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Cut Phone Lines

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Cut Phone Lines	comment	Sometimes, the villains knows what the heroes are planning to do and where they will go. In this case, said villain knows when they will have access to a phone. So, to avoid having the police interfere, they will cut the phone line, often offscreen. Expect the obligatory scene where the potential victim picks up the phone and, not getting a dial-tone, repeatedly rattles the switch-hook while going, "Hello? Hello?" Frequently a Horror or a Mystery movie trope. Since cell phones have made this largely obsolete, this is generally replaced by Cell Phones Are Useless in modern works. Compare The Radio Dies First and Lost in Transmission. Often overlaps with Impeded Communication. While it's a common conception to think this a Discredited Trope due to the rise of cell phones, the vast majority of official (as in, business and governmental) communication relies on a wired line, and cell phones are more vulnerable to interference due to the relative ease with which a wireless signal can be tampered with. This is one trope that is likely around to stay.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_10939c60	comment	In The Abduction of Saint Anne, Dave cuts the Benedicts' phone lines before breaking into Anne's bedroom.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_119a6de4	comment	Asylum (1972 Horror): In "Lucy Comes to Stay", Lucy cuts the phone lines in the house so Nurse Higgins cannot call the police when she returns to house.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The Many pull a variation in Chapter 15, cutting off Castle Bravo's communications so they can't warn anyone at Yonaguni of the impending Dynamic Entry their enemy will pull on Monster X there.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_170c798f	comment	God's Gun: After Taking Over the Town, the Clayton Gang destroy the telegraph lines so no one in Juno City can contact the outside world for help.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_1b7c9308	comment	In Day of the Wolves, the robber gang called The Wolves cut the phone and power lines at the same time they blow the bridge, completely isolating the town of Wellerton.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_1c7b6907	comment	In The Dragon Doctors, one of the first thing bandits do when attacking is jam all communications. The second time it happens, it actually alerts Goro of the impending attack.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_1df8f66b	comment	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: The killer does this to isolate the Snowed-In chalet from the outside world in "Murder Under the Mistletoe".
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Cut Phone Lines / int_1ef72f5d	comment	In Death Bell, the killer cuts all the phone lines in the school, steals all of the students' mobile phones, and sabotages the teachers'.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_1f0fe64e	comment	In Monster, Johan does this before killing Nina/Anna's adoptive parents.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_221d6500	comment	CHiPs "Fast Company" has a small town sheriff doing this to keep witnesses from telling about his crimes.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_227117b7	comment	In the Helix episode "274", when he hears CDC researcher Alan's intent to call the army in for backup during an outbreak of The Virus, Major Balleseros blows up the satellite and communications system so isolated Research, Inc. Arctic Biosystems is both cut off from the outside world, and its intrabase phone lines are disconnected.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_22cf7df9	comment	The Goonies: Subverted in that it's Chunk who accidentally cuts off his own line mid-call. However, when he does this, the Sheriff begins to suspect something is actually amiss and sure enough begins sending his people out for the kids.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_22f240e4	comment	Cannon: The cult members cut the phone lines before they break into Jennifer's home to murder her parents in "A Deadly Quiet Town".
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Cut Phone Lines / int_23904eeb	comment	Cluedo: In the third series, Colonel Mustard dramatically rips a phone cord out of the wall, to stop somebody making a phone call.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In every arc of Umineko: When They Cry, the external phone line of Rokkenjima is cut just before the murders start. Note: only the external line. The internal line is used in Episode 1, 4 and 5 to give the survivors some mysterious or threatening calls.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "In Marge We Trust", as Ned is being terrorized by teen vandals while he was calling Marge for advice, one of the boys cuts the phone line.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_2758bf7	comment	Happens to the Unwanted Houseguest just as Doctor Wolfula is about to reveal the nature of the Greater-Scope Villain.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_27c9b5a7	comment	Chocoholic Mysteries: Early in Frog Frame-Up, Lee has a hard time getting her boyfriend Joe on his landline, and he soon finds he can't call out either. When he finally gets a repairman out to look at it, it's discovered that someone had cut the line.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_2b2db73b	comment	When Sid attempts to phone the police in What a Carve Up!, he discovers the phone line has been severed. At the phone.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_2ba1d958	comment	The Matrix has a variation: Cell lines are ubiquitous so communicating is not a problem, but to actually get out of the Matrix, you need a hard line. A virtual hard line. A hard virtual... look it's gotta be a phone line so cutting the phone lines is serious.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Of classic Looney Tunes, a Road Runner cartoon from the 60s had the coyote setting up a bird sanctuary equipped with a phone booth. The coyote cuts the wires and sets a cask of TNT with a plunger in back of the booth. Suddenly the phone rings, so he goes to answer. As he does, the Road Runner is sitting on the plunger eating an open case of seed, and...well, you can guess what happens.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_2dcd01f4	comment	Police Story (1973) (1973-1978). Implied in at least one episode, "The Empty Weapon", where a mugging victim is being terrorized by two of her technicality-released juvenile assailants who found her home address.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_2dfc45f	comment	Occasionally a criminal on Rescue 911 would do this so their victims were unable to call for help.