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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' used this one when the investigators appeared to have found the apartment where a hitman was hiding with his hostage. They broke down the door of a RedHerring, and the hitman opened his on his building's superintendent.

* Done in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', during the episode "Secret Snake Club". A group of nerds are performing a ritual to summon a giant snake, using the power of Grim's scythe. They then hear the door open. Billy (who, [[TwoLinesNoWaiting being trained by the CIA for the entire episode]], is now an agent) comes in to arrest... a macrame club headed by Irwin. The snake nerds are interrupted by one of their brothers.

* ''Series/RomanEmpire''. The emperor Tiberius is on his deathbed, and Caligula is warned he needs to eliminate Gemellus, the other candidate to succeed him. Caligula is shown sneaking up on a bedroom. Gemellus hears a noise, grabs a dagger and opens the door...and there's no-one there. Caligula instead enters Tiberius's bedroom and kills him with a VorpalPillow. Rather than kill Gemellus, Caligula then [[PragmaticVillainy formally adopts him as his sole heir for when he dies]].

* Famously used to set up the AloneWithThePsycho climax in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''. The FBI has tracked down Buffalo Bill's residence, and is about the storm the house after drawing him out with [[DeliveryGuyInfiltration an agent disguised as a delivery man]] ringing the doorbell. Bill hears the doorbell ring, walks up to the entrance...and finds only Clarice Starling in front of him, with her colleagues stuck at the wrong address.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' has the positive version, with closeups of sleeping hobbits mixed with Ringwraiths surrounding the beds. When the stabbing begins, we discover the beds were empty and the hobbits were in another room.
** The scene was lifted from the Creator/RalphBakshi [[WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings animated film]] made in 1978. Not quite shot for shot but kind of close.
* ''Film/{{Collateral}}'' uses this, where an assassin is looking for a lawyer, while she gets a phone call warning her. We see him bursting into her office, only to cut and see that she's several floors above.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': After returning to his dimension after escaping the Spider-Society, Miles desperately runs home while cutting to Miguel and others searching for him and Gwen shows up to help at his residence. However, after deciding to reveal his identity as Spider-Man to his mom, she doesn't who that is, and followed by a dimensional glitch reveals Miles never returned to his universe and instead had been sent to the wrong one.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Mikasa and her parents are expecting a visit from Dr. Jaeger and Eren, and they hear a knock on the door. Cut to Dr. Jaeger knocking on the door. We're led to believe that these scenes occur at the same time...[[SequencingDeception until Dr. Jaeger opens the door to find Mikasa's parents dead and Mikasa herself missing]]; the people knocking the first time were [[SexSlave sex]] [[MadeASlave slavers]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': It initially looks like Junior got the baby safely to her new family despite sabotage from Hunter, but the home he's visiting turns out to be [[spoiler: a trap set by Hunter,]] and the family is actually getting a visit from a very stiff-capped inspector about their recent "home renovations" needing to be taken down.

* ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''. [[TheDragon Fatima Blush]] watches as Film/JamesBond takes a GirlOfTheWeek up to his hotel room. There's a shot of a remote-controlled bomb under the bed, Bond and the girl smooching on the bed, Fatima pressing the button... and the lovers looking up in shock as a room on the other side of the hotel courtyard explodes.

* ''Film/TheEqualizer''. Robert [=McCall=] has escaped the initial attempt by TheMafiya to kill him, and is shown patching up his wounds in a tiny bathroom. However the Russians know where he lives and are shown sneaking up on the apartment, picking the lock, creeping up on the door with the sound of running water and kicking it down...only to find the tap running and no-one there. [=McCall=] is actually watching them via SpyCam from an apartment across the street, having left fake clues in his previous apartment to make it look like he's hastily fled.

* ''Film/BlackWidow2021''. While Natasha Romanov cleans herself up in a public bathroom, a SWAT team led by Secretary Ross are moving in to arrest her. Natasha sees what's happening on a SpyCam image relayed to her mobile phone, so she gives Ross a call, telling Ross not to do it because he's embarrassing himself. The SWAT team kick down the toilet door...as Natasha exits the toilet on a car ferry in Norway, while the SWAT team find her tracking device and Avengers vest abandoned in a train station toilet stall in the United States.

* ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' uses this once.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Waltz," [[EnemyMine Sisko and Dukat]] are stranded on an alien planet while the ''Defiant'' is on a search-and-rescue mission for survivors from the destroyed ship they were on. Sisko transmits a distress call, and the ''Defiant'' is then shown to receive a distress call. They locate two life signs, energize the transporter...and beam aboard two female officers.

