Basic Trope: Spending time isolated with a dangerous or mentally unstable person.
- Straight: Janey is trapped in her apartment with Patrick, who is more than a little off.
- Exaggerated: Janey and Patrick share a one-room apartment in the Mojave Desert with no door or windows.
- Downplayed: Patrick isn't a threat, just highly eccentric and unable to pick up on social cues. Janey can take her leave at any time, but she's too polite to do so.
- Justified:
- Janey lives in a remote area, like the woods.
- Janey knows what will happen if she left him to his own devices, so she'd rather sacrifice herself to his continued confinement instead of sacrificing the city.
- Inverted:
- Janey is a detective who spends her days trying to hunt Patrick down.
- Patrick discovers far too late that he is most definitely not the most dangerous person in the room - Janey is.
- Subverted: Janey is trapped with Patrick—until she finds the spare key under her floor mat.
- Double Subverted: Janey discovers the hard way that Patrick booby-trapped the door and he expected her to try to escape through it as part of his complicated plan to kill her.
- Parodied: Patrick ties Janey to a railroad track while laughing manically.
- Zig Zagged: The situation is time-sensitive; Patrick has let Janey know about a "little gift" he's planning to leave in a public area, and the only thing keeping her in his presence is the knowledge that other people will get hurt if she leaves him alone for a second.
- Averted: Neither Janey nor Patrick are trapped with each other.
- Enforced: ??
- Lampshaded: "You have to show yourself sometime, you know.I don't like being kept waiting."
- Invoked:
- To try and lure Patrick out into the open, Janey uses herself as bait.
- Patrick has lured Janey into a situation she can't easily escape from, like a dinner party she needs to attend to keep her career on the up-and-up.
- Exploited: Patrick has a key to the locked room and is pretending to be trapped with Janey to get the result he wants.
- Defied: Janey makes every effort to get away from Patrick, including jumping out a five-story window.
- Discussed: While trapped together, the two have a very awkward conversation about "how difficult it can be to find alone time".
- Conversed: "If you were trapped with Jason Voorhees, would you try talking him down or just run like hell?"
- Implied: Janey comes to notice she's alone with Patrick only after he's done away with everyone else.
- Deconstructed: Being alone with a dangerous person can get lethal very quickly. Janey knows this, and the stress starts taking a toll on her reasoning. It's almost too easy when Patrick corners her in a side hallway and rearranges her face.
- Reconstructed: Going through the ordeal with Patrick is terrifying, but necessary, since Janey needs his (voluntary or otherwise) cooperation to find out his plans and foil them.
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