History Main / PhotoIdentificationDenial

* In an episode of ''Series/TheUndeclaredWar'', Saraa, a student getting work experience in the malware department of Britain's cybersecurity organization, is shown a series of photos on a tablet. The people are suspected to be working for Russia as cyberwarriors. Sarah does recognize one picture as that of Vadim, a Russian classmate at her university in London. She denies recognizing him at first but eventually admits she knew him.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheUndeclaredWar'', Sarah, a student getting work experience in the malware department of Britain's cybersecurity organization, is shown a series of photos on a tablet. The people are suspected to be working for Russia as cyberwarriors. Sarah does recognize one picture as that of Vadim, a Russian classmate at her university in London. She denies recognizing him at first but eventually admits she knew him.

* ''Film/TheNiceGuys'': Jackson and Holland show Amelia's picture to a bartender, who denies ever seeing her. Both Jackson and Holland can see that he's lying, and after getting his head bashed against the bar he admits that he's seen her. Interestingly, he's not a bad person. Despite getting roughed up, after he tells them how to find people who know Amelia where is, he specifically warns them that they're dangerous and not to be taken lightly.

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': When the T-1000 is looking for John Connor, he has a photograph and is showing it to the kids at the mall arcade. He shows it to one kid, who shrugs and hands it back, saying he doesn't know him. However, the audience already knows he's John's buddy. He wastes no time getting to John and telling him to run. It's a good thing because while he was warning John, the T-1000 showed the picture to another boy, ''who immediately pointed directly to John.'' Cue the T-1000 going into Kill Mode...

* While Literature/AbleTeam is in Sri Lanka, a corrupt government official takes the top secret files of the team provided by the US government, has hundreds of copies made and distributes them to low rent thugs to search for them. One of the team has an OhCrap moment when he sees one of these thugs staring at him, looking at a glossy photo, then rushing to the nearest knife sharpening stand where several other thugs are cueing to have their knives sharpened.

* While Literature/AbleTeam is in Sri Lanka, a corrupt government official takes the top secret files of the team provided by the US government, has hundreds of copies made and [[APriceOnTheirHead distributes them to low rent thugs to search for them]]. One of the team has an OhCrap moment when he sees one of these thugs staring at him, looking at a glossy photo, then rushing to the nearest knife sharpening stand where several other thugs are cueing to have their knives sharpened.

* In ''The Mandarin Cypher'', British spy Literature/{{Quiller}} is identified by Chinese intelligence agents in Hong Kong from a surveillance photograph they took of him during the events of ''The Nineth Directive''. At one point he's captured and interrogated, and during his PerpSweating the interrogator slams down the photograph on the table.

* ''Franchise/DocSavage'': In an early story, Doc's associates Monk and Ham are looking for a missing woman. Entering a speakeasy, they show her picture to the bartender, who immediately denies ever seeing her. Ham, who is an experienced lawyer and very good at reading people, is suspicious because the bartender barely even looked at the photograph. It turns out the woman, who was the secretary for a wealthy businessman, was kidnapped by a local gang. The bartender was told to keep providing her with free drinks until she became so drunk she was unable to resist the kidnappers.

* ''Series/iZombie'': In the pilot episode, The weatherman does this when Clive and Liv show him the picture of the victim. He reveals himself when Liv repeats the "[[Film/TheShining Heeeeere's Johnny!]]" line she saw from the dead girl's memory. He's not the killer, however, and does provide them information on who she was and where she lived.

"This is your photograph. We know it is."

* In ''The Mandarin Cypher'', British spy Literature/{{Quiller}} is identified by Chinese intelligence agents in Hong Kong from a surveillance photograph they took of him during the events of ''The Nineth Directive''. At one point he's captured and interrogated, and during his PerpSweating the interrogator slams down the photograph on the table. Quiller of course denies looking anything like that.

* ''Film/EightMM''. [[PrivateDetective Tom Welles]] is searching for a teenage girl who appears to have been killed for a SnuffFilm, and uses a photograph copied from the eponymous reel of [=8mm=] film. He walks into the office of pornographer Eddie Poole and asks him to look at the picture. Poole scoffs at the idea that he'd even recognise her ("You know how much pussy walks through that door?") but when shown the picture, stares at it in shock, then abruptly turns away saying he's never seen her. Welles realises that he's gotten his first lucky break in the case.

