- "Please. I'll do anything. But I won't do this!"
Girl Number 9
is a six-part Web Video Series written by James Moran and starring Gareth David-Lloyd as Detective Mathewson.
When serial killer Vincent Boylan is captured, he tells Detective Mathewson he has 30 minutes to rescue a girl before she is killed. The rest is a Shoot the Shaggy Dog story.
This series contains the following tropes.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The serial killer succeeds in killing the girl.
- Downer Ending: The girl that the police are trying to save isn't rescued; she's killed.
- Forced to Watch: Inverted with the serial killer being in police custody, but then played straight with the captive girls on a webcam for the police.
- Sadistic Choice: Given by the serial killer to the detective: kill yourself or let your daughter die.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Not only does the detective fail in his mission, he dies, too.