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* ''Series/AlexRider'': ''Series/AlexRider2020'':
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* ''Series/AustinAndAlly'': In "Videos & Villains", Austin ends up being held hostage by Brooke, who has evolved into PsychoExGirlfriend territory, right when he is to perform on Video Countdown Live; she even obscures all means of contact with the outside world and won't let him out unless he writes a song about her.
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* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E2Departure Departure]]": Bill gets pinned under debris when the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ion Dragon]] starts attacking and the [[SharanShipwreck USS]] ''[[SharanShipwreck Lawton]]'' begins toppling around them, forcing Keiko and Lee to work urgently to get him free.
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** In season 3 of the TV series "Riviera", Gabriel Hirsch (played by Rupert Graves) is often rescued by the main female character Georgina Clios (played by Julia Stiles). In episodes 2 and 8, she finds him bound and gagged, at the mercy of different antagonists, and unties him.

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** * In season 3 of the TV series "Riviera", Gabriel Hirsch (played by Rupert Graves) is often rescued by the main female character Georgina Clios (played by Julia Stiles). In episodes 2 and 8, she finds him bound and gagged, at the mercy of different antagonists, and unties him.
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**In season 3 of the TV series "Riviera", Gabriel Hirsch (played by Rupert Graves) is often rescued by the main female character Georgina Clios (played by Julia Stiles). In episodes 2 and 8, she finds him bound and gagged, at the mercy of different antagonists, and unties him.
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'':
** Henry is taken hostage by the killer in "Look Before You Leap" with a blade held to his throat, with the extra stress of security cameras that will record him vanishing if he dies. [[spoiler: Jo ends up shooting the killer.]]
** In "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths" Henry is stabbed fatally, then when he tries to fight off the killer anyway he's thrown against a wall, moving the knife still embedded in his back, then tumbles down a flight of stairs, breaking his neck and leaving him unable to move. This time, it's Adam who comes to his rescue, sort of.
** Henry gets shot in "New York Kids," leaving Jo to chase after the suspect.
** Henry is kidnapped and tortured in "The Ecstasy of Agony," shackled to a Saint Andrew's Cross, choked repeatedly, then electrocuted. Jo, Hanson, and several other cops come to the rescue, distracting the killer enough for Henry to [[GuileHero grab ahold of him with a free hand]], thus [[HoistByHisOwnPetard sending the electric current through him as well]], causing him to collapse and drop the cable he was trying to kill Henry with.
** Adam traps Henry in the back of an out-of-control taxi which then sinks into the Hudson with Henry still inside in "Skinny Dipper." Henry leaves some horrific scratch marks on the inside of the taxi in his desperate attempts to escape.
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Theo is taken as a hostage by the Orcs after returning in Tirharad to gather some food. He is saved by Arondir.
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* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'':
** [[AngelicBeauty Angel]] Aziraphale gets in trouble several times throughout history. His [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] Crowley [[RescueRomance saves him]] every time.
** It is revealed in season 2 that Aziraphale does it on purpose, in order to make Crowley happy:
-->'''Aziraphale:''' Crowley will be back in a moment. He will have a plan.
-->'''Nina:''' Why don't you stand up for yourself? Make your own plans.
-->'''Aziraphale:''' I am. But rescuing me makes him ''so happy''.
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* ''Series/Yellowjackets'': A high school girls' soccer team is flying out to nationals, but their plane crashes. One of their coaches survives, but his leg is crushed and has to be amputated. He can't walk and the girls have to carry him when they hike out.

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* ''Series/Yellowjackets'': ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': A high school girls' soccer team is flying out to nationals, but their plane crashes. One of their coaches survives, but his leg is crushed and has to be amputated. He can't walk and the girls have to carry him when they hike out.
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* ''Series/Yellowjackets'': A high school girls soccer team is flying out to nationals, but their plane crashes. One of their coaches survives, but his leg is crushed and has to be amputated. He can't walk and the girls have to carry him when they hike out.

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* ''Series/Yellowjackets'': A high school girls girls' soccer team is flying out to nationals, but their plane crashes. One of their coaches survives, but his leg is crushed and has to be amputated. He can't walk and the girls have to carry him when they hike out.
* ''Series/Zero2021'': Omar, after rescuing Anna from her kidnappers, is overpowered by one and in grave danger before she hits the guy over the head with a chair.
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* As Saul Goodman was kidnapped by Walt and Jesse in his intro ''Series/BreakingBad'' episode and was terrified, it was probably inevitable that Jimmy [=McGill=] was in distress a fair amount in ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', either as a hostage, handcuffed in jail or just getting in over his head and needing to be saved by Mike. Whatever you want to do to him, don't take him to the desert.
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*'Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland' Cyrus, until a wish to end Alice's suffering [[spoiler:finally frees him from being a genie. Will becomes both the new genie of the bottle and the Distressed Dude in his place.]]
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* Booth has to be rescued by Brennan and her dad Max early in ''{{Series/Bones}}''. The other times (when Brennan and Hodgins get buried alive and when Booth is trapped on a sinking ship) are downplayed as the captured characters help a lot with rescuing themselves.

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* For being a former Marine ''and'' the head CSI of the series, Mac Taylor from ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' has a nasty habit of being duped and/or captured by the very criminals he's trying to capture. (Downplayed in "The Untouchable" when he frees himself.)
** Danny and Adam both got this in the Season 3 finale ("Snow Day").
** Sheldon got it in when he was caught up in a prison riot in Season 6's "Redemptio."

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
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For being a former Marine ''and'' the head CSI of the series, Mac Taylor from ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' has a nasty habit of being duped and/or captured by the very criminals he's trying to capture. (Downplayed in "The Untouchable" when he frees himself.)
** Danny and Adam both got this in the Season 3 finale ("Snow Day").
Day") when they were taken hostage and beaten by the Irish gang intent on getting their seized drug hoard back.
** Don's former CI, Terrence, had to rescue him from a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the subway in Season 6's "Cuckoo's Nest."
** Later,
Sheldon got it in when he was caught up in a prison riot in Season 6's "Redemptio."" He even ended up getting locked in a cell for a while, and the team had to help rescue him because the authorities were taking too long & they feared for his life.

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