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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler PsychoKnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler PsychoKnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler KnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler KnifeNut.PsychoKnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
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* A variant is done in ''Manga/AnatoliaStory''. Just as Prince Kail and his men catch a servant who spills the beans on who TheMole is in their group, [[spoiler:Yuri discovers that she's been alone with the evil queen's right-hand man, and had asked him [[OhCrap to help her find]] the {{MacGuffin}} the queen was looking for.]]
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* A variant is done in ''Manga/AnatoliaStory''.''Manga/RedRiver1995''. Just as Prince Kail and his men catch a servant who spills the beans on who TheMole is in their group, [[spoiler:Yuri discovers that she's been alone with the evil queen's right-hand man, and had asked him [[OhCrap to help her find]] the {{MacGuffin}} the queen was looking for.]]
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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler KnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler: Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
* A variant is done in ''AnatoliaStory''. Just as Prince Kail and his men catch a servant who spills the beans on who TheMole is in their group, [[spoiler:Yuri discovers that she's been alone with the evil queen's right-hand man, and had asked him [[OhCrap to help her find]] the {{MacGuffin}} the queen was looking for.]]
* A variant is done in ''AnatoliaStory''. Just as Prince Kail and his men catch a servant who spills the beans on who TheMole is in their group, [[spoiler:Yuri discovers that she's been alone with the evil queen's right-hand man, and had asked him [[OhCrap to help her find]] the {{MacGuffin}} the queen was looking for.]]
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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler KnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler: Yuki [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
* A variant is done in''AnatoliaStory''.''Manga/AnatoliaStory''. Just as Prince Kail and his men catch a servant who spills the beans on who TheMole is in their group, [[spoiler:Yuri discovers that she's been alone with the evil queen's right-hand man, and had asked him [[OhCrap to help her find]] the {{MacGuffin}} the queen was looking for.]]
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* The climax of ''Film/{{The Silence of the Lambs}}''.
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The young police officer goes to visit the house of one of the suspects in a SerialKiller case. Meanwhile, back at the police station, the detectives put together the clues to see who the killer is.
Simultaneously, the two parties figure out the truth -- the detectives through the DNA test, the officer [[ExploringTheEvilLair through finding]] the TortureCellar or the RoomFullOfCrazy. The suspect ''is'' the SerialKiller. (If the officer doesn't find the lair, then at the very moment the detectives figure it out, the suspect - having pulled the wool over everyone's eyes up to now - will suddenly start ''acting'' like a serial killer.) The detectives try to contact them, but [[CellPhonesAreUseless their mobile isn't working properly]].
They're [[AloneWithThePsycho alone in the house with a serial killer]]. Will they survive? The answer to that is [[StatusQuoIsGod generally "yes"]], although TheCavalry almost certainly won't arrive until [[JustInTime the very nick of time]].
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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler KnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler: Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
* A variant is done in ''AnatoliaStory''. Just as Prince Kail and his men catch a servant who spills the beans on who TheMole is in their group, [[spoiler:Yuri discovers that she's been alone with the evil queen's right-hand man, and had asked him [[OhCrap to help her find]] the {{MacGuffin}} the queen was looking for.]]
* This happens in the sequel to ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', with the Quinx Squad split into two teams independently investigating the Ghoul Torso. Mutsuki ends up getting into a taxi cab, which happens to be driven by Torso and happens to fit the Ghoul's preference for victims. He's beaten unconscious after a brief struggle and kidnapped, but the rest of the team manage to separately discover Torso's identity and give chase.
* In the climax of the first arc of ''Anime/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Saten is [[spoiler: put into a coma by the Level Upper]], causing Uiharu to go visit [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama]] to analyze the data they've collected. While [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama]] is getting coffee, Uiharu notices some research papers sticking out of a drawer. Meanwhile, at the local Judgment branch office, Ms. Konori is accessing the Judgment database to see if they can find whose brainwaves are being shared between the [[spoiler:victims of the Level Upper]]. Just as they discover that it's [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama]], it cuts to [[spoiler:her]] walking in on Uiharu reading the research papers. Realizing she's been found out, [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama kidnaps Uiharu]] and flees. The other characters try to call Uiharu, to no avail, before notifying Antiskill and giving chase. There's a bit of a twist, though, in that [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama is not [[AntiVillain evil]], and even gives Uiharu the key to fixing what she's done to use after she accomplishes her goal, even as she has Uiharu handcuffed and held hostage]].
