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frankiebirds
9 months ago

anyway: last thing about the fox.

I think the order in which the team reacts to frank fielding* hurting himself is pretty interesting.

A man wearing a plaid shirt indoors. The subtitles at the bottom of the image read: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"
A man in a light coloured collared shirt is mid sentence against a dark background. In the foreground is the blurry and out-of-focus figure of someone mid-movement. The subtitles at the bottom of the image are still: -"Frank, Frank." and -"Let go!"

Gideon and Morgan are first, simply because they're the ones closest.

Two figures running into a room, one man and one woman. The man is further to the left inside the room and partially offscreen, and the woman is just entering the room from the right. Both are mid-movement. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No. No!"

Hotch and Elle are next, with Elle a little behind...

Three men, one mostly out of sight, restrain a fourth man against a wall. A woman stands off to the left, away from the altercation. The subtitle at the bottom of the image reads: "No!"

But when it comes to actually restraining Frank, Elle, who is still new and less experienced, lingers behind. If you watch the scene carefully, she actually backs away, too.

A man wearing a black vest over a red and white patterned shirt stands just past the doorway between a brightly lit and dimly room, closer to the dimly lit room on the left side.

And finally, Reid stands at the very back. He enters the room but doesn't go any further, and the camera pans down to show him rocking back and forth on his feet, like he can't decide if he wants to run into or out of the room. I think it's possible that Diana self-harmed at some point in the past (although granted, the self-harm in this scene is a different "type") and he may have been having some unpleasant memories.

*the brother of one of the victims, who goes to her house despite her husband not wanting him there, is seen by her through the window, and thinks she mouths "go away" at him when she actually mouths "help me"

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