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Finger in the Mail

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Finger in the Mail	comment	In the event of a kidnapping or Hostage Situation where characters are held for ransom, when the kidnapper is ready to make his demands known and/or make sure he is taken seriously by his hostage's loved ones or law enforcement authorities, the kidnapper will send severed extremities from his hostage to the family/police. Fingers are very common, but ears, teeth, toes, hair, etc. are frequently fair game, as well. In other circumstances, the situation can involve a Serial Killer mailing more gruesome body parts (typically internal organs or severed heads) from recent victims to either taunt the police/detectives tailing him and prove to them that they are receiving correspondence from the suspect they are after or to convey the gruesome fate to a loved one of the victim. Compare: Demanding Their Head and Bringing Back Proof when a character specifically demands a body part be brought to them for a bounty. See Also: Fingore, Past Victim Showcase.
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Finger in the Mail / int_104b5e68	comment	The Pendragon Adventure: In the fifth book, St. Dane leaves Bobby a bag containing Gunny's severed hand.
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Finger in the Mail / int_1449a8e8	comment	Dirty Harry: Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl, sending the police her bra, a lock of hair, and a bloody tooth "pulled out with a pair of pliers".
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Finger in the Mail / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: A serial killer, who uses riddles to lead the team to his victims, cuts off his first victim and sends it to them, warning them that they are running out of time before he kills her.
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Finger in the Mail / int_14b9a2b0	comment	Bizarre: One skit features a man and woman waiting anxiously for correspondence from their son's kidnapper. After revealing that they'd been sent a few pieces of him already (fingers and toes), they receive a new box. When the wife asks what part of him was in it this time, the answer is, "His shit." In an alternate ending, it is instead his foot, to which the parents happily exclaim, "Now we have enough to put him back together again!"
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Finger in the Mail / int_1510fa4e	comment	In Goldeneye, Jack Wade tells Bond that Valentin Zukovsky sent the last spy who crashed his club home. In many, many boxes.
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Finger in the Mail / int_164bedb5	comment	Split Second (1992): A long-vanished Serial Killer returns and taunts the protagonist by sending him a metal briefcase that contains the heart of the first new victim packed in ice with a very large bite taken out of it.
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Finger in the Mail / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar: In Arrow's Fall, a villain asks sweetly, "How will your Queen react to receiving her favorite Herald... but a small piece at a time?"
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Finger in the Mail / int_1becd49	comment	MPD Psycho: A killer sends one of the detectives looking for him the armless, legless torso of the detective's girlfriend in an ice chest.
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Finger in the Mail / int_1f304b85	comment	The Candy Snatchers: The kidnappers plan to cut off Candy's ear so they can send it to her father. Eddy talks them out of it, so instead they force her to scream so they can record it, then purchase an ear from a worker at the local hospital.
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Finger in the Mail / int_208eb516	comment	The Rifter: Laurie summons John into a trap to use him to open the Great Gates by sending him one of his lover Kyle's fingers. She chose the ring finger because she was furious that John got his lover back when she couldn't have her dead husband.
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Finger in the Mail / int_22119589	comment	Alias: Sloane receives his wife's ring finger through the mail as proof she's still alive and being held hostage. It's actually a plan set in motion by Sloane himself. His wife cut off her own finger and mailed it to him.
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Finger in the Mail / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: Especially during the Gormogon arc and with some from crime scenes involving scavenger animals, winds, or other such scattering mechanisms. In a first season episode "The Woman in the Car", when the kidnapper sends one of a boy's fingers as a warning, Brennan is too upset to pursue the case, because she's not prepared for living victims whose lives are still in danger. Booth calms her down by pointing out the mistake the kidnapper made — sending evidence to the best forensics team in the country. In the episode "The Heiress in the Hill," one kidnapper chops off his hostage's toe with pet-grade nail clippers, and the resulting wound gets infected. The other kidnapper genuinely wanted to save the hostage's life, and gave her penicillin to fight the infection. Unfortunately, she was highly allergic and died. Ironically, the victim herself planned the whole thing to bilk money out of her father and frame her step-mother. She's the one who cut off her toe, believing her father wouldn't pay without it.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: "Trapped" deals with the heir of a wealthy family whose younger brother was abducted as a child. When the family was slow with the ransom money, the brother's ear was cut off and sent to them; later, the brother was killed. The surviving man kept the ear in a jar of preservative. In "Brooklyn 'Til I Die," kidnappers send a millionaire his son's finger in a ring box, with a distinctive ring still attached. In "Seth and Apep," Christine's kidnappers taunt Mac with a tongue delivered to him at the precinct. It turns out not to be hers, though.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2268de37	comment	In Grimm, after a high-level Reaper sends two assassins after Nick, he gets a note back reading, "Next time, send your best", along with the severed heads of the assassins.
