame at the end of Ladies of the Night to analyze Oskar's handwriting, Anna can decide the author's personality by choosing one out of the two choices located at the bottom of the dialogue box. This is the same dialogue mechanic that gets prominently featured in Murder by Choice.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • The unnamed police chief of Cima di Vren from Part 1 is always willing to aid and listen to Anna.
  • Officer Cozzi once he's presented with solid evidence. Don't expect him to be too willing to listen before that, though.
  • Part 3 has Lieutenant Judit Halle and following her death Ulli Reiter.
• Replaced the Theme Tune:
  • Once the player reaches Part 2, the main theme for the game changes. The theme song is replaced, the game's background changes from the Alps to a steam train, and the season changes from winter in Part 1 to summer in Part 2.
  • When Part 3 is reached, the theme song changes again, and the background becomes an autumnal street in Zürich.
• Series Continuity Error: Part 3's dates contradict themselves. While Anna's diary, the opening cutscenes, and the autumn-looking setting all establish most of the Part to take place in the fall of 1933, there are references in-game that contradict this period. This could all be an indication of an Unreliable Illustrator.
  • In The Dada Killer, when Anna and Judit are interrogating Gustav, Anna says he will be more famous than "even Marcel Golaz". The interrogated person and the newspaper with the Dada poem confirm Golaz is Switzerland's current president. In real-life, Golaz was only president for 1934, not 1933. Switzerland's president would be Edmund Schulthess by this time. Contradictory, various documents Anna finds and holds (like the hospital's visitor log, the worker protestors' list of demands, etc.) indicate the chapter takes place in 1933.
  • In Ladies of the Night, Iris' check to Petrus is dated September 19, 1934. Anna also tells Ulli that she met Dhara Biguá "five years ago" in Porto Ceso in Part 2. If Part 2 establishing itself to take place in 1929 is true, then Ladies of the Night would take place in 1934, not 1933.
  • In Forgotten Memento, Switzerland's president is now Rudolf Minger according to Olegario's speech which Anna finds at the Parliament. Rudolf only served for 1935 in real-life after Golaz's term, not 1933. Also, Heinz was born on 1887 per his passport and is 48 according to Anna's article, making the chapter take place at 1935. Furthermore, the witness statement for Iris's disappearance states this incident happened at March 10, 1935 with Ulli's signature being dated March 11, 1935. However, documents Anna finds in this chapter like Helene's multiple letters rejecting Heinz's petition all date to 1933.
  • No Quarter adds to the confusion by officially setting the chapter to 1935 with the opening cutscene and Anna's diary, meaning it can be considered to have an unmentioned 2 year gap between Forgotten Memento and No Quarter. However, if following the other sources in Forgotten Memento, No Quarter can also be considered to have only a 1 month gap since Forgotten Memento.
• Snow Means Death: Since Part 1 takes place in the snowy Alps, every death that takes place in it could count, regardless of whatever the death happens inside or out in the snowy atmosphere.
• Tap on the Head: Happens to numerous characters where they get hit on their head and later recover or wake up with seemingly little to no injuries.
  • In Atlantic Connection, Anna throws a vase at Gerhard Wagner's head to knock him out and he later wakes up fine.
  • In Exiled Dead, Anna, Luigi, and Officer Cozzi are knocked out by drug smugglers in the cemetery and are taken to the abandoned house where they wake up fine.
  • In The Dada Killer, Anna places a plate on Ruben's Korogonza machine to stop the Dada Killer, Oskar, in the Knef Gallery, resulting in him taking a falling plate on the back of his head and falling down on the floor, dropping his gun. He quickly recovers from being hit on the head and flees once Ulli takes the gun.
  • In Forgotten Memento, Anna gets knocked out by Gerhard after showing her to Oskar before waking up in a cell by the beginning of the chapter. Anna does experience amnesia of recent events and the pain of her head being bashed in, but she later feels normal and is seen without injuries on her head. Once Anna recovers and grabs a chair in her cell, she smashes the chair onto Oskar's head, knocking him out on the floor.
• Time Travel: Only applies for the player. Though Part 2 is unlocked after Part 1, the events of Part 2 actually took place nearly four years before the events of Part 1, meaning that Part 2 is a Prequel. In fact, in Exiled Dead, Gerhard Wagner is implied to be one of — or even the leader of — the smugglers. Gerhard would have already been apprehended by Anna in Atlantic Connection, but since Exiled Dead was set four years before the events of Atlantic Connection, Gerhard was still out in the run during Exiled Dead.
• Trailers Always Spoil: The app trailer of this game spoils of the identity of the culprits Claudia and Rinaldo by showing them behind bars and in handcuffs respectively.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left:
  • Subverted in Dancing with the Beasts. The remaining assassin escapes after shooting Professor Clark, but the latter is revealed to have survived. Anna believes that the assassin will report to his Nazi superiors that his mission was successful while Professor Clark escapes the country. However, the ending cinematic shows the villain succumbing to his wounds and being eaten by wolves.
  • Though the "Scooby-Doo" Hoax of the smugglers is exposed in Exiled Dead, only two of them die while Dhara Biguá and all the others escape with some of their contraband.
  • After Oskar is revealed to be the Dada Killer and taken away in an ambulance, the ending cinematic of The Dada Killer shows that he has escaped.
• We Used to Be Friends:
  • Professor Clark and Professor Kinsky from Part 1 studied at the same university and used to be good friends until Kinsky ran away with the girl Clark wanted to marry. Due to this, Clark threatened Kinsky before they re-encountered each other at the hotel, making the former a plausible subject in the latter's murder. He turns out to be innocent.
  • In The Dada Killer, Ruben Lefèvre and Iris Knef used to be university friends with the murdered art critic Vanessa Fiedler, but the latter heavily criticized the other two for their Dada art and even threatened to savage their exhibition in a letter to Iris.
• Witch with a Capital "B":
  • In Deadly Snowstorm, Giovanni calls Claudia a witch when it turns out that she incriminated him and spent a night in his room just to give herself an alibi.
  • In The Heir, Paola calls Silvia a witch when she's convinced that the latter murdered Aldo.
• You Monster!:
  • In Atlantic Connection, Anna calls Gerhard (whom she has realized to be the villain) a monster when the latter appears to hold her at gunpoint.
  • Silvia Molinelli says this in The Heir when Osvald Bernstein nears the end of his Motive Rant about why he murdered her husband Aldo Molinelli.

