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* SpreeKiller: Dolan begins his ([[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness alleged]]) RoaringRampageOfRescue by shooting up the I.T. office he worked on.
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* HateSink: General Boyd Millgram, Luke Dolan's superior officer and the man who ordered him to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a couple of kids who]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses could have sounded an alarm]] during Operation "Dorado Falls", the event that is directly responsible for all of the episode's tragedy. While he's an asshole GeneralRipper, in the end Dolan's actions are directed by a delusion manufactured by his hatred of the man, and the moment Dolan quit the Navy Millgram just stopped caring about him.

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* HateSink: General Boyd Millgram, Luke Dolan's superior officer and the man who ordered him to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a couple of kids who]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses could have sounded an alarm]] during Operation "Dorado Falls", the event that is directly responsible for all of the episode's tragedy. While he's an asshole GeneralRipper, in the end Dolan's actions are directed by a delusion manufactured by his hatred of the man, and the man. The moment Dolan quit the Navy Navy, Millgram just stopped caring about him.
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-> Directed by Creator/FélixEnríquezAlcala\\

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-> Directed by Creator/FélixEnríquezAlcala\\Creator/FelixEnriquezAlcala\\
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-> Directed by Creator/FélixEnríquezAlcala\\
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--> '''Reid:''' ''"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." Franklin D. Roosevelt.''



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--> '''Rossi:''' ''"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles.''
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A war veteran's acquired face-blindness combined with his PTSD-induce paranoia causes him to perceive his family, friends, and co-workers as imposters.

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A war veteran's acquired face-blindness combined with his PTSD-induce paranoia causes him to perceive his family, friends, and co-workers as imposters.impostors.



** Though it is implied he is suffering from Capgras Syndrome, a very real but very rare syndrome where the sufferer believes that their loved ones have been replaced by imposters.
* HateSink: General Boyd Millgram, Luke Dolan's superior officer and the man who ordered him to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a couple of kids who]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses could have sounded an alarm]] during Operation "Dorado Falls", the event that is directly responsible for all of the episode's tragedy. While he's an asshole GeneralRipper, in the end Dolan's actions are directed by a delusion manufactured by his hatred of the man and the moment Dolan quit the Navy the Millgram just stopped caring about him.

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** Though it is implied he is suffering from Capgras Syndrome, a very real but very rare syndrome where the sufferer believes that their loved ones have been replaced by imposters.impostors.
* HateSink: General Boyd Millgram, Luke Dolan's superior officer and the man who ordered him to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a couple of kids who]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses could have sounded an alarm]] during Operation "Dorado Falls", the event that is directly responsible for all of the episode's tragedy. While he's an asshole GeneralRipper, in the end Dolan's actions are directed by a delusion manufactured by his hatred of the man man, and the moment Dolan quit the Navy the Millgram just stopped caring about him.



* RoaringRampageOfRescue: PlayedForHorror -- Dolan ''[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness thinks]]'' he's doing this. In reality, he's massacred everybody he knows and [[CopKiller some people he doesn't]] and it's heavily implied that if he actually got to his wife and daughter he would just murder them too before continuing on his way to "rescue" them.

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* RoaringRampageOfRescue: PlayedForHorror -- Dolan ''[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness thinks]]'' he's doing this. In reality, he's massacred everybody he knows and [[CopKiller some people he doesn't]] and it's heavily implied that if he actually got to his wife and daughter daughter, he would just murder them too before continuing on his way to "rescue" them.



** [[{{Foil}} However]], Roy's killings were random and he'd only kill one person every trigger while Luke had a single trigger and killed several people he believes are responsible for the incident as well as people he believed were keeping him away from his family.

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** [[{{Foil}} However]], Roy's killings were random random, and he'd only kill one person every trigger trigger, while Luke had a single trigger and killed several people he believes believed are responsible for the incident as well as people he believed were keeping him away from his family.



* TitleDrop: The [=UnSub=] says he didn't start this. Rossi asks him what he didn't start, and he replies "Dorado Falls".

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* TitleDrop: The [=UnSub=] says he didn't start this. Rossi asks him what he didn't start, and he replies replies, "Dorado Falls".
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** Though it is implied he is suffering from Capgras Syndrome, a very real but very rare syndrome where the sufferer believes that their loved ones have been replaced by imposters.
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* TitleDrop: The Unsub says he didn't start this. Rossi asks him what he didn't start, and he replies "Dorado Falls".

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* TitleDrop: The Unsub [=UnSub=] says he didn't start this. Rossi asks him what he didn't start, and he replies "Dorado Falls".
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When seven people die in a mass murder at a Virginia Internet security firm and a couple is gunned down in their home, the BAU sets out to establish a connection between both crimes. Meanwhile, Prentiss works with Morgan to prepare for her recertification training.

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When seven people die in a mass murder at a Virginia Internet security firm and a couple is gunned down in their home, the BAU sets out to establish a connection between both crimes. Meanwhile, Prentiss works A war veteran's acquired face-blindness combined with Morgan his PTSD-induce paranoia causes him to prepare for her recertification training.
perceive his family, friends, and co-workers as imposters.
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* ActorAllusion: Luke Dolan is played by Max Martini, a man who [[Series/TheUnit has some experience playing black-ops operatives]].

