Private Investigator Rates 10 Private Detective Scenes In Movies And TV Shows | How Real Is It?

I'm not going to say it never happens, but not very often. And we don't drive many Ferraris. My name is Andy Kay. I am a

private

investigator

and have also owned Kay and Associates Investigations here in Los Angeles for the past 30 years. Today I'm going to watch

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of

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s from

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and television. What do you want? HDS, sir. And how are you this afternoon? Alright then. I have been a delivery driver a couple of times. I have been a waiter. In fact, I asked a maître d' to give me the bottle of wine to bring to the table once.

So yes, it happens. In fact, there are laws that prohibit impersonating another person. When you arrive with the suit, no one is going to say anything about it. If you go there and say, "Hey, I'm FedEx," then you're crossing a line. Motherfucker! Ace: That was close, ladies and gentlemen. When small animals go missing, unless we have good information that someone has stolen them or that it is a large dog, expectations are pretty low. It happens and we have recovered something. Nobody's going to do it like that, because, first of all, you wouldn't know that the dog was going to be anywhere accessible, first of all, that the guy was even going to open the door, second of all.

There is so much presumption in this case that it would never happen that way. Except Jim Carrey. No problem! It floods. We will wait a few seconds. All that planning only to end up getting caught with a baseball bat. Normally we don't have to worry about the leak. The most important thing about being a private investigator is to be private, so they never know we were there. I would give this clip a 2. It is designed to be comedic and is very good at it. Sherlock: Ah, Sergeant, we don't know each other. Dimmock: Yeah, I know who you are.

And I'd prefer if you didn't tamper with any evidence. The first thing the police officer said was, "I'd rather you not tamper with our evidence," and that's exactly right. They would never have let him through those doors at that time. Once there, they would have taken over the place. Their disregard for what he said

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that they are not big fans of private investigators, as is often the case with police officers. Many times we work with the police, many times we work against the police. Left handed? I'm surprised you haven't noticed. All you have to do is look around this floor.

Coffee table on the left side. Coffee cup handle pointing left. Power outlets, I usually used the ones on the left. You may notice things that are out of sync. I mean, that's extreme, for sure. And all of that is going to come to light anyway in pathology. They will know if he is right or left handed. There should be dozens and dozens of crime scene photographs. So you'll notice some of those things. Anyway, there's nothing there that doesn't come out through the normal process. And the private investigator will not be part of that. There are a lot of different things you can tell about people by looking at them and how they look, but if you start assuming too much, you may have fallen into a trap because of who they, you know, are trying to make themselves out to be. portrayed as.

Then look. Thus no conclusions are drawn. I'd probably rate it a 5, just because it's entertaining and you have to do it that way, otherwise it won't work. Hello, this is Gia. Well, there are many violations of the law in this case. We have something called an expectation of privacy that we are supposed to work within. And so, if you can see something in public view, without magnifying it, you can record it. If you can overhear a conversation in public, again, the expectation of privacy disappears. So you can do that. Recording phone calls is a bipartisan state.

It's in California, obviously. They said they're in West Hollywood. So you can't record that phone call. If she had a license, she wouldn't have it much longer if she was caught doing it. You can get the information in other ways. And you definitely couldn't use it in any kind of court or prosecution, because they're going to throw it all out. Therefore, it serves no purpose other than to develop corroboration with other evidence you find. Gia: Hey, something's happening. You have to come here immediately. I've had situations like this where we rented the apartment across the street.

That way, if I can open my window and see theirs, it's fair game. So there are ways to avoid what she is doing. And this is obviously an area where she wouldn't expect anyone to be watching her. Although if people have public access to that roof, they could also be in the same situation. Let's say it's a rooftop bar and she's just sitting at a table. She has the right if she can see it. I have to look closer. Yes, sometimes cameras come in handy. We now use much smaller magnifications that do the same job. We also use drones with magnification a lot, because if we can see it from there, we can get anywhere.

If she is in a public space, we can enlarge it. I'm giving this clip two stars, simply because it's absolutely nothing a private investigator is going to do. Did you talk to Harlan at that time? Well, he was there, we should have talked. In his studio? I do not think. From an interrogation point of view, it was actually pretty good. He left information out of the question so they could try to extrapolate it, and that way he can see where they're going. You could see that Don Johnson was trained a little bit on how to react while you're trying to hide something and trying to convey something else.

Then he became good. Just the way he directed his expressions and then, "Oh, yeah," you know, that kind of thing. That kind of things. The things you look for are when they look away a lot, when they have to stumble, when they say things that are out of place anyway. They try to deflect from something when you ask a question. Now, a lot of people will tip their hat to seeing a former FBI agent tell you how to read people. And once you do that, you start missing everything else. You

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ly have to trust yourself and your interactions with people.

So you

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ly have to pay attention to those body and facial cues without becoming a victim of counting on each of them to mean something. Who hired you? Don't know. Yesterday an envelope of cash showed up at my apartment with a news clipping about Thrombey's death. Well, in fact today we have a case where we have an anonymous client. I know she is a woman. That's all I really know about her. It's very strange, but yes, it happens. You really want to know who your customers are most of the time. I give it... 7. One of the most realistic depictions yet.

What makes you sure your husband is involved with someone? A wife can tell. Good scene. Now, as I remember, in this movie, that was not the real person she portrayed herself to be. But she was right in that statement. When she said, "A woman knows these things," she was right. Women know it. In fact, we keep the numbers up every year, because we do a lot of these cases around the world. Always between 96% and 99% of the women who hire us are right. Boys are around 50%. They know about half the time whether it's really happening or not.

