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Only in the mirror

The puzzle

A woman looked in the mirror and saw someone standing behind her.

She turned round: nobody there.

She looked back at the mirror, and there he was again.

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Answer

What the mirror was showing was the television at the far end of the room.

A drama was on, and an actor standing in the frame appeared, in the reflection, to be standing behind her.

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