Things get even creepier when Garcia warns the others that the unsub is apparently filming his murders and putting them online. But, Reid wonders, why would he quit medical school to go work as a courier? It seems quite a change in career. If he worked in the mail room at WorldSend, that, along with his “going postal” reference in his poem, would explain his experience with wrapping boxes. The unsub is apparently quite the gift-wrapping expert – the body parts are well-packed and secured, as are the boxes themselves. Two kinds of behaviors means a possible variety of motives.

They’re also struck by the fact that the unsub kills his male victims, whom he seemed to know personally, and psychologically traumatizes the women. And since it’s not easy to cut up a body, the team concludes that their unsub clearly has a lot of medical experience. They also learn that both men were tortured while alive – the unsub had given them a drug that paralyzed them and allowed them to watch what they were going through. Luckily, they have one avenue to look into right off – the packages were sent via an overnight courier service called WorldSend, and one of the victims, Dwayne, worked there. It’s soon revealed that the body parts are tied to two men, so now the team has to learn more about those people, and see if and how they and the women targeted are connected. What’s more, all the boxes included an index card, each with snippets of an odd rhyme, which Reid recites for everyone: “All the king’s Porsches and all the king’s Benz couldn’t put this bitch back together again. The various body parts were wrapped and sealed inside boxes, and include two arms without hands, two legs without the feet, and a headless torso that was split in two. None of the women reported any male family members or friends going missing, so that makes the motive harder to pin down as well. Two of the women were at home when they got their packages, four were at work, and they’ve all got different jobs and are of varying ages. But the fact they’re all women is where the similarity ends. As the team soon learns, five other women reported getting body parts sent to them as well. That poor woman isn’t the only one to receive that kind of gruesome “present”. Or it could also be a portion of some random person’s body. She ordered some sort of toy recently, so perhaps, she figures, it’s that. At the local IRS building, a couple employees are musing over what could be inside a box that’s been sent to a female employee. The postal service is up and running, and mail is being delivered to D.C. It’s quite the busy morning as the episode begins.

On the personal side of things, we also got to spend a bit of time with Matt’s family this episode, so that was nice, too. Still, even with that issue, we still had a case that was intriguing and unpredictable, a couple very colorful characters for the team to deal with, and an attempt to bring a new twist on this show’s common trope of internet-obsessed unsubs. It seemed kinda all over the place, which made sense given the type of unsub they were dealing with, but which made it harder to really address all the issues at hand all that well. In some ways, I kinda feel like that might’ve been a better angle for the show, because I don’t know that this episode’s case really highlighted the actual idea of rule 34 all that well. A lot of fans, upon reading this title, thought that the episode might deal more in the fandom realm, with an unsub who’s involved with creepy porn versions of some show/movie/celebrity/whatever that people were into. This episode, as the title indicates, tries to touch on that very concept, to mixed results. We’ve all no doubt got some stories of stumbling upon something screwy online – maybe not always on the level of rule 34, but something that could be classified as just plain weird, at the very least. Even if one wasn’t familiar with rule 34, though, I’m sure the fact that the internet has some dark areas is not exactly news to anyone who’s spent any length of time online, or, for that matter, has watched the news. Those that don’t no doubt got quite an interesting crash course regarding that concept. Rule 34: If it exists, there is porn of it.Ĭhances are good most viewers of this show knew the definition of that phrase going into this episode.

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