A truth serum is a drug used for the purposes of obtaining accurate information from an unwilling subject,most often by a police, intelligence, or military organization on a prisoner.Drugs used for this purpose have included ethanol, scopolamine, and sodium thiopental (known as Sodium Pentothal)In episode 12 of season 5 in 24 (TV series), Jack Bauer contacts CTU to tell them to prep an interogation room and for a medic to stand by with hyocine pentathol,another form of truth serum---In episode 118 of MacGyver, a prisoner is given the choice of confessing freely or being injected with Sodium Pentothal.Jonathan Adams' alternative comic book originally published by Slave Labor Graphics and later self-published by City Cyclops is titled Truth Serum.In Thomas Harris' first Hannibal Lecter novel Red Dragon, FBI agent Will Graham mentions that when previous attempts to gain information from Lecter, regarding the location of one of his victims' bodies, using truth drugs like sodium pentathol, they only succeeded in him giving them 'a recipe for dip'.Karin Boye's dystopic novel Kallocain, originally published in 1940, is named after, and based around a fictional truth serum.In the James Bond film Octopussy, the villain Kamal Khan tells Bond that a combination of curare and a psychedelic agent gave "guaranteed results" as a truth drug, although at the cost of permanent insanity for the recipient.The U.S. television series Alias features repeated references to Sodium Pentothal as a truth drug. Less