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* ''Series/JakeAndTheFatman'': In "How Long Has This Thing Been Going On?", Jake takes a female PrivateInvestigator to the house where the murder was committed. While pretending to search another part of the room, he watches in a mirror as she retrieves a listening device she had planted earlier. The fact that she went straight to where it was hidden proves she had been in the house before.
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* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the 1956 [[WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}} Noveltoons]] short "Sleuth but Sure": As Moe Hare is driving off in his getaway car, he looks in his rear view mirror sees [[TheCatCameBack detective Tommy Tortoise]] seemingly hot on his trail, and accelerates to get away from him. To his surpirse however, Tommy Tortoise ''still'' appears to be following him, [[RevealShot so he looks back to find that Tommy Tortoise is not following his car, but actually on his car.]]

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* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the 1956 [[WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}} Noveltoons]] short "Sleuth but Sure": As Moe Hare is driving off in his getaway car, he looks in his rear view mirror sees [[TheCatCameBack detective Tommy Tortoise]] seemingly hot on his trail, and accelerates to get away from him. To his surpirse however, Tommy Tortoise ''still'' appears to be following him, [[RevealShot so he looks back to find that Tommy Tortoise is not following his car, but actually on his car.]]
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* [[main/{{playingwithatrope}} Played with]] in the 1956 [[westernanimation/{{noveltoons}} Noveltoons]] short "Sleuth but Sure": As Moe Hare is driving off in his getaway car, he looks in his rear view mirror sees [[main/{{thecatcameback}} detective Tommy Tortoise]] seemingly hot on his trail, and accelerates to get away from him. To his surpirse however, Tommy Tortoise ''still'' appears to be following him, [[main/{{revealshot}} so he looks back to find that Tommy Tortoise is not following his car, but actually on his car.]]

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* [[main/{{playingwithatrope}} [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the 1956 [[westernanimation/{{noveltoons}} 1956 [[WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}} Noveltoons]] short "Sleuth but Sure": As Moe Hare is driving off in his getaway car, he looks in his rear view mirror sees [[main/{{thecatcameback}} sees [[TheCatCameBack detective Tommy Tortoise]] seemingly hot on his trail, and accelerates to get away from him. To his surpirse however, Tommy Tortoise ''still'' appears to be following him, [[main/{{revealshot}} him, [[RevealShot so he looks back to find that Tommy Tortoise is not following his car, but actually on his car.]]
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* [[main/{{playingwithatrope}} Played with]] in the 1956 [[westernanimation/{{noveltoons}} Noveltoons]] short "Sleuth but Sure": As Moe Hare is driving off in his getaway car, he looks in his rear view mirror sees [[main/{{thecatcameback}} detective Tommy Tortoise]] seemingly hot on his trail, and accelerates to get away from him. To his surpirse however, Tommy Tortoise ''still'' appears to be following him, [[main/{{revealshot}} so he looks back to find that Tommy Tortoise is not following his car, but actually on his car.]]<em>
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* [[main/{{playingwithatrope}} Played with]] in the 1956 [[westernanimation/{{noveltoons}} Noveltoons]] short "Sleuth but Sure": As Moe Hare is driving off in his getaway car, he looks in his rear view mirror sees [[main/{{thecatcameback}} detective Tommy Tortoise]] seemingly hot on his trail, and accelerates to get away from him. To his surpirse however, Tommy Tortoise ''still'' appears to be following him, [[main/{{revealshot}} so he looks back to find that Tommy Tortoise is not following his car, but actually on his car.]]<em>
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* [[main/{{playingwithatrope}} Played with]] in the 1956 [[westernanimation/{{noveltoons}} Noveltoons]] short "Sleuth but Sure": As Moe Hare is driving off in his getaway car, he looks in his rear view mirror sees [[main/{{thecatcameback}} detective Tommy Tortoise]] seemingly hot on his trail, and accelerates to get away from him. To his surpirse however, Tommy Tortoise ''still'' appears to be following him, [[main/{{revealshot}} so he looks back to find that Tommy Tortoise is not following his car, but actually on his car.]]<em>
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* The action film ''Film/InTheLineOfDuty4Witness'' has the heroine, Rachel, noticing the CarBomb planted under her car thanks to a water puddle underneath reflecting the bomb's blinking timer. Cue Rachel [[OutrunTheFireball running away from the subsequent blast]].
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* ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'': One of the [[{{Cult}} Shangri-La]] members that kidnap Arisugawa reveals to him that they're secretly a journalist who plans to help him if things get too dangerous. However, he's found out by the other members when one of them spies him using his dictaphone in a mirror's reflection, and he ends up getting killed as a result.

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* In ''Film/TheSadist'', Ed hides behind one of the junked cars in the junkyard in an attempt to ambush Charlie, but Charlie sees in reflected in the wing mirror of one of the other cars and is ready for him.
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* Literature/SherlockHolmes
** In ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', Watson is surprised when Holmes, despite sitting with his back to Watson, knows he's examining the cane their mystery visitor has left behind. Holmes points out he has a well-polished coffeepot in front of him.
** In ''The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire'', Holmes is apparently staring out the window in disinterest when he's actually using the window's reflection to observe the culprit.
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* In ''Film/Transporter2'', Frank discovers a bomb has been planted on his Audi when he sees it reflected in a puddle.

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* In ''Film/Transporter2'', Frank discovers a bomb has been planted on underneath his Audi when he sees it reflected in a puddle.

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