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* In ''[[The Lost Experience]]'' DJ Dan gets a call that turns out to be from Rachel Blake (using her hacker alias, Persephone). He tells his cohost Tanya to trace the call and she says "Trace it? With my pencil?"
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* ''[[Bookhunter]]'' has a variation where a perp is using a phone line to hack a computer. The cops are able to get the number the hacker is calling from easily enough, but it's a public phone booth, so they must race to physically apprehend the cracker and they don't have any way to keep the perp on the line longer.
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* Subverted in ''[[In the Line of Fire]]'', in that the bad guy stays on the line for quite a long time. The trace goes through, but to the wrong location.
* ''[[Hopscotch (film)|Hopscotch]]'': "Follett couldn't pinpoint his own backside in broad daylight!" A subversion, in that Kendig wanted the Feds to stop by and destroy his former boss' summer home.
* Set up in ''[[RED (film)|RED]]'': Cooper is encouraged by the tracer to keep Frank Moses on the line, prompting Cooper to string out the conversation. {{spoiler|Frank was calling from Cooper's house and had made the call specifically to allow a complete trace to reveal that fact to Cooper}}.
* ''[[Three Days of the Condor]]''. The CIA thinks they've traced Turner's whereabouts, but Turner has stolen a phone linesmen's kit and wired fifty phones together.
* ''Juggernaut''. The police are shown racing to where the call from the bomber is coming from, only to find a bunch of public phones wired together.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'', Constable Crabtree ''invents'' phone tracing.
* Happens all the time in ''[[Law
* Played straight in a number of episodes of ''[[The X-Files]]''.
** "Pusher" comes to mind, where Mulder and Scully try numerous times to trace Modell's call, but cannot. The "countdown" aspect is even more sinister in this case, because in one instance, Modell induces a heart attack in the lead detective and hangs up seconds before the call is traced.
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* Beautifully subverted on an episode of [[Wire in The Blood]]. The police are getting phone calls that the tech people can't trace to anywhere at all. Detective Jordan correctly deduces that the perp must be a phone engineer, and they find him all the faster for it.
* [[Lost]] had an episode in which Kate called the police from a phone booth, with a clock set to remind her of the seconds she had before they could track her.
* Attempted in one episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]''. The call is ended before the trace is completed, and when they show the phone that they had
* ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' (remake): Is done by a drug ring holding schoolchildren hostage.
* Certainly seen at least once on ''[[24]]'', probably much more often
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