History Main / EvidenceScavengerHunt

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* In ''Series/{{Cadfael}}'', Cadfael often traces the location of a murder or the victim's path by examining the plant fragments found on and around the body, since he's the abbey herbalist.

Sometimes, after some PerpSweating or a EurekaMoment, the detective will be given an ''additional'' montage where he gathers the last shreds of evidence he needs. Sometimes the veteran detective will find a spot that the young CSI team missed. The detective gathers the final sample, asks questions and makes arrangements with lab geeks in [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine labcoats]]. The scientists' use of test tubes and microscopes will be completely meaningless and confusing to the viewer until the detective's [[TheSummation summation]] makes everything clear.

Oops. There's a body, or the jewels are gone, or someone ate the last piece of pie. Time to start looking for clues. That piece of pie was ''mine!''

This is the section of a [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries crime and punishment show]] where the cast chases down clues. The ''Series/{{CSI}}'' shows spend a good bit of time in this phase, usually with at least two lab montages. In fact, the section has become so [[MundaneMadeAwesome stylized]] and perfunctory that some shows have resorted to doing the whole thing in montage.

Sometimes, after some PerpSweating or a EurekaMoment, the detective will be given an ''additional'' montage where he gathers the last shreds of evidence he needs, asking questions and making arrangements which will be completely meaningless and confusing to the viewer until TheSummation makes everything clear.

* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'': As part of the profiling game mechanic.

* ''Roleplay/{{Kyuupiikei}}'': In each chapter, after a student is found dead, an investigation period takes place.

* ''Film/DejaVu'': After the bomb, in Claire's house and at the suspect's house.

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** In-universe, this is justified by the rather taxing court system, which demands that every single claim the defense lays out MUST be backed up by evidence. So of course, Phoenix needs to cart around every potential piece of evidence he can find before the trial, or else his accusations get quickly shot down by the judge/prosecution/witness, on the grounds that there's no evidence to back it up.

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* The second phase of each chapter in ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'', which takes place whenever someone gets murdered, consists of gathering evidence for the upcoming school trial.

* In "[[ArabianNights The Three Apples]]", the caliph Harun al-Rashid, orders the TheGoodChancellor, UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar ibn Yahya, who gets a HistoricalHeroUpgrade in this tale, to play the role of a {{Detective}} and sends him on a scavenger hunt to solve the murder mystery and bring the [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries culprit to justice]].

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* ''ArchipelagoExodus'': The first two acts, or at least until Renard tails Channery's car.

* ''SigmaHarmonics'': After going back to a certain time and a certain place, Sigma can use his sound-related powers to uncover 'moments of sound' - clues as to what happened in that place during that time.

* In "[[ArabianNights The Three Apples]]", the caliph Harun al-Rashid, orders the TheGoodChancellor, GrandVizierJafar ibn Yahya, who gets a HistoricalHeroUpgrade in this tale, to play the role of a {{Detective}} and sends him on a scavenger hunt to solve the murder mystery and bring the [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries culprit to justice]].

This is the section of a [[CrimeAndPunishmentSeries crime and punishment show]] where the cast chases down clues. The ''{{CSI}}'' shows spend a good bit of time in this phase, usually with at least two lab montages. In fact, the section has become so [[MundaneMadeAwesome stylized]] and perfunctory that some shows have resorted to doing the whole thing in montage.

* ''ScoobyDoo'' every episode involves the gang looking for clues in the mystery they are currently solving.

* Almost every case in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series of games has you scrambling for evidence just after the crime was committed, alternating with days in court.

* There's a brief scene in [[FanFic/TheVinylAndOctaviaSeries ''Vinyl and Octavia in 'Dial D for Detectives' '']] where Vinyl and Octavia look around the scene of Switch Blade's murder for clues.

* The second phase of each chapter in ''DanganRonpa'', which takes place whenever someone gets murdered, consists of gathering evidence for the upcoming school trial.

* ''DeadlyPremonition'': As part of the profiling game mechanic.

* ''TheForgotten'': A prominent portion of the show revolves around the volunteers of the Forgotten Network assembling clues as to who the victim is, usually punctuated by beyond the grave narration from the John or Jane Doe.

* Almost every case in the ''AceAttorney'' series of games has you scrambling for evidence just after the crime was committed, alternating with days in court.