The Infiltration: Difference between revisions

* The murder [[Sherlock Holmes]] investigates in ''The Valley of Fear'' centers around {{spoiler|a [[Private Detective|Pinkerton agent]] who infiltrated a criminal gang in the United States by posing as a murderer and counterfeiter, before turning on his supposed allies and helping the police break up their operations.}} It's [[Truth in Television]]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based this story on a real-life Pinkerton agent (an agency of private detectives often used in the days before the government created the FBI) who infiltrated and then broke up a gang of militant miners known as the Molly Maguires in the 1870s.

* In Brian Jacques' ''[[Redwall|Martin the Warrior]]'', Brome gets into Marshank by pretending to be a sea rat.

* Many times in the ''[[X Wing Series]]''. The Rogues pass as Imperial civilians to get on Coruscant. The Wraiths pass a warlord's subjects, then as stormtroopers, then later as pirates that the warlord wants to recruit. The Rogues set themselves up as members of one Imperial faction.

* In [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''The Man Who Was Thursday'', Syme is taken to an anarchist meeting and, being a policeman, sets out to infiltrate.

* The entire premise of ''[[Wiseguy]]''.

* Vladimitr Sharapov does this in ''[[The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed]]''.

* Happens often in ''[[Burn Notice]]'', although Michael occasionally takes the identity of a potential business associate of that episode's villain rather than a member of their group.

* Callen of ''NCIS Los Angeles'' makes his careers, plural, out of this trope, and undercover work is a specialty of the L.A. team.

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Bob and George]]'': [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020115c Proto Man as Break Man]

 

 

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