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The young police officer goes to visit the house of one of the suspects in a [[Serial Killer]] case. Meanwhile, back at the police station, the detectives put together the clues to see who the killer is.
Simultaneously, the two parties figure out the
They're alone in the house with a serial killer. Will they survive? The answer to that is generally "yes".
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* Pretty much the entire latter half of ''Paperhouse''.
* Occurs at the end of ''[[Zodiac (film)|Zodiac]]''. Subverted in that {{spoiler|while the character played by Jake Gyllenhaal is convinced the clues all add up, the truth is never revealed}}.
* Happens in ''[[The Element of Crime]]'', but gets subverted and perhaps even deconstructed in the most possible twisted way: {{spoiler|detective Fisher and a potential victim of the child killer are waiting for him, in a small room. Suddenly, one of the killer's signature statuettes falls from Fisher's pocket. The little girl now ''believes'' she is
* An inversion happens in ''[[Kiss the Girls]]'': the officer is visiting one of the victims and reveals '''''himself''''' to be the serial rapist/killer just as another detective is putting the pieces together back at the station. The killer manages to cut the victim's phone line just before the other detective tries to call.
* [[Sin City]] has a scene where Marv visits an old farm to search for clues and doesn't realize it is the home of the [[Serial Killer]]. He survives but the killer does defeat and imprison him for a time.
* The climax of ''[[
* When somebody puts on the Ring in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', they do this with Sauron being the psycho, so it's sort of on a cosmic scale.
* ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' has [[James Bond]] cornered by the psycho SPECTRE assassin, Red Grant, who was planning a sadistic fate for Bond after he got the Lector. Fortunately, he was enough of a sucker to be tricked into setting off Bond's tear gas booby trap in his attache case, allowing Bond to tackle him.
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* In ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'', Svidrigailov locks Dunya in a room with him and a gun... because he loves her. Alone With the Psycho indeed.
* Seen in ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|Men Who Hate Women]]'' (English language title: ''The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo''), with the satisfying twist that {{spoiler|the older man, Blomkvist, is the idiot who goes to interview the murderer alone and gets captured. The attractive young woman, Salander, is the one who figures it all out and races over to take out the killer and save her partner's life.}}
** Considering that the psycho in this case was {{spoiler|promising him rape, torture and death by strangulation in a short time frame, it's probably a good thing Lisbeth had access to a golf club.}}
* In the novel ''Falling'' by [[Christopher Pike]], FBI agent Kelly Feinman thinks she has tracked down the Acid Man serial killer, {{spoiler|Michael Grander. She goes to interview Michael's university professor, Gene Banks, to get background info to support her case on Michael. All the while she has kept her insights secret from the rest of the FBI. Professor Banks invites her to his apartment to supply information on Michael. While there, Kelly deduces Banks is the Acid Man and had all along planned to frame Michael. Banks holds her hostage and pours acid on her, with the FBI none the wiser.}}
* Mary Higgins Clark's {{spoiler|Loves Music, Loves to Dance}} uses this trope in the climax.
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* In the first season finale of ''[[True Blood]]'', Sam recognizes the [[Serial Killer]]'s scent from {{spoiler|the jacket left in the bar by Rene, who's just driven Sookie home.}} Meanwhile, Sookie telepathically {{spoiler|catches Rene thinking about his murder of her grandma}}.
* Happens quite often on ''[[NCIS]]'', and almost ''always'' ends in a [[What Kept You?]]. Gibbs, Tony, Ziva, even ''Abby'' (who is a noncombatant [[The Lab Rat|Lab Rat]]) have all taken their turn here at least once.
** Neatly subverted in the season five episode "Recoil." Gibbs, Tony, McGee, and Abby check Michael Locke's fingerprints against those of a murderer, while at the same time Ziva takes Locke with her to walk herself back through a previous incident in which she was almost killed. The scene cuts back and forth between the lab and the site of the incident and seems to be building to an
** Also subverted in a third season episode where Ziva is in a log cabin and finds a missing woman who was to be the next victim. The [[Serial Killer]] is with Gibbs and the others.
* Used in an episode of ''[[New Tricks]]'', with the slight modification that the mild-mannered murderer was not even a suspect in the case at the time.
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* ''[[CSI]]'' also did it with Catherine in season 3's "A Little Murder", when a uniform cop failed to clear the scene completely and Catherine got jumped.
* ''[[Supernatural]]'' had Dean assume the sad eyed little girl he comes across is another victim of the MOTW, turns out she and her family [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|are the MOTW]] in "The Benders".
* ''[[Wire in The Blood]]'' has this right out of the gate in the first episode, "The Mermaids Are Singing", all of the victims willingly let their killer into their house: they thought the killer needed help, including Tony for whom the killer had began to [[Stalker with a Crush|fixate on]]. This happens to Tony a lot throughout the series as he displays extreme empathy towards the killers, using his ability to see their POV to catch them but it also makes them fixate on him in return.
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