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_2f9d69f3	comment	The Real Inspector Hound, a satire which copied most of the twists of The Mousetrap, does the same, although it fails to prevent the phone from ringing again later in the scene after the play reboots.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_303f74a5	comment	When They Cry In Higurashi: When They Cry, Rika cuts the phone lines in both Irie's clinic and at the only payphone in the village so Akasaka wouldn't know about his wife's death, and she would have more time to ask for his help in saving her life before she is to be killed a few days after the Cotton Drifting Festival. In every arc of Umineko: When They Cry, the external phone line of Rokkenjima is cut just before the murders start. Note: only the external line. The internal line is used in Episode 1, 4 and 5 to give the survivors some mysterious or threatening calls.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_30a248e	comment	In original version of Friday the 13th (1980), the phone lines to Camp Crystal Lake are, making the character even more helpless.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_311cb4a8	comment	One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: One set of rhymes has two creatures talking on the phone when a mouse cuts the wire. Oddly, one of the creatures still has time to explain this and say goodbye before the connection cuts off.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_34ba17d	comment	Best Seller. When Corrupt Corporate Executive Madlock realises that Professional Killer Cleve is in the school, he picks up the phone to call the police, only to hear Cleve speaking to him via the public address system. Cleve uses a phone extension to do so, simultaneously cutting off the phone lines.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_35d7868b	comment	The Sadist: Before the teachers have realised anything is wrong, a slow pan back reveals to the audience that the phone in the office has had its line cut.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_3790ae45	comment	Double Homework gives a modern example. While the protagonist and the girls are stuck in the ski lodge with snow coming down, Dr. Mosely/Zeta and Dennis have disappeared, and the group discovers that the phone lines and fiber optic cables have been mysteriously cut.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_3e4aa5ce	comment	Friday the 13th: The Game: Destroying the phone box with a machete/axe/whatever is often at the top of the Jason player's things-to-chop-up list when a new game begins, as the camp counselors can use it to call the police which will allow a Road Block to be set up just beyond one of the exits to the map after a few minutes. Having the police will allow counselors to escape the map on foot through that exit when normally they would need be in a car; police can also shoot Jason if he gets too close to the exit and stun him in order to provide some covering fire for the escaping counselors. Since completing the call requires the counselor to complete a minigame, it's certainly possible for the call to get cut off in the middle of the conversation if Jason happens to kill the line at that moment.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_3e5afb68	comment	The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Played for laughs. After the were-rabbit's mass destruction of vegetables, Wallace is taking all the telephone calls with the complaints from customers, answering several handsets at once. He finally puts an end to it by pulling the plug out of the wall.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_3f4208eb	comment	In Silver Lode, Ballard asks telegraph operator Paul Herbert to send wires to California to confirm or contradict McCarty's accusations (hoping to clear his name), but the lines are down. It is later revealed that McCarty's men cut the telegraph lines.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_3f493700	comment	The baddies in Bad Day at Black Rock cut the phone lines of the small town so that the hero can't inform the police.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In "The Usual Suspects" (S02, Ep07), the phone cuts out during Karen Giles' call to 911. Dean is going to investigate an Abandoned Warehouse with the Victim of the Week but finds he doesn't have cellphone reception. Later Sam is searching the victim's room and finds an illegal cellphone scrambler; by that time Dean has already discovered the Victim of the Week is actually the Monster of the Week.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield, In a December strip Jon orders his cat Garfield to behave on Christmas or else he'll call Santa. Once Jon leaves the panel, Garfield tells the reader he cut the phone lines. In another strip, Jon tries to call a repairman to tell him that he thinks the toaster is possessed. When he hears a dial tone, he thinks the repairman hung up in disbelief, but Garfield replies that the toaster cut the line.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_46d48eba	comment	In the James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever, Bond is visiting a mud bath to pay a horse jockey for cheating when it is noticed that the phone line is dead. The novel states that this should have been a warning for Bond, but he did not react and could not when the responsible pair of henchmen came and tortured said jockey for his betrayal.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_47f7ea18	comment	In Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo, Kirisaki Fumio makes a point of cutting the phone lines and disabling the local cell towers around her school to maximize the time she can spend cutting apart her classmates with a chainsaw before the police notice.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4864eb2d	comment	Bulldog Drummond: Drummond attempts to call for help after the bad guys have arrived at the inn only to find that they've cut the lines.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4a95762d	comment	The Bat disables both the internal and external phones when he breaks in to search for the secret room in the 1959 version of The Bat.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4abb6c74	comment	Done in Without Remorse by John Kelly for his final confrontation with the drug ring, which has set up shop in an abandoned warehouse. Kelly cuts the wires and connects his own field phone for a bit of psychological warfare.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4aeea402	comment	Doc Savage: In The Men Who Smiled No More, Pat twice has a phone line cut on her as she is attempting to call Doc.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4bcd81b8	comment	Red Hill: Jimmy destroys the landlines and pulls down the cell tower outside of Red Hill to completely isolate the town. But one of the farmers has a sat phone...
