Remembrance of Things Past
Directed by Glenn Kershaw
Written by Janine Sherman Barrois
An old, senile serial killer relives his past through his adult son, who kidnaps women for him to torture and murder after forcing them to call their families and read from a script.Written by Janine Sherman Barrois
Rossi: Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
Provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: The Cold Open features a woman going into her dark house to retrieve some tickets for a game, revealing that some doors and windows were left open. It seems to be setting the woman up as a victim, but she makes it back to the car unharmed as the phone rings. The woman worries that it’s her daughter, but her husband just tells her to call her from the car. As they drive off, we hear the answering machine reveal that it is indeed their daughter... and she’s in trouble.
- Defiant to the End: One victim refuses to say that she "enjoyed it" in the phone message she's being forced to record.
- The Reveal: As it turns out, the woman the son helped kill when he was ten was his own mother, who he thought left them.
- Scatterbrained Senior: The oldest UnSub keeps forgetting recent kills and accuses his son of lying when he tries to explain to his father that they can't go murdering women today because he's still trying to get rid of the body from yesterday.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Reid, as always.Reid: You say the lexical features are consistent with her vernacular?
- Visible Victimology: Mullens raped and murdered multiple young blonde women, a type that his son has continued in bringing women home for him to murder.
- Rossi: Mark Twain wrote, "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my faculties are decaying now...and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."
