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* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Cy apparently suffered brain damage at birth from being deprived of oxygen. Despite his disability, he's shown to be fully aware of the suffering he inflicts on others and also takes advantage of the public perception of people like him to avoid suspicion and get his victims to let their guard down.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Cy is utterly cruel, sadistic, and misogynistic. When Matt confronts him on his actions, Cy sadistically rubs in Tammy's torture ''to his face'', then forces him to watch a video of said torture just to hurt him.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Cy is utterly cruel, sadistic, and misogynistic. When Matt confronts him on his actions, Cy sadistically rubs in Tammy's torture ''to his face'', then forces him to watch a video of said torture shows no remorse, just to hurt him. [[EvilLaugh laughing in his brother's face]] and gloating about torturing his daughter.



* MoodWhiplash: We go from the aforementioned ForcedToWatch to the team getting a cooking lesson from Rossi. This is actually an in-universe case, as the team is looking for something to cheer them up from the horrors of their job.

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* MoodWhiplash: We go from the aforementioned ForcedToWatch a father watching a video of his daughter's torture to the team getting a cooking lesson from Rossi. This is actually an in-universe case, as the team is looking for something to cheer them up from the horrors of their job.



* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but while he ''is'' disabled, he's nowhere near as unintelligent as everyone assumes.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but while he ''is'' disabled, he's nowhere near as unintelligent as everyone assumes.



* TeensAreMonsters: Cy had zero qualms against raping Lyle in high school.

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* TeensAreMonsters: Cy had zero qualms against raping Lyle Lyla in high school.

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* CainAndAbel: He's apprehended before it could've been done, but Cy is the Cain to Matt's Abel. Cy always hated Matt for ending up with Lyla and Cy decided he was going to hurt his brother by going after Tammy.

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Cy reveals that he sadistically beat the family dog to death when he was younger.
* CainAndAbel: He's apprehended before it could've been done, but Cy is the Cain to Matt's Abel. Cy always hated Matt for ending up with Lyla Lyla, and Cy decided he was going to hurt his brother by going after Tammy.



* EnfantTerrible: As it turns out, even as a child, Cy was highly sadistic, beating the family dog to death and enjoying every second of it.



* {{Jerkass}}: Cy is utterly cruel, sadistic, and misogynistic. When Matt confronts him on his actions, Cy sadistically rubs in Tammy's torture ''to his face'', then forces him to watch a video of said torture just to hurt him.



* NotGoodWithRejection: Cy doesn't take Lyla's rejection of him lightly, kidnapping anyone that resembles her and having them raped and dismembered. Not to mention that he despises Matt for marrying her.



* PsychopathicManchild: Cy is a very juvenile man who also tortures, rapes, and murders young women out of amusement.
* TheSociopath: Cy shows no empathy towards anyone, harms others for his amusement, and plays innocent to get his way. He even knows what he does is wrong but does so anyway because he enjoys it.



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* TeensAreMonsters: Cy had zero qualms against raping Lyle in high school.



-->'''Cy''': How could you do this to me..? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!

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-->'''Cy''': -->'''Cy:''' How could you do this to me..? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!ME?!
* {{Yandere}}: Cy is this towards Lyla, trying to sexually assault her when they were teenagers and resenting his older brother for marrying her.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but while he IS disabled, he's nowhere near as unintelligent as everyone assumes.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but while he IS ''is'' disabled, he's nowhere near as unintelligent as everyone assumes.
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-> Directed by Creator/KarenGaviola\\
Written by Creator/JanineShermanBarrois
--> '''Reid:''' ''"If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a fact, proof is necessary." Mark Twain.''



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--> '''Rossi:''' ''Scott Adams wrote, "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."''
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* EvilUncle: Cy is a sadistic serial killer whose final victim is his own niece.

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* GreenEyedMonster: Cy's brother's wife was the girl he had a crush on in childhood, and he's visibly upset when marriage counseling works for the two.



* GoodCannotComprehendEvil[=/=]EvilCannotComprehendGood: Discussed. Cy muses on how people ask why someone would torture and murder a person, unable to understand the motivation. He is in turn confused by their confusion, people do it for the same reason they do anything: they enjoy it.

