YMMV / Criminal Minds S 2 E 12 Profiler Profiled

• Complete Monster: Carl Buford is a pillar of the community in Cabrini-Green, where Derek Morgan grew up. Running a youth center, Buford is in truth a pedophile who grooms young boys by doing them favors to slowly build up their trust before giving them alcohol to lower their inhibitions and raping them, which was the fate of Derek Morgan himself as a young man. One victim is so traumatized that he later projects Carl onto other men later in life and brutally murders them while repeating the phrase Carl used for the boys while raping them. Carl has also murdered three boys to keep his secret, and when sentenced, he takes the name Mohammed Alam while joining a Muslim gang. When Morgan goes to see him for information, Carl takes a special delight in toying with him, mocking him over how "special" Derek was to him, while revealing he has molested at least 57 boys, even blaming Derek, telling him "you could have said no". Even his gang are revolted upon learning the truth of Buford's crimes, and he remains one of the most chillingly realistic depictions of a predatory sex offender on Criminal Minds.