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The house-visitor is most often female and [[Fair Cop|attractive]], although there have been male examples.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In the season 2 finale of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' Mac finds herself alone with {{spoiler|Cassidy Casablancas,}} who Veronica finds out is responsible for the bus crash which killed their classmates and {{spoiler|for raping Veronica at Shelley Pomeroy's party pre-season 1.}} This particular alone with the killer scenario seems to reference Psycho, with {{spoiler|Cassidy intercepting a text from Veronica to Mac stating that he's the killer while Mac is in the shower, though nothing happens to Mac and he goes after Veronica instead.}}
* 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 (TV)|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 [[Alone With the Psycho]] realization - especially when Ziva turns around and finds Locke standing behind her in place of her earlier attacker - but when the fingerprint results come back, it's not a match, and Locke is proved innocent.
** 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.
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