Unsubs that hit you in the feels.

[mariamcardoso.livejournal.com]

Because not all unsubs are evil at heart. Some just "break". Possible spoilers depending on answers by the community.

These are the ones that made my eyes tear up (under the cut):



Normal Hill from episode 11 of season 4. Jonny Mchale from episode 10 of season 3.

What are the unsubs that made you shed tears?

Comments

[full-metal-ox.livejournal.com]

Nobody's yet mentioned Samantha, the Doll Collector?

[mariamcardoso.livejournal.com]

She was abused by her father, yes.

Samantha Malcolm, S05E12

[full-metal-ox.livejournal.com]

"Uncanny Valley" was significant as a summary of Reid's character development, since that particular case pushed just about all his Berserk Buttons: not only mistreatment of the mentally ill and bad fatherhood, but the specific horror of being immobilized and at the mercy of a disturbed person who snapped under a parent's abuse*. That's why he made sure to confront Samantha in the presence of her victims--to make sure that they, too, received an explanation for their nightmarish ordeal (and who was ultimately to blame), as well as reassurance that their tormentor would stop hurting people once she got the heartbreakingly simple thing she really wanted all along.

*Which brings us to another name I've not yet seen mentioned:



Tobias Hankel ("The Big Game". 2.14, and "Revelations", 2.15), trapped in the same skin with his tormentors.

[mycha-kk.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about her... I definitely felt sorry for her... it was a sad story...

There is another mentally-challenged killer in the series, but this one definitely does NOT make me feel sorry for him (actually it gives me the creeps... and I personally find him to be one of the scariest, evilest unsubs...):

Ben "Cy" Bradstone from The Proof (s.7)

[tonjavmoore.livejournal.com]

When he's laughing at his brother, he makes a face that is so evil I can barely look at it.

The other mentally challenged one I don't feel at all sorry for is Floyd Phalen from Lucky. He gave me the creeps for a long time.

I do feel sorry for the unsub in Derailed (Dr. Bryer) and the one from Blood Hungry.

[mycha-kk.livejournal.com]

When he's laughing at his brother, he makes a face that is so evil I can barely look at it.
That's the reason he terrifies me so much. I was watching this episode late at night and could not fall asleep for a long time. That look... it still creeps me out just thinking about it...

[full-metal-ox.livejournal.com]

The detail about Cy that particularly unsettles me is one that may require a specific cultural background to appreciate: his speech pattern is exactly a stock sort of voice that has come to denote a simpleton in old American cartoons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EHDBJFoZL4

I'm not sure whether that's his natural mode of expression--which would of course have been blood in the water to his classmates--a deliberate ploy to fool people into underestimating his cunning, or even the latter playing upon the former.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

Totally forgot about her. So sad. And the fact that her father was Riker made it worse somehow.