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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The Numbers of the Beast", the husband of the VictimOfTheWeek is found by Father Brown holding the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella]] she had been stabbed with. He claims he had pulled it out thinking he could save her.

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In "The Numbers of the Beast", the husband of the VictimOfTheWeek is found by Father Brown holding the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella]] she had been stabbed with. He claims he had pulled it out thinking he could save her.her.
** In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS10E1 The Winds of Change]]", Harry Grover had arranged to meet Jennifer Mossop in a field. When he arrived, he found she had been stabbed and was dying. He pulled the knife out and was holding it when Father Brown arrived, followed shortly after by the police.
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* Do you want to have some extra drama in your Telenovela? Just kill a background or support character with the villain, then put the weapon and make the protagonist to take it accidentally. This trope is very common in this genre and this would start an arc where the character is being judged for that. A good example? "Series/LaMadrastra" starts exactly with a crime where the main character, Maria, takes the killing weapon and ends in jail for 20 years, starting the events of the story.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In the backstory for "Death in a Chocolate Box", this led to [[spoiler:Lord Holm]]'s arrest for murder. Finding his wife dead, he picked the murder weapon and was immediately arrested [[spoiler:by the police officer who committed the murder]]. He was confused enough that he allowed himself to be convinced that he had committed the crime and then blacked it out.

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In the backstory for "Death "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS10E8 Death in a Chocolate Box", Box]]", this led to [[spoiler:Lord Holm]]'s arrest for murder. Finding his wife dead, he picked the murder weapon and was immediately arrested [[spoiler:by the police officer who committed the murder]]. He was confused enough that he allowed himself to be convinced that he had committed the crime and then blacked it out.
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* Zack does this in Booth's coma dream in one episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He and Vincent find a gun stashed in the latter's equipment and Zack quickly picks it up, with his finger on the trigger, even. This is at least a day after the body had been found and in a different area of the club, but it's still the murder weapon. [[spoiler: He did this on purpose. He believed Booth was the killer and was trying to obscure the evidence.]]

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* Zack does this in Booth's coma dream in one episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He and Vincent find a gun stashed in the latter's Vincent's equipment and Zack quickly picks it up, with his finger on the trigger, even. This is at least a day after the body had been found and in a different area of the club, but it's still the murder weapon. [[spoiler: He did this on purpose. He believed Booth was the killer and was trying to obscure the evidence.]]
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* Being a parody of Batman, it's fitting that ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'' does it in a Marvel crossover... ''twice''. First by "securing" the weapon used to kill an old ComicBook/{{Punisher}}'s relative, just in time for the latter to see him. After several pages of dodging bullets, he manages to escape only to "secure" a metal pipe used to beat a certain "Mrs May". Seconds before ComicBook/SpiderMan enters the scene.

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* Being a parody of Batman, it's fitting that ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'' does it in a Marvel crossover... ''twice''. First by "securing" the weapon used to kill an old ComicBook/{{Punisher}}'s relative, just in time for the latter Punisher to see him. After several pages of dodging bullets, he manages to escape only to "secure" a metal pipe used to beat a certain "Mrs May". Seconds before ComicBook/SpiderMan enters the scene.

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