CSI: Crime Scene Investigation2000

Wendy Simms:
Well, we're working under the assumption that the killer was a foster kid, right? With probably an abusive childhood, so, a bloody baby doll. I mean, it's really not much of a stretch to say the doll represents the killer.

Hodges:
Grissom had something on that.

[opens case file]

Hodges:
"Freud's theory on the uncanny raises the point that as children we want the doll to come to life. But as adults, we are terrified by the idea. The doll could represent the uncanny that is feared. The Sandman."

Wendy Simms:
Right, or exactly what I just said.