History Recap / CriminalMindsS13E1WheelsUp

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title is a CatchPhrase that's been repeated on the show since the beginning to let everyone know they're flying somewhere in x minutes, but this is actually one of the few episodes where the team doesn't fly anywhere, and at the end Prentiss reveals that repeating this phrase to herself helped her stay sane through the torture.

* ArcWords: To Emily, the title proper, though she keeps it to herself for most of the episode.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Mr. Scratch abducts Emily at the beginning of the episode to interrogate her as to Hotch's and Jack's whereabouts. In order to keep her subdued, he drugs her before even taking her out of the SUV so she'll believe most of her limbs are broken and she can't fight him (as revealed by Tara to the rest of the team). However, once Emily realizes this on her own and is able to see through the delusions, she pulls an ISurrenderSuckers on Scratch, attacks him, and escapes by herself and keeps him at bay while he's chasing her, though thankfully her teammates arrive as backup to help.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title is a CatchPhrase that's been repeated on the show since the beginning to let everyone know they're flying somewhere in x minutes, but this is actually one of the few episodes where the team doesn't fly anywhere, and at the end Emily reveals that repeating this phrase to herself helped her stay sane through the torture.

* ManBitesMan: Under the guise of [[ISurrenderSuckers telling Mr. Scratch what he wants]], Emily has him lean in close so she can tell him...and then bites a chunk out of his cheek.

* CallBack: A couple to the Ian Doyle arc, and how Prentiss technically died during it when her heart briefly stops. She defiantly tells Scratch that she's "died protecting a child before" (Declan Doyle), and her remembering that everything was cold and dark the previous time she "died" and that's not the case this time she's supposedly dying allows her to realize she's hallucinating and break through it.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Scratch makes Emily hallucinate that she is [[GoIntoTheLight dying]] and standing by her own grave… which clues Emily in that she is hallucinating, because [[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E18Lauren the last time her heart stopped]], all she saw was darkness. When she sees through that, she understands what's going on and starts seeing through all the other hallucinations, culminating in her escaping.

* BatmanGambit: Prentiss and the now-deceased Walker are revealed to have been pulling one on Mr. Scratch. Knowing that he was monitoring them, they faked a series of texts between Prentiss and Hotch that would make it look like Prentiss knows where Hotch and Jack are, in order to lure Scratch out to try to get this information out of Emily. It worked, since Scratch did fall for the texts, came out of hiding to abduct her, and is caught because of it, resulting in his death; sadly, this also cost Walker his life.

* BigNo: Scratch's [[FamousLastWords last words]] as he falls to his death.

* DeathGlare: Alvez gives Scratch one of these dripping with hate and disgust when the latter begs Alvez to save him.

-->'''Peter Lewis''': You are.
-->'''Emily Prentiss''': Then let me tell you something, Peter. I've died before protecting a child. That was a child I barely knew. But Jack? I love Jack. I've watched Jack grow up. I will not betray him or his father, so it doesn't matter what you do to me. I will not break.

* VillainsWantMercy: Peter Lewis has the gall to beg Alvez to help him when he's dangling from a collapsing fire escape. Alvez lets him fall to his death.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he thinks Prentiss is implying his interest in Jack Hotchner is sexual, Peter Lewis is visibly angered. It makes sense when you remember that Scratch's own StartOfDarkness was his father being falsely accused of pedophilia and killed in jail for it.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: In the hospital, when giving Reid and Alvez instructions, Rossi knows that Scratch may be listening in via their phones, so he pretends to be too concussed to think straight, also playing up being an injured GrumpyOldMan. Alvez and Reid, in turn, pretend to not know what he's talking about and act like they just think he's rambling.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he thinks Prentiss is implying his interest in Jack Hotchner is sexual, Peter Lewis is visibly angered.

When escaped serial killer Peter Lewis launches a devastating final assault on the BAU and takes one of their own as a hostage, Garcia brings in former International Response Team member Matt Simmons to help apprehend Mr. Scratch before more lives are lost.

* CharacterDeath: RIP Stepher Walker. In a subversion of BlackGuyDiesFirst, he is the first active duty BAU member who has died. Gideon died a couple of years earlier, but that was years after he was forced into retirement.

* DeathGlare: Alvez gives Scratch one of these dropping with hate and disgust when the latter begs Alvez to save him.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Mr. Scratch abducts Emily at the beginning of the episode to interrogate her as to Hotch's and Jack's whereabouts. In order to keep her subdued, he drugs her before even taking her out of the SUV so she'll believe most of her limbs are broken and she can't fight him (as revealed by Tara to the rest of the team). However, once Emily realizes this on her own and is able to see through the delusions, she pulls an ISurrenderSuckers on Scratch, attacks him, and escapes by herself, though thankfully her teammates arrive as backup to help.

* ItsPersonal: Invoked by Reid about Mr. Scratch: Reid clearly tells Alvez that after everything Scratch has done to the B.A.U., he has no intention of taking Scratch alive.

When escaped serial killer Peter Lewis launches a devastating final assault on the BAU and takes one of their own as a hostage, Garcia brings in former International Response Team member Matt Simmons to help apprehend Lewis before more lives are lost.

* DeathGlare: Alvez gives Lewis one of these dropping with hate and disgust when the latter begs Alvez to save him.

* ManBitesMan: Under the guise of [[ISurrenderSuckers telling Lewis what he wants]], Emily has Lewis lean in close so she can tell him...and then bites a chunk out of his cheek.
* MamaBear: Invoked by Prentiss, who while acknowledging Jack Hotchner isn't her son, states that she cares about him and his father too much to give Lewis their location.

* MurderByInaction: Alvez ignores Lewis begging for help, and just stands by until Lewis loses his grip and falls to his death.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Scratch makes Emily hallucinate that she is [[GoIntoTheLight dying]] and standing by her own grave… which clues Emily in that she is hallucinating, because [[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E18Lauren the last time her heart stopped]], all she saw was darkness. When she sees through that, she starts seeing through all the other hallucinations.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Rossi pretends to be too concussed to think straight. Luke and Reid pretend to buy it.
* PregnancyScare: On Emily's hallucinated gravestone, there is her own birthdate and date of death, as well as that of a person born six months after her date of death. It's a RedHerring, as that is not what she means by "I get it now".

* VillainsWantMercy: Lewis has the gall to beg Alvez to help him when he's dangling from a collapsing fire escape. Alvez lets him fall to his death.

* VillainsWantMercy: Lewis has the gall to beg Alvez to help him when he's dangling from a collapsing gantry. Alvez lets him fall to his death.

* CharacterDeath: RIP Stepher Walker. In a subversion of BlackGuyDiesFirst, he is the first active duty BAU member who has dies. Gideon died a couple of years earlier, but that was years after he was forced into retirement.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Scratch makes Emily hallucinate that she is [[GoIntoTheLight dying]] and standing by her own grave… which clues Emily in that she is hallucinating, because Following
[[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E18 Lauren the last time her heart stopped]], all she saw was darkness.

When escaped serial killer Peter Lewis launches a devastating final assault on the BAU and takes one of their own as a hostage, Garcia brings in former International Response Team member Matt Simmons to help apprehend Lewis before more lives are lost.