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* BullyHunter: The [=UnSub=] is hunting and killing those who bullied him and his best friend in high school.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Blake's on the lighter side of the scale. Her mom died a while back, and her older brother was a police officer who died on duty. She hasn't been back to her hometown in five years, and her younger brother is kind of antagonistic at first, but they make up by the end of the episode.
* KarmaHoudini: The jock who is directly responsible for the bullying is in Afghanistan, and therefore unavailable as a target. He can’t [[RevengeByProxy go after his parents]] because they moved out of state, and decides to go after the parents of his girlfriend’s because she’s attending the University of Missouri. It goes into MisplacedRetribution territory because the girlfriend wasn’t even part of the bullying (even appalled by it) and broke up with the jock because of his attitude.

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* BullyHunter: The [=UnSub=] is hunting and killing those who bullied him and his best friend in high school.
school. In cases where he could not locate the former bully, he killed their parents instead.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Blake's on the lighter side of the scale. Her mom died a while back, and her older brother was a police officer who died on duty. She hasn't been back to her hometown in five years, and her younger brother is kind of antagonistic at first, but they first. They make up by the end of the episode.
* KarmaHoudini: The jock who is directly responsible for the bullying is in army service in Afghanistan, and therefore unavailable as a target. He The [=UnSub=] can’t [[RevengeByProxy go after his parents]] because they moved out of state, and state. He decides to go after the parents of his girlfriend’s the bully' girlfriend, because she’s she is attending the University of Missouri. It goes into MisplacedRetribution territory because the girlfriend wasn’t even part of the bullying (even (she was even appalled by it) and broke up with the jock because of his attitude.
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A novelist and former English teacher is found beaten to death and dressed in womens underwear, a murder which Alex Blake's father (a retired Kansas City police officer) is connected to two similar deaths a year earlier. He's right, as the [=UnSub=] is a former high school student seeking revenge on the people, both students and faculty, who he blames for a bullying incident that led to the suicide of his best friend, seeking to humiliate his victims the same way his friend had been before brutally beating them to death.

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A novelist and former English teacher is found beaten to death and dressed in womens underwear, a murder which Alex Blake's father (a retired Kansas City police officer) is deduces to be connected to two similar deaths a year earlier. He's right, as the [=UnSub=] is a former high school student seeking revenge on the people, both students and faculty, who he blames for a bullying incident that led to the suicide of his best friend, seeking friend. He seeks to humiliate his victims the same way his friend had been been, before brutally beating them to death.
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A novelist and former English teacher is found beaten to death and dressed in womens underwear, a murder which Alex Blake's father (a Kansas City police officer near retirement) is connected to two similar deaths a year earlier. He's right, as the [=UnSub=] is a former high school student seeking revenge on the people, both students and faculty, who he blames for a bullying incident that led to the suicide of his best friend, seeking to humiliate his victims the same way his friend had been before brutally beating them to death.

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A novelist and former English teacher is found beaten to death and dressed in womens underwear, a murder which Alex Blake's father (a retired Kansas City police officer near retirement) officer) is connected to two similar deaths a year earlier. He's right, as the [=UnSub=] is a former high school student seeking revenge on the people, both students and faculty, who he blames for a bullying incident that led to the suicide of his best friend, seeking to humiliate his victims the same way his friend had been before brutally beating them to death.

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A victim of school bullying kills his former tormentors.

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A victim of novelist and former English teacher is found beaten to death and dressed in womens underwear, a murder which Alex Blake's father (a Kansas City police officer near retirement) is connected to two similar deaths a year earlier. He's right, as the [=UnSub=] is a former high school student seeking revenge on the people, both students and faculty, who he blames for a bullying kills incident that led to the suicide of his former tormentors.best friend, seeking to humiliate his victims the same way his friend had been before brutally beating them to death.


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* AdultsAreUseless: The reason why the killer is going after his old teachers and principal, as they barely even tried to stop the bullying and mostly seemed to want to ignore it as much as possible. The principal made the victim and the main bully ''shake hands'' as if that would solve anything.


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* RevengeByProxy: The killer becomes signifigantly less sympethic due to going after people who are barely even tangentially related to the original incident, just because he can't get to the ones he actually wants to kill.

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-> Directed by Creator/GlennKershaw\\
Written by Creator/VirgilWilliams
--> '''Blake:''' ''"Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet." Vietnamese proverb''




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--> '''Blake:''' ''"Alone, we can do so little. Together we can do so much." Helen Keller.''
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* KarmaHoudini: The jock who is directly responsible for the bullying is in Afghanistan, and therefore unavailable as a target. He can’t [[RevengeByProxy go after his parents]] because they moved out of state, and decides to go after the parents of his girlfriend’s because she’s attending the University of Missouri. It goes into MisplacedRetribution territory because the girlfriend wasn’t even part of the bullying (even appalled by it) and broke up with the jock because of his attitude.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Unsub beats his victims to death with his bare hands.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Unsub [=UnSub=] beats his victims to death with his bare hands.

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Blake gets a call from her father, a retired policeman, asking for the BAU's help to investigate a series of murders in Kansas City.

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Blake gets a call from her father, a retired policeman, asking for the BAU's help to investigate a series !Bully

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school bullying kills his former tormentors.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Unsub beats his victims to death with his bare hands.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Unsub beats his victims to death with his bare hands.hands.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Blake's on the lighter side of the scale. Her mom died a while back, and her older brother was a police officer who died on duty. She hasn't been back to her hometown in five years, and her younger brother is kind of antagonistic at first, but they make up by the end of the episode.

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* DysfunctionalFamily: Blake's on the lighter side of the scale. Her mom died a while back, and her older brother was a police officer who died on duty. She hasn't been back to her hometown in five years, and her younger brother is kind of antagonistic at first, but they make up by the end of the episode.episode.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Unsub beats his victims to death with his bare hands.
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Blake gets a call from her father, a retired policeman, asking for the BAU's help to investigate a series of murders in Kansas City.

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Blake gets a call from her father, a retired policeman, asking for the BAU's help to investigate a series of murders in Kansas City.City.

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* BullyHunter: The [=UnSub=] is hunting and killing those who bullied him and his best friend in high school.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Blake's on the lighter side of the scale. Her mom died a while back, and her older brother was a police officer who died on duty. She hasn't been back to her hometown in five years, and her younger brother is kind of antagonistic at first, but they make up by the end of the episode.
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BAU goes to Kansas City to investigate a series of murders.

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BAU goes to Kansas City Blake gets a call from her father, a retired policeman, asking for the BAU's help to investigate a series of murders.murders in Kansas City.
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BAU goes to Kansas City to investigate a series of murders.

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