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Finger in the Mail / int_226f6b3f	comment	Haven: In "Chemistry", Mara goes missing and a ransom note with her severed pinky toe arrives. It turns out Mara had never been kidnapped and had been manipulating everyone. She cut off her toe herself both to make the ransom note believable and to mock Duke, who had threatened to cut off her toe while interrogating her back in "Nowhere Man" but couldn't go through with it.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2275c659	comment	House: Parodied in Season 4, when Drs. Cuddy and Wilson try to force House to hire a new team. Wilson attempts blackmail by "kidnapping" House's guitar. When House still won't give in, Wilson sends him the torn off whammy bar as a threat.
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Finger in the Mail / int_229f5b68	comment	In the Phryne Fisher novel Away With the Fairies, the Ruthless Modern Pirates who abduct Lin Chung mail his ear to Phryne.
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Finger in the Mail / int_23095e61	comment	Erast Fandorin: The Coronation includes a subversion of the ransom demand variation; the hostage was killed immediately after the finger was cut off as part of the villain's Evil Plan. In The Decorator, Fandorin, who is hunting a Serial Killer, gets a severed ear in the mail. It turns out to be a prank.
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Finger in the Mail / int_23203d91	comment	Trust, being a dramatization of John Paul Getty III's kidnapping, has Paul's ear being cut off and delivered after his ransom is delayed again. His mother is able to confirm it's his by matching the freckles to pictures of him. When his grandfather is shown a picture of the ear he notes that a finger would have been more convincing as they could have checked the print for a match.
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Finger in the Mail / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter: This is a recurring theme throughout season one, but never quite so strongly as when the Ice Truck Killer mails a jar of blood with a hotel room key in it to the homicide division. The hotel room key turns out to lead to a hotel room (duh) with walls covered with much more blood.
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Finger in the Mail / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons: In "Rosebud", when the Simpsons find Mr. Burns's beloved teddy bear from his childhood, Lisa and Homer suggest they send Burns one of its eyes. In "Days of Wine and D'ohses", Homer and Bart find that Milhouse's parents have thrown away his blanket and Homer gets the idea to sell it back to him piece by piece. In "Pranksta Rap", Bart pretends to be kidnapped and makes a call to the rest of the family while posing as the kidnapper. Homer immediately demands that the kidnapper send body parts to prove that he really has Bart. Marge objects. Discussed in "Homer Goes to Prep School" where Homer flatly says that he wouldn't pay a ransom for Bart in the event of his son being kidnapped and would likely feed an ear cut off Bart to the dog. Bart is fine with this, aside from telling his father that the dog wouldn't eat his ear unless it was wrapped in cheese.
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Finger in the Mail / int_298a47a9	comment	In The Big Lebowski, the eponymous "Big" Jeffrey Lebowski is sent one of his wife Bunny's toes after a botched money exchange. This is actually a ruse to make Lebowski think they have his wife, and it turns out that one of the conspirators had his poor girlfriend provide the toe.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2bc165fe	comment	The World Is Not Enough: In the Back Story, the terrorist Renard took Elektra King hostage and demanded a ransom from her wealthy father who, on the advice of M, refused to pay up. So Renard cut off her ear and sent it to him to encourage payment. Elektra was actually a willing participant in this, considering herself betrayed by her father and the British government.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2dfdd54c	comment	In the Emma Frost origin comic series, Emma and her boyfriend Troy are kidnapped by loan sharks that Troy owed money to. When they find out that Emma is the daughter of a millionaire, they ship a box full of her hair and an ear to her family, along with a ransom note. The ear, it turns out, was actually Troy's, him having been killed earlier trying to save Emma.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2ee377b6	comment	Career of Evil: The plot is kick-started when a woman's severed leg arrives in the mail to the offices of private detective Cormoran Strike.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2f608694	comment	The Coronation includes a subversion of the ransom demand variation; the hostage was killed immediately after the finger was cut off as part of the villain's Evil Plan.
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Finger in the Mail / int_2fa60163	comment	Amazing Super Powers makes a gag out of reassembling the kidnapped victim as they receive severed appendages, but instead of a robot, detectives plan on reassembling a child.
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Finger in the Mail / int_31abbd6	comment	Lamarckian features a variant when Kanna finds that the girl's locker room has been trashed, and a letter that includes a melted ring. This is the same ring that the Wendigo bit off of Native's fingers.
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Finger in the Mail / int_32cc35b8	comment	Hostage Situation: Discussed when Mags asks Saint if he's willing to go so far as to remove fingers from Panacea in order to pressure the PRT to release Teacher. Saint seems inclined to say yes, and she chastises him for that.
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Finger in the Mail / int_3306d2a2	comment	Brannigan: An American member of The Mafia is kidnapped by London Gangsters who send a finger in the mail when holding him for ransom. Ironically, the mobster is in on the kidnapping, regarding the finger as an acceptable loss.
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Finger in the Mail / int_336a5711	comment	Luther: Done with an added layer of Squick where the kidnappers cut out their hostage's tongue just to prove they're serious. Later, they send further body parts.
