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* A variation occurs in the BBC MiniSeries ''Series/TheSinkingOfTheLaconia''. Junior Officer Thomas Mortimer asks passenger Hilda Smith this, saying he only has four hours off-duty to do "whatever he likes". The set-up of the scene leads viewers to think he is making a sexual pass, but it turns out he's asking to be allowed to babysit her infant [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming so he can remind himself of his own children]].

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* In the ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo'' series, this is the skull in the jar's repeated inquiry to Lucy in the final book, ''The Empty Grave''. While it takes her a while to get there, the answer is ultimately "yes," as Lucy [[spoiler:smashes the jar, allowing the spirit within to go free, and he ultimately proves an aid in taking down the BigBad, Marissa Fittes and her own pet Type Three ghost, Ezekiel.]]

** "Extremis" shows this doesn't always reassure his companions.
-->'''Bill:''' Does it give you the fear when [the Doctor] says trust me?\\

-->'''Boyd Langton:''' You can't go after this guy. You don't have the right imprint. You don't have the right training. [snip]
-->'''Jenny:''' Do you trust me? [snip]\\

-->'''Paul Ballard:''' Do you trust me?\\

-->'''Clark:''' [''places the key into the pedestal and they are both surrounded by beams of light''] It's okay.\\

-->'''Kashyk:''' Captain, do you trust me?
-->'''Janeway:''' ''(instantly)'' Not for a second.
-->'''Kashyk:''' Exactly, and why should you? Trust has to be earned. It's gradual, and yet it's the foundation of every relationship, professional and personal. It's also a concept alien to the telepathic races. Why take someone at their word when you can simply read their mind?

-->'''Janeway:''' Do you trust me, Chakotay?
-->'''Chakotay:''' That isn't the issue.
-->'''Janeway:''' Oh, but it is. [[TrueCompanions Only yesterday you were saying that we'd face this together, that you'd be at my side.]]
-->'''Chakotay:''' [[TheLancer I still have to tell you what I believe. I'm no good to you if I don't do that.]]
-->'''Janeway:''' I appreciate your insights, but the time for debate is over. I've made my decision.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Inversion--Col. Flagg seeks someone he can trust whenever he shows up on one of his conspiracy theory missions.
* Pretty much the basis of the 1950s game show ''Do You Trust Your Wife?'' (later retitled ''Who Do You Trust?'').
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Mors praematura", Root has kidnapped Sameen Shaw so she can help in a mission for the [[BenevolentAI Machine]]. Shaw obviously doesn't trust Root, so Root asks her to trust the Machine, whom Shaw unknowingly worked for as a government assassin.

* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/StarcraftII: Heart of the Swarm''. Early in the game, Raynor is the only one who believes the [[TheVirus de-infested]] Kerrigan is trustworthy, even over her own objections. [[spoiler: When he is captured by the Dominion, she goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to get him back. In order to gain the power she needs to defeat Arcturus and the BiggerBad, she [[TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential is remade into a Primal Zerg form]], similar to her infested state. Thus when she rescues Raynor, she appears to him to have gone back to her old, sociopathic self. (The truth is [[NobleDemon somewhere in the middle]].)]] She asks him if he still trusts her, while putting his gun in his hand and [[KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand pointing it at her own head]]. He weighs the decision carefully, and then [[spoiler: ''fires'' -- into the wall next to her, because he [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou needs her alive]].]]

* ''Film/TheSeeker: The Dark Is Rising''
-->'''Maggie Barnes:''' You need to give me the Signs before it's too late. You need to trust me. Do you trust me?\\
'''Will Stanton:''' Yeah, I trust you.

* Briefly used in ''Film/TheMan''. Derrick Vann tells Santos that he needs the money so that he can fool the criminals in his operation. Santos reluctantly gives in. He gets more upset the second time, when he needs the money. But eventually he trusts Derrick and gives him an extention. Derrick asks, "Where the love, dawg?"

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* ''Film/NationalTreasure'' includes Nicholas Cage saying this to his love interest. [[spoiler:He is holding her from falling off an old lift. The trust comes from having to risk dropping her onto a lower platform to grab the Declaration of Independence from falling into a deep chasm. She understands perfectly.]]
* Comes up in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
* Jack asks this of Rose in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' in the scene on the bow of the ship.
* The ''Titanic'' example is lampshaded and subverted in ''Film/LoveActually''.
* In ''Head Over Heels'', Freddie Prinze Jr.'s character doesn't ask the question, but simply says, "Trust me."

