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The young police officer goes to visit the house of one of the suspects in a [[Serial Killer]] case. Meanwhile, back at the police station, the detectives put together the clues to see who the killer is.
Simultaneously, the two parties figure out the
They're alone in the house with a serial killer. Will they survive? The answer to that is generally "yes".
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* Pretty much the entire latter half of ''Paperhouse''.
* Occurs at the end of ''[[Zodiac (film)|Zodiac]]''. Subverted in that {{spoiler|while the character played by Jake Gyllenhaal is convinced the clues all add up, the truth is never revealed}}.
* Happens in ''[[The Element of Crime]]'', but gets subverted and perhaps even deconstructed in the most possible twisted way: {{spoiler|detective Fisher and a potential victim of the child killer are waiting for him, in a small room. Suddenly, one of the killer's signature statuettes falls from Fisher's pocket. The little girl now ''believes'' she is
* An inversion happens in ''[[Kiss the Girls]]'': the officer is visiting one of the victims and reveals '''''himself''''' to be the serial rapist/killer just as another detective is putting the pieces together back at the station. The killer manages to cut the victim's phone line just before the other detective tries to call.
* [[Sin City]] has a scene where Marv visits an old farm to search for clues and doesn't realize it is the home of the [[Serial Killer]]. He survives but the killer does defeat and imprison him for a time.
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* In the first season finale of ''[[True Blood]]'', Sam recognizes the [[Serial Killer]]'s scent from {{spoiler|the jacket left in the bar by Rene, who's just driven Sookie home.}} Meanwhile, Sookie telepathically {{spoiler|catches Rene thinking about his murder of her grandma}}.
* Happens quite often on ''[[NCIS]]'', and almost ''always'' ends in a [[What Kept You?]]. Gibbs, Tony, Ziva, even ''Abby'' (who is a noncombatant [[The Lab Rat|Lab Rat]]) have all taken their turn here at least once.
** Neatly subverted in the season five episode "Recoil." Gibbs, Tony, McGee, and Abby check Michael Locke's fingerprints against those of a murderer, while at the same time Ziva takes Locke with her to walk herself back through a previous incident in which she was almost killed. The scene cuts back and forth between the lab and the site of the incident and seems to be building to an
** Also subverted in a third season episode where Ziva is in a log cabin and finds a missing woman who was to be the next victim. The [[Serial Killer]] is with Gibbs and the others.
* Used in an episode of ''[[New Tricks]]'', with the slight modification that the mild-mannered murderer was not even a suspect in the case at the time.
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