Deadly Snowstorm

• Bait-and-Switch:
  • At one point, Anna and Otto see at the cellar entrance a notorious shadow that seems to be of a person who's holding a knife. The serious action soundtrack plays out as you enter the cellar, but what you discover is actually Giovanni who's drunken and holding a wine bottle.
  • After gathering all the evidence, Anna gives a speech about the secrets of Giovanni, Professor Clark, Otto and Father Lenz that might serve as their respective motives for killing Mr. Petersen, Professor Kinsky and Dr. Hartmann. Claudia congratulates Anna for revealing all the murderers and tries to go pack her bags… only for Anna to explain in great detail how Claudia was responsible for all the murders.
• Book Ends: The chapter starts with Anna arriving to Hotel Reger's courtyard in her car and ends with her leaving the hotel in her car.
• Bound and Gagged: When Giovanni is believed to be the murderer, he's tied up and gagged.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Before being locked up in the cellar, Anna finds a pocket mirror. Shortly before catching the murderer, she uses the mirror to test her theory that Claudia has been using a mirror to communicate with her partner in the town.
  • Anna discovers a pair of gloves owned by Walter right before Claudia traps her in the cellar. After Walter's death, Anna uses the gloves to safely pick up the kitchen key from a dangerous-looking liquid.
• Closed Circle: A snowstorm leaves Hotel Reger's telephone lines dead and the only road to the town covered in snow for a couple of days, forcing the hotel's residents to manage with the mysterious killer who cannot be any other than one of them.
• Crime After Crime: The first murder is a response to being caught going through the victim's luggage, and the ensuing murders are attempts at cover-up.
• Crocodile Tears: Claudia is proficient in these.
• Deadly Doctor: Two of the murders are committed with acidic substance and a syringe, indicating that the murderer has medical experience. The culprit turns out to be Mr. Petersen's nurse, Claudia Perret.
• Dwindling Party: There's originally Anna and ten other people at Hotel Reger. Five of them are murdered by Claudia. In The Phantom, Claudia herself is murdered, as well as Father Lenz in Atlantic Connection. By the time Dancing with the Beasts is concluded, only Anna, Otto, Professor Clark and (supposedly) Giovanni Rossi are alive.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The conversation some of the guests have about Soma and the Nazi Party becomes poignant later when the identity and motives of the killer are unfolded. Furthermore, the killer is elsewhere during the conversation before trying to use a Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
  • The clockface in the kitchen minigame has a name that will be important in the future chapters: Wagner.
• He Knows Too Much: Basically, all the murders Claudia commits are a series of increasingly ill-thought-out efforts to keep her mission a secret. Professor Kinsky finds her rummaging through his luggage and threatens to tell about it to the police and all the guests. Ulla discovers on Kinsky's neck the puncture mark left by Claudia's syringe and plans to tell this to Dr. Hartmann. When Dr. Hartmann is about to show Anna and Walter something he has discovered, Claudia shoots him without knowing that his discovery has nothing to do with the murders. Mr. Petersen grows suspicious of his nurse and keeps demanding straight answers from Claudia until she offs him. And finally, when Giovanni is believed to be the murderer and tied up, only Walter remains suspicious of Claudia, so she kills him as well.
• Honey Trap: Claudia spends a night with Giovanni in the latter's room in order to have an alibi regarding Mr. Petersen's death.
• Immortality Immorality: While discussing with Professor Clark about Soma, Father Lenz brings up the question of what would happen if the elixir could grant immortality and ended up in the possession of opportunistic and evil people. Mr. Petersen agrees, stating that it wouldn't be good if Professor Clark would get the attention of the Nazi Party, which has been looking into occult practices. The murderer is indeed trying to kidnap Professor Clark and bring him to her Nazi superiors who are interested in his work on Soma.
• Immortality Inducer: Professor Charles Clark has recently discovered a millennia old recipe of Soma, a Vedic ritual drink that supposedly grants immortality. He doesn't know if it works since he hasn't found all the ingredients, but he nevertheless becomes targeted by the Nazi Party due to their interest in Soma.
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The story begins with Anna driving to Hotel Reger's courtyard during a snowstorm in late evening.
• Lightswitch Surprise: When Anna is first about to enter the hotel's cellar, the entrance is so dark that she needs to turn on the switch. She discovers Dr. Hartmann lying dead, with a gunshot wound in his chest, and Walter standing over the body with a gun in his hand.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: The deaths of Professor Kinsky and Ulla Lund are staged to look like they were both caused by a sudden heart attack. It's only after a puncture mark is discovered on Ulla's neck that everyone realizes that there are no natural heart attacks involved.
• Noble Shoplifter: Giovanni is found drunk with a bottle of red wine in his hand because he wanted to discreetly have a Dutch courage before proposing to Claudia. Otto is angry at him for stealing his wine until Giovanni reveals that he left money for the wine.
• Not What It Looks Like: The Lightswitch Surprise example. Walter arrived after Dr. Hartmann was shot to death and took out his own gun as a precaution.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Professor Clark when Anna tells everyone how he used to be Professor Kinsky's friend.
  • Father Lenz when Anna reveals she figured out he's Otto's accomplice in the latter's smuggling operation.
• Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: Once Anna exposes the murderer and the police arrives, they refuse to say anything without seeing their lawyer.
• Snowed-In: The titular snowstorm results in the only road from Hotel Reger to the nearest town to be blocked by snow.
• Spurned into Suicide: After Mr. Petersen dies, Claudia claims that he committed suicide because he couldn't stand that his nurse couldn't return his feelings, especially after he saw her with Giovanni. She's lying, of course.
• Tears of Fear: Giovanni sheds these after he's released from his bindings due to the shock of seeing Walter's corpse in front of him when he woke up. Meanwhile, Claudia pretends to be shedding these tears a couple of times.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Ulla Lund doesn't get to say anything more than "Hello, Anna." before becoming the second murder victim. The first victim is in turn never seen alive.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: After murdering Dr. Hartmann, Claudia screams for help and pretends that someone she couldn't identify attacked her in her room (she later tries to direct suspicions towards Walter who was the first to arrive in her room). This convinces about everyone of her innocence.
• Your Makeup Is Running: Claudia whenever she cries.

The Phantom

• Big Blackout: The town suddenly goes dark in the evening, so Anna must fix the fuse box. She believes that the murderer cut the power in order to get rid of the evidence and fled.
• Carved Mark: When Helmut and Claudia are found dead, some strange Hindu symbols have been carved on their arms, making this look like a case of ritual killings. Professor Clark verifies that the symbols are Shaivist and too modern to have any ritualistic significance. The assassin trying to frame the professor neglected to take into account that Clark is an expert of the Vedic branch of Indian religions, not Shaivist.
• Chekhov's Gun: Walter was revealed to have a book written by Professor Clark in the previous chapter. Said book is found from Claudia's belongings and later Professor Clark uses it to prove that the symbols carved on Claudia and Helmut are Shaivist instead of Vedic, which is his field of expertise.
• Impersonating an Officer: Anna deduces that the killer infiltrated the police force that arrested Claudia in the previous chapter. Since the policemen were both from the town and an unnamed city, both groups believed the assassin to be from the other. This also allowed him access to the keys to Claudia's cell and the antique shop.
• Karma Houdini: The murderer gets away scot-free. Although there is a possibility that the murderer returns as one of the would-be assassins in Dancing with the Beasts, making it a case of Karma Houdini Warranty.
• The Killer Becomes the Killed: Claudia, who murdered five persons in the previous part, is murdered in her cell by a Nazi operative.
• You Have Failed Me: Since Claudia failed in her mission to kidnap Professor Clark, her superiors in the Nazi Party dispatch an assassin to eliminate her as well as her partner Helmut Grass.

Atlantic Connection

• Any Last Words?: Defied by the revealed villain; knowing that the police are on their way, Gerhard tells Anna that he won't let her say her final words and tries to shoot her.
• Argentina Is Nazi Land: In an example preceding World War II, the villain is a Sturmabteilung agent who, while living in Argentina, established contacts to smuggle cheap explosives and military equipment to Germany.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When the police chief tells the villain that he's arrested for committing crimes against their country, the latter asks sarcastically if that includes cutting the hotel's telephone lines.
• Back for the Dead: Father Lenz from Deadly Snowstorm makes a return, only to be killed early on in this chapter.
• Cut Phone Lines: When Anna realizes that Gerhard is a Brownshirt, she attempts to call the police, only to discover that Gerhard has cut the hotel's telephone lines.
• Drowning My Sorrows: When Anna first returns from the town to Hotel Reger, she finds Otto, downcast because of Father Lenz's murder, with a glass of whisky in his hand.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Otto takes it hard when Gerhard is proven to have been all along his False Friend and the mastermind behind the recent misfortunes. What's more, Otto's Facebook profile says that Gerhard reminds him of his dead son.
  Otto: Ten years I've been a friend to him… Only to be stabbed in the back like this. What a horrible world we live in!
• False Friend: Gerhard has all along faked being Otto and Father Lenz's friend. He ruthlessly murders Lenz in order to scare Otto, and when he holds Otto and Anna at gunpoint, he admits that he never cared about Otto's war experiences.
• It's All My Fault: Otto first says this when Father Lenz's body is found, saying that Lenz wouldn't have been killed if Otto hadn't involved him in smuggling. He says this a second time when Anna finds a ticking time bomb in the cellar.
• Oh, Crap!: Anna freaks out when she discovers Gerhard's membership to the Brownshirts.
• Resignations Not Accepted: Gerhard establishes that the Brownshirts didn't take it well when he, Otto and Father Lenz quit smuggling, so the organization decided to either force the trio to surrender the hotel to them or accept death. Although Gerhard is lying about himself having stopped smuggling since he's actually a member of the Brownshirts, but the Brownshirts still didn't take Otto and Father Lenz's decision to quit smuggling well.
• Taking the Bullet: When Gerhard is about to shoot Anna, Otto takes the bullet for her.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Otto and Father Lenz's decision to put a stop to their smuggling operation leads to the Brownshirts marking them for death if they don't go back on their decision.

