9.10 The CallerGASP! Reid just shot an unsub dead! :O And he was so matter-of-fact about it too. Rem

9.10 The CallerGASP! Reid just shot an unsub dead! :O And he was so matter-of-fact about it too. Remember when Gideon had to comfort him after he killed the LDSK way back in season one? Naive Reid is naive no more.This week had the team investigating a child abduction - Tom Scavo Malcolm Taffert and Lida Taffert’s son. Cases involving children are not my favorite. It’s a little too horrific for me despite the fact that the whole thing is fictional. (I’m telling you, I’m a lot more traumatized/scared by crime procedurals than paranormal/horror series because it can very well happen in real life) So I guess I should be grateful they kept the discovery of the body at a distance. I almost did not want to believe it myself because IT’S ALL TOO SAD.Instead, the focus was more on the parents and how they handled the situation. I remember in that other heartbreaking episode where the unsub turned out to be the little boy’s older sociopathic brother, Prentiss pointed out that parents of murdered children tend to drift apart, fight, blame each other/themselves. And that’s exactly what happened to the Tafferts. Of course they held each other’s hands and cried on each other’s shoulders immediately after they found Andy, but soon enough, they were yelling at each other. So much so that Lida had to get away from Malcolm then promptly got abducted herself.Due to this development, the team figured that the unsub’s target is actually the parents. More specifically, the father. Torturing the father is the unsub’s end game here, as a sort of payback to the atrocious ways his father fucked him up when he was a child. And taking away his son and wife is the worst kind of torture there is. The taunting phone calls also made things worse for everyone. Hell, his first victim committed himself to a psych ward and the phone calls followed him there.  >_source link

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