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A killer is abducting women and forcing them to eat fingers before killing them, Rossi plays with Morgan's head, and Garcia meets a man at the local coffee shop.

In Bridgewater, Florida, nineteen year old Abby Kelton is found dead, the lower half of her body eaten by alligators. Of those parts of her remains still intact, the BAU know all her fingers were cut off at the knuckles, her throat slashed, and religious based satanic symbols carved into her chest. Murders purported to have a satanic ritual component are Rossi's specialty, "purported" as his published theory is that satanic cults do not exist. Because of the religious nature of the case, the authorities interview Father Marks, the pastor at the local church. During the investigation, two other women from Father Mark's congregation go missing. At the medical examiner's officer, they also learn that Abby's stomach contents include ten fingers from tip to knuckle. However, each finger belongs to ten separate individuals, and none of them are hers. When another dead body surfaces at Father Mark's church - that person who fits the type of those people identified as belonging to the fingers in Abby's body - Hotch adds one more missing piece to the puzzle, which takes them to Hazelwood Institute for the Criminally Insane and a possible identity of the unsub. Regardless of his capture, the unsub may get his ultimate wish. This case is especially difficult for Morgan, who abandoned religion after he felt it abandoned him. Meanwhile at her local coffee house, Garcia assists a handsome man she meets named James Baylor - Colby to his friends - with his malfunctioning computer. The fact that he immediately asks her out raises red flags for her since things like this don't happen to girls like her. But after an unfortunate discussion with Morgan, Garcia goes against her and Morgan's initial judgment of Colby and agrees to go out with him. Which decision of Colby's is the correct one?—Huggo

In Florida, the tortured and mutilated body a young student is located. A killer had force-fed to her the fingers of his previous victims before killing her. Ten victims are identified through the fingerprints, indicating that the killer was active for several years without being noticed. He now wants to sent a message to the authorities. The killer leaves Satanic symbols on various locations, though the FBI suspects that he is using Satanism as a cover for his actual vices. Morgan dislikes priests, but is forced by Rossi to co-operate with the local priest during the investigation. After Morgan notices quite a number of strange coincidences in the killer's past, he starts suspecting that Satan really exists and that he was helping the killer. Meanwhile, Garcia helps a stranger with a minor computer problem, and is surprised when he starts courting her. She has doubts about the man's intentions, and Morgan suggests to her that the guy's behavior is fishy. Garcia decides to date him anyway. She greatly enjoys their first date. While waiting for a goodbye kiss, her date pulls out a weapon and shoots her. The strange man claims that he was waiting the entire night for this moment.—Dimos I

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.

When various women go missing with satanic symbols on their chest the team goes in search for a teenager who is rebelling, however when they find various women were frozen and fed the fingers of other women they find a man that was eating them.