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* The climax of ''Film/{{The Silence of the Lambs}}''.
* An inversion happens in ''Film/KissTheGirls'': the officer is visiting one of the victims and reveals '''''himself''''' to be the serial rapist/killer just as another detective is putting the pieces together back at the station. The killer manages to cut the victim's phone line just before the other detective tries to call.
%%* Happens in the climax of ''Film/{{Klute}}''. Gonna add details later
* In ''Film/{{Cruising}}'', the cops' brilliant plan is to get their own man alone with the serial killer. Causes a moment of FridgeLogic later on. [[spoiler: Burns allows himself to be tied up by a man he suspects is the killer. His cop buddies bust in to save him, and he tells them they have no evidence because they busted in too soon. But if they'd waited, he would have been sodomized and killed.]]
* The finale of ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'' has a young girl alone in the house with the killer. [[spoiler:[[PoliceAreUseless The Police arrive too late]] but find her still alive after having offed the killer herself.]]
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* A variant is used near the climax of ''Literature/{{Otherland}}''. Australian cop Calliope Skouros goes to an apartment on the trail of a SerialKiller after backtracking a suspicious Internet search. Knocking on the door, she encounters not Dread himself, but his [[UnwittingPawn unwitting conspirator]], Dulcie Anwin, who has coincidentally just discovered Dread's secret and is in the throes of a HeroicBSOD over it. Skouros doesn't realize Dread is there until he stabs her in the back and subsequently shoots Anwin. [[spoiler:Both survive, but it's a very close call.]]
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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' loves this trope more than his deceased wife. Usually it's Monk himself who has to be rescued, sometimes it's Natalie or his other sidekicks.
** Both "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", "Mr. Monk and the Magician," and "Mr. Monk Makes a Friend" have variants of this trope with just Monk.
** "Mr. Monk Buys a House" has Monk and Natalie chained up to a bathtub by a killing handyman, and Stottlemeyer and Disher barely manage to save them in the nick of time, thanks to a ChekhovsSkill that Natalie has.
* This happens fairly often to Rosemary and Laura in ''Series/RosemaryAndThyme''.
** ZigZagged in the episode "Agua Cadaver". [[spoiler: Rosemary is alone with Greg, when Laura finds handwriting evidence that points to Greg and rushes to save Rosemary, leaving Neil and Nicola behind. Greg didn't do it, and further analysis points to Neil. Greg, Laura and Rosemary rush back to save Nicola. They find her standing over Neil's body, claiming he attacked her. They then find evidence on the body of Neil's innocence and thus Nicola's guilt. Nicola is caught, and fortunately, Neil is OnlyMostlyDead.]]
* This is a big part of Samara's loyalty mission in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. She enlists your help to kill her serial killer daughter, and the mission has you seducing her until she takes you home, at which point you're trapped alone in her apartment with her and have to keep talking to distract her until Samara can get there and save you.
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Simultaneously, the two parties figure out the truth -- the detectives through the DNA test, the officer [[ExploringTheEvilLair through finding]] the TortureCellar or the RoomFullOfCrazy. The suspect ''is'' the SerialKiller. (If the officer doesn't find the lair, then at the very moment the detectives figure it out, the suspect - having pulled the wool over everyone's eyes up to now - will suddenly start ''acting'' like a serial killer.) The detectives try to contact them, but [[CellPhonesAreUseless their mobile isn't working properly]].
They're [[AloneWithThePsycho alone in the house with a serial killer]]. Will they survive? The answer to that is [[StatusQuoIsGod generally "yes"]], although TheCavalry almost certainly won't arrive until [[JustInTime the very nick of time]].
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* Happens in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', when Kyon is alone in a room with Asakura Ryoko who reveals to be a StepfordSmiler KnifeNut. She also uses her data manipulation skills to make the room inescapable. Luckily, [[spoiler: Yuki Nagato, who is just as skilled with data handling,]] notices it from outside and [[BigDamnHeroes busts in for a rescue]]. This is par for the course as he also knows a girl who may destroy the universe whenever she gets PMS and another who kidnaps the entire world just to be alone with him.
* A variant is done in ''AnatoliaStory''. Just as Prince Kail and his men catch a servant who spills the beans on who TheMole is in their group, [[spoiler:Yuri discovers that she's been alone with the evil queen's right-hand man, and had asked him [[OhCrap to help her find]] the {{MacGuffin}} the queen was looking for.]]
