Post #5 - "Heathridge Manor"

The episode that aired last night began with a mother reading a story to her son. In the middle of reading she was interrupted and dragged back to her room. She was in a psychiatric ward due to serious delusions she suffered from. After the introduction, it flashes forward and shows the boy grown up. Various victims are women being found sewn in elegant, old fashion dresses on along with white makeup on their face. Their feet and hands were tied as well. What killed them was that the dresses were coated with a lethal amount of nicotine. It is later found out that the victims were "tested" before their deaths. The killer threw them into a well and if they drown it meant that the girl was innocent. If the girl survived, it meant that they were witches possessed by the devil. The killer keeps seeing visions of his deceased mother. Whenever he sees these visions is when he goes out to find his victims because his mother tells him to. He believes he is fighting evil and protecting his disabled sister. His sister lives under his harsh rules that basically shuts her off from the world in order to protect her. She doesn't know this, but when she was an infant her mother actually cut her arm off during one of her delusions because she felt that it would prevent evil from wanting her. In the end, the brother believes he needs to use his sister as bait to attract evil and end everything once and for all. The BAU enters the house and one goes to help the sister while the others search for the brother. Agent Hotchner and the killer get into a physical fight and the killer gets shoved into a well to his death.


This whole episode was just messed up. I can't believe someone could actually chop their own baby's arm off but she obviously did it in a state of dementia. In the show they said that there are some cases where mental diseases are hereditary. The mother had a very serious case as well as the son. Unfortunately, the sister does as well. At the very end of the show it shows her hallucinating and talking to people that aren't even there. This episode was very sad and showed just how traumatic mental diseases are.