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--> '''Gideon:''' ''Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else."''



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--> '''Gideon:''' ''Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers."''
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: This causes the unsub to make a mistake.

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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: This causes the unsub [=UnSub=] to make a mistake.



* HumanHeadOnTheWall: Downplayed again. The team comes across a wall where the unsub has photos of all his victims when they were alive.

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* HumanHeadOnTheWall: Downplayed again. The team comes across a wall where the unsub [=UnSub=] has photos of all his victims when they were alive.

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When an undercover cop in Baltimore goes missing in what is believed to be a mob hit, the BAU works with the Organized Crime Unit to catch a serial killer connected to dozens of murders before time runs out.

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When A Maryland mobster tortures three more of his hundred plus victims to death, and an undercover cop in Baltimore goes missing in what is believed to be a mob hit, on the BAU works with same night. Morgan gets suspicious of how the Organized Crime Unit last murder victim was discovered -- in seven different garbage dumpsters. Baker, the undercover cop, is found tied up in the [=UnSub=]'s father's house in the process of being bitten to catch a serial killer connected to dozens of murders before time runs out.death by rats.




* AbusiveParents: The unsub's father regularly beat him and his mother.
* EatenAlive: One of the unsub's favorite ways to kill someone is to incapacitate them and watch animals (mostly rats) eating them alive.

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\n* AbusiveParents: The unsub's [=UnSub=]'s father regularly beat him and his mother.
* EatenAlive: One of the unsub's [=UnSub=]'s favorite ways to kill someone is to incapacitate them and watch animals (mostly rats) eating them alive.



-->'''Hotch:''' It's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers.
-->'''Perotta:''' Some people?
-->'''Hotch:''' What's that?
-->'''Perotta:''' You said some people grow up to be killers.
-->'''Hotch:''' ...And some people grow up to catch them.
* GeniusBruiser: The unsub is intelligent and methodical. He also nearly killed Hotchner with his bare hands.

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-->'''Hotch:''' It's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers.
-->'''Perotta:'''
killers.\\
'''Perotta:'''
Some people?
-->'''Hotch:'''
people?\\
'''Hotch:'''
What's that?
-->'''Perotta:'''
that?\\
'''Perotta:'''
You said some people grow up to be killers.
-->'''Hotch:''' ...
killers.\\
'''Hotch:''' ...
And some people grow up to catch them.
* GeniusBruiser: The unsub [=UnSub=] is intelligent and methodical. He also nearly killed Hotchner with his bare hands.



* MercyKill: The unsub slashes the throat of an elderly woman to ensure she dies quickly because she reminds him of his mother. The woman's husband isn't as lucky.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The unsub takes his time to torture his victims before killing them. Only one or at least a few lucky ones get a quick death.
* ProfessionalKiller: The unsub, Vincent Perotta, works as a mob hitman.

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* MercyKill: The unsub [=UnSub=] slashes the throat of an elderly woman to ensure she dies quickly because she reminds him of his mother. The woman's husband isn't as lucky.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The unsub [=UnSub=] takes his time to torture his victims before killing them. Only one or at least a few lucky ones get a quick death.
* ProfessionalKiller: The unsub, [=UnSub=], Vincent Perotta, works as a mob hitman.

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Directed by Creator/PeterEllis

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\nDirected ->Directed by Creator/PeterEllis
Creator/PeterEllis\\
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Directed by Creator/PeterEllis

Written by Creator/DebraJFisher & Creator/AndrewWilder
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The Unsub will later play the sheriff on Series/TrueBlood.



* StageMagician: Reid convinces Perotta that he took out the "chip" Perotta thinks the government implanted in his arm by sleight of hand and what looks like a SIM card.
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!!Natural Born Killer



* RetroactiveRecognition: The Unsub will later play the sheriff on Series/TrueBlood.



* StageMagician: Reid convinces Perotta that he took out the "chip" Perotta thinks the government implanted in his arm by sleight of hand and what looks like a SIM card.



