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8 months ago

Outdoors during the day, JJ, a blonde woman wearing a black jacket over a blue button-up speaks to Emily, a dark-haired woman wearing a dark jacket over a white shirt. White subtitles at the top of the image read: "Last year in Denver, a woman was being harassed by her ex-boyfriend."

JJ speaks firmly, then smiles and shakes her head, although the smile isn't one of happiness. White subtitles at the top of the image read: "Cops knew who he was, but they couldn't arrest him. We didn't take that case."

Emily nods, JJ speaks, and Emily nods again, frowning and keeping her head and eyes down. White subtitle at the top fo the image read: "She was finally granted a restraining order three days after he threw acid in her face."

JJ speaks, squeezing her eyes shut briefly before opening them again. White subtitles at the top of the image read: "Right now, I don't care about limited resources. I cannot make that same mistake again."

Emily pauses, nods, and walks off. JJ's eyes widen briefly and a muscle in her neck jumps before she follows.

I really love lines like these that show just how difficult JJ's job would be and I wish it was more thoroughly explored (maybe it is at some point. i don't know). She probably has dozens of stories like this; not even just ones where she feels like she made the wrong choice, but how many instances were there were JJ chose one case over another and it led to tragedy in the one (or multiple) she passed over? At what point does she stop feeling comforted by the knowledge that making a different choice just would have led to a different tragedy? How long until she feels less like she's weighing the danger and urgency of the various cases she's presented and more like she's weighing the value of peoples' lives?

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I think I'll come back to this once I get to profiler!JJ. I don't know whether or not she continues to select cases (I'm okay with spoilers regarding that), but I am honestly kind of dreading that arc. I just can't see myself finding "JJ switches jobs to become one of six profilers instead of the only media liason" interesting—maybe my opinions will change, maybe it's unfair to have an opinion on an arc before I get to it, but. That's how I feel. If she's no longer selecting cases once she becomes a profiler, though, there could be something interesting there. Kind of similar to Hotch's line in 1x13:

"You know, I had prosecuted dozens of murder cases, and by the time they reached my desk it always felt like it was too late. And I wanted to stop them before they got to my desk."

Maybe JJ can no longer handle choosing who to save, and decides to take a more active role in the saving. Or maybe I'm talking blindly about an arc I haven't seen. Who knows.

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