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5	[[foldercontrol]]
6
7	!BAU Families & Acquaintances
8
9	[[folder:Haley Hotchner (née Brooks)]]
10	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MeredithMonroe
11	[[quoteright:247:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2c7b6957043b303581cd2e0574538d16.jpg]]
12
13	->''"I want him to believe in love because it is the most important thing... but you need to show him. Promise me!"''
14
15	\
16	The wife of team leader Aaron Hotchner. The two of them were initially a loving, stable couple, but the high time and travel demands of his job eventually began to put pressure on their relationship. The two of them eventually divorce over it.
17
18	\
19	She tragically dies in "100" at the hands of the Reaper.
20	----
21	* AlliterativeName: '''H'''aley '''H'''otchner.
22	* FaceDeathWithDignity:
23	-->'''Hotch:''' Show him no weakness, no fear.\
24	'''Haley:''' I know.
25	* GirlNextDoor: She and Hotch were best friends during their childhood years and always stuck close together until they married as adults.
26	* GiveHimANormalLife: Plays the trope straight, though she's not technically the "hero".
27	* HighSchoolSweetHearts: They met in drama club and stayed together ever since. She married Hotch right out of high school, in fact.
28	* KilledOffForReal: The Reaper shoots her after forcing her to say goodbye to Hotch through a phone call, essentially forcing him and the team to listen.
29	* MoralityPet: For the longest time in the show, she was the voice of reason towards Hotch whenever his [[MarriedToTheJob compulsion to work a case]] started showing. Even when divorced, she was often there to give him advice.
30	* TakingTheKids: Jack lived with her after the divorce, until her death forced him to live with Haley's sister.
31	* TargetedToHurtTheHero: The sole reason she dies is because the Reaper wants to make Hotch suffer by threatening his family and loved ones.
32	%%* TellMeAboutMyFather
33	* WetBlanketWife: She hates being seen as this by Hotch, but the job takes a toll on their relationship and she would rather take a job where he doesn't have to move.
34	* WitnessProtection: After Hotch is nearly killed by the Reaper, Haley and Jack are placed into the program in order to keep them safe from Foyet. It sadly only buys her a couple of weeks.
35	[[/folder]]
36
37	[[folder:Jack Hotchner]]
38	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CadeOwens
39	[[quoteright:221:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jack_Hotchner_4489.jpg]]
40
41	->''"I worked the case, Daddy, just like you said."''
42
43	\
44	Hotch's young son.
45	----
46	* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: The first half of Season 5 sees Jack put into WitnessProtection with his mom to keep them safe from the Reaper.
47	* LamarckWasRight: Seems to have a mild case of Hotch's focus and desire to fight crime, {{lampshade}}d by Foyet: ''"He is so cute. Check out little junior G-Man."''
48	* MoralityPet: For his dad, of course.
49	* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad: According to Jack, "no one beats Daddy".
50	* {{Nephewism}}: Hotch makes a deal with Jessica, Haley's sister, that she will help him raise Jack. While she doesn't show up much (if at all) afterwards, Hotch entering a new relationship later on seems to indicate he'll have someone else willing to help with raising Jack as well.
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Sean Hotchner]]
54	Hotch's estranged younger brother.
55	----
56	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to his brother Aaron's responsible. Like Hotch, Sean planned to study law, only to drop out to become a cook in a restaurant. Years later even that's fallen through and he's a bartender in New York, in a bar operated by some shady individuals. Sean resents Hotch's attempt to "play big brother" especially since the gap in age means that Aaron wasn't around Sean much as children (Aaron went to boarding school while Sean entered first grade). Hotch reveals it used to be the other way around, as children Aaron got in trouble, and Sean was the model child, but Aaron straightened up in boarding school, while Sean fell off the wagon as he got older.
57	* SiblingRivalry: Sean and Aaron never were close as kids, and it's implied Sean resents being reminded of his brother - he didn't show up to Haley's funeral and has seen Jack only once in 4 years. He also hates being called Hotch.
