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The Stakeout

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The Stakeout	comment	A character, group of characters or organization wants to solve a mystery, catch a criminal, or put a controversy to rest, and they decide the only way to solve it is to pack up and set up a hidden observation post at a location where they believe something of interest will occur, such as their opponent's headquarters, in hope of finding a critical clue. Often they will go to extreme lengths to find just one critical clue. Almost invariably, there's a risk that someone will find out about the operation and blow the observers' cover, and all their efforts will be ruined... or worse. Usually, it's The Hero's True Companions who are doing this, but occasionally a villain will use a stakeout, often to find a weakness in their intended victim's security, or reveal the hero's Secret Identity. And stakeouts happen in Real Life, typically by law enforcement or spies, though probably not as often as in fiction. Generally, to be a stakeout, the following conditions must be met: The characters are watching one or more locations. The characters involved in the operation must hide the fact that they are doing it from someone (or something) else. They don't have to be hidden in a camouflaged spy van or a rented empty building near their target. Indeed, they might be standing on the street, but if they aren't hidden, they're disguised or have a cover story. The purpose of a stakeout is to gather intelligence. If the purpose is to set up a hidden trap ajd attack them, that's an Inescapable Ambush. If the purpose is to trick someone into revealing (or doing) something he wouldn't have otherwise, it's a sting. Of course, there's no reason a stakeout can't become a starting point for a sting or ambush operation. Super-Trope to Spies In a Van. Often leads to "Rear Window" Investigation & We Wait. Stakeouts are a fairly universal trope. Common in Detective Drama, they are also found in many other genres including adventure, comedy, and even fantasy. TV shows almost always include this trope during an episode that parodies a cop or detective show. Since it can be a case of Truth in Television, it's an appropriate plot point for shows that are on the realistic end of the Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic — but it's also a strategy that might believably still work even in Cloudcuckooland. It's simply applying the idea of being in the right place at the right time in a systematic way. Any character with the patience and self control, and sometimes the stealth and courage, has at least a small chance of being able to pull off a stakeout caper successfully. It's also easily Played for Drama or Played for Laughs. Usually the question of importance to the plot is not the morality of subjecting someone to such scrutiny, but whether the team will be able to get anything useful before they're stopped by the opposing side, the press, the neighbors, or their own superiors. At any moment, they might find or miss something important or their cover might be blown. The characters' lives, careers, and reputations, or the lives of innocents, might be on the line if they're caught or the stakeout proves useless. Having a group of characters stuck in one spot maintaining The Masquerade that nothing unusual is going on is a great opportunity for dialog, character introduction, or character development. It's also a great opportunity for a moment of subtle humor to relieve the tension. This trope provides plenty of opportunities for the writers to prolong the drama with dramatic or humorous sidestories. Among the more commonly seen: If the stakeout lasts for more than a couple days, the group will often add more personnel or equipment as time goes by. If a well-funded agency, that will often include wiretaps, hidden cameras, telescopes, laser-triggered alarms, etc., all to watch their "opponent". They start snacking, and run out of food, so one character is sent to get more. The others complain about the food. They get into a debate over something. It's at that moment one of them notices that for once something is happening and tells the others to be quiet. They temporarily end up spying on someone involved in something titillating but either completely unrelated or only peripherally related to the overall mission. If The Hero is spying on a particularly sympathetic relatively innocent person or Anti-Villain, it's likely they'll end up working together later, or else their "victim" will turn out to be a Not-So-Harmless Villain. The group decides that just watching isn't enough, resulting in a "Rear Window" Investigation. It turns out that another group is conducting their own stakeout on the same targets. Expect the two groups to clash at some point. Another common result is for one or more of the heroes to be discovered and captured by the villains they are spying on, precipitating the crisis that was delayed during the stakeout.
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The Stakeout / int_29516906	comment	Showed up from time to time on Dragnet. It was once played for laughs when Officer Gannon started talking about the physical effects he always got with stakeouts - headaches, upset stomach, etc.
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The Stakeout / int_2dd541a8	comment	Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew. An ICE agent is sent to watch Count Contini's mansion to determine whether he was involved in the gold heist.
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The Stakeout / int_2e4dbe3c	comment	In That Darn Cat!, police end up setting up a secret base in a suburban attic and bugging a housecat in their desperation for a clue.
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The Stakeout / int_2f48d788	comment	Breaking and Entering (2006): After Will and Sandy's offices are repeatedly burgled, the two wait outside in a car at night. Sandy gives up after the cleaning lady spots them and yells at them for spying on her, but Will keeps it up until he spots Miro, the burglar, in the act.
