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-> Directed by Creator/MatthewGrayGubler\\
Written by Creator/JanineShermanBarrois
--> '''Reid:''' ''William Shakespeare once wrote, "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind."''



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--> '''Reid:''' ''Thomas Merton once wrote, "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone; we find it with another."''
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* ActorAllusion: A killer mixed up with dolls, played by Creator/BradDourif. Sound [[Franchise/ChildsPlay familiar]]?
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* PeoplePuppets: The Unsub dislocated the joints of his victims so he could use them like marionettes, while they were still alive.
* PsychopathicManchild: The Unsub's father died when he was a boy and he fell into a coma a year before the episode starts. When he wakes after nine months, he does not have the thinking capacities of an adult. He even thinks dolls are alive. To pick which body part to strike a bolt through first, he uses "eenie meenie miny moe". His doll companion criticizes him for being such a baby.

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* PeoplePuppets: The Unsub [=UnSub=] dislocated the joints of his victims so he could use them like marionettes, while they were still alive.
* PsychopathicManchild: The Unsub's [=UnSub=]'s father died when he was a boy and he fell into a coma a year before the episode starts. When he wakes after nine months, he does not have the thinking capacities of an adult. He even thinks dolls are alive. To pick which body part to strike a bolt through first, he uses "eenie meenie miny moe". His doll companion criticizes mocks him for being such a baby.

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* BittersweetEnding: While the [=UnSub=] was apprehended, Reid and Maeve’s meeting is canceled because Reid believed her stalker is at the restaurant.



* StalkerWithACrush: What both Reid and Maeve assume Maeve's stalker is.

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* StalkerWithACrush: What both Both Reid and Maeve assume Maeve's stalker is.is a man who is in love with her.
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An [=UnSub=] detaches his victims' joints before he kills them. Maeve wants to meet Reid.

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An [=UnSub=] detaches old man wakes from a coma and has regressed to the age of nine, when his victims' joints before he kills them. Maeve wants father was murdered in front of him by robbers, and the boy still believed that marionettes were alive. To recreate the scenario, the man-boy kidnaps people, dislocates their joints, and forces them to meet Reid.
reenact the robbery in a play.

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* MoralMyopia: Neither Maeve nor Reid seem to appreciate the seriousness of Maeve's stalker moving on to another victim, simply being relieved they can move forward with their relationship.



* WhatTheHellHero: Reid and Maeve casually discuss how Maeve's stalker probably moved on to harass someone else.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Reid ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: While it might be obvious to most watchers from the beginning, Adam hallucinates both Mr. Conrad and Maeve casually discuss how Maeve's stalker probably moved on the audience to harass someone else.his performance.
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* PsychopathicManchild: The Unsub fell into a coma as a boy and when he wakes, fifty years later, he does not have the thinking capacities of an adult. He even thinks dolls are alive. To pick which body part to strike a bolt through first, he uses "eenie meenie miny moe". His doll companion criticizes him for being such a baby.

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* PsychopathicManchild: The Unsub Unsub's father died when he was a boy and he fell into a coma as a boy and when year before the episode starts. When he wakes, fifty years later, wakes after nine months, he does not have the thinking capacities of an adult. He even thinks dolls are alive. To pick which body part to strike a bolt through first, he uses "eenie meenie miny moe". His doll companion criticizes him for being such a baby.

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* {{Contortionist}}: If you're worried about the actors being turned into puppets, don't be. They're all played by these.



* PsychopathicManchild: The Unsub fell into a coma as a boy and when he wakes, fifty years later, he does not have the thinking capacities of an adult. He even thinks dolls are alive.

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* PsychopathicManchild: The Unsub fell into a coma as a boy and when he wakes, fifty years later, he does not have the thinking capacities of an adult. He even thinks dolls are alive. To pick which body part to strike a bolt through first, he uses "eenie meenie miny moe". His doll companion criticizes him for being such a baby.
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* StalkerWithACrush: What both Reid and Maeve assume Maeve's stalker is.
* WhatTheHellHero: Reid and Maeve casually discuss how Maeve's stalker probably moved on to harass someone else.
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* PsychopathicManchild: The Unsub fell into a coma as a boy and when he wakes, fifty years later, he does not have the thinking capacities of an adult. He even thinks dolls are alive.

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!!The Lesson



!!Contains examples of
** BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The first scene in the episode is set up to be an Angel of Death murder, but ends up not being relevant to the plot.

* PeoplePuppets: The Unsub dislocated the joints of his victims so he could use them like marionettes, while they were still alive.

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!!Contains examples of
** BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The first scene in the episode is set up to be an Angel of Death murder, but ends up not being relevant to the plot.

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* PeoplePuppets: The Unsub dislocated the joints of his victims so he could use them like marionettes, while they were still alive.alive.
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** BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The first scene in the episode is set up to be an Angel of Death murder, but ends up not being relevant to the plot.

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** BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The first scene in the episode is set up to be an Angel of Death murder, but ends up not being relevant to the plot.plot.

* PeoplePuppets: The Unsub dislocated the joints of his victims so he could use them like marionettes, while they were still alive.
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An [=UnSub=] detaches his victims' joints before he kills them. Maeve wants to meet Reid.

!!Contains examples of
** BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The first scene in the episode is set up to be an Angel of Death murder, but ends up not being relevant to the plot.

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