premiere hotch speculation

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This was discussed briefly on the episode discussion post, but i felt it needed it's own as it could be a HUGE added pain for our beloved leader.

The reaper, Hotch... was there a rape? it was most definitely insinuated, but i felt it was more of a "wait, WHAT?!" moment that passed to quickly to get  a full read on the situation.

im thinking no. if it had, i feel they would have put in more content to support it. all we really saw was a stab that looked below the belt. and the reaper was still fully in pants through the whole thing. 

unless it's something hotch blocked from his memory...

does anyone remember what the reaper said to him? about stabbing being a substitute for sex?

  if this has been discussed or anything already, feel free to mod it up.

Comments

[innerslytherin]

Yes, straight men rape in prisons for the power and control.

But Foyet has already completely incapacitated Hotch and hit him where it hurts--his confidence, his lack of fear, his mental powers. Hotch may be a physical man, but he values his own intelligence more--and so does Foyet. Time and again Foyet tries to prove himself smarter.

I can buy the metaphorical aspect--in fact, as another commenter said here, it's not even really a metaphor, so much as real--but I don't buy that Foyet would feel the need to use his sex organs to rape.