58	* SiblingYinYang: Aaron is dark haired, older, stoic, a successful former prosecutor and FBI Team lead, married, has a son. Sean is blonde, younger, has no stable family, works as a frycook and bartender. He's quick to anger.
59	[[/folder]]
60
61	[[folder:Detective Will [=LaMontagne=]]]
62	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoshStewart
63	[[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_lq43sqsjJo1qftlfa_4624.png]]
64
65	->''"You're a hero, Jennifer Jareau. You're my hero and your boys', and your team's, and all those other people that you saved. Don't you ever forget that."''
66
67	\
68	A N'orleans detective who assisted the team on an early case, he returned to participate in a couple other cases and eventually became the love interest and later husband of J.J.
69	----
70	* AscendedExtra: A double case. Firstly, when he went from one-time character originally only meant to appear in "Jones," to a minor recurring one, after Creator/AJCook became pregnant and the writers remembering her chemistry with Will, brought him back as baby's father and her fiancee. Then secondly, when he went from minor recurring character he was through first 15 seasons to a major recurring one in Evolution.
71	* TheBigEasy: A flashed-out example but still not quite avoiding stereotypes.
72	* ADayInTheLimelight: While "Hit" and "Run" don't focus entirely on him, he plays a huge role in the story and we learn a lot about him.
73	* DistressedDude: The "Hit" and "Run" two-parter sees him in this position after the Face Cards take him hostage after their bank robbery.
74	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] on British radio.
75	%%* FairCop
76	* FunetikAksent: His New Orleans roots ''really'' show on the accent.
77	* HappilyMarried: To J.J., as of the end of the seventh season.
78	* LikeFatherLikeSon: His father was also a detective.
79	* MarriedToTheJob: Averted. He was perfectly willing to give it up to be closer to J.J. and the baby. Season 7 shows that he is now working as a detective in Washington.
80	* MrFanservice: Oh, ''yes'', due to his [[TheEveryman average-yet-fair]] looks.
81	* PapaWolf: Even when he's being held captive, he threatens a domestic terrorist with death if she hurts his son.
82	* SatelliteCharacter: To J.J., as her husband.
83	* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Is aware of the real reason JJ was promoted out of the BAU.]]
84	* ThatOneCase: In "Jones", whose [=UnSub=] is linked to his father's death during Hurricane Katrina.
85	[[/folder]]
86
87	[[folder:Henry [=LaMontagne=]]]
88	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MekhaiAndersen
89	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/henry_lamontagne.jpg]]
90
91	JJ's young son.
92	----
93	* CheerfulChild: Never shown to be anything but a sweet little boy.
94	* TheCutie: Cemented when he shows up for Halloween dressed as "his favorite profiler" -- his godfather, Reid.
95	* HarmfulToMinors: Ends up targeted by the Face Cards' leader Izzy due to her psychopathic hatred of men named Henry. J.J. swiftly takes her down before any actual harm comes to Henry.
96	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His entire existence is thanks to this. J.J.'s pregnancy was written in after A.J. Cook got pregnant. Henry is even played by her actual son, something which would also happen to his brother later in Season 10.
97	* SatelliteCharacter: To J.J.
98	[[/folder]]
99
100	[[folder:Diana Reid]]
101	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JaneLynch
102	[[quoteright:231:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_lt398i9t6L1r21hono8_500_1805.png]]
103
104	->''"It helps if they think you're crazy. They don't argue."''
105
106	\
107	Spencer Reid's mother, who did her best to raise him from a very young age after his father fled the family, despite her severe paranoid schizophrenia.
108	----
109	* BrokenBird: Severe paranoid schizophrenic who had to be committed to a sanitarium by her then 18-year-old son. Has just as brilliant a mind as Spencer under the delusions and medication. [[spoiler:It's implied that part of her mental breakdown was the result of seeing a friend of hers kill Gary Michaels, a pedophile who killed Riley Jenkins and targeted Spencer.]]