Dancing with the Beasts

• Big Damn Heroes: Anna and Otto find Professor Clark by saving him from wolves.
• Blood from the Mouth: When the second assassin's wounds catch up to him, he spits out blood before collapsing on the snow.
• Book Ends: The chapter begins with a cinematic showing a wounded man running in a snowstorm as he leaves blood in his tracks. The same cinematic closes the chapter, expect that it also shows the man collapsing on the snow as wolves surround him.
• Bound and Gagged: Anna finds Otto tied up and gagged in a room with an open window so that he'd freeze to death.
• Braving the Blizzard: Averted from the heroes' part; Anna and Otto know they can't be of any help to Professor Clark if they get lost in a snowstorm, so they wait for it to clear off before they start searching for him. Neither do they and the police officer see any point in trying to chase the remaining villain in another snowstorm. The wounded villain doesn't get very far in the snowstorm as he eventually collapses and is surrounded by wolves.
• Chekhov's Gun: Anna finds an amulet portraying the Rigvedic deity Yama. Once it's confirmed to belong to Professor Clark, Anna returns it to him. The amulet later saves the professor's life by taking the bullet aimed at him.
• Continuity Nod:
  • You'll discover in the hotel room number 8 a broken phonograph record which you need to reassemble with glue in order to get forward. This is a reference to Deadly Snowstorm where you have to fix in that same room the broken record of Giovanni Rossi, the occupant of said room, with glue.
  • On the body of the first assassin, Anna finds an insignia of the cargo ship "König Albert", which she finds familiar. This references the cargo ship of the same name in a later playable Part 2 chapter Exiled Dead (which unusually both released and narratively takes place before Dancing with the Beasts).
• Disney Death: After the second assassin flees, Anna sees Professor Clark lying limb on the floor after being shot. Fortunately, he wakes up and reveals that his Yama amulet prevented him from being pierced by the bullet.
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: One of the assassins is discovered to have been mauled by wolves. As the other one succumbs to his wounds in a snowstorm, he's surrounded by a wolf pack as the ending cinematic closes.
• Faking the Dead: Anna decides that the only way the Nazi Party will stop pursuing Professor Clark is to have him fake his death so that he can flee somewhere far away.
• Good Luck Charm: Professor Clark owns an ancient amulet portraying Yama, the Rigvedic deity of death and justice. He says it always brings him luck, even though he isn't superstitious. The amulet ends up bringing him luck as a Pocket Protector.
• Gory Discretion Shot: The ending cinematic darkens as the dying assassin is surrounded by wolves, with only the sounds of him being teared apart coming afterwards. Given that he’s a Nazi, probably nobody will mourn him. Except maybe his fellow Nazis.
• Locked in a Freezer: A variation where Otto is left Bound and Gagged in a room and the window is left open so that the nightly mountain air will freeze him to death. When Anna finds him, he's close to hypothermia.
• Mythology Gag: You'll discover at one point a vinyl record titled as "Murder in the Alps — Exiled Dead".
• Outfit Decoy: Anna devices a plan to stage Professor Clark's death by placing a mannequin wearing the professor's clothes in Hotel Reger's dining hall. When the assassin enters the hotel at night and realizes the ruse after shooting the dummy's head off, he's surrounded by Anna, Otto and the officer.
• Pistol-Whipping:
  • When a wolf is about to attack Otto, he wards off the attacker by using his rifle's stock as a bludgeon.
  • When the last assassin takes his gun back from the officer, he uses it to knock the latter down before shooting Professor Clark.
• Pocket Protector: Professor Clark is shot in the climax, but his life is saved by his Yama amulet taking the bullet for him.
• Psychotic Smirk: The second assassin makes one right before he seizes his chance to attack the officer as everyone turns to look at Professor Clark and forgets to keep an eye on the villain.
• Retcon: Strangely subverted. This chapter didn't release until after all of Part 2 released, meaning it's like a retcon in adding to the game's story after Part 1 had already initially finished for Part 2. However, because Part 1 narratively takes place after Part 2 since Part 2 is a Prequel, this chapter also doesn't change anything already known about the game's story in being a Sequel as Anna's most recent narrative story up until The Dada Killer for Part 3 later.
• Savage Wolves: There are wolves running unusually close to the hotel. Anna and Otto end up having to rescue Professor Clark from being eaten by wolves. However, both of the assassins trying to kill the professor are torn apart by wolves.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Anna devises a plan to fake Professor Clark's death in order to stop the Nazis hunting him. In the end, the second assassin escapes, (mistakenly) being sure that he successfully killed the professor. However, the assassin succumbs to his wounds in a snowstorm and is killed by a wolf pack, so the message of successful assassination never reaches his higher-ups.
• Super Window Jump: The remaining assassin escapes in the climax by jumping out of Hotel Reger's window.

The Heir

• Big Damn Heroes: When Osvald tries to crush Anna under a falling boulder, Luigi pushes her out of the way just in time.
• Blackmail Backfire: Vincent Freeman witnesses the murderer leaving the train in a hurry after committing the murder and demands from them 50 000 Lira in exchange for their silence. Naturally the would-be blackmailer is murdered instead.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Paola is a sobbing mess when Aldo dies, and she takes her own life for this. Counts as Kill the Cutie as well.
  • Mario Molinelli in the backstory could count as well; while suffering a serious seizure, he cried out to his sister, Flora, seeing how she left the family while he was still a young child. Being forbidden to see or contact Flora by their father made the situation worse.
• Cacophony Cover Up: Osvald stabs Aldo to death when the train starts slowing down at Porto Ceso. The loudness of the brakes ensures nobody hears Aldo's dying screams.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Silvia Molinelli starts out as one of the mundane sort of suspects. However, she becomes prominent in the climax of the episode, since she reveals the story of how the Big, Screwed-Up Family began — along with piecing the evidences together that reveal Osvald is the murderer. She also plays a pivotal role in getting a confession out of him.
• Driven to Suicide: Paola, unable to cope with Aldo's death, kills herself by jumping from the cliffs.
• Engineered Public Confession: This is how Anna unveils the murderer. She has Silvia provoke Osvald into making a Motive Rant about his reasons to kill Aldo while Anna and the policemen secretly listen.
• Foreshadowing: When Osvald tells Anna about the downfall of Verno Tires as the reason for Fabio Verno's bitterness towards the Molinellis, he states that if he were in Mr. Verno's shoes, he'd kill Aldo. Turns out Osvald did kill Aldo for more or less the same reasons.
• He Knows Too Much: The murderer tries to crush Anna by dropping a large stone on her as she continues her investigation that's more thorough than Officer Cozzi's. Osvald also murders Vincent Freeman who tries to extort money from him in exchange for not telling to the police how Osvald hurried from the train around the time of Aldo's murder.
• I Have No Son!: Happened in a backstory. When Flora Molinelli married Albert Bernstein against her father's wishes and ran away from home, he disinherited and disowned her, going so far as to forbid her mother and little brother Mario from ever contacting her again. Flora and Albert's son Osvald, who has for decades worked as an accountant in his grandfather's company, murders his cousin Aldo in order to inherit the company for himself.
• Inheritance Murder: Osvald Bernstein is the son of Flora Molinelli, the estranged and disinherited elder sister of Aldo's father, Mario. Desiring to own Molinelli Industries, he murders his childless cousin Aldo and makes his ailing uncle Mario sign a will that would make Osvald, the only remaining descendant of Flora and Mario's father, the new head of the company.
• It's All My Fault: After Paola commits suicide, Anna feels responsible for it due to not realizing how seriously depressed the girl was over losing Aldo.
• Motive Rant: The murderer is tricked into making this under Silvia's provocations to get an Engineered Public Confession out of them.
• Near-Villain Victory: Osvald manages to incriminate Mr. Verno so well Officer Cozzi prepares to close the case and forbids Anna from "meddling" anymore. Had Anna not persisted and convinced Luigi to help her dig a little more, Osvald would have inherited Molinelli Industries with the will he already tricked Aldo's dying father to sign.
• Parental Abandonment: As part of Osvald's Freudian Excuse, Albert Bernstein, Osvald's father, left Osvald and his mother due to the stress of poverty and moving around town with no food for days.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: As part of Osvald's Motive Rant towards Silvia, the former gripes to the latter about how she and Aldo have had an easier life than him even though out of three of them, Osvald has toiled the most for Molinelli Industries, and as such, deserves to own the company more than Silvia or Aldo.
  Osvald: Do you know what it is like to work hard for your family? […] Of course you don't… because everything was given to you for free! I worked as an accountant for 35 years in Molinelli Industries. Working and working and working… I am a Molinelli, I worked hard for my family, while Aldo did nothing! And now… he owns the whole company, and I own nothing… it is not fair. He dishonored the family name with his affairs, and looted the company coffers to pay for your shopping, your new houses, your private tennis courses. He had to go. […] He dishonored the family name. You stole from the family bank. It is not fair. I am a Molinelli. He had to go. You have to go too…
• Red Herring: This is what Officer Cozzi calls Vincent's blackmail letter to Osvald which Osvald hid in Mr. Verno's belongings to incriminate the latter.
• Riches to Rags: Flora Molinelli turned her back on her rich father by eloping with Albert Bernstein, leading her to be disinherited in retaliation. She then spent the rest of her life moving about and surviving without food for days with Albert (until he left when this stressful lifestyle became too much for him) and their son Osvald.
• Spanner in the Works: Paola, concerned with the way Aldo seems to have been fearing for his life, invites Anna — whose investigative reports she has read — to the press event, hoping that she can be of assistance. Though Osvald murders Aldo before Anna can investigate anything, her involvement ensures that Osvald cannot get away with his crimes.
• Title Drop: When Osvald stops pretending with Silvia, he boasts that he'll gain the possession of Molinelli Industries instead of her because he is the rightful heir. He ends up repeating this line in a defeated tone as he's exposed and handcuffed.
• Villainous Breakdown: The murderer loses their composure during their Motive Rant and tries to strangle Silvia in fury. As they are handcuffed, they can only utter in defeat "I am the rightful heir…"

