Old school...

[a_blackpanther]

This is the discussion post for Episode 6x08 - "Reflection of Desire". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

[devon-carrots.livejournal.com]

wait i'm confused can someone explain the ending to me

[sodoesrachael.livejournal.com]

Garcia was doing her play again, and the whole team was there watching. :D

Or did you mean the ending of the case?

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

What about the ending?

[epicet.livejournal.com]

Like with the unsub?


His mother's been dead; her death was probably the stressor. That is a throwback to Psycho. He's been recreating women in her image, which is a reference to Vertigo.

[devon-carrots.livejournal.com]

oooh okay thanks

[ladymalchav.livejournal.com]

He was abducting girls and trying to play out the scenario his dead mother had made him perform with her. That's why they all looked like her. He took the first girl's lips to put oh his mothers corpse (probably because hers had rotted off by then). When the second girl ran into the room and screamed? She had found the mother's corpse.

By the time the cops came for him, he was so delusional he imagined they were walking down the red carpet.

The entire show had callbacks to old films: Psycho, Vertigo, and at the end (I think) What Happened to Baby Jane.

This one was extremely well done.

[ladymalchav.livejournal.com]

No, I was wrong. It's Sunset Boulevard, but What Happened to Baby Jane.




This is why I usually Google before I hit Post.