* This happens in the sequel to ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', with the Quinx Squad split into two teams independently investigating the Ghoul Torso. Mutsuki ends up getting into a taxi cab, which happens to be driven by Torso and happens to fit the Ghoul's preference for victims. He's beaten unconscious after a brief struggle and kidnapped, but the rest of the team manage to separately discover Torso's identity and give chase.
* In the climax of the first arc of ''Anime/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Saten is [[spoiler: put into a coma by the Level Upper]], causing Uiharu to go visit [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama]] to analyze the data they've collected. While [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama]] is getting coffee, Uiharu notices some research papers sticking out of a drawer. Meanwhile, at the local Judgment branch office, Ms. Konori is accessing the Judgment database to see if they can find whose brainwaves are being shared between the [[spoiler:victims of the Level Upper]]. Just as they discover that it's [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama]], it cuts to [[spoiler:her]] walking in on Uiharu reading the research papers. Realizing she's been found out, [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama kidnaps Uiharu]] and flees. The other characters try to call Uiharu, to no avail, before notifying Antiskill and giving chase. There's a bit of a twist, though, in that [[spoiler:Dr. Kiyama is not [[AntiVillain evil]], and even gives Uiharu the key to fixing what she's done to use after she accomplishes her goal, even as she has Uiharu handcuffed and held hostage]].
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[[folder:Film]]
* The climax of ''Film/{{The Silence of the Lambs}}''.
* An inversion happens in ''Film/KissTheGirls'': the officer is visiting one of the victims and reveals '''''himself''''' to be the serial rapist/killer just as another detective is putting the pieces together back at the station. The killer manages to cut the victim's phone line just before the other detective tries to call.
%%* Happens in the climax of ''Film/{{Klute}}''. Gonna add details later
* In ''Film/{{Cruising}}'', the cops' brilliant plan is to get their own man alone with the serial killer. Causes a moment of FridgeLogic later on. [[spoiler: Burns allows himself to be tied up by a man he suspects is the killer. His cop buddies bust in to save him, and he tells them they have no evidence because they busted in too soon. But if they'd waited, he would have been sodomized and killed.]]
* The finale of ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'' has a young girl alone in the house with the killer. [[spoiler:[[PoliceAreUseless The Police arrive too late]] but find her still alive after having offed the killer herself.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* A variant is used near the climax of ''Literature/{{Otherland}}''. Australian cop Calliope Skouros goes to an apartment on the trail of a SerialKiller after backtracking a suspicious Internet search. Knocking on the door, she encounters not Dread himself, but his [[UnwittingPawn unwitting conspirator]], Dulcie Anwin, who has coincidentally just discovered Dread's secret and is in the throes of a HeroicBSOD over it. Skouros doesn't realize Dread is there until he stabs her in the back and subsequently shoots Anwin. [[spoiler:Both survive, but it's a very close call.]]
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' loves this trope more than his deceased wife. Usually it's Monk himself who has to be rescued, sometimes it's Natalie or his other sidekicks.
** Both "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", "Mr. Monk and the Magician," and "Mr. Monk Makes a Friend" have variants of this trope with just Monk.
** "Mr. Monk Buys a House" has Monk and Natalie chained up to a bathtub by a killing handyman, and Stottlemeyer and Disher barely manage to save them in the nick of time, thanks to a ChekhovsSkill that Natalie has.
* This happens fairly often to Rosemary and Laura in ''Series/RosemaryAndThyme''.
** ZigZagged in the episode "Agua Cadaver". [[spoiler: Rosemary is alone with Greg, when Laura finds handwriting evidence that points to Greg and rushes to save Rosemary, leaving Neil and Nicola behind. Greg didn't do it, and further analysis points to Neil. Greg, Laura and Rosemary rush back to save Nicola. They find her standing over Neil's body, claiming he attacked her. They then find evidence on the body of Neil's innocence and thus Nicola's guilt. Nicola is caught, and fortunately, Neil is OnlyMostlyDead.]]
* This is a big part of Samara's loyalty mission in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. She enlists your help to kill her serial killer daughter, and the mission has you seducing her until she takes you home, at which point you're trapped alone in her apartment with her and have to keep talking to distract her until Samara can get there and save you.
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