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This trope describes situations in which a character has been seeking the culprit in a murder for a long, long time (in a television context, usually at least a season's worth of episodes). The character finally locates the murderer, only to find that it was a hired hit. They know who pulled the trigger, but they need to learn who hired the assassin.
Then, before the killer can be questioned, he's taken out of the scene: he escapes custody, or is killed trying to escape, or bites down on a [[Cyanide Pill]], or otherwise arranges things so that the murder still goes essentially unsolved, despite the killer's discovery. Particularly common is for them to give in, say, "[[His Name Is--]]" and then a sniper [[Boom! Headshot!|pops his head]]... [[Your Head Asplode|sometimes right off his shoulders]].
Might be expanded to any form of unsolved mystery, and indeed non-criminal mysteries as well.
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