Interrogation as Framing Device

A work begins with a character captured (or they are captured very shortly into the work) and the rest of the work uses their interrogation as the Framing Device for the plot.

This is naturally subject to Unreliable Narrator. A Sub Trope of Whole-Episode Flashback and How We Got Here. Since the character has to be alive to be interrogated, their survival (and the interrogator's if they are introduced in the flashback) and capture is a Foregone Conclusion.

Literature

 * Monster Hunter International: Nemesis opens with Agent Franks being interrogated by someone who, quite unusually, is not afraid of him. The reader is led to assume this is the US government debriefing him after his Roaring Rampage of Revenge in the process of Clear My Name . Unusually.

Video Games

 * This is used in Alpha Protocol, but only by midway do you realize who is interrogating Michael. Michael repeatedly gets the chance to lie and mislead during this, and how much his interrogator likes him (determined by the responses he is given) is even tracked. Only at the end is it revealed that
 * Used in Call of Duty Black Ops
 * Used in Persona 5