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* In ''Series/{{Bugs}}'' episode 2x16 "Gold Rush", Ed is caught by the bad guys while investigating their anti-gold bioweapon "thiobacillius auric oxydans". He escapes, but doesn't notice they've hidden a bioweapon charge inside his dictaphone until it's too late.

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* In the mini-series ''A Man Called Intrepid'' a female agent is allowed to escape by the Gestapo, then secretly recaptured so they can send transmissions in her name back to London.



* In the mini-series ''A Man Called Intrepid'' a female agent is allowed to escape by the Gestapo, then secretly recaptured so they can send transmissions in her name back to London.

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* In ''Series/ThePretender'': Jarod is re-captured by Centre operatives in one episode. Knowing him to be a master of escape, they anticipate him breaking out through ductwork leading to a manhole on the mini-series ''A Man Called Intrepid'' edge of the property and set up a female agent is allowed cage above it. When he does indeed attempt to escape by that way, they're waiting for him around the Gestapo, then secretly recaptured so they can send transmissions in her name back to London.cage's perimeter. Cue him screaming, [[BigNo "NOOOO!"]]
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* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho142TheDemonsOfRedLodge The Demons of Red Lodge]]'': In "Doing Time", [[WardensAreEvil Governor Chaplain]] allows the force field surrounding the prison to go down while she hosting a TV crew and there is a large number of prisoners in the yard. Several of the prisoners make a break for it, but it is actually a set up to allow the film crew to capture are efficient she is at handling a crisis as part of her campaign for president.

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* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho142TheDemonsOfRedLodge The Demons of Red Lodge]]'': In "Doing Time", [[WardensAreEvil Governor Chaplain]] allows the force field surrounding the prison to go down while she hosting a TV crew and there is a large number of prisoners in the yard. Several of the prisoners make a break for it, but it is actually a set up to allow the film crew to capture are how efficient she is at handling a crisis as part of her campaign for president.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'', this can be used to get rid of a troublesome or unproductive colonist without upsetting the remaining colonists with an execution or banishment. Simply throw the colonist in prison, then leave the door open. They will inevitably try to escape, and then... they're gone, and nobody objects.
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* In the third ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' novel, Gale and other members of the rescue party sent to retrieve Peeta and some other prisoners note it was too easy, that it was as if the Capital let them go. It turns out they brainwashed Peeta into killing Katniss.

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* In the third ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' novel, Gale and other members of the rescue party sent to retrieve Peeta and some other prisoners note it was too easy, that it was as if the Capital let them go. It turns out they brainwashed Peeta into killing wanting to kill Katniss.
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* In ''Literature/AlwaysComingHome'', the imprisoned son of [[GloriousLeader The Condor]] was killed after trying to escape due to being betrayed by the people who pretended to help him.
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* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' three-parter "Back in the Red", the Dwarfers, accused of stealing Starbug by the resurrected crew, are put in a VR where they're given a chance to escape, in order to see if their actions match their unbelievable story. They exhonerate themselves, but in the process implicate themselves in reading the ship's confidential files and using them for their own gain, which carries exactly the same penalty.

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