History Recap / CriminalMindsS7E12UnknownSubject

* FrameUp: 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.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: 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.

** 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''.

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Someone revisits a serial rapist's victims, with the same signature. Meanwhile, one of the victims recognizes a piano player has the original rapist and kidnaps him to pay him back in torture until he confesses.

** The Prologue shows the kidnapping of one of the victim, showing stuff like him putting on music - it turns out the real 2nd rapist doesn't do any of this. In this particularly case it's the original rapist actually revisiting a victim to frame his copy cat.

** The [=UnSub=], nicknamed The Piano Maan, plays eighties' hit songs while he rapes people. Regina's was Bonnie Tyler's ''Total Eclipse of the Heart''.

* VillainOfTheWeek: Hamilton Bartholomew.

** The [=UnSub=], nicknamed The Pianoman, plays eighties' hit songs while he rapes people. Regina's was Bonnie Tyler's ''Total Eclipse of the Heart''.

* BaitAndSwitch: 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 Unsub, nicknamed The Pianoman, plays eighties' hit songs while he rapes people. Regina's was Bonnie Tyler's ''Total Eclipse of the Heart''.

When a series of sexual assaults in Houston, Texas contain the signature of a prolific serial rapist, the BAU reopens the original investigation and finds themselves pitted against a victim with her own brand of justice. Meanwhile, Prentiss struggles to restrain herself from becoming emotionally involved as the anniversary of her battle with Ian Doyle approaches.

** A suspect has records by Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/LinkinPark, and Music/{{Nickelback}}. JJ laughs at him not even having any Rage Against The Machines.

* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome: 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.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: 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".

** The Unsub, nicknamed The Pianoman, plays eighties' hit songs while he rapes people. Regina's was Music/BonnieTyler's ''Total Eclipse of the Heart''.
** A suspect has records by Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/{{LinkinPark}}, and Music/{{Nickleback}}. JJ laughs at him not even having any RageAgainstTheMachines.

* AssholeVictim: Regina Lamprecht tortures her rapist.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: 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".

When a series of sexual assaults in Houston, Texas contain the signature of a prolific serial rapist, the BAU reopens the original investigation and finds themselves pitted against a victim with her own brand of justice. Meanwhile, Prentiss struggles to restrain herself from becoming emotionally involved as the anniversary of her battle with Ian Doyle approaches.