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Criminal Minds Season 3 Episode 12

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AIRED: 1/9/08

When one teenager is found murdered and her best friend is abducted in Chula Vista, California, the BAU must profile the killer and find him before he kills the other teen.

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Go Daddy!!

2.0

By cdnaera, Feb 17, 2013

love how the father goes after the two remaining unsubs and kills them both! I'm glad he listened to Lindsey and ignored Reid , the bastards deserved to die! Its amazing how people think they're so tough but are actually completely pansies

Weak plot don't understand why the girls were kidnapped
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The BAU race against time to find the second of two teenage girls.

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By DexterMorgan2, Feb 10, 2013

I thought this was probably the weakest of season 3 so far but it wasn't that bad The episode starts with a teenage girl found dead but the BAU know that there is another girl still out there and they have to find her before she is killed I was surprised about the ending where Reid tried to talk Jack out of killing the unsub but Jack listened to his daughter instead However Jack was still able to walk free with his daughter.moreless
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Great one!

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By Badhab1t, Jul 12, 2012

Two girls disappear and one is soon found dead, with two agonizing family about which one is it. The show plays this very well! The both joy and distress of one's missing daughter for one of father, and the pain to lost one's daughter for the other one.

One of the father and his family has a "little" secret which cost the BAU team alot of problem in profiling. And when they find out the truth, it cost even more problems for BAU, as it misleads the team to seek something that wasn't there. Good thing was that being the daughter of a formal mob's profession killer, she learns some of the ways to protecting herself.

In the end it was just 3 horny boy, with one of the them being very loony.

I especially like the ending. It raises a few moral questions.

- How far would a father go to protect his daughter?

- And when does this protection crosses the line? Personally I can't say was Reid's right or wrong.

- How many fathers(or mothers) won't ask a killer to kill the murder of their daughter, to avenge their lost daughters...

This one really makes one think about crime and punishment in the world today. For some crime or some criminals, there seem to be no adequate punishment sometimes. In some cases, the crimes are so horrify(like this one), many of us would be happy to see the criminal get the old "eye of eye" justice! Even as the same time we know that what this father did, was wrong thing to do, still there is the joy to see him blow that coward head off!

Reid's face at the end is priceless!! Even as I believe the writer didn't write it to be funny, but it was funny!

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I have to say that I like the ending.

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By wittenstrung, Jun 20, 2012

It was fun to watch and see how the story progressing over time. I have no problem with the ending when Jack killed the punk, they all killed a girl who couldn't defend herself and it was a slow and painful death for her. The way he got away with it and moved to Georgia sounded a bit unfair to me, he should have paid the consequences somehow. The only thing that bothered me was the fact that there was no reason of motives for these kids to abduct the girls and kill one of them. I guess the plot is rather weakmoreless
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Still not sure why the girls were kidnapped

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By Mulderitsme, Apr 02, 2012

Two teenage girls go missing during a movie. One is soon found dead. The team suspects that the killings may be related to one of the fathers who is in the witness protection program. I enjoyed the whole episode but am still not clear on why the girls were kidnapped.
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Shemar Moore	SSA Derek Morgan
Joe Mantegna	Senior SSA David Rossi
Thomas Gibson	Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner
Matthew Gray Gubler	SSA Dr. Spencer Reid
Paget Brewster	SSA Emily Prentiss
A.J. Cook	SSA Jennifer "JJ" Jareau

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Gina Mantegna	Lindsey	Guest Star
Rick Otto	Det. Payton	Guest Star
Michael Harney	Pat Mannan	Guest Star

