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Also related to [[The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House]]. See also [[Harassing Phone Call]]. Not to be confused with [[You Can See Me?]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
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'''Caller:''' More of a game, really. Can you handle that...''blondie''? }}
** The killer from ''Scream 2'' openly taunts Dewey, Gale and Randy about being able to see them while they sit at a crowded campus in broad daylight. This prompts them to start searching for everyone with a cell phone to find the killer... after all, they assume he can't strike to kill under such circumstances. {{spoiler|[[Paranoia Fuel|Turns out he can]]. The killer was hidden in a news van, pulls Randy inside, butchers him and gets away scot-free.}}
* As a spoof of ''Scream'', the killer in ''[[Scary Movie]]'' plays and subverts this. After making the threatening phone call, he claims that he can see the hot blonde he'd calling. He's actually reading a porn magazine. It gets worse when he issues the threat, "I want to see what your insides look like!". Her response? Telling him to turn to page 54 of the same magazine.
* [[The Bourne Series (film)|Jason Bourne]] does it to Pamela Landy, twice:
** In ''The Bourne Supremacy'' (talking about getting Nicky to act as a contact)
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{{quote|'''Clerk:''' You're damned lucky you're not in the store, buddy!
'''Caller:''' But I ''am'' in the store! And I've got a reeaallly big knife. And I think that I might just kill you!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!!
''{{<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Beat Panel|beat]] beat}}]''
'''Clerk:''' You know, when you laugh that loud it becomes really obvious that you're hiding behind the animation section. }}
** Then the clerk beats up the would-be slasher killer and confiscates his really big knife, [[Extended Disarming|his other really big knife, his katana, his chainsaw]] and his mask, while lecturing him on his limited taste in movies.
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* ''[[Frequency]]'' has a scene where Frank thinks that this is happening when talking to a weird guy on a shortwave radio. He tells Frank that he knows that Frank just accidentally burned the table. Actually, the weird guy {{spoiler|is Frank's son thirty years in the future and he knows about the accident because a 30 year old burn mark has just appeared on the table he is sitting at}}
* [[When a Stranger Calls|"Why haven't you checked the children?"]]
* In the sci-fi movie ''[[Runaway (1984 film)|Runaway]]'' [[KISS|Gene SimmonSimmons's]] character does this twice to [[Tom Selleck]], first by hacking into the security cameras inside the police station ("You're punching buttons on a computer trying to trace this call but you won't [[Technology Marches On|because I'm using a mobile phone]], shithead!") until his partner puts her cap over the camera. He is not happy. Simmons calls again while Tom Selleck at a restaurant, eventually revealing himself to be sitting next to his partner holding a pistol on her.
 
== Literature ==
 
* In ''Harriet Spies Again'', this is how Harriet's new friend proves she's an excellent spy in her own right. "I can see you. You're on the telephone. You've got the cord twisted around your wrist." "I'm watching your house with BINOCULARS''binoculars'' and I can't see you!"
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'': Dirk manages to completely throw Richard off-guard by phoning him when - [[It Makes Sense in Context|for what seem to be perfectly sensible reasons]] - he's broken into his girlfriend's flat and berating him for not having proper equipment, answering the phone, admitting his name and finally - after persuading him to look out the window - standing where he can be photographed.
 
== Live-Action TV ==
 
* In the series ''[[Psych]]'', Detective Juliet O'Hara receives a call from Shawn Spencer. He makes a comment that tips her off to the fact that he can see her. Somewhat subverted. See [[You Can See Me?]]?
* In the ''[[Cold Case]]'' episode "John Henry", the [[Victim of the Week]] gets such a call.
* In ''[[Friends]]'', Monica and Chandler are at Ross' apartment across the street and can see the dog the rest of the gang is playing with. They call Phoebe.
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* Happens in an episode of ''[[White Collar]]'' (1x05), during a hostage negotiation.
* In an episode of ''[[NCIS]]'', Abby's [[Stalker with a Crush|stalker]] calls her at the office. As she tries to [[Phone Trace Race|trace the call]], the stalker suggests she use a different tracing technique. It takes her a few seconds to realize that that means he's watching through the window.
* ''[[Hawaii Five-O0]]'' (the remake): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leW-co14MOo&NR=1 See at 1:20]. "Should have taken the deal. By the way, that's a nasty cut on your eye."
* Amusing version on ''[[The X-Files]]''. Scully's arrived at the address Mulder told her to visit, her phone rings, and it's Mulder complimenting her outfit. He's right behind her.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'', the episode "Dead to Rights".
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