In The Prestige, the secret to Angier's 'Real Transported Man' trick is that he is effectively cloned while teleporting, and the original Angier is drowned when disappearing under the stage.
When Alfred Borden went behind the stage to investigate the trick and find out Angier's secret (and discovering Angier dying in the water tank), he was accused of murdering Angier.
But what happened to the transported 'clone' of Angier? If he presented himself as was normal for the trick, no one would've thought Angier died. So how did the 'clone' know to not appear?
Answer
I guess he just recognized Borden from the people examining the apparatus while he stood in it and assumed that he will probably walk behind the stage (or maybe even saw him do that).
The fact is, that Angier was at that point in time so much sunken in his wrath against Borden and the desire to know how his Trasported Man worked, that he didn't just do those Real Transported Man shows to make a good show and beat Borden success-wise. He actually planned this "murder" to happen some day to finally "win" against Borden, since he knew he would show up one day to look behind the stage and nobody would doubt that he murdered his enemy. But even if at first Angier looked like the one that always got framed and played wrong by Borden (and finally murdered, as is shown at the beginning of the movie) it was actually always Angier who took this fight from a job-related competition to a higher level, involving kidnapping and finally murder. This is also to some degree evident from his dialogue when he says:
Cutter: What kind of booking are you after?
Angier: The one that Borden can't ignore.
So he was prepared for Borden to show up some day and just needed to look out for him, the rest was already planned out perfectly.
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