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1	!!A Family Affair
2	-> Directed by Creator/RobSpera\
3	Written by Creator/KimberlyAnnHarrison
4	--> '''Morgan:''' ''Eckhart Tolle said, "Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath."''
5	A man who was paralyzed in a car accident as a teenager kills women as an outlet for his sexual frustration, while his guilt-ridden parents both help set up dates for him, and dispose of the bodies, at the insistance of the mother (Creator/KathyBaker) who sees their psychotic dysfunction as a parental obligation.
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7	!Tropes
8	* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Morgan tells Jack "earmuffs" (he covers his own ears) before he asks the girls what they drank.
9	* DrivenToSuicide: The father kills himself shortly before the team tracks them down by driving his car into a lamp post, mirroring the accident that crippled his son.
10	* DysfunctionalFamily: The [=UnSub=]s. Dad caused an accident while drunk driving years ago, which put the son in the wheelchair. Mom pretended to have been driving. Now the son is killing women, and Mom and Dad cover it up.
11	* HangoverSensitivity: JJ, Prentiss and Garcia are visibly hungover after their girl's night out - in particular, all of them have obvious problems with loud noise. Reid, who was babysitting JJ's son, says they didn't come home until morning.
12	-->'''JJ:''' Why are you yelling?\
13	'''Prentiss:''' Make him stop.\
14	'''Morgan:'''...''What'' did you ladies drink last night?\
15	'''Garcia:''' The Green Fairy. You're with the FBI, could you get the entire crowd ''to stop cheering?''
16	* HonoraryUncle: Hotch's son Jack calls Rossi "Uncle Dave".
17	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: As a result of his paralysis, the Unsub is unable to have sex, the frustration of which drives his killings.
18	* SuicideByCop: The mother refuses to let the team arrest the Unsub and is shot when she tries pulling a gun on them.
19	* TaughtByTelevision: Reid offers to babysit Henry, and justifies it by saying, "I've seen an episode of ''Series/MrBelvedere''."
20	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Reid says this verbatim regarding him babysitting Henry. As far as we can tell, the babysitting went perfectly. The problem was that the girls stayed out too long drinking. He agreed to babysit for a few hours, and instead he had to stay until the dawn of the following day.
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Context Recap / CriminalMindsS7E16AFamilyAffair