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Finger in the Mail / int_34e5ea29	comment	Mr. Show: Parodied in a sketch in which a kidnapper calls the wealthy father of the boy he's kidnapped and demands to know whether he received his son's toe in the mail to prove his serious intent. Except he forgot to mail the toe. And he appears to have accidentally removed his own toe, instead of one of the kid's. And he's already released the kid. And the police are able to track his call while he's dithering about all of this. The kidnapper ends up trying to sell the father his own toe for $50.00. Obviously, he's not a very effective kidnapper.
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Finger in the Mail / int_35c619e2	comment	Green Arrow: In one story, crooks who've captured Black Canary send a chunk of her hair to the police. The cops think it is a fake as the hair is from a wig, but Green Arrow knows Canary's blonde hair is actually a wig.
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Finger in the Mail / int_38662f0a	comment	In Escape from New York, a creepy punk taunts the government troops with the kidnapped President's severed finger.
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Finger in the Mail / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: Played for Laughs in "My White Whale". In a Cutaway Gag after Dr. Cox denies acting like a complete lunatic, doll enthusiast Dr. Norris receives a parcel containing the hand of a doll that went missing after he refused to break his schedule to look at Dr. Cox's son. Soon after, Dr. Cox reveals that the hand belongs to another doll—not the one that Dr. Norris is missing.
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Finger in the Mail / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Parodied in the printed precursor comic when Helix is kidnapped. Since he's a robot, his compatriots just reassemble him as the parts arrive in the mail. The last thing to arrive is his head. He then comments on his "rescue"◊. Given a more gruesome twist, because the scrap yard is regularly shipped junked robots, so no-one thinks twice about it.
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Finger in the Mail / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: In one of the quests for the Dark Brotherhood, the player is tasked with killing a recently retired commander of the Imperial Legion, and for a fat bonus, chopping off a finger and planting it in the desk of his successor as a warning.
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Finger in the Mail / int_441fc787	comment	In Copycat, Foley plants a severed finger under Helen's mattress as a warning/message.
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Finger in the Mail / int_46823c49	comment	Moriarty the Patriot: A brief Fingore moment appears when Milverton leaves a finger wearing a wedding ring with a note telling one of Whiteley's bodyguards he has his wife and child.
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Finger in the Mail / int_4737c653	comment	Elementary: In season one's "A Giant Gun Filled With Drugs," the daughter of Sherlock's former drug dealer is kidnapped and her finger is delivered to Sherlock's home as proof of life. Sherlock finds crumbs under the fingernail from food that's only available from a small number of take-out places in New York, information he uses to narrow down the potential locations she's being held in. In season two's "Ears to You", the husband of a woman who disappeared four years earlier receives a pair of ears in the mail. It turns out that the woman still lives and still has both her ears, despite them being a genetic and optical match for her. She staged her own disappearance/abduction and her accomplice is a surgeon who grafted a cartilage ear framework onto her back and later harvested it when the skin had properly grown in, thus providing her with suitably grisly mementos to mail for another ransom demand.
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Finger in the Mail / int_485c564	comment	In Guilded Age, the heroes come across a town seeking to fulfill quests, to build popular support for their attempt at forming an Adventurer's Guild. Expecting tough competition, they instead find, to their dismay, that no quests whatsoever have been fulfilled thanks to an ongoing war, and the bulletin is covered in unanswered behests. One involves a kidnapping, wherein the kidnapper promises to send a piece of their victim for every week their ransom remains unpaid. The bulletin in question had been up for several months by that point.
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Finger in the Mail / int_4885590d	comment	Forever Knight: The Head in a Box version occurs in "Ashes to Ashes". LaCroix's evil vampire daughter announces her presence to her father by leaving the decapitated corpse of the graverobber that unsealed her in the Raven's beer fridge. There's also a box which LaCroix warily opens...only to find his daughter's locket there. Then he removes the wrapping it's resting on and finds the head.
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Finger in the Mail / int_4dba172e	comment	In The Hitcher, the protagonist stops at a roadside diner to call the cops on the serial killer who's been pursuing him. The killer slips a human finger into a plate of fries the waitress brings him.
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Finger in the Mail / int_5251e609	comment	In Arkham Horror, Jenny Barne's Personal Story revolves around her search for her sister Isabelle. Should she fail, the flavor text reveals that she's received two envelopes of this nature: one containing a finger, the other a toe. A box on her doorstep implies a third delivery that makes Jenny cry out in horror...
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Finger in the Mail / int_542279b3	comment	Deadloch: The murdered men are always found with their tongues cut out. They are all Asshole Victims guilty of mistreating a woman in their life. As a twisted, egotistical gift, the killer places each victim's tongue in the freezer of his respective female abuse victim.
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Finger in the Mail / int_542eeb2d	comment	In Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers, Dragon's gang sends a finger to Rose after they abduct Gus. Rose is very confused when she realizes the finger they have sent is not Gus's.
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Finger in the Mail / int_5b8491b1	comment	In The Handbook of Heroes, when Wicked Uncle is holding Aristocrat prisoner, he cuts off one of her ears and sends it to the heroes along with his villainous ultimatum.