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4c949405	comment	The Hair Bear Bunch: In "The Bear Who Came To Dinner," Peevly is calling a doctor to give Square Bear a check-up so as to see if he's faking an injury. The call is intercepted atop a phone pole by Hair Bear, who is using Gabby the Parrot to impersonate the doctor's secretary.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4d1ba412	comment	In the third issue of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Ronald McDonald says he's going to call the police about the crazy man robbing from his secret hamburger warehouse (don't ask), then one of the raptor banditos (don't ask) gives a very badass speech about why Ronald should just let them handle it instead of getting the police involved. And then Doc McNinja says that it's a moot point because he cut the phone lines.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4f7dff22	comment	Updated to the modern world in Relativity: In the story "August Moon", a killer enters a woman's house and cuts the phone line, then hunts around for a cell phone and removes the battery.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_4fccd01a	comment	In Disturbing the Peace, the bikers cut the phone and power lines to Horse Cave, which also disables the cell tower.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_50d4f4bd	comment	Escape from SobibÃ³r has escaping Jewish inmates in World War II doing this to flee a death camp.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_529ee66	comment	In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Momma Robotnik's Birthday", Sonic tricks Scratch and Grounder into thinking they are contestants on a game show he is hosting. Robotnik sees this from the monitor in his lair and tries to call them to warn them about Sonic, but Sonic literally cuts through Grounder's phone line with a knife, which also somehow cuts Robotnik's phone line, much to the latter's bewilderment. This scene, unfortunately, was cut from the Toon Disney broadcast.
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_529ee66
Cut Phone Lines / int_52b67f7	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_52b67f7	comment	In Satan's Cheerleaders, Chris is trying to phone for help from a phone booth when the Satanists cut the phone lines.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_52b67f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Satan's Cheerleaders	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_52b67f7
Cut Phone Lines / int_53a0bd32	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Fear", Charlotte Scott and Robert Franklin attempt to phone for help after discovering evidence that Earth is seemingly being invaded by giant aliens but they are unable to do so as the phone lines have been cut.
Cut Phone Lines / int_53a0bd32	featureApplicability	1.0
Cut Phone Lines / int_53a0bd32	featureConfidence	1.0
The Twilight Zone (1959)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_53a0bd32
Cut Phone Lines / int_569093cc	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): In "Glom Tales", by the time Louie tries to call for backup due to the Legion of Doom showing up at the mansion, Mark Beaks has already intercepted any outgoing calls. Presumably he also blocked cell service, but Louie's was already cut off.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_569093cc	featureConfidence	1.0
DuckTales (2017)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_569093cc
Cut Phone Lines / int_56afadff	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_56afadff	comment	Shown on-screen in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. The Nazis cut the phone lines when they invade.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_56afadff
Cut Phone Lines / int_57ef8a9b	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_57ef8a9b	comment	In The Hot Rock (1972), one of the bumbling thieves does this to a police station, while another puts a radio jammer on the station's rooftop.
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The Hot Rock	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_57ef8a9b
Cut Phone Lines / int_585e7a59	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_585e7a59	comment	In Ted, after Ted gets bear-napped by Donnie and his son, he tries to call John for help. When Ted is about to reveal his location to him, he hears a dial tone and turns around to see Donnie with a pair of scissors holding the line.
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Ted	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_585e7a59
Cut Phone Lines / int_58808436	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_58808436	comment	In Higurashi: When They Cry, Rika cuts the phone lines in both Irie's clinic and at the only payphone in the village so Akasaka wouldn't know about his wife's death, and she would have more time to ask for his help in saving her life before she is to be killed a few days after the Cotton Drifting Festival.
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Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_58808436
Cut Phone Lines / int_5aefdefb	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_5aefdefb	comment	In April Fools' Day (1986) and its novel tie-in book, this happens in an island mansion.
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April Fools' Day	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_5aefdefb
Cut Phone Lines / int_5c9b7531	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_5c9b7531	comment	In Collateral, Vincent cuts the phone and power line of the office building Annie worked in, leaving her in the dark and without a way to reach out for help.
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Collateral	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_5c9b7531
Cut Phone Lines / int_6234f5b3	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_6234f5b3	comment	Father Brown: In "The Lair of the Libertines", the phone line to the hotel is cut. Father Brown discovers this just after he finds the first body.
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_6234f5b3
Cut Phone Lines / int_64494e71	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_64494e71	comment	Walker, Texas Ranger has several episodes, "The Lynching", "The Siege", "A Woman's Place" and "Money Talks", with villains that do this.
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Walker, Texas Ranger	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_64494e71
Cut Phone Lines / int_6a669f53	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_6a669f53	comment	In The Man Who Turned to Stone, Dr. Myer shoots the switchboard to prevent Rogers and Tracy from calling the state police.
Cut Phone Lines / int_6a669f53	featureApplicability	1.0
Cut Phone Lines / int_6a669f53	featureConfidence	1.0
The Man Who Turned to Stone	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_6a669f53
Cut Phone Lines / int_6d2fb4ea	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_6d2fb4ea	comment	In National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982) vengeful ex classmate Walter Baylor does this at the titular tenth reunion of his 1972 high school graduation.
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National Lampoon	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_6d2fb4ea
Cut Phone Lines / int_6da9a988	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_6da9a988	comment	In The Slumber Party Massacre (1981), the escaped psycho does this at the house where the party is held.
