Lucky Strikes
Mutilated and partially cannibalized bodies of women are discovered in Florida, identical to the M.O of Floyd Feylin Ferrel, the Satanist cannibal identified and caught by the BAU ten years earlier, who has since been locked up in a psychiatric facility. However, much to the BAU's shock, Ferrel has not only been let out on supervised visits, his attorney claims that he'd been a patsy for the real killer all along, which the new murders seem to confirm...
Tropes
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Floyd Feylyn Ferrel.
- Call-Back: The UnSub copies the exact M.O of Ferrel's original murders. Mainly because Ferrel has been coaching him to do so, to cast doubt on wether or not he committed any of the murders himself.
- Continuity Nod: JJ and Garcia discuss the time Garcia was shot.
- Gone Horribly Right: Floyd was locked in an asylum for a decade, because nearly everyone was convinced that he was a lunatic. He went out of his way to convince the medical experts of his sanity, because he expected freedom. The plan worked, but not in the way he expected. Sortly after being declared sane, Floyd is arrested on criminal charges. He may spend the rest of his life in prison, and an insanity plea is out of the question.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Ferril has been living with his sister during his time away from the mental institution, and she's completely sold on his innocence act, even though his very first crime was biting into her like an animal when he was seven. Of course, she was just a toddler then, so it's doubtful she remembers what her brother was really like.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Just like a decade earlier, Ferrel is an expert at manipulating people by making them think he's a weak-willed simpleton, hiding his true depraved and cunning mind.
- Off on a Technicality: The BAU are very close to being forced into allowing Ferrel to walk - with the UnSub dead, they don't have any tangible evidence that he was really just Ferrel's patsy rather than the real killer of the original murders, and under the law, they have to admit there's no real proof Ferrel did anything wrong other than being manipulated. Thankfully, Rossi realizes that Ferrel's own psychotic appetites could prove to be his undoing.
- Room Full of Crazy: A locked closet in the room Ferrel is staying in turns out to host a Satanic shrine, proving that he's not over his psychotic delusions at all, though Ferrel claims it's all approved by his psychatrist.
- Series Continuity Error: The team name Garcia's shooter as James Colby Bailer, when that was just the fake name he gave Garcia on their date.
- Villainous Breakdown: Ferell has a spectacular one when Rossi reveals, just after the psychiatric board have cleared him of being insane, that the FBI have permission to perform an X-ray of Ferell, which judging from his reaction will confirm he had consumed parts of the murder victim killed by his accomplice. Rossi gleefully adds that, after Ferell tries to attack him in a fit of rage, since the board just declared him sane, they'll be charging and trying Ferell for all the murders, and the heavy implication he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.
- You Killed My Father: A woman accosts Ferrel at the local church, screaming about what a monster he is. It turns out she's the mother of one of the women he killed and ate.