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* Done in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', during the episode "Secret Snake Club". A group of nerds are performing a ritual to summon a giant snake, using the power of Grim's scythe. They then hear the door open. Billy (who, [[TwoLinesNoWaiting being trained by the CIA for the entire episode]], is now an agent) comes in to arrest...[[spoiler: a macrame club headed by Irwin. The snake nerds are interrupted by one of their brothers.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Lisa the Drama Queen", Lisa and her new friend Juliet are hiding out in an abandoned castle-shaped restaurant. Marge realizes where they are and the family goes to get her. As the Simpsons arrive to the restaurant, Lisa and Juliet see their silhouettes through the stain glass window. The door opens and... it turns out Marge had gone to the wrong castle-shaped abandoned restaurant; what Lisa saw was Dolph, Kearney and Jimbo wearing hats that made them look like Homer, Marge and Bart.

* Used in the third season of ''Series/BronBroen'', when the SWAT team raid Aleks's house looking for Petersson, the [[DaChief senior cop]] that he's kidnapped, but Aleks and Petersson are in a different building, and simultaneously the BigBad forces his way into it, shoots Aleks and kidnaps Petersson a second time.

* ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans The New Titans]]'' #66 has a scene with what seems to be Raven talking to Jericho, apparently after a date, with panels alternating between showing her talking, and showing him with speech bubbles coming from off-panel (and a middle row of the other Titans discussing how they both have "personal business", and thinking it would be good if it was with each other). It's not until we see an off-panel speech bubble ''replying'' to Raven that we realise these are two different conversations (Jericho is mute). It turns out Raven is talking to Eric Forrester (who will turn out to be a villain) and the woman talking to Jericho is a GirlOfTheWeek. (Unfotunately, Raven is shown kissing Eric [[SpoilerCover on the cover]].)

** Not exactly "far apart", but the strip [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0402.html "Speaking from the Heart"]] plays with people's expectations.
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0803.html "Saved By The Belt"]], Blackwing is flying high into the air with Roy's Belt of Giant Strength while he is in a life or death struggle with Thog. Blackwing then drops the belt, which lands on...Mr. Scruffy, who is cornered by a huge dog, the belt giving him the strength to send it flying through a wall. Ironically, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero this ends up making things worse for Roy]] as he was starting to get the upper hand against Thog, only for the sight of the injured dog to make Thog angrier and overpower Roy again.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' movie, when Shaun and Bitzer get caught by Animal Control and end up in the pound, the other sheep work to break them out. A montage shows them wrapping a chain around the bars of a window which they then use to pull the wall down as Shaun and Bitzer hear them working. When the wall comes down, the sheep see...an empty room. [[EpicFail They had pulled down the wall of the building]] ''[[EpicFail next]]'' [[EpicFail to the pound]]. Cue Shaun doing a FacePalm.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep: The Flight Before Christmas'', Timmy has got stuck in a present that was given to Ben's daughter Ella, and the flock have broken into the house to rescue him. He finds what appears to be the right present under the tree, starts to open it, and we cut to Timmy seeing the box open. And ''Ella'' looks down at him, because she already sneaked the present into her room. Shaun, meanwhile, finds himself looking at a pair of socks.

The [[TitleDrop Cut Apart]] is a subversion of the ContinuityEditing that the audience is used to seeing. We're led to believe we're seeing the same event from two perspectives, then the RevealShot shows that it's two separate events that may be miles apart. In most cases, this is used to get our hopes up (Alice finding Bob would be great) only to destroy them (Chris finding Bob is horrible), but occasionally it's the reverse, and Chris being there is a moment of triumph.

* ''Film/BlackWidow2021''. While Natasha Romanov cleans herself up in a public bathroom, a SWAT team led by Secretary Ross are moving in to arrest her. Natasha sees what's happening on a spycam image relayed to her mobile phone, so she gives Ross a call, telling Ross not to do it because he's embarrassing himself. His SWAT Team find her Avengers costume and tracking device left in a train station toilet stall, while Natasha turns out to be calling from a ferry in Norway.

* Famously used to set up the AloneWithThePsycho climax in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''. The FBI has tracked down Buffalo Bill's residence, and is about the storm the house after drawing him out with a DeliveryGuyInfiltration. Bill hears the doorbell ring, walks up to the entrance, and finds only Clarice Starling in front of him, with her colleagues stuck at the wrong address.

* At the end of John Byrne's brief run of the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' Bruce Banner and Betty Ross are getting married in a small ceremony in a small church. At the same time Doctor Samson and Hulk are beating the crap out of each other in the desert (Hulk and Banner were physically separated at this point). It so just happens that there is a small church near them... Eventually a hit from Hulk sends Samson flying right towards the church, and he crashes through it - revealing it's been abandoned for years. Meanwhile, the wedding continues elsewhere completely unaffected by the battle.