Anna Daniels
When presented with the question of which episode of their beloved crime drama disturbed them the most, more than a few Criminal Minds fans on Reddit had one particular installment in mind: “Lucky,” from the show’s third season. If you’re not familiar with the episode, brace yourself before reading on, because it didn’t get so many mentions for no good reason.
The set-up is pretty typical for an episode of Criminal Minds. The Behavioral Analysis Unit team is sent to Florida, where the body of a young woman with Satanic symbols carved into her chest was dredged out of a river. As if this wasn’t gruesome enough, all of her fingers have been cut off. When the team visits the local medical examiner’s office, they find out why: The killer has been cutting the fingers off his victims in order to feed them to future people he murders. The stomach of the latest body has ten fingers in it — all belonging to different people.
All pretty normal gut-churning Criminal Minds fare so far, right? Well, what happens next is what sets this episode apart from the rest in terms of bone-chilling horror.
Written by: Looper
