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Often part of a [[Cold Opening]] or used as a way of setting up a case of [[Not Quite Dead]].
This has become almost a staple of murder mysteries, especially in [[Live Action TV]] shows like ''[[Diagnosis
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[James Bond]]''.{{context}}
* An unintentional example of this inspired the ''[[Grindhouse]]'' cut of [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s ''[[Death Proof]]'', which has a 'missing reel' (restored on the complete cut). He had once seen an Italian crime movie with a missing reel which he felt made the film more interesting, because it obscured whether or not the detective had slept with the girl (he said he did, but the girl said he didn't).
** The other half of the feature, ''[[Planet Terror]]'', played it gloriously straight with a reel that was never shot. The film cuts from El Wray and Cherry starting to have sex, says "MISSING REEL", and when it cuts back, '''everything is on fire''' and we'll never know why. We'll also never know just ''who'' El Wray really is and why the police chief suddenly has the utmost respect for him.
== [[Live
* ''[[Diagnosis
* ''[[Law and Order]]''.{{context}}
* ''[[Monk]]''.{{context}}
* ''[[Star Trek]]''.{{context}}
* ''[[
* ''The [[X Files]]''.{{context}}
* Averted notably in ''[[
* Some episodes of ''[[
* ''[[
** Veteran viewers will have little trouble identifying the moments when someone in the crew is doing
* ''[[Home and Away]]'' has used this, with the audience never being quite sure about certain things such as Hugo's role in the 2009 mystery, or what the hell actually happened at the Sands on the night Penn died (assuming British viewers have caught up, here's one for those just starting to watch the week of this writing: Will killed him in self-defence after he threatened Shandi/Daria). They usually accomplish this by showing another storyline that ties into the characters involved in the scene.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* Possibly unintentional, but Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" starts off with the the singer getting a call from his old flame. He asks why she's calling so late and why she's crying, but we never find out the answers, as the rest of the song is immediately hijacked by him singing about how he still has feelings for her.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[Scooby Doo]]''.▼
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' does this when {{spoiler|the Kyoshi Warriors encounter Azula and her friends.}} We don't find out what happens to them until over halfway through the next season.▼
* Lampshaded in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken". Homer is asked about what he did the previous night. We see his memory of the event as a sepia-toned silent movie, with [[What Did I Do Last Night?|the parts he forgot due to being drunk]] replaced with a title card labeled "SCENE MISSING".▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
▲* ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]''.
▲* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Who killed Kaji?
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* The PC version of [[Clue (
* A few ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' cases start this way, featuring stills of two characters talking and the insinuation that action occurs, but no identification of the speakers or display of the murder itself. Others involve a relatively coherent scene, but the criminal is shrouded in shadows and
==
* ''[[
* ''[[Fleep]]'' plays with the reader by cutting from the initial shot of the protagonist entering a phone booth and him waking up in ''another'' phone booth surrounded by concrete. As it turns out, that interval is a ''lot longer'' than you might expect...
* ''[[
* ''[[
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* ''[[Scooby Doo]]''.{{context}}
▲* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' does this when
▲* Lampshaded in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken". Homer is asked about what he did the previous night. We see his memory of the event as a sepia-toned silent movie, with [[What Did I Do Last Night?|the parts he forgot due to being drunk]] replaced with a title card labeled "SCENE MISSING".
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