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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The mother refuses to kill the first victim when she turns out to have epilepsy, and while the father initially tries to insist, he isn't able to bring himself to do it either.
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->Directed by Creator/TimMatheson\\
Written by Creator/MarkLinehanBruner
Written by Creator/MarkLinehanBruner
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--> '''Prentiss:''' ''Winston Churchill said, "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened, and maintained."''
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--> '''Hotchner:''' ''Mario Puzo wrote, "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."''
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* GoodCopBadCop: Prentiss and Hotch respectfully pull off an ''excellent'' one.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Prentiss and Hotch respectfully respectively pull off an ''excellent'' one.
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* TheFamilyWhoSlaysTogether: A Romani couple who abduct the daughter of a local family as a bride for the son and kill the parents. And as Garcia discovers, this family have been doing it for generations.
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* TheFamilyWhoSlaysTogether: TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: A Romani couple who abduct the daughter of a local family as a bride for the son and kill the parents. And as Garcia discovers, this family have been doing it for generations.
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* TheFamilyWhoSlaysTogether: A Romani couple who abduct the daughter of a local family as a bride for the son and kill the parents. And as Garcia discovers, this family have been doing it for generations.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: The father of the first victim, trying to cope with his daughter's abduction (though it's implied he's been [[TheAlcoholic struggling with the bottle since his divorce]]): the local sheriff even quips to Hotch that he's smelled bar fights that stank less of booze. That said, he seems determined to sober up when Hotch explains his daughter will need a great deal of support to process the trauma of her ordeal.
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* StockholmSyndrome: The Romani family kill parents and abduct girls with intention of making the daughters future wives for the sons. Kathy/Sylvia has become conditioned to the point where she is fiercely loyal to her husband that she allows herself to get caught and claims to have committed all the murders to protect him. She also gives her son an order not to tell the FBI about his brothers.
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* SlashedThroat: How the Unsubs kill their victims.
* StockholmSyndrome: The Romani family kill parents and abduct girls with the intention of making the daughters future wives for the sons. Kathy/Sylvia has become conditioned to the point where she is fiercely loyal to her husband that she allows herself to get caught and claims to have committed all the murders to protect him. She also gives her son an order not to tell the FBI about hisbrothers.brothers.
* WeNeedADistraction: When the son finds the local cops distributing Wanted posters with his mother's face on them, the father essentially makes her get arrested for shoplifting so he and their son can escape.
* StockholmSyndrome: The Romani family kill parents and abduct girls with the intention of making the daughters future wives for the sons. Kathy/Sylvia has become conditioned to the point where she is fiercely loyal to her husband that she allows herself to get caught and claims to have committed all the murders to protect him. She also gives her son an order not to tell the FBI about his
* WeNeedADistraction: When the son finds the local cops distributing Wanted posters with his mother's face on them, the father essentially makes her get arrested for shoplifting so he and their son can escape.
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* YouJustToldMe: When interrogating the mother, Hotch reads her a list of names of local Roma her family could be with at the moment. When he gets to one name, she screams that she will never tell him. He tells her she just did.
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!!Tropes present in this episode:
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* GenerationXerox: A dark example. The boy's mother was the last kidnapping victim.
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* StockholmSyndrome: The Romani family kill parents and abduct girls with intention of making the daughters future wives for the sons. Kathy/Sylvia has become conditioned to the point where she is fiercely loyal to her husband that she allows herself to get caught and claims to have committed all the murders to protect him. She also gives her son an order not to tell the FBI about his brothers.brothers.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: Discussed. When they discover that the girl they took has epilepsy, the couple naturally deem her unfit for their son and the father wants his wife to kill her, but the mother refuses. They end up dumping her in a ditch, but alive and relatively unharmed.
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* WouldNotHurtAChild: Discussed. When they discover that the girl they took has epilepsy, the couple naturally deem her unfit for their son and the father wants his wife to kill her, but the mother refuses. They end up dumping her in a ditch, but alive and relatively unharmed.
