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** This is somewhat justified in [[Bones]], because Angela was hired specifically for her artistic skill and ability to extrapolate faces from remains, and there are real specialists who have this ability.
** There have been at least a couple of cases where she hasn't been able to reconstruct a face because there wasn't enough skull left.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Dexter]]''. The title character has just killed, in cold blood, a man who was about to commit murder; he is now stressed about a sketch being made from a description given by a young
* A similar subversion happened in an episode of ''CSI: NY''. Mac and Stella discover the boy who witnessed a murder has great artistic talent so they ask him to draw the killer. He ends up drawing a character from one of his comic books. His traumatic experience caused him to confuse the events in the comic with reality.
* Used, though possibly as parody, in the beginning of ''Farscape'' in which they peel back an image of a spaceship to reveal the pilot.
* Subverted in ''Dark Angel'' when Max is seen stealing medications from a pharmacy in ''Flushed''. Police pictures of her quickly land her in
* Subverted in ''[[Life On Mars]]'': Based on a witness description, Ray produces a sketch that looks like a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' character.
* In one episode of [[RoboCop]], Murphy sees a black guy who tries to kill him. Later, he takes a photo of his childhood friend, and computer-ages it exactly into the guy he saw, complete with beard and hat. He is, of course, exactly right.
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