Blindfolded

Why let the whumpee see where they are being taken, right? I mean, they are only being either kidnapped or on the way to torture or execution.

A blindfold may be a piece of cloth, a bag of some kind, or really anything that gets the job done.

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TV Shows
Alex Rider


 * 1x02: Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) is thrown out of his bike and kidnapped. The men put a bag over his head, which is taken off to reveal his face full of blood from the hit. The bag comes back a few more times after that.

Carnival Row


 * 1x07: The police officers put a bag on Rycroft Philotraste's (Orlando Bloom) head, when they are "transfering" him from prison.

Star Trek: Enterprise


 * 1x15: Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and T'Pol's (Jolene Blalock) ship is attacked by another one and they are captured, tied up and blindfolded, left back to back on the dark of the unknown place.

Westworld


 * 1x02: Lawrence (Clifton Collins Jr.) is saved from execution by The Man in Black... only to in return be dragged around blindfolded, still with the execution's rope around his neck.

Movies
Iron Man 1 (2008)


 * Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is blindfolded with a dark bag two times during his captivity, since he was kidnapped by an armed group of the Ten Rings.