Sometimes, when the police are trying to solve a case and a large number of suspects and/or persons of interest are being interrogated (or perhaps simply interviewed), the questioner is shown getting an answer from one person, then asking a follow-up question that gets answered by an entirely different person (suggesting they are merely asking the same series of questions over and over again), which causes a seamless blending effect.

Compare TerribleIntervieweesMontage, TwoScenesOneDialogue.

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A common occurrence in many superhero stories, particularly if ComicBook/{{Batman}} is involved. Writer Creator/ChuckDixon was especially fond of having not just Batman (or Robin), but ordinary cops and even criminal {{Mooks}} on the interrogating end.
** At the end of ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'', Creator/GregRucka pulled off an [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/iu4A_ZfAd8zabhVYG_gDRGvWtBRT2khuTr7-9wr1g7kwwO96zaE7W4vE00ggrlAPNhvUnPynLfoK=s1600 an especially lavish version]].
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': "Espionage" has one that shows Wonder Woman being put under an interrogation by her supposed captor that goes for over three weeks.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''. Nightwing goes round showing a picture of Harley.
-->'''Man:''' Haven't seen her.\\
'''Bum:''' Would have liked to!\\
'''Landlord:''' Dame owes me three weeks back rent! If you find her, you tell her she can eat my sh--\\
'''Old man:''' [[AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption Sheee had]]...the cutest smile.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* Used as a RunningGag in ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', when Simon uses ''Speak With Dead'' to magically question some barbarians' corpses about the battle in which they'd fallen. As the Macguffin the party seeks had changed hands repeatedly during the fight, he has to revive dozens of dead men before finally learning where it ended up.
* In ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', this is used when the Gestapo interrogates the members of the Novotny family about the mysterious Mr. "Karel Vanek".
* ''Film/AHauntingInVenice''. Poirot and Ariadne interrogate two sibling assistants of the murdered spiritualist separately, yet the interrogation is intercut between them. The brother is shown to believe in their former employer's powers while his sister dismisses her as a fraud and manipulator.
* In ''Film/InsideMan'', [[spoiler:the bank robbers hide themselves among their hostages,]] so the police have to interview ''all'' the hostages afterwards. The interviews are shown as a series of montages, [[AnachronicOrder sprinkled throughout the movie anachronically]].
* ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'' has a montage of the CowboyCop roughing up various hoodlums for information, culminating in a guy in a HazmatSuit who's on fire for [[NoodleIncident unknown reasons]]. Our hero [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight casually points out]] a nearby fire extinguisher to his rookie partner so he can put the fire out.
* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' reaches the logical conclusion of an interrogation ''song'', when the Muppets are framed for an art museum theft. Overlapping with TerribleIntervieweesMontage, the Muppets prove their innocence by showing they wouldn't be ''capable'' of committing the crime with their chaotic shenanigans.
* Used along with overlapping and split screen in ''Film/StargateContinuum'' to show the three Stargate team members from our universe being relentlessly interrogated by military investigators from the other universe they've been diverted to (where Stargate Command and the Stargate program do not exist). That they stick to their stories despite how ludicrous they sound only makes their assertions seem that much weirder to the interrogators--and to us in the audience (and we're on their side).
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': The interrogations of the team before the famous "line-up scene", where they successively blow off the cops.
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* ''Series/AgentCarter'': In "SNAFU", three SSR agents interrogate Peggy Carter separately, each using a different approach -- Sousa ([[ThisIsUnforgivable betrayed colleague]]), Thompson (FireForgedFriend), Dooley (WorthyOpponent). Carter's answers are cut between the three of them, but form a single dialogue.
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' inverts this in "The Coat Hanger". A small number of officials, plus the Monsignor and Dr. Arden, question Leigh about why Sister Jude would try to kill him. [[spoiler:The truth is that she did it in self-defense, and it's all part of an ongoing ploy to keep Jude out of power in the asylum.]]
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': A variation in "[[Recap/ArrowS1E5Damaged Damaged]]" when Oliver Queen is getting a polygraph test from Detective Lance over whether he is the Hood vigilante, intercut with a flashback of Oliver being interrogated and tortured on Lian Yu.
-->'''Quentin:''' Are you the man in this picture? ''[shows Oliver a police sketch of the Hood]''\\
''[IronicEchoCut to flashback of the island]''\\
'''Fyers:''' Where can I find the man in this picture? ''[shows photo of Yao Fei]''
* ''Series/{{Bosch}}'':
** Season 4 episode 3 has one when Robertson and Pierce are respectively interviewing Pipes and Fix to get their whereabouts at the time of Howard Elias's death.
** Season 5 episode 2 has one when Billets is getting Crate's and Barrel's stories about their vehicular collision with another patrol car while responding to a deadly pharmacy robbery. The scene starts with her interviewing Crate, and ends with her interview of Barrel.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot "Earshot"]], the gang splits up to investigate who might be the potential killer. The scene cuts between Willow, Xander, Oz, and Cordelia interrogating different people around the school.
