They Were In SHOCK

they were in SHOCK

just a heads up i will not be doing s01e19 machismo tomorrow because i think it's a bad episode for a few reasons. instead im just going to skip straight to s01e20 charm and harm.

so, i'm unsure whether garcia cutting herself off and disconnecting the call here is because she has a realization or because she doesnt want to violate reid's/his mother's privacy but i'm choosing to believe it's at least partially the second:

garcia isn't always the best with boundaries, especially because I think her job essentially being to violate peoples' privacy and her own openness as a person sometimes make it hard for her to remember that that's a thing most people care about. but she's not oblivious. she saw how reluctant reid was to even call about his mother in front of her, how much he did not want to divulge that aspect of his life.

and the thing is, she knows that reid will likely have to tell the team anyway. his mother is in the building, and even without that, he'll surely have to explain how his mother is connected to the unsub.

garcia knows all of this, knows it's going to come out, and says nothing. she lets reid share it on his own terms—as much as he can in a situation like this.

every day i think about elle and morgan going on vacation together and at least morgan wanting reid to come with. what were their intentions. were they bisexual in nature. also im also almost certain that this is the first time morgan calls reid "pretty boy" and it's while he's inviting him on vacation with him. it's 2005/2006 you cannot be this bisexual at your government job.

bonus:

yeah i think elle also wanted him to join them.

the way reid treats maggie lowe after disarming her makes me. i know i say this a lot but it makes me need to lay down.

(not pictured: between this image and the next, you hear the sound of what i believe is reid turning the safety on, and see him lower the gun)

i might come back to this later im struggling with wording. but something about the way reid treats mentally ill unsubs. hhh. do you think he sees his mother when he looks at them.

(please dont misunderstand me ! emphasis there is on the "mentally ill" not the "unsub." i think if we got a victim with severe mental illness reid would behave very similarly. im talking about unsubs because we see that a lot more because of the whole. you know. premise. i think reid can't help but picture his mother when he sees people in crisis, even when theyre different kinds of crisis, and a lot of his responses in those situations are him falling back on what he learned as a child)

JJ: What do you suppose this is all about? REID: Call me cynical, but considering it's 2:00 AM, I doubt it's good news. JJ: You are a genius.