Written By Kevin Fox
Directed By Jean De Segonzac
Holden March, a lovelorn, socially awkward young man, keeps a video diary chronicling his troubles with women. When he begins to exact revenge on the women he believes have wronged him in the past, which soon escalates to murder, Detectives Amaro and Rollins find out how dangerous a desperate man can be. A hostage situation soon develops, and Amanda must talk Holden down before the body count rises any further. Meanwhile, Benson deals with pressure from the newly appointed Deputy Chief William Dodds (Peter Gallagher) while Noah is hospitalized.
Tropes
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Holden's belief in this trope is one of the main reasons why he hated women so much.
- Best Served Cold: Holden has a manifesto listing the names of all the people he wants revenge on because he blames them for wronging him. Some of these names are people he knew in elementary school, all the way back to kindergarten.
- Boom, Headshot!: Holden is shot in the head by a sniper.
- Creepy Monotone: How Holden speaks.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Holden attacks several women for having rejected him years earlier. Most of them didn't even remember him. Basically, Holden's response to a girl's lack of interest in him is to stalk, assault, stab, and/or murder her (and/or her romantic partner).
- Diagnosed by the Audience. In-Universe; Holden's mother and stepfather think he is mentally ill, although he was never formally diagnosed. A former boss of his even thought he had OCD.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstructed as he views himself as this but that is not the case.
- Entitled to Have You: Holden holds a grudge against all women for "never giving him a chance" and claims he would be the perfect boyfriend to them, but it's too late now and he's going to make them pay.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: Despite everything he's done, Holden's mother still loves him and begs the police not to kill him.
- Expy: Holden March, being a fictional one of Elliot Rodger.
- Groin Attack: Holden got fired from his job as a busboy when a couple was making out in one of the booths on Valentine's Day and he "accidentally" poured ice water on the guy's lap.
- If I Can't Have You…: Holden took this to the extreme.
- Loners Are Freaks
- Never My Fault: This is clearly Holden's attitude.
- Revenge: Holden wants revenge against the women that rejected him.
- Right Through the Wall: Holden is aggravated by the sounds of his apartment's next-door neighbors having sex. He eventually murders them.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Based on the 2014 Isla Vista shootings, and the Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis.
- Something Only They Would Say: The first victim, a girl named Gwen, brings up that her attacker called her "Gigi," an old nickname of hers from high school, while he was stabbing her. This tips off the detectives that the guy is someone she knows, or who knew her.
- Straw Misogynist: In his videos, Holden goes on long tirades against "beautiful girls" who never gave him a chance and instead hooked up with big, strong, handsome boys.
- Valentine's Day Violence: Though Holden does much, much worse acts of violence, we learn that he was fired from a job for pouring ice water on a guy's groin on Valentine's Day.
- Victim-Blaming: He believes that if the women didn't reject him, he wouldn't need to attack them.
