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The bad guys are on your tail! There's nowhere to hide, nowhere to go... but if you're anywhere near a body of water, don't worry: Guaranteed, there's a boat about to leave the dock. Just run a bit faster, hit the edge of the wharf, and jump onto that bad boy! You'll be safe at last, and if you're lucky, your pursuers will try and
This also counts if you drive off a bridge and a barge shows up below. Very rarely is the subject of how the escapee gets off the boat addressed-- ''they'' might end up swimming back to shore, too. Sometimes justified by having the pursuers cuss about how their quarry not only got away, but stole their boat as well.
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* Happens in ''[[In Bruges]]'' when Colin Farrell's character is attempting to outrun {{spoiler|Ralph Fiennes, the boss of his crime syndicate}}.
* ''[[Dawn of the Dead 2004]]'' does this... though [[Downer Ending|It Doesn't End Well]]
* This is done somewhat in the movie ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]],'' when the Nazgul are chasing the
* This is also done in the movie ''[[Some Like It Hot]],'' where Jack Lemmon's "Fiance" just happens to be there waiting for him in a boat.
* This is how [[Historical Domain Character|Sun Yat Sen]] escapes the authorities at the end of one of the Wang Fei Hong movies.
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* In ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'', the title hero and his some of his best sailors are captured and taken into France for a show trial and execution. While they are being transported, they stop near a river with a convenient row boat available. Being Badass Sailors, they are able to work out an escape once they have access to a boat and water.
* Played with in ''[[Garrett P.I.|Sweet Silver Blues]]'', twice. The first time, Garrett gives a thug the slip by running out to the end of a dock and onto a ship, then keeps going ''off'' the ship into the water. The thug backs off rather than encounter the {{spoiler|Crown agents}} whose ship it is. The second time, Morley plays this trope straight as he runs along the dock to the ship that's taking him and Garrett home ... only he's arranged for his pursuer to be nabbed by {{spoiler|those same Crown agents}} who are waiting in ambush at the dockyard.
* Subverted in ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', in which the very clever werewolves have one of their pack ''waiting on board'' the
* The absence of one of these is a source of profound shock in ''[[The Pyrates]]''. As Colonel Blood says:
{{quote|"Whoever heard o' pirate ship without a small boat moored 'neath the stern an' provisioned wi' all necessities, so that fugitives can light out unseen!"}}
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