* Inverted in ''Film/{{Casino}}'' where RobertDeNiro as Ace Rothstein asks his wife, Ginger, several times in one scene: "Can I trust you?" He can't.
* Done in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' with Gru and the orphan girls. Margo trusts him enough to have Edith and Agnes jump over the gap to Gru, but [[spoiler:Vector catches her before she can jump herself]].
* Also inverted in ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'' when Nick Rice asks this of Clyde before revealing that he's already made a plea bargain with the murderer of his wife and child. The rest of the movie involves Clyde making Nick regret this bitterly.

* ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017''. Major discovers that everything she's been told about her origin is a lie.
-->'''Major:''' I don't know who to trust.
-->'''Batou:''' You trust me, right?
-->'''Major:''' [[PlatonicLifePartners Yeah, I do.]]

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* A slightly darker version of the question is given in ''Literature/IntoTheLandOfTheUnicorns''. Cara's grandmother asks, "Do you think I'm crazy?" before telling Cara she must jump from a church roof to escape a pursuer.
* In ''[[Literature/{{Deryni}} High Deryni]]'', after Denis Arilan reveals his Deryni aura to his brother bishop Thomas Cardiel, Cardiel recalls looking for him in a chapel (and failing to find him) a few nights earlier and asks Arilan where he went. Arilan tells his friend he may not answer, and Cardiel probes, asking if there is some organized hierarchy of mages with authority over him. Arilan asks for patience and when Cardiel asks again, he replies, "Trust me, Thomas? I swear I'll not betray that trust."

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* Repeatedly subverted in an episode of ''Series/TheITCrowd'':
-->'''Roy:''' Do you trust me?\\
'''Moss:''' *''without any hesitation''* No!\\
'''Roy:''' (''frustrated'') C'mon, Moss! Do you trust me?\\
'''Moss:''' No!\\
'''Roy:''' (''angry'') Moss!\\
'''Moss:''' I. Don't. Trust. You!
* Scully and Mulder say that to each other regularly on ''Series/TheXFiles'', though it became less and less frequent as the series progressed--not because they stopped trusting each other, but more like because their mutual trust reached almost telepathic levels.
* Subverted in the ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' episode "Walnuts and Demerol".
-->'''Evelyn:''' Do you trust me?\\
'''Alan Harper, Berta, Charlie Harper, Rose:''' No!\\
'''Evelyn:''' Okay, but you know I have your best interest at heart. Don't you?\\
'''Alan Harper, Berta, Charlie Harper, Rose:''' NO!

* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Doomsday", Clark has just admitted to Jimmy that he's the Red-Blue Blur.
-->'''Clark Kent:''' Jimmy, do you trust me?\\
'''Jimmy Olsen:''' Always, C.K.
** And the episode "Reckoning"
-->'''Clark:''' [''places the key into the pedestal and they are both surrounded by beams of light''] It's okay.\\
'''Lana:''' [''looks around in amazement as Clark reaches out to her'']\\
'''Clark:''' Do you trust me?\\
'''Lana:''' [''grabs Clark's hand and they are instantly transported to the Fortress of Solitude'']
** The biggest one is probably in ''Collateral'', when [[spoiler:Chloe returns and asking Clark to trust her to escape from a virtual reality. He hesitates and loses the first chance, but he knows he still trusts her deep inside. It takes a darker turn when a bad guy assumed her likeness in the virtual world...]]
* The ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'' episode "The Target".
-->'''Boyd Langton:''' You can't go after this guy. You don't have the right imprint. You don't have the right training. [snip]
-->'''Jenny:''' Do you trust me? [snip]\\
'''Boyd:''' With my life.
** And "Vows"
-->'''Paul Ballard:''' Do you trust me?\\
'''Echo:''' [[MeaningfulEcho With my life]].
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Time of Angels", the Doctor and associates are surrounded by Weeping Angels, who are prevented from attacking only because someone can see them.
-->'''Doctor:''' Do you trust me?\\

