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Bunker Woman

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Bunker Woman	comment	A female character is abducted and held against her will underground — usually inside a bunker or Torture Cellar. Typically a horror trope, although it is sometimes used in other genres as well. While this trope is fairly specific, it has a large number of variants; for instance, the woman need not necessarily be trapped in a bunker — anything inescapable underground does the trick. In addition, a man need not necessarily be but is usually the sole trapping force of the Bunker Woman; the trapping man may have a Survivalist Stash or just be Crazy-Prepared for The End of the World as We Know It, or may even lead an Apocalypse Cult. Either way, he likely considers the Bunker Woman an object to be collected for future use, and may lead to Rape as Drama. Occasionally, the man considers himself the savior of the Bunker Woman. Lastly, while this trope is generally tied closely to the major narrative of a work of fiction, it also sometimes appears in passing within TV and film. Compare Disposable Woman and Damsel in Distress, in which the woman plays a peripheral role inciting a male lead to action. In contrast, the Bunker Woman is usually the main character, and her efforts to escape her captor will typically drive the narrative. Bunker Woman is distinct from Madwoman in the Attic, for here the captive is generally not unfit for society and is a more or less ordinary person who just happens to have been kidnapped, and from Secret Squatter, where a person is living in a house knowingly, but unknown to the homeowners. Can be a Sub-Trope of Women Are Delicate, though she may end up defying that trope in her escape. As noted at the bottom of this page, there have been many well-documented real life examples of this trope, making it one of those that can rub audiences the wrong way if played carelessly.
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Bunker Woman / int_104cc3e	comment	Captive (RPG Maker): The unnamed protagonist is a teen girl who has been captured by an unknown person and is being held in some sort of basement. Subverted as it turns out she is the amnesiac captor who bumped her head in a fight with a captive.
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Bunker Woman / int_114401d2	comment	Pretty Little Liars: In the fifth season finale, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer are captured and held in a large underground structure, where they find Mona, who had been missing and presumed dead since midseason. At first, they're forced to play along in a mock high school prom, but when they use that to try to escape, they're separated and subjected to mind games/mental torture for weeks before they escape/are rescued. During the rescue, it turns out there was yet another girl in the bunker, who had been missing for two and a half years. It happens again to Hanna after she tells A-moji that she killed Charlotte; she's held underground and tortured, and her friends are told that if they don't hand over Charlotte's real killer, she'll be killed. She escapes on her own, but not before her friends implicate Alison, who turns out to be innocent, as Charlotte's killer.
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Bunker Woman / int_13658868	comment	Room: Ma has been held captive and not left Room once in seven years. She and her young son attempt to make a good life for themselves in captivity, and, ultimately, to escape their captor and start their lives anew. In this case, the bunker is actually not underground, but rather in the captor's garden.
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Bunker Woman / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "911" has Benson desperately trying to locate a little girl who is being kept in an unknown basement somewhere in the city by a child pornographer. "Control" features a man who for years has been kidnapping various women and imprisoning them in a basement for varying intervals, forcing them to be Sex Slaves to him, to the point of making them go through a fake wedding, complete with dress.
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Bunker Woman / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rita Skeeter suspects Professor Dumbledore, the popular Headmaster of Hogwarts, was compliant in letting his sister be locked in the cellar throughout her childhood until she eventually killed her mother in retaliation. These accusations plague Dumbledore's reputation throughout the book.
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Bunker Woman / int_203f09b9	comment	The Lovely Bones: A young girl is lured into a bunker and killed. The remainder of the film constitutes her family and friends coming to terms with her horrific death.
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Bunker Woman / int_22feb200	comment	The Collector (John Fowles): Miranda is abducted by Frederick and held against her will in a cellar of an isolated countryside house. Her cellar room is furnished luxuriously and she is showered with gifts and other comforts, but she can't leave. Miranda tries to manipulate her captor and she sometimes manages to persuade him to let her outside for brief periods of time, but the novel has a Downer Ending.
