History SpannerInTheWorks / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/{{Profit}}'': In his first episode, Sykes is trying to obtain evidence to convinct a mob boss who once [[ItsPersonal murdered his best friend]]. His initial plan was to get a job at Gracen & Gracen, then suggest a merger with the [[TotallyNotACriminalFront mob boss' waste management company]] where he launders most of his money so Sykes can obtain a copy of his books. However, he's baffled when [[VillainProtagonist Profit]] ''doesn't'' walk into his office refusing to partner with a criminal and goes ahead with the deal anyway. As a result, Sykes has to play an extended game of cat and mouse with Profit to eventually get the evidence he needs.

* ''Series/{{Profit}}'': In his first episode, Sykes is trying to obtain evidence to convinct a mob boss who once [[ItsPersonal murdered his best friend]]. His initial plan was to get a job at Gracen & Gracen, then suggest a merger with the mob boss' waste management company where he launders most of his money so Sykes can obtain a copy of his books. However, he's baffled when [[VillainProtagonist Profit]] ''doesn't'' walk into his office refusing to partner with a criminal and goes ahead with the deal anyway. As a result, Sykes has to change his plan multiple times to finally get the evidence he needs.

** The Season 10 finale, "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS10E22Zebras Zebras]]", had a ''mosquito'' of all things be this. It had been killed in the same gas attack that had killed the perp's lawyer and everyone knew it could reveal who the killer was. [[spoiler:What they didn't realize was that the killer ''wasn't'' who they thought it was.]]

* On ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Lincoln's severe wounding by James during the fight on the Zephyr put him in a situation where he sees that Daisy has the necklace that she'd foreseen being present in the explosion that kills someone on the team, which clues him into the fact she's preparing [[HeroicSacrifice to take the warhead up in the Quinjet herself]] which then motivates him to do it instead, being the only one who has the power to fry the Quinjet's systems so Hive can't stop it. Had James not seriously wounded Lincoln, he wouldn't have had the conversation with Daisy.
** In the seventh season, the team finds themselves sent back in time to 1955 and have to infiltrate a SHIELD base. Simmons poses as iconic SHIELD operative Peggy Carter and, thanks to being from the future, has all the details needed to make the impersonation work for the low-level agents who only know Carter by reputation. It's just bad luck that also at the base is Daniel Sousa who just happens to have worked with the real Peggy Carter and thus knows this is an imposter.

* In ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', Kilgrave had just been BlownAcrossTheRoom by Jessica, who then has him BoundAndGagged. And then Robyn, who harbors a huge grudge on Jessica, knocks the woman who she thinks killed her brother, before [[DramaticIrony releasing the guy who actually did so]], thinking he's someone Jessica is abusing. This leads to [[spoiler:her and a few other people nearly being hanged on Kilgrave's command, along with Kilgrave's escape, Hope's suicide, and the abduction of Kilgrave's father.]]

* In the ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' episode "Till Death Do Us Part", two fiancés attempt to pull off ThePerfectCrime and murder the bride's father on their wedding day. The first act is an extended ImagineSpot of the pair imagining how they're going to pull off ThePerfectCrime with a brilliant plan. Cue the actual murder...where ''nothing'' goes to plan, from the pair oversleeping to being unable to get the cap off the bottle of poison to knocking over an entire bookshelf trying to plant evidence. Despite all that, they succeed in killing their target, but fail to get away with it due to the unexpected interference of a dog.

* In the ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' episode "Till Death Do Us Part", two fiancés attempt to pull off ThePerfectCrime and murder the bride's father on their wedding day. They succeed in killing their target, but fail to get away with it due to the unexpected interference of a dog.

*** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E05TheAssignment The Assignment]]"; when Keiko is possessed by a malevolent alien called a Pah-wraith that threatens to kill her if O'Brien doesn't perform some "adjustments" to the station, O'Brien recruits Rom to help him. Rom's surprising grasp of what the "adjustments" would do to the station ([[WhamLine "Why are we trying to kill the wormhole aliens?"]]) plus his knowledge of Bajoran mythology and folklore from his conversations with Leeta end up giving O'Brien the key he needs to thwart the Pah-wraith's plans and save his wife.

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': The two-part "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E20ImprobableCause Improbable Cause]]"/"[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E21TheDieIsCast The Die Is Cast]]" has Enabran Tain, former head of the Obsidian Order, organize a joint operation with the Romulan Tal Shiar to make a preemptive strike on the Founder homeworld. It's a well-detailed plan headed up by arguably the most brilliant mind the Order has ever seen...and it fails because Tain misses how one of the chief Romulans has been replaced by a Changeling. Thus, the strike turns into a trap wiping out the Order and Tal Shiar forces.