History Recap / CriminalMindsS2E1TheFisherKingPart2

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Hotch and Gideon are both disturbed that them giving Elle the order to do a press conference regarding Gardner (an explicit violation of the one rule in his CriminalMindGames) ended with Ellie getting shot in revenge. [[{{Troll}} Gideon]] is almost apoplectic.

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* ShoutOut: Diana is convinced she'll give a lecture on Literature/TristanAndIsolde.

The team learns that the [=UnSub=] is a man who lost most of his family in a fire and got disfigured by burns in the process. He spent time in the same mental facility as Reid's mother, a professor of Medieval literature whose schizophrenia led her to assume that the way he talked about his surviving daughter meant she was a metphor, ultimately convincing the father too. She was adopted by another family, but her father's psychotic conviction that she's dead has him abduct her and keep her locked up in a basement while he sets up an elaborate trap for Diana's son and his team, whom he believes to be Sir Percival and the Knights of the Round Table respectively. Believing himself to be the mythic Fisher King, he is certain that if Sir Percival asks him the right question, his burns will be healed, and his daughter who is chained up in his basement will come back to life.

* {{Flashback}}[=/=]TimeshiftedActor: A different actor plays Gardner in a flashback before his disfigurement.

* TakingYouWithMe: Gardner tries to kill Spencer by detonating a bomb on his chest.

The team learns that the [=UnSub=] is a man who lost most of his family in a fire and got disfigured by burns in the process. He spent time in the same mental facility as Reid's mother, a professor of Medieval literature whose schizofrenia led her to assume that the way he talked about his surviving daughter meant she was a metphor, ultimately convincing the father too. She was adopted by another family, but her father's psychotic conviction that she's dead has him abduct her and keep her locked up in a basement while he sets up an elaborate trap for Diana's son and his team, whom he believes to be Sir Percival and the Knights of the Round Table respectively. Believing himself to be the mythic Fisher King, he is certain that if Sir Percival asks him the right question, his burns will be healed, and his daughter who is chained up in his basement will come back to life.

* RiddleMeThis: A meta example. The Unsub wants Reid to tell him what the question was that healed the Fisher King in the story, but even Reid's brilliant mind can't figure it out since the story never said.

Directed by Creator/GloriaMuzio

The BAU continues to decipher the clues given to each of them by a killer to save his most recent victim. Reid realizes that his personal life could help solve the case as Elle struggles to live.

* DyingDream: While in a comma after being shot by Gardner, Elle dreams of being on the team jet and seeing her late father.

* DyingDream: While in a comma after being shot by Gardner, Elle dreams of being in a mental ward and seeing her late father.
* {{Flashback}}[=/=]TimeshiftedActor: A different actor plays Gardner in a flashback before his difigurement.

* SeriousBusiness: Gardner's entire motivation rests on making the team (and eventually Spencer) make him a question that will cure him forever. Yep, it's as crazy as it sounds.
* TakingYouWithMe: Gardner tries to kill Spencer by detonating a bomb on his chest.

* TimeshiftedActor: A different actor plays Gardner in a flashback before his difigurement.
* SeriousBusiness
* TakingYouWithMe

* DrivenToSuicide
* DyingDream
* TimeshiftedActor