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Bunker Woman / int_26541dd6	comment	Ex Machina has an artificially intelligent robot woman trapped in an underground fortress — the threat of her death is imminent, and she must connive her own escape. A bit of a twist in this case, as unlike most examples on this page, she was not kidnapped — she was built within the bunker and has never been outside of it. Additionally, there are a few implications that her escape at the end may not be a good thing; for instance, she leaves the man who helped her to escape locked up in her stead.
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Bunker Woman / int_30a7635	comment	In Friday the 13th (2009), Jason decides to keep Whitney chained up in an abandoned mine instead of killing her, because she reminds him of his mother.
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Bunker Woman / int_32066b8e	comment	V for Vendetta: Evey is attacked, but rescued by V. She awakes underground in this mysterious man's bunker and informed that she cannot leave. While her rescuer/captor is not explicitly violent towards her and is holding her there to stop her from giving the secret police details about V's hideout, she is trapped underground against her will all the same.
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Bunker Woman / int_34caa86d	comment	Motive: The Victim of the Week in "Frampton Comes Alive" turns out to be keeping his wife prisoner in a bunker beneath their garage.
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Bunker Woman / int_379c9a85	comment	In All My Children, the psychopathic Janet imprisoned her sister Natalie in a well so as to take over her life.
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Bunker Woman / int_3e9f9839	comment	The second Paramedium game features the ghosts of school students who were locked in an underground bunker by their bus driver. He claims that his intent was just to scare the school principal who was about to fire him, but his comments when he thinks he has the upper hand (calling them "sweet little playthings") indicate it was more sinister than that.
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Bunker Woman / int_513fec05	comment	Persephone's Waltz has Madoka imprisoned by an insane Homura in an attempt to prevent her from dying. While the basement Madoka is imprisoned in is cushy and made to look like Madoka's room to a frightening degree, Madoka is terrified by Homura. Sayaka becomes a magical girl in order to find Madoka.
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Bunker Woman / int_51dcfb65	comment	In Girl in the Basement, a controlling father kidnaps his daughter and keeps her captive for twenty years in a hidden bomb shelter built underneath their house. Based on the Real Life Josef Fritzl case.
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Bunker Woman / int_55252fe6	comment	In The Gravedancers, Judge William Langer used to keep women imprisoned in his basement. He forgot about one of them and she perished in the cage. When he returns as a ghost, he keeps Kira imprisoned in her house for several weeks while he tortures and rapes her.
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Bunker Woman / int_58af2679	comment	The Silence of the Lambs: Serial killer Buffalo Bill abducts young women and keeps them in a well in the Creepy Basement of his home. The women cannot escape, and are forced to lotion themselves before being brutally murdered and skinned. Detective Clarice Starling discovers the bunker of Buffalo Bill at the end of the movie.
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Bunker Woman / int_5b3356f8	comment	In the Turning Red fanfic The Great Red Panda Rescue, Mei is kidnapped and kept in a padded room of a Mad Scientist Laboratory.
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Bunker Woman / int_5c10ce3e	comment	In Kiss the Girls, the Serial Rapist keeps his female victims in a basement somewhere in a forest.
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Bunker Woman / int_5c6f795a	comment	Cabin by the Lake: A horror movie writer becomes a serial killer when he starts kidnapping young women and keeping them in a locked room inside his cabin. After watching their terror for a few days, he ties them to a concrete block and drowns them in the adjacent lake.
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Bunker Woman / int_5d680fe9	comment	Played with and gender-flipped in The People Under the Stairs: although the landlords' entire house is a booby-trapped fortress, the only abducted child they're keeping captive there whom they don't confine to the basement is Alice, the only girl among them.
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Bunker Woman / int_62cafa4	comment	Mad Max: Fury Road centers around a group of women escaping from The Citadel, a mountain aquifer that has been converted into a post-apocalyptic fortress, where they had been kept as breeding slaves by the Big Bad Immortan Joe inside a vault within the mountain. Most of the plot revolves around their escape and Immortan Joe and his army trying to capture them, since he sees them as his property and will stop at nothing to get them back. In one brief scene, we see the place where they were kept before their escape, and while it's a very comfortable space, it's also kept behind what looks like a repurposed bank-vault door, emphasizing that Joe sees them as treasures, not people.
