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Private Investigator Rates 10 Private Detective Scenes In Movies And TV Shows | How Real Is It?
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[gun fires]
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[tires squeal]
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I'm not going to say it doesn't ever happen,
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but not very often.
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And we don't drive a lot of Ferraris.
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My name's Andy Kay.
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I'm a private investigator,
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and I'm also the owner of Kay and Associates Investigations
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here in Los Angeles for about the last 30 years.
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Today I'm going to be looking
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at private-investigator scenes
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from movies and television.
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What do you want?
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HDS, sir. And how are you this afternoon?
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All righty, then.
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I've been a delivery guy a couple of times.
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I've been a waiter.
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I've actually asked a maître d' to give me
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the bottle of wine to deliver to the table one time.
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So, yeah, it happens.
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There's actually laws against impersonating another person.
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Walking up with the outfit,
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nobody's going to say anything about it.
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If you go up there and say,
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"Hey, I am FedEx,"
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then you're stepping over a line.
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Son of a b----!
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Ace: That was a close one, ladies and gentlemen.
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When little animals go missing,
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unless we have good information
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that somebody has stolen it or it's a big dog,
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expectations are pretty low.
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It happens, and we've gotten some back.
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Nobody's going to do it like that,
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because you would not know, first off,
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that the dog was going to be anywhere accessible
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in the first place,
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that the guy is going to even answer the door
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in the second place.
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There is just so much presumption in this case
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that it would just never happen that way.
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Except for Jim Carrey.
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[engine sputters]
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No problem! It gets flooded.
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We'll just wait a few seconds.
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[man yells] [glass shatters]
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All that planning just to be caught
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at the end with a baseball bat. [laughs]
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Usually we don't have to worry about getaway.
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The big thing about being a private investigator
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is to be private,
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so that they don't ever know we were there.
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I would give this clip a 2.
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It's designed to be comedic, and it's very good at it.
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Sherlock: Ah, sergeant, we haven't met.
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Dimmock: Yeah, I know who you are.
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And I'd prefer it if you didn't
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tamper with any of the evidence.
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The police officer, first thing he said was,
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"I prefer you not be disturbing our evidence,"
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and that's exactly correct.
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They would have never let him in those doors
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at that point. Once they were there,
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they would have taken over the scene.
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The disdain for what he was saying
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shows you that they are not big fans
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of private investigators,
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which is a lot of the times
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the situation with police officers.
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A lot of times we are working with the police,
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a lot of times we are working against the police.
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Left-handed?
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I'm amazed you didn't notice.
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All you have to do is look around this flat.
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Coffee table on the left-hand side.
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Coffee mug handle pointing to the left.
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Power sockets, habitually he used the ones on the left.
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You can notice things that are out of sync.
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I mean, that's extreme, for sure.
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And all that's going to come out in pathology anyway.
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They're going to know if he's right- or left-handed.
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There should be dozens and dozens
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of photos of the crime scene.
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So they're going to notice some of those things.
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There's nothing there that wouldn't come out
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through the normal process anyway.
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And the private investigator's
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not going to be a part of that.
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There's a lot of different things
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you can tell about people from looking at them
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and appearance-wise,
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but if you start assuming too much,
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you might've fallen into a trap for what they're, you know,
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trying to make themself be portrayed as.
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So, you look. You don't draw conclusions that way.
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I would rate that at probably a 5,
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just because it's entertaining
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and you have to make it such,
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otherwise it's not going to work.
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[phone dials]
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[phone rings]
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Hi, this is Gia.
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Well, there's a whole lot of violations of law
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in this one.
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We have this thing called expectation of privacy
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that we're supposed to work within.
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And so if you can see something from public view,
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without magnifying it, you can record it.
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If you can hear a conversation in public,
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again, the expectation of privacy is gone.
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So you can do that.
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Taping phone calls, it's a two-party state.
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It's in California, obviously.
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They said they're in West Hollywood.
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So you cannot record that phone call.
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If she was licensed, she wouldn't be for much longer
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if she was caught doing it.
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You can get the information other ways.
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And you definitely couldn't use it
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in any kind of a court or a prosecution,
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because they're going to toss it all out.
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So it's worthless for anything other than
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developing corroboration with other evidence that you find.
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Gia: Hey, something's happening.
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You need to get over here right away.
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I've had situations like this
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where we actually just rented the apartment
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across the street.
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That way, if I can open my window and see into theirs,
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it's fair game.
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So there's ways around what she's doing.
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And this is, obviously,
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an area where she wouldn't expect anybody
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to be looking in on her.
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Although if people have public access to that roof,
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she could also be in the same situation.