They just tend to be more cautious with other men around them or things like that. So it's about 50% among men and 96% to 99% among women. One of the big signs is being overprotective of cell phones, pads, and any of your other devices. We have a large digital forensics department. Someone brings us a computer or a phone, we can recover, you know, deleted texts, deleted images, all that kind of stuff. Ms. Mulwray, this type of investigation can be hard on your wallet. It takes time. I don't care about money, Mr. Gittes. Most research is expensive. It's not something cheap.

In cases of infidelity, I have had cases where we were watching someone 24/7 for three weeks. And I talked to my client on the phone and said, "Hey, he's not doing what you think he's doing." And she's like, "Andy, please get on with this. I know." And so we did and honestly, it wasn't two days before she was in one of the luxury hotels in Beverly Hills with two prostitutes. And then three days later we ended up at a house in Agoura where he paid for it and has had a woman living there with him for years that no one knew anything about.

That's why sometimes it takes a long time. I would rate the accuracy of this scene a 10 out of 10. Following the people on foot, you'll definitely want to do a lot of the things he did. Stay out of sight, don't look so ridiculous to everyone around you that you say, "Hey, there's a guy hiding behind the wall watching you turn corners." You don't want to do that. You always have to look like you belong there, because he's not just that person you have to worry about seeing you. You have everyone else that if you are acting weird and harassing, they will tell someone.

The last thing you want to do if you are following someone is to be stopped by the police and asked what you are doing. That kind of ends the surveillance right there. Very often when we end up in a situation on foot where we are conducting surveillance, we start in a vehicle. So you don't know exactly what you're going to be able to do and, as I mentioned in some of the other situations, you have to be able to flow with it as things change. Almost all of my guys, when they do stakeout, have an extra couple of shirts or blouses or maybe a pair of shorts.

Anything they can change quickly to look different and not draw attention to themselves over and over again. Because if they are walking in an area where there are not many people for a long time, a lot of people go out to walk in parks and things like that. So you have to be prepared to walk. It wasn't terrible. You want your costume to not be so ridiculous that it looks ridiculous, because then people will pay attention to you. His was a little over the top there. He would give it a 7. 8. We'll go to an 8. The biggest misconception people have about private investigators is that we're always in shootings and we're arresting people.

And that's not very often what happens. I'm not going to say it never happens, but not very often. And we don't drive many Ferraris. I would give this clip a 2. In that scene, it's much better than seeing the subject of the investigation being followed by a red Ferrari half a car behind him and not realizing it. If you can't get out of sight, blend in. You want to use cars that fit everywhere. I mean, we use a lot of Priuses in Los Angeles. The other thing is, whenever you follow someone and you end up in a situation where you have a lot of traffic, it's probably going to take a lot of turns and things like that.

Of course, use a car that goes very unnoticed and also try to use several. That way someone can overcome them. We can have a car going in the opposite direction. And if they come and we know he's going to turn left, "Hey, I'm coming to you." Then you're already on the street, you get in the car and you go. The next one turns behind and then tries to jump forward. If we have to speed up, we do it. It was surprising, because he actually kept a good distance, but there was never, ever any traffic between them.

The woman parks and he stops right in the lane and sits and watches her. That's a sure way to be seen. So it's not a good queue. If you think someone is following you, start making unnecessary turns in strange places and then make several turns. Have them follow you on those turns. I'll give it a 5 because I like Jimmy Stewart. Rust: I remember there was no physical evidence connecting Dora Lange to the guy's house in the woods, which means it probably didn't happen there. Yes, it still happens a lot. We use a lot of big whiteboards with a lot of drawings, and then a lot of them get erased as we go along.

And we have a lot of mirrored rooms where we do the same thing with dry erase and we put pictures up so we can see them, and as things develop and change, most of the time they just don't need that kind of research, but the we use batch. The rest of the family doesn't really talk to Aunt D. There are a lot of things we can do that the authorities can't do. We can talk to people, I don't have to read you your rights. I can start questioning you from the beginning with the intention of getting you to confess to me.

Obviously, the most important thing is that I can go anywhere in the world and work, and I don't have to let anyone know I'm there. And we don't need to take much time for approvals. So if he tells me he needs a certain thing done, we can prioritize it because he is paying us to do it, whereas the authorities may never prioritize it. So they may never get around to it simply because they are overrun. He did pretty well on that part, I thought. In this scene, you have a father searching for a lost daughter. He's obviously very heartbroken.

I think he's doing the right thing by going through this. I think this is a very common scene. I think a lot of people do this kind of thing when this happens, even before calling us. Social media, websites, places where they have memberships, things like that are always important in those types of investigations. We use them a lot. Sometimes you'll use photographs and things and do reverse images. Now, I'm not talking about doing a Google reverse image. We use a lot of the samesoftware and hardware used by the FBI, used by many law enforcement agencies, and is only available to licensed investigators or law enforcement officers.

So we have very good people who go and discover these things. And a lot of times, if you have a missing daughter or a missing son, if we can have their computers, we can get a lot of information about what their thought process was before they disappeared. There is nothing safe on the Internet. Nowhere. If it cannot be obtained now, it will be available at a later time. Just look at what happened to Facebook, where Mark Zuckerberg's phone numbers and everything else ended up hacked from their own site. So nothing is certain. I don't care who you are.

I don't care what place it is. If you publish it, you can also expect it to be accessible to anyone. So at some point, if the right person wants to get in there and dig deep enough and invest whatever it is, time or money, they will find it. I would give this a 10 out of 10. It is a very accurate description of what would happen.