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The Stakeout / int_3efdce9	comment	Edgedancer (a novella of The Stormlight Archive): Lift and Wyndle hide and observe the house of a woman whom they gave an information the man they're trying to find wants so that she might be their bait. To Wyndle's astonishment, he shows up after a few hours.
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The Stakeout / int_41b0198a	comment	Harry and Murphy of The Dresden Files do this at one point. Given the work, it almost goes without saying that it's played for laughs. Harry, due to total lack of practicing this skill, is bad at it.
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The Stakeout / int_447d7b82	comment	Sharky's Machine. In both the film and novel Vice Squad cop Sharky has a High-Class Call Girl under surveillance, finds himself falling for her, and is driven to investigate her murder when she's killed right in the middle of his stakeout even though there's nothing he could have done to prevent it.
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The Stakeout / int_44e08ee8	comment	A Homicide: Life on the Street fourth season episode - called, naturally, "Stakeout" - has the Homicide unit working in shifts over the course of a couple of days to stake out the house of a Serial Killer, waiting for him to return home.
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The Stakeout / int_49340431	comment	Frequently in Brooklyn Nine-Nine as it's a police procedural. A notable episode, actually titled Stakeout, is about Jake and Charles getting on each others nerves after insisting that they could do an eight day stakeout without a relief team.
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The Stakeout / int_546876cb	comment	Sonic goes on one with Vector in one episode of Sonic Boom while trying to find Amy's missing hammer. They end up making a funny meta joke on how stakeouts are depicted in the media:
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The Stakeout / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: When investigating chances that Kanji is about to be the next victim of the Midnight Channel, the Investigation Team decided to have one stakeout.
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The Stakeout / int_5e3f6639	comment	Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. Sousuke, with the help of Kyoko, calls for a stakeout when Kaname goes on a date with an old classmate.
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The Stakeout / int_6505f7f3	comment	Molly of Denali: In "A Sound Idea," Molly drags Tooey, Trini, and Oscar on a midnight stakeout to find the source of a strange noise. It was a porcupine.
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The Stakeout / int_691be369	comment	Mulder and Scully and other FBI agents on The X-Files sometimes were on a stake-out duty. The examples include "Squeeze" when the FBI do stakeouts of the murder sites where a serial killer might re-appear, and then Mulder orders a stake-out of Tooms's building. In its sequel "Tooms", Mulder follows the eponymous mutant serial killer; the episode has a very sweet bonding scene between the agents in their car. "Eve" had Mulder keeping an eye on one of the girls, as they were expecting her abduction.
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The Stakeout / int_723e2d04	comment	To Live and Die in L.A.. The protagonists fall asleep while staking out an associate of their target, so they completely miss the Big Bad walking in and murdering the man.
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The Stakeout / int_74f1eb4c	comment	Sneakers. The protagonists do this at least twice: when trying to find out where Dr. Janek keeps his black box decoder, and when trying to find out where the decoder is being kept in the toy company.
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The Stakeout / int_761d5076	comment	All the police do in Oscar until the climax.
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The Stakeout / int_7884ec15	comment	An early episode of Seinfeld had Jerry and George staking out the law firm of a woman Jerry had met at a party so Jerry could stage a Meet Cute with her and get a chance to see her again.
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The Stakeout / int_7b4faca5	comment	Par for the course for the characters in Deka Wanko, considering they're all police detectives.
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The Stakeout / int_7e88ac08	comment	The Equalizer. The episode "Beyond Control" had this lovely exchange between the title character and his younger associate Mickey Kostmayer.
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The Stakeout / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS has had stakeouts on several occasions. At least once, Tony has made a reference to the film Stakeout. On another occasion, they did a stakeout of what turned out to be another stakeout.
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The Stakeout / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk played it for laughs in "Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa" when Natalie complains about how long they'd been on a stakeout. Monk tells her that is what makes it fun; you never know how long it will take.
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The Stakeout / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Some episodes of Recess have TJ and the gang doing this trope, whether its regarding the teachers or even one of their own (the latter only in extreme cases). This also applies in The Movie School's Out when a group of terrorists take over the school.
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The Stakeout / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals. The episode "Stakeout" has Bodie and Doyle staking out a bowling alley because it's somehow connected with a conspiracy to build a nuclear weapon. They run through the expected distractions and red herring suspects before nailing down the real culprits. In other episodes it's usually accompanied by Naughty Birdwatching as our heroes try to alleviate their boredom.
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The Stakeout / int_9888e7c2	comment	In "Dan Vs. the Wolf Man", Dan and Chris set up a stakeout for the eponymous creature, and argue over why Dan bought coffee from the store when he hates coffee, which eventually leads back to the belief that if you're going to perform a stakeout, it necessitates a "styrofoam cup of joe".
