premiere hotch speculation

[ohshiznaps.livejournal.com]

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

[yamair.livejournal.com]

But the blood at the scene wasn't that messy. If Foyet had undressed, raped, and then redressed Hotch, the blood would have been more smudged and not just in a puddle.



As it is, it looks as if Hotch just bleed out.

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

Think about it when you spill a whole can of soda on your carpet--when you try to towel it up, it continues to leech out and spread, despite the rubbing motion. Smear marks with large quantities of liquid are actually hard to do with carpet. You get it more from dragging, where the liquid is being sort of "paintbrushed" over the carpet. The physical motion of sex tends to move the carpet with the person lying on it, too, versus the person simply moving around on top of it. Carpet is fabric after all.

Plus, we know Foyet had to lift and bundle Hotch up to take him to the hospital, which just as easily might have caused drag marks. I don't think they paid a huge amount of attention to creating that blood stain.

[yamair.livejournal.com]

Well I would think that if they wanted to suggest rape, they would've paid more attention to the crime scene and used it to indicate something more went on. They seemed to pay attention to all other aspects of likening the attack to rape after all.

Having said that, maybe he could've been raped and the blood still be like that, idk.