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Finger in the Mail / int_5c135763	comment	Revenge: In "Impetus," Charlotte has been kidnapped, and after Conrad disobeys instructions from the kidnapper, he receives a package including an ear and a video of Charlotte being beaten. The viewers know, but Conrad doesn't, that Charlotte is more or less fine; the video was faked and the ear taken from a random corpse in the morgue.
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Finger in the Mail / int_5f5ef0ef	comment	In Under Siege, Strannix recounts a tale of how he sent his CIA superior the fingers of two assassins who were sent to kill him.
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Finger in the Mail / int_6062ca75	comment	Firekeeper: Kidnappers send Citrine's fingers to Lady Melinda. Her only reaction is to burn them.
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Finger in the Mail / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: In "Wheels and the Legman and the Case of Grandpa's Key", Steve and Roger apparently get one of Stan's fingers in the mail. Subverted; it turned out it was a ruse by Stan and that the "finger" was really a mozzarella stick with the crumbs licked off.
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Finger in the Mail / int_624bc7d	comment	The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War: Khalid is taken by soldiers. Before they release him, they cut his hands off and leave them in a parcel for his family.
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Finger in the Mail / int_625e571	comment	Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Inverted/subverted in a season finale when Goren receives a human heart while investigating the death of his brother Frank and possible kidnapping of his nephew. Turns out it actually belongs to serial killer Nicole Wallace, who had killed Frank and was subsequently killed by Goren's unhinged mentor, who wanted to remove himself, Nicole and Frank from Goren's life in one fell swoop. In "Weeping Willow", the mutilation of an online celebrity's boyfriend via cutting off his ear happens on-camera to show that the kidnappers are serious.
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Finger in the Mail / int_65926abb	comment	Bernie Rhodenbarr: In The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, an envelope containing whiskers is stuffed into Carolyn's mailbox to prove that the kidnapper has her missing cat.
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Finger in the Mail / int_6a56fe43	comment	Pistolera: After they kidnap Rodrigo, Angel has Indio cut off Rodrigo's hand and send it to his father Raffaello as proof that they actually have his son.
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Finger in the Mail / int_6bcd58c7	comment	In Sin City, Hartigan gets a severed finger in the mail instead of his usual letter from Nancy. Junior couldn't find her, so he tricks Hartigan into tracking her down.
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Finger in the Mail / int_6cd3b44f	comment	In Black Lagoon, Balalaika has a yakuza boss who betrayed her killed and (offscreen) cut into pieces. She then sends a box containing some of the pieces back to his organization as a reminder that she's not to be trifled with.
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Finger in the Mail / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	In Myth-Inc Link, Skeeve receives a package containing a severed finger. Recognizing the ring it's wearing as one he'd foisted off on Queen Hemlock to force her to give up conquering the worldnote He gave her and King Roderick unremovable magic rings, claiming that if one wearer died, so would the other., he concludes that she cut it off to free herself from its magic and is once again a threat. At the end of the book, however, it's revealed that things aren't quite what they seem. The finger was Roderick's, and Hemlock sent it to Skeeve to tell him that she'd figured out the rings were just a bluff when Rod died of natural causes.
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Finger in the Mail / int_6fcf8703	comment	In The Perry Bible Fellowship, after the Candy King discovers a chocolate spy, he sends the Chocolate Kingdom a box containing the spy's "nut".
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Finger in the Mail / int_7013cf88	comment	In Apprentice Adept, the villains kidnap Clip, one of the protagonist's unicorn allies, and send him Clip's horn as proof. Clip is rescued, and the protagonist uses his magic to reattach the horn.
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Finger in the Mail / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Look: A recurring sketch involves two men who share an office, one of whom is a hostage negotiator.
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Finger in the Mail / int_786a5a97	comment	Chicago P.D.: In "Care Under Fire", a group of criminals abduct a boy and send his cut off ear to his father. It's also mentioned they cut off the finger of a previous victim they kidnapped.
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Finger in the Mail / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: In Batman: Dark Victory, someone steals the body of previous untouchable crime lord Big Bad Carmine Falcone (who was killed by Two Face in an attempt to "do what is necessary" to take down organized crime) and later sends his daughter, who has taken over the crime family, his finger, which her aide recognizes as an "old style message," meaning that someone means to take everything from her, "piece by piece." At the end, the person who stole the body is revealed to be Two Face who, throughout the story, was acting leading nearly all of Batman's rogues gallery to take down the Falcone family and its associates. The maniacal doctor Hush turns this around in one story by sending Batman the entirety of Catwoman... minus her heart. In one of the final Pre-Crisis stories, the Shrunken Head of a murder victim is sent to one of her friends by a psycho ax murderer who killed her out of jealousy.
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Finger in the Mail / int_7c73ade9	comment	In Karate a Muerte en Torremolinos, the villains send Chuk Lee's head to the mayor in a box.