110	* ConspiracyTheorist: Of the "government is watching me and my son works with fascists" variety. At least she thinks fondly of the [=BAU=] team.
111	* CoolTeacher: Was once a university professor before the schizophrenia settled in.
112	* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Goes through one ''HELL'' of a story arc in Season 12; not only is her schizophrenia getting worse, she's now suffering from Alzheimer's disease and her new "nurse" turns out to be Lindsey Vaughn, who kidnaps her in order to torture Spencer.]]
113	* GoodParents: She has severe paranoid schizophrenia, [[spoiler: has the trauma of witnessing a friend commit the murder of Gary Michaels]], and to top it all off, had to raise her son alone. And yet, she managed to raise a successful and incredibly smart if a little bit socially awkward son who loves her dearly.
114	* MamaBear: A Season 4 two-parter comprised of "The Instincts" and "Memoriam" makes it very clear that she would never let anything hurt her son. Or have him stay in a mental institution for longer than a one night visit. [[spoiler:When he asks her about Riley Jenkins, she tried her best to avoid talking about him, especially since her own son could have ended up like him.]]
115	* TheSchizophreniaConspiracy: Her delusions make her assume the government is spying on her, made even worse due to the fact her son works for the FBI. At the very least, she doesn't react negatively to the [=BAU=] themselves.
116	* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Spencer's father left the family when he was very young, so Diana raised Spencer single-handedly. Apparently social services felt that it was totally okay for Spencer's sole guardian to be an unstable paranoid schizophrenic who thought Music/BobDylan was spying on her.
117	[[/folder]]
118
119	[[folder:William Reid]]
120	!!!'''Played by:''' Taylor Nichols
121
122	->''"I didn't know how to take care of you anymore."''
123
124	\
125	Spencer Reid's missing father and Diana's ex-husband, having gone off the grid after an incident in Spencer's past. He finally appears in Season 4 when Spencer's memories of a certain incident cause him recurring nightmares, leading him to investigate and seek William out.
126	----
127	* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: He couldn't live with Spence or Diana after helping Lou Jenkins hide the evidence of his murder.
128	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Downplayed. He helped hide the evidence of Gary Michaels' murder, as well as with hiding the body, but it's clear that the actions weighed down on him afterwards, to the point he left both his wife and son behind.
129	* RedHerring: "Memoriam" builds up the possibility that William was the one responsible for the death of Reid's young neighbor Riley Jenkins, if not directly involved in some other way, with Reid getting increasingly nervous and agitated about his father's presence in his life. As it turns out, he didn't kill Riley, he helped the man who killed the real culprit hide the evidence.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Carolyn Baker Rossi]]
133	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/IsabellaHofman
134	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carolyn1.jpg]]
135
136	->''"You spout all that profiler talk, but really, the best way to get to know someone is to marry them."''
137
138	\
139	Rossi's first wife, who suffers from [=ALS=].
140	----
141	* AmicableExes: She was Rossi's first ex-wife and had kept her husband's surname.
142	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Rossi is with her when she dies, by her own choice.
143	* DyingAsYourself: Because she was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, she wanted to die as the person she currently was, not who she would turn into due to her illness. Thus, she tries to ask her ex-husband to perform a MercyKill on her and be with her when she passes on.
144	* NewOldFlame: Though Rossi had already mentioned his divorces.
145	* StayWithMeUntilIDie: To Rossi.
146	* YouAreTooLate: Knowing that Rossi won't help her in taking her own life, she takes a fatal dosage of pills and makes sure he doesn't find out until it's too late.
147	* YourDaysAreNumbered: Diagnosed with [=ALS=] and already feeling it take effect by the time of her introduction in Season 7.