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Say it's a rooftop bar
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and she's just sitting there at a table.
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She has the right if she can see it.
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I have to get a closer look.
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Yes, sometimes cameras do come in handy.
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Now there's much smaller magnifications
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that we use that do the same job.
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We also use drones a lot with magnification,
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because if we can see it from there,
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we can get anywhere on it.
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If it's in public space, we can magnify on it.
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I'll give this clip two stars,
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just because it's absolutely nothing
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a private investigator is going to do.
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Did you converse with Harlan at that time?
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Well, he was there, we must have spoke.
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In his study?
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I don't think so.
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From an interrogation standpoint,
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it was actually pretty good.
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He left information out of the question
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so that they could try to extrapolate on it,
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and that way you can see which way they're going.
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You could see that Don Johnson
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was coached a little bit on how to react
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while you're trying to hide something
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and you're trying to convey something else.
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So it was done well.
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Just the way he led his expressions
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and then, "Oh, yeah,"
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you know, kind of things. Things like that.
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The things that you look for are
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when they look away a lot,
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when they have to stumble,
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when they say things that are just out of line anyway.
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They try to divert from something
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when you ask a question.
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Now, a lot of people will hang their hat
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off of watching some ex-FBI agent
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tell you how to read people.
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And once you do that, you start missing everything else.
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You really have to trust yourself
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and your interactions with people.
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So you really have to pay attention to those body cues
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and facial cues without becoming a victim
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of counting on every single one to mean a certain thing.
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Who hired you?
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I do not know.
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An envelope of cash showed up at my apartment yesterday
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with a news clipping of Thrombey's death.
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Well, actually just today we got a case
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where we have an anonymous client.
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I know she's a female.
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That's all I really know about her.
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So it's very strange, but, yeah, it happens.
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You really want to know who your clients are
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the majority of the time.
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I give it ...
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7.
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One of the more realistic portrayals so far.
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What makes you certain
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that your husband is involved with someone?
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A wife can tell.
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Good scene.
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Now, as I recall, in this movie,
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that was not the actual person
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she was portraying herself to be.
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But she was right about that statement.
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When she said, "A woman knows these things," she was right.
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Women know.
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We actually keep the numbers every year,
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'cause we do a lot of these cases all over the globe.
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It's always between 96% and 99%
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of the women that hire us are right.
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Guys are about 50%.
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They know about half the time
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if it's really happening or not.
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They just tend to be more wary of other men around
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or things like that.
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So it's about 50% with guys,
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about 96% to 99% with women.
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One of the big giveaways
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is being overprotective of the cellphones
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and the pads and any of their other devices.
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We've got a great digital-forensics department.
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Somebody brings us a computer or a telephone,
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we can retrieve, you know,
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deleted texts, deleted pictures, all those kind of things.
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Mrs. Mulwray, this type of investigation
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can be hard on your pocketbook.
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It takes time.
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Money doesn't matter to me, Mr. Gittes.
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Most investigations are expensive.
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It's not a cheap thing to get into.
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For infidelity cases, I've had cases go
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where we were watching somebody 24/7
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for three weeks.
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And I got on the phone with my client, and I said,
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"Hey, he's not doing what you think he's doing."
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And she says, "Andy, please stay on this.
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I know."
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And so we did, and, honestly,
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it wasn't two days later before he was at
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one of the high-end hotels in Beverly Hills
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with two prostitutes.
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And then three days later,
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we end up at a townhouse up in Agoura
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where he paid for it
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and he's had a woman living there with him
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for years that nobody knew anything about.
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So sometimes it takes a long time.
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I would rate the accuracy of this scene
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a 10 out of 10.
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Following people on foot,
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you definitely want to do a lot of the things he did.
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Stay out of sight,
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don't look ridiculous enough to everybody else around you
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that they're saying, "Hey, there's a guy, like,
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hiding behind the wall watching you go around corners."
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You don't want to do that.
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You always have to look just like you belong there,
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because it's not just that person
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you have to worry about seeing you.
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You have everybody else
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that if you're acting weird and stalkerish,
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they're gonna go tell somebody.
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Last thing you want to do if you're following somebody
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is have the police pull you over
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to ask you what you're doing.
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That kind of ends the surveillance right there.
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Quite often when we end up in a on-foot situation
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where we're doing a surveillance,
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it started off in a vehicle.
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So you don't know
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exactly what you're going to be able to do,
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and like I talked about in some of the other situations,
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you have to be able to flow with it as things change.
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Almost all my guys, when they're doing surveillance,
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they'll have a couple extra shirts or tops
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or maybe a pair of shorts.
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Anything that they can switch out fast
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to make themselves look different
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and not catch the eye over and over and over again.
