->''"Hey, what are you doing up here? Wait a minute...What the hell is this?! Oh my God...it's YOU! The man or woman who's been killing everybody!"''
-->-- '''Derek''', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

Some (usually) minor character suddenly sees someone he recognizes, but who really shouldn't be here at the moment and whose face we can't see. Then he exclaims: [[YouExclamation "You?!.."]] or "What are you doing here?" and gets immediately killed.

This is a much used trope, to the point of being a cliché, in British TV mystery series of the more traditional kind, e.g., ''Series/MidsomerMurders'', ''Series/InspectorMorse'', or anything adapted from Creator/AgathaChristie. It's a way of letting the viewer see the murder without giving away who did it. We may also see the victim from the killer's viewpoint, in which case it's an overlap with ImpendingDoomPOV or MurdererPOV.

Can become a TearJerker.

Related to EtTuBrute.

'''As a {{Death Trope|s}}, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Kaji's last words are a casual "You're late".
* Happens to [[BrilliantButLazy Kyoraku]] in the second ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' movie. After a few seconds of scuffling with a mysterious ice-wielding enemy, he manages to cut off his opponent's mask and get a look at his face. He remarks "You're...!" Cue scene cut to Kyoraku in the hospital.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Happens to the ComicBook/MartianManhunter right before ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' (but not killed, as the main villain needed him alive).
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[[folder:Film — Animated]]
* Metallo's "Oh it's you" in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'', where after the aforementioned heroes engage him in heated battle and escape from an apparent defeat, Metallo checks the place and is approached by a shadowy figure resembling ComicBook/CaptainAtom or Major Force. A couple of hours later, at most, Metallo's murder is pinned on Superman.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'', the opening scene is shot from the serial killer's point of view, and the confused target lets out one of these before he gets cudgelled on the head with a rolling pin.
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[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'': The death isn't shown on screen, but Ace figures out that Roger Pedacter was murdered because he saw Police Lieutenant Lois Einhorn and realized that she used to be disgraced former Miami Dolphins kicker Ray Finkle in the middle of a revenge plot.
* In ''Film/{{Clue}}'', Yvette is killed by HeWhoMustNotBeSeen just after saying, "It's you!"
* In the 2010 film ''Film/{{Faster}}'', Driver (played by Dwayne Johnson) shoots and kills a man who immediately recognizes him upon his entrance. Later scenes reveal him as the Telemarketer, one of five men who assisted in killing Driver's brother Gary.
* In the original ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', this is how Steve Christy meets his end.
* In ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'', Delores steps into an elevator, obviously recognizes the other occupant, smiles and says, "What are you doing here?" Then the other person (Merv Griffin) [[ItMakesSenseInContext injects window cleaner into her butt]]. It kills her... mostly.
* In ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', Keyser Soze finds the man who can identify him, who begs him, "I promise...I told them nothing..." Soze is bathed in golden light, and then there's a DiscretionShot as Soze shoots him.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/AgathaChristie did this in works such as ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', ''Literature/SleepingMurder'' and the short story "Three Blind Mice". In all three cases, the unidentified murderer speaks to the victim before killing them, but this part is omitted from the TV and stage adaptations since they do not share the written medium's ability to have an unidentified person speak without their voice giving them away to the audience.
* At the start of ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'' Doctor Vetra sees and identifies the killer just before he dies.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The choir director's last words in ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'' are "What are you doing here?
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The Forsaken Asmodean meets his death this way soon after his forced HeelFaceTurn, exploring a royal palace that TheChosenOne had just liberated from one of Asmodean's erstwhile comrades. The identity of his killer is only confirmed ''eight books'' later.
-->Asmodean pulled open a small door, intending to find his way to the pantry. There should be some decent wine. One step, and he stopped, the blood draining from his face. "You? No!" The word still hung in the air when death took him.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The first episode of ''Series/Charmed1998'' starts this way, when a witch says "What are you doing here?" and then gets stabbed to death.
* Parodied on ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. Carlton and Ashley are playing "whodunnit", and "murders" (carried out with sucker darts) of this type happen throughout the episode. Played completely straight when Will is accused of being the murderer and ends up AcquittedTooLate (to his irritation, since he isn't playing). The murderer was Aunt Vivian, if you were wondering.
* In ''Series/HomeAndAway'', Josh West says, "What are you doing here?" in the episode where he is killed. Arguably a subversion, as he had a brief conversation with the killer (later shown in flashback once he was exposed as such), before pulling out ''his own'' gun.
* ''Series/LoisAndClark'': Elliott Gould says this just before he's killed by the baddie of the week, as Lois is in his bathroom and sees the killer. Subverted, though, in that we actually see the killer, too; but it turns out he's a MasterOfDisguise, so seeing him doesn't help. The person Lois thought she saw kill Gould was at a conference delivering a speech at the time of the murder.
* One fan theory (of several) about the FadeToBlack SeriesFinale of ''Series/TheSopranos'' is that it's Tony having a heart attack as he sees who's entering the restaurant.
* In season 3, the Dean of Heart College in ''Series/VeronicaMars'' gives us a "What are you doing here?" The next time we see him, he's dead.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', Ocelot does this to a guard (he isn't hidden from the viewer, but it's a surprise that he's even there at all).
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. The mysterious Origami Killer visits a small-time crook in his office - a guy who had been renting space to Origami for his little 'games' in various derelict buildings. He goes, "Oh, it's just you..." and then chats a bit before the killer offs him so the victim cannot identify him to anyone.
* In one of the {{Bad End}}s of ''VisualNovel/{{Remember 11}}'', Kokoro manages only to say this before she is killed.
** Given that it's highly implied the killer is Enomoto, Kokoro may have actually been trying to say "Who are you?"
* VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry: The BadEnding to the Eye-Opening Chapter (which actually has a lower main-cast body count than the True Ending of that arc) ends with someone approaching Keiichi at a park bench and saying hello. Keiichi exclaims, "You're-" and then the final scene shows Mion finding him dead on the park bench. Later TIPS establish that the person who killed Keiichi was Takano. The reason he exclaimed was probably because as far as he knew [[FakingTheDead Takano was supposed to have died at least a month earlier.]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' in that:
## The victim was the author himself, and
## The character who killed him was also the author himself, time traveled from the future to kill him.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "And Then There Were Fewer", Jillian's husband, Derek, dies when he goes out to get a cell phone signal, but is cornered by the killer on a balcony. The trope is parodied when Derek refers to the killer as "the man or woman who's been killing everyone!". It's Diane Simmons.
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