Exiled Dead

• Better to Die than Be Killed: The wounded smuggler who's left behind by the others barricades himself in the service room. Before Anna can break through the door, he kills himself, apparently fearing what his cohorts will do to him if he breaks under interrogation.
• Coffin Contraband: Turns out that during the first "Night of the Dead", the smugglers take the "walking dead" out of their graves, disperse the bodies across Porto Ceso, and hide in the graves the crates and coffins containing heroin. The next night, they transport the goods on boat out of Porto Ceso.
• Karma Houdini: Downplayed. The smugglers escape with some of their contraband, and the heroes cannot bring them to justice. However, two smugglers lose their lives, they can no longer transport heroin through Porto Ceso by using the "Night of the Dead" as a cover, and Anna is certain that Dhara Biguá cannot escape justice forever due to her unique appearance.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: After Tonino Nicolosi somehow betrays the smugglers, they drown him and make it look like he was killed by a falling brick hitting his head. Of course Officer Cozzi is fooled by the ruse, but not Anna.
• My Greatest Failure: Anna still feels responsible for Paola's suicide, writing in her diary that her death will always remind her to be kind.
• Revealing Cover Up: After the smugglers drown their accomplice, the gravedigger Tonino Nicolosi, they make it look like he was killed by a falling brick. Unfortunately for them, Anna realizes that his clothes are soaked, finds from his shed syringes and more money than he would have earned as a gravedigger, and discovers that his footprints are at the spot where she saw the "flying ghost". This all confirms her suspicions that he was somehow involved in "The Night of the Dead".
• Samus Is a Girl: In Dhara Biguá's introduction scene, her gaucho hat is covering her face, with nothing indicating that she's a woman. When Luigi demands "him" to apologize to Anna for bumping into her, he finds himself face-to-face with a tall, unattractive and frowning woman.
• "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: At the end of every month, something called "The Night of the Dead" (which actually consists of two successive nights) occurs in Porto Ceso. Supposedly, the deceased walk out of their graves and carry some of the recently buried people across the town. Anna decides to find out what's really going on about this. Porto Ceso is actually used by smugglers to transport heroin from Genoa to Germany. They keep the locals inside their homes by using their superstitions regarding the "walking dead", hide the goods in the emptied graves, and refill the graves until they can collect the crates the next night and transport them away on boat. After Anna and Luigi see a "flying ghost" during the first night, she proves the point of this trope by creating her own makeshift ghost to convince everyone that there might not be any real supernaturalness involved.

Unforgiven

• Accidental Murder: Flavio pushed Roberto in frustration while they were on their way from the cliffs, accidentally causing him to fall over the edge to his death.
• Call-Back: Tonino Nicolosi from Exiled Dead is mentioned when Luigi reveals that Adriano has sometimes been digging graves following the death of the cemetery caretaker.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: When Rinaldo is exposed as Flavio's murderer, he pours his heart out and says that everyone was focused on Irene's sorrow over Roberto's death and didn't give as much consideration to his own feelings of loss.
  Rinaldo: You all thought that it was just Irene who was angry about Roberto's death. But he was my son too… "Irene is such a fragile person, she needs help" everybody used to say. But I missed him too. […] I have feelings! I still love Irene! And I still can't sleep at night when I think about our son Roberto. I did this for her, but I also did it for me…
• Food and Animal Attraction: It turns out that Primo has been appearing everywhere Adriano has been due to the cheese he was carrying.
• Foreshadowing: In the cinematic, Primo witnesses the murder taking place. Since Primo recognizes Rinaldo as the killer, it's understandable why he barks in a particularly anxious way at the nice florist.
• Gory Discretion Shot: When Flavio is hit in the head in the cinematic, only the shovel and the spilled blood are shown before the scene cuts to Flavio falling lifeless to the ground.
• Grief-Induced Split: Roberto Fiore's death led to his mother leaving his father. Rinaldo's murder of Flavio is partially motivated by his desire to win Irene back.
• I Regret Nothing: A tragic version. Though Rinaldo is sad when he confesses everything, he still says that he doesn't regret murdering his son's killer.
• The Mourning After: Irene didn't die but divorced Rinaldo following their son's death, yet clearly Rinaldo still cares for her. He still loves her to the point that he avenges their son by murdering Flavio in the hope of winning Irene back. Once he's exposed and arrested, he accepts going to jail since he has no more reason to live free.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Flavio when he accidentally pushed Roberto off the cliff.
• Retronym: The chapter's title was originally The Widow, but it was renamed by the time The Only Redemption was released.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Irene has all along been convinced that Flavio killed her son because he envied his best friend's fortunes. It ultimately turns out that while Flavio did feel resentful towards Roberto, killing him was purely accidental.
• Shout-Out: The collectibles of this chapter are famous examples of Detective Literature.
• Shovel Strike: Flavio Riva is murdered by being hit on the head with a shovel.
• The Tragic Rose: When visiting Porto Ceso once per year, Irene places a red rose on her son's grave and gives a black rose to Flavio to remind him of his accidental crime of killing Roberto.
• Tragic Villain: Rinaldo is in the end a grieving father who wanted both to avenge his son and win back his ex-wife who grew distant after their son's death. The way he confesses all his feelings once he's exposed and accepts going to jail since he has nothing left in civilian life makes him very humane.