148	[[/folder]]
149
150	[[folder:Beth Clemmons]]
151	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BellamyYoung
152
153	\
154	Introduced in Season 7, Beth is Hotch's training partner for a triathlon who becomes his new flame after Haley dies.
155	----
156	* PutOnABus: Due to Bellamy Young's role in Series/Scandal, they couldn't make it work, so she took a job elsewhere and is not seen again after Season 7.
157
158	[[/folder]]
159
160	[[folder:Maeve Donovan]]
161	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BethRiesgraf
162
163	->''"He's the one thing you can never take from us."''
164
165	\
166	Introduced in Season 8, Maeve is a geneticist and accomplished writer who Spencer Reid was talking to ever since she helped him with his recurring headaches. She was also under constant harassment from a stalker, but felt safer when Reid entered her life.
167
168	\
169	[[spoiler:Unfortunately, said stalker ends up killing her when the Replicator decides to torture Reid.]]
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171	* CollateralAngst: She's yet another person in Reid's life who ends up suffering just to make ''him'' suffer more. [[spoiler:Her death is often mentioned in later seasons as his biggest trauma, possibly even bigger than his imprisonment under Tobias Hankel, and it acts like his biggest drive to keep doing his work.]]
172	* DefiantToTheEnd: Even under her stalker's gun, she refuses to buy into her delusions and stays firm with Reid despite both being bound to chairs. [[spoiler:It doesn't prevent her death.]]
173	* TheLostLenore: For Reid, as the one woman who was intelligent and passionate enough to rival even him in academic knowledge.
174	[[/folder]]
175
176
177	!Other FBI Agents
178
179	[[folder:Section Chief Erin Strauss]]
180	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JayneAtkinson
181	[[quoteright:236:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d5a423c36d76941497c31871710df2c6.jpg]]
182
183	->''"My job is to protect the bureau. If I have to hold the team's hand for one case, so be it."''
184
185	\
186	The [=BAU=]'s Section Chief, and thus the team's immediate superior, Strauss' role fluctuated between being an ObstructiveBureaucrat and ReasonableAuthorityFigure, though the team generally saw her as more of the former rather than the latter due to the political pressure she often put on them.
187
188	\
189	[[spoiler:Her tenure with the team ends gruesomely because of the Replicator, who drugs and kills her out of spite.]]
190	----
191	* TheAlcoholic: Revealed to be one in Season 7.
192	* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: She has occasional, ''very rare'' PetTheDog moments. After her [[TheBusCameBack return]], she's become much more [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable]].
193	* BelligerentSexualTension: At times, her interactions with Rossi come off as this. [[spoiler:Which hurts a lot more when she's killed away from him and her family.]]
194	* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Sadistically and meticulously, by the hands of the Replicator.]]
195	* DependingOnTheWriter: In her first appearances, she's trying to be a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative bitch]] wanting to keep her position by being extra-hard on her supervision of the team. Then it look like she is [[TyrantTakesTheHelm A Tyrant Taking The Helm.]] In her next appearance, she becomes a BaitAndSwitchTyrant and gets a few PetTheDog moments. Then she's back to the ObstructiveBureaucrat boss who does things over the team's objections. Now she's politicking while still giving the team a chance to do things their way, and at times seems to be trying to make up for previous jerkish behavior.
196	* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Painfully averted.]] Her final moments are spent crying and wanting her kids, wishing she had died before allowing the Replicator to humiliate her]].
197	* FBIAgent: Section Chief, effectively supervising the [=BAU=].
198	* IronLady: In theory, her role as Section Chief places her as this trope, except she [[DownplayedTrope downplays it]] by being unreliable on actual field work. By the time of Season 7, though, she's become more competent and durable, able to properly hold her temper in a fierce hostage situation.
199	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She comes off as a politically-minded ObstructiveBureaucrat, but there are a great number of instances where it's clear that she's actually just trying to help/protect the team in her own way.
200	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Started out as one, before becoming more of a supporter for the team.
201	* ParentalFavoritism: Hotch profiles that of her three children, she favors her son, the middle child.
