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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The bulk of the episode takes place in Evanston, Wyoming. As Christopher's father is taking Christopher to his mother's grave, Garcia describes it as halfway between Evanston and Glenrock, Wyoming. This in dialogue would imply that Glenrock is the next town over, but in fact, Glenrock is 5 hours away on the other side of a very big state.

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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The bulk of the episode takes place in Evanston, Wyoming. As Christopher's father is taking Christopher to his mother's grave, Garcia describes it as halfway between Evanston and Glenrock, Wyoming. This in dialogue and the sherrif's knowledge of the chapel would imply that Glenrock is the next town over, but in fact, Glenrock is 5 hours away on the other side of a very big state.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The bulk of the episode takes place in Evanston, Wyoming. As Christopher's father is taking Christopher to his mother's grave, Garcia describes it as halfway between Evanston and Glenrock, Wyoming. This in dialogue would imply that Glenrock is the next town over, but in fact, it's 5 hours away on the other side of a very big state.

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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The bulk of the episode takes place in Evanston, Wyoming. As Christopher's father is taking Christopher to his mother's grave, Garcia describes it as halfway between Evanston and Glenrock, Wyoming. This in dialogue would imply that Glenrock is the next town over, but in fact, it's Glenrock is 5 hours away on the other side of a very big state.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The bulk of the episode takes place in Evanston, Wyoming. As Christopher's father is taking Christopher to his mother's grave, Garcia describes it as halfway between Evanston and Glenrock, Wyoming. This in dialogue would imply that Glenrock is the next town over, but in fact, it's 5 hours away on the other side of a very big state.
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->Directed by Creator/RobSpera\\
Written by Creator/JimClemente
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--> '''Jareau:''' ''"Life is a game. Play it. Life is too precious. Do not destroy it." Mother Teresa.''



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--> '''Jareau:''' ''"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn." C.S. Lewis.''
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* AbusiveParents: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy, and hurts his son so he can get sympathy for taking care of an injured or sick child. This is after Christopher's mother dies from the same abuse.

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* AbusiveParents: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy, Proxy, and hurts his son so he can get sympathy for taking care of an injured or sick child. This is after Christopher's mother dies from the same abuse.



* PlotHole: Reid thinks Prentiss's romantic story about a falling star contains a massive ArtisticLicensePhysics, since meteors burn up in the atmosphere, and those that don't certainly don't shatter when they hit the ground.

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* PlotHole: Reid thinks Prentiss's romantic story about a falling star contains a massive ArtisticLicensePhysics, since meteors burn up in the atmosphere, and those that don't burn up certainly don't shatter when they hit the ground.



* ShoutOut: Christopher's ear ring is supposedly the one Creator/JohnnyDepp wore in Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean.

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* ShoutOut: Christopher's ear ring earring is supposedly the one Creator/JohnnyDepp wore in Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean.



* WouldHurtAChild: Christopher's father. He's been hurting his own son for years, and is willing to cause any number of high school kids to die.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Christopher's father. He's been hurting his own son for years, years and is willing to cause any number of high school kids to die.
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* ThisIsNotThatTrope: JJ explains to Hotch that when you feel trapped, death can feel like the only way out, but that that is not the case in the town where these apparent auicides are going on.
* TooDumbToLive: The kids don't seem to understand that by hanging themselves, they are killing themselves.

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* ThisIsNotThatTrope: JJ explains to Hotch that when you feel trapped, death can feel like the only way out, but that that is not the case in the town where these apparent auicides suicides are going on.
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* TooDumbToLive: The kids don't seem to understand that by hanging themselves, they are killing themselves. They make fun of Reid when he tries to explain that oxygen deprivation causes brain damage.

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An [=UnSub=] gets choking/asphyxiation trending online among teenagers in his son's high school. Several children who join this online event die, and it looks like suicide by hanging. JJ's sister killed herself when she was in her teens, so she recognizes that these are not suicides, and gets the BAU involved. They suspect a boy who has clearly been harming himself for a long time, as well as been admitted to hospitals several times since the death of his mother. Garcia connects with him, but his father lawyers up before she can get answers out of him.

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An [=UnSub=] gets choking/asphyxiation trending online among teenagers in his son's high school. Several children who join this online event die, and it looks like suicide by hanging. JJ's sister killed herself when she was in her teens, so she recognizes that these are not suicides, and gets the BAU involved. They suspect a boy who has clearly been harming himself for a long time, as well as been admitted to hospitals several times since the death of his mother. Garcia connects with him, but his father lawyers up before she can get answers out of him, but he manages to tell her his administrative password anyway before his father takes him to his mother's grave to kill him.



