Ransacked Room: Difference between revisions

* Taken to extremes with Light in ''[[Death Note]]''. He hides the titular [[Artifact of Death]] in a false bottom in his drawer rigged to incinerate the Death Note if it isn't opened properly. He also pulls the handle of his door upwards after leaving, along with putting a piece of tape on the door, because he knows that if his mother, father, or sister were to enter the room, they'd trip the tape-defence. When he finds the tape still on, but the handle moved, he knows that his room has been searched by pros.

** He's also got the pencil lead on the hinge that breaks when the door is opened (the pros didn't find that).

 

== [[Comics]] ==

* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', [[The Professor|Mohinder]] comes home and surprises a Company agent searching (and bugging) his apartment. The agent claims to be an exterminator, and protests "this man pulled a gun on me" to a neighbor witnessing the ensuing fight. Of course, the gun holster exposed under the agent's jacket makes this lie [[Implausible Deniability|rather obvious]].

* On [[Burn Notice]], CSS agent Jason Bly has Michael's apartment searched. It's a subversion in that Michael is there at the time. Also, Bly doesn't expect to find anything; he's just doing it to mess with Michael.

* The [[Nickelodeon]] [[Game Show]] ''[[Finders Keepers]]'' featured teams of children tearing through rooms of an on-stage house to find hidden objects for money and prizes.

* ''[[Estate of Panic]]'', similar to the above, but with adult contestants ransacking a haunted mansion filled with booby traps and unpleasant animals to find cash.