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Because if they're walking in an area
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where there's not a lot of people for a long time,
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a lot of people take walks in parks, things like that.
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So you have to kind of be ready to be on foot.
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It wasn't terrible.
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You want your disguise not to be so ridiculous
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that it's noticed as ridiculous,
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because then they're going to pay attention to you.
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His was a little over the top there.
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I'd give him a 7. 8. We'll go 8.
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[gun fires]
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[tires squeal]
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The biggest misconception
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people have about private investigators
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is that we're always in gunfights
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and that we're out arresting people.
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And that's not very often what happens.
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I'm not going to say it doesn't ever happen,
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but not very often.
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And we don't drive a lot of Ferraris.
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I would give this clip a 2.
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In that scene, it's much better than watching
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the subject of the investigation being followed
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by a red Ferrari half a car length behind him
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and not noticing it.
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If you can't be out of sight, blend in.
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You want to use cars that fit in everywhere.
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I mean, we use a lot of Priuses in Los Angeles.
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The other thing is,
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anytime you're following somebody
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and you end up in a situation
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where you're in a lot of traffic,
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odds are they're going to take a lot of turns,
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things like that.
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Of course, use a very inconspicuous car
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and also try to use several.
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That way somebody can leapfrog these.
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We can have a car on the opposite way.
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And if they come
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and we know that this one's going to take a left,
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"Hey, coming towards you."
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Then you're already in the street over,
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you pick up the car, you go off.
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The next one turns in behind
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and then tries to leapfrog ahead.
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If we have to speed, we do it.
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It was amazing,
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'cause he was actually keeping an OK distance,
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but there was never, ever any traffic in between them.
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Woman parks, and he stops right in the lane
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and sits and watches her.
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That's a sure way to be seen.
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So, not a good tail.
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If you think somebody is tailing you,
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start making unnecessary turns
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into places that are odd
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and then make multiple turns.
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Make them follow you into those turns.
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I'll give him 5, 'cause I like Jimmy Stewart.
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Rust: I remember there was no physical evidence
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connecting Dora Lange to the dude's place out in the woods,
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meaning it probably didn't happen out there.
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Yeah, it still happens a lot.
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We use a lot of big whiteboards
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with a lot of drawings through in this,
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and then a lot of those get erased as we go.
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And we have lots of mirrored rooms
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that the same thing happens with dry erase
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and we put pictures on so we can see them,
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and as things develop and change,
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most cases just don't need that kind of investigation,
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but we use it a lot.
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Rest of the family, they don't really talk to Aunt D.
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There's a whole plethora of things that we can do
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that law enforcement can't do.
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We can talk to people,
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I don't have to read you your rights.
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I can start questioning you from the beginning
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with the intent of having you confess to me.
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Obviously, the biggest thing is
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I can go anywhere in the world and work,
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and I don't have to let anybody know I'm there.
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And we don't need to take a ton of time for approvals.
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So, if you tell me
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that you need to have a certain thing done,
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we can prioritize it because you're paying us to do it,
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whereas law enforcement may never prioritize it.
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So they may never get to it
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just because they're overrun.
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In that part he did pretty good, I thought.
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In this scene, you've got a father
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who's looking for a lost daughter.
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He's obviously very bereaved.
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I think he's doing the right thing by going through this.
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I think this is a very common scene.
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I think that a lot of people do these types of things
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when this happens, even before they call us.
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Social media, websites, places where they have memberships,
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things like that are always important
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in those kind of investigations.
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We employ them a lot.
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Some of the times you will use photographs
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and things and do reverse imaging.
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Now, I'm not talking about doing a Google reverse image.
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We use a lot of the same soft- and hardware
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that the FBI uses, that a lot of law enforcement uses,
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and it's only available
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to licensed investigators or law enforcement.
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So we have very good people
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that go and dig this stuff out.
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And a lot of times, if you have a daughter that's missing
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or a son that's missing,
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if we can have their computers,
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we can get a lot of information
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about what their thought process was
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before they ended up missing.
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There is no such thing as secure on the internet. Nowhere.
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If it can't be gotten right now,
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it'll be available some other time.
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You just see what happened to Facebook,
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where Mark Zuckerberg's phone numbers
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and everything else ended up hacked from his own site.
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So, nothing is safe.
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I don't care who you are.
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I don't care what site it is.
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If you're putting it out there,
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you might as well expect
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that it's going to be accessible to anyone.
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So, at some point,
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if the right person wants to get in there
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and dig long and hard enough and invest whatever it is,
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time or money, they're going to find it.
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I would give this a 10 out of 10.
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It's a very accurate depiction of what would happen.