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Directed by Constantine Makris
Written by Rick Dunkle
An UnSub goes after local social media celebrities, allegedly putting spooky images of Mark Twain on his intended victims' phones.Written by Rick Dunkle
Morgan: "Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity, it is indistinguishable from stupidity." Eric Hoffer.
Tropes in this episode
- All Men Are Perverts: Charles Lorne, a sporting goods store security guard at the shopping mall visited by the UnSub's victims. He was a voyeur and a potential stalker, though he had nothing to do with the murders.
- Berserk Button: The UnSub can't stand being mocked, and that's his motivation for the third murder.
- Glory Seeker: A twisted version. The UnSub did not hate his initial two victims. He craved fame, and figured that killing celebrities would make him famous.
- Hope Spot: JJ, Morgan and Callahan have almost got the UnSub to surrender and release his hostage...and then a news crew show up and start filming, giving the UnSub the audience he wants. After the takedown, a furious Callahan promptly chews them out for endangering the hostage.
- Hypocrite: The UnSub (the self-prolaimed "Mirror Man") supposedly found fault in the vanity of the two celebrities which he killed, and the methods which they used for self-promotion. His crimes were actually part of a campaign to gain fame , and he turns out be extremely vain and more than a litle obsessed with his own reflection in the mirror.
- Pun: Tara Harris's boyfriend says of her Instagram obsession that she's crazy. Tara replies that she can't help her selfie.
- Stalker with a Crush: Reid suggests the UnSub could be this.
- Teens Are Monsters: After he's caught, the UnSub assumes he won't do much time, because "kids do the craziest things".
- Urban Legends: The teenagers tell each other the story of the Mirror Man, who shows up in your selfies and kills you. The UnSub is inspired by this story.
- You Did the Right Thing: Morgan is forced to shoot the UnSub, who is a teenager, to save a hostage. Afterwards, Hotch tells him this.Derek Morgan: I shot a kid on national television.Aaron Hotchner: You shot a serial killer, and if you hadn't, that hostage wouldn't be in surgery now, she'd be dead. You did the right thing.
- Morgan: "There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect." Robert Louis Stevenson.