* Film/EightMM''.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS15E07LastCall "Last Call"]], Dean is looking for a missing girl. He's at a bar run by his ex-hunter buddy Lee. He shows Lee her photograph, and Lee denies knowing her. He's lying. It turns out that Lee got tired of hunting and made a deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek where he provides it with victims in return for health and money. Dean does not take this well, and Lee doesn't live through the episode...

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'''Drebin''': Maybe this'll help. (Gives him a twenty)\\

'''Drebin''': How about now? (Gives him another twenty)\\

'''Dockworker''': Maybe this'll help. (Gives Drebin a twenty)\\

'''Dockworker''': How about now? (Gives Drebin another twenty)\\

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** In the first season episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E11Scarecrow Scarecrow]], Sam and Dean are investigating a small town where young couples routinely go missing at the same time every year. Dean is showing a picture of the most recent couple to vanish to the townspeople, all of whom deny seeing them. Except for one young girl who isn't aware that the townspeople made a deal with a pagan god to sacrifice a man and a woman once a year in return for good fortune for the town. She tells Dean the couple did stop there, and it doesn't take long for Dean to start throwing monkey wrenches into things.

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-->'''Pumbaa:''' I have never seen Timon before in my entire life, and I would never rat out my bestest best friend (Timon kicks him) Ow! I mean uhh, Timon is only a so-so friend (Timon kicks him) Ow! I mean I wish he would stop kicking me-(Timon kicks him) Ow! I mean I don't know what you're talking about!

* ''Film/Terminator2'': When the T-1000 is looking for John Connor, he has a photograph and is showing it to the kids at the mall arcade. He shows it to one kid, who shrugs and hands it back, saying he doesn't know him. However, the audience already knows he's John's buddy. He wastes no time getting to John and telling him to run. It's a good thing because while he was warning John, the T-1000 showed the picture to another boy, ''who immediately pointed directly to John.'' Cue the T-1000 going into Kill Mode...

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS15E07LastCall Last Call]], Dean is looking for a missing girl. He's at a bar run by his ex-hunter buddy Lee. He shows Lee her photograph, and Lee denies knowing her. He's lying. It turns out that Lee got tired of hunting and made a deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek where he provides it with victims in return for health and money. Dean does not take this well, and Lee doesn't live through the episode...

--->'''Drebin''': Recognize that face?
--->'''Dockworker''': I dunno. My memory ain't so good.
--->'''Drebin''': Maybe this'll help. (Gives him a twenty)
--->'''Dockworker''': It's still kinda hazy.
--->'''Drebin''': How about now? (Gives him another twenty)
--->'''Dockworker''': Yeah, I used to see him around. Why do you wanna know?
--->'''Drebin''': I can't tell you that.
--->'''Dockworker''': Maybe this'll help. (Gives Drebin a twenty)
--->'''Drebin''': I still don't think I should tell you.
--->'''Dockworker''': How about now? (Gives Drebin another twenty)
--->'''Drebin''': He's a cop. His name's Nordberg.

* ''Film/BladeRunner''. When Deckard shows bar owner Taffy Lewis a picture of the fugitive replicant Zhora, Taffy says he's never seen her. He's lying, because he hired Zhora to do a snake act to entertain his customers.

* ''Film/Terminator2'': When the T-1000 is looking for John Connor, he has a photograph and is showing it to the kids at the mall arcade. He shows it to one kid, who shrugs and hands it back, saying he doesn't know him. However, the audience already knows he's John's buddy. He wastes no time getting to John and telling him to run. It's a good thing, because while he was warning John, the T-1000 showed the picture to another boy, ''who immediately pointed directly to John.'' Cue the T-1000 going into Kill Mode...

* In an episode of ''Series/TheUndeclaredWar'', Sarah, a student getting work experience in the malware department of Britain's cybersecurity organization, is shown a series of photos on a tablet. The people are suspected to be working for Russia as cyberwarriors. Sarah does recognize one picture as that of Vadim, a Russian classmate at her university in London. She denies recognizing him at first, but eventually admits she knew him.

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