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# The protagonists are hired for [[The Caper]].
# After pulling it off, they learn that they were hired under false
# They then pull ''another'' iteration of [[The Caper]] on their original employer, for vengeance and/or to get the stolen goods back to their rightful owner.
This is often used as a way to have a plot based on [[The Caper]] that has some degree of moral justifiability. It also provides a built-in structure for [[Up to Eleven]] in the execution of Caper #2.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[X-Men]] Noir: Mark of Cain'', Thomas Halloway and his ersatz X-Men (Cyclops, Captain Logan, and Eugene Judd) are hired by Halloway's old father figure Cain Marko to steal the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak from a temple in Madripoor. When they deliver the gem, Marko double
== [[Film]] ==
* The team in ''[[Sneakers]]'' is hired to steal an encryption device from a mathematician. Their employers claim to be NSA agents, and say that the mathematician is being funded by Russia. Actually, he's being funded by the NSA, and the employers work for [[The Syndicate]].
* The remake of ''[[The Italian Job (2003 film)|The Italian Job]]'' has the crew pulling a caper against the guy who double-crossed them and took the gold from their original caper.
* ''[[The Hot Rock]]'' did this to extremes.
* The first ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' starts with a caper that goes wrong, leaving the surviving member framed. The second caper is to recover the stolen information and expose the mole.
* The MIT kids
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* The [[Jeffrey Archer]] book ''Not A Penny More Not A Penny Less'' is about a stock market fraud and the subsequent attempts of the defrauded parties to steal back the exact amount they were scammed out of. At the end
* The pilot of ''[[Leverage]]'', "The Nigerian Job", has a team of thieves hired to steal a set of airplane plans from a rival aerospace corporation. They're told that the rival corporation stole the plans first. Then their employer doesn't pay them and tries to kill them, and they learn that he'd lied and they'd stolen the plans from the rightful owners. Counter-caper time.
* [[Once an Episode|Standard Operating Procedure]] in ''[[Hustle]]''. If they're trying to surprise you, it might be a [[I Know You Know I Know|Triple Caper]] instead. Or even ''([[GASP]])'' a [[The Caper|Single Caper]]. OK, I'm exaggerating... let's just say it happens a lot.
== [[New Media]] ==▼
* Jeremy Archer finds this out in the first novel of the [[Shadow of the Templar]] webseries, The Morning Star.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Much of the pre-credits plot of ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers
* The plot of ''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]''.
* Garrett, the genius thief from the classic ''[[Thief]]'', does this to {{spoiler|Constantine}} after a rather painful discovery.
* ''[[Mercenaries]] 2'' - The first caper is the tutorial area. After your employer refuses to pay the bill, you spend the rest of the game hunting him and his [[The Dragon|dragons]] down.
* ''[[Uncharted]] 2'''s second level sets this up, to some degree. Also in ''Eye of Indra''.
▲== [[Literature]] ==
▲* The [[Jeffrey Archer]] book ''Not A Penny More Not A Penny Less'' is about a stock market fraud and the subsequent attempts of the defrauded parties to steal back the exact amount they were scammed out of. At the end {{spoiler|the originally worthless oil company stocks are suddenly valuable--after an oil strike nearby--and they have to find a way to run the whole theft in reverse to return the money.}}
▲== [[New Media]] ==
▲* Jeremy Archer finds this out in the first novel of the [[Shadow of the Templar]] webseries, The Morning Star.
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