202	* PetTheDog:
203	** Surprisingly, in "100", after spending the entire episode investigating the events around Haley's death and Hotch going off the rails, interrogating the team and trying to pin the blame on Hotch, she's in tears after Hotch's testimony, and refuses to pursue the matter any further.
204	** [[RewatchBonus Look carefully]]. With her reaction to Hotch's testimony in mind, reconsider how she questions the team through the episode. It sounds an awful lot like she's carefully leading them into giving them just the right opportunities to defend Hotch as best they can.
205	* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Left for rehab; see TheAlcoholic above]]. She's back [[spoiler:and better]] as of "Hit/Run." That is, until [[spoiler:the "Replicator" attacks...]]
206	* StayWithMeUntilIDie: [[spoiler:After being fatally poisoned by the Replicator, she asks Hotch to stay with her so she won't [[DyingAlone die alone]]. [[TearJerker He does.]]]]
207	[[/folder]]
208
209	[[folder:Kevin Lynch]]
210	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NicholasBrendon
211	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dae2733ab9b2fcbd470315677e52feb9.jpg]]
212
213	->''"This system... it's insane...! It's completely Linux-based. Open-source programming. You don't see this in government systems, I mean, outside of, like, Switzerland."''
214
215	\
216	A fairly nerdy FBI computer technician, who was a co-worker of Garcia's and eventually her love interest for several seasons.
217	----
218	* ButtMonkey: He is, after all, played by TropeNamer Nicholas "Xander Harris" Brendon.
219	* TheCavalry: Joins the team in "Penelope" following Garcia’s shooting, and returns sporadically over the course of the series to assist the BAU when needed -- generally, if Kevin is working with the BAU, it’s a sign that the case is a greater threat than usual and Garcia will need all the back-up she can have.
220	* GeekyTurnOn:
221	-->''"Oh, you are NOT seriously trying to backhack me!"''
222	* MrFanservice: Briefly, in "Damaged".
223	* NonActionGuy: As a computer tech, he mainly hangs around to help Garcia. The most action he gets is being present at the office when Garcia's shooter takes a man hostage.
224	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: His... ''awkward'' encounter with Rossi in "Damaged".
225	* PlayfulHacker: Though he admits he's not as good as Garcia.
226	* PutOnABus: He and Garcia break up after she turns down his proposal of marriage; while he probably hasn't actually ''gone'' anywhere, we no longer see him as often.
227	* TemporarySubstitute: For Garcia in "Penelope". Afterwards, he shows up whenever Garcia needs some help with her technical analysis job.
228	[[/folder]]
229
230	[[folder:SSA Katherine Cole]]
231	!!!'''Played by:''' Mary Page Keller
232
233	The head of the FBI's Crimes Against Children unit and a former profiler under the BAU. She calls for their help in Season 2 when a boy whose kidnapping she was investigating appears online as part of an auction headed by a pedophile.
234	----
235	* ArchEnemy: To pedophile and abductor Michael Earlson, who's been arrested by Agent Cole once before. Even behind the interrogation room glass, he knows she's there watching and waiting to arrest him.
236	* InsistentTerminology: Doesn't like to be called "Agent Cole" and insists on being called "Katie" by her co-workers.
237	* MamaBear: Works as the leader of a unit specializing in crimes against children, so this is naturally in play. Cole wants to desperately see Michael Earlson apprehended for good so she can save Peter.
238	* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Loosely based on agent Emily Vacher, a former member of Innocent Images National Response Team who also managed a large child-protection program for the FBI.
239	* OneShotCharacter: Appears exclusively in "[=P911=]" as the requisite "Cop of the Week" helping the BAU catch the [=UnSub=].
240	* PaedoHunt: Leads an FBI unit that specializes in this type of case, especially because the culprit of her episode is a dangerous pedophile she's been hunting down for a while.
