Unknown Subject
Directed by Michael Lange
Written by Breen Frazier
Someone revisits a serial rapist's victims, with the same signature. Meanwhile, one of the victims recognizes a piano player as the original rapist and kidnaps him to pay him back in torture until he confesses.Written by Breen Frazier
Hotchner: "We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what suits our purposes." Alfred Adler.
Provides examples of
- Asshole Victim: Regina Lampert tortures her rapist.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- It initially seems as if Regina has kidnapped an innocent man by mistake, only for it to be revealed that the "real" criminal the BAU captures is a copycat and Hamilton Bartholomew was the true Piano Man all along.
- The Prologue shows the kidnapping of one of the victims, showing stuff like him putting on music - it turns out the real second rapist doesn't do any of this. In this particular case, it's the original rapist actually revisiting a victim to frame his copycat.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Hamilton Bartholomew, the real Piano Man and the killer of the Victim of the Week, and Herman Scobie, a copycat who targets the original victims to pin everything on the OG Piano Man.
- Framing the Guilty Party: Herman Scobie attempts a variant of this by only targeting the Piano Man's original victims so the police will assume he was responsible. The real Piano Man then turns it back around on him by killing one of the victims and planting evidence incriminating Scobie at the scene in order to make him look like the Piano Man.
- Rape and Revenge: Regina abducts and tortures the Piano Man, only being prevented from killing him when the BAU show up and arrest them both.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Regina hears a man play "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" in a bar and mistakenly identifies it as "Total Eclipse of the Heart", concluding from this that the man must be the Piano Man who raped her years earlier while playing "Total Eclipse of the Heart". Turns out, he is.
- Serial Rapist: The Piano Man is responsible for twelve rapes. Herman Scobie is also one, having raped ten of the Piano Man's victims.
- Shout-Out:
- The UnSub, nicknamed The Piano Man, plays eighties' hit songs while he rapes people. Regina's was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.
- A suspect has records by Evanescence, Linkin Park, and Nickelback. JJ laughs at him not even having any Rage Against the Machine.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Regina is arrested after the BAU find out what she did to her rapist. Yes, she was a victim, but she still broke the law. She was both a kidnapper and a torturer.
- Villain of the Week: Hamilton Bartholomew, a Serial Rapist nicknamed the Piano Man.
- Prentiss: "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Henry Ellis.
