History Main / AloneWithPrisonerPloy

* On BurnNotice (''Mind Games'') Michael accidentally exposes an undercover cop while undercover himself. He shoos the others away while he threatens the prisoner, and takes the oppourtunity to mention that he's undercover too and slip the cop a means of escape.

Therefore, he makes the guards believe that he wants a few minutes ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean alone]]'' with the prisoner, perhaps she needs to be "[[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogated]]" or "[[IHaveYouNowMyPretty taught a lesson]]". The guards let him into Alice's cell and leave them to it, chortling at the evilness of their buddy's intentions.

* Sawyer uses this to talk to Sayid in season 5 of ''{{Lost}}''.

* All the time on ''{{Alias}}''. A particularly good example is Irina in "Passage Pt. 2", having pulled a BatmanGambit and aligned herself with Cuvee (which Sydney and Jack think is a FaceHeelTurn). She puts on a good show of interrogating Jack and gets Cuvee to leave her alone with him. She pistol-whips him, but also slips him the key to his cuffs and tells him how to find the nukes they've come to find.

* Played with on ''BurnNotice''. Michel becomes a prisoner of his own people in order to convince a Russian drug dealer to trust him. Naturally he can't do unless he is left alone with the prisoner.

** Rusty's posing as a federal agent to rescue of Basher from the cops, near the beginning of the film, would also qualify, partially subverted by being done in public (although he does send the arresting police officer off on a wild goose chase to talk to Basher alone and free him from handcuffs).

* Gwen tries this in ''Merlin'' during the season 3 finale with Sir Leon as the prisoner. She just claims she has "food for the prisoner" and once she's inside the cell, she tells him that she wants to help him escape. They don't know that the conversation is actually being listened to by the bad guys, so they weren't actually ''alone''...

* Gwen tries this in {{Series/Merlin ''Merlin''}} during the season 3 finale with Sir Leon as the prisoner. She just claims she has "food for the prisoner" and once she's inside the cell, she tells him that she wants to help him escape. They don't know that the conversation is actually being listened to by the bad guys, so they weren't actually ''alone''...

* Gwen tries this in [[Series/Merlin ''Merlin'']] during the season 3 finale with Sir Leon as the prisoner. She just claims she has "food for the prisoner" and once she's inside the cell, she tells him that she wants to help him escape. They don't know that the conversation is actually being listened to by the bad guys, so they weren't actually ''alone''...

* Gwen tries this in [[Series/Merlin ''Merlin'' ]] during the season 3 finale with Sir Leon as the prisoner. She just claims she has "food for the prisoner" and once she's inside the cell, she tells him that she wants to help him escape. They don't know that the conversation is actually being listened to by the bad guys, so they weren't actually ''alone''...

* This can be subverted if someone sticks around to watch, or if the act must be performed in public. There was a scene from the end of a [[HarryPotter Snapefic]] in which a Heroic!Snape was trying to save the kids while pretending he was about to kill them, as part of a celebration held by the Death Eaters. So he's acting all crazy and even forcing Hermione to kiss him (no, no such Ship in this fic) so he could get close enough to hand her a vial of antidote and whisper some instructions.

* Textbook example in ''{{The Green Zone}}'' (but no sexual innuendo), though it turns out the target prisoner is beaten up pretty badly and the conversation doesn't go as planned.

** PlayedStraight with Bigwig convincing Blackavar that they are planning a breakout.

* Played with on BurnNotice Michel becomes a prisoner of his own people in order to convince a Russian drug dealer to trust him. Naturally he can't do unless he is left alone with the prisoner.

** He also tried this with Zuko, whispering some information to him while pretending to beat him up. [[OrgasmicCombat But certain implications could have still been made.]]

** He also tried this with Zuko, whispering some information to him under the noise of punching a pillow.

* In the ''BlakeAndMortimer'' book ''The Voronov Plot'', Blake, posing as a Soviet officer tries to pull this in order to contact an imprisoned British spy. Unfortunately, he is interrupted by Captain [[SignificantAnagram Ilkor]]...

** And she only ended up hitting him when he made to kiss her ''before'' revealing his identity (he was actually hoping to reveal himself ''with'' the kiss as a CallBack to something she had done), which she doesn't react to well, [[PrisonRape for obvious reasons]].

* Textbook example in ''{{The Green Zone}}'' (but no sexual innuendo), though it turns out the target prisoner is beaten up pretty badly and the conversation doesn't go as planned.

** Furthermore in the original novel, Bigwig takes advantage of the fact that his position as Owsla gives him freedom of sex, so when he asks for her to be brought to his burrow everyone merely assumes he meant to mate.

** He also tried this with Zuko, whispering some sinofrmation to him under the noise of punching a pillow.

* [[FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] pulls a hilarious version when trying to contact the fake Elric brothers.