'''Doctor:''' You lot, do you trust me?\\
'''Bishop:''' We have faith, sir.\\
'''Doctor:''' Then give me your gun. I'm about to do something incredibly stupid and dangerous. When I do ... jump.\\
[He shoots out the only light source.]
** Just generally used a lot in the new series.
** And from "Flesh and Stone":
--->'''The Doctor''': Amy, I need you to trust me. It's never been more important.
--->'''Amy''': But you don't always tell me the truth.
--->'''The Doctor''': If I always told you the truth, I wouldn't need you to trust me.
* [[Series/HouseOfCardsUK Francis Urquhart]] is fond of the phrase "You do trust me, don't you?". If he ever asks you it, ''run''.
* Sara asks Grissom this before starting to shave him in ''Series/{{CSI}}''.
* Angel asks Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}} in "Lie to Me", "Do you love me?" before agreeing to reveal the truth about how he turned Drusilla into a vampire. Buffy replies, "I love you. I don't know if I trust you." (Angel replies, "[[{{Foreshadowing}} Maybe you shouldn't.]]") In Season 6 "Dead Things" Buffy is having a relationship with another vampire, Spike, but keeps [[ItDoesntMeanAnything insisting their relationship is purely sexual]] with no love involved. In response Spike [[KinkyCuffs offers her a pair of handcuffs]] and asks, "Do you trust me?" Buffy replies "Never" but the next day is seen [[CuffsOffRubWrists rubbing her wrists in a telling manner]].
* Series/{{Angel}} asks potential LoveInterest Detective Kate Lockley if she trusts him before handing over information on a SerialKiller without revealing the source. She says she does without hesitation, but later in the episode Kate discovers Angel is a vampire and she never fully trusts him again.
* A variation occurs in the BBC MiniSeries ''Series/TheSinkingOfTheLaconia''. Junior Officer Thomas Mortimer asks passenger Hilda Smith this, saying he only has four hours off-duty to do "whatever he likes". The set-up of the scene leads viewers to think he is making a sexual pass, but it turns out he's asking to be allowed to babysit her infant [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming so he can remind himself of his own children]].

-->'''Tormund:''' (quietly) You trust me, Jon Snow?
-->'''Jon:''' Does that make me a fool, then?
-->'''Tormund:''' We're fools together now.

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* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', if you pick Ahri as your champion, she'll open up with "Don't you trust me?". This goes both ways as she has a nasty reputation of a soul-sucking seductress and in the same time, she's trying to lure you, the player, into her thrall due to her charm. (Though she won't actually suck the player's soul, [[GoodBadGirl she's kind of like that.]])
* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'': During one of the chase segments in Boom Town, Axel asks Jesse to let him carry the Order's amulet. If you choose to keep holding onto it, he's visibly hurt that you don't trust him.

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* {{Subverted}} in [[http://www.otherworldcomic.com/index.html Otherworld]]

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-->'''Kashyk:''' Captain, do you trust me? \\

* A slightly darker version of the question is given in ''Literature/InTheLandOfTheUnicorns''. Cara's grandmother asks, "Do you think I'm crazy?" before telling Cara she must jump from a church roof to escape a pursuer.

* A slightly darker version of the question is given in the first book of ''Literature/TheUnicornChronicles''. Cara's grandmother asks, "Do you think I'm crazy?" before telling Cara she must jump from a church roof to escape a pursuer.

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* ''NationalTreasure'' includes Nicholas Cage saying this to his love interest. [[spoiler:He is holding her from falling off an old lift. The trust comes from having to risk dropping her onto a lower platform to grab the Declaration of Independence from falling into a deep chasm. She understands perfectly.]]

* The ''Titanic'' example is lampshaded and subverted in ''LoveActually''.

'''Moss:''' *without any hesitation* No!\\
'''Roy:''' (frustrated) C'mon, Moss! Do you trust me?\\

'''Roy:''' (angry) Moss!\\

* Subverted in the ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' episode "Walnuts and Demerol".

-->'''Clark:''' [Places the key into the pedestal and they are both surrounded by beams of light] It's okay.\\
'''Lana:''' [Looks around in amazement as Clark reaches out to her]\\

'''Lana:''' [Grabs Clark's hand and they are instantly transported to the Fortress of Solitude]

-->'''Kashyk:''' Captain, do you trust me?

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* In ''[[{{Deryni}} High Deryni]]'', after Denis Arilan reveals his Deryni aura to his brother bishop Thomas Cardiel, Cardiel recalls looking for him in a chapel (and failing to find him) a few nights earlier and asks Arilan where he went. Arilan tells his friend he may not answer, and Cardiel probes, asking if there is some organized hierarchy of mages with authority over him. Arilan asks for patience and when Cardiel asks again, he replies, "Trust me, Thomas? I swear I'll not betray that trust."

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''; Terra says this to Beast Boy, complete with the Aladdin hand up right before [[spoiler: she takes him out on a date and Titans Tower is attacked]].