3.03 Scared to Death

Season: 3 Episode # 3 Original Air Date: October 10, 2007


Scared to Death


Synopsis:

Hotchner and the team track down a serial killer who exploits his role as a psychiatrist to find out his victims worst fears, then uses that fear as a means to kill.


Best Moments Between Characters:
  • The final scene when Morgan asked Hotch why he wasn't sleeping and why he was working late. Hotch finally admitted his wife had left him and he wasn't sure she was coming back.
  • When Prentiss and Reid were talking about why Gideon left the letter for him and why he knew he'd be the one to go looking for him and find the letter.

Best Lines:

  • After Reid and Morgan get out of the elevator that had become temporarily stuck:
    Hotch: "Was that the alarm? Are you guys okay?"Reid (still shaking): "...I'll get back to you on that."

  • When Garcia was teasing Morgan about his elevator phobia!

The turning point in the investigation:
When they found their 9th victim in the water and they realized the unsub was killing these people by their fears.


Whodunit?
Dr. Stan Howard, a former psychiatrist whose mother used to abuse him. His mother had died the year before and he let his practice lapse, but kept up pretenses to his family. Using fliers put up in public places, he lured individuals to his "new" practice under the pretense of helping them with phobias but instead he usedtheir fear/phobia to kill them.


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#1hotchfan Hotch can rescue me! 2 Nov 19 2008, 11:44 PM EST by jackie196602
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Thread started: Dec 5 2007, 10:14 PM EST  Watch
After watching this a 2nd time; on a personal note - Hotch can save me any time but I so prefer mouth-to-mouth from him! That woman got robbed! ;)

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curlybeca Accuracy 5 Jun 20 2008, 1:57 PM EDT by Magickster
Thread started: Oct 11 2007, 9:02 PM EDT  Watch
I was a bit disapointed by the writers because of some inacuracies in this episode. As a social worker, I have worked with people with anxiety disorders among other issues. Reid had a line stating the term "phobia" isn't even listed as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Well, this statement is totally inacurate, as the diagnosis of Specific Phobia is in the most current edition (DSM-IV, pp. 410-417). It is not thought of as an "antiquated term." I usually think the writers do an excellent job, but they really need to get their facts straight if they're going to make such a statement.
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godfreyfolsom Thomas Jefferson quote 1 Dec 6 2007, 10:10 AM EST by #1hotchfan
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Did anyone happen to catch the quote at the end of the show from Thomas Jefferson? I only heard the end of it and was hoping that someone else got the rest.
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