Saint James Infirmary 318: Pit Stop.

[jmundt29]

Not blanket closed eyes or Q would never have seen a jail cell, Jacqui would never have been indicted, and Derek would still be lovin' the high life.  However, it is noteworthy that someone as obviously wrong as Derek suffered nothing more than a repeatedly broken nose.  Humorous, symbolic emasculation seemed fitting.

[GodWilling]

I think this is a slightly different point though (although I'll take Daphne's interjection to mean it isn't). Zenon is supposed to be a respectable hypnotherapist. What Derek was doing compromised him - as Claudia herself says. The news that someone has been using a trigger he planted, in order to sexually abuse his patients is a big thing. If it weren't, he wouldn't have needed Derek (that's speculative). I don't think that even in the SJI universe he would talk about it as if it were a trifle. (And it isn't a trifle - he's straight on the phone to Claudia.) But he's talking to Amy about it as if he knows she will just accept it as such - as if he knows she's blasé, if you will.

"Now you will masturbate until you have a very satisfying orgasm."

"Yes, Doctor." (Ep 6)

That kind of blasé.

[Haight]

Or we can assume it's just kind of a Kearsarge thing. It does seem to be ground zero for a wide variety of MC effects. At this point the college students probably take it in stride. "Where were you last weekend?" "Oh, just mind controlled and spent the time some psych student's sex slave. Had fun. Came my brains out." At least I find the idea of that hot.

[GodWilling]

Which is fine, but then why didn't Zenon just walk the streets of Kearsarge with his crystal implanting the trigger in every woman he met? That would have been much more effective.

[mns_95125]

My impression is that mind control is considered unseemly but not a major crime, sort of like having your house egged on Halloween.  It isn't something respectable people would do, but if it happens to you your likely response would be to mutter something about "kids these days" and start cleaning up the mess.