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The Stakeout / int_9ff6be21	comment	The Killer (2023) opens with the protagonist staking out the love nest of his target from an office he's rented across the street, having waited days for him to show. It's twenty minutes into the movie before he finally gets a shot at the target.
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The Stakeout / int_a61f9bc6	comment	The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone has an unusual example of this for multiple reasons. A villain has his two henchmen spy on a kid, who is the son of an archeologist, believing he will lead them to a magic medallion. They hang out around his house and secretly record his conversations in the hopes of learning information, and they ultimately get it.
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The Stakeout / int_ab60e67e	comment	In Origin Story, Alex watches the door to John Leslie's workplace, hoping to ambush the Hydra agent so the renegade Avengers can interrogate him as to the drugging of Carol Danvers.
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The Stakeout / int_ac0e430e	comment	At least once, Tony has made a reference to the film Stakeout.
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The Stakeout / int_af3c88ad	comment	In the Cormoran Strike Novels, this is a fairly common thing that Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott do as part of their job. The realistic way in which it's presented is one of the ways the series shows the gritty, sometimes unglamorous side of detective work.
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The Stakeout / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Meet the Sniper has a fast-forward montage of the Sniper on one, downing thermos bottles of coffee and filling jars of piss.
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The Stakeout / int_c7cca04f	comment	Pushing Daisies has a stakeout interrupted by a potato in the tailpipe.
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The Stakeout / int_ca08598f	comment	Common in The Wire, where the cops lurk in both unmarked cars and abandoned buildings. This is especially the case in the earlier seasons, before the drug dealers wise up and stop using pay phones; if the police are wiretapping a pay phone, they need someone staking out the phone to see who's actually making the call.
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The Stakeout / int_d786001b	comment	One dispatch mission in MySims Agents involves this. What happens depends partially on who you send.
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The Stakeout / int_db3b75ff	comment	Barney Miller: In an episode titled "Stakeout" the cops of the 12th Precinct stake out a location believed to be used by a heroin-smuggling ring. Barney and the other cops are continually bothered by residents of the apartment building intruding into their stakeout.
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The Stakeout / int_dd5c5eed	comment	The Rockford Files featured many stakeouts over it's run, but the most unconventional was when the stakeout was completely unrelated to the case the main character was investigating. He simply happens to run into his Friend on the Force disguised as a food vendor. At the end of the episode, he saves himself from the criminals chasing him by leading them through said stakeout.
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The Stakeout / int_e057d7fb	comment	Killer Tomatoes Strike Back! A detective tries this in taxi, but the roof sign announcing STAKEOUT: NO LOITERING might have given him away, because he's ambushed by tomatoes and taken hostage.
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The Stakeout / int_e2964820	comment	Discussed, then averted, in an episode of Mystery Show. Starlee and a friend prepare for a stakeout, but can't find any good spots to park for it. They don't go away empty-handed, though.
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The Stakeout / int_e8e9b40c	comment	Young Blades: King Louis joins the Musketeers on a stakeout in "The Chameleon." When he asks what you're supposed to do during one, Ramon produces a tray of beignets.
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The Stakeout / int_efa49b17	comment	This is a fairly regular thing on The Mentalist, given that the main characters are with law enforcement. In "Byzantium," Wylie comments that he thinks it's a job that will eventually be replaced by robots, likely soon. Cho points out that being in the field isn't all action.
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The Stakeout / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice does this often... makes sense, as it's a Spy Show.
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The Stakeout / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: In "Hot Pursuit", Martin agrees to do a stakeout to get pictures of the spouse of Donny's new client having an affair. When Niles objects to him going Martin assumes it's because of his advanced age and bad hip. Niles then reveals that he always worried about Martin going on stakeouts during his childhood because he was afraid something bad might happen to his dad.
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The Stakeout / int_fe08cb30	comment	The Punisher (2017) In "Front Toward Enemy", Frank Castle and Micro are surveilling Agent Madani's apartment. It's not portrayed as glamourous with them shivering under sleeping bags on a cold roof and urinating into bottles. Likewise a Season 2 stakeout involves Frank and Curtis Hoyle crouched under ponchos on a rooftop in the rain. In "One Bad Day", Frank and Curtis have to stake out the apartment of someone who will lead them to Billy Russo. Frank is very good at killing, but not so much at sitting around waiting, which Curtis calls him on.
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The Stakeout / int_ff0bf83f	comment	In Justice League Unlimited, Wonder Woman starts hitting on Batman while the two are on a stakeout, and she receives a laundry list of reasons why a romance would never work between them. And then is in the process of refuting them when they're interrupted.
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