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The Slumber Party Massacre	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_6da9a988
Cut Phone Lines / int_6e17a0d1	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_6e17a0d1	comment	The first Die Hard movie shows the villain's gang doing this. They weren't planning on physically cutting them, but a guy got impatient.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_6e17a0d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Die Hard	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_6e17a0d1
Cut Phone Lines / int_73c2bdb6	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_73c2bdb6	comment	In Wee Willie Winkie (1937), they cut telegraph wires. This leaves Col. Williams and his frontier regiment isolated and unable to call for help against Khoda Khan and his enemy Afghan forces.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_73c2bdb6	featureConfidence	1.0
Wee Willie Winkie	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_73c2bdb6
Cut Phone Lines / int_73d0d63b	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_73d0d63b	comment	In Stage Fright (2014), Roger rips out the phone to the camp office to prevent any of the campers from calling their parents and telling them about the murder.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_73d0d63b	featureConfidence	1.0
Stage Fright (2014)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_73d0d63b
Cut Phone Lines / int_73d7930f	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In "Dramatis Personae", the crew is split into hostile Bajoran and Starfleet factions when an alien device causes them to turn on each other. Odo tries to let higher authority know what's going on, only to find the Subspace Ansible to Starfleet has been shut down under Major Kira's authority, while communications with the Bajoran Provisional Government have been cut off under Chief O'Brien's authority.
Cut Phone Lines / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_73d7930f
Cut Phone Lines / int_750ce27d	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_750ce27d	comment	In The Golden Hamster Saga book Freddy in Peril, Professor Fleischkopf unplugs Mr. John's computer while he's on a business trip so Freddy can't email him for help.
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The Golden Hamster Saga	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_750ce27d
Cut Phone Lines / int_75c31694	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_75c31694	comment	The A-Team episode "Black Day at Bad Rock" the motorcycle gang 'The Barbarians' do this to a pole to free their imprisoned leader and destroy the town whose sheriff had arrested their leader and is holding him for state pickup. Also, phones are cut in "Water Water Everywhere".
Cut Phone Lines / int_75c31694	featureApplicability	1.0
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The A-Team	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_75c31694
Cut Phone Lines / int_761a48d7	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_761a48d7	comment	Iron Fist (2017): When Lawrence tries to call Security, Harold points out the phone system has been shut down because he's arranged for the computer system to undergo a routine rebooting.
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Iron Fist (2017)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_761a48d7
Cut Phone Lines / int_7aaf9e41	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_7aaf9e41	comment	One Batman story has an axe-murderer doing this to the phone-line of his intended victim with his axe. Unfortunately for the psycho, Catwoman, who has been watching the woman's boyfriend on Batman's behest, didn't like the idea of leaving her alone, and so left her panther to guard her, which promptly stops the attack and claws his face, sending him home and right into Batman's trap.
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Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_7aaf9e41
Cut Phone Lines / int_7b6975f	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_7b6975f	comment	In Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), ape leader Caesar does this to the communications complex of the futuristic city he was enslaved in during its ape rebellion.
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_7b6975f
Cut Phone Lines / int_7db5e90f	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_7db5e90f	comment	Also, Lucky Luke did this with telegraph lines, because it is set in the Wild West. On one occasion the (fictitious) Indian tribe Blue Foots cut off a telegraph mast, while a telegram is send for Luke to the cavalry. Another time it was the so-called real Dalton Brothers who shot the telegraph lines to keep another city from learning about their arrival.
Cut Phone Lines / int_7db5e90f	featureApplicability	1.0
Cut Phone Lines / int_7db5e90f	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Luke (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_7db5e90f
Cut Phone Lines / int_7e053c98	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_7e053c98	comment	In A View to a Kill, Zorin's mooks cut Stacy Sutton's phone line before invading her house and attacking her. After James Bond fends them off, he repairs the line.
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A View to a Kill	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_7e053c98
Cut Phone Lines / int_7e88ac08	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_7e88ac08	comment	The Equalizer. In "The Children's Song", "Torn", "The Cup", "The Rehearsal" and "Last Call" episodes.
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The Equalizer	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_7e88ac08
Cut Phone Lines / int_820b06c7	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_820b06c7	comment	In Partners (1982), Benson is at Jill's house, not realizing she's been murdered. Kerwin tries to call him, but the killer unplugs the phone line mid-conversation.
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Partners (1982)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_820b06c7
Cut Phone Lines / int_86a5c586	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_86a5c586	comment	In FireWatch, one of Ned's attempts to sabotage the investigation after breaking into Henry's tower is cutting the Thorofare wire and framing the missing teenagers.
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Firewatch / Videogame	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_86a5c586
Cut Phone Lines / int_875db917	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_875db917	comment	In Four Flies on Grey Velvet, the killer cuts the phone line to Roberto's house while Roberto is on the phone to God.
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_875db917
Cut Phone Lines / int_8a7fc952	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_8a7fc952	comment	In Breakheart Pass, someone destroys the telegraph lines so the train cannot send a message back down line to Myrtle.
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Breakheart Pass	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_8a7fc952
Cut Phone Lines / int_8b68455c	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_8b68455c	comment	The League of Gentlemen The robbery of weapons from an army base starts with the robbers calling in about a surprise inspection, then cutting the phone line so they can't get hold of the commanding officer who's off base. A couple of the robbers then get inside the perimeter fence by posing as linesmen trying to trace the fault, while the fake inspection distracts everyone. The Caper itself involves throwing an explosive charge down a manhole to destroy the phone line from the bank to the police station, as well as knocking out the power to the alarm system. Their radio specialist also jams the police frequencies.
