Inner Beauty
Rossi visits his daughter's family and meets his ex-wife Hayden (
Sheryl Lee Ralph). Meanwhile, a man slashes women's faces practicing cosmetic surgery and dumps their bodies in water reservoirs. He does this to make them look like his dead girlfriend, who killed herself because people mocked her for her facial deformity her entire life.
Tropes in this episode
- Big Sister Instinct: Danielle, the recent victim, went off drugs for her little brother. She desperately pleads for the UnSub to let her go so she can return to her family.
- Driven to Suicide: The UnSubs’s girlfriend. He's trying to recreate her ever since.
- Freudian Excuse: The UnSub had a girlfriend who had a facial deformity. He took her outside on a date, which led to her having an anxiety attack and drowning herself.
- Replacement Goldfish: The UnSub kidnaps women to replace his dead girlfriend. He uses facial surgery to make them resemble her, and tries to have them emulate her reading habits. His plan is not really working.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Hayden claims that this would have been the case for Joy all the time if she'd told Rossi about her. He cannot quite tell her she's wrong.
