"It is a wise father who knows his own child." William Shakespeare
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils." Euripides
When I interviewed Bundy, he had a theory about pornography. He said "If you wanna stop people from becoming like me, don't burn Catcher in the Rye."
"Burn 'Hustler'." I read your books, too, Dave.
With four known victims, we should start by re-interviewing friends and family. We're looking for a white male in his thirties to forties. And with his knowledge of circuitry and wiring, we think that he's either an electrician or an electrical engineer.
It's a job that may give him access to a victim's home or workplace, the opportunity to observe his targets.
They're attractive, professional women. He sees them as strong, righteous, unobtainable. So he seeks to tear them down, to reduce them to base sexual creatures and punish them.
He's a true sexual sadist. A typology we refer to as anger-excitation, meaning he becomes sexually aroused by the suffering of his victims.
Killing these women is an afterthought. Their pain is what he's after. And he takes his time, to exact maximum stimulation.
PPhilly Agent
What about his trophies? He keeps their clothes, right?
Yes. We believe he's using them for rehearsal fantasies. By dressing as his victims, he can relive the torture. It's during this time that he most likely pleasures himself in order to reinforce his association between suffering and gratification.
And when he becomes dissatisfied with this, he seeks out a new victim.
Keep in mind he's been this for a long time, and he's been thinking about doing it most of his life. He'll continue to evolve, finding new ways of challenging himself, increasing his stimulation threshold. There are no boundaries for this man.
Agent, I don't know how you usually do things, but you need to let my team know if you're planning on holding a press conference.
JMJill Morris
No, I... it wasn't a conference. It was just an announcement.
I think you know what I mean.
JMJill Morris
We're sending half the cops in the city out to canvass. The story would have leaked. I was just putting a reassuring face on the situation.
Your face.
JMJill Morris
I'm the case agent.
And you're also outranked by every member of my team.
JMJill Morris
Meaning what, you vote me off the island?
Nothing tears a case apart faster than an agent trying to make his or her name on it.
It's unacceptable behavior. Why do you keep defending her?
Because I know what she is. She is me, twenty years ago.
She is nothing like you, Dave.
Come on Hotch, I know what people think. I took serial killer's mass market. Now everyone knows their names, but not the victims, right? Somewhere along the line, I put myself first. I admit it. I can't go back and change it. But it's not too late for her.
"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world, and, although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." Lucille Maud Montgomery
"Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph
[mortified that Kevin will talk with Rossi about their relationship] If you get within a hundred feet of Agent Rossi, I will unleash an unrecoverable virus onto your personal computer system that will reduce your electronic world into something between a Commodore 64, and a block of government cheese.
He might need our help.
He didn't ask anyone for help.
Penelope, Rossi is a guy who color-coded his hand-written notes in his notebooks. Blue pen for evidential items, red pen for supposition and theory. The guy is a fussy, anal-retentive, neat freak who never leaves anything out of its place. I would say this is a scream for help.
Hi, Connie. I brought the team with...
CGConnie Galen
You need to stop this.
Excuse me?
CGConnie Galen
We thought that if we didn't call you back the last couple times, you would just give up and leave us alone.
I know that it hurts, but I'm only trying to make sure someone pays for your parents' deaths.
CGConnie Galen
We don't care anymore. It's been twenty years! We need to be able to move past it. Please!
I won't bother you kids again.
CGConnie Galen
And you'll stop it with the gifts, too?
Gifts?
CGConnie Galen
What are we suppose to do with... a bunch of toys that remind us of the worst day of our lives?
I never sent you any gifts.
Morgan, obsessional crimes are your specialty.
Well, there's two kinds of obsessional offenders that would send gifts to survivors. Sadists, who want to make the families keep reliving the crime, or guilt-laden offenders, desperately trying to find some type of way to apologize.
Sadists usually use something they know will remind the family of the person or the crime. Jewelry, newspaper clippings.
These don't look like the kind of things you would send to inflict pain on someone.
So, guilt-laden.
You know, they actually look like the kind of thing a child would send.
Okay. Well, it's rare, but an unsub who feels this much guilt sometimes commits the crime unintentionally. They tend to be developmentally disabled, extremely low IQ offender, and generally, well, they're physically large and they're very strong. Strong enough to hurt somebody accidentally.
Like Lennie in Of Mice and Men.
"There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession." Daniel Webster
I need a favor.
Of course.
I need some personal time, no more than a day.
Take all the time you need.
[about his divorce from Haley] I need to talk to Jack. I've lost her, but I'm not gonna lose him. I need to try to... tell him what's going on. I don't know how much he's going to understand, but...
All he needs to understand is that you love him.
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