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** Vimes uses it once again in ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud]]'' when talking to the Troll crime boss Chrysoprase. Chryosprase lets slip that his knowledge of a crime scene is greater than what the public would know. When Vimes calls him out, Chrysoprase dismisses the accusation as gossip that he heard from the Dwarfs. Or well, had Dwarfs beaten up or threatened until they told him. He did in fact have no connection to it.
** Used in [[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]. Moist is being interrogated by [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Carrot]], all while under the guise of being an upstanding pillar of the community businessman. When he tries to shut Carrot down due to him, Moist, being [[Genre Savvy|aware of this trope]]...
{{quote|'''Moist''': Look, [[Lampshade Hanging|I know how this sort of thing goes]]. You just [[Perp Sweating|sit here and ask questions]] and eventually I slip up and
'''Carrot''': Thank you, sir.<br />
'''Moist''': For what?<br />
'''Carrot''': [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|For telling me that you know how this sort of thing goes, sir.]] }}
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[Horus Heresy]]'' novel ''False Gods'', Loken knows that Erebus is lying to him because he pointed out that the interex had accused them of stealing a kinebrach's
* Inverted in ''A Widow for a Year'' when the policeman deliberately gives the press false information about a murdered prostitute, saying she was killed WITH a struggle when there was no struggle. This enabled him to dismiss the two men who confessed as they were covered in bruises and scratches.
* Used near the beginning of ''[[The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray]]''- the hero finds a young woman in the part of London infested by gribbly things, and asks the governor of a local mental asylum if he's lost any patients- he mentions her being found in the Old Quarter, despite not being told. In this case, it could be a reasonable assumption but the hero decides to be careful and gives a false description- {{spoiler|a good idea, since said governor is part of the cult that had captured the girl...}}
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*** {{spoiler|Or, of course, he had seen him wearing shades indoors in a courtroom.}}
* A non-criminal example from ''[[The Cosby Show]]'': Claire discovers her favorite mug has been damaged, poorly glued back together, and replaced. Heathcliff expresses his shock that one of the children would put it back in the cupboard. Claire never said it had been put back ''in the cupboard''.
* Used in the episode "Red Badge" of ''[[The Mentalist]]''. However, they already knew who the killer
* Used to determine the Dean's real murderer in ''[[Veronica Mars]]''.
* Used in a last-second plot twist on ''Mathnet'' to uncover the leader of a gang of thieves who rob people's apartments after offering them a free weekend in the Poconos.
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** In the first case of ''Investigations 2'', De Killer refers to the victim by his full name during a cross-examination, while up until then Edgeworth had only ever refered to him by surname. (and, in fact, didn't even ''know'' his first name until that point) {{spoiler|It doesn't mean what you think it means, but it does reveal him as more connected to the case than he claims.}}
* During the first big plot twist of [[Chrono Cross]], {{spoiler|Lynx had just switched bodies with Serge and was about to kill his old body with Serge in it. He told Kid that he was going to do it to avenge Lucca for her, but then Kid just realized: while she did tell Serge that Lynx had taken away Lucca from her, not once did she say her name! Of course, this revelation comes too late...}} Needless to say, it seemed like a bad choice of words for Lynx.
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', {{spoiler|Adachi}} reveals himself by saying that he thought everyone was sure that "{{spoiler|Namatame}} put them in [the television]"
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', when [[Big Bad|Saren]] is facing accusations of attacking a human colony and killing another Spectre, Nihlus, he addresses Shepard as "the one who let the beacon get destroyed." Shepard can respond using this trope, saying the only way he could have known that is if he was there. However, Saren quickly rebuffs him/her, saying that Nihlus' files transferred to him upon his death. Unfortunately there is a bit of [[Fridge Logic]] here, as Nihlus would not have been able to put anything about the beacon being destroyed in his files because he was dead.
** Files actually mean "Cases" IRL. If Saren got Nihlus' case, he would have all the info that went with it - what Nihlus wrote down himself and whatever was pertinent to add after his death. Since Saren and Nihlus were associates, Saren would certainly receive info on the circumstances on Nihlus' death - including the destruction of the beacon. Plus, a number of hours pass between the mission and Anderson formally accusing Saren, giving him plenty of time to look things over.
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