The Only Redemption

• Ascended Extra:
  • Marco Vizzini first appeared in Unforgiven as a minor character, but he becomes more important in this chapter.
  • Cesare Casale was a nameless background character leaning against a car in The Heir and Unforgiven.
• As the Good Book Says...: Teodora Cozzi loves to cite the Bible.
• Blackmail: Teodora makes Marco her accomplice by threatening to reveal "his" true identity as a fugitive murderess.
• Continuity Nod: The Porto Ceso police now have their own fingerprint kit and collected fingerprints from everyone in town following the previous chapter's events.
• Cramming the Coffin: When Anna realizes that Cloe's coffin is unnecessarily spacious for her, she and Luigi exhume the grave and discover the corpse of Regina Valentini beside that of Cloe.
• Facepalm: Luigi's reaction to Adriano claiming that he was down in the crypt to escape the heat.
• The Fundamentalist: Officer Cozzi's wife Teodora is strictly religious and leads the local Christian group. Luigi and Herman both think that they're sometimes ridiculously extreme with their advocation for purity and chastity. Teodora becomes crazy enough to murder Cloe Como and Regina Valentini for their infidelity, thinking that she's doing the God's work. Anna believes that had she not been caught, she would have searched for more victims who've sinned in her eyes.
• Good Samaritan: After Cloe Como was thrown out by Teodora, Marco Vizzini let the penniless and pregnant young woman to stay at his café for free. Subverted since Marco was acting on Teodora's orders.
• Missing Child: When Cloe Como is found dead, her newborn baby has gone missing. Fortunately, the murderer did no harm to it and instead gave it to a children's home.
• Pet the Dog: Instead of killing Cloe's baby, Teodora gives it to the Children's Shelter of Maria Goretti.
• Produce Pelting: An angry crowd appears to do this at Officer Cozzi's house, accusing him of fathering and hiding Cloe's baby. They destroy the windows in the process.
• Puppet Shows: One of the minigames at the festival. In three separate scenarios, one of the marionettes has been murdered, and the others must be placed in their correct seats on the table to find out which one of them is the murderer.
• Sarcasm-Blind: When Regina says that Adriano is probably drunk in the sheepfold, Luigi points out that there are no sheepfolds in Porto Ceso.
  Regina: Oh, really? You have no sense of humour, Luigi…
• Secret Underground Passage: There's at the ruined church a hidden passage to a net of tunnels that were used by the townsfolk to escape in times of danger. They're used by Teodora to take Regina's corpse from Adriano's bungalow to the station café so that it can be hidden in Cloe's coffin.
• Shell Game: This appears as a minigame when Anna and Luigi are having fun at the festival.
• Shout-Out: Adriano says Regina thinks she is "the new Eleonora Duse" when talking about her profession. Duse was a real-life Italian actress who lived between 1858 and 1924.
• Stopped Clock: When the body of Regina is discovered, Anna deduces the time of death from the broken wristwatch.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: Marco Vizzini is actually an Austrian woman named Elsa Brandt who learned to impersonate men at an early age and committed an Inheritance Murder as Eugen Graner that forced her to hide in Porto Ceso.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Anna reveals how Teodora Cozzi murdered Cloe and Regina, Signora Cozzi just calmly reads her Bible, but once Anna finishes, Teodora has a sanctimonious outburst and tries to attack Anna. Once Officer Cozzi and Luigi restrain her, she turns to citing the Bible one more time.
  Anna: She would never have stopped this crusade. But everything has come to an end now.
  Teodora: [takes off her glasses] Let me tell you something. You come here, with your smile, slick demeanor and unholy words. You think you can stop me? Look at me. Look! The only way you can do this is if you kill me! And you better bring a whole army of devils to do that! The Lord shall show now mercy on your soul! You evil, spiteful woman! [tries to attack Anna, only to be restrained by her husband and Luigi]
  Luigi: Mio Dio!
  Officer Cozzi: Teodora… Is it true?
  Teodora: "Out of the heavens he let you hear…"
  Officer Cozzi: Enough!
  Teodora: "…and on the Earth he let you see…"
  Officer Cozzi: Please, enough…
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The game doesn't explain what happens to Lino Pizzano and Cesare Casale after the events of the game. While Lino defintely got released from prison, it does not look good for Lino given that he quit being a train conductor for Cloe, who is now dead. Cesare is established to be behind beating Officer Cozzi up with Regina and framing Adriano for the crime. Despite being a dangerous criminal for this, Anna says there's not enough evidence to arrest Cesare for this, meaning Cesare effectively gets away with his crimes.

The Dada Killer

• The Alleged Car: When Anna must first use her car, she needs to use a hand crank to get it working. Though her bemoaning indicates this is a regular problem to her, the car won't be an issue for the rest of the game.
• Antagonist Title: The Serial Killer who's being chased in this chapter is soon nicknamed the Dada Killer.
• Apology Gift: After inadvertently breaking Judit's trust, Anna convinces her to give her a second chance by giving her a cat and a rare car model.
• Book Ends: At the beginning of the chapter, Anna gets an invitation from Sven to the Cabaret Rousseau, which features the message "The DADA IS DEAD". At the end of the chapter, the Dada Killer writes the message "DADA is Not DEAD" with blood inside the ambulence he escaped from.
• Bribing the Homeless: The Dada Killer pays a homeless man to go to Eure Tages one morning while wearing a sign featuring a new Dada poem. Anna in turn gets him to tell her what he can about the serial killer by giving him money to buy breakfast with.
• Call-Back:
  • When Judit first appears, she mentions Anna's investigations in Hotel Reger.
  • The events of The Heir are also referred to when Anna looks for the car model Silvia gave her and when Silvia herself appears. What's more, Anna's car is manufactured by Molinelli Industries.
• The Cameo: Silvia Molinelli from The Heir appears briefly to be interviewed for one of Anna's articles.
• Catchphrase:
  • Every time Anna takes a seat at her work desk, she remarks "Okay, time to focus and write my article."
  • When you bring Sven an article to assess, he usually asks "Where's my article, Anna?"
• Car Chase Shoot-Out: The climatic car chase ends with Ulli shooting at Oskar's escape vehicle from Anna's car. He manages to shoot one of the tires, and Oskar crashes into another vehicle.
• Chalk Outline: Anna finds one when she sneaks inside the first victim's apartment without permission.
• Chase-Scene Obstacle Course: The final minigame has Anna and Ulli using her car to chase the police car Oskar is escaping with while avoiding to crash into various vehicles.
• Chekhov's Gun: Anna gets acquainted to Ruben's Korogonza mechanism early in the game. She ends up using it to drop a plate on Oskar's head in order to get the drop on the Dada Killer during the climax.
• Cut Phone Lines: The killer does this at the first victim's house, so Anna needs to fix it so that she can immediately inform Sven what has happened.
• Dispense with the Pleasantries: Sven prefers to skip the "banal morning chit-chat" and give Anna assignments.
• Downer Ending: Oskar is exposed as the Dada Killer before he can make Iris his final victim, but he manages to escape from the ambulance the police place him in, while Anna is left heartbroken from Judit's murder.
• Drone of Dread: The soundtrack "Bleak Future", which is an eerie drone, plays right before Anna finds many of the murder victims' bodies.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Judit feels deeply betrayed when the crime scene photo Anna takes without her permission ends up in the newspaper and lands her in trouble with her superiors. She feels this way again towards Ruben when he's framed of unfaithfulness and the murders.
• Former Friends Photo: Vanessa is quickly established to be Iris and Ruben's harsh critic, but Anna finds in her home a photo where all three of them appear to be on friendly terms during their time in the art university.
• Fresh Clue: After Judit is murdered, Anna and Ulli find in her office burned documents. Ulli suggests Judit burned them in her rage of Ruben apparently being the Dada Killer, but since the reek is strong even with the window opened, Anna assesses the documents were burned following Judit's murder.
• Freudian Slip: Oskar describes there to be "bloodshed at the hospital" to Lieutenant Judit before Anna and the police go to the Hauptkrankenhaus hospital to investigate. While this does perfectly describe the murder scene there with two victims and much blood, Oskar claimed that Nurse Ernestine only told him over the phone that "a doctor was killed" and nothing else. While "bloodshed" might be used to refer to murder in general, it is suspicious that Oskar used the graphic term to describe the scene at the hospital despite not being supposed to know the exact nature of the killing yet.
• Friendly Address Privileges:
  • When Anna and Judit first meet, Judit insists Anna not to address her as a lieutenant. When she confronts Anna about betraying her trust, she harshly tells her it's "lieutenant" to her.
  • Anna eventually tells Ulli that he doesn't need to be formal with her.
• Friendship Denial: Silvia Molinelli tells Anna they're not friends even though Anna did a service for the Molinellis in The Heir, which is why Silvia agrees to pose for the photograph Anna uses in her article about the company's new ambulance.
• How Did You Know? I Didn't: When Judit and Anna interrogate Gustav Meisner, Judit bluntly tells him she knows he fathered Wilma Sommer's unborn baby, which he confirms to be true. When Anna afterwards asks Judit how she knew this, she admits she simply had a hunch.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Subverted. When Ruben is caught in an apparent moment of unfaithfulness to Judit while the body of another victim is in the next room, Judit feels heartbroken that she refused to heed Anna's advice and suspect her fiancé could be the Dada Killer before more victims came out. However, the Dada Killer is revealed to be Oskar after he has murdered both Judit and Ruben whom he has framed. Anna even doubts Ruben could have kept such an intricate plot a secret from Judit for such a long time if he were the Dada Killer because even the blinding effect of love has its limits.
• Meaningful Echo: Anna turns down Sven's suggestion to write about the Dada poems she's received because she knows that's what the killer wants from her, and she states that she won't give them the satisfaction. When she has Oskar at gunpoint and he gloats about his sick art project going down in history, she lowers the gun and tell him that she refuses to give him the satisfaction.
• Misplaced Retribution: It's revealed that Silvia Molinelli tried to sue Eure Tages on the grounds that Anna's investigation led to her husband's death. In reality, the plan to murder Aldo was already in motion when Anna came along, and the murderer was caught only thanks to her.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After Anna's effort to publish an article about the first murder without a crime scene photo fails, she feels horrible when it leads to the disappointed Judit calling off their friendship.
• Never Suicide: The Dada Killer sets two of the crime scenes to look like cases of a Murder-Suicide, first with Wilma Sommer and Doctor Kranz, and later with Ruben Lefèvre and Judit Halle.
• Not So Similar: When Anna and Judit are making peace following the former's betrayal of the latter's trust, this exchange occurs:
  Anna: Haven't you ever had a male boss order you to do something…
  Judit: …that goes against your principles? All the time. Do I do it? Never.
• Shout-Out:
  • The opening monologue on how to make a Dadaist poem that is later mimicked by the Dada Killer in their Dada collage to Anna is from Dadaist Tristan Tzara (whose photo is also one of the collectibles)'s 1920 "To Make a Dadaist Poem".
  • Iris' Cabaret Rousseau is possibly based on Cabaret Voltaire, which was founded by Dada artists Hugo Bell and Emmy Hennings (both photos are also collectibles) and where Dada was born in 1916. Both cabarets are named after Enlightenment writers (Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire respectively).
  • When Gustav is being interrogated, Anna says he will be more famous than "Carl Jung, Emil Jannings, and even Marcel Golaz". In real-life, these people were all famous Swiss people with Jung being a psychiatrist, Jannings being an actor, and Golaz being the president of the Swiss Confederation.
  • The crime scene lines from the Dada Manifesto and two phrases Oskar says to Iris during the climax are directly borrowed from Monsieur's Antipyrine's Manifesto, which was made in 1916 by Tristan Tzara.
• Smoking Is Not Cool: Anna and Judit are both disgusted by their respective superiors' smoking habits.
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Oskar tries to provoke Anna to shoot him as revenge for Judit's murder so that his sick art would go down in history. She ultimately refuses to give him the satisfaction.
• Sword over Head: With Oskar injured from a car crash, Anna has him at gunpoint while Ulli calls for help. Wanting to be remembered as an artistic genius, the Dada Killer enrages Anna by taunting her about Judit's death and tells her to shoot him. Following a moment of intense silence, Anna lowers her gun and tells him that she refuses to give him the satisfaction.
• That's an Order!: When Anna and Ulli reach the Knef Gallery to rescue Iris from the Dada Killer, Ulli uses this line to make Anna wait outside for backup while he goes inside. She defies the order when she gets worried and enters to find Ulli knocked unconscious and Iris at the mercy of the Dada Killer.
• Theme Serial Killer: The Dada Killer gives each of his victims one of the clothes and costume jewelry he stole from Iris Knef, the ultimate target of his sick art project, and writes at the crime scene a line taken from the Dada Manifesto.
• Toilet Horror: After Ruben is discovered in the Rotes Kleid Hotel room, Anna and Judit break into the bathroom filled with steam of running hot water. After Anna shuts off the water, they discover to their shock a curtained bathtub that hides a new murder victim who's been hanged over the blood-filled tub.
• Twitchy Eye: When Ulli calls Oskar out of being unsympathetic to Anna's sorrow over Judit's death, Oskar glares back as one of his eyes twitches.
• Villain Opening Scene: The opening cut scene shows glimpses of the murderer visiting the first victim, killing them, setting up the crime scene for their art project and escaping through the window.
• Wham Shot:
  • The climax has the shocking shot of Judit's corpse lying close to that of Ruben. There is another one soon after when Anna enters the Knef Gallery for the final showdown and finds Iris tied up to a chair, Ulli lying unconscious on the floor, and the exhibit rearranged by the Dada Killer who's revealed to be Oskar.
  • The ending cinematic shows that Oskar has managed to escape from the ambulance he was confined in and left behind at least two more corpses and a message written in blood: "Dada is not dead".
• What the Hell, Hero?: Anna is on the receiving end of this by Judit when the latest Eure Tages edition is published with the crime scene photo Anna took without permission, which puts Judit in a precarious situation with her bosses.