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The League of Gentlemen	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_8b68455c
Cut Phone Lines / int_8d81f086	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk: During "Mr Monk And The Blackout", in addition to blacking out Monk's apartment, Brenner also cut the wires to the phone. Fortunately, the police still manage to arrive in time.
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Monk	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_8d81f086
Cut Phone Lines / int_8e436fcf	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_8e436fcf	comment	Nichols: When Colonel Alcazar and his gang of revolutionaries arrive in Nichols in "The Siege", they cut the phone line leading out of town so no one can inform the outside world of their presence.
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Nichols	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_8e436fcf
Cut Phone Lines / int_8f88ec9e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_8f88ec9e	comment	I Saw What You Did: When Steve breaks into the Mannering home, he rips the phone line out of the wall to prevent Libby from calling for help.
Cut Phone Lines / int_8f88ec9e	featureApplicability	1.0
Cut Phone Lines / int_8f88ec9e	featureConfidence	1.0
I Saw What You Did	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_8f88ec9e
Cut Phone Lines / int_910d714b	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_910d714b	comment	The ECM Rush in PAYDAY 2 is basically this, but applied to cellphones. Drop cell phones jammers, hit the place for loot, and leave before the pagers that the guards carry warn the security operator.
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PAYDAY 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_910d714b
Cut Phone Lines / int_911d80c5	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_911d80c5	comment	In Wait Until Dark (1967), the baddies cut the phone line so that Susy could not call the police.
Cut Phone Lines / int_911d80c5	featureApplicability	1.0
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WaitUntilDark	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_911d80c5
Cut Phone Lines / int_94bde696	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_94bde696	comment	Diff'rent Strokes episode "Fire" has the phones in Drummond's apartment building out during what appeared to be a fire there.
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Diff'rent Strokes	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_94bde696
Cut Phone Lines / int_97a70962	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals. In the episode "In the Public Interest", Bodie and Doyle get photographic evidence that the police of an unnamed city are involved in vigilante activities. The first thing the ringleader does is shut down the city switchboard under the guise of a security operation, so when Doyle tries to report to London all he gets is a recorded voice saying that all lines are engaged. Then a carload of armed police pulls up outside...
Cut Phone Lines / int_97a70962	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Professionals	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_97a70962
Cut Phone Lines / int_97e7606f	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_97e7606f	comment	Alan Wake: When Alan is hiding in the office in the lumber mill and tries calling the Sheriff's office for help, only for the phone-tower to spontaneously fall, leaving Alan with no way to call for help.
Cut Phone Lines / int_97e7606f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Alan Wake (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_97e7606f
Cut Phone Lines / int_986f25e0	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_986f25e0	comment	Murder in the Alps: In the climax of Atlantic Connection, Anna Myers discovers that Otto Reger's friend Gerhard Wagner is a member of the Brownshirts who want to take over Otto's hotel and continues using it for their smuggling business. She attempts to call the police, only to find the phone lines cut by Gerhard. Once the villain is arrested, he sarcastically asks from the police chief if "committing crimes against their country" includes cutting phone lines. The Serial Killer of The Dada Killer does this at the first victim's house, so Anna needs to fix the lines so that she can immediately inform her editor of what has happened.
Cut Phone Lines / int_986f25e0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Murder in the Alps (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_986f25e0
Cut Phone Lines / int_998cbda3	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Dex cuts the power and phone lines when he attacks the New York Bulletin to kill a would-be witness on Wilson Fisk's order.
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Daredevil (2015)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_998cbda3
Cut Phone Lines / int_9bc3ea01	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_9bc3ea01	comment	Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). No-one is alarmed when the power and phone lines go out because Precinct 13 is being shut down and the utility companies are supposed to cut off service in a few hours anyway. Then when gangbangers start shooting at them, they realise they've not cut the lines but taken down an entire telephone pole to prevent anyone in the vicinity reporting the gunshots. A patrol car is sent to investigate the gunshots but they can't pinpoint where they are coming from, until they discover the body of a telephone linesman sent to repair the damage.
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_9bc3ea01
Cut Phone Lines / int_9d0ea0a8	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_9d0ea0a8	comment	Dawson's Creek "The Scare" has Dawson doing this to a girl he admires.
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Dawson's Creek	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_9d0ea0a8
Cut Phone Lines / int_9f78fda3	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_9f78fda3	comment	Murder, She Wrote had at least one episode where Jessica is the target of this.
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Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_9f78fda3
Cut Phone Lines / int_a08635f	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_a08635f	comment	Blooded: When Liv makes it back to the house, she discovers that the Animal Wrongs Group has stolen all of their cell phones, and cut the landline.
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Blooded	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_a08635f
Cut Phone Lines / int_a7657e73	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_a7657e73	comment	In the original Gremlins (1984), the gremlin in the Peltzers' basement rips out the phone line as Billy is calling his mom to warn her to get out of the house.
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Gremlins (1984)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_a7657e73
Cut Phone Lines / int_a895e9d2	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_a895e9d2	comment	Near the end of Portal, in GLaDOS' chamber there is a red land line phone (which strangely has the company logo as a rotary dial), and the line between the receiver and the device has been cut. The developer commentary says that this phone was there for someone to sit by and call for help if GLaDOS ever became sentient and godlike. Apparently, that plan didn't go too well.
