That thing we are discussing about 5x01

[thelana.livejournal.com]

The dialog from the scene:
F: Do you want to see my scars? What do you think? Do you like them? Yours are gonna look just the same
H: My team
F: Your team, your team didn't catch me untill I wanted them to. You're not in charge so don't be foolish. Now try to relax. Your body will go numb (knife goes in) and it goes in so much easier if you relax. The hard part is not passing out from the pain. (Foyet pulls the knife our slowly) Now I understand that profilers think that stabbing is a substitution for the act of sex, that if somebody is impotent, they'll use a knife instead. Is that what you think agent Hotchner? Maybe this will change the way you profile. (knife goes in)

So what do you think did the scene mean?

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Comments

[asatomuraki.livejournal.com]

I think analyzing the blood pool is over-thinking it, because he was lying on his back and stabbed mostly if not entirely on the front, so there should have been a bleed pattern around his body, not a nice, neat single puddle. In other words, several pools where the blood ran from the wounds over the sides of his body. Also, if he'd been cut in the junk, the blood pattern would have been longer(and probably with a dry patch near the middle of where his back was).

So, not saying none of that wasn't possible, but I am saying that set-dressers left a crime scene bloodstain that in to way resembled what would have occurred had it happened the way it had in Hotch's flashback.

The show doesn't have many boo-boos, but that blood stain was wrong, even from what we know of what happened. A set-dresser poured a can of red Caro on the carpet, that's all.

Like you said, the show isn't overly-concerned with realism -- which also means the claim of 'no smudging of the blood stain' is also moot.

[maclou.livejournal.com]

Yes that's what I meant, that the size of the blood stain doesn't discount him being cut there just like it not being smudged doesn't discount rape. But I've seen a lot of people using the size of the blood stain to say he wasn't stabbed in the groin and I'm saying if that meant anything then it would mean he wasn't raped wither. So basically I agree XD

[asatomuraki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except I don't think he was cut in the privates. Mostly because he's back on the job next week. ;) But I guess we get to wait and see (and I expect it will be several episodes before anything comes out, one way or the other). Clever writers.