Ladies of the Night

• Agony of the Feet: Anna uses her high heel to stomp on the foot of one of her harassers.
• Broken Heel: Anna discovers at a crime scene a snapped high heel which turns out to be from her interviewee's shoe. She mentions this has happened to herself as well.
• The Bus Came Back: Though she doesn't appear onscreen, Dhara Biguá from Exiled Dead is revealed to have returned as Oskar's accomplice to threaten Iris and stolen some pages from her copy of the Zürich Atlas.
• Call-Back:
  • It's revealed that the car Gustav saw used to belong to Helmut Grass who was killed in The Phantom.
  • It's recalled that the apartment where Susi was killed and Oskar has been hiding from the police belonged to Marie Paget.
• Character Tics: Mitzi Wiget has a habit of twirling her hair. She's also shown doing it in her wedding photo where her twin sister Susi she's impersonating also appears. Anna points this out in the final part to make it clear to Ulli which one of the sisters is dead.
• Cliffhanger: The chapter ends with Anna holding the book Dhara Biguá tore pages from and wondering what the woman is looking for.
• Continuity Nod: When you search Ulli's office for an example of Oskar's handwriting, you find burned papers as reference to the burned documents you discovered in The Dada Killer following Judit's death.
• Counting to Three: Max makes this threat when he interrupts the men who're bothering Anna. He doesn't get to start counting as Anna takes two of the perverts down by herself, leaving for him the last one to deck.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Mitzi impersonates her murdered twin Susi likely to avoid getting in trouble with Lulu, the owner of the Rotes Kleid Hotel who thinks only Susi is living there, by making sure no one tells on Mitzi to Lulu without knowing Mitzi isn't Susi.
• Good News, Bad News: When the chapter is ending, Sven tells Anna to give him either good news or bad news as long as it's something that will keep their readers interested.
• Groin Attack: Anna gives one to one of the men who harass her.
• Handshake Refusal: When you're officially introduced to Max Frost, you can refuse to shake hands with him. He doesn't seem to mind.
• He Knows Too Much: Petrus Krämer was captured and beaten up at Oskar's hideout by the latter's accomplishes, and since Susi Wiget was there at the time, they shot her.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: When Anna is recapping the chapter's events, Johann Stumpf blurts out that she's mistaking him for someone else when she mentions the man who bumped into her when she first went to the Rotes Kleid Hotel.
  Anna: I didn't say it was you… yet.
• I Never Told You My Name: Anna asks how Max Frost already knows her name. He replies she's that famous.
• Ironic Echo: When Anna tells Ulli to keep Johann and Mitzi at the police station, Ulli corrects Anna that Susi is staying at the station, not Mitzi. When Ulli later orders Noah to file a release form for Mitzi after it's revealed she wasn't Susi, Noah, who doesn't know this, corrects Ulli that Susi is the one being released, not Mitzi. Ulli simply accepts Noah's correction.
• The Klutz: Constable Noah can be seen kicking pebbles instead of protecting the crime scene at the boulevard, much to Ulli's annoyance as he orders Noah to do so. This characterization of Noah being clumsy gets significantly expanded on in later chapters.
• Let's Get Out of Here: One of the three men who harass Anna says this after she and Max Frost beat them up.
• Mistaken for Murderer: When Mitzi found Susi dead and Petrus Krämer searching the room, she assumed him to be her twin sister's murderer and stabbed him to death in rage.
• Mistaken for Prostitute: The three thugs who harass Anna apparently assume her to be a prostitute since she's making her way in the district where many are working. Lulu also claims that her clients have been asking for Anna when she suggests she'd change profession.
• Please Wake Up: Mitzi says this in the flashback that shows her finding her twin sister dead.
• Private Detective: The murdered man, Petrus Krämer, worked for ZPI Detectives and was hired by Iris Knef to track down Oskar.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Anna gives Ulli a pleading look to make him release Mitzi from handcuffs.
• Self-Defense Ruse: When Ulli allows Johann to go to jail instead of Mitzi for manslaughtering Petrus Krämer, he believes that Johann can plead self-defense since the private detective was armed and will likely be held accountable for Susi's murder.
• Sinister Silhouettes: When Anna is at the end narrating how the deaths of Petrus and Susi occurred, the flashbacks show the detective being captured by two of Oskar's accomplishes who are both completely darkened. The larger is likely Dhara Biguá, while the other might be Gerhard Wagner who's two chapters later – where he dons a beret like the shadowed figure – revealed to have returned as well.
• Sympathetic Murderer: It turns out Mitzi Wiget, distraught to have just found her twin sister murdered, came to the conclusion Petrus Krämer was the murderer as he fled the crime scene, so she ran after him with a knife and fatally stabbed him in rage.
• Taking the Heat: After Mitzi is arrested, her husband Johann Stumpf attempts to save her by barging into the police station and falsely confessing he killed Petrus Krämer. After Anna reveals to Ulli that Mitzi only killed Petrus in fury because she mistook him for her sister's murderer, Ulli decides to let Johann take the blame for his wife's crime of passion.
• To Be Lawful or Good: After Ulli is told that Mitzi impulsively killed Petrus Krämer under the assumption he murdered her sister and Johann has falsely confessed to the murder to save his wife, Anna gives Ulli the choice of following the law and arresting Mitzi for her crime of passion or let Johann go to jail in her place. He chooses the latter.
• Teeth Flying: Max Frost decks a man so hard a tooth flies out.
• Title Drop: The chapter's title is given to the article Anna writes about prostitution.
• You Killed My Father: Gustav has become obsessed with finding his mother's murderer, much to the concern of Anna who's afraid he'll put himself in danger to find Oskar.