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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil[=/=]EvilCannotComprehendGood: GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Discussed. Cy muses on how people ask why someone would torture and murder a person, unable to understand the motivation. He is in turn confused by their confusion, people do it for the same reason they do anything: they enjoy it.it.
* GreenEyedMonster: Cy's brother's wife was the girl he had a crush on in childhood, and he's visibly upset when marriage counseling works for the two.
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* HiddenDepths: Hotch shows some surprisingly knowledge of finer details of cooking during Rossi's lesson.

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* HiddenDepths: Hotch shows some surprisingly surprising knowledge of the finer details of cooking during Rossi's lesson.



* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Tammy Bradstone is a baseball player who talks about the number of home runs she hit, but she is also very excited about her homecoming dress and dyes her hair to look better for the dance.

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* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Tammy Bradstone is a baseball player who talks about the number of home runs homeruns she hit, but she is also very excited about wearing her homecoming mother's former Homecoming dress and dyes her hair to look better for the dance.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Cy's. All that's known is that he was born with a lack of oxygen and damaged frontal lobe, the latter of which being described as a sign of future sociopathy in [[CallBack previous episodes]].
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* NotTheFirstVictim: It isn’t confirmed but the number of tapes Cy has in the area where he carries out his crimes imply he has more victims than the team knows about, possibly suggesting he’s been a killer since before the supposed trigger event of losing his second chance to have Layla and merely started targeting a different, more conspicuous kind of victim (girls resembling Layla) at that point.

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* NotTheFirstVictim: It isn’t confirmed but the number of tapes Cy has in the area where he carries out his crimes imply he has more victims than the team knows about, possibly suggesting he’s been a killer since before the supposed trigger event of losing his second chance to have Layla Lyla and merely started targeting a different, more conspicuous kind of victim (girls resembling Layla) Lyla) at that point.
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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Matt's daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle his brother]] Cy is the one responsible because he wants Matt's wife, and Tammy looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.

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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Matt's daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle his brother]] Cy is the one responsible because he wants Matt's wife, and Tammy looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as it, and later tells him Matt that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but except hearing before he'd rape raping and murder her.murdering Tammy.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lyla viewed Cy as one. Due to him thinking she liked him the same way he did with her, he gets a little too touchy with her during a party in high school. She was repulsed by he acted at the party that she didn’t feel comfortable with him touching her.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lyla viewed Cy as one. Due to him thinking she liked him the same way he did with her, he gets a little too touchy with her during a party in high school. She was repulsed by how he acted at the party that she and didn’t feel comfortable with him touching her.



* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Matt's daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle his brother]] Cy is the one responsible because he wants !att's wife and Lila looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.

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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Matt's daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle his brother]] Cy is the one responsible because he wants !att's wife Matt's wife, and Lila Tammy looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.
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* NotTheFirstVictim: It isn’t confirmed but the number of tapes Cy has in the area where he carries out his crimes imply he has more victims than the team knows about, possibly suggesting he’s been a killer since before the supposed trigger event of losing his second chance to have Layla and merely started targeting a different, more conspicuous kind of victim (girls resembling Layla) at that point.

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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{Subverted}} with Cy. It looks like he does what he does because his brother and everyone else mocked him throughout his childhood, but what he shares about murdering a puppy as a child makes it sound like he was going to grow up to be a sociopath all along.

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* TemptingFate: The team comments that Tammy will probably be fine for a while unless she does something to antagonize Cy. The scene cuts to her realizing that Cy is an AbhorrentAdmirer her mother told her about and telling him so, while making it clear that her mom (his crush) hates him before dishing out a GroinAttack and trying to escape. Her captivity then takes a turn for the worse and she's lucky to survive.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{Subverted}} with Cy. It looks like he does what he does because his brother and everyone else mocked him throughout his childhood, but what he shares about murdering a puppy as a child makes it sound like and the implied unreliability of his memories about Matt indicate he was going to grow up to be a sociopath all along.along.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Tammy Bradstone is a baseball player who talks about the number of home runs she hit, but she is also very excited about her homecoming dress and dyes her hair to look better for the dance.
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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Cy's daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle the father's brother]] is the one responsible because he wants his wife and she looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.

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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Cy's Matt's daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle the father's his brother]] Cy is the one responsible because he wants his !att's wife and she Lila looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.

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* AdultFear: A daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle the father's brother]] is the one responsible because he wants his wife and she looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.


