So. I Love This Line.

so. i love this line.

but i want to talk about her expressions after gideon asks if she's alright:

i dont know. throughout the first season, elle expresses the strongest negative feelings towards sex offenders (reasonable!) and sure, she came from a unit dealing specifically with that and that's her specialty (remember when all the characters had specific skill sets and specialties?) but especially this reaction here seems very personal. and this is pre-randall garner, so she doesn't yet have that connection to being attacked in her own home.

also. the team knows sexual offense crimes are elle's specialty. they know that's where she came from. but her response to gideon when he asks if she's okay after she goes off on scott isn't "i've seen a lot of this and it gets me riled up" it's to get defensive and evasive. if it was anger born of something the team is aware of, why hide it? her response to gideon and her expression afterwards very much read to me as someone hiding something.

fuck this line. fuck this line so hard. i have to brace myself for it every single time i watch this episode. this is my "he was was alive yesterday"*

*i have not gotten to that episode and anticipate it will also destroy me

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

EWWWWW

the only amount of comfort i get from the ending of this episode is the knowledge that jacob dies knowing his son is alive, that his perfect victim of a wife defied him. hell, it occured to me this watch-through that he probably also dies believing that this evidence will exonerate sarah jean and set her free. as hotch says, he dies knowing he lost. it's so satisfying to see the mini hissy fit he pitches at the reveal

this was so uncalled for. jason gideon comedy king