History Recap / CriminalMindsS10E15Scream

* CallBack: The [=UnSub=] makes his victims learn a script, rather like the one in [[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E8ReflectionOfDesire Reflection Of Desire]]. This one also has his victims play the part of his mother.

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* FreudianExcuse: The [=UnSub=]'s only memory of his mother was a tape recording of his parents' last argument. When it was lost in a fire, he tried to recreate it with various abducted women speaking his mother's "lines".

* PsychopathicManchild: The [=UnSub=], a man in his 30s, throws a tantrum when his current victim proves uncooperative.

** The [=UnSubs=] father was very abusive and ended up killing his wife, the [=UnSubs=] mother.

* {{Manchild}}: The [=UnSub=], a man in his thirties, throws a tantrum when his current victim proves uncooperative.

* ParentalHypocrisy: Callahan has problems with her 13 year old niece going to the mall with a friend and two boys. In conversation with JJ, however, she mentions that although they're supposed to be Meg's friends and classmates, when ''Kate'' met a boy in the mall when she was 13, it was a date, meaning that she did the same thing she doesn't want her niece doing now.

* ParentalHypocrisy: Callahan has problems with her 13 year old niece going to the mall with a friend and two boys. In conversation with JJ, however, she mentions that although they're suppose to be Meg's friends and classmates, when ''Kate'' met a boy in the mall when she was 13, it was a date, meaning that she did the same thing she doesn't want her niece doing now.

* AdultFear:
** The [=UnSub=] witnessed his dad kill his mom.
** In the end, Kate's 13-year-old niece and her friend try to meet college boys for a date.

An Unsub who is obsessed with cleanliness kidnaps women to help him recreate his parents' last argument. Unfortunately for the women, this was the argument that ended in his mother's death. Kate's niece-slash-adopted daughter wants to meet someone she met on the internet in real life.

-->'''Meg's friend:''' Your uncle is ''such'' a stalker!
* CallBack: The Unsub makes his victims learn a script, rather like the one in [[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E8ReflectionOfDesire Reflection Of Desire]]. This one also has his victims play the part of his mother.

* FreudianExcuse: The Unsub's only memory of his mother was a tape recording of his parents' last argument. When it was lost in a fire, he tried to recreate it with various abducted women speaking his mother's "lines".
* {{Manchild}}: The Unsub, a man in his thirties, throws a tantrum when his current victim proves uncooperative.
* MyGreatestFailure: Folkmore, the policeman who was unable to save the Unsub and his mother from the violent husband and father, feels it's his biggest regret.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Megan's uncle turning up causes the person stalking her and her friend to retreat, rather than go with his (presumable) plan to abduct them.

A series of victims in California make the BAU think the [=UnSub=] has witnessed abuse.

* ParentalHypocrisy: Callahan has problems with her 13 year old niece going to the mall with a friend and two boys.In conversation with JJ, however, she mentions that when she met a boy in the mall when she was 13, it was a date, meaning that she did the same thing she doesn't want her niece doing now.

* ParentalHypocrisy: Callahan has problems with her 13 year old niece going to the mall with a friend and two boys.In conversation with JJ, however, she mentions that when she met a boy in the mall when she was 13, it was a date, meaning that she did the same thing she doesn't want her niece doing now.

* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: What Kate's niece Meg thinks of her and her husband Chris. Though, given that the person she was going to meet with was not in fact a college boy but someone seeming a lot more sinister, they seem perfectly justified.

* HypocriteParents: Callahan has problems with her 13 year old niece going to the mall with a friend and two boys.In conversation with JJ, however, she mentions that when she met a boy in the mall when she was 13, it was a date, meaning that she did the same thing she doesn't want her niece doing now.

** The [=UnSub=] witnessed his dad kill his mo].
** In the end, Kate's 13-year-old niece and her friend try to meet college boys for a date.

* AdultFear: The [=UnSub=] [[spoiler:witnessed his dad kill his mom]].
** In the end, [[spoiler:Kate's 13yo niese and her friend try to meet college boys for a date.]]

A series of victims in California make the BAU think the [=UnSub=] has witnessed abuse.