Recap / Criminal Minds S 10 E 17 Breath Play

Breath Play

Rossi: "There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror." W. Somerset Maugham.

An UnSub is romancing women he meets through an online book club and chokes them to death. Callahan announces her pregnancy, and Meg gets her belly button pierced in response.

Tropes in this episode:

• Expy: The romance novel Bare Reflection is one for Fifty Shades of Grey. The UnSub even looks like Jamie Dornan.
• Godwin's Law: Meg calls her aunt and uncle "dictators" and, less generically, "the gulag".
• Infant Sibling Jealousy: Callahan's niece towards Callahan's baby, which is not even born yet.
• Not Now, Kiddo: When the UnSub's daughter voices concerns about him to her mother, she gets blown off.

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Callahan: "Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression." Haim Ginott.