Grey Nature

• Bait-and-Switch: When the scratched lockbox is opened, Anna, Ulli and Dierk are startled to discover that… the box is empty.
• Big "WHAT?!": Ernestine has one when Dr. Sachs tries to claim she's responsible for Dr. Brüner's death.
• Call-Back: Carolin brings up how Anna knocked out Gerhard Wagner with a vase in Atlantic Connection. This also subtly reminds players of Gerhard's existence before his return in the following chapter.
• Characterisation Click Moment: Constable Noah doesn't have much of a character when first appearing in Ladies of the Night. However, in this chapter, starting with the moment where Noah poses in front of the smuggling truck for Anna's article, Noah is noticeably portrayed much more of a humorous and clumsy person in this chapter.
• Cliffhanger: Anna gets another mystery to solve when Max Frost provides her with a map that likely connects with the information about Zürich's old communication systems which Dhara Biguá stole from Iris Knef in the previous chapter.
• Filler: The chapter's main story isn't related to Part 3's Story Arc of the Dada Killer and his criminal allies.
• Framing the Guilty Party: Dr. Sachs got three people killed when he tested his vaccine on them and kept it a secret. Dr. Brüner was planning to come clean with the police, but he had a stroke on his last evening and believed he didn't have enough time to expose Sachs. He made his own suicide look so suspicious the police would have to investigate and arrest Sachs as a murderer. Though Anna figures out the ruse, she still ends up finding documents of the failed experiments, and Sachs is arrested.
• Interrupted Suicide: Anna witnesses a celebrity named Michel Stück talking a suicidal man down off a ledge.
• Playing with Syringes: It turns out Doctors Sachs and Brüner illegally tested their polio vaccine on three children who ended up dying. Sachs kept it a secret, but Brüner's conscience led to him trying to incriminate Sachs of his suicide so that his partner wouldn't kill anyone else in the name of medical progress.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Anna picks up a skull in the laboratory, she calls it "a fellow of infinite jest".
  • When Anna is investigating a car crash involving a celebrity for her article, she notices that the home whose fence is damaged belongs to James Joyce, who is away for France. In real-life, Joyce was a novelist who was indeed away from Zürich for Paris at the time and perhaps best known for writing "Ulysses". Anna finds a copy of this book by him at the crashed car.
• Villain Ball: Carolin lampshades that the murderers Anna has taken down are stupid and brings up as an example how Gerhard Wagner taking time to mouth off gave Anna a chance to throw a vase at his head.
• Wastebasket Ball: When Dr. Sachs is working on the vaccine in the opening cinematic, he overfills his wastebasket with crumpled up notes.

Forgotten Memento

• All for Nothing:
  • Anna's previous efforts to stop the Dada Killer's plans go to waste when Oskar ultimately kills Iris in the end, leaving her body behind a wall in Anna's cell.
  • Anna's previous efforts to also protect Hotel Reger from the Nazis go to waste when the hotel ends up burned down, according to an Eure Tages newspaper Oskar was holding.
• Badass in Distress: Anna can normally physically defend herself against thugs and shooters. However, she ends up kidnapped by the start of the chapter.
• Benevolent Boss: After Anna gets her arm injured from a bomb that goes off in a car she and Max were passing by, Sven says "good morning" to Anna despite not liking such pleasantries, asks if her arm is okay, compliments her Parliament massacre article, and gives her the rest of the day off (which is shown if the player clicks on him in his room after applying the gauze to Anna's arm).
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Bojan Kardos decides to get himself killed by the police rather than by his criminal superiors.
• Blindfolded Trip: When Anna is kidnapped by Gerhard and Dhara, they force her to wear a sack over her head during the car drive, with Gerhard sarcastically telling her to try the "hat". She still has it on when she's brought before Oskar and knocked unconscious.
• Bunker Woman: Anna spends this chapter locked up in a cell at a secret hideout connected to the sewers and guarded by Oskar who plans to slowly torment her before killing her. After she remembers how exactly she was captured, she manages to surprise Oskar and escape her cell, only to be intercepted and nearly killed by Dhara before an unknown person comes to her rescue.
• The Bus Came Back: Many villains of the previous chapters (Gerhard Wagner, Dhara Biguá, and Oskar Havel) all make a proper return in this chapter.
• Call-Back: Anna says it's not her first time defusing a bomb when she defuses the bomb in front of the Parliament. Indeed, she last did so at Atlantic Connection, with almost the exact same minigame to defuse both bombs. This subtly references how Gerhard Wagner is likely involved with the bombs at the terrorist attack on Zürich in some way.
• The Cavalry: A currently unknown person shows up and saves Anna at the end of the chapter by shooting Dhara as she is about to choke Anna to death.
• Chairman of the Brawl: Anna eventually escapes her cell by using a chair to knock out Oskar from behind.
  Anna: A chair is better than no chair, I guess.
• Cliffhanger: The chapter ends with a "To Be Continued" message as Anna lays unconscious on the sewer floors after being let go by a shot Dhara.
• Comical Nap Drool: Noah sports one when Anna catches him sleeping on the job.
• Ditch the Bodyguards: When Anna discovers Iris' corpse, she recalls that when she and Ulli discussed Iris' disappearance while searching her office, Ulli stated that Iris refused police protection despite Oskar still being on the loose.
• Easy Amnesia: Anna loses her memory of the past few days, including her investigations of various crimes and her kidnapping. She gradually remembers what happened memory by memory. Notably, her journal remains inaccessible when she's not recalling the days before ending up in her cell.
• Freudian Slip: As Anna looks at Iris' photo in the latter's empty office, she mutters "I have to stop them." (which she's saying when she finds Iris' corpse in the present as the screen switches to the final flashback sequence). When Ulli asks what she said, she tells him "We have to stop them."
• From Dress to Dressing: After a car explodes next to Anna and Max, the latter rips off his sleeve to bandage Anna's wounded arm.
• Game Over: If the player doesn't successfully complete the shoot-out mini-game at the Swiss Federal Railways building, the screen will become black as a white silhoutte of Ulli gets shot with bright red blood. Fortunately, the mini-game resets back to allow the player to continue.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Dhara's eyes shine as she throws Anna out of the locker the latter tried to use to hide from Dhara.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: Noah falls asleep while he's guarding Heinz Adenauer at the hospital. This allows an unknown assassin to steal from him the key to Heinz's room and sneak in to kill the latter.
• Hairpin Lockpick: Anna eventually breaks free of her chain by unlocking it with a hairpin taken from Iris Knef's corpse.
• Heel–Face Turn: The railway shooter, Bojan, tells Anna to stop his criminal superiors as he realizes the extreme danger they pose.
• Ill-Timed Sneeze: Double subverted. Anna sneezes while she's hiding from Dhara in a locker. Dhara looks around suspiciously, but seemingly shrugs it off and walks away. Just as it looks like Dhara has really left, Anna signs in relief… only for Dhara to suddenly open the locker and assault her.
• In the Blood: Subverted. Georgette Kistner has a very different personality from her mother Ernestine despite having the same job. Compared to Ernestine, Georgette appears to be more mysterious, cold, and tantalizing.
• The Killer Becomes the Killed: Heinz, who killed 14 people at Zürich's Parliament, gets killed with a single stab at the hospital, likely to keep him quiet.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The flashback that resolves the chapter's How We Got Here mystery ends with Gerhard knocking out Anna and telling Oskar to enjoy the game.
• Menacing Mask: Oskar dons a paper bag mask with a creepy painted face on it.
• Not My Driver: Anna takes a taxi cab to go to Eure Tages once she realizes the Cabaret Rousseau is closed. Unfortunately for Anna, her driver is a killer from a previous case, Gerhard Wagner, who kidnaps her with the help of Dhara Biguá once he reveals himself to her.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Once Anna realizes that Bojan is about to kill himself by getting shot by the police, she's visibly shocked to the point of putting her hand over her mouth.
  • Anna makes the same expression again when she sneezes inside a locker while trying to hide from Dhara.
• Pastiche: The minigame for when Anna chases Heinz's killer at the hospital is identical to the 2014 mobile game Framed with a similar simplistic art style and similar gameplay mechanic of swapping the comic panels to allow the protagonist to succeed in the story depicted by the comics.
• Psychotic Smirk: As a Five-Second Foreshadowing, the shadowed face of the taxi driver Travis smirks out of Anna's line of sight before revealing himself to be Gerhard Wagner.
• Shout-Out: Nordcurrent's social media accounts confirm in a video that this chapter is based on Christopher Nolan's 2000 movie "Memento". This can be seen with the name, the non-sequential structure, and the photographs (which is a key component of the original movie) in this chapter's banner.
• Sickbed Slaying: Heinz Adenauer, injured from his attack on the Parliament, is stabbed to death on his hospital bed.
• Spree Killer: Applies to Heinz Adenauer, the mass shooter of the Parliament with 14 deaths.
• There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: When Anna writes about the shooting at the railroad traffic control building in her diary, she concludes that in such an unforeseen epicenter of chaos, people can be divided into two camps: "the risk-blind, reckless responders with wannabe-hero syndrome" or "the risk-averse, keep-your-head-down-type Darwinists". She adds that neither are really wrong.
• Trash the Set: Hotel Reger, the setting place of Part 1, is revealed to have been burned.
• Unreliable Illustrator: Noah is depicted to be helping out carrying the evidence from the traffic control building to the police station despite being shot by Bojan and being tended to by doctors. His patch and wound on his shoulder also isn't seen.
• Unseen No More: Ernestine's daughter Georgette was mentioned in Ladies of the Night and Gray Nature and Ernestine's husband Charles was mentioned in ''Gray Nature", both of which show up in this chapter.
• Very Loosely Based on a True Story: As confirmed by the developers in a Q&A, Charles Kistner's murder is based on a real-life 1958 murder, specifically of Charles Zumbach in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Charles Kistner is based on Charles Zumbach, both victims who worked with machines and later revealed to have worked for criminals.
  • Ernestine Kistner is based on Marie Zumback, both wives of the victims who heard the victims' cries for help and were shot at by the culprits.
  • The culprits for both cases first injured the victims and then later fatally stabbed the victims before fleeing with a bicycle.
  • Francisco Jacquot is based on Pierre Jaccoud, the convicted person for the victim's murder. Both are neurotic, suspected of the murders, and possessed a bloody knife of African origins, a gun, and a coat with one missing button found by the crime scene.
  • Georgette Kistner is based on both André Zumbach (the victim's child) and Linda Baud (André's then-girlfriend). Georgette and André both received two calls with no answer around the same time the murder happened. Georgette and Linda are the subjects of nude photos owned by Jacquot/Jaccoud.
• Villain Team-Up: The villains of previous chapters, Gerhard Wagner, Dhara Biguá, and Oskar Havel, all team up along with goons in a currently unknown plan involving killing Iris, kidnapping Anna, and attacking Zürich.
• Wham Episode: Not only is Gerhard Wagner revealed to have escaped from prison, but he has teamed up with Oskar and Dhara Biguá to start a new series of crimes in Zürich. They successfully have Iris Knef killed and Hotel Reger burned to the ground, and Anna is left for the first time with the chapter's main mystery unsolved as she falls unconscious when someone rescues her from Dhara.
• Wham Shot:
  • The opening cinematic has a rat making its way in the sewers and passing by weapons before finding Anna's wounded arm.
  • Anna notices a crack on her cell's wooden wall with flies coming out of it. After she cracks a piece of board loose, she discovers to her shock the dead head of Iris Knef.
  • When Anna knocks out Oskar and escapes her cell, the newspaper Oskar was holding reveals that Hotel Reger has been burned.
• What Happened to the Mouse?:
  • It goes unexplained who Jörg Bohn is, why Ulli asked Anna to find him before the first flashback, and whether he was one of the victims at the Parliament massacre.
  • It's not revealed what became of Max Frost following the explosion of the car at the Parliament.
• Whole Episode Flashback: The entire chapter consists of Anna remembering the most recent days while in her cell.

