Classic crime genre concepts are introduced at the beginning of the episode as the main character Sam and officers raid a suspected murder house immediately creating a mystery as they are nowhere to be seen before a chase scene and competent interviewing of the perpetrator until Sam is in the past as they interview another suspect who becomes more of an investigation as DCI Gene In the past, and the other police are portrayed as politically incorrect, Sam already has an idea of the perpetrator from the latest facts subverting modern norms of crime, but also sticks to other conventions such as the mystery and solves it by the end of the episode that links to the Genre Theory of Steve Neale as the genre shifts over time and has sci-fi conventions It's like the idea of him being in a coma. The most opposite present in the episode is the contradictions between the main characters Sam and Gene as they argue over what to do with the mystery in the episode as Sam acts like he did in the present, which is completely different from how Gene and the other officers work, such as how Gene goes against the law for justice. Truth vs fantasy is another major opposite, as its These ties to Levi-theory Strauss's are continuously challenged as these opposites help continue the plot as the confrontations between Sam and Gene usually end with more details in the case, whether the past is actually real or just a figment of Sam's imagination. In the murder case that is carried out throughout the show, an enigma is immediately created as we have a suspect, but further enigmas are also created as Sam's condition after being struck by a car as a sort of hallucinations throughout the episode connoting him being in a coma but having rational reasons for just being hallucinations and Sam possibly going back in time. Throughout the sequence, these references to Barthes' theory are generated as Enigma codes.
The narrative is limited as we only know the same thing as Sam, as the audience has no further narrative details.