Criminal Minds: "Look Up To The Sky"**Triggers**
Jude
Registrant
In a post from about a year ago, I described an episode of the TV show Criminal Minds, The Fighter in which the character Derek Morgan (played by Shemar Moore)confronts Carl Buford, who repeatedly molested him as a boy. Buford tries to set up Derek for several murders that he committed, which forces Derek to disclose and face the abuse he suffered at Buford's hands.
Last night I saw a related episode which both triggered and excited me. In the episode called Restoration there are a series of murders which are profiled to fit a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Evidence leads them to believe that the murderer may be one of Carl Buford's victims, grown up acting out revenge. Derek goes to meet Buford in prison to try to get a list of his other victims to try to ID the murderer. In that scene, Buford taunts Derek and offers to provide the list if Derek will shake his hand. I found this horrible to watch, to have to touch him.
In the end they catch the murderer who is a Buford victim, but was not on the list Buford provided. At the press conference when the arrest was announced, a reporter asks "so he was a became a killer because he was molested?" Derek takes over answering and says "The vast majority of childhood sex abuse victims do not become murderers or molesters...". YAY!
As a result of the press conference, Buford is outed as a pedophile, and is murdered by his fellow prisoners. Justice? Watch the clip: Restoration Sorry about the subtitles.
Last night I saw a related episode which both triggered and excited me. In the episode called Restoration there are a series of murders which are profiled to fit a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Evidence leads them to believe that the murderer may be one of Carl Buford's victims, grown up acting out revenge. Derek goes to meet Buford in prison to try to get a list of his other victims to try to ID the murderer. In that scene, Buford taunts Derek and offers to provide the list if Derek will shake his hand. I found this horrible to watch, to have to touch him.
In the end they catch the murderer who is a Buford victim, but was not on the list Buford provided. At the press conference when the arrest was announced, a reporter asks "so he was a became a killer because he was molested?" Derek takes over answering and says "The vast majority of childhood sex abuse victims do not become murderers or molesters...". YAY!
As a result of the press conference, Buford is outed as a pedophile, and is murdered by his fellow prisoners. Justice? Watch the clip: Restoration Sorry about the subtitles.