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Finger in the Mail / int_7f2f55ad	comment	In The Punisher MAX's "Kitchen Irish" arc, Maginty kidnaps a rival gangster, has him extensively dismembered while he's still alive, and sends each piece in a separate package to his wife. We're shown all the gritty details, including Maginty furious about how much Fed Ex charges for same-day delivery. The wife isn't really fazed.
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Finger in the Mail / int_7f4df00c	comment	In China White, one of the Triad higher-ups is brutally killed, and his head is placed in a wrapped box to be sent back to his subordinates.
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Finger in the Mail / int_7fd269f7	comment	Sam & Cat: Parodied when Nora escapes from prison and kidnaps Dice in order to get revenge on Sam. She sends Sam a letter informing her that she has kidnapped Dice when Sam looks inside the envelope, she finds a piece of Dice's hair.
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Finger in the Mail / int_80942169	comment	Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Parodied when the school bully, Loomer, takes Ned's Life Science baby care project doll and sends it back piece by piece. A horrified Cookie exclaims, "What do we do now?" to which Ned smiles and replies, "Nothing." Backfires when the day before the babies are to be inspected, the teacher suddenly moves up the deadline and they still don't have the head. They get the head back in time but still fail the inspection because of the teeth marks left on one of the arms that had been hidden in a sandwich that Cookie was eating.
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Finger in the Mail / int_81202666	comment	In Chainsaw Man, when a yakuza boss won't tell Makima everything he knows about contracts with the Gun Devil, she counters with a paper bag full of eyeballs from the loved ones of all the gangsters present, claiming someone in Public Safety could put them back if they cooperate fully. The organization certainly has a lot of devils with strange powers like that, but we never find out if she's telling the truth.
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Finger in the Mail / int_8542de5c	comment	In All the Money in the World, a secretary receives J.P. Getty III's ear in the mail.
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Finger in the Mail / int_857a6a32	comment	Underground: When Lucy is kidnapped by Swanson and his men, her braided hair is cut off and left in a box for Robyn along with a note that he hopes she changes her mind.
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Finger in the Mail / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror: In "The National Anthem", the kidnapper mails the Princess' finger to the press after it is revealed that the PM is using a body double in a sex tape. However, forensic examination shows it's NOT the Princess's finger. In an appallingly extreme bluff, it's the kidnapper's.
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Finger in the Mail / int_8a27d31c	comment	October Daye: In One Salt Sea, Rayseline cuts off one of Dean Lorden's fingers and sends it to his parents in a box, presumably as a threat. The act ends up backfiring on her, though, because Patrick Lorden takes it to Toby at Connor's behest, and Toby uses the finger to ride Dean's blood, which helps her to figure out where Rayseline stashed him.
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Finger in the Mail / int_8cbe0b7c	comment	A Wolf Amongst Lions: A literal example, as Arya Stark is abducted by the Freys who send a warning to both the Starks and the Lannisters with the severed fingers of Arya and her brother. Tywin Lannister's response to his ward being taken and abused is to declare war on House Frey.
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Finger in the Mail / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: One investigation begins when a pair of eyeballs, mailed as a threat, is unwittingly sent to an address where the intended recipient wasn't even living anymore. The drug lords who take Gibbs hostage give him Mike Franks' finger, clearly wanting him to think Franks is dead. In a subversion, he isn't.
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Finger in the Mail / int_8d81f086	comment	In the Monk episode "Mr. Monk and the Kid", a kidnapper's plans start to go awry when a toddler wanders off with the severed pinkie finger meant to be left for the victim's family to find.
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Finger in the Mail / int_909622f4	comment	Arrow: Rebirth: The Huntsman sends Queen Consolidated a box which Oliver immediately recognizes as stinking of rotted flesh, so he prevents the courier from leaving so the police can question him about his client. The box contains the head of Felicity, which has an apple stuffed in its mouth.
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Finger in the Mail / int_90c014f5	comment	In The Works of Mercy, if the first prostitute isn't killed, the psychopath sends you your daughter's finger. Later, he sends a head.
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Finger in the Mail / int_9453927b	comment	Heat Guy J: A Corrupt Politician kills Ian when the latter is caught spying. The guy then cuts off Ian's hand (with his Phi Beta Kappa ring on the middle finger) and sends it to Ian's boss (and friend), who then declares war on the senator.
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Finger in the Mail / int_9518407	comment	CSI: Cyber: In "Python's Revenge", Avery gets sent a severed human head.
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Finger in the Mail / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals: Lampshaded in "First Night" when criminals kidnap a foreign dignitary for ransom, and one of them flat-out tells their hostage that they're willing to cut off his fingers if needed. Later as Cowley is briefing his minister, Bodie and Doyle inform him that a package from the kidnappers has been dropped off. In "Where the Jungle Ends", Bodie tells a Corrupt Corporate Executive that Doyle is a murderous psychopath who is holding his schoolgirl daughter hostage in the car outside, and if Bodie doesn't get the information he wants, he'll bring his daughter inside a piece at a time.
