Out of the Light
Directed by Doug Aarniokoski
Written by Roger Hedden
A photographer tries to find his dead stepdaughter by kidnapping other girls, frames another creep for his own crimes, and would rather kill himself and his victim than turn himself in.Written by Roger Hedden
Rossi: Agathon said, "Of this alone, even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."
This episode provides examples of:
- The Bad Guy Wins: The UnSub escapes justice, and the guy he tries to frame is never prosecuted for his actual crimes because the frame-up is so obvious, the BAU sees through it at once and shift their attention elsewhere.
- Double-Meaning Title: The title could refer to the victims being held in a dark basement, or to the darkroom where the photographs of the victims are processed by a man who no one pays attention to.
- Driven to Suicide: Bremmer's original victim, his stepdaughter Rose.
- Friendship Moment: Hotch and Rossi coaching Jack's soccer team at the end.
- Identical Stranger: Marcy looks so much like Rose that Robert Bremmer manages to convince himself she's her.
- If I Can't Have You…: Robert Bremmer to Marcy when he drives the car into a lake, and tries to stop Morgan from saving her by holding onto her.
- Karma Houdini: The first suspect, Talbot, gets away with his actions, just because they did not include kidnapping or murder.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Morgan trying to keep the kidnapping victim alive at the end resembles how he tried to save Prentiss in "Lauren": he runs to her to get her out of her kidnapper's grip, and administers first-aid trying to keep her alive.
- Replacement Goldfish: Marcy is one for Rose as far as Robert Bremmer is concerned.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Morgan outright compares this case to Elizabeth Smart, as does Rossi while also referencing Jaycee Dugard's case.
- Hotchner: Doménico Cieri Estrada wrote, "Bring the past only if you're going to build from it."
