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Author: AmbarSonofDeshar

Aug 17th 2011 at 9:39:50 AM

I think I have an example here. In ''CriminalMinds'', the Boston Reaper crossed the MoralEventHorizon long before we ever met him, being a sociopathic SerialKiller who murders people out of a desire for fame. Across his four or five episode run on the show, he murders a busload of people, escapes from prison, captures and tortures Hotch, and finally, tracks down and murders Hotch's ex-wife Haley, while Hotch listens on the phone. When Hotch arrives at the house, he has murder on his mind, but there's no garuntee that the Reaper is done for. He accquits himself well in the fight, and it's possible that he'll get away. It's possible that Hotch will have a change of heart and simply arrest him. It's possible that Morgan and the others will arrive and stop Hotch before he does something he'll regret. And then he says the following line: "After I finish you, I'm gonna find that little bastard son of yours, and I'm gonna show him both of his dead parents, and I'm gonna tell him that it was all your fault, and then I'm gonna--" He never finishes the sentence. Hotch hits him with a table leg, tackles him, and starts hitting him. And we know, just from that one line, that Morgan and the others are not going to arrive in time to prevent Hotch from beating the Reaper to death. Going off of the discussion and trope description that sounds like this to me.

Here's a link to the fight if anyone wants to verify it for themself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGDWPqcDO6Q