241	[[/folder]]
242
243	[[folder:Agent Jill Morris]]
244	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AndreaRoth
245
246	An ambitious Philadelphia FBI agent looking to make a name for herself by nearly any means necessary. A promising case featuring the storage unit of a misogynistic [=UnSub=] being found gives her the opportunity she was looking for.
247	----
248	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Indirectly invoked by Jeremy Andrus, the [=UnSub=] of the episode. After capturing Jill but right before the SWAT team takes him in, she tells him that it's over but he replies "No, it'll never be over. Not for us." before they arrest him. Andrus' own goal was also to receive media attention for his crimes, and unfortunately he's still technically receiving it through Jill and ''her'' need for glory.
249	* DirtyCop: While not as brutal or corrupt as other examples of the trope, she's not above tampering with active evidence in order to make it look as if she's more involved with the case than is necessary, planting a lock of her own hair in Jeremy Andrus' belongings so it'd seem as if she's got a personal involvement with the [=UnSub=] so both the press and the BAU will come running to her.
250	* GloryHound: To the point she comes across as a second sociopath at times, as she's so obsessed with making a name for herself that every case is seen as an opportunity no matter the innocent casualties. Even her previous accolades within the FBI don't seem to be enough for her, and her best friend Katrina Townsley's death is only briefly mournd by her before she goes outside to talk to the reporters.
251	* IgnoredEpiphany: Even after the [=UnSub=] captures Jill, holds her hostage, threatens her and kills her best friend right in front of her, making her cry in fear (at first)... when Rossi sees her at the hospital afterwards, ''none of it made her reconsider her actions''. No remorse, no regret, she walks out the front door because there are reporters outside wanting to talk to her.
252	* ItsPersonal: Jeremy Andrus' case is the chance she wanted to make herself the center of attention for the press, and Andrus very much agrees since he wants the same thing. Rossi also makes it personal with her since he's projecting his own past onto her and thinks he can talk her out of the attention-seeking attitude she's locked into, since he's been there before. But it doesn't work, much to his dismay.
253	* OneShotCharacter: Appears only in Season 3's "Limelight" as the "Cop of the Week" helping the BAU, except this time she wants the [=UnSub=] caught for very personal, selfish reasons.
254	* TheUnfettered: Morris' only concern is receiving attention and glory for her work, to the point her attitude towards certain aspects of both the case and her life is quite alarming; she calls her alcoholic single father "weak" while keeping a lock of her formerly-blond hair as a keepsake, and sees the case of a misogynistic serial killer who killed several women before not as something that needs resolution, but as another opportunity to get the press near her. Worse of all, even her best friend ''dying before her very eyes'' gets ''zero'' reaction from her after the fact, or at least she hides it both from Rossi and the reporters waiting outside the hospital.
255	[[/folder]]
256
257	[[folder:Section Chief Mateo Cruz]]
258	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EsaiMorales
259
260	The newly instated Section Chief for the BAU [[spoiler:after Erin Strauss' death]] from Season 9 onward. Cruz has previous history with JJ as a former task force member during an operation in the Middle East.
261	----
262	* {{Foil}}: He has none of Erin Strauss' ObstructiveBureaucrat tendencies and treats the BAU with respect from day one. He's also a bit more active and joins the team on quite a few cases, even showing good combat expertise, unlike Strauss who only got involved ever so often and was never shown in active combat.
263	* ThatOneCase: "200" reveals that the operation he participated with JJ in, the one in the Middle East, is the case that stayed the most with him. Operation "Classified" ended with one of their own revealed as a traitor and another FBI operative supposedly killed-in-action, and unfortunately both of these men come back later as part of the Regime Squad seeking to torture the two for information on the case and trying to set up a terrorist attack with lots of casualties in the USA.
264	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His last appearance in the series was in Season 10's "Beyond Borders", filling Jack Garrett in on the case at hand. He then never appears again for the remainder of the series, and is still to make a return even after Evolution.