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Bunker Woman / int_640d9dfd	comment	In the Amaranthine Saga, the M.O. of the rogue Amarathine rapist is to kidnap women who are Reavers, imprison them in tiny underground cells, and rape them until they become impregnated. The few victims who are rescued suffer from enormous psychological trauma.
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Bunker Woman / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: In "Oubliette", a paedophile abducts young girls and holds them hostage in a creepy basement. The word "oubliette" from the title refers to a dungeon with an opening only at the top. We see Amy undergo this terrible fate. When she tries to escape, her captor even deprives her of water, and she gets terribly thirsty. We find out that Lucy was kidnapped and held for several years, too, and she was living through it again — she suffers injuries inflicted upon her abductor's new victim.
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Bunker Woman / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender has the Puppetmaster, a mysterious force which kidnaps Fire Nation citizens, which lures its victims into the mountains and prevents them from leaving. It's really an escaped prisoner of war who traps her victims in a bunker out of a blanket hatred for any Fire National.
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Bunker Woman / int_760b7d06	comment	10 Cloverfield Lane: Following a car accident, Michelle wakes up in the fallout shelter of Howard, a Crazy-Prepared doomsday prepper, who tells her that there has been some kind of nuclear cataclysm or even Alien Invasion on the surface, and that she is lucky to be alive. Initially, she suspects that he may be lying and have a more nefarious purpose for keeping her down there. There's also a third person in the bunker as well, a young man named Emmett who helped build the shelter and corroborates Howard's story. Horror ensues as she plots, persistently and inventively, to figure out what's really going on. She eventually realizes that Howard is a genuine threat, and kept a teenage girl in the bunker long before the events of the movie. Michelle manages to escape, but learns that Howard was right about the alien invasion, so even outside the bunker she is not safe — but at least she's free.
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Bunker Woman / int_78b8e562	comment	In One Life to Live, Viki (or rather, one of her alternate personalities) imprisons Dorian in a secret room beneath her mansion.
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Bunker Woman / int_89b7cf47	comment	Rizzoli & Isles: In "Hide and Seek", Maura is kidnapped and shackled to a pipe inside an abandoned insane asylum.
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Bunker Woman / int_8ba4613a	comment	In Death Note, Sayu is held hostage by Mello and his gang in exchange for the Death Note. She is kept in a basement, far from her home in Japan, bound and gagged. Although she is physically unharmed, the entire ordeal leaves her basically in an Angst Coma when she returns to Japan, and her family moves out to the countryside, so they can live in a house that better accommodates her wheelchair. At the end of the manga, she is getting better, though.
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Bunker Woman / int_8d81bb26	comment	One NCIS episode has the team finding the body of a woman imprisoned in a bunker. Even creepier, she's clad in a wedding gown, while the bunker is decked out like a typical 1950s household. The search for the killer is juxtaposed with scenes of another woman being held the same way.
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Bunker Woman / int_8df0f9c3	comment	In These Are the Damned, nine children are being kept in an underground facility by a government scientist.
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Bunker Woman / int_91bfc484	comment	In The Road, women held underground are discovered briefly. The women are members of a group of individuals who are being held in a bunker by cannibals. When the main character discovers these Bunker Women, he is shocked, but he is ultimately powerless to save them and quickly leaves them behind.
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Bunker Woman / int_924bb56e	comment	In Dollhouse, Ballard thinks the secret of the eponymous facility is that the Dollhouse kidnaps young people and forces them into some sort of human-trafficking ring. The truth is more complicated than that.