* AbusiveParents: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy, and hurts his son so he can get sympathy for taking care of an injured or sick child.

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* AbusiveParents: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy, and hurts his son so he can get sympathy for taking care of an injured or sick child. This is after Christopher's mother dies from the same abuse.


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* WouldHurtAChild: Christopher's father. He's been hurting his own son for years, and is willing to cause any number of high school kids to die.
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It's to get high. I barely remember this season.


An [=UnSub=] gets erotic asphyxiation trending online among teenagers in his son's high school. Several children who join this online event die, and it looks like suicideby hanging. JJ's sister killed herself when she was in her teens, so she recognizes that these are not suicides, and gets the BAU involved.

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An [=UnSub=] gets erotic asphyxiation choking/asphyxiation trending online among teenagers in his son's high school. Several children who join this online event die, and it looks like suicideby suicide by hanging. JJ's sister killed herself when she was in her teens, so she recognizes that these are not suicides, and gets the BAU involved. They suspect a boy who has clearly been harming himself for a long time, as well as been admitted to hospitals several times since the death of his mother. Garcia connects with him, but his father lawyers up before she can get answers out of him.

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When four Evanston, Wyoming teenagers commit suicide within a two-week period, the BAU concentrates their efforts on an online "choking game" that manipulates high school students into participating and seeing who can outdo everyone else.

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When four Evanston, Wyoming An [=UnSub=] gets erotic asphyxiation trending online among teenagers commit suicide within a two-week period, in his son's high school. Several children who join this online event die, and it looks like suicideby hanging. JJ's sister killed herself when she was in her teens, so she recognizes that these are not suicides, and gets the BAU concentrates their efforts on an online "choking game" that manipulates high school students into participating and seeing who can outdo everyone else.
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* AbusiveParents: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy.

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* AbusiveParents: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy.proxy, and hurts his son so he can get sympathy for taking care of an injured or sick child.



* TooDumbToLive: The kids who were tricked into killing themselves.

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* ThisIsNotThatTrope: JJ explains to Hotch that when you feel trapped, death can feel like the only way out, but that that is not the case in the town where these apparent auicides are going on.
* TooDumbToLive: The kids who were tricked into don't seem to understand that by hanging themselves, they are killing themselves.
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* ShoutOut: Christopher's ear ring is supposedly the one Creator/JohnnyDepp wore in Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean.

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!!Risky Business



* PlotHole: Reid thinks Prentiss's romantic story about a falling star contains a massive ArtisticLicensePhysics, since meteors burn up in the atmosphere.
* SelfHarm: The Christopher becomes a suspect for doing this.
* TooDumbToLive: The kids who were tricked into killing themselves.

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* PlotHole: Reid thinks Prentiss's romantic story about a falling star contains a massive ArtisticLicensePhysics, since meteors burn up in the atmosphere.
atmosphere, and those that don't certainly don't shatter when they hit the ground.
* SelfHarm: The Christopher becomes a suspect for doing this.
* TooDumbToLive: The kids who were tricked into killing themselves.themselves.
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* ChildAbuse: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy.

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* ChildAbuse: AbusiveParents: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy.


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* PlotHole: Reid thinks Prentiss's romantic story about a falling star contains a massive ArtisticLicensePhysics, since meteors burn up in the atmosphere.

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* SelfHarm: The goth kid becomes a suspect for doing this.

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* ChildAbuse: Christopher's dad has Munchausen's by proxy.
* MissingMom: Christopher's mother died, leading to the self-harm.
* SelfHarm: The goth kid Christopher becomes a suspect for doing this.
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When four Evanston, Wyoming teenagers commit suicide within a two-week period, the BAU concentrates their efforts on an online "choking game" that manipulates high school students into participating and seeing who can outdo everyone else.

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When four Evanston, Wyoming teenagers commit suicide within a two-week period, the BAU concentrates their efforts on an online "choking game" that manipulates high school students into participating and seeing who can outdo everyone else.else.

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* SelfHarm: The goth kid becomes a suspect for doing this.
* TooDumbToLive: The kids who were tricked into killing themselves.
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When four Evanston, Wyoming teenagers commit suicide within a two-week period, the BAU concentrates their efforts on an online "choking game" that manipulates high school students into participating and seeing who can outdo everyone else.

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