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Portal (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_a895e9d2
Cut Phone Lines / int_a9c57bd	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_a9c57bd	comment	The Greatest American Hero, In "Plague", its militaristic villains do this to a small town.
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The Greatest American Hero	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_a9c57bd
Cut Phone Lines / int_abb70593	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_abb70593	comment	The Magician: In "Illusion of the Queen's Gambit", the robbers do this when the take over the casino. They announce what they have done just as Jerry is picking up a phone to call for help.
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The Magician	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_abb70593
Cut Phone Lines / int_ac01b616	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_ac01b616	comment	Used several times in The Courts of the Morning, by both the heroes and the villains.
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The Courts of the Morning	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_ac01b616
Cut Phone Lines / int_aca7b22d	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Nobody", the second phone call Gumball makes to the police cuts off after a few seconds, which makes him think someone cut the line. The phone actually just had its cord stretched so far that it was torn out of the wall.
Cut Phone Lines / int_aca7b22d	featureApplicability	1.0
Cut Phone Lines / int_aca7b22d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Amazing World of Gumball	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_aca7b22d
Cut Phone Lines / int_ad841c09	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_ad841c09	comment	Monsters at Work: A variation. In "The Vending Machine", In the midst of Fritz making a call with the Vend-o service center over the malfunctioning Vendy 2, part of an overhead pipeline gets knocked askew, cutting the phone line.
Cut Phone Lines / int_ad841c09	featureApplicability	1.0
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Monsters at Work	hasFeature	Cut Phone Lines / int_ad841c09
Cut Phone Lines / int_adfcefff	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cut Phone Lines / int_adfcefff	comment	Near the end of Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Shaggy is calling the sheriff to report that he's found the escaped circus ape the Sheriff has been looking for on-and-off when a mysterious hand cuts the phone's lines. It's Foreshadowing to the fact the "Sheriff" who first appeared is an imposter; Shaggy notes that the person he's talking to sounds different, and most likely the imposter was trying to keep the real police away from the mansion.
Cut Phone Lines / int_adfcefff	featureApplicability	1.0
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Cut Phone Lines / int_ae0356e0	comment	In the Courage the Cowardly Dog pilot "The Chicken from Outer Space", as Eustace is turning into a chicken, Muriel tries to call an operator. However, the space chicken cut the lines.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_b2b8158	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, after Yukako kidnaps Koichi, she holds him captive at a vacation home near Morioh's cliffside, cutting all the phone wires in the house to prevent him from calling for help.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_b36d154b	comment	In Ripper: Letter from Hell, Professor Kane picks up the phone at his cabin only to discover the line is dead: the killer having sabotaged the dish.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_b370c3aa	comment	In Taps (1981) the cadets at Bunker Hill Academy do this to prevent their school from being turned into condominiums.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_b396786f	comment	In Siren Novels, Simon's missing brother Caleb calls him from a payphone in a deserted area. By the time Simon finds the payphone, not only is Caleb gone but the line has been cut.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_b614ff47	comment	El internado: Las Cumbres: AdÃ¨le cuts the phone lines just as Amaia and Paul are about to call the police to report Manu's disappearance. Mara punishes all the students by making them stand through dinner time without eating until the guilty party confesses.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_b88460c9	comment	Whodunnit? (UK): In "Final Verdict", the killer does this (combined with Vehicular Sabotage) to ensure that none of his targets can leave the house or summon help.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_b9f8050b	comment	In The Island of Sheep, the villains cut the phone line to the remote house where the heroes are holed up before they attack.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles had this on its collector's edition DVD, which included animated storyboards of deleted scenes. One featured an alternate situation where Syndrome tracked down the Parr family when Violet was still a baby. When Helen attempts to dial 911, hearing Bob fighting him out in the kitchen: "Don't bother, honey, I cut the wires. Just leave the scene, OK?"
