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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[
** L is pretty much constantly lying to Light regarding how much suspicion he is under.
*** And [[Word of God]] says that L's claim that Light is his first ever friend was a lie.
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* Used in ''[[A Few Good Men]]''. With Jessup on the stand, Kaffee starts talking about a flight from Guantanamo that (he knows, but can't otherwise prove) Jessup has scrubbed from the records, then indicates two Air Force ground crew, who'd been working at the base the day in question, he intends to call to the stand. Jessup is visibly shaken, and later proceeds to the famous meltdown. Confronted by Ross after the trial ends, Kaffee admits that the two men would have testified they hadn't the foggiest memory if there had been a flight that day.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Four Brothers]]'', where the brothers go over their gameplan for being interrogated and mention the convenient "hair sample" the cops always use to try and scare a confession out of them. Some of them even laugh when the interrogator pulls out the little baggie and waves it at them.
* ''[[The General's Daughter (
* In ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|The Girl Who Played With Fire]]'', Dan, a new reporter at the Millennium magazine, wants to interview a policeman about the sexual trafficking he participated in (as a customer), but the man is understandably evasive. Blomkvist instructs Dan to mail the perp a new phone and tell him he's won a lottery and is legible for bigger prizes if he agrees to participate in a "survey". The guy takes the bait, hook, line and sinker.
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* Even [[Hercule Poirot]] has used this trick. In ''Death in the Clouds'', he tells a guilty man that his fingerprints were found on the vial of poison used to kill someone. The man quickly protests that that was impossible because he wore gloves.
** Poirot uses this a ''lot''. In another book, he claims to have found fingerprints, and after the confession tells Hastings "I put that in to please you, mon ami". And he once hired an actor to pretend to be an eyewitness.
** In the move adaption of ''[[Death
* In Sharyn McCrumb's ''[[Bimbos of the Death Sun|Zombies of the Gene Pool]]'', when he suspects that the murderer's motive was to hide a skeleton in the closet, Jay Omega claims to have the phone number of one of their old lady friends and threatens to uncover the secrets himself. In fact, the piece of paper he's holding is blank, but fear of exposure causes the suspects to confess to a number of misdeeds, including {{spoiler|the fact that several of them raped the aforementioned lady friend when she was drunk at a sci-fi con decades ago.}}
* In [[Cory Doctorow]]'s ''[[Little Brother]]'', the [[Police State|Department of Homeland Security]] [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|prison warden]] claims the DHS intercepted a package of bombs arriving at Marcus the suspected terrorist's house (combined other [[Enhanced Interrogation Techniques]]). Since none of his friends got that sort of treatment, he suspects [[Disproportionate Retribution|she just wanted to get back at him for not decrypting his phone on request]].
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Even the venerable Lt. ''[[
* In both ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'' and ''[[The Wire]]'', a photocopier pre-loaded with sheets of paper marked "TRUE" and "FALSE" was passed off to a perp as a new, highly accurate, highly ''dangerous'' lie detector. Silly as it sounds, the story originates in David Simon's non-fiction book ''Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets''.
** ''Homicide'' again: Detective Bayliss convinces a perp that his special camera can detect the image of the last thing a murder victim had seen by photographing the dead man's eyes.
** One more ''Homicide'' example: faced with an unflappable perp, a dog-lover who had used arson to conceal a murder, the detective asks, offhand, "We found a dog in the wreckage. Why'd you kill the dog?", a total fabrication. Without thinking, the perp reflexively answers, "I didn't know the dog was there."
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* In the ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Law And Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' episode "Legacy," Munch tells a victim's mother that her comatose daughter has awakened and "told us everything." After the mother confesses, we find out the little girl is still in a coma.
** Another SVU example: Cragen tells a perpetrator that they used DNA analysis to prove that the cigarettes he smoked were used to burn an old woman. When he goes back behind the two-way mirror, one of the detectives reminds him that any DNA samples from the lit end of the cigarette were burned away. Cragen's response? "[[Sarcasm Mode|Oops]]."
