"Alone with Prisoner" Ploy: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Merciful Minion]].

 

== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

* In [[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]] {{spoiler|Riddhe}} visits {{spoiler|Audrey}}'s cell twice, first to interrogate {{spoiler|her}} and later to help {{spoiler|her}} escape to Earth with {{spoiler|him}}. Subverted in that the Federation is not the bad guy ([[Gray and Gray Morality|we think]]) and {{spoiler|Riddhe}} wasn't trying to fool the guard (just knocking the guard out instead).

 

 

== [[Fanfic]] ==

** More fetish-oriented fics glee at Snape having to completely go through with sexual torture on a captive Hermione/Harry/Whoever because Lucius/Voldemort is watching. Then ''maybe'' hand over the tools necessary for escape afterwards, if they can be bothered to continue the rest of the story!

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Gladiator]]'', when Lucilla arrives at Maximus' cell, she tells him "rich matrons pay well to be pleasured by the bravest champions". He has been chained up in preparation for her visit. In fact she's there to tell him there is a growing conspiracy against Commodus, and to ask him to meet a politician who's involved.

** Rusty's posing as a federal agent to rescue Basher from the cops, near the beginning of the film, would also qualify, partially subverted by being done in public (although he does send the arresting police officer off on a wild goose chase to talk to Basher alone and free him from handcuffs).

* Textbook example in The Green Zone (but no sexual innuendo), though it turns out the target prisoner is beaten up pretty badly and the conversation doesn't go as planned.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* On ''[[Burn Notice]]'' (''Mind Games'') Michael accidentally exposes an undercover cop while undercover himself. He shoos the others away while he threatens the prisoner, and takes the oppourtunity to mention that he's undercover too and slip the cop a means of escape.

** The sad irony here was that Michael ''was'' trying to frame the guy he thought was a [[Complete Monster]] as an undercover cop to his crime boss. Realizing he has condemned a good man to death, Michael is determined to make sure the cop lives to go back to his wife and kids.

* [[Subverted]] in the fourth season of ''Babylon5'': {{spoiler|Garibaldi}} successfully uses this excuse to get past the ''first'' set of guards around {{spoiler|Captain Sheridan}}, but the ones directly outside the cell demand to see authorization, so the rescuers just knock them out. Turns out that was actually the plan all along; asking to get inside was just a ploy to make one of the guards think of the door code so that their telepath could pick it out of his mind.

** Played straight in the fifth season, when Londo uses it to break {{spoiler|Na'Toth}} out of the Imperial dungeons.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* At the beginning of ''[[Half-Life]] 2'', Barney is working undercover for the resistance as a Combine soldier. When he comes across Gordon, he justifies wanting to be alone with Gordon by implying to another (real) Combine guard he's going to beat/torture him. Then when the guard leaves Barney and Gordon alone, Barney clues Gordon in with exposition and then sends him in the right direction.

* ''[[Black Sigil]]'' uses this one and twists it just a tad. After being separated from the rest of the group, Aurora and Nephi are alone in Drakus Tat. Nephi (the local King) has to extract information from his loyal subjects (and Aurora is a known enemy of their master, [[Big Bad]] Forbidden), so he declares Aurora his slave and brings her to the dungeon to "break her in". He then calls in one of his minions to lure out the necessary intel in what the minions believe is his "interrogation" of Aurora.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Furthermore in the original novel, Bigwig takes advantage of the fact that his position as Owsla gives him freedom of sex, so when he asks for her to be brought to his burrow everyone merely assumes he meant to mate.

** Played straight with Bigwig convincing Blackavar that they are planning a breakout.

** And she only ended up hitting him when he made to kiss her ''before'' revealing his identity (he was actually hoping to reveal himself ''with'' the kiss as a [[Call Back]] to something she had done), which she doesn't react well to, [[Prison Rape|for obvious reasons]].

** He also tried this with Zuko, whispering some information to him while pretending to beat him up.

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