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Finger in the Mail / int_97d8ac3a	comment	In "Rogues in the House", Murilo is given a recognizable ear as a hint. That said, he admits he doesn't know if it's a hint he should flee the city as a fugitive, or that it's just a sign his upcoming execution for his not-yet-revealed treachery against the state. Either way, he decides not to wait and find out and chooses to break out Conan from prison to kill the cruel man who now holds his life in his hands.
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Finger in the Mail / int_98037c5	comment	In Quiller's Run, Quiller is played a wiretap recording of the villainess demanding his head. The Handler tries to make light of it. "Once you're dead, you won't care where the thing is." It's not an idle threat, as a previous agent had his head delivered in a box to his embassy. After Quiller bests a hitman who nearly takes his head off with a garotte, he's told there was a head-sized box with a plastic bag inside found in the hitman's car.
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Finger in the Mail / int_9bc9d7e3	comment	Slasher: Sarah receives a finger in the mail from the Executioner, belonging to Verna McBride, his first victim.
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Finger in the Mail / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: The Bloody Mummers cut off Jaime Lannister's sword hand, intending to send it to his father with a ransom demand. Ramsay Bolton sends flayed skin from Theon Greyjoy to a number of lords. His letter mentions the enclosed "piece of prince."
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Finger in the Mail / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: An invitation to one of Big Mom's tea parties is An Offer You Can't Refuse. If you do, the severed head of one of your friends or family members will be mailed to you.
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Finger in the Mail / int_a06bda3a	comment	In Paid in Full, Mitch's son Sonny is taken hostage by his uncle Ice and an accomplice named Tommy. As told in a scene with Mitch explaining the event, he found an envelope in the morning containing Sonny's severed finger.
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Finger in the Mail / int_a16f899a	comment	In The Decorator, Fandorin, who is hunting a Serial Killer, gets a severed ear in the mail. It turns out to be a prank.
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Finger in the Mail / int_a309575c	comment	Jonathan Creek: In "Angel Hair", a kidnapper sends a tuft of hair to the hostage's lover. (Kind of...the hair and the kidnapping itself were completely staged, in an attempt to make the hostage look as though she were faking her own kidnapping in order to extort money out of her married lover. The hair ends up being a major continuity problem for the person pulling the strings, as the woman is in a hair-pulling Cat Fight just before the actors grab her and cut her hair off, making it seem like she's grown a full head of hair back in a matter of seconds.).
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Finger in the Mail / int_a3748187	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: When the assassination branch of the Passione mafia tries to discover their boss's identity so they can kill him and take over, the boss sends them a message to back off by killing one of them, chopping him into pieces, and mailing his entire body preserved in blocks of formalin to the rest of the squad for them to reassemble like a grisly puzzle straight out of Damien Hirst's gallery.
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Finger in the Mail / int_a49a890c	comment	Preacher: In an early comic, the police ask the bereaved to ID the body part. "Is this your husband's scrotum?"
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Finger in the Mail / int_ab9e04fe	comment	A Life Less Ordinary: Referenced when incompetent kidnapper Robert asks his victim what he's supposed to do next. Celine tells him about the last time she was kidnapped, when she was 12.
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Finger in the Mail / int_abd777f2	comment	Princess Celestia Gets Mugged: The Stupid Crooks who kidnap a disguised Princess Celestia originally planned on doing this to 'Sunny Skies' with her ear, but ultimately don't have it in them to do it and decide to use her tail and mane instead.
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Finger in the Mail / int_acdd0ac6	comment	Theatre of Blood: After cutting out Dickman's heart (and ensuring that it weighs exactly one pound), Edward Lionheart mails it to Devlin in a gift-wrapped box.
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Finger in the Mail / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: Parodied in the "Happy Smile Patrol" skit. When a white supremacist gang takes a church group hostage, the news reports states that, without making any demands, they've "begun sending fingers and ears to authorities."
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Finger in the Mail / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Subverted; Ramsay Bolton sends King Balon Greyjoy the severed penis of his captured son Theon. As pointed out by Ramsay's father Roose, this is rather Stupid Evil, as it means Theon is now useless as an heir and therefore no longer worth ransoming.
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Finger in the Mail / int_b7b5e290	comment	Deryni: In The Bishop's Heir, Loris sends Kelson Bishop Henry Istelyn's finger (still wearing his bishop's ring) in a show of defiance. Istelyn's head later follows.
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Finger in the Mail / int_b9f400c8	comment	Gigli: Louis orders Larry and Ricki to send the DA one of his kidnapped brother's thumbs. However, they find themselves unable to go through with it, so they break into a hospital morgue and cut a thumb off a random corpse in his place. Their plan backfires when the authorities receiving the digit are able to identify the thumbprint and confirm it's not Bobby's, which infuriates Mr. Starkman.
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Finger in the Mail / int_ba9a9454	comment	Se7en: At the end, a package is received from the captured Serial Killer containing the head of his latest victim — Mills' wife.
