Detective Mole/Playing With

Basic Trope: A detective turns out to be a bad guy.
 * Straight: Jason, a police detective investigating a murder, was working with the criminals the whole time.
 * Exaggerated: Jason was the mastermind.
 * Downplayed: Jason was an accomplice, being blackmailed into helping the murderers.
 * Justified: Jason hoped that by pretending to help, that no one would suspect him.
 * Inverted: Reverse Mole
 * Subverted: Jason pretends to be a detective to get information on the police, but he undergoes Becoming the Mask.
 * Double Subverted: But in the final moments, chooses to stay faithful to the crooks.
 * Parodied: Jason is obviously the bad guy, always giving obviously incorrect clues and leads, and intentionally distracting the investigators from any legitimate leads, but no one seems to notice.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: There is no bad guys investigating the crime.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: Jason worked hard to earn a badge and a good reputation as a cop just for this moment that he can commit a crime and lead the other detectives astray.
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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