** When the Watcher's Council are grilling the Scoobies in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint Checkpoint]]".
** Between Buffy and Faith in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E15Consequences Consequences]]" when they're being interrogated by police over their whereabouts on the night the deputy Mayor of Sunnydale was killed (by Faith). [[BlatantLies Neither give the same answers, despite both claiming they were together]].
* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'':
** In "Deep in Death", Beckett, Ryan, and Esposito simultaneously interrogate three members of a drug gang about a murder.
** In "A Rose for Everafter", a murder occurs at a wedding and there are several montages of the detectives interrogating the wedding guests.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015''. The jury selection montage for the [[ComicBook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]] trial, showing how the city is divided between those who think he's a heroic vigilante and those who regard him as a murderous nutter.
* ''Series/DarkMatter2015'': As the Android is a LivingLieDetector, the crew have her ask everyone a series of test questions to determine if one of them is only pretending to have had their memories wiped.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]], the Doctor asks a number of dinner guests about the death of Professor Peach, in a manner much like the novels of Creator/AgathaChristie (who is a major supporting character in this episode).
* Occurs in the ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' episode "A Spy In the House of Love" when Echo is interrogating the Dollhouse employees.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In "[[Recap/FireflyE03Bushwhacked Bushwhacked]]", seven of the ''Serenity'' crew are arrested, resulting in a truly hilarious game of this -- especially given that half of them are reacting comically, and the other half are being [[TheComicallySerious excessively serious]].
* A variation in the ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' episode "The Diary" - Coach Fredericks has all the boys in gym class recite the prank call Bill made the previous day. HilarityEnsues.
* Downplayed in the 2020 miniseries ''Series/TheHead'' with a montage of the psychological evaluations of the winterers of an Antarctic research station. It serves as a HappyFlashback given that the audience has seen them all turning on each other in mutual suspicion after several murders take place.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': The episode "JAG TV" has a scene like this, with Mac interviewing the husband and Harm with the wife suspected of killing her husband's lover.
* ''Series/Lucifer2016''. When an ex-lover of Lucifer's is murdered, Detective Chloe Decker decides to haul in everyone he's slept with recently for questioning (which is a ''[[TheHedonist lot]]'' of men and women). They all end up saying the same thing: [[SexGod the sex was amazing]], various NoodleImplements were involved, and ItDoesntMeanAnything. Lucifer [[IJustWantToBeLoved isn't as pleased as he ought to be]].
* Used in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' in which several members of an insurgent-fighting marine unit use suspiciously identical phrases to recount the events of the same skirmish.
* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles:'' In "Free Ride", Callen does this to a sailor and a Marine in the brig for fighting in the mess, in hopes of finding clues about the murder of the carrier's resident NCIS Agent Afloat.
* A comedic example of this occurs in ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' where Dwight interrogates the employees of Dunder Mifflin over a joint found in the parking lot. Of course, it ends with Jim taking the piss.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest:''
** "Prisoner's Dilemma" has one between Carter and four men (including Reese) who are suspected to be the Man In The Suit.
** And again in "Proteus", involving a seismograph used as a lie detector.
** "Terra Incognita" has a montage of the same suspect being interrogated by two different questioners, one in flashback and one in the present.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Private Madness Public Danger" between Cowley and Doyle interrogating a drug pusher at [=CI5=] headquarters, and Bodie questioning one of his junkies at the hospital.
* The TV movie ''Pueblo'' moves between the US Navy's court of inquiry into the capture of the SpyShip USS Pueblo, and flashbacks of the crew's interrogation by their North Korean captors.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E18ComingOfAge Coming of Age]]", this technique is used when Remmick aggressively interrogates various members of the Enterprise bridge crew, while attempting to uncover a mysterious conspiracy.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E16DrBashirIPresume Doctor Bashir, I Presume?]]", Dr Zimmerman wants to create a medical hologram based on Doctor Bashir, so he interviews Bashir's friends and workmates to get a handle on his personality.
* Near the end of the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E14SuchSweetSorrowPartTwo Such Sweet Sorrow, Part Two]]", Captain Pike and his officers are debriefed after the Battle of Xahea. Their answers to the admiral's questions make it clear that they took the time to get their stories straight and hide the truth about what really happened to ''Discovery''.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS12E09FirstBlood First Blood]]", the Winchester brothers have been arrested and since [[YouHaveToBelieveMe no-one would believe them anyway]], they just maintain an absolute silence. The FBI agent's speech is [[TwoScenesOneDialogue rendered as a single dialogue]], with him cutting between Sam and Dean whom he's interrogating in separate cells.
* In an episode of ''{{Series/Titus}}'' the gang got thrown off a plane when they were MistakenForTerrorist. Most of the next episode was an Interrogation Montage of the TrueCompanions, all speaking to a FourthWall Federal Marshall.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In one episode, Mudler and Scully are interrogating two girls in separate rooms about a suspicious death, but they both tell the same story. ''Exactly'' the same story.
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