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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene

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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene	comment	Alice gets home after a long day. Just as she makes herself comfortable, the doorbell rings. Suddenly the scene jumps to Bob and Claire, who are talking about how they haven't seen Alice this morning. Suddenly the audience realizes that it's the next morning, and we never found out who was at the door. Will Bob and Claire now have to investigate Alice's murder? Or is it all a Red Herring? Often part of a Cold Opening or used as a way of setting up a case of Not Quite Dead. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This has become almost a staple of murder mysteries, especially in Live-Action TV shows like Diagnosis: Murder and Monk.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You has several instances where it jumps to the next day and only later flashes back to what happened in the previous day. Particularly confusing due to the fact that the nature of the Game means that days normally end in the same abrupt manner.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_21317f86	comment	Grindhouse: Death Proof, which has a 'missing reel' that makes it ambiguous as to whether Butterfly gives Stuntman Mike a promised lap dance. This was inspired by an unintentional version of the trope that Quentin Tarantino's encountered while viewing an Italian crime movie. A missing reel of the film made it ambiguous as to whether Oliver Reed had slept with the girl. In the scenes afterwards, Reed says he did, but the girl says he didn't. The other half of the feature, Planet Terror, played it gloriously straight with a reel that was never shot. The film cuts from El Wray and Cherry starting to have sex, says "MISSING REEL", and when it cuts back, everything is on fire and we'll never know why. We'll also never know just who El Wray really is and why the police chief suddenly has the utmost respect for him.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_261c8d3f	comment	Lampshaded in The Simpsons episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken". Homer is asked about what he did the previous night. We see his memory of the event as a sepia-toned silent movie, with the parts he forgot due to being drunk replaced with a title card labeled "SCENE MISSING".
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_2d1537ff	comment	Home and Away has used this, with the audience never being quite sure about certain things such as Hugo's role in the 2009 mystery, or what the hell actually happened at the Sands on the night Penn died (assuming British viewers have caught up, here's one for those just starting to watch the week of this writing: Will killed him in self-defence after he threatened Shandi/Daria). They usually accomplish this by showing another storyline that ties into the characters involved in the scene.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_3791b1a4	comment	In Cold Blood starts with the murderers arriving at the farmhouse, then jumps to the aftermath. The central mystery of the book isn't "Who killed the victims?" but "Why were they killed?"
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development likes to do this on occasion, especially in season 4. More often seen is a similar trick where a scene appears to be complete, only for a later episode to reveal that something significant happened right after the apparent end of the scene, or even reveal that the scene itself was manipulatively edited to hide something in the middle of it.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Who killed Kaji?
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck likes to show scenes in whatever order seems most dramatically convenient. It often leads to the narrator lampshading how we're DEFINITELY going to see what's coming next.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_51ba977e	type	Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_51ba977e	comment	The PC version of Clue: Master Detective started with a still cutscene of Mr. Boddy alive in his chair. There is a blackout signifying an unknown amount of time passing and then we see Mr. Boddy dead in his chair. Makes one wonder as to how the "where the murder occurred" part of the mystery fits in....
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Clue (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_51ba977e
Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_5ce26289	type	Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_5ce26289	comment	Fleep plays with the reader by cutting from the initial shot of the protagonist entering a phone booth and him waking up in another phone booth surrounded by concrete. As it turns out, that interval is a lot longer than you might expect...
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_72262aee	type	Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender does this when the Kyoshi Warriors encounter Azula and her friends. We don't find out what happens to them until over halfway through the next season.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_741e3a46	type	Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_741e3a46	comment	The other half of the feature, Planet Terror, played it gloriously straight with a reel that was never shot. The film cuts from El Wray and Cherry starting to have sex, says "MISSING REEL", and when it cuts back, everything is on fire and we'll never know why. We'll also never know just who El Wray really is and why the police chief suddenly has the utmost respect for him.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_8b8ce8ce	comment	The House of the Dead: OVERKILL, wearing its inspiration from Grindhouse on its sleeve, has a similar sequence near the end, where Isaac Washington and Agent G both solemnly prepare to do battle with the Final Boss... then one MISSING REEL later, the two of them are standing outside the burning laboratory, remarking how convenient it was they just happened to find those gatling guns. Then they fight the Final Boss for real. (The "Director's Cut" version later adds the supposed missing sequence back in.)
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_a03f4784	comment	In The Kiss, Charles has just caught Pierre kissing Charles's wife Irene. Charles seems to be about to beat Pierre to death, Irene is trying to pull Charles off of Pierre, the door swings shut, and a shot rings out. We don't find out how Charles got shot until the end.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage uses this trick to hide some of the crew's cleverer preparations: the audience usually isn't let in on the entire scheme until it actually goes down, when the missing steps are revealed in flashbacks. Veteran viewers will have little trouble identifying the moments when someone in the crew is doing SOMETHING that is part of the unrevealed plan (ex: Sophie borrowing someone's coat, Hardison working on some random little device, etc) but it's not always possible to tell how the pieces all fit together until the end.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_bf3a0285	comment	Without a Trace does this to set up every episode. The episode always begins with the last time that a witness saw the missing person. The detectives generally spend the rest of the episode trying to understand the victim and fill in the timeline after that.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_c0b9fa2a	type	Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_c0b9fa2a	comment	Death Proof, which has a 'missing reel' that makes it ambiguous as to whether Butterfly gives Stuntman Mike a promised lap dance. This was inspired by an unintentional version of the trope that Quentin Tarantino's encountered while viewing an Italian crime movie. A missing reel of the film made it ambiguous as to whether Oliver Reed had slept with the girl. In the scenes afterwards, Reed says he did, but the girl says he didn't.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_e5feb1e	comment	A few Ace Attorney cases start this way, featuring stills of two characters talking and the insinuation that action occurs, but no identification of the speakers or display of the murder itself. Others involve a relatively coherent scene, but the criminal is shrouded in shadows and unidentifiable—and due to the text-based nature of the game, identification by voice is also impossible.
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_ef627676	type	Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene / int_ef627676	comment	Parodied in "The Macbeth Murder Mystery" by James Thurber. An experienced consumer of detective novels, on reading Macbeth for the first time, notes that if a character is set up with a motive for murder and then shown going to commit the murder, but the action cuts away without actually showing the murder, it always turns out it was someone else who did it.
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