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Bunker Woman / int_986f25e0	comment	Murder in the Alps: In Forgotten Memento, the protagonist Anna Myers awakens to find herself chained up in a dark cell with no memory of how she got there. The opening cinematic reveals that the cell is in a secret hideout connected to the sewers of ZÃ¼rich. The chapter continues with Anna gradually remembering through flashbacks the few previous days while finding out in her cell that Oskar Havel is guarding her with the plans to torment her before killing her and that he has finally managed to kill Iris Knef and hide her body behind one of the walls of Anna's cell. When Anna finally remembers that it was Gerhard Wagner and Dhara BiguÃ¡ who captured and brought her to Oskar, she manages to unlock her chain with a hairpin, take her guardian by surprise and escape the cell. However, she's intercepted and nearly killed by Dhara before an unknown person comes to her rescue. As Anna passes out, the chapter ends with a "to be continued" message.
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Bunker Woman / int_a4db7d1	comment	Joe Pickett: In Endangered, Liv is captured and held captive in an old root cellar by the Cates clan. They later plan to drown her by filling the cellar with sewage.
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Bunker Woman / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: A young girl known as Eleven is held in an underground facility, first seen after having escaped from her bunker prison. We eventually learn that boys as well as girls were kept in the facility, but Eleven is the main focus of that arc.
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Bunker Woman / int_ba4778e8	comment	Silk: Cindy Moon was kept in a bunker for about a decade in order to keep her safe from people who wanted her dead.
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Bunker Woman / int_ba658beb	comment	Dexter: New Blood: The modus operandi of the Runaway Killer involves taking runaway girls to a remote cabin with the offer of free lodging. Once the girls are inside, they can't leave, since the door can only be opened from the outside. He then watches them for several days through a security camera before opening the door so he can shoot them with a sniper rifle as they attempt to flee.
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Bunker Woman / int_baa05be0	comment	Split features three girls who are abducted and trapped underground by a mentally ill man with multiple personalities.
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Bunker Woman / int_bac435b5	comment	The Call: A young woman is abducted and taken to an underground bunker by a serial killer. The lead is a 911 dispatcher who received a call from the abducted girl and pursues her to the killer's bunker, where Berry battles him, saving the young woman from certain death underground.
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Bunker Woman / int_bac6b017	comment	The Hole has two girls and two boys trapped against their will in a literal bunker with hints that it's deliberate. It is a gender-reversed case where one of the girls engineered the situation to trap the boy she likes.
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Bunker Woman / int_bb2f8cfc	comment	Barbarian is about a young woman who realizes that the AirBNB she is staying at has a secret sub-basement where women had been kept as sex slaves since at least the 1980s by the house's psychotic owner.
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Bunker Woman / int_bff78dfe	comment	Batman fights a human trafficker who has a basement full of terrified women at the beginning of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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Bunker Woman / int_c3e190e5	comment	Tales of the City: In Further Tales of the City, Mrs. Madrigal traps one of Mary Ann's coworkers in her basement. In this case, she has a good reason — Mary Ann has discovered that Jim Jones is still alive, but he has taken two children hostage and has threatened to kill them if Mary Ann exposes him, while her coworker has found out about this and is planning to break the story herself.
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Bunker Woman / int_c4282b71	comment	Princess Luna spends most of The Death of Princess Luna imprisoned in a forgotten underground cell block situated beneath a remote house, unable to free herself because of the Power Nullifier placed on her horn. The captors have gone to great lengths to convince the entire population of her "death" and intend to sacrifice her under the new moon on a screwed up belief that it shall end "Nightmare Moon" once and for all in all secrecy. Fortunately Twilight and her friends manage to save her in time.
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Bunker Woman / int_c7f7d77a	comment	Don't Breathe features a young woman held captive beneath a house in a padded room. An escalation of the trope occurs when the first Bunker Woman is freed (and ultimately killed), the film's villain captures the woman who tried to free her and attempts to keep her in his underground prison as a replacement.
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Bunker Woman / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: An obsessive hoarder was found to be holding her own daughter captive in a sealed-up room inside a house packed with rubbish. It turns out that the daughter was a serial killer and the woman confined her to prevent her from killing any more of her boyfriends. In another episode, the CSI team stumble across a mysterious bunker in the desert while investigating a murder, and are attacked by the man living inside. After he's arrested, the authorities discover a teenaged girl hiding inside the walls of a room containing women's clothing for both adults and children only for this trope to be subverted. The teenager in question is the man's daughter, and the two had been living off the grid in the bunker ever since the man was falsely accused of killing his wife (the owner of the women's clothing they found). The girl isn't a prisoner, just isolated.
