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Author: Tallens

Jul 28th 2013 at 9:39:59 PM

I could take a shot at it. 
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In a particular setting something is out of place. A very distinctive something, something that could only have gotten there if someone in particular had been there. For whatever reason they had come here and done...something. Then, before they left, for some reason, they left the object in question for

The types of objects that are left are too many to mention, but they must be distinctive enough to be recognized when they are found. Sometimes they are blatantly obvious, and others they are the kinds of things that only a GreatDetective would notice.

Regardless, the implication is that someone was here without permission and this object is the proof!

Unless it's part of an OrgyOfEvidence, planted in a FrameUp.
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And an example:
* In an episode of ''Series/BabylonFive'' Garibaldi goes to find a witness to an attack but someone gets to him first and kills him. Garibaldi is left only with the body, and what appears to be a coat button [[spoiler: which is later identified as coming from the coat of a Centauri royal guard]].