265	[[/folder]]
266
267	[[folder:Linda Barnes]]
268	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KimRhodes
269	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lindabarnes.jpg]]
270
271	->''"Agent Jareau, I didn't get the opportunity to tell you how much I enjoyed your speech at the jet. But you're wrong that I'm here to shut down the [=BAU=] because I'm not. This unit is the crown jewel of behavioral profiling, I couldn't shut it down if I wanted to. But I can help restructure it."''
272
273	\
274	The FBI Executive Assistant Director, formally introduced in Season 13 as a new supervisor to the BAU's actions.
275	----
276	* BitchInSheepsClothing: She puts up a professional facade to hide the fact she's aspiring to become the new FBI Director, while unloading both her true intentions and her tendencies of control on the team with a condescending attitude.
277	* ControlFreak: She operates and regulates teams based off a need to display power and control thanks to her position, aiming for efficiency and effectiveness rather than any sort of team dynamic because she wants to be Executive Director. Prentiss even says she boasts of her power not because she has none, but because she can't get enough of it.
278	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She mentions having a six year old son to Rossi.
279	* {{Foil}}: To Erin Strauss. Like Strauss, Barnes is a higher power within the FBI who oversees the BAU's activities and is generally perceived as a "villain" for the team, interfering with the group and nearly causing their complete separation. However, while Erin was obstructive and did have personal grievances with the old team, at least she maintained tact and, once she understood how well they operated when left to their own devices with moderate supervision, she began to actively help the team a little more. Barnes, on the other hand, willingly separated the International Response Team and withdrew information of a certain case to aid her own climb in the FBI's ranks, while also managing to separate the BAU on technicalities and enforced accolades to look more diligent than she really is. Strauss could be selfish, but she wouldn't take the team apart unless she could at least find a good reason to chase, while Barnes will gladly do so if it means promoting herself up the ladder.
280	* HateSink: Pretty much unifies the BAU in how much they despise her.
281	* HoistByHerOwnPetard: The case she withdrew information from comes back to bite her when said case's Unsub returns to an active state, kidnaps and nearly kills the daughter of a US Senator, especially karmic due to Barnes firing JJ for asking about said case [[TooDumbToLive when it could be useful to their investigation]]. When the Senator does come to the scene to congratulate the team for saving his daughter, aware of their relocation, he forces Linda to reinstate Prentiss as Section Chief on the spot, who then informs him of Barnes' actions regarding the case and the team. He promptly tells her to go to his office the next day, the implicated punishment rather clear.
282	* ItsAllAboutMe: How Prentiss profiles her hold over the BAU. Because Linda aims for efficiency and control, she skims down the teams under her supervision down to the most effective members, cutting corners and evaluating each member by themselves, effectively pitting one against the other, as she did with Matthew Simmons' old team, the IRT. This is all because she truly wants to become the FBI's Executive Director, which would give her even more power and leniency to do as she pleases.
283	* KickTheDog: At the end of Season 13's "Annihilation", Barnes uses her connection to the Executive Director to successfully separate the BAU, using their accolades to reassign them to different positions and forcibly retiring Rossi, keeping only Simmons and Alvez while giving Jennifer a new position that boils down to being Barnes' lapdog and running each possible case and action through her first and foremost.
284	* LackOfEmpathy: She's more interested in having the BAU pursue cases that will look good in the media and is openly dismissive of victims she thinks the public won't empathise with, much to the fury of JJ and Alvez who protest they were people with families who deserve justice.
285	-->'''Barnes''': ''[talking about an Angel of Death targeting elderly immigrants]'' Immigrants? That's divisive. We need cases that unite the public: I can already hear people asking why they should care about some Mexican grandma?
286	-->'''Luke Alvez''': ''(outraged)'' People with elderly loved ones should care.
287	* NeverMyFault: By her own hand, an Unsub ends up shooting and nearly killing his intended target while he himself is killed when he could easily have been apprehended instead. Instead of taking responsibility for the operation failing, she blames the BAU under JJ's leadership (which Barnes herself imposed) and successfully gets the FBI's Executive Director to reassign each member apart from Alvez and Simmons, retire Rossi and essentially turning Jennifer into her lapdog.
