History Main / InterrogationMontage

* ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''. In "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", Dr Zimmerman wants to create a medical hologram based on Doctor Bashir, so he interviews Bashir's friends and workmates to get a handle on his personality.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E18ComingOfAge}} Coming of Age]]", this technique is used when Remmick aggressively interrogates various members of the Enterprise bridge crew, while attempting to uncover a mysterious conspiracy.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. In "First Blood", the Winchester brothers have been arrested and since [[YouHaveToBelieveMe no-one would believe them anyway]], they just maintain an absolute silence. The FBI agent's speech is [[TwoScenesOneDialogue rendered as a single dialogue]], with him cutting between Sam and Dean whom he's interrogating in separate cells.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. A variation in "Damaged" where Oliver Queen is getting a polygraph test from Detective Lance over whether he is the Hood vigilante, intercut with a flashback of Oliver being interrogated and tortured on the island.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}''. When an ex-lover of Lucifer's is murdered, Detective Chloe Decker decides to haul in everyone he's slept with recently for questioning (which is a ''[[TheHedonist lot]]'' of [[BiTheWay men and women]]). They all end up saying the same thing: [[SexGod the sex was amazing]], various NoodleImplements were involved, and ItDoesntMeanAnything. Lucifer [[IJustWantToBeLoved isn't as pleased as he ought to be]].

* A common occurrence in many superhero stories, particularly if {{Batman}} is involved. Writer Creator/ChuckDixon was especially fond of having not just Batman (or Robin), but ordinary cops and even criminal {{Mooks}} on the interrogating end.

* ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''. In "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", Dr Zimmerman wants to create a medical hologram based on Doctor Bashir, and this trope happens when he interviews the crew to get a handle on his personality.

%%* Dr. Zimmerman's interviews of the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' crew to learn about Bashir are this.

* ''Series/DarkMatter''. As the Android is a LivingLieDetector, the crew have her ask everyone a series of test questions to determine if one of them is only pretending to have had their memories wiped.

!!Examples of this trope include:

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** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]," the gang splits up to investigate who might be the potential killer. The scene cuts between Willow, Xander, Oz, and Cordelia interrogating different people around the school.
** When the Watcher's Council are grilling the Scoobies in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E12Checkpoint}} Checkpoint]]".

* A variation in the ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' episode "The Diary" - Coach Fredericks has all the boys in gym class recite the prank call Bill made the previous day. HilarityEnsues.
* ''{{Series/Firefly}}:'' In "[[{{Recap/FireflyE03Bushwhacked}} Bushwhacked]]", seven of the ''Serenity'' crew are arrested, resulting in a truly hilarious game of this - especially given that half of them are reacting comically, and the other half are being [[ComicallySerious excessively serious.]]
* In an episode of ''{{Series/Titus}}'' the gang got thrown off a plane when they were MistakenForTerrorist. Most of the next episode was an Interrogation Montage of the TrueCompanions, all speaking to a FourthWall Federal Marshall.
* Used in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' in which several members of an insurgent-fighting marine unit use suspiciously identical phrases to recount the events of the same skirmish.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' new series episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]], the Doctor asks a number of dinner guests about the death of Professor Peach, in a manner much like the novels of Creator/AgathaChristie (who is a major supporting character in this episode).

** In the episode "Deep in Death", Beckett, Ryan, and Esposito simultaneously interrogate three members of a drug gang about a murder.
** In the episode "A Rose for Everafter", a murder occurs at a wedding and there are several montages of the detectives interrogating the wedding guests.
* Occurs in the ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' episode "A Spy In the House Of Love" when Echo is interrogating the Dollhouse employees.
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' inverts this in "The Coat Hanger". A small number of officials, plus the Monsignor and Dr. Arden, question Leigh about why Sister Jude would try to kill him. [[spoiler:The truth is that she did it in self-defense, and it's all part of an ongoing ploy to keep Jude out of power in the asylum.]]

* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles:'' In "Free Ride," Callen does this to a sailor and a Marine in the brig for fighting in the mess, in hopes of finding clues about the murder of the carrier's resident NCIS Agent Afloat.

** And again in "Proteus," involving a seismograph used as a lie detector.

* Dr. Zimmerman's interviews of the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' crew to learn about Bashir are this.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': The episode "JAG TV" has a scene like this, with Mac interviewing the husband and Harm with the wife suspected of killing her husband's lover.
* ''Series/AgentCarter''. In "SNAFU", three SSR agents interrogate Peggy Carter separately, each using a different approach -- Sousa ([[ThisIsUnforgivable betrayed colleague]]), Thompson (FireForgedFriend), Dooley (WorthyOpponent). Carter's answers are cut between the three of them, but form a single dialogue.
* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. When an ex-lover of Lucifer's is murdered, Detective Chloe Decker decides to haul in everyone he's slept with recently for questioning (which is a ''[[TheHedonist lot]]'' of [[BiTheWay men and women]]). They all end up saying the same thing: [[SexGod the sex was amazing]], various NoodleImplements were involved, and ItDoesntMeanAnything. Lucifer [[IJustWantToBeLoved isn't as pleased as he ought to be]].

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Private Madness Public Danger" between Cowley and Doyle interrogating a drug pusher at [=CI5=] headquarters, and Bodie interrogating a junkie at a hospital.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''. Nightwing goes round showing a picture of Harley.
-->'''Man:''' Haven't seen her.
-->'''Bum:''' Would have liked to!
-->'''Landlord:''' Dame owes me three weeks back rent! If you find her, you tell her she can eat my sh--
-->'''Old man:''' [[AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption Sheee had]]...the cutest smile.
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* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': The interrogations of the team before the famous "line-up scene", where they successively blow off the cops.

** At the end of ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand, Creator/GregRucka pulled off an [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/iu4A_ZfAd8zabhVYG_gDRGvWtBRT2khuTr7-9wr1g7kwwO96zaE7W4vE00ggrlAPNhvUnPynLfoK=s1600 an especially lavish version]].

** Between Buffy and Faith when they're being interrogated by police over their whereabouts on the night the deputy Mayor of Sunnydale was killed (by Faith). [[BlatantLies Neither give the same answers, despite both claiming they were together]].

** When the Watcher's Council are grilling the Scoobies in "Checkpoint".

* ''{{Series/Firefly}}:'' In "Bushwhacked," seven of the ''Serenity'' crew are arrested, resulting in a truly hilarious game of this - especially given that half of them are reacting comically, and the other half are being [[ComicallySerious excessively serious.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "Coming of Age", this technique is used when Remmick aggressively interrogates various members of the Enterprise bridge crew, while attempting to uncover a mysterious conspiracy.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. In "First Blood", the Winchester brothers have been arrested and since [[YouHaveToBelieveMe no-one would believe them anyway]], they just maintain an absolute silence. The FBI agent's speech is rendered as a single dialogue, with him cutting between Sam and Dean whom he's interrogating in separate cells.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. When an ex-lover of Lucifer's is murdered, Detective Chloe Decker decides to haul in everyone he's slept with recently for questioning (which is a ''[[TheHedonist lot]]'' of [[BiTheWay men and women]]). They all end up saying the same thing: [[SexGod the sex was amazing]], various NoodleImplements were involved, and ItMeansNothingToMe. Lucifer (who's listening in the next room) isn't as pleased as he ought to be.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. When an ex-lover of Lucifer's is murdered, Detective Chloe Decker decides to haul in everyone he's slept with recently for questioning (which is a ''[[TheHedonist lot]]'' of [[BiTheWay men and women]]). They all end up saying the same thing: [[SexGod the sex was amazing]], various NoodleImplements were involved, and ItMeantNothingToMe. Lucifer (who's listening in the next room) isn't as pleased as he ought to be.