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Context Recap / CriminalMindsS8E4GodComplex

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1	!!God Complex
2	-> Directed by Creator/LarryTeng\
3	Written by Creator/BreenFrazier
4	--> '''Reid:''' ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, "When a doctor does go wrong, he's the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has knowledge."''
5	An [=UnSub=] practices whole limb transplants on unwilling patients to find a way to give his disabled wife a functioning leg.
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7	!Tropes in this episode:
8	* TheFaceless: Reid's mystery friend is always shot so that one doesn't see her face. She seems to be very afraid of a 'him', possibly a stalker, and she and Reid have apparently never met.
9	* LegoBodyParts: The [=UnSub=] thinks he can do this by cutting two people's legs and switching them with the other. It doesn't really work as much as he likes to believe it does, as none of them can really move with it.
10	* MadDoctor: The [=UnSub=]. Well, he's actually a mortician, but he thinks of himself as a surgeon.
11	* ObliviouslyEvil: The surgeon honestly thought his wife would be thrilled by his results -- transplanting a leg onto an amputee that he himself amputated.
12	* OrganTheft: Here, it's not internal organs the [=UnSub=] is stealing -- it's ''legs.'' The first victim is left in a motel with his leg stolen, but no ice bath or note. The second victim gets a note, but is dropped off just outside the ER. ''He's'' the one who dies, because the [=UnSub=] amputated his leg, sewed the wound closed (poorly), then opened it back up to ''attach the first victim's stolen leg.'' The [=UnSub=] at least has a sterile(-ish) facility to perform the... operations.
13	* PunchClockVillain: Deconstructed. The [=UnSub=] of the week is a MadDoctor who causes horrifying, deadly torture on people in his attempt to research how to make transplants universal (so he can give his wife a leg transplant) and is very nice to her and other people when he returns home. The deconstruction is when the BAU profile him and explain that the mentality necessary to ''be'' a Punch-Clock Villain requires a tremendous LackOfEmpathy for the people you hurt "on the clock", which means this is no different from any other kind of sociopathy. [[GodwinsLaw Concentration camp leaders]] are brought up as a specific example.
14	* ShoutOut: Reid is reading ''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Sign of Four]]'' while waiting for his secret friend to call him back.
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16	--> '''Jareau:''' ''"Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies." Dr. Jeff Miller.''

Context Recap / CriminalMindsS8E4GodComplex