History Recap / CriminalMindsS6E8ReflectionOfDesire

* AgonyOfTheFeet: The [=UnSub=] cuts off one victim's toes instead of getting her a larger shoe size, similar to the older versions of Cinderella where one of the step-sisters does the same thing to fit into the shoe.

A man whose abusive mother made him reenact her one movie role his entire childhood, processes the trauma by kidnapping pretty women and forcing them to reenact the scene with him. When they don't get it exactly right due to nerves, he drugs and mutilates them.

--> '''Garcia:''' ''Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." Marilyn Monroe.''

* CharacterFocus: Garcia.

* OedipusComplex: The [=UnSub=] hates his deadbeat dad and wants his mother to acknowledge that he is a better man who became famous under the pseudonym the Hill Ripper, given to him by the newspapers before they knew his identity.

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** Literature/{{Cinderella}}, where the step-sisters cut off parts of their feet to fit into the glass shoe.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: The [=UnSub=] cuts off one victim's toes instead of getting her a larger shoe size, similar to the older versions of Cinderella where one of the step-sisters does the same thing to fit into the glass slipper.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: The [=UnSub=] cuts off one victim's toes instead of getting her a larger shoe size.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Rhett walks out his house with the corpse of his mother as the scenes that he and the victims reenacted, which sound like a love confession from his mother's body to him given the circumstances.

* TeenPregnancy: May got pregnant at nineteen. It ended her acting career.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Happened to Lex's girlfriend in season 2.

* AbusiveParent: The Unsub's mother blamed him for ruining her acting career because of her pregnancy and abused him for it.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: The Unsub cuts off one victim's toes instead of getting her a larger shoe size.
* AttentionWhore: An interesting case with the Unsub. He lives for the girl that he currently holds as hostage to have the attention on the news so that he makes an "actress" who's gotten more attention than his mother.

* ChildHater: The Unsub's mother says this in the Unsub's illusion of her, and it's likely true due to what her own son's birth did to her career.
* DeadAllAlong: The Unsub's mother.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The security cameras don't show the Unsub's mother sitting down next to him in the train station.
* KickTheDog: On top of being a serial killer, the Unsub also tells a little girl that she's an "ugly girl with nothing to give the world".
* OedipusComplex: The Unsub hates his deadbeat dad and wants his mother to acknowledge that he is a better man who became famous under the pseudonym the Hill Ripper, given to him by the newspapers before they knew his identity.

* OnlyAFleshWound: The Unsub gets shot while running away and all he does is yelp as he continues like nothing happened.
* PapaWolf: Penny’s father declares on the press conference that he will kill the [=UnSub=] for abducting and presumably killing his daughter.

** The Unsub's name is [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Rhett]].
** The Unsub's mother dresses like Creator/MarilynMonroe.
** The movie the Unsub tries to emulate is a Film/{{Casablanca}} pastiche.

** Much like during the Unsub's arrest where he thinks he's going down a red carpet, Film/SunsetBoulevard ends with Norma Desmond believing that the police apprehending her after she commits murder is a camera crew.

* ShowWithinAShow: Garcia plays a FemmeFatale in an amateur stage play.

* TrainStationGoodbye: The scene the Unsub keeps trying to remake with his victims.

* ShoutOut: To Film/{{Psycho}}, complete with PsychoStrings during the reveal of him carrying his mother's corpse.

The team gets involved in the search for an abducted woman in Washington D.C. after the mutilated body of a woman dressed like a [[Creator/MarilynMonroe starlet from the 50's]] is found in an alley in Georgetown.

* TrainStationGoodbye: The scene the Unsub keeps trying to remake with his victims.

The team goes to Detroit to catch a killer who the last three years only appeared on Devil's Night, the city's Halloween ritual.

* ShoutOut: To Film/{{Psycho}}.

** Also Film/{{Casablanca}}.

* {{Squick}}: The Unsub cuts off his victims' lips.
** Reid theorizes that he eats them.
** He actually puts them on his mother's corpse.
** The Unsub also makes out with his mother. At least as far as he's concerned.

** The Unsub also makes out with his mother. At least as far as he's concerned.

* CharacterFocus: Garcia

* {{Squick}}: The Unsub cuts off his victims' lips.

The team goes to Detroit to catch a killer who the last three years only appeared on Devil's Night, the city's Halloween ritual.