* WouldntHitAGirl: Played with. Perotta had a hard time killing his sole female victim and even then did it quickly as opposed to the ColdBloodedTorture that he performs on all his male ones. Even then it's implied that his remorse over doing so is making him sloppy and easier to catch.

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* WouldntHitAGirl: Played with. Perotta had a hard time killing his sole female victim and even then did it quickly as opposed to the ColdBloodedTorture that he performs on all his male ones. Even then it's implied that his remorse over doing so is making him sloppy and easier to catch.catch.
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Played with. Perotta had a hard time killing his sole female victim and even then did it quickly as opposed to the ColdBloodedTorture that he performs on all his male ones.

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* WouldntHitAGirl: Played with. Perotta had a hard time killing his sole female victim and even then did it quickly as opposed to the ColdBloodedTorture that he performs on all his male ones. Even then it's implied that his remorse over doing so is making him sloppy and easier to catch.
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* {{Foil}}: Hotch reveals to Perotta that he himself also grew up in an abusive family, but that's where the similarities end.
-->'''Hotch:''' It's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers.
-->'''Perotta:''' Some people?
-->'''Hotch:''' What's that?
-->'''Perotta:''' You said some people grow up to be killers.
-->'''Hotch:''' ...And some people grow up to catch them.



* ProperlyParanoid: Discussed.
-->'''Perotta:''' Hey Jason, is it still called "paranoid" if I'm right?



* UndercoverCopReveal: The BAU's initial suspect for the murders is an undercover Vice cop.

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* UndercoverCopReveal: The BAU's initial suspect for the murders is an undercover Vice cop.cop.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Played with. Perotta had a hard time killing his sole female victim and even then did it quickly as opposed to the ColdBloodedTorture that he performs on all his male ones.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Perotta fantasized about, and eventually killed his own abusive father. He continue torturing men who remind him of him.

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* EatenAlive: One of the unsub's favorite ways to kill someone is to incapacitate them and watch animals (mostly rats) eating them alive.



* NoKillLikeOverkill: The unsub takes his time to torture his victims before killing them. Only one or at least a few lucky ones get a quick death.



* NoKillLikeOverkill: The unsub slits one victim's throat

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* NoKillLikeOverkill: The unsub slits one victim's throatSnuffFilm: Perotta keeps recordings of some of his victims being eaten alive by rats.

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* HumanHeadOnTheWall: Downplayed again. The team comes across a wall where the unsub has photos of all his victims when they were alive.



* PsychoForHire: The unsub, Vincent Perotta, works as a mob hitman.

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* PsychoForHire: MercyKill: The unsub slashes the throat of an elderly woman to ensure she dies quickly because she reminds him of his mother. The woman's husband isn't as lucky.
* ProfessionalKiller:
The unsub, Vincent Perotta, works as a mob hitman.hitman.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Perotta is based on Richard Kuklinski.
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* PsychoForHire: The unsub, Vincent Sartorie, works as a mob hitman.

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* PsychoForHire: The unsub, Vincent Sartorie, Perotta, works as a mob hitman.
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!!This episode provides examples of:

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!!This episode provides examples of:of:

* AbusiveParents: The unsub's father regularly beat him and his mother.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: This causes the unsub to make a mistake.
* GeniusBruiser: The unsub is intelligent and methodical. He also nearly killed Hotchner with his bare hands.
* JurisdictionFriction: Between BAU and Organized Crime, who insists that the crime being mob related makes it their turf.
* PsychoForHire: The unsub, Vincent Sartorie, works as a mob hitman.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The unsub slits one victim's throat
* UndercoverCopReveal: The BAU's initial suspect for the murders is an undercover Vice cop.
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When an undercover cop in Baltimore goes missing in what is believed to be a mob hit, the BAU works with the Organized Crime Unit to catch a serial killer connected to dozens of murders before time runs out.
!!This episode provides examples of:

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