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Cut Phone Lines / int_ba6e04f6	comment	The Cuphead Show!: In "Baby Bottle", Cuphead finds the phone-line cut when trying to contact the police for assistance with the renegade baby.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_bc0e2053	comment	Bad Ronald: The eponymous troubled teenager does this to a taunting neighbor girl.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: Elka tries to get a call for help out of Ethelmik and discovers that the lines to the Chirographs have all been cut.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c2629e0d	comment	Even If We Break has a variation. When the kids get to the cabin, they all put their cell phones in a chest in the pantry to avoid distractions from their game. After the first person goes missing, Ever and Finn go to call for help, only to find the chest gone.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c3364e2e	comment	Spoofed in The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. Since the Ginosaji only has a spoon, he can't cut the phone lines, but it doesn't do Jack any good as the police hang up on him when he mentions that his attacker is only hitting him with a spoon.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c3a8103a	comment	At some point in Tintin and the Lake of Sharks, Big Bad "King Shark" orders all local phone lines cut. The mook doing the job is extremely enthusiastic about it.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Curse of Fenric", Commander Millington orders that the phone lines be cut and all radio receivers be destroyed to completely isolate the naval base.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c5d72aec	comment	Larry and Karen in My Favorite Blonde find this out when they are trapped inside the Chicago apartment where they were supposed to meet the next British courier. Unable to call for help and unable to leave with Nazi killers lurking outside, they wind up staging a brawl loud enough to bring the cops to the apartment.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7: As the protagonists' Comm Links are also their teleport bracelets they get lost, confiscated or smashed whenever a Teleportation Rescue would resolve the plot too quickly. In "Assassin", our heroes are trapped on a spaceship being remotely controlled by Servalan, who shuts down the communicator to prevent them calling their own spaceship for help. Fortunately Servalan can't resist reestablishing comms for some Evil Gloating, so Avon puts out an emergency call. Unfortunately by that time their spaceship is so far away it's not certain if it received the transmission.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c73f511c	comment	In season 3 of Boardwalk Empire Nucky realizes that Rosetti's men are about to attack when his butler tries to make a call and the line is dead.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest Inverted in "Prophets" where it's the good guys trying to stop the Victim of the Week from calling 911, in order to hide him from Samaritan, an Artificial Intelligence that can tap into any camera or phone line. He connects on a borrowed mobile phone long enough to say his name before Finch cuts him off, but it's enough for Samaritan to zero in on him. Likewise in "Firewall". The FBI is about to storm the hotel floor where John Reese is, while the villains are about to kill everyone by detonating a mobile phone-triggered bomb. So Harold Finch hacks into an emergency anti-terrorist protocol that cuts off all phone communication except for authorized numbers, with Reese's mobile number being the only one on the authorized list. A variation in "Zero Day". The Machine always contacts Finch via an Anonymous Public Phone Call. However the use of mobile phones means there aren't many public phone booths in Manhattan, so Decima start buying them up and shutting them down, but leaving a few under surveillance so they can grab Finch when he tries to make contact.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_cb003be1	comment	Deranged (2012): When Anna tries to call the police, she discovers that not only is the phone not plugged in but there is not even anywhere to plug it in.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_cb0416f2	comment	Appointment with Venus: As the heroes prepare to leave the island, Sergeant Forbes disables the phone lines; cutting communications across the island.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online: There was a particularly infamous real-life version. When Titans were first introduced, one alliance managed to field one before anyone else. The enemy alliance managed to find the pilot's house in real life and physically cut his internet, leaving the biggest, most expensive ship dead in the water.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_ce8dc8bb	comment	In The Amityville Horror (1979), George Lutz's home phone becomes staticky and goes dead whenever he talks to Father Mancuso on it.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d148f51d	comment	Daffy thinks thinks Porky has done this as part of a plot to trap him in the house in The Looney Tunes Show episode "The Muh-Muh-Muh-Murder". He hasn't. The phone was an antique that was only there for decoration.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d16ec0d2	comment	In Judgment Night (1993), phone lines in a Chicago housing project are cut by gang members who are chasing witnesses to their murder and a payphone and supermarket office phones' receivers are cut.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d43be22a	comment	Michael Myers does this in at least four Halloween movies, starting with 1978 original, then Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998). In the unrelated sequel, Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), the evil toymaker Conal Cochran isolates the town of Santa Mira, CA. from long distance service.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d53ec52e	comment	Next of Kin (1982): Shortly after all the lights in the Montclare retirement home go out, the phone mysteriously goes dead while Linda is talking to her boyfriend Barney.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d54a63c9	comment	One scene in The Longest Day shows French Resistance members including the Mayor of Colleville (Bourvil) blowing up a dozen or so telephone poles to cut the lines. It's implied that numerous other cells in Normandy did similar things, as after a while the Germans are forced to use couriers to communicate.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d5c851d8	comment	In Race with the Devil (1975), long distance phone lines in the Satanic cult's rural town are either dead or "having a bad connection"; a "big wind from up north" is blamed when "Roger" tries calling the state Highway Patrol.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d740c972	comment	Posse (1975): After stealing the train, Strawhorn shoots out the telegraph line alongside the track so the town of Tesoto cannot send any messages about what has happened.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d8a4663d	comment	Harper's Island has the killer cutting the phone lines so no one on the island can call the mainland for help.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_d8ba9a46	comment	Dr. Strangelove: All telephone lines (save for a coin booth phone) at Burpleson AFB were abruptly cut from the impromptu battle between the base and another base sent to ingress and retrieve General Ripper, whose paranoia and Freudian stumping started the whole thing.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_db1ab88b	comment	The Amazing Spiderman 1978 episode "A Matter of State" has this in an apartment building by a wall climbing villain.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_e233ff0e	comment	In Lone Hero, the Iron Bandits biker gang downs the phone lines leading in Profit, and puts a false detour sign on the only road into town, to isolate the community before they ride in.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer had Ms. Calendar cut the phone line when she was possessed.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_e4498d95	comment	The Board James review of 13 Dead End Drive has James locking his friends in his house so they have no choice but to play the game. Upon informing them that the phone lines have been cut, they pull out their cell phones, only for James to flat out snatch them and destroy them in frustration.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_e4d8a1b5	comment	The House With a Clock in Its Walls: Vengeance of the Witch-Finder: Lewis Barnavelt tries to call the police from Barnavelt Manor, but soon realizes the phone has gone dead and isn't sure how much of his message got through (enough, as it turns out). He later discovers the line has been cut, and the culprit had removed about six inches of the wire to make sure it couldn't be easily reconnected.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_eb098d2	comment	Footrot Flats: In one strip, the Dog climbs the telephone pole and cuts the wires while Cheeky is on the phone attempting to invite Wal to a home cooked meal at her place.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_ef076a36	comment	Future tech example: In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Bliss", when an alien that Seven Of Nine comes in contact with tries to warn her about the "wormhole" that her crew's ship is about to enter into, the communication lines are suddenly interrupted as everything in the Astrometrics lab powers down.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_ef3a1525	comment	In My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising, Nine's gang destroy all the ships and communication towers to cut the island off from the mainland, leaving the students to fight them off alone.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_f2dc0664	comment	Within the Wires: Phone lines to Grainne's house are taken down by a storm that, according to the people in town, didn't happen. They're then mysteriously restored in episode 9.