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TRIVIA (6)
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- Paget Brewster and Gina Mantegna worked together previously on the movie Unaccompanied Minors.
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- When Lindsey is being threatened by the man in the restroom, the blood coming from her lip changes from smeared to dripping then to smeared again.
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- When Reid asks Garcia to identify dead boy in the house, the sun shining through the photo reveals he's holding the school picture Garcia finds rather than the crime scene photo from which he would be working.
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- Garcia's typed transcript of the telephone message on Mrs. Owen's cell phone is incorrect. The order of dialogue is different when the message is played for the families.
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- The spelling of Jack Vaughan's name, established in the subtitle "Jack Vaughan's Residence", changes when Reid accesses Vaughan's computer. When the computer screen shows "Automated Clean-Up Process" his last name is spelled Vaughn.
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- Jack Vaughan would have been taken into custody and charged at the scene with murder. If it was decided to not to prosecute him because of his status as a protected witness, that would only come later after it was decided by the Department of Justice.
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QUOTES (9)
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- Pat Mannan: This has nothing to do with you.
  Jack Vaughan: Nothing to do with me? This punk kid took my daughter.
  Pat Mannan: All this, Jack. It's karma for what you did to all those people.
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- Jack Vaughan: (to the unsub he's just shot) You got two legs. I got one question: where's my daughter?
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- Pat Mannan: You know, you have no idea who or what you're dealing with here.
  Hotchner: Then enlighten me or stay out of my way.
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- Reid: Jack, you swore to your wife you'd protect Lindsey. Listen to her, Jack, listen to what she wants - she's begging you to kill somebody right in front of her. What do you think your wife wanted you to protect her from? Jack, your life has been, has been about violence, and, if you do this, Lindsey's will be, too. Do you want that? When does it end, Jack?
  Lindsey: (whispering) Kill him.
  Reid: When does it stop?
  Jack Vaughan: Tomorrow.
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- Katie: (recorded telephone message) Please...please, no please, please, stop it, stop it - stop it!
  Lindsey: Don't fight them, don't!
  Katie: Please, God, stop!
  Lindsey: Don't show them you're scared.
  Katie: Get off of me! Please, help me! Please, God, stop it! Daddy, help me please! Please! Daddy, help me please, Daddy! Help me!
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- Jack Vaughan: Can I help you?
  Reid: (caught at Vaughan's computer) Ah, hey, I was just, ah, checking to see if Lindsey contacted anyone on the internet? Predators, ah, tend to do that.
  Jack Vaughan: Is that right?
  Reid: (speaking very fast) Yeah, statistically, actually, 43% of predators...
  Jack Vaughan: Lindsey doesn't like computers.
  Reid: Oh...cool!
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- Hotchner: It's up to you.
  Jack Vaughan: This message – what did it record?
  Hotchner: It's the last moments of one of your daughter's lives.
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- Hotchner: "No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." Daisy Bates.
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- Hotchner: "It is a wise father who knows his own child." William Shakespeare
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- Fredric Lehne (billed as Fredric Lane) was credited as Special Guest Star in this episode.
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- Music in this episode was "My Hero" by Foo Fighters. The song Katie sang in her video log, and the song heard at the end of the episode, was "Umbrella" by Rihanna and Jay-Z.
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- According to initial press releases, this episode (fka "Second Life") was originally scheduled to air on December 19, 2007.
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- Joe Mantegna's daughter, Gina Mantegna, guest-stars in this episode as Lindsey.
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- Morgan: No JT posters.
  When Morgan and the team are searching Lindsey Vaughan's room, he mentions that she doesn't have any JT posters, referring to Justin Timberlake, pop singer and former member of the boy band 'N Sync.
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- Garcia: Jinkies!
  Velma from the gang known as Mystery, Inc. in the Scooby-Doo series used this phrase when she found out something, usually weird, incredible or shocking.
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- The Lords of Chaos – Kevin Foster
  In 1998, Kevin Foster was convicted of leading three Fort Myers teens in a plot to kill their music teacher, Mark Schwebes. The three boys – Pete Magnotti, Chris Black and Derek Shields - were also convicted on plea bargains. Foster received the death penalty. The three other boys, who had called Foster "God" received sentences of life imprisonment.
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- Hotchner: Guys, last house on the left, second floor. I've got something.
  Hotchner's directions include the name of a 1972 Wes Craven horror film called Last House on the Left about two girls who are kidnapped, tortured, and murdered that mirrors the plot of this episode.
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