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** Subverted in mothership episode "Ritual." Detectives suspect a man of committing murder in a parking garage and then driving out of it, using his magnetic key-card to exit the garage. However, the garage's gate system doesn't record card usages, and with no witnesses they have no way of knowing whether he did actually use his key-card that evening. They decide to bluff and tell him in interrogation, "We checked the readout at the garage. Your card was used just after Uncle Josef got his head bashed in." As they say this, the suspect lights up with a smile and faint glimmer in his eyes. "The magnetic card system?" he calmly replies; "You can't get a readout from that thing." D'oh!
* An early ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode has a victim whose head was slammed into a restaurant oven; the victim staggered out of the restaurant and collapsed down the street. During the interrogation, the suspect is told "then you followed him out and shot him dead." The suspect immediately admits to the head-slam but not the gunshot, only to discover the victim died of the head trauma and was never shot.
* In many series, police officers will claim that the suspect's colleague has claimed that the suspect did it, or is about to break down, and will offer the suspect leniency if he just admits that it's his fault. This only rarely works. Probably based on the classic [http://www.answers.com/the+prisoner%27s+dilemma?cat=technology Prisoner's Dilemma]{{Dead link}}
* In ''[[The Shield]]'' episode "Blood and Water", Det. Vic Mackey (who is a blue-eyed skinhead) pretends to be a neo-Nazi to get a suspect to open up.
** It doesn't work.
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