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* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Hotch [[{{Cliffhanger}} discovers the hard way]] that [[AloneWithThePsycho the Reaper found out his home address]].
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->Directed by Creator/FelixEnriqiezAlcala\\

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->Directed by Creator/FelixEnriqiezAlcala\\Creator/FelixEnriquezAlcala\\
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->Directed by Creator/FelixEnriqiezAlcala\\
Written by Creator/ChrisMundy
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--> '''Morgan:''' ''Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."''



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--> '''Morgan:''' ''William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends."''
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* OncePerEpisode: Inverted. This is one of the few times when there is no quote at the end of the episode, with Hotchner (in narration) talking about how sometimes there is just nothing that can help make sense of the evils of the world... [[OhCrap right before he discovers]] that [[AloneWithThePsycho the Reaper was waiting for him in his living room]].
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* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Hotch [[{{Cliffhanger}} discovers the hard way]] that [[AloneWithThePsycho the Reaper found out his home address]].
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* DisappointedByTheMotive: The BAU spent the whole episode believing that the suspects were a bunch of disenfranchised men who, unable to find jobs, decided to take out their frustrations on any rich person they could get their hands on. They end up being extremely disgusted that the suspects are actually a bunch of well-off contractors who kill purely for fun.


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* ForTheEvulz: The one suspect the BAU manages to interrogate explains his group's reasons as "it was fun, boss". It is foreshadowed by a prior scene in which the criminals watch a video they recorded of one of the murders in a very fancy living room that turns out to belong to one of them in a fashion not unlike a Super Bowl kegger.
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* OncePerEpisode: Inverted. This is one of the few times when there is no quote at the end of the episode, with Hotchner (in narration) talking about how sometimes there is just nothing that can help make sense of the evils of the world... [[OhCrap right before he discovers]] that [[AloneWithThePsycho the Reaper was waiting for him in his living room]].
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* ConstructiveBodyDisposal: One of the many people the contractors murdered was buried in the wall of a room they were remodeling for a family (to make it more horrible, it was being used as a nursery).
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** The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss."

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** The only motive the unsubs [=UnSub=] actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss."



* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: The BAU successfully tracks and profiles the unsubs, but are wrong about and unable to comprehend the motive.

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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: The BAU successfully tracks and profiles the unsubs, [=UnSub=], but are wrong about and unable to comprehend the motive.



* WhatTheHellHero: Morgan and Rossi take turns with this at the end of the episode. Morgan calls out that Hotch walking away from the scene is wrong, and he should either participate in trying to take the unsubs down or try to talk the police into handling it differently. Rossi replies that Morgan is getting caught up in the hate spiral and his presence there will do nothing but possibly add another bullet hole to the bodies.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Morgan and Rossi take turns with this at the end of the episode. Morgan calls out that Hotch walking away from the scene is wrong, and he should either participate in trying to take the unsubs [=UnSub=] down or try to talk the police into handling it differently. Rossi replies that Morgan is getting caught up in the hate spiral and his presence there will do nothing but possibly add another bullet hole to the bodies.

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When a series of escalating vandalism incidents culminate in a quadruple homicide, the BAU works with the Metropolitan Police Department to track down a three-person killing team who commit crimes for the thrill of violence. Meanwhile, Morgan finds himself forging a personal connection with a woman related to one of the victims.
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* EvilFeelsGood[=/=]ForTheEvulz: The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss."

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When a series !!Hopeless
A group
of escalating vandalism incidents culminate home invaders murder people in a quadruple homicide, newly gentrified neighborhood. The police chief who invites the BAU works gets fed up with profiling and wishes to take matters into his own hands, but they stay and figure out that the Metropolitan Police Department to track down a three-person killing team who commit crimes for [=UnSubs=] are likely contractors or construction workers, and that they must have killed someone before the thrill of violence. Meanwhile, Morgan finds himself forging a personal connection with a woman related to one of ones the victims.
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police became aware of.
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* EvilFeelsGood[=/=]ForTheEvulz: EvilFeelsGood:
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The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss."



* SuicideByCop: How two of unsubs go out.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Morgan tells Tamara Barnes that this type of [=UnSubs=] tend to commit suicide by cop.
-->'''Ms. Barnes:''' Good.
* SuicideByCop: How two of unsubs the [=UnSubs=] go out.



* WhatTheHellHero: Morgan and Rossi take turns with this at the end of the episode. Morgan calls out that Hotch walking away from the scene is wrong, and he should either participate in trying to take the unsubs down or try to talk the police into handling it differently. Rossi replies that Morgan is getting caught up in the hate spiral and his presence there will do nothing but possibly add another bullet hole to the bodies.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Morgan and Rossi take turns with this at the end of the episode. Morgan calls out that Hotch walking away from the scene is wrong, and he should either participate in trying to take the unsubs down or try to talk the police into handling it differently. Rossi replies that Morgan is getting caught up in the hate spiral and his presence there will do nothing but possibly add another bullet hole to the bodies.bodies.
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* EvilFeelsGood: The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss."

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* EvilFeelsGood: EvilFeelsGood[=/=]ForTheEvulz: The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss.""
** Also the unrelated rioters.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: The BAU successfully tracks and profiles the unsubs, but are wrong about and unable to comprehend the motive.
* SuicideByCop: How two of unsubs go out.
* UnflinchingWalk: Hotch, Rossi, and Prentiss walk off as the (very pissed off) cops indulge the SuicideByCop desire.
** INeedAFreakingDrink: It then cuts back to the Bureau, where the three all share a drink.
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* EvilFeelsGood: The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss."

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* EvilFeelsGood: The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss.""
* WhatTheHellHero: Morgan and Rossi take turns with this at the end of the episode. Morgan calls out that Hotch walking away from the scene is wrong, and he should either participate in trying to take the unsubs down or try to talk the police into handling it differently. Rossi replies that Morgan is getting caught up in the hate spiral and his presence there will do nothing but possibly add another bullet hole to the bodies.
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When a series of escalating vandalism incidents culminate in a quadruple homicide, the BAU works with the Metropolitan Police Department to track down a three-person killing team who commit crimes for the thrill of violence. Meanwhile, Morgan finds himself forging a personal connection with a woman related to one of the victims.

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When a series of escalating vandalism incidents culminate in a quadruple homicide, the BAU works with the Metropolitan Police Department to track down a three-person killing team who commit crimes for the thrill of violence. Meanwhile, Morgan finds himself forging a personal connection with a woman related to one of the victims.victims.
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* EvilFeelsGood: The only motive the unsubs actually had for their murders and assaults. "It was fun, boss."
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When a series of escalating vandalism incidents culminate in a quadruple homicide, the BAU works with the Metropolitan Police Department to track down a three-person killing team who commit crimes for the thrill of violence. Meanwhile, Morgan finds himself forging a personal connection with a woman related to one of the victims.

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