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Crime Reconstruction
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On many a True Crime show (e.g. The First 48) and "help us solve crime X" programs (e.g. America's Most Wanted, Crimewatch UK) or even on the National or Local News real crimes are acted out on screen for the viewer. Either by actors or by the actual victims with the perpetrators played by actors. This is to help the viewer visualize the situation which might be otherwise tricky if there are a lot of details to take in in a relatively short amount of time. It can also just be used as filler in some shows. Sometimes these aren't the most tasteful things in the world in the cases of unsolved crimes. They retell the story melodramatically but in a way that prompts the viewer to enjoy the thrill of the gruesome crime and the knowledge that the culprit is still free. While crimes are by far the most common thing to be given this treatment they aren't the only thing. Accidents may be dramatized this way, especially on "heroes of the emergency services" shows like the now defunct UK show 999. Historical events like battles often get this treatment in documentaries too. See also Dramatization. |
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In Wilkie Collins' book The Moonstone and the TV adaptation a doctor sets up a reconstruction of a diamond theft in which the thief unknowingly stole the stone while semi-conscious having had his drink spiked with laudanum and being already worried that the diamond wasn't safe. The circumstances are recreated by him taking laudanum again and giving up smoking which had already done on the first occasion. The reconstruction is successful and he steals the stone again (this time a dummy) while sleepwalking and talking to himself feverishly about the diamond needing to be be secure. At the time of the original theft, he puts the stone in his bedside cabinet whereupon it is stolen by the real thief who has witnessed him take it. | |
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In the first arc of Fables, Bigby has Flycatcher recreate the result of the crime scene to test his theory that there's more blood in the room than in the body of one person. | |
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Bones loves to do this, with Zack or the week’s intern getting roped into playing the victim. It’s sometimes Played for Laughs. | |
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CSI: NY: To name just a few examples... In "Zoo York", Mac teaches Lindsay how to determine what weapon was used on their victim by stabbing a dead pig with various knives and comparing the hilt marks. In "Heroes", To prove how the victim's injuries were sustained, Mac demonstrates military hand-to-hand combat on Danny, straining Danny's shoulder just a bit in spite of taking it slow and easy. In "Sleight Out of Hand", Mac gets Danny to help reconstruct a magician's act by letting Danny set his (Mac's) arm on fire. As a result, they are able to prove that the performer would've been able to leave the venue in the middle of his show to commit murder. |
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Human Giant has a re-enactment of a workplace shooting rampage that goes wrong when one of the extras goes on a real shooting spree. Since the camera man dropped the camera while running away, the show makes a re-enactment of the re-enactment. The show ends with the host being shot by the camera man and a preview of next week's re-enactment of the host getting shot. | |
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999 which recreates accidents instead. Ditto Rescue 911. | |
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The Boys (2019). At the start of Season 2, Billy Butcher is wanted for the murder of Madelyn Stillwell (actually killed by Homelander) and The Boys are shown watching a hilariously hammy recreation of the crime, hosted by Chris Hansen. | |
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The Sin City story Family Values has the main characters reconstructing a murder scene, gradually putting the pieces together over the course of the story. | |
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At the end of the Lord Peter Wimsey book "Five Red Herrings", Lord Peter re-enacts the events of the murder and the following day, proving his case as he goes. Possibly a Shout-Out to "Sir John Magill's Last Journey", which gets namechecked early on. | |
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In Cop or Hood, IGPN divisional commissioner Stanislas Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is framed for a murder he didn't commit, and uses the crime reconstitution at the quarry where he was found unconscious near the victim to escape. | |
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Parodied in That Mitchell and Webb Look, where Stone Age people are trying to reconstruct a murder in which someone was hit with a rock. The reconstruction involves hitting one of the "police" with a rock. This kills them, prompting one of the others to say "good reconstruction". | |
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The Thin Blue Line was one of the first true crime documentaries to make use of this trope, relying extensively on recreations of the murder being investigated as a form of visual aid, as the rest of the film consists of interviews with the people involved with the case. | |
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Drake & Josh has an episode where the movie theatre Josh works at is hired as a setting for one of these, Josh gets hired to play the role of the criminal "the theater thug". He spends the rest of the episode being constantly arrested because the people who watched the show keep identifying him as the real theater thug. | |
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Used in an episode of Monk, where they did a report on Monk's 100th case and reenacted the murders. | |
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed has an interesting subversion - the good guys Mole convinces the bad guys that their dragon can be rescued while he reconstructs a crime "on location". This is in fact a part of a desperate plan on his part. | |
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In Jonathan Creek, Carla's news show does this and like pretty much every endeavor she is involved in, Jonathan (and presumably the writers as well) consider it in extremely poor taste. At one point they also end up participating in an in-person one, in which a female police officer dressees similarly to the victim of the week and retraces her last known movements hoping passers-by will have their memories jogged... Which ends up having almost exactly the opposite effect when she gets shot at. Or so it seems. | |
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Strike: How Robin learns some details about the Margot Bamborough cold case—like how a witness saw two people in raincoats struggling on the sidewalk—by watching a true crime documentary on YouTube of the Bamborough disappearance, with scenes labeled "Reconstruction". | |
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Parodied in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, where a policeman who attempts to reconstruct a domestic murder gets murdered himself. The same happens with the next policeman who tries the same thing, and the next one after that, and so on. | |
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CSI gets into this, often with the team themselves doing it. Warrick was uneasy about it after Grissom used a fungus to make Greg's feet itch. Things like dummies and ballistics gel figured in a lot as well. And then sometimes they just do it digitally. | |
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The Criminal Minds episode LDSK features the team recreating one of the shooting events. Their goal is to determine which, if any, of the victims got a look at the shooter. They sometimes do this less formally, simply walking through the crime scenes and trying to see what the unsub saw. That way, they can determine whether certain things were done by design versus done because they were convenient in the moment. | |
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Played for laughs (Just like everything else) in an episode of Police Squad!. The gun they're using to reenact the killing is loaded, so the forensics team takes a lot of casualties as they try to reproduce the conditions in which the murder took place. | |
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One feature of Batman: Arkham Origins is the ability for Batman to step up crime scenes and use Detective Mode to digitally reconstruct them. | |
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Gus Hedges takes over the directing of one of these in Drop the Dead Donkey for a new true crime slot in direct competition with Crimewatch - with predictable, over-the-top sensationalist results. However the crime is solved before the segment can be aired and the actual segment airs footage of George busting up a petrol station supermarket after his colleagues split him up from Anna. | |
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Subverted in episodes of Doug, where the reenacting is polemic and quite different from the incident it supposedly represents. | |
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In the Sherlock Holmes story The Problem of Thor Bridge, Holmes reconstructs the death of the victim in order to show how she committed suicide and arranged for the gun to fall away from her and into the water to make it look like murder. She had already planted an identical gun in the belongings of the person she wanted to implicate. | |
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The Little Thief is designed to do this in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. Inputting accurate evidence into it will provide the details of the crime. | |
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In Margin for Error, Moe has Dr. Jennings, Denny, Max, Sophie and Horst go back to the positions they were in at the time of the Consul's death and a few minutes before, to test out different theories of how the Consul was killed. Moe himself stands in for the Consul. | |
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