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9.2 Superb
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Air Date

Wednesday November 14, 2007

Production Code

307

Episode Summary

In the first of a two-part story, the BAU pursues a cannibalistic serial killer in Bridgewater, Florida, that leads Morgan to a crisis in his faith. Garcia believes she has met her dream man, but her first date with him doesn't go exactly as she had expected.

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    10 Perfect

    By Far the best episode yet! hide show

    I just recently started watching Criminal Minds. I knew when it first aired that it was going to be an incredible series. However, I was not able to watch the series when it first aired due to conflicts with some of my other television programs that I was watching at the time. Criminal Minds has been in syndication on A&E and ION Television, and I have been able to catch up on the series from the beginning. What an incredible ride it's been! I was a little bit concerned when Mandy Patinkin (Senior SSA Jason Gideon) left the series (By the way No Way Out (2): The Evilution of Frank and Doubt were also great episodes!)but Joe Mantegna's character SSA David Rossi is beginning to grow on me. Anyway Back to the episode titled "Lucky". What can I say "Gripping" "Thrilling" "Horrifying" "Pure Evil!" Days later that episode remained vividly on my mind. Floyd Feylinn Ferell will scare the hell out of you! Guaranteed!

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    6.5 Fair

    While these episode was highly enjoyable to watch for the first 58 minutes of it...the ending really tanked as this is the SECOND female BAU member to get shot in the chest and almost die. hide show

    While these episode was highly enjoyable to watch for the first 58 minutes of it...the ending really tanked as this is the SECOND female BAU member to get shot in the chest and almost die.
    Sorry writers...but can't you do something different...like remember that the female viewers out number the males and what REALLY rivets us to the screen is when you have a good-looking guy like Morgan or Reid getting shot? I hated that ending so much I refused to watch the follow-on episode. Have not to this day. Love Garcia, but after all, she IS a support character IMO.

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    8.5 Great

    Shocking story, even more shocking ending.. hide show

    Ok, I do not know.. It was one of those episodes what have good and shocking story, something you do not suspect in the first like what happened with that missing girl. Like my sister said to me after they caught the bad guy - "maybe you should stop now". Mm.. maybe I should have. Anyway, I continued and.. that was cruel.. and horrible..

    And ofcourse then is the end scene. I think for so many people that made this episode marvelous but to be honest, it was only couple of seconds.. it seems to be only the prelude to next episode.. and not so part of it..

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    8.5 Great

    One scene does not make an episode "9.5" hide show

    Overrated episode if I am being honest. It was a good case and still in the 8.5 range, but this is not the fourth best episode of Criminal Minds by a long shot. It is not even the fourth best episode of the third season of the show, which has hit back to back average episodes for me now. I thought the episode started well with the flashback of the unsub in the mental institution. I also liked the fact that the 'unsub' won in the end when he said that he had all ready killed the girl who everyone was looking for. Garcia meets a guy in a coffee shop and he turns out to - put a bullet into her chest at the end of the episode? I thought it was a very random end to the episode. I almost would like to have had it be a multiple episode arch with her actually dating the guy. It more or less looks like this was just a random shock thrown into the end of the episode to get everyone to drop their jaw. The next episode following this one is supposed to be the best episode of Criminal Minds ever - so let's see if the Criminal Minds team can pull it off.

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    9.8 Superb

    fabulous hide show

    this was a fantastic episode. it actually scared me a bit and i did hide behind my hand every time the killer looked at the screen with those horrid eyes. the ending was great,poor garcia .i was hoping that her smoking hot guy would be the real deal but as we found out in the end the only thing smoking about him was the gun that he had just fired at her. i do hope that she pulls through because i would love to see her get together with morgan. now theres one hot smoking guy!!!!!!!!!!!!p.s love the new boss too

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  • Morgan: An inverted pentagram...
    The photo of the first victim (Abby Kelton) shows one point of the pentagram is directed to her head (up), making it a straight pentagram. The same can be seen on the body of the victim found in the church, Maria Lopez. In both cases, the pentagrams have a small inclination, but the orientation is unequivocal. []
  • Floyd Feylinn Ferell initials are FFF, and F is the sixth letter in the alphabet. Thus, his numerical name would be 666 (666 is the sign of the devil). []
  • One of the posters the young unsub has in his hospital room is a print of Francisco Goya's painting "Saturn Devouring One of His Children." []
  • The song heard at the beginning and end of the episode was "Sittin' in the Dark" by Louis Armstrong. []
  • Father Marks: God is inside of all of us.
    Floyd Feylinn Ferell: (grinning) So is Tracey Lambert. []
  • Father Marks: So how long has it been, Agent Morgan?
    Morgan: I'm sorry?
    Father Marks: Since you've been in God's house. Priests and dentists can spot an overdue customer a mile away, so how long has it been?
    Morgan: I didn't come here to talk about myself.
    Father Marks: Occupational hazard. My apologies. []
  • JJ: Everything below the waist had been eaten.
    Rossi: Ah, the circle of life.
    Prentiss: Suddenly I don't feel so guilty about my alligator wallet. []
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  • JJ: (to Hotch) I hear you. I saw The Exorcist.

    This is a reference to the 1973 Academy Award-winning horror movie, The Exorcist, about the demonic possession of a young girl and a priest trying to save her. []
  • Reid: It's from Dante's Inferno, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

    Rossi quotes from Dante's "Inferno," part one of three canticas in his Divine Comedy, an epic poem in which Dante is taken on a journey of hell and purgatory by the Roman poet Virgil, and heaven by Beatrice. Rossi uses the original Italian (Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate) and Reid imperfectly translates the line into English. The original, line 9 from canto iii, is: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here." It is probably one of Dante's best-known lines. []
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