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->Directed by Creator/SkippSudduth\\
Written by Creator/CharlesMurray
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--> '''Hotchner:''' ''Erasmus wrote, "What else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on, and plays each one his part until the manager waves them off the stage?"''


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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Rossi gets a big one before the intro. Basically telling someone (Strauss) to cancel their appointment because he's "coming in" - showing he's bossy and doesn't take no for an answer. We see he's retired as he pulls his old FBI [=IDs=]. That he was successful as he has an award plaque from the White House. We see from how he dresses and his gold ring that he's rich. And lastly attention is drawn to him keeping a pendant with three names on it, which is foreshadowing to his initial character arc. His next scene is with Strauss and we immediately see the dynamic is different. Hotch treats Strauss as a boss, Rossi is on first name basis with her and basically shuts down all her questions about his return. To he credit Strauss immediately establishes that there's something fishy about Rossi wanting to return to the BAU after 10 years of retirement.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Rossi gets a big one before the intro. Basically telling someone (Strauss) to cancel their appointment because he's "coming in" - showing he's bossy and doesn't take no for an answer. We see he's retired as he pulls his old FBI [=IDs=]. That he was successful as he has an award plaque from the White House. We see from how he dresses and his gold ring that he's rich. And lastly attention is drawn to him keeping a pendant with three names on it, which is foreshadowing to his initial character arc. His next scene is with Strauss and we immediately see the dynamic is different. Hotch treats Strauss as a boss, Rossi is on first name basis with her and basically shuts down all her questions about his return. To he credit her credit, Strauss immediately establishes that there's something fishy about Rossi wanting to return to the BAU after 10 years of retirement.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: After being introduced to Jennifer, Rossi comments that they didn't have ''that'' ten years ago. Hotch looks a bit offended when he asks what Rossi means. Rossi meant a communications coordinator.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: After being introduced to Jennifer, JJ, Rossi comments that they didn't have ''that'' ten years ago. Hotch looks a bit offended when he asks what Rossi means. Rossi meant a communications coordinator.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Rossi gets a big one before the intro. Basically telling someone (Strauss) to cancel their appointment because he's "coming in" - showing he's bossy and doesn't take no for an answer. We see he's retired as he pulls his old FBI IDs. That he was successful as he has an award plaque from the White House. We see from how he dresses and his gold ring that he's rich. And lastly attention is drawn to him keeping a pendant with three names on it, which is foreshadowing to his initial character arc. His next scene is with Strauss and we immediately see the dynamic is different. Hotch treats Strauss as a boss, Rossi is on first name basis with her and basically shuts down all her questions about his return. To he credit Strauss immediately establishes that there's something fishy about Rossi wanting to return to the BAU after 10 years of retirement.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Rossi gets a big one before the intro. Basically telling someone (Strauss) to cancel their appointment because he's "coming in" - showing he's bossy and doesn't take no for an answer. We see he's retired as he pulls his old FBI IDs.[=IDs=]. That he was successful as he has an award plaque from the White House. We see from how he dresses and his gold ring that he's rich. And lastly attention is drawn to him keeping a pendant with three names on it, which is foreshadowing to his initial character arc. His next scene is with Strauss and we immediately see the dynamic is different. Hotch treats Strauss as a boss, Rossi is on first name basis with her and basically shuts down all her questions about his return. To he credit Strauss immediately establishes that there's something fishy about Rossi wanting to return to the BAU after 10 years of retirement.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Rossi gets a big one before the intro. Basically telling someone (Strauss) to cancel their appointment because he's "coming in" - showing he's bossy and doesn't take no for an answer. We see he's retired as he pulls his old FBI IDs. That he was successful as he has an award plaque from the White House. We see from how he dresses and his gold ring that he's rich. And lastly attention is drawn to him keeping a pendant with three names on it, which is foreshadowing to his initial character arc. His next scene is with Strauss and we immediately see the dynamic is different. Hotch treats Strauss as a boss, Rossi is on first name basis with her and basically shuts down all her questions about his return. To he credit Strauss immediately establishes that there's something fishy about Rossi wanting to return to the BAU after 10 years of retirement.
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Gideon has left, but his co-founder of the BAU, David Rossi, comes out of retirement to take his place. A woman finds a "missing" poster of herself on her door, left there by a stalker who rapes his victims before cutting off their faces and drowning them.

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Gideon has left, but his co-founder of the BAU, David Rossi, comes out of retirement to take his place. A woman finds a "missing" poster of herself on her door, left there by a stalker who rapes his victims before cutting off their faces and drowning them. The team profiles his motivation as feeling ignored and transfering the feeling to his victim.
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* MeaningfulName: Max Pool drowns his victims.

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When a Carrollton, Texas woman goes missing after finding a missing persons photo of herself pinned to her front door, the BAU searches for a serial killer with a mysterious motive. The team welcomes veteran profiler David Rossi (Creator/JoeMantegna), returning full-time to the FBI after a period of semi-retirement.

