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* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In the fourth season episode "No Exit" Tom Baldwin, Diana Skouris, Meghan Doyle, Marco Pacella, Brady and P.J. wake up to find themselves locked into the NTAC offices in Seattle where they work joined by Tom's son Kyle and oldest nephew Shawn Farrell, Diana's adopted daughter Maia, as well as Jordan Collier and Isabelle Tyler. During the episode they have to fight the building itself as it turns on them, cooperate, find out why they're there and find a way out.

* In the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode "[[Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteBear White Bear]]", Victoria wakes up in the living room of a house, with a calendar, a TV set to a mysterious image, some pills, a headache, and no idea how she got there.

* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': The season 4 episode "Cuffed" opened with Beckett and the titular writer handcuffed together in a sealed room, with no memory of how they got there.
* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS2E22Legacy Legacy]]" features an [=UnSub=] who kidnaps transients, knocks them out and throws them into an abandoned factory, where they wake up and are forced to find their own way out of the factory.

* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E18Allegiance Allegiance]]" has this, but with a twist. We see Picard wake up in a strange room, while his double walks around on the ship.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In the beginning of the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E23Demons Demons]]", Mulder wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room with somebody else's blood on his shirt.

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* Happens to Shelton and Eddie in ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'' story ''Nietzsche's Soldiers''.
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* A fairly common way to begin a theatre-style [[{{LARP}} Live Action Role Playing Game]].
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* ''VideoGame/YouFindYourselfInARoom'' by 2DArray, where this phrase is reiterated during many prompts.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', also in a morgue in the SNES version.

* ''VideoGame/ADarkRoom'', naturally.

* ''VideoGame/{{Antichamber}}'' pretty much starts this way.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitness'': You start in a metal tube which leads up onto a patio, via a small cave.

* In ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'', it's a hospital room.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Fleep}}'', the "room" is a phone booth encased in concrete.

* ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' likes this trope. ''Webcomic/{{Jailbreak}}'' fits the definition perfectly, ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' plays around with it, and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' begins in a similar manner (three times).

* ''Webcomic/{{Unity}}'' begins its first story the protagonist waking up in a hospital room [[IdentityAmnesia with no memories.]]

* The Japanese flash game ''TERMINAL HOUSE'' does this in its first two games (of four). The first adds a little backstory to it, with the main character having spent an unknown amount of time trying to break out, with no success before the player takes control.

* ''Film/SoulMates'': Jason and Allison wake up in a bedroom in an AbandonedWarehouse with no idea who the other person is or who would want to kidnap either of them.

[[caption-width-right:350:"My God...they stole everything!"]]

* ''Film/DarkCity'' begins with John Murdoch waking up in a hotel room, where he was lying naked in a bathtub. He doesn't know why there is a dead prostitute nearby, and can't even recall his own name.

%%* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': Classic episodes "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E79FiveCharactersInSearchOfAnExit Five Characters in Search of an Exit]]".

* "Advertising/VictoryByComputer": ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is investigating a strange house when she gets struck by red solar radiation, falling into a trap door. When she waske up, she finds herself trapped in a strange unfamiliar room which she cannot break out of by sheer brute force because her powers are nullified.

* ''Series/DarkMatter2015'': This is how the series begins. A group of apparently mis-matched people emerge from cryotanks on a spaceship with no memories of who they are or why they are on the ship. They figure who they are and what they were doing by the end of the first episode ([[spoiler:although one character later learns he's actually impersonating the person everyone thinks he is]]); and spend the bulk of the first season trying to figure out who erased their memories and why, finally learning it in the season finale.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': The season 4 episode "Cuffed" opened with Beckett and the titular writer handcuffed together in a sealed room, with no memory of how they got there.