Scream
Callahan: "Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason." William R. Alger.
An UnSub who is obsessed with cleanliness kidnaps women to help him recreate his parents' last argument. Unfortunately for the women, this was the argument that ended in his mother's death. Kate's niece-slash-adopted daughter wants to meet someone she met on the internet in real life.
Provides examples of
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: What Kate's niece Meg thinks of her and her husband Chris. Though, given that the person she was going to meet with was not in fact a college boy but someone seeming a lot more sinister, they seem perfectly justified.
Meg's friend: Your uncle is
such a
stalker!
- Call-Back: The UnSub makes his victims learn a script, rather like the one in "Reflection Of Desire". This one also has his victims play the part of his mother.
- Domestic Abuse:
- The UnSub's father was very abusive and ended up killing his wife, the UnSub's mother.
- Greta, one of the victims, was also abused by her husband.
- Freudian Excuse: The UnSub's only memory of his mother was a tape recording of his parents' last argument after he witnessed his father murder his mother before committing suicide. When the recording was lost in a fire, he tried to recreate it with various abducted women speaking his mother's "lines".
- My Greatest Failure: Folkmore, the policeman who was unable to save the UnSub and his mother from the violent husband and father, feels it's his biggest regret.
- Parental Hypocrisy: Callahan has problems with her 13-year-old niece going to the mall with a friend to meet two boys. In conversation with JJ, however, she mentions that although they're supposed to be Meg's friends and classmates, when Kate met a boy in the mall when she was 13, it was a date, meaning that she did the same thing she doesn't want her niece doing now.note Though it could be justified by Kate actually planning it with the boy in person, rather than online.
- Psychopathic Manchild: The UnSub, a man in his 30s, throws a tantrum when his current victim proves uncooperative. He also has a habit of repeatedly banging his head in between torturing his victims.
- Spanner in the Works: Megan's uncle turning up causes the person stalking her and her friend to retreat, rather than go with his plan to abduct them.
Hotch: "Nothing can drive one closer to his own insanity than a haunting memory refusing its own death." Darnella Ford.