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Bunker Woman / int_ccf55615	comment	Hoboken Hollow ends with Terri Wallace being stunned with a cattle prod by Mrs Broderick and shoved down the old well to await her fate.
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Bunker Woman / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: "The Bunker" presents a psychopathic disaster-prepper and his female accomplice isolating and brainwashing an entire colony of women and their children into believing that their underground shelter was the only safe place left on a devastated Earth. "North Mammon" revolves around three high school girls who are kidnapped and locked inside a bunker with no food or water, though very unusual for this trope, the kidnapper never touches them nor even goes into the same room as them after the initial kidnapping. This is because the girls are really just tools for him; it's all part of a Revenge by Proxy plot, as the kidnapper wants revenge on their parents (specifically, their fathers), his former high school friends and football teammates. After getting injured during an important game, the kidnapper lost a college scholarship which went to his friends instead, costing him any real future while they went on to have careers and lives. Decades later, he decides to get revenge for this completely imagined slight by taking their daughters and forcing two of them to kill a third.
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Bunker Woman / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): Dream Country reveals that Calliope, one of the Greek muses, has been imprisoned in the basement of famous writer Erasmus Fry, who raped her regularly for decades as a way to gain supernatural inspiration for his work. Before he dies of old age, he passes her on to a younger writer named Richard Madocc who does the same. She's eventually rescued by Morpheus who punishes Madocc by giving him an endless barrage of ideas that end up driving him insane.
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Bunker Woman / int_d80d2982	comment	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a comedy series about an extremely upbeat young woman who spent years in a bunker with an Apocalypse Cult, finally being liberated and being naive about all the ways the world has passed her by while she was down there.
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Bunker Woman / int_d81f1550	comment	Friend of the World: Following a mass casualty event, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage to a Crazy-Prepared general who claims they are the last two people alive. He turns out to be a doomsday-embracing maniac who's responsible for the annihilation.
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Bunker Woman / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: In Season 1, Korra is kidnapped by a male villain, locked in a van and trapped in a basement in a mountain. She manages to make her captor think she's unconscious and escape. The season 3 finale sees Arc Villain Zaheer and his lackeys hold a main character hostage in an ancient catacomb with a sinister purpose. It's Korra again, and they're holding her until they can use mercury poisoning to not only kill her, but prevent her reincarnation.
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Bunker Woman / int_df526543	comment	Anna Pigeon: In The Rope, Anna is imprisoned for a portion of the novel at the bottom of a natural pit in one of the canyons. This being Anna, she manages to escape.
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Bunker Woman / int_e46d33d6	comment	In the Encanto fanfic As The Embers Dim and Die, Camilo Madrigal is kidnapped and held in the basement of a man named Mateo and is forced to fill his wants.
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Bunker Woman / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "A Vinrage Murder", after being abducted by Kevin, Tina is Bound and Gagged and trapped in a cellar as wine begins to cascade dangerously from above.
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Bunker Woman / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: One episode has Stewie kidnapping the head cheerleader so that Meg can take her place on the cheerleading squad. Played for Laughs in one episode where Joe carries around the photo of a kidnapping victim as an example of "that one case he could never solve", and even points out how her outdated haircut and clothes shows how long it's been. When the girl actually shows up at the end of the episode, to buy groceries before going back to the sex dungeon where she's been held captive for decades, Joe doesn't even recognize her and tells her to leave because she's trespassing on a crime scene.
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Bunker Woman / int_f5e6b493	comment	The Thinking Machine: In "The Mystery of a Studio", a Mad Artist abducts his muse and imprisons her in a padded closet where he attempts to asphyxiate her with chloroform.
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Bunker Woman / int_f76d8fcb	comment	In Even Lambs Have Teeth, Sloan and Katie are drugged and imprisoned in shipping containers and used as sex slaves.
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