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When a Carrollton, Texas !!About Face
Gideon has left, but his co-founder of the BAU, David Rossi, comes out of retirement to take his place. A
woman goes missing after finding finds a missing persons photo "missing" poster of herself pinned to on her front door, the BAU searches for left there by a serial killer with a mysterious motive. The team welcomes veteran profiler David Rossi (Creator/JoeMantegna), returning full-time to the FBI after a period of semi-retirement.
stalker who rapes his victims before cutting off their faces and drowning them.




* BaitAndSwitchComment: After being introduced to Jennifer, Rossi comments that they didn't have ''that'' thirty years ago. Hotch looks a bit offended when he asks what Rossi means. Rossi meant a communications coordinator.

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\n* BaitAndSwitchComment: After being introduced to Jennifer, Rossi comments that they didn't have ''that'' thirty ten years ago. Hotch looks a bit offended when he asks what Rossi means. Rossi meant a communications coordinator.



* HalloweenEpisode: The episode takes place on Halloween, and though the holiday itself is hardly central, the theme is masks and the [=UnSub=] cuts the faces off his victims and leaves a mask behind.



* ThatOneCase: This is the first time Rossi mentions Diana and Richard Galen and their three children.

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* ThatOneCase: This is the first time Rossi mentions [[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E14Damaged Diana and Richard Galen and their three children.children]].

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* BerserkButton: Rossi intentionally pushes Pooles so he'll make a mistake. First by saying on tv that the masks he leaves behind represent impotence, and then again when he says that when they catch him he'll just be some loser nobody, just like he always has been.

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* BerserkButton: Rossi intentionally pushes Pooles Poole’s so he'll make a mistake. First by saying on tv that the masks he leaves behind represent impotence, and then again when he says that when they catch him he'll just be some loser nobody, just like he always has been.been.
* FriendToAllChildren: Reid, Prentiss, and Morgan give some children candy for Halloween after wrapping up the case.
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* TheCutie: JJ's son has decided to go trick-or-treating dressed as Reid.
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* ThatOneCase: This is the first time Rossi mentions Diana and Richard Galen and their three children.

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* BerserkButton: Rossi intentionally pushes Pooles so he'll make a mistake. First by saying on tv that the masks he leaves behind represent impotence, and then again when he says that when they catch him he'll just be some loser nobody, just like he always has been.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: After being introduced to Jennifer, Rossi comments that they didn't have ''that'' thirty years ago. Hotch looks a bit offended when he asks what Rossi means. Rossi meant a communications coordinator.
* BerserkButton: Rossi intentionally pushes Pooles so he'll make a mistake. First by saying on tv that the masks he leaves behind represent impotence, and then again when he says that when they catch him he'll just be some loser nobody, just like he always has been.been.
* TheCutie: JJ's son has decided to go trick-or-treating dressed as Reid.
* SeekingTheMissingFindingTheDead: Subverted. The victims aren't even missing yet when "missing" posters of them are hung up. They are, however, found dead.
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When a Carrollton, Texas woman goes missing after finding a missing persons photo of herself pinned to her front door, the BAU searches for a serial killer with a mysterious motive. The team welcomes veteran profiler David Rossi (Creator/JoeMantegna), returning full-time to the FBI after a period of semi-retirement.

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When a Carrollton, Texas woman goes missing after finding a missing persons photo of herself pinned to her front door, the BAU searches for a serial killer with a mysterious motive. The team welcomes veteran profiler David Rossi (Creator/JoeMantegna), returning full-time to the FBI after a period of semi-retirement.semi-retirement.

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* BerserkButton: Rossi intentionally pushes Pooles so he'll make a mistake. First by saying on tv that the masks he leaves behind represent impotence, and then again when he says that when they catch him he'll just be some loser nobody, just like he always has been.
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When a Carrollton, Texas woman goes missing after finding a missing persons photo of herself pinned to her front door, the BAU searches for a serial killer with a mysterious motive. The team welcomes veteran profiler David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), returning full-time to the FBI after a period of semi-retirement.

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When a Carrollton, Texas woman goes missing after finding a missing persons photo of herself pinned to her front door, the BAU searches for a serial killer with a mysterious motive. The team welcomes veteran profiler David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), (Creator/JoeMantegna), returning full-time to the FBI after a period of semi-retirement.
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When a six-year-old girl disappears from a Virginia shopping mall one week after another girl is abducted and murdered, the BAU juggles searching for the missing girl and identifying her kidnapper.

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When a six-year-old girl disappears from a Virginia shopping mall one week Carrollton, Texas woman goes missing after another girl is abducted and murdered, finding a missing persons photo of herself pinned to her front door, the BAU juggles searching searches for a serial killer with a mysterious motive. The team welcomes veteran profiler David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), returning full-time to the missing girl and identifying her kidnapper.FBI after a period of semi-retirement.
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When a six-year-old girl disappears from a Virginia shopping mall one week after another girl is abducted and murdered, the BAU juggles searching for the missing girl and identifying her kidnapper.

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