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*MotiveMisidentification: The [=UnSub=] is a young woman who abducted four athletic men. Throughout the episode, the profilers theorize about her sexual motives, her seeking out sex slaves for procreation, her need to built a family, etc. None of these turned out to be true. The [=UnSub=] was using the victims as fertilizer for her plants, and as ingredients for bizarre medical remedies.
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-> Directed by Creator/JohnTerlesky\\
Written by Creator/BruceZimmerman
--> '''Reid:''' ''"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." Edgar Allan Poe.''



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--> '''Blake:''' ''Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you who you are."''
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* BreedingSlave: What the BAU initially assume the unsub's keeping the men for. [[ImAHumanitarian It isn't the case]].
* BuriedAlive: The Unsub tries to do this to her ten-year-old. Subverted since she's not trying to kill her, but to heal her from an imagined skin condition.

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* BreedingSlave: What the BAU initially assume the unsub's [=UnSub=]'s keeping the men for. [[ImAHumanitarian It isn't the case]].
* BuriedAlive: The Unsub [=UnSub=] tries to do this to her ten-year-old. Subverted since she's not trying to kill her, but to heal her from an imagined skin condition.



* {{Hypochondria}}: The Unsub has a severe case of this, hallucinating rashes on herself and her daughter.

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* {{Hypochondria}}: The Unsub [=UnSub=] has a severe case of this, hallucinating rashes on herself and her daughter.



** The Unsub ingests placenta for medicinal purposes. If you wonder where she got the placenta, she scraped it out of a pregnant woman's uterus.

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** The Unsub [=UnSub=] ingests placenta for medicinal purposes. If you wonder where she got the placenta, she scraped it out of a pregnant woman's uterus.



* PlaceboEffect: As you might expect, the Unsub's imaginary health conditions are cured from whatever she takes expecting it to cure her. If she had imagined thyme to be the cure, the FBI would never have gotten involved.

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* PlaceboEffect: As you might expect, the Unsub's [=UnSub=]'s imaginary health conditions are cured from whatever she takes expecting it to cure her. If she had imagined thyme to be the cure, the FBI would never have gotten involved.

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* ImAHumanitarian: The Unsub ingests placenta for medicinal purposes. If you wonder where she got the placenta, she scraped it out of a pregnant woman's uterus.

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* ImAHumanitarian: ImAHumanitarian:
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The Unsub ingests placenta for medicinal purposes. If you wonder where she got the placenta, she scraped it out of a pregnant woman's uterus.
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When four La Grande, Oregon men go missing and a puddle of vomit found on at the latest crime scene reveals the latest victim had elevated levels of melatonin in his system, the BAU attempts to find a common link among the victims. Meanwhile, JJ grows worried after learning Henry is adamant about not celebrating Halloween.

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When four La Grande, Oregon men go missing The widow of a farmer believes healthy living comes from healthy people, so she kidnaps joggers and a puddle of vomit found on at the latest crime scene reveals the latest victim had elevated levels of melatonin in his system, the BAU attempts to find a common link among the victims. Meanwhile, JJ grows worried after learning Henry is adamant about not celebrating Halloween.
fertilizes her crops with them.
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* BreedingSlave: The Unsub kidnaps men and keeps them in her barn to get herself pregnant.

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* BreedingSlave: The Unsub kidnaps What the BAU initially assume the unsub's keeping the men and keeps them in her barn to get herself pregnant.for. [[ImAHumanitarian It isn't the case]].
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* Too!uchInformation: When asked why he doesn't like to go to the beach, Reid cites reasons such as too much visible skin and that it's a boring landscape – but also that it's full of antibiotic-resistant bacteria spread by seagull feces.

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* Too!uchInformation: TooMuchInformation: When asked why he doesn't like to go to the beach, Reid cites reasons such as too much visible skin and that it's a boring landscape – but also that it's full of antibiotic-resistant bacteria spread by seagull feces.
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* InducedCannibalism: Emma, the Unsub, tries to feed her daughter placenta and blood from her victims.

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* BuriedAlive: The Unsub tries to do this to her ten-year-old. Subverted since she's not trying to kill her, but to heal her from an imagined skin condition.
* TheCutie: JJ's son Henry dresses up as Reid for Halloween.



* TheCutie: JJ's son Henry dresses up as Reid for Halloween.

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* TheCutie: JJ's son Henry dresses up ** She also grows her own food using human corpses (in excellent health) as Reid for Halloween.fertilizer.
* InducedCannibalism: Emma, the Unsub, tries to feed her daughter placenta and blood from her victims.
* PlaceboEffect: As you might expect, the Unsub's imaginary health conditions are cured from whatever she takes expecting it to cure her. If she had imagined thyme to be the cure, the FBI would never have gotten involved.

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!The Good Earth



* TheCutie: JJ's son Henry dresses up as Reid for Halloween.

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* BreedingSlave: The Unsub kidnaps men and keeps them in her barn to get herself pregnant.
* {{Hypochondria}}: The Unsub has a severe case of this, hallucinating rashes on herself and her daughter.
* ImAHumanitarian: The Unsub ingests placenta for medicinal purposes. If you wonder where she got the placenta, she scraped it out of a pregnant woman's uterus.
* TheCutie: JJ's son Henry dresses up as Reid for Halloween.Halloween.
* Too!uchInformation: When asked why he doesn't like to go to the beach, Reid cites reasons such as too much visible skin and that it's a boring landscape – but also that it's full of antibiotic-resistant bacteria spread by seagull feces.
-->'''JJ:''' Sorry I asked.
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When four La Grande, Oregon men go missing and a puddle of vomit found on at the latest crime scene reveals the latest victim had elevated levels of melatonin in his system, the BAU attempts to find a common link among the victims. Meanwhile, JJ grows worried after learning Henry is adamant about not celebrating Halloween.

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When four La Grande, Oregon men go missing and a puddle of vomit found on at the latest crime scene reveals the latest victim had elevated levels of melatonin in his system, the BAU attempts to find a common link among the victims. Meanwhile, JJ grows worried after learning Henry is adamant about not celebrating Halloween.

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* TheCutie: JJ's son Henry dresses up as Reid for
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When four La Grande, Oregon men go missing and a puddle of vomit found on at the latest crime scene reveals the latest victim had elevated levels of melatonin in his system, the BAU attempts to find a common link among the victims. Meanwhile, JJ grows worried after learning Henry is adamant about not celebrating Halloween.

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