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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Tainted Fruit", Detective Barnaby realizes that the killer has just planted the murder weapon in a FallGuy's bag, so he tells them that he had searched the bag just before and found nothing incriminating. When he opens the bag and pulls out the weapon, the killer confesses. Afterwards, it's revealed that he lied about having already checked the bag.

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Tainted Fruit", "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E1 Tainted Fruit]]", Detective Barnaby realizes that the killer has just planted the murder weapon in a FallGuy's bag, so he tells them that he had searched the bag just before and found nothing incriminating. When he opens the bag and pulls out the weapon, the killer confesses. Afterwards, it's revealed that he lied about having already checked the bag.
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** Conway Jefferson in ''The Body in the Library'' and Madame Renaud in ''Literature/TheMurderOnTheLinks'' make it known that they are changing their wills the following day, [[spoiler:to [[TheBait induce the killer to attempt an assassination]] during the night, when the police will be waiting for them]].

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** Conway Jefferson in ''The Body in the Library'' and Madame Renaud Renauld in ''Literature/TheMurderOnTheLinks'' make it known that they are changing their wills the following day, [[spoiler:to [[TheBait induce the killer to attempt an assassination]] during the night, when the police will be waiting for them]].
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** Castle gets his own in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: a stuck-up rich kid has killed his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, framed his friends for the murder, and is convinced that Beckett has no proof (he's almost correct — it's slim). Castle launches into an extended, sinister-sounding "he had it coming" routine on behalf of the killer, who responds with "Exactly."

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** Castle gets his own in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: a stuck-up rich kid has killed his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, framed one of his friends for the murder, murder before killing him too, and is convinced that Beckett has no proof (he's almost correct — it's slim). Castle launches into an extended, sinister-sounding "he had it coming" routine on behalf of the killer, who responds with "Exactly."



* Done unintentionally in ''Series/ColdCase''. In the episode "Spiders" the team has a witness brought to the crime scene where his mother was killed. They call in a woman whom the witness recognized. As soon as they mention there's a witness saying she helped with the murder, she quickly denies it, claiming it was impossible for anyone to see that night.

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* Done unintentionally in ''Series/ColdCase''. In the episode "Spiders" "Spiders", the team has a witness brought to the crime scene where his mother was killed. They call in a woman whom the witness recognized. As soon as they mention there's a witness saying she helped with participated in the murder, she quickly denies it, claiming [[INeverSaidItWasPoison it was impossible for anyone to see that night.night]].

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** In yet another Criminal Intent episode, a hitman/family man who kept the bodies in a giant freezer in the garage (under the ice cream!) was undone after Goren convinced the medical examiner to report that one of the people who was murdered had lost a cap from his tooth. The hitman tore his garage apart all night trying to find it, and in the morning, when the cops came around, he blurted out how he hadn't made a mistake, there was no cap, and they arrested him.

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** In yet another Criminal Intent ''Criminal Intent'' episode, a hitman/family man who kept the bodies in a giant freezer in the garage (under the ice cream!) was undone after Goren convinced the medical examiner to report that one of the people who was murdered had lost a cap from his tooth. The hitman tore his garage apart all night trying to find it, and in the morning, when the cops came around, he blurted out how he hadn't made a mistake, there was no cap, and they arrested him.


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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': During the ''Murders at Karlov Manor'' storyline, multiple high-ranking figures on Ravnica are targeted for assassination. At the end of the investigation, GreatDetective Alquist Proft summons all of the relevant parties for a SummationGathering, declares that the culprit is among them, but that he needs to interrogate each of them in private before he can solve the case. He starts with one of his fellow investigators, Kaya (herself a skilled assassin), and proceeds to ask her [[spoiler:absolutely nothing. The culprit is using MindControl to make others commit the killings on their behalf, taking care not to do so with any witnesses around. Proft figured that if he isolated himself with Kaya, the culprit would attempt to mind control ''her'' to silence him, allowing him to catch them in the act.]]
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* Done unintentionally in ''Series/ColdCase''. The team has a witness to a crime scene where his mother was killed. They call in a woman whom the witness recognized. As soon as they mention there's a witness saying she helped with the murder, she quickly denies it, claiming it was impossible for anyone to see that night.

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* Done unintentionally in ''Series/ColdCase''. The In the episode "Spiders" the team has a witness brought to a the crime scene where his mother was killed. They call in a woman whom the witness recognized. As soon as they mention there's a witness saying she helped with the murder, she quickly denies it, claiming it was impossible for anyone to see that night.
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* Not surprisingly, done several times in ''Series/{{Castle}}''. Some notable instances:

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* Not surprisingly, done several times in ''Series/{{Castle}}''.''Series/{{Castle|2009}}''. Some notable instances:
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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode "Inspector Red", the Fraggle Horn, which is used to summon Fraggles to meetings in the Great Hall, is missing. Red takes it upon herself to determine what happened. Henchy, BeleagueredAssistant to the World's Oldest Fraggle, gathers all of Red's suspects together. Red then accuses [[spoiler: herself of stealing the Fraggle Horn. Henchy, unwilling to let someone who's innocent [[TakingTheHeat take the blame]], immediately confesses to having stolen the Horn. He had done so to try and put a stop to the meetings, since the World's Oldest Fraggle tends to preside over them and is always [[CaneFu bonking Henchy with his cane]].]]

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* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In the episode "Inspector Red", the Fraggle Horn, which is used to summon Fraggles to meetings in the Great Hall, is missing. Red takes it upon herself to determine what happened. Henchy, BeleagueredAssistant to the World's Oldest Fraggle, gathers all of Red's suspects together. Red then accuses [[spoiler: herself [[spoiler:herself of stealing the Fraggle Horn. Henchy, unwilling to let someone who's innocent [[TakingTheHeat take the blame]], immediately confesses to having stolen the Horn. He had done so to try and put a stop to the meetings, since the World's Oldest Fraggle tends to preside over them and is always [[CaneFu bonking Henchy with his cane]].]]

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