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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Cy's daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle the father's brother]] is the one responsible because he wants his wife and she looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lyla viewed Cy as one. Due to him thinking she liked him the same way he did with her, he gets a little too touchy with her during a party in high school. She was repulsed by he acted at the party that she didn’t feel comfortable with him touching her.



* CainAndAbel: He's apprehended before it could've been done, but Cy is the Cain to Matt's Abel.

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* CainAndAbel: He's apprehended before it could've been done, but Cy is the Cain to Matt's Abel. Cy always hated Matt for ending up with Lyla and Cy decided he was going to hurt his brother by going after Tammy.



* HoneyTrap: The BAU uses Cy’s obsessive feelings for Lyla to get him arrested. She lies about Matt being arrested and says she needs him to comfort her.



* KickTheDog: Reid's passive-aggressiveness towards JJ because he's angry she knew that Prentiss' death was faked and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo never told him]].

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* KickTheDog: KickTheDog:
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* PapaWolf: Matt is ready to throttle Cy when he gloats over how he wants his brother to go deaf over hearing his daughter’s screams of pain.
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When two Durant, Oklahoma women are sexually assaulted and blinded with sulfuric acid, the BAU searches for a killer determined to exact revenge against a face from his past. Meanwhile, JJ confronts Reid about his recent behavior and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Rossi organizes a team cooking lesson]].

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When two Durant, Oklahoma women are sexually assaulted and blinded with sulfuric acid, the BAU searches for a A disabled serial killer determined to exact revenge takes advantage of abled people's prejudice against a face from disabled people to kidnap and torture women he finds attractive, including [[{{Squick}} his past. Meanwhile, JJ confronts Reid about his recent behavior and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Rossi organizes a team cooking lesson]].
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but while he IS likely disabled, he's nowhere near as disabled as he appears.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but while he IS likely disabled, he's nowhere near as disabled unintelligent as he appears.everyone assumes.



-->'''Cy''': How could you do this to me..? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!

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-->'''Cy''': How could you do this to me..? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!ME?!
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* ForTheEvulz: Cy. As he puts it:
-->"I see on the news, on the TV, that people question. They question why — why people do this. It's the same reason people do anything, 'cause, 'cause they feel like it, they like the way it feels. When I was a kid, my dog, Poppy, running across the grass. When I hit her, I liked that feeling. That has not changed."
* ForcedToWatch: A variation. Matt forces himself to watch a video of Cy torturing his daughter, as a form of punishment for not realizing just how screwed up his brother is.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil[=/=]EvilCannotComprehendGood: Discussed. Cy muses on how people ask why someone would torture and murder a person, unable to understand the motivation. He is in turn confused by their confusion, people do it for the same reason they do anything: they enjoy it.
* HiddenDepths: Hotch shows some surprisingly knowledge of finer details of cooking during Rossi's lesson.


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* MoodWhiplash: We go from the aforementioned ForcedToWatch to the team getting a cooking lesson from Rossi. This is actually an in-universe case, as the team is looking for something to cheer them up from the horrors of their job.
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* JustLikeMakingLove: [[LatinLover Rossi]] says this about cooking, as if attempting to be a SpearCounterpart to [[Creator/GiadaDeLaurentiis Giada De Laurentiis]].
-->'''Rossi''': Cooking is the most sensual art form, and these are my paints.

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When two Durant, Oklahoma women are sexually assaulted and blinded with sulfuric acid, the BAU searches for a killer determined to exact revenge against a face from his past. Meanwhile, JJ confronts Reid about his recent behavior and Rossi organizes a team cooking lesson.

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When two Durant, Oklahoma women are sexually assaulted and blinded with sulfuric acid, the BAU searches for a killer determined to exact revenge against a face from his past. Meanwhile, JJ confronts Reid about his recent behavior and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Rossi organizes a team cooking lesson.
lesson]].



* AdultFear: A daughter is kidnapped, and it turns out that [[CreepyUncle the father's brother]] is the one responsible because he wants his wife and she looks like her. He makes a video where he burns her hands and gloats throughout it as well as tells him that he wanted to torture him by taking away all his senses but hearing before he'd rape and murder her.



** This is combined with HoneyTrap by the BAU when [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame they get Lyla to draw him towards the house and into an ambush]] via phone call.



* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{Subverted}} with Cy. It looks like he does what he does because his brother and everyone else mocked him throughout his childhood, but what he shares about murdering a puppy as a child makes it sound like he was going to grow up to be a sociopath all along.

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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{Subverted}} with Cy. It looks like he does what he does because his brother and everyone else mocked him throughout his childhood, but what he shares about murdering a puppy as a child makes it sound like he was going to grow up to be a sociopath all along.along.
* VillainousBreakdown: Happens when Cy's arrested by the BAU after an ambush they staged with Lyla's help.
-->'''Cy''': How could you do this to me..? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!
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* CainAndAbel: He's apprehended before it could've been done, but Cy is the Cain to Matt's Abel.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Cy's. Honestly it could just be a motoric dysfunction.
* AndIMustScream: The victim whose tongue was burned out with sulphuric acid.
* EyeScream: The victim whose eyes were burned out with sulphuric acid.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The victims all get tricked by their own "benign" prejudice against mentally disabled people.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Cy's. Honestly it could just be All that's known is that he was born with a motoric dysfunction.
lack of oxygen and damaged frontal lobe, the latter of which being described as a sign of future sociopathy in [[CallBack previous episodes]].
* AndIMustScream: The victim whose tongue was burned out with sulphuric sulfuric acid.
* CharacterNarrator: Cy does a voiceover at the start of the episode, when it's revealed the reason is because he records his crimes.
* EyeScream: The victim victims whose eyes were burned out with sulphuric sulfuric acid.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The victims all get tricked by their own "benign" prejudice against mentally disabled people.GreenEyedMonster: Cy's brother's wife was the girl he had a crush on in childhood, and he's visibly upset when marriage counseling works for the two.
* KickTheDog: Reid's passive-aggressiveness towards JJ because he's angry she knew that Prentiss' death was faked and [[IDidWhatIHadToDo never told him]].
** A more literal case would be Cy abusing his family's childhood puppy when he was younger.



* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{Subverted}} with Cy. It looks like he does what he does because his brother and everyone else mocked him throughout his childhood, but what he tells Tammy about murdering a puppy as a child makes it sound like he was going to grow up to be a sociopath all along.

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** He lures his victims in by playing up his stupidity and kidnaps them afterwards.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Reid first deliberately phrases his observations in ways that it could apply to JJ, then the latter finally has enough and does it herself on Reid.
* StalkerWithACrush: Cy was this in high school to Lyla, his future sister-in-law.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of [[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E8Lucky Floyd Feylinn Ferrel]] in regards to when he's found out:
** EvilGloating against someone personally involved with a victim of his.
** The same person trying to attack them in retaliation before being restrained by a BAU member, specifically calling him a "son of a bitch".
** EvilLaugh
* TakingTheHeat: When Hotch confronts Reid about his attitude towards JJ:
-->'''Hotch''': If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at me.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{Subverted}} with Cy. It looks like he does what he does because his brother and everyone else mocked him throughout his childhood, but what he tells Tammy shares about murdering a puppy as a child makes it sound like he was going to grow up to be a sociopath all along.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but is quite intelligent.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but is quite intelligent.while he IS likely disabled, he's nowhere near as disabled as he appears.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but is quite intelligent.

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but is quite intelligent.intelligent.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: {{Subverted}} with Cy. It looks like he does what he does because his brother and everyone else mocked him throughout his childhood, but what he tells Tammy about murdering a puppy as a child makes it sound like he was going to grow up to be a sociopath all along.
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* AmbiguousDisorder
* AndIMustScream
* EyeScream

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* AmbiguousDisorder
AmbiguousDisorder: Cy's. Honestly it could just be a motoric dysfunction.
* AndIMustScream
AndIMustScream: The victim whose tongue was burned out with sulphuric acid.
* EyeScreamEyeScream: The victim whose eyes were burned out with sulphuric acid.
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When two Durant, Oklahoma women are sexually assaulted and blinded with sulfuric acid, the BAU searches for a killer determined to exact revenge against a face from his past. Meanwhile, JJ confronts Reid about his recent behavior and Rossi organizes a team cooking lesson.

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* AmbiguousDisorder
* AndIMustScream
* EyeScream
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The victims all get tricked by their own "benign" prejudice against mentally disabled people.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Cy looks and speaks like a stereotypical mentally disabled (formerly [and presently] known as "stupid") person, but is quite intelligent.
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