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* RoguishRomani: The Romani family are murderous thieves, pickpockets, and abductors of children. Rossi calls this a "perversion" of Romani culture, but then Garcia starts searching for similar crimes coinciding with "waves" of Romany moving through an area, and Rossi says "A lot of Romany make their living as petty thieves."
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* RoguishRomani: The Romani family are murderous thieves, pickpockets, and abductors of children. Rossi calls this a "perversion" of Romani culture, but then Garcia starts searching for similar crimes coinciding with "waves" of Romany moving through an area, and Rossi says "A lot of Romany make their living as petty thieves.""
* StockholmSyndrome: The Romani family kill parents and abduct girls with intention of making the daughters future wives for the sons. Kathy/Sylvia has become conditioned to the point where she is fiercely loyal to her husband that she allows herself to get caught and claims to have committed all the murders to protect him. She also gives her son an order not to tell the FBI about his brothers.
* StockholmSyndrome: The Romani family kill parents and abduct girls with intention of making the daughters future wives for the sons. Kathy/Sylvia has become conditioned to the point where she is fiercely loyal to her husband that she allows herself to get caught and claims to have committed all the murders to protect him. She also gives her son an order not to tell the FBI about his brothers.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Prentiss and Hotch respectfully pull off an ''excellent'' one.
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* DownerEnding: The BAU stop the family, but are left with the knowledge that this wasn’t the only branch of the family who enact the ritual. Not only do the BAU have no idea how large the family truly is, the final scene of the episode is of another family about to go through with the ritual.
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!!"Bloodline" provides examples of:
* RoguishRomani: The Romani family are murderous thieves, pickpockets, and abductors of children. Rossi calls this a "perversion" of Romani culture, but then Garcia starts searching for similar crimes coinciding with "waves" of Romany moving through an area, and Rossi says "A lot of Romany make their living as petty thieves."
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* AcceptableTargets: Romany/Gypsies. The unsub family is an almost painfully stereotypical rundown of every rumor and hateful opinion about them, from them being murderous thieves and pickpockets to the main focus of the episode, stealing children. The writers give Rossi a throwaway line about this being a "perversion" of Romany culture as an attempt to deny they're doing this, but then the team immediately instructs Garcia to start searching for similar crimes coinciding with "waves" of Romany moving through an area.
** The episode slips up and gets honest at one point when Rossi says "A lot of Romany make their living as petty thieves."
* AcceptableTargets: Romany/Gypsies. The unsub family is an almost painfully stereotypical rundown of every rumor and hateful opinion about them, from them being murderous thieves and pickpockets to the main focus of the episode, stealing children. The writers give Rossi a throwaway line about this being a "perversion" of Romany culture as an attempt to deny they're doing this, but then the team immediately instructs Garcia to start searching for similar crimes coinciding with "waves" of Romany moving through an area.
** The episode slips up and gets honest at one point when Rossi says "A lot of Romany make their living as petty thieves."
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* AcceptableTargets: Romany/Gypsies. The unsub family is an almost painfully stereotypical rundown of every rumor and hateful opinion about them, from them being murderous thieves and pickpockets to the main focus of the episode, stealing children. The writers give Rossi a throwaway line about this being a "perversion" of Romany culture as an attempt to deny they're doing this, but then the team immediately instructs Garcia to start searching for similar crimes coinciding with "waves" of Romany moving through an area.
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* AcceptableTargets: Romany/Gypsies. The unsub family is an almost painfully stereotypical rundown of every rumor and hateful opinion about them, from them being murderous thieves and pickpockets to the main focus of the episode, stealing children. The writers give Rossi a throwaway line about this being a "perversion" of Romany culture as an attempt to deny they're doing this, but then the team immediately instructs Garcia to start searching for similar crimes coinciding with "waves" of Romany moving through an area.area.
** The episode slips up and gets honest at one point when Rossi says "A lot of Romany make their living as petty thieves."
** The episode slips up and gets honest at one point when Rossi says "A lot of Romany make their living as petty thieves."
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