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* ActorAllusion: Luke Dolan is played by Max Martini, Creator/MaxMartini, a man who [[Series/TheUnit has some experience playing black-ops operatives]].
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* RoaringRampageOfRescue: PlayedForHorror -- Dolan ''[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness thinks]]'' he's doing this. In reality, he's massacred everybody he knows and [[CopKiller some people he doesn't]] and it's heavily implied that if he actually got to his wife and daughter he would just murder them too before continuing on his way to "rescue" them.
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* ActorAllusion: Luke Dolan is played by Max Martini, a man who [[Series/TheUnit has some experience playing black-ops operatives]].
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: PlayedForHorror. Because of a case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia]] (read: he cannot recognize faces) caused by brain injury in an accident, Dolan instantly (and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique quite]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge brutally]]) jumped on to the conclusion that everybody he's ever known has been replaced by impostors in a grand conspiracy led by his superior officer. A conclusion that leads him to kill all of his co-workers and ''torture his own elderly parents to death'' [[InterrogatedForNothing for information that doesn't exists]].
* HateSink: General Boyd Millgram, Luke Dolan's superior officer and the man who ordered him to [[WouldHurtAChild kill a couple of kids who]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses could have sounded an alarm]] during Operation "Dorado Falls", the event that is directly responsible for all of the episode's tragedy. While he's an asshole GeneralRipper, in the end Dolan's actions are directed by a delusion manufactured by his hatred of the man and the moment Dolan quit the Navy the Millgram just stopped caring about him.
* HopeSpot: At the climax, the BAU manages to calm down Dolan (who is about to go on a shooting spree inside of FBI Headquarters to try to unravel his "conspiracy") by making his daughter and wife talk him down. They ask Dolan to please keep his eyes closed because otherwise his Prosopagnosia will make him unable to recognize that it's them, and he does... until he's arrested and they try to say farewell, upon which he goes completely berserk and struggles against the cops, thinking he's been fooled by more "impostors". All that the Dolan women can do is weep, knowing that he now hates them in his delusion.
* MeaningfulName: General Boyd ''Millgram'' -- as in [[JustFollowingOrders the Millgram Experiment]].
* OminousMundanity: Operation "Dorado Falls" -- both because of the awful thing Dolan did in that assignment (well, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone awful for Dolan]]) and what Dolan does to other people because he structured his conspiracy delusion around it-
* OperationBlank: "Operation [[OminousMundanity Dorado Falls]]", the SEAL assignment that Luke Dolan is structuring his delusion of a GovernmentConspiracy around, and the operation that gave him PTSD and made him retire from the Navy. While the events that gave him PTSD are awful, in the end it was a counter-terror raid like any other.
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!!Dorado Falls



* TakeMeInstead: Rossi offers himself in a hostage exchange.
* TitleDrop: The Unsub says he didn't start this. Rossi asks him what he didn't start, and he replies "Dorado Falls".



* WarIsHell: During Operation Dorado Falls, Dolan was ordered to shoot and [[WouldHurtAChild kill two children]] who were witnesses and accepted as collateral damage. It's what gave him PTSD.

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* WarIsHell: During Operation Dorado Falls, Dolan was ordered to shoot and [[WouldHurtAChild kill two children]] who were witnesses and accepted as collateral damage. It's what gave him PTSD.PTSD.
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* TooDumbToLive: A guy comes late to work and discovers his colleagues lying strewn on the floor, shotwounds in their foreheads. He just stands there for a bit. Until the killer jumps him.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Luke Dolan is one of [[Recap/CriminalMindsS2E17Distress Roy Woodridge]]. Both are ShellShockedVeteran [[SpreeKiller spree killers]] with exactly one casualty being a [[CopKiller officer of the law]]. The reason for their PTSD is because they've killed children while serving in the line of duty.
** [[{{Foil}} However]], Roy's killings were random and he'd only kill one person every trigger while Luke had a single trigger and killed several people he believes are responsible for the incident as well as people he believed were keeping him away from his family.
* TooDumbToLive: A guy comes late to work and discovers his colleagues lying strewn on the floor, shotwounds shot wounds in their foreheads. He just stands there for a bit. Until until the killer jumps him.him.
* WarIsHell: During Operation Dorado Falls, Dolan was ordered to shoot and [[WouldHurtAChild kill two children]] who were witnesses and accepted as collateral damage. It's what gave him PTSD.
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When seven people die in a mass murder at a Virginia Internet security firm and a couple is gunned down in their home, the BAU sets out to establish a connection between both crimes. Meanwhile, Prentiss works with Morgan to prepare for her recertification training.

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When seven people die in a mass murder at a Virginia Internet security firm and a couple is gunned down in their home, the BAU sets out to establish a connection between both crimes. Meanwhile, Prentiss works with Morgan to prepare for her recertification training.training.

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* TooDumbToLive: A guy comes late to work and discovers his colleagues lying strewn on the floor, shotwounds in their foreheads. He just stands there for a bit. Until the killer jumps him.
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