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* Sort of subverted twice in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. Once where {{spoiler|Sgt. Angel confronts Skinner, and lays out why he thinks he's committed the murders; subverted in that nothing comes of it, because as it turns out Angel's wrong on a few points, which (for the moment) exonerates Skinner. The second time is a Summation by the Neighborhood Watch Alliance, a subversion because it's the ''culprits'' giving it to the hero, who's just shocked and amazed by the meager justification they had for killing people.}}
* Subverted as part of the [[The Ending Changes Everything|infamous plot twist]] at the end of ''[[The Usual Suspects]]''. Agent Kujan believes he has figured out that {{spoiler|Keaton was Keyser Soze}} and explains this to Verbal Kint, complete with revelatory montage. The explanation seems to hold water and Verbal is allowed to go. But seconds later, Kujan realizes that {{spoiler|Verbal's story, from which Kujan created his explanation, was completely fabricated--Verbal himself is Keyser Soze}}.
* Spoofed in ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'', where the [[Private Detective]] argues over his right to give
* Subverted in ''[[Resident Evil]]: Degeneration'', where Claire is making one at {{spoiler|Senator Davis}}, explaining his motives for causing the havoc in the film...until Leon shows up and says someone they apprehended earlier has spilled the beans, and {{spoiler|Senator Davis}} is entirely innocent, if still a sleazebag.
* ''[[A Shot in The Dark]]''. By the end of the movie Inspector Clouseau still hasn't been able to work out who the killer is, so he gathers everyone in the one room and starts giving an overly long summation of how he detected the killer, while ordering his deputy to turn out the lights at a particular time so the guilty culprit will panic and flee. {{spoiler|Because their watches haven't been synchronised Clouseau has to ramble on for so long the guilty parties start confessing anyway (it turns out everyone in the room commited one crime or another) so when the lights go out they all flee and get blown up by a car bomb meant for Clouseau.}}
* In ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', one of the characters gives the summation as a purely hypothetical imagining of what could have happened, not realizing that that is exactly what did happen.
* ''[[Brick]]'' has the protagonist, Brendan, giving it to the mastermind behind it all, to prove they're well and truly caught. He only gets one detail wrong: {{spoiler|the intended result.}}
* The 2009 film of ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' uses this trope. The Detective does this almost
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** Or the one where Monk becomes traumatized because of an earthquake, and does the entire summation in gibberish. You can still kind of tell what he's saying because the show still gives you flashbacks to the crime.
** The show tends to make this a gag about once every ten episodes: for instance, Lt. Disher explains it in Monk's style, complete with flashbacks, to a rookie officer, who then explains she already heard it from Monk.
** The Summation is [[Lampshade
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** [[Subverted]] in the episode Mr. Monk goes to jail, when Sharona does the Summation instead of Monk.
** And in the one with the farm, Disher does it and starts to doubt himself part way through, so Monk has to prompt him to continue.
** Parodied in one episode when Monk has to join a therapy group and the members keep getting killed off. When Monk tells the rest of the group about the possibility of the deaths being homicides, [[Evil Counterpart|Harold]] mimics Monk's investigation style and then goes into a
** Parodied in another episode where Monk, being rushed, literally gives his summation in fast motion, complete with squeaky fast forward (or as he says, picture-go-fast) voice distortion. Unable to understand a goddamn word, he's asked to repeat it in normal speed (picture go regular).
** Some fun is had in ''Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees'' when Natalie says "I've been waiting a long time to say this..."
** "In Mr. Monk Gets Drunk", he attempts to deliver
* A subversion occurs in an episode of ''[[New Tricks]]'', in which one of the squad explains how a suspected arsonist ''didn't'' burn down his factory; the explosion and fire was caused by an accident gasleak and a spark from the ringing of his mobile phone, which he had accidentally left behind.
* ''[[Columbo]]'' is fond of this method, explaining to the perp of the week exactly how they tripped up.
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