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* ''[[Ace Ventura]]: Pet Detective'': Dolphin kidnapping -> murder, kidnapping, and attempted murder of NFL star Dan Marino.

** ''[[Ace Ventura]] 2: When Nature Calls'': Bat kidnapping -> plot to wipe out two indigenous African tribes and seize their land.

* ''[[Alien Nation (Film)|Alien Nation]]'': Murder of a cop during a robbery -> re-introducing a devastating alien drug.

* ''[[The Avengers 1998 (Film)|The Avengers 1998]]'': Sabotage of a weather control project -> holding Britain to ransom with the threat of a weather attack that will destroy London.

* ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone|Harry Potter]]''. The break-in at Gringotts -> Voldemort attempting to rise back to power.

** ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Harry Potter]]''. The escape of a famous convict -> A devoted servant trying to rejoin with Voldemort.

* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Komarr]]'' starts with the investigation of a collision between a freighter and an orbital terraforming mirror. It makes a detour to a modest embezzlement scheme before {{spoiler|settling on a plot to eliminate the only wormhole link between Barrayar and the rest of the populated galaxy that would actually, due to incomplete analysis of the underlying science, result in the destruction of at least one space station with several thousand residents and transients aboard.}}

* In the [[Greg Egan]] novel ''[[Quarantine (Literature)|Quarantine]]'', an investigation into the disappearance of a severely developmentally delayed woman from a care home eventually reveals a plot to {{spoiler|radically alter the nature of reality at a quantum level}}.

 

== Real Life ==

* ''The Cuckoo's Egg'' tells of how astrophysicist Clifford Stoll was asked to resolve a [[American Customary Measurements|75¢]] discrepancy in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory computer usage accounts, and ended up uncovering a German computer hacker selling secrets to the KGB.

* A foiled burglary at an upper class hotel uncovered attempts to influence the US election that go right up to the [[Richard Nixon|POTUS himself]]. As well as adding [[Scandalgate|a new suffix to the English language]].

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