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* ''{{Monster}}'' has this happen once too. In Episode Six, a couple of detectives are apparently transporting Tenma and Anna Liebert to their police station.(They actually work for Johan Leibert.) Tenma eventually figures this out when one of them calls him "Dr. Tenma" even though he only told them his name and not that he was a doctor.

* An episode of GeneralHospital had the cops interrogating a man found driving a missing woman's stolen car (He had carjacked her and left her on the side of the road, but had not physically harmed her). The man denies having anything to do with the woman's disappearance and swears, "I would never hurt a pregnant lady!" However, the cops had never told him that that the woman was pregnant.

-->'''Lassiter:''' Hang on a minute! I don't believe anyone said the witness' name. You're under arrest.

* [[{{Dexter}} Debra Morgan]] realises who really [[spoiler: shot her and Lundy]] when the perpetrator asks her what it was like to [[spoiler: watch the life go out of the eyes of the man she loved]]. This was far from common knowledge even in the station. She does consider that the person could have figured it out or been told by another cop, and investigates accordingly, but eventually concedes that there is no other explanation.

* This is one of the reasons civil rights advocates warn people never to talk to the police without an attorney present. Even an innocent person can make assumptions about a case, and look guilty if they turn out to be right. For example, you might say, "I don't even own a gun," when you were never told the victim had been shot. It's even possible for the police to "forget" while testifying that they actually ''did'' give you the information before the interview began. Then you're screwed.

* Suspicion that Mario Souza had ordered or co-ordinated Brazilian gangland murders for his TV show ''Canal Livre'' grew when he approached a still-smouldering body in a forest, saying “It smells like a barbecue,” he says. “It is a man. It has the smell of burning meat. The impression is that it was in the early hours . . . it was an execution.”, even though the police had never given a time of death. Also, he tended to arrive a little too quickly at the scene of the crime. He died before he could be prosecuted.

One of {{the oldest tricks in the book}}.

* In the Hoshiyomi filler arc of ''{{Inuyasha}}'', demons manage to get a photo of three of Kagome's friends from her backpack, and use it to create puppets of them in order to trick Kagome and Hojo into handing over the magic blade that their master needs. Kagome is suspicious to begin with, but her suspicions are confirmed when one of the three calls her by her name - which she hadn't mentioned to them.

This trope must be handled carefully; when sloppily done it's likely to turn what should be a dramatic moment into a FridgeLogic. The most common mistake is making the piece of information something that the person who makes the "slip" could reasonably have found out without committing the offense. The second most common mistake is making the "slip" an assumption that could be reasonably be made even by an innocent person.

* The ''AceAttorney'' games use this a lot. One example in the third game has the murderer give himself away by [[spoiler:correcting the colour of a poison bottle after Phoenix does some LyingToThePerp.]]. This includes FridgeLogic though, since the villain who gave himself away COULD HAVE KNOWN that piece of information. [[spoiler: He was the defendent's lawyer for a little while, so it was likely he knew the poison bottle]].

-->'''Lawyer:''' * I'll* ask the questions here, Carjacker Willie!

* The ''AceAttorney'' games use this a lot. One example in the third game has the murderer give himself away by [[spoiler:correcting the colour of a poison bottle after Phoenix does some LyingToThePerp.]] This trope is also {{Inverted|Trope}} a couple of times - in ''Apollo Justice'', a killer [[spoiler:makes a seemingly unremarkable comment about cards used in a game at the crime scene having blue backs, when in fact they had red backs.]] This only causes problems for the villain because [[spoiler:Apollo looks at the victim's hand, and one of the cards ''does'' have a blue back. This leads to the deduction that the killer must have swapped a card out in favour of the blue card for some reason, but without having seen what colour the cards were, causing the finger to point at the one person who already claimed the cards to be blue with no provocation.]]
** That particular villain has a habit of waxing poetic about minor details... which comes back to bite him in the ass ''twice'' during that case. Kind of strange given how chillingly cunning he's seen to be otherwise.

** [[NotASubversion Ahem]]. That would be a subversion.

** Used in Going Postal. Moist is being interrogated by [[ObfuscatingStupidity Carrot]], all while under the guise of being an upstanding pillar of the community businessman. When he tries to shut Carrot down due to him being aware of this trope...
--> '''Carrot''': Thank you.
--> '''Moist''': Thanks? For what?
--> '''Carrot''': For telling me you're the kind of person who knows how this sort of thing goes.

* Use in a filler arc of ''{{Inuyasha}}'', the demons manage to get their hands on a photo of Kagome's friends. And create puppets of them to try and trick Kagome and Hojo (a ancestor of a friend of hers in the present) into handing over a blade the current big bad needs. While already suspicious before hand, what really tips Kagome off is when they mention her name which she had yet to give them.

** Used in one of the books Moist is in. (Little help, please?) He's being interrogated by [[ObfuscatingStupidity Carrot]], all while under the guise of being an upstanding, morale businessman. When he tries to shut Carrot down due to him being aware of this trope...

* In [[WildChild Wild Child]], when Poppy is before the Honour Court for setting fire to the school, head girl Harriet accidentally reveals that she was actually the one who started the fire, by talking about the very specific ligther that Poppy supposedly used when no one has mentioned anything about a ligther.

* In ''Wild Child'', when Poppy is before the Honour Court for setting fire to the school, head girl Harriet accidentally reveals that she was actually the one who started the fire, by talking about the ligther that Poppy supposedly used when no one has mentioned anything about a ligther.