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Finger in the Mail / int_bf3a0285	comment	Without a Trace: After a man is kidnapped and his wife tries to deliver the ransom, she comes back with his severed finger, claiming the kidnappers want more money and cut his finger off to demonstrate how serious they are. It turns out the wife engineered the whole thing and told the kidnappers to do it to make the story more plausible. In another episode, the agents discover that their Victim of the Week was kidnapped by a "coyote" (someone who's paid to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country), whose trademark is to cut off the victim's ear as a warning to those who can't pay him.
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Finger in the Mail / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: In the "Meet the Director" comic, Soldier was mailed a head in a package, to show his head collection had been taken hostage.
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Finger in the Mail / int_c2297a9c	comment	The Judge Dredd story arc "Origins" begins with a small box containing a ransom note and a sample of living tissue belonging to Judge Fargo, the first Chief Judge of Mega-City One and the founder of the Judge system, being delivered to the Hall of Justice.
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Finger in the Mail / int_c2b149a1	comment	In American Psycho, when Patrick Bateman is listing his priorities before Christmas, one of them is "saw a hardbody's head off and Federal Express it to Robin Barker â€“ the dumb bastard â€“ over at Salomon Brothers".
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Finger in the Mail / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos", the Big Bad, who has Paltraki's crew as hostages, threatens the ship captain that he will teleport them onto Paltraki's ship, piece by piece, unless Paltraki cooperates.
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Finger in the Mail / int_c961059a	comment	In Limitless, the main character is sent a box containing the severed hands of his own bodyguards to let him know that they've been taken out and he has no protection.
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Finger in the Mail / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: One episode features a man who found the cut off index finger of his mistress in her apartment. Later, they find the body and it is revealed that it was the man himself who had killed her. To avoid suspicion of the murder, he staged it as a kidnapping gone wrong.
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Finger in the Mail / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: The Season 1 finale features a variation on this trope; SSA Jason Gideon receives, at his cottage, a baseball card and a head in a box via courier, which sets the BAU's targets on this new case. "Rock Creek Park" has the wife of an up-and-coming senator kidnapped for ransom. While it remains ambiguous for a while whether the ransomers actually have her, they eventually send her ear in the mail, which her husband identifies thanks to the earring it's wearing.
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Finger in the Mail / int_cdae0b41	comment	Forever: One episode begins with a detective receiving a human heart in the mail.
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Finger in the Mail / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: In a story that followed The Death of Clark Kent, Clark receives a letter from Conduit (a fierce enemy of his who died in the previous arc) saying, "The Golden Gopher was mine!" that also contains a lock of Jimmy Olsen's hair. This instantly sends Clark flying off to the address indicated by the note, which was what Conduit wanted, as he had set up a Dead Man's Switch to kill Jimmy after his death (and, if possible, Superman as well). In The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Superman frankly tells Batman that if he pulls a repeat of the incident, which involved deliberately allowing the Joker to threaten Metropolis to gauge his response, next time Joker is returning to Gotham in matchboxes.
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Finger in the Mail / int_d0090a20	comment	In Batman: Dark Victory, someone steals the body of previous untouchable crime lord Big Bad Carmine Falcone (who was killed by Two Face in an attempt to "do what is necessary" to take down organized crime) and later sends his daughter, who has taken over the crime family, his finger, which her aide recognizes as an "old style message," meaning that someone means to take everything from her, "piece by piece." At the end, the person who stole the body is revealed to be Two Face who, throughout the story, was acting leading nearly all of Batman's rogues gallery to take down the Falcone family and its associates.
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Finger in the Mail / int_d063ec3b	comment	The Blair Witch Project has a variation of this when Josh's blood-soaked hair and teeth are left outside Heather's tent, packed in sticks wrapped with scraps of his shirt.
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Finger in the Mail / int_d1c816ca	comment	The Daltons parodies this trope. The Daltons kidnap Rantanplan as part of their escape plan and...cut some fur from his head and send it to the director. The guards and Miss Betty scream. The director tells them that it's just fur.
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Finger in the Mail / int_d2f4b8ae	comment	Battle Angel Alita: Alita shows up at Desty Nova's lab looking for her foster father, Ido. When she demands that Desty tell her where he is, he casually tosses her a head-sized metal box and tells her to take a look for herself.
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Finger in the Mail / int_d4efb984	comment	The Golden Girls: In one episode, the girls' young neighbor Daisy holds Rose's teddy bear for ransom. At one point, Blanche receives one of his ears in the mail.
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Finger in the Mail / int_d4fe0152	comment	Oz: African-American inmate Johnny Post kills Italian inmate Dino Ortolani on the orders of Homeboys leader Jefferson Keane. In retaliation, the Italians dismember Post and send Keane his penis in a box. The actual fingers arriving in the mail were previously attached to Beecher's kidnapped son. Jason Cramer's crime flashback shows that he was arrested after he attempted to send a package containing the decapitated head of his lover (to where he was trying to have it sent isn't clear) and the clerk noticed blood seeping from the box.