** This one is from ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Criminal Intent]]'' (the first episode, even): Goren convinces the girlfriend of a narcissist perp to help them by convincing her that he gave her AIDS. At the end, when he finds out she betrayed him, she shouted "You killed us both anyway!" to which Eames reveals that neither of them had AIDS after all, to which Goren half-heartedly admits "I lied. Sorry."
*** There was also at least one where they lied not only to the perp, but to the ADA. "Ah...I see," he responds, clearly ''pissed''.
** In another episode, Goren convinces a man that his wife (whom he put into a permanent vegetative state and is now trying to take off life support to collect her life insurance) is able to communicate by looking at "yes" and "no" cards.
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** It doesn't work.
** Det. Wyms and Wagenbach use this tactic all the time. Most notably, Wyms baits a confession out of a serial killer by telling him that his sister had been murdered in the same fashion as his other victims. After he confesses, she points out the sister waiting in the office below. This comes back to bite her when he discovers that Wyms was on medication that she had concealed from the LAPD at the time, scaring the DA enough that she dropped the death penalty.
* Though not itself a [[Crime Drama]], the ''[[Star Trek:
** When Worf's family is accused of treason by the Klingon High Council, Picard -- suspecting the accusation is a cover-up -- calls a woman who served Worf's family as witness, falsely claiming that she has new evidence. The bluff reveals the real traitor, though the High Council is too compromised to drop the charges and Worf is banished from Klingon society.
* There is a scene from the short lived Denis Leary show ''The Job'' where the detectives in question lie to a suspect's mother, telling her that he is dead, to make her cry, while two other detectives tell the man that the others are beating his mother. It works, and he's only too happy to talk.
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* In an episode of [[MASH]] Hawkeye is wrongly accused of stealing. So he gathers the alternative suspects together in one tent (while dressed up as Sherlock Holmes) and says one of the stolen items was a trap -- it had been coated in a chemical that turns the hands blue. When the guilty party instinctively hides his hands, Hawkeye points out that he was actually bluffing.
* In one episode of ''Shark'', the title character attempts to coax a confession out of a perp by claiming that someone will testify against him unless he signs a confession. The problem is that the supposed person is dead and the lie falls through immediately when the man's lawyer notices how quickly Stark is pushing for him to sign it. Stark almost ends up losing his license to practice law as a result.
* Dr. Cal Lightman in ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'' does it about [[Once an Episode]].
* [[QI]] described an Elizabethan mathematician, John Napier, who "[[Freud Was Right|encouraged his servants to stroke his cock]]" - one of them had been stealing, and he got them all together and told them his pet cockerel [[Too Dumb to Live|could tell when someone who touched it was lying]]. He sent them into a dark room and told them to stroke it, while unbeknownst to them it was covered in soot - the guilty servant was the only one not to have soot on his hands.
* Done in ''[[
{{quote| '''Maddy:''' [[And Another Thing|Just one more question...]] How on earth did you fall for all that crap I fed you about skin cells??}}
* ''[[Castle]]'' does the "divide and conquer" ploy in "The Double Down" to break the beta of the [[Strangers
* Non- [[Crime Drama]] example: In ''[[
{{quote| '''Janet:''' When are you going to own up to the $500 you demanded from him?<br />
'''Inspector:''' It was only $126.<br />
'''Janet:''' See? }}
* On ''[[
* In a ''[[
{{quote| Bester: Liars are always afraid that somebody's going to see through them. So I just provided him with a vehicle for his paranoia. Your captain's opinions notwithstanding, the badge and the uniform do have certain ... advantages.<br />
Garibaldi: Like intimidation?<br />
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'''Odessa''': Mose certainly keeps unusual company. How is he? I received a letter from him mentioning that a pigeon of his was sick. I find it hard to imagine Mose taking care of a sick pigeon.<br />
'''Kage''': Very strange, lady. Sir Mose does not keep any pigeons. }}
* You can pull one on a robber in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' if your perception is high enough. The girl has just taken a necklace made from rare Sunset Star Sarsaparilla caps off the guy she killed "in defense", and claims that it's hers. You claim that you've never seen bottlecaps like "those six", and she agrees that they're very special. You then point out that there are actually ''seven'' caps, which she'd know if she really owned it in the first place.
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