No Quarter

• Age-Gap Romance: Two revealed lovers in this chapter, Sven and Hilda, are far in their ages.
• Auction: Held by Martha in the Knef Gallery to sell Antoine's art collection.
• Caught Monologuing: Leon is in the middle of monologuing to himself about him either being greedy or righteous on a rooftop before Anna and Manu arrive.
• The Cavalry:
  • Manu appears just in time to stop a gambler from "König Der Vereine" from robbing Anna.
  • Ulli shoots Leon just in time before Leon could shoot Anna and Manu.
• Character Focus: There is a larger focus on Sven and Manu and their backstories in this chapter.
• Cliffhanger: The very end of the chapter reveals Gerhard trying to coerce Ulli to destroy some evidence to stop Anna from tracking Gerhard and his friends down.
• Continuity Nod: When Anna laments on being at her wit's end on finding Oskar, Dhara and Gerhard, she holds her open notebook that displays Dhara's identikit from Exiled Dead, photos of Oskar and Gerhard, and a map that has Porto Ceso and Hotel Reger marked up.
• Convenient Replacement Character: After Iris' death in the previous chapter, Martha Landolt becomes the new owner of the Knef Gallery and Cabaret Rousseau. She retains a similar cynical, harsh personality, even more than Iris.
• Double-Meaning Title: No Quarter likely refers to ruthlessness displayed by Antoine and Leon at each other and Manu, but it also refers to the fact that Part 3 hasn't ended with the fourth chapter like Parts 1 and 2 have.
• Dramatic Pause: When Ulli asks Nathan if he broke into the Cabaret Rousseau, Nathan doesn't answer in a very long pause.
• Evil Uncle: Manu's uncle, Leon, is revealed to be a bitter, heavy gambler who chopped up the man who ruined their lives, Antoine.
• Filler: The chapter's main story is not related to Part 3's Story Arc of the Dada Killer and his criminal allies.
• Flashback:
  • Sven talks about his brief time in the "König Der Vereine" den.
  • Manu talks about how he became homeless with his uncle Leon.
  • The opening cutscene is revealed to actually be a flashback to Manu's early life when he lost his toys over time as his uncle Leon lost more in gambling over time.
• Greed: The main theme of this chapter. Antoine's greed in gambling got him killed in the end. The public scrambles to find the money left behind by the killer with Antoine's body parts. The killer, Leon, ponders about the definition of greed at a rooftop.
• Illegal Gambling Den: Nathan encourages Anna to enter the "König Der Vereine" hidden in the Cabaret Rousseau, which holds suspicious gambling activities.
• Just Like Robin Hood: Ulli describes the killer as a "psycho playing Robin Hood" when Anna reads the killer's invitation to find all the money and body parts around Zürich.
• New Old Flame: Although unmentioned for Sven to be in a relationship before, Martha is revealed to be Sven's ex-wife.
• Office Romance: It's finally revealed that Sven and Hilda are in a relationship with each other after small hints in the previous chapters.
• Off with His Head!: The victim, Antoine, has his body parts brutally chopped off, including his head revealed to be kept by his killer.
• Overworked Sleep: While trying to figure out the killer's first clue card, Anna falls asleep at her own office.
• Right Behind Me: Martha gloats that Sven won't believe Hilda over Martha on whether Hilda cheated on Sven with the incriminating gift box as Sven arrives just in time to hear Martha.
• Speak in Unison: Anna and Ulli immediately both say "Cabaret Rousseau" at the same time in their phone call upon realizing that was the next location hinted by the killer's clue card.
• Time Skip: This chapter apparently takes place in 1935 according to the opening and Anna's diary. Either 2 years has actually passed since Forgotten Memento or this is another case of a Series Continuity Error with Part 3's inconsistent dates.
  • Either way, some significant time has passed since Forgotten Memento's ending with little to no mention of the events that happened in the previous chapter.
• Villainous Gold Tooth: One of the gamblers in the opening cinematic has a gold tooth. He's revealed to be the murder victim Antoine Halter who cheated Manu's uncle Leon out of their house and forced them to live on the street.
• Whammy Bid: Anna bids a whopping 1300 francs for Ruben's Dada portrait of Judit with no one left to contest her for the art piece.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The previous chapter's plotlines of Anna's kidnapping, Iris' death, and Oskar's criminal team goes almost completely unaddressed in this chapter (despite Forgotten Memento ending on a To Be Continued) outside of the first and last few moments of No Quarter.

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