YMMV / The Inside

• Complete Monster: The FBI's Violent Crimes Unit (VCU) has faced many criminals plaguing Los Angeles in this short-lived Police Procedural, these three stand out as the most deplorable:
  • "New Girl in Town": Simon Gunther is a misogynistic Serial Killer seeking to "unmask" women who are new to Los Angeles, carving off their faces and degloving the hands of his victims to erase their identities as his way of "making them into nothing". Manipulating a mentally handicapped man to search for victims, Gunther has killed eight women using the same method. After the bipolar lead profiler on his case commits suicide and is replaced by Rebecca Locke, Gunther kidnaps another woman and sends a live video of her to the authorities, rigging the server with a delay to give them the hope that she would still be alive. Revealing his identity to Rebecca and planning on making her his next victim, Gunther threatens to shoot a boy and his mother if she doesn't comply to his demands.
  • "Gem": Arlen Dallas is a wealthy developer living a double life as a child pornographer. Dallas molested his own son, Jason, when he was still a child and cheated on his wife with a maid, fathering Angelica and forcing Jason to abuse his own half-sister in a long-running series of homemade videos that captured her pain as she matured, making Angelica a "star" in the world of child pornography, starting when she was at least six. When the mentally unstable Jason betrays his father to have Angelica for himself, Dallas sends the VCU after him by playing the victim and pinning the blame on Jason, leading to his death. Indifferent to the death of his son and the suffering that he caused to his daughter, Dallas was one of the worst criminals encountered by the VCU despite not being directly involved in any murder.
  • "Skin and Bone": Ronald Ewing is a repulsive cannibal preying on vulnerable girls and luring them to his home via a pro-anorexia website. Suspected to have eaten his own sister in the past, Ewing installs shock collars on his victims and forces them to be his friends, eating them when the girls don't have what he calls "house manners", killing at least twelve women and hiding their bones under the floor. When Rebecca, posing as an anorexic woman, investigates the missing girls by herself, Ewing captures her and a promises to be a "friend who understands", but quickly drops the façade once she tries to escape, calling her names to mock her supposed weight problem despite being an obese man himself. With dozens of victims to his name, Ewing was the most prolific Serial Killer introduced in the show.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Carter's arson simulation in "Point of Origin", with a backing track of people screaming. Danny finds it hilarious.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Rebecca. Given her past and her general behavior and reactions, it might as well be confirmed that she has PTSD and maybe depression.
• Mentor Ship: Web/Rebecca. He's very invested in her life, to the point where he armchair-solved her kidnapping case, waved through her failed Academy psych screening, and recruited her for his team only two years out of the Academy. He coaches her to use her trauma to solve cases, and praises her when she gets it right (which he never does for anyone else).
• Squick: Virtually everything related to the cases.
  • It starts in the pilot, with the way the UnSub "de-gloves" the hands of his victims and rips their faces off.
  • Paul digging up Pope's roses in "Thief of Hearts" and finding a fresh human heart. Why yes, you should take the title seriously.
  • Special mention has to go to the UnSub in "Aiden" who rips fetuses out of women and replaces the babies with dolls (and please note, the spoiler tag is there for a reason).
  • "Skin and Bone", which manages to be not only horrifyingly fat-phobic and a minefield of eating disorder-related trauma, but feature an UnSub who can only be described as "Fat Bastard meets Nightmare Fuel".

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