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Finger in the Mail / int_d5d98e35	comment	Police Squad!: Frank Drebin and his fellow detectives tell the mother of a kidnapped young lady about a similar case they had in which the victim's ear was cut off and mailed to her parents. The story, naturally, horrifies the woman, especially as they prattle on about the possibility. In another episode, mobsters have kidnapped a boxer's girlfriend to make him throw a fight. They start by showing a few of the normal items which he dismisses, then they show him her toaster! (complete with toast popping up). During the fight, he checks the crowd and the mob's man is sitting there with her clothes dryer, and he keeps displaying household items up to an entire washing machine.
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Finger in the Mail / int_dc3ba20f	comment	In Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf, the people who kidnapped the prize dog of a Rich Bitch mail her a box full of said dog's fur. This also doubles as a way to hide it in the kennel it was being kept at.
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Finger in the Mail / int_df49d104	comment	Millennium (1996): The serial killer variation shows up when a sinister figure known as "the Judge" has criminals committing vigilante killings and mailing body parts to the victims' victims. For instance, a builder whose shoddy workmanship killed someone has his hand cut off.
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Finger in the Mail / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: Parodied at the end of the Strong Bad Email "cliffhangers", which ends on an actual cliffhanger when Strong Bad's Lappy gets stolen, and the Lappy-nappers leave a ransom note with her "little toe" (the comma key from Lappy's keyboard) attached.
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Finger in the Mail / int_e32a2c32	comment	In the House of M tie-in issue of Black Panther, Magneto has Sabretooth teleported into Wakanda to assassinate T'Challa. T'Challa cuts Sabretooth's head off and sends it back to Magneto in a box.
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Finger in the Mail / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: In "War Stories", Niska offers Zoe either Malcolm or Washburn in exchange for ransom and Zoe picks Wash. Niska then declares the money to be "too much" and gives her Malcolm's ear as a "small refund."
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Finger in the Mail / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The B-plot of "A Fistful of Meg" revolves around Peter using his naked body to harass and disgust Brian. One of the things he does is cut off his penis and mail it to Brian. After laughing, Peter asks to have it back, then collapses from blood loss.
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Finger in the Mail / int_ea787cd1	comment	In one Forgotten Realms novel, the crimelord who has the halfling Regis captive has one of his men give Drizzt and friends (out to save Regis) a package when they reach his city: a halfling's severed finger. Not only is it from Regis, the crimelord does it again as they're breaking into his lair.
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Finger in the Mail / int_ec02633a	comment	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: In the Blood & Wine DLC, the vampire Dettlaff van der Eretein is blackmailed into assassinating five men, and warned that "If you do not succeed, instead of the next letter you will receive a finger of your beloved."
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Finger in the Mail / int_eda8ee1a	comment	In A New World, the Lunarians send a group of messengers to bargain with Gensokyo's powers, hoping they will all fall into line and allow them a clear shot at Eientei. While all negotiations end in catastrophic failure, the Scarlet Devil Mansion takes special care in sending back an appropriate response that includes the ears of the messenger.
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Finger in the Mail / int_ee848ba9	comment	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Subverted, as it turns out the kidnapping was staged, and the body part belonged to somebody else (the "kidnapper" was working at a job that gave him access to dead bodies).
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Finger in the Mail / int_eef69f10	comment	The Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" has a pair of ears placed in a box but delivered to the wrong person.
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Finger in the Mail / int_f655ed11	comment	In Frasier, when Niles is taking care of a sack of flour as though it were a child, he tells Frasier about his nightmares where the sack of flour is kidnapped and he starts receiving muffins in the mail.
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Finger in the Mail / int_f6b81a0e	comment	Criminal Case: Grimsborough: Case #20 opens with the player character receiving a severed finger mailed to them at the police station.
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Finger in the Mail / int_f99c3ee	comment	Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: In a long-since-deleted video advertising the show's Kickstarter campaign, the Money Monster holding the trio hostage is shown placing the Duck's eye, the Red Guy's ear, and the Yellow Guy's finger into an envelope on which he then writes "YOU" in blood.
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Finger in the Mail / int_fd8ca1b3	comment	The New Avengers: In "Hostage", the kidnappers send Steed a lock of Purdey's hair with a warning that worse is to follow if Steed does not obey their instructions.
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Finger in the Mail / int_fe94578f	comment	Alex Rider: In Ark Angel, Alex swaps rooms with a friend he made in hospital to protect him from kidnappers (the friend's father is rich). When they catch Alex and decide to send one of his fingers to his "father", Alex panics and confesses. He later learns that the entire kidnapping was masterminded by the friend's dad, including this part.
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Finger in the Mail / int_ff59942a	comment	In Seven Murders for Scotland Yard, the murderer sends Inspector Campbell the head of one of his victims (minus her eyes) in the mail.
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Magic Powder (Comic Book) / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Sin City (Comic Book) / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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All the Money in the World / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Copycat / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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Joy Ride / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Man on Fire / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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Trust / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Van der Valk / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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What Remains of Edith Finch (Video Game) / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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The Handbook of Heroes (Webcomic) / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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Mary and Max / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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101 Dalmatian Street / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
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