Criminal Minds - Haunted

"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." -Polybius


In formal affairs sometimes it's better not to discuss personal issues because in formal affairs business is the name of the game.  Personal issues sometimes gets into formal affairs.  It's reasonable that associating with people, being human, we make friends and become close to those who we relate with.  But that's the thing, there are those people who actually care about you, whether it's about you or their own personal nature, and those that will use your personal character or things happening in your life as a weakness against you.  They will use your human side against you or question it, some people balance it well.

Aaron Hotchner is still rebounding from his confrontation with Foyet, reasonable because trauma to love is personal, unfortunately to Hotchner it is also job related.  Foyet was a serial killer that became personal to Hotchner, who succeeded in killing Hotcher's wife but missed his son.  In this Haunted case, Hotchner makes a considerably reckless viewed move, probably because he is still in a post traumatic state or more so emphasized on saving the boy, by seperating himself from the team when he enters the house alone.  He puts himself in between the lines of the "Hollow Creek Killer" and his son Darrin Call who has been psychologically effected by his father's crimes. Darrin Call is now as an adult coming back to kill his father (But Darrin is hallucinating; he kidnaps a young boy who has not reached adolescence believing the young boy is from Darrin's past, Tommy, who he has helped escape).  One member of his team, Morgan questions Hotchner's leadership with Rossi because a leader should not be so reckless in action (those you micromanage may); his old colleague Rossi defends Hotchner with an explanation of trust.  The ironic thing is Morgan would have done the same thing, he has in previous situations. Agent Prentiss (another colleague) is seen at the end discussing with Hotchner in metaphoric relation about the case with a personal issue Hotchner has.  The topic is if you have nothing to lose, your actions can be reckless.  Agent Prentiss, in regards to issues with this case, reminds Hotchner he still has his son. Hotchner is left standing in the final scene standing alone in a dim dull room alone, staring as if into a deep yonder, at what should be a wall cut off by the scene.