Heuristic illustration of how a TDE can obscure the X-ray-emitting central region of the preexisting AGN accretion disk. Prior to disruption, the AGN disk likely exhibited a face-on orientation such that its central regions were visible, whereas the debris disk formed by the disruption is unlikely to have occurred face-on to the observer. Such a structure can also explain why spectral features of the AGN and TDE are simultaneously visible (see Section 7.4).