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_f5459b8	comment	In Panic Room, the thieves cut the main phone lines of the house to prevent Meg and her daughter from calling out, while the phone in the titular room is on a different line but never got connected in the first place, as Meg moved into the house that very day. However, the burglar in charge of doing the cutting simply cut the cord of the kitchen phone, not the entire line. Meg manages to jury rig the panic room's phone into the main line and get a call for help out before the thieves disconnect the lines for real.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_f5bed4f5	comment	In Aliens in the Attic, Razor cuts the rotary phone line so the kids can't call the police about them.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_f5f392b1	comment	The Famous Five: This happens in Five Fall into Adventure, when George is kidnapped. The telephone lines have been cut, and the kidnappers are watching Kirrin Cottage to make sure nobody leaves the house to tell the police.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: Invoked during "Nightmare Inn", the radio play Frasier directs. The in-story detective dramatically announces that the phone lines at the mansion have been cut which is the exact moment the studio phone rings. To make matters worse Noel, who's in charge of sound effects, loudly answers the phone while standing next to an open mic. Cue a Death Glare from Frasier who stomps over to yank the cord out of the actual phone.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_f6cd3a9	comment	8 Women: The characters discover the phone lines are cut when Suzon tries phoning the police to report Marcel's murder. It's one among many elements that contribute to the house becoming a Closed Circle.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_fa1cb509	comment	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors: The Man-Eating Plant snaps the phone line to the cottage when when Hopkins tries to phone for help in the "Creeping Vine" segment.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_fa6e380e	comment	Hill Street Blues: In "Can World War III Be An Attitude", Hill Street station's lines appear to have been cut by gang members.
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Cut Phone Lines / int_fd8ca1b3	comment	The New Avengers: Done in "Sleeper" to isolate central London while the gang are Taking Over the Town.
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Cut Phone Lines	processingCategory2	Discredited Trope
Cut Phone Lines	processingCategory2	Older Than Television
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Collateral / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Daughter of the Dragon / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Day of the Wolves / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Dead Again / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Death Bell / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Deranged (2012) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Die Hard / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Disturbing the Peace / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Edge of Tomorrow / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
8 Women / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Fear (1996) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Fiend Without a Face / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Four Flies on Grey Velvet	seeAlso	Cut Phone Lines
Friday the 13th (1980) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
God's Gun / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Gremlins / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Gremlins (1984) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Gutterballs / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Halloween (1978) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Halloween II (1981) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Halloween III: Season of the Witch / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Hollow Man / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
I Saw What You Did / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Japan's Longest Day / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Jeepers Creepers / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Kiss the Girls / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
La Cérémonie / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Link / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Lone Hero / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Man of Iron / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Murder by Death / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
My Bloody Valentine / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Next of Kin (1982) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
1917 / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Panic Room / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Partners (1982) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Posse (1975) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Race with the Devil / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Ripper: Letter from Hell / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Satan's Cheerleaders / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Skinamarink / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Snow Trail / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Sputnik / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
StageFright -Aquarius- / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Suspense / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Taps / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The 7th Company / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Abduction of Saint Anne / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Amityville Horror (1979) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Babadook / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Bunker (2001) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Devil's Rain / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Dirty Dozen / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Emperor in August / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Fog / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The General (1926) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Hot Rock / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The League of Gentlemen / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Man Who Turned to Stone / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Mayor of Hell / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Sadist / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The 7th Company / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Slumber Party Massacre / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Toy Soldiers / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Unknown (2006) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Valentine / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Wee Willie Winkie / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
What a Carve Up! / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Halloween (Franchise) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Diamonds Are Forever / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Doc Savage / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Even If We Break / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Giants Series / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Siren / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Siren Novels / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Amityville Horror / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Famous Five / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Golden Hamster Saga / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The House With a Clock in Its Walls / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Absurd	seeAlso	Cut Phone Lines
Within the Wires (Podcast) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Around the World in 80 Days (2021) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Blake's 7 / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Boardwalk Empire / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cannon / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Cluedo / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Father Brown / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Helix / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Police Story (1973) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Reservation Dogs / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The A-Team / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Equalizer / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Goes Wrong Show / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Magician / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The New Avengers / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Vietnam War / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Whodunnit? (UK) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Bat (Theatre) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Cat and the Canary (Theatre) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Mousetrap (Theatre) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Wait Until Dark (Theatre) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Friday the 13th: The Game (Video Game) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Murder in the Alps (Video Game) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Nightfall Mysteries (Video Game) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (Web Video) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Unwanted Houseguest (Web Video) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (Website) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Robot Dreams / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Looney Tunes Show / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines

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