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Lucky

Episode Number: 53    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Wednesday November 14, 2007    Prod Code: 307
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.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Andrew Wilder
Director: Steve Boyum
Star: Paget Brewster (SSA Emily Prentiss),  Kirsten Vangsness (Analyst Penelope Garcia),  A.J. Cook (SSA Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau),  Matthew Gray Gubler (SSA Dr. Spencer Reid),  Thomas Gibson (Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner),  Joe Mantegna (Senior SSA David Rossi),  Shemar Moore (SSA Derek Morgan)
Guest Star: Colleen Foy (Tracey Lambert),  James Otis (Dr. Nash),  Matt Riedy (State Trooper),  David Lowe (Local Cop),  Jamie Kennedy (Floyd Feylinn Ferell),  Peter Darren (Police Officer),  Oliver Wells (Young Unsub),  John Lafayette (Dr. Lorenz),  Seth William Meier (John Timmons),  Kate Connor (Sheryl Timmons),  Gwen Holloway (Lee-Ann Kelton),  Daniel Quinn (Bob Kelton),  Michael Beach (Father Marks),  John Eric Montana (Dr. Fulton),  Nick Searcy (Det. Jordan),  Bailey Chase (James Colby Baylor),  Ben Carroll (Guard),  Steven Shaw (Board Member #2),  Liz Montgomery (Board Member #1)

Notes

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The song heard at the beginning and end of the episode was "Sittin' in the Dark" by Louis Armstrong. (edit)

Quotes

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Father Marks: God is inside of all of us.
Floyd Feylinn Ferell: (grinning) So is Tracey Lambert. (edit)
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. (edit)
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. (edit)
Morgan: 16th century English novelist Thomas Deloney wrote, "God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks."
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Rossi: ...I was just giving you a chance for personal growth.
Morgan: I get you, Dave. You're not a mystery to me, man. They said you couldn't interview serial killers. You did. They said you couldn't put together a profiling team. You did. They said there was no way in hell you would ever come back here. You did. It's in your nature, Rossi. It's who you are.
Rossi: Well, if you knew all that, why would you tell me you didn't want to talk to the priest?
Morgan: I was giving you an opportunity for personal growth. (edit)

Trivia

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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. (edit)
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). (edit)
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." (edit)

Allusions

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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. (edit)
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. (edit)
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Lucky
"Exciting"
fabulous
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Jamie Kennedy -- WOW !
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Waw....
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"Exactly why I watch this series"
They should not have done that
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Incredible episode I loved every minute of it. The case of the serial killer who considers himself a Satanist was gripping. His methods horrible and not only do we see the horror of his killings but we find out he's a cannibal.
Continue » Posted Nov 16, 2007 4:33 pm PST
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