History Recap / CriminalMindsS2E15Revelations

* FreudianTrio: Tobias Hankel and his alters. Tobias himself is the ego; Raphael is, or considers himself, an angel, and is the supergo; and the alter modelled on Charles Hankel, Tobias's violent father, represents the id. The ironic part is that both the superego and the id are murderers.

Reid suffocates, but Tobias revives him after arguing it out with his father alter. He demands that Reid pick one of his team members to die. Reid picks Hotch, and misquotes the Bible to send his boss a message. Hotch proves that he's not a narcissist by having his team name his worst qualities without minding, and tells them that Reid was signaling him that he's in or near a semetary.

Hopped up on drugs and in pain, Reid relives the memory of sending his mother to a psychiatric facility, the time he feels he betrayed her. Hearing his apology, Hankel thinks Reid is confessing to the sin of disrespecting your mother. It looks like Reid finally gives up and confesses, but when Hankel makes him dig his own grave, we realize he probably only wanted to be among the graves when the police showed up. While Hankel is distracted by the approaching flashlights, Reid grabs Hankel's gun and shoots him. Tobias fronts one last time and expresses hope that he gets to see his mother before he dies.

* DeadpanSnarker: Though he's being tortured and just died, Reid doesn't let that stop him.

Reid has been taken hostage by Hankel, who takes him to a cabin in the forest and tortures him to get him to confess his sins. Aware that he will likely kill him if he confesses, Reid endures the torture, and Hankel's meeker side decides to drug him, which results in Reid reliving being abandoned by his father when he was ten.

* FreudianTrio: Tobias Hankel and his alters. Tobias himself is the ego; Raphael is, or considers himself, an angel, and is the supergo; and the the alter modelled on Charles Hankel, Tobias's violent father, represents the id. The ironic part is that both the superego and the id are murderers.

Directed by Creator/GuyNormanBee

When multiple personality disorder-suffering serial killer Tobias Hankel abducts Reid, the BAU juggles rescuing their colleague and preventing Tobias from taking another life. In captivity, Reid finds himself flashing back to his troubled childhood. [part 2 of 2]

* NeutralGood: In-universe, Gideon reasons that Raphael wouldn't feel either way about what he does, as what matters is whether something is God's will, not whether it's to be considered good or evil by humans.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Raphael forces Reid to pick another member of the BAU for him to kill (which the whole team sees, since they're receiving video feed of Reid's torture), he chooses Hotch, calling him a "classic narcissist" and quoting a Bible passage. Hotch is well aware that, while he has many flaws, narcissism is not one of them, and when he looks up this Bible passage, he learns that Reid misquoted it, despite having earlier stated to have the entire Bible memorized by heart. This clues him in that the passage Reid claims to have quoted is actually a clue on how to find him. When the do so at the end of the episode, Reid even murmurs to Hotch, "I knew you'd understand."

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Raphael forces Reid to pick another member of the BAU for him to kill (which the whole team sees, since they're receiving video feed of his Reid's torture), he chooses Hotch, calling him a "classic narcissist" and quoting a Bible passage. Hotch is well aware that, while he has many flaws, narcissism is not one of them, and when he looks up this Bible passage, he learns that Reid misquoted it, despite having earlier stated to have the entire Bible memorized by heart. This clues him in that the passage Reid claims to have quoted is actually a clue on how to find him. When the do so at the end of the episode, Reid even murmurs to Hotch, "I knew you'd understand."

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Raphael forces Reid to pick another member of the BAU for him to kill (which the team themselves sees, since they're receiving video feed of his Reid's torture), he chooses Hotch, calling him a "classic narcissist" and quoting a Bible passage. Hotch is well aware that, while he has many flaws, narcissism is not one of them, and when he looks up this Bible passage, he learns that Reid misquoted it, despite having earlier stated to have the entire Bible memorized by heart. This clues him in that the passage Reid claims to have quoted is actually a clue on how to find him. When the do so at the end of the episode, Reid even murmurs to Hotch, "I knew you'd understand."

* TragicVillain: Tobias Hankel. While both of his other personalities were violent and murderous and did terrible things, he himself was a kind young man who didn't want to hurt anyone and tried to ease Reid's pain, but was so meek thanks to a lifetime of horrible abuse from his father that he was unable to assert himself enough to prevent his alters' violent impulses. When Reid shoots him dead at the end of the episode, Tobias's personality emerges one more time, and ''thanks'' Reid for killing him, since it means [[TogetherInDeath he'll get to see his mother again]].

* FreudianTrio: Tobias Hankel and his alters. Raphael is, or considers himself, an angel, while the alter modelled on Charles Hankel, Tobias's violent father, represent the id. The ironic part is that both the superego and the id are murderers.

* TokenGoodTeammate: The Tobias personality among the three within the killer.

When multiple personality disorder-suffering serial killer Tobias Hankel (James Van Der Beek) abducts Reid, the BAU juggles rescuing their colleague and preventing Tobias from taking another life. In captivity, Reid finds himself flashing back to his troubled childhood. [part 2 of 3]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: The Tobias personality among the three within the killer.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Reid talks about Hotch being a narcissist, even the rest of the BAU thinks that Hotch takes it personally. [[spoiler:He's not. He's evaluating Reid's choice of words as potential clues to their whereabouts]].

When multiple personality disorder-suffering serial killer Tobias Hankel (James Van Der Beek) abducts Reid, the BAU juggles rescuing their colleague and preventing Tobias from taking another life. In captivity, Reid finds himself flashing back to his troubled childhood. [part 2 of 3]