Trope!
TV/movie trope I can live without:
AGENT: "But who did this? Just give me a name!"
INFORMANT: "I can't give that name. It would put you in too much danger."
AGENT: "I need the name, or thousands will die!"
INFORMANT: "It's too dangerous to tell you. I just can't."
This kind of thing throws me out of the story. It can't be "too dangerous" for someone to know something. (Corollary bad trope: "I can tell you my super-hero secret identity. It would put you in danger!" How, pray tell?) And if the informant doesn't want to speak because they're being spied on, why have the meeting at all?
It's a poorly-done attempt to manufacture suspense, and you can practically hear the keyboard clatter behind the dialogue.
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AGENT: "But who did this? Just give me a name!"
INFORMANT: "I can't give that name. It would put you in too much danger."
AGENT: "I need the name, or thousands will die!"
INFORMANT: "It's too dangerous to tell you. I just can't."
This kind of thing throws me out of the story. It can't be "too dangerous" for someone to know something. (Corollary bad trope: "I can tell you my super-hero secret identity. It would put you in danger!" How, pray tell?) And if the informant doesn't want to speak because they're being spied on, why have the meeting at all?
It's a poorly-done attempt to manufacture suspense, and you can practically hear the keyboard clatter behind the dialogue.
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