Line #10 Recap/CriminalMindsS6E8ReflectionOfDesire


1	!!Reflections of Desire
2	-> Directed by Creator/AnnaFoerstar\
3	Written by Creator/SimonMirren
4	--> '''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.''
5	A man whose abusive mother made him reenact her one movie role his entire childhood, processes the trauma by kidnapping pretty women (who look like his mother) 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.
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7	!!Provides examples of:
8	* AbusiveParent: The [=UnSub=]'s mother blamed him for ruining her acting career because of her pregnancy.
9	* AgonyOfTheFeet: The [=UnSub=] cuts off one victim's toes instead of getting her a larger shoe size, similar to the older versions of Literature/{{Cinderella}} where one of the step-sisters does the same thing to fit into the shoe.
10	* 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.
11	%% * CharacterFocus: Garcia.
12	* 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.
13	* ChildSupplantsParent: 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.
14	* DamselFightAndFlightResponse: The victim breaks the [=UnSub=]'s nose and immediately flees for a door only to discover it's locked. Later, in a second escape attempt, she finds out she wouldn't have wanted to go in there anyway.
15	* DeadAllAlong: The [=UnSub=]'s mother.
16	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The Reflection of Desire movie appears to be a FilmNoir, and the hallucination of Rhett walking the red carpet with his mother is monochrome as well.
17	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The security cameras don't show the [=UnSub=]'s mother sitting down next to him in the train station.
18	* HatesTheirParent: The [=UnSub=] hates his deadbeat father, that hate and the desire to be a better man than he was motivating much of his actions.
19	* KickTheDog: On top of kidnapping and murdering young women, the [=UnSub=] also tells a little girl that she's an "ugly girl with nothing to give the world".
20	* OnceMoreWithClarity: Rhett walks out his house with his mother in his arms, just like the scene he reenacted with his female victims... only when he crosses the threshold, it's revealed that she was DeadAllAlong.
21	* OnlyAFleshWound: The [=UnSub=] gets shot while running away and all he does is yelp as he continues like nothing happened.
22	* PapaWolf: Penny’s father declares on the press conference that he will kill the [=UnSub=] for abducting and killing his daughter.
23	* ShoutOut:
24	** To Film/{{Psycho}}, complete with PsychoStrings during the reveal of him carrying his mother's corpse.
25	** The [=UnSub=]'s name is [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Rhett]].
26	** The [=UnSub=]'s mother dresses like Creator/MarilynMonroe.
27	** The movie the [=UnSub=] tries to emulate is a Film/{{Casablanca}} pastiche.
28	** Literature/{{Cinderella}}, where the step-sisters cut off parts of their feet to fit into the shoe.
29	** 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.
30	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Penny, the rescued hostage, asks this of Hotch when she's in the ambulance.
31	* ShowWithinAShow:
32	** Garcia plays a FemmeFatale in an amateur stage play.
33	** Also the film the episode is titled after.
34	* TeenPregnancy: May, Rhett's mother, got pregnant at nineteen. It ended her acting career.
35	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The [=UnSub=]'s mother is presented as alive until the final reveal.
36	* TitleDrop: The title of the one film Rhett's mother starred in is the same as the title of the episode.
37	* TrainStationGoodbye: The scene the [=UnSub=] keeps trying to remake with his victims.
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