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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'': Mr. {{spoiler|Orange}}, just after killing Mr. {{spoiler|Blonde}}.

* In ''[[The Fast and the Furious]],'' Brian O'Conner reveals to Mia that he is a cop at the end of the movie. The viewer has known this all along but it allows some drama between O'Conner and the girl he has been sleeping with and {{spoiler|eventually persuades her to help him track down the truck thieves}}.

* ''[[Running Scared]]'' (1986). When detectives Hughes and Costanzo try to arrest Gonzales and end up caught in an ambush, two of Gonzales' men reveal themselves as undercover cops Montoya and Sigliano and save the [[Heroes]]' lives.

* In ''[[Black Dog]]'', {{spoiler|Sonny}} reveals to Crews that he is an FBI agent after he is mortally wounded in a truck-jacking attempt.

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* In Heinlein's ''[[Magic, Inc.]]'' the heroes are helped by an [[Undercover Cop Reveal]] when, essentially, fighting the literal forces of Hell. An FBI agent masquerading as a demon.

* In ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'' it's setup to look like Andre might be the villain until he reveals that he is actually an undercover cop.

* ''[[Tricky Business]]'', a rare non-humor book by [[Dave Barry]] (although it does have it's moments), is about an illegal casino ship that is also a base for drug dealers, things go wrong, etc. On of the POV characters is a pretty young lady who works as a cocktail waitress, hates her job, and her mother always tells her to quit because it's so dangerous... Makes perfect sense, until the very last part of the book when it's revealed that "cocktail waitress" was just a disguise: she is actually a badass undercover cop, and now everything suddenly sounds a lot smarter.

* [[Timothy Zahn]]'s not-quite-[[Star Wars]] [[Space Opera]]-Mystery-action book ''[[The Icarus Hunt]]''. To say more would be to spoil it, though if the reader is both paying attention and actively trying to put the pieces together, it's not ''that'' hard to figure it out ahead of time.

* In the [[Tim Dorsey]] novel ''Hammerhead Ranch Motel'', one room at the motel holds two different drug gangs who are secretly undercover cops each of whom is trying to bust the other gang. They only discover this when a third jurisdiction of police shows up and tries to bust both of them.

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* ''[[Fastlane]]'' episode "Mighty Blue". When officers Van and Deaq confront a criminal gang, one of them reveals herself as an undercover police officer to save them.

* This happened to Sawyer in the "flash-sideways" on ''[[Lost]]'' - the scene deliberately echoed a season one flashback which showed him as a con man, only this time the mark called him on it, and he revealed that he was a cop.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14 E5 The Robots of Death|The Robots of Death]]", one of the Sandminer's crewmembers is revealed to be an undercover agent -- and {{spoiler|so is one of the robot drones, which is actually a highly advanced robot disguised as the most primitive and stupid model in use on the Sandminer}}.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E05 The Robots of Death|The Robots of Death]]", one of the Sandminer's crewmembers is revealed to be an undercover agent -- and {{spoiler|so is one of the robot drones, which is actually a highly advanced robot disguised as the most primitive and stupid model in use on the Sandminer}}.

* Occurs in the first episode of ''[[Rookie Blue]]'', even though he tries to keep his cover even after being arrested. Its finally blown when an old friend greets him heartily as he is about to be processed.

* Happens in the episode of ''[[The Bill]]'' that re-introduced Frank Burnside. Burnside was undercover with a gang of soccer hooligans that are busted by Sun Hill. Burnside headbutts one of the arresting officers to maintain his cover.

* ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]:'' Sid in "Mala Ka Aina"; Kono in "Ma'eme'e"