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* In the [[Reality Show]] named ''[[The Mole (TV series)|The Mole]]'', the object is to identify [[The Mole]] among the contestants. Since failed guesses at the Mole's identity get players eliminated from the game, players will often pretend to be the Mole to trick their competitors into guessing wrong.
** The tricky bit here is that the Mole wants missions to fail so the pot of prize money remains low, while everyone else wants to win missions and raise the pot. That means the regular players try their best to succeed, while trying to make it look like they're attempting to fail.
*** And, because the Mole would not be obvious about his task, players don't want to make it obvious they are failing on purpose. They want to make it seem like they are doing subtle sabotage ''badly.'' Anyone who is clearly failing on purpose is clearly a
* Season six of ''[[NCIS]]'' begins with a mole-hunt within the department, which apparently ends when {{spoiler|Agent Brent Langer}} tries to kill recurring character {{spoiler|Agent Michelle Lee}}, who shoots him in self-defense. The audience is almost immediately tipped off that {{spoiler|Lee herself}} is the mole, but the rest of the cast don't find out for another eight episodes.
* Part of the seventh season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' dropped hints that Giles might have been murdered and impersonated by the First Evil. He wasn't. It was purest coincidence that he <s>completely</s> conspicuously failed to come into physical contact with anything or anyone for five straight episodes.
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