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The police are questioning a witness. The detective asks for a specific detail, such as the date of a past event or the name of a suspect. This is not something a witness would be likely to remember with precision. However, the witness does remember, exactly and with certainty. Before we can raise an eyebrow, he explains why he remembers. It turns out he has some connection to the name, date, or other information. The suspect had the same name as the witness's father, or the date was his daughter's birthday. This is essentially a Hand Wave. It saves everyone the trouble of long, boring scenes where witnesses consult their calendars, go through receipts, or any of the other activities one might do in real life to reconstruct such details. On occasion, though, the witness's offhand statement turns out to be a clue, or sets off a "Eureka!" Moment. Standard in the Police Procedural. |
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Parodied in a Far Side cartoon — a woman points out a man in a police line-up, saying "That's him! That's the one! I'd remember that dinky little hat anywhere!" The man in question is twice the size of everyone else, with three eyes and a trunk. | |
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Suits: Five years after Daniel Hardman met with his mistress at a hotel, the staff still remember him due to how cheaply he tipped them. | |
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In the Ellery Queen pilot movie, a bartender cites several reasons he remembers when a particular customer had an alibi visiting his bar on a particular night (he was late to work that day because it was his granddaughter's birthday, the suspect made a large donation to a charity box while collecting his change, and they left together while the bartender was stepping out to get a newspaper right after it was delivered). | |
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In The Love Boat episode "Aunt Hilly," Vicki's titular rich aunt can't remember her son's birthday more specifically than "April or May," which she only remembers because his birth interrupted a social function. | |
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In Slumdog Millionaire, the main character is able to answer the gameshow's trivia questions because most of the answers directly relate to memorable events in his life. | |
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In Star Wars: Allegiance a young captured pirate says this phrase, but the stormtroopers who captured him don't care why he remembers which day it had been, so they cut him off. | |
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In an (in)famous episode of The Practice a witness on the stand Remembered Because she was about to go inside to watch Boston Public at the time - both produced by David E. Kelley. Infamous because earlier that same season there was a Crossover between the two shows, despite them being on different Networks. | |
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In My Cousin Vinny, one of the witnesses testifies that the two yootsnote I'm sorry, the two youths took five minutes in the store because he was cooking his breakfast when they went in and eating when the gun shots were heard. Vinny discredits this because he learned earlier it takes twenty minutes to cook grits properly. | |
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Seinfeld: In "The Library," Jerry claims that he did return a decades-overdue library book, saying the event is burned into his memory because he was on a great date at the time. It turns out that he actually returned a different book with a similar title. | |
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A variant in Bad Boys (1995): "Did you hear what I said? I heard what I said, 'cause I was standing there when I said it." | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: In "What Lies Buried", despite being a Scatter Brained Senior, former Chief Inspector Stockton remembers his last meeting with Constable Finch (who vanished mysteriously before his dead body is found about 20 years later) because he was in a hurry to get to his anniversary party and told Finch that whatever he had to say would have to wait until after Stockton got back. | |
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87th Precinct: In Ghosts, a bartender remembers a suspect was drinking at the bar during the murder because, right around that time, another customer did a drunken striptease and the suspect gave the bartender a $5 tip and made a joke about the floor show. | |
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No Ordinary Family: George remembers the murder of the gun-wielding vigilante's son from "No Ordinary Vigilante" because it happened during his first week on the job. | |
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An episode of Monk has a competitive eating champion who tells Stottlemeyer and Disher that an all you can eat buffet he was at at the time of the crime can back him up because: "Oh, they'll remember me." | |
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Used regularly in the Law & Order franchise. For example, In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Brotherhood", guest characters Nathan and Alicia's alibi, a movie date, checks out because a theater employee remembers Alicia's pink hair. | |
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Back to the Future Part II: In a Deleted Scene, the historical preservation society member says that he remembers the day lightning struck the clock tower because it was also the same day that Biff Tannen stiffed him out of a repair bill for cleaning a truckload of manure out of Biff's car. | |
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Parodied, like so much else, in Clue. As he recounts the night's events, Wadsworth suddenly pauses and answers the question that absolutely nobody was asking. | |
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Without a Clue: Kincaid asks a dockworker why he specifically remembers Giles renting a boat and is told that Giles (or rather the man impersonating him) had a suitcase chained to his wrist and kept complaining about the weight. This turns out to have been done to make a deliberate impression for a Death Faked for You gambit. | |
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The Boys from Brazil: The adoption agent who placed the baby Hitler clones with unsuspecting families has difficulty remembering their names years later, but does vividly remember one family who gave her a puppy out of gratitude for helping them get a child. | |
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In an episode of CSI, a man can recall the exact time he heard something suspicious due to having rented a porno pay-per-view movie scheduled to start at that time. | |
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Criminal Minds: In "Paradise", the proprietor of a popular diner where two victims stopped at says that with the number of customers she has, they would have had to be "doing cartwheels on fire" to make an impression. However, she does in fact remember them because Mr. Sanders gave her a $10.00 tip two visits in a row. A witness to a plane crash remembers the exact time he saw a streak of light (presumably a missile of some sort) go into the sky because his favorite show had just started and the intro was playing. |
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John Putnam Thatcher: In Come to Dust, a witness to a hit-and-run remembers three digits of the license plate because they match his own. In Going for the Gold, Thatcher questions how an extremely busy salesgirl can remember a transaction involving a fake check five days after it happened. |
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The reason of having heard something suspicious while a scheduled porn movie is starting is used in an episode of Veronica Mars. | |
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Can be played for comedy, too. On Friends, Monica tells Joey that Chandler met a woman named Ginger. "I remember because when he told me, I said "the movie star." In another episode, Monica remembers precisely what time she ran into Richard despite claiming she's not still in love with him, because she'd been arguing with a clerk over whether or not a movie was late at the time. |
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Hill Street Blues: A court witness with transactional immunity (meaning he couldn't be prosecuted for any crimes related to his testimony) when asked why he was so sure about a date said "because that was the same day I killed a cop." | |
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Cold Case: For a show that depends almost entirely on witness statements dating back as early as 1919, they really don't rely on this as much as you'd think. Someone who claims not to remember something unremarkable that happened 20 years ago is almost certainly lying. That said, they do put forth the effort every so often. In an early episode, Lilly fully expects a witness not to remember anything specific about the date a girl her boyfriend might have known was killed, but she remembers exactly where she was because she was losing her virginity to said boyfriend at the time. Subverted. She and the boyfriend killed the girl together. Season 6 has episodes where the victim was killed during the first moon landing ("One Small Step") and the day JFK was assassinated ("November 22"). |
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