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* Similar to the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' example, [[Bones|Booth]] is locked in a ship {{spoiler|rigged to blow}} by the Gravedigger, with {{spoiler|the ghost of CPL Teddy Parker, Parker Booth's namesake.}} Booth gets a chance to [[Character Development|resolve some issues from his Army days]].
** This, combined with [[Buried Alive]] is pretty much the Gravedigger's MO, typically the victims are buried in a capsule of some sort (a car or some other large container) with enough air to last 24 hours. They then put them up for ransom. {{spoiler|Two little boys died despite the ransom being paid because the Gravedigger had forgotten to make sure there was enough air for both of them, and the same thing almost happened to Bones and Hodgins when she [[Spanner in the Works|stumbled accross the kidnapping-in-progress]].}}
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Midnight", the Doctor goes on a shuttle tour with a handful of [[Muggles|civilian tourists]], leaving [[Sidekick|Donna]] behind in the belief that it's going to be a [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|lovely, peril-free trip]]. Unfortunately, it turns out the [[Death World|diamond-encrusted, radiation-blasted planet]] the hotel is built on isn't as uninhabited as previously thought: the shuttle is disabled, the drivers killed by direct exposure to the sun, and ''[[Body Snatcher|something]]'' gets inside - something that [[Nightmare Fuel|takes people's voices]]. What follows is a [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|horrible]] subversion of the show's normal [[Humans Are Special]] theme, as the other passangers descend into [[Paranoia Fuel|murderous paranoia]], completely ignoring the Doctor's pleas for calm and rationality.
** Later, in "Amy's Choice," the Doctor, Amy, and Rory are trapped by a man who calls himself "The Dream Lord." In one reality, they're being swarmed by instant-death-gas-spewing aliens. In the other, the Tardis is alowly drifting toward a "cold star"- that is, a star that emits cold instead of heat. At the end, the real one turns out to be {{spoiler|neither. It was all a hallucination caused by psychic pollen.}}
** This episode is also important to this trope because it is while trapped in the dream reality {{spoiler|(after Rory is killed by one of the aliens, who turns him to dust)}} that Amy realizes it is really Rory she loves {{spoiler|and then she proves it by killing herself and the Doctor by crashing a van, thus destroying the first dream reality}}.