History Main / TheSummation

** In "Mr. Monk and the Miracle," Monk and Natalie disguise themselves as nuns to sneak into a monastery to rescue a converted Captain Stottlemeyer. It's funny because they actually have to harmonize their voices to blend in the summation. You get your usual flashback shots, but Monk and Natalie are speaking in emotionless bass voices. Natalie sounds like she's trying to do a bass.

* The ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'' series generally averts this.

* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games have this. Except for case 1-4, they are set to that games version of "Announce the Truth."

* Played with in ''Literature/ThePatchworkGirl''. The killer realises the investigator is closing in, so confronts him at gunpoint and invites him to talk him out of being shot, leading to this trope. After all, there would be little point in killing him if someone else could follow the same chain of clues.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov loved this trope, because he loved to write neat little stories with perfect logical solutions. Pick any Asimov short story, there's a 90% chance it'll contain one of these.

* The 2009 film of ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' uses this trope. The Detective does this almost constantly--he doesn't even wait until the end of the film! This is because this is how Holmes' mind works--he is constantly analyzing things to their conclusion.

* If not the Ur example., definitely a codifier for the trope: The SherlockHolmes books are almost nothing but this trope.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' requires the player to put together the summation themselves in the form of a manga that is missing panels. Evidence is used to fill in the gaps in the story, and once everything is in place the main character will walk the others through the crime. This phase of the game called "Climax Inference" (or simply "Closing Argument" in the English translation).

* The titular character of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' can't NOT do this. He does it so compulsively that the detective he regularly pretends to be has become famous for passing out and then giving a "deduction show" while unconscious. In fact, Conan does this SO compulsively that at the end of the 11th movie, [[spoiler:the delay NEARLY KILLS the cast, as he's giving the summation [[EverythingTryingToKillYou in an underwater cavern filling up with water and poisonous gas during an EARTHQUAKE.]]]]

* At the climax of ''Film/{{Clue}}'' Wadsworth the butler performs a reenactment of ''every single event'' of the evening at top speed by himself, including several impersonations.

* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' included as much reenactment of ''every single event'' of the evening as he can very humorously manage.

* Exploited in the ''WhateleyUniverse'' Story solving Reach. It was [[spoiler: For the sole purpose of getting the bad guy to flee, scared stiff, and reveal where she kept the hostage. The Summation, however, was real. They just needed that last info. (And the bad guy needed to accomplish his/her plan.)]]

* ''Series/ElleryQueen'' (NBC, 1975) always had ''one'' NoFourthWall moment every episode. Immediately following Ellery's mandatory EurekaMoment, he would turn to the audience, briefly review the key evidence for the viewers, and ask them if they'd figured out who the culprit was. This came from the ElleryQueen books, where the authors would stop at some point and ''tell'' you that you now had enough clues to prove who the murderer was. After that, Ellery Queen would do the big 'one of you is the murderer' speech and solve the murder.

* ''Film/{{Brick}}'' has the protagonist, Brendan, giving it to the mastermind behind it all, to prove they're well and truly caught. He only gets one detail wrong: [[spoiler: the intended result.]]

The part of the show (typically at the end) where the protagonist [[TheReveal reveals]] how the crime was committed. An essential part of a LockedRoomMystery. Another common approach is to have the summation serve as a FramingDevice for a WholeEpisodeFlashback.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' requires the player to put together the summation themselves in the form of a manga that is missing panels. Evidence is used to fill in the gaps in the story, and once everything is in place the main character will walk the others through the crime. This phase of the game called "Climax Inference".

Related to the KirkSummation. May take the form of a SummationGathering.

* There's a long one at the end of ChinaMieville's ''Literature/TheCityAndTheCity''.

--> '''Wadsworth''': And {{to make a long story short}}--
--> '''Everyone Else''': Too late!

* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series: Harry gets one in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets The Chamber of Secrets]]'', near the end, he explains to Ron what the monster is and how it's been getting around the castle, having figured it out from the torn page they found in Hermione's hand.
** And another at the end of the series.

-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' This is my favorite part, where everyone stands around and you sum up the case.
-->'''Brad Terry:''' Thanks.
-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to Mr. Monk.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Dial L for Leela" (part of "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E16AnthologyOfInterestI Anthology of Interest I]]"), Dr. Zoidberg investigates the murders around Planet Express, eventually calling everyone into the accusing parlour to reveal a boot print on Professor Farnsworth's lab coat and Amy Wong's corpse in a clock. Throughout the summation, Leela (who is an impulsive murderer in this story) keeps turning the lights off right as another character (Cubert Farnsworth, then Scruffy the Janitor, then Nibbler) is about to reveal the murderer, with said character revealed to be stabbed upon the lights coming back. Eventually, Zoidberg recieves a letter from Bender (who also had been killed) revealing who done it.

'''Fry:''' ''(yawns)'' I'm bored. You're boring, Zoidberg; I'm gonna go watch TV.\\

''(Fry turns the lights off.)''

-->-- '''Number Four''' [[spoiler:(a.k.a. Claud Darrell)]], ''[[Literature/HerculePoirot The Big Four]]'' (TV adaptation)

->''"You'd already worked out where I was! You could have sent the police to arrest me at any time, but instead you had to have your big finale, [[SummationGathering bring everyone here]] to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech show them how clever you've been]]!"''

* Larry on ClueClub does this once he has all the suspects in one room with Sheriff Bagley waiting to hear whodunnit.

* Related to the above, ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' has this at the end of the fourth arc. It's downplayed because [[spoiler:Battler's explanations for the mysteries are completely wrong, and though he defeats Beatrice he isn't even close to the truth.]]

* Not exactly a crime, but at the end of [[StephenFry Stephen Fry's]] novel ''The Hippopotamus'', the narrator, Ted, gives a brilliant summation of how [[spoiler:all of David's so-called miracles were not his responsibility at all.]]

** {{Lampshade}}d again with the ''{{CSI}}'' parody episode "Mr. Monk and the TV Star". Captain Stottlemeyer walks into the editing room of a clear ''CSI'' {{Expy}} while Brad Terry is helping put together the Summation scene of the episode they're working on: