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** Also subverted in the episode "Psy vs. Psy", which features Shawn going up against the FBI's psychic, who's also a fake.
* On ''John Doe'', a woman believes she's having psychic visions of a serial killer, and reveals key details on his methods and location. It turns out that she'd nearly been murdered by the killer herself, and had escaped, but suffered so much blood loss in the process that her brain retained nothing but fleeting memories of her close call.
* ''[[The Mentalist]]'' is an interesting inversion of this: the main character, Patrick Jane, is a former TV psychic (and [[Phony Psychic|admitted fraud]]) who gave up that line of work after his insulting "psychic reading" of a serial killer wound up [[Death
* ''[[NCIS]]'''s [[Perky Goth|Abby Sciuto]] occasionally floats a supernatural explanation for a death, because it would be cool, but eventually finds a mundane explanation. In one case, she made McGee collect corn stalks from a crop circle, and analyzed them for even the slightest anomaly, before she conceded they were fakes to throw investigators off.
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