288	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Effectively replacing Erin Strauss in Season 13 as the new FBI member on a higher position who constantly interferes with the BAU team, but she's arguably worse than Strauss ever was. She also willingly withdrew information on a case during her time with the IRT to save face, which nearly cost the BAU a victim's life when said case's killer returns to action.
289	* ReassignedToAntarctica: Her meddling gets her reassigned somewhere far away from the B.A.U., [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing much to the team's delight]].
290	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: When she separates the BAU, she assigns JJ as "Conditional Unit Chief", a position she created to essentially place Agent Jareau under her thumb and have her do as told.
291	* SlaveToPR: Part of her managing method, which is to only set the team to work on cases that will improve the FBI's image, all so she can give a boost to her own career and look more competent than she really is.
292	* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: JJ effectively accuses Barnes of having cost the lives of people the BAU could have saved without her constant interference. Given her LackOfEmpathy, Barnes is completely unfazed by the accusation.
293	-->'''Linda Barnes''': The BAU is an elite unit, your cases should play out that way in the media!
294	-->'''Jennifer Jareau''': [[TranquilFury Twenty six]].
295	-->'''Linda Barnes''': I beg your pardon?
296	-->'''Jennifer Jareau''': That is the number of people who have ''died'' since you sidelined the BAU. ''People die'' when we don't do our jobs. You need to let us do our job.
297	* TooDumbToLive: In "Annihilation", the Unsub is cornered by the BAU at an airport and is threatening suicide unless a witness they have under safety -- a woman the Unsub was stalking and is obsessed towards -- is brought to him. Even despite the fact that it is ''painfully obvious'' he's angry at said woman and is planning something, Barnes decides to '''bring her into the scene''' to try and pacify him, which of course results with the killer shooting the victim (she survives due to a covered bulletproof vest), forcing the BAU to put him down instead of arresting him as ''Barnes herself'' originally intended. Never mind that the Unsub was already lowering his gun on the team's urging and Linda put herself on risk as well as the victim, bulletproof vest or otherwise. And later, when JJ [[WhatTheHellHero rightfully calls her out on this]], Barnes' response is to accuse the BAU of "[[NeverMyFault being too slow]]".
298	[[/folder]]
299
300	[[folder:Deputy Director Doug Bailey]]
301	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NicholasDAgosto
302	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aa151hob.jpg]]
303
304	The ambitious new Deputy Director of the FBI who is introduced in Evolution.
305	----
306	* NonActionGuy: Prentiss calls him out as being this when she asks if he's ever had to pull his gun in the line of duty.
307	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He prevents the BAU from being able to do their jobs as effectively by splitting up the team, denying budget requests, and not allowing the BAU to hold certain suspects for interrogation.
308	* SlaveToPR: His reputation is everything to him. This becomes a problem for him in Oepidus Wrecks when [[spoiler:he has to ask Prentiss to keep his usage of a dating app secret as it would destroy his reputation. Later in the episode he also lets the [=UnSub=] go because he's afraid of what it would do to his personal reputation and relationship with the Senate.]]
309	[[/folder]]
310
311
312	!Notable Law Enforcement Personel
313	[[folder:John Blackwolf]]
314	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GregoryCruz
315
316	->''"There are many paths to the same place. Trust me."''
317
318	\
319	A teacher and sheriff from Terra Mesa, New Mexico, also a resident of the nearby Apache reserve, called in by the BAU and local police after a group of [=UnSubs=] starts killing people using Native-American rituals.
320	----
321	* BadassNative: He's an Apache member and a sheriff in Terra Mesa, and a really good one at that.
322	* CoolTeacher: Occasionally makes speeches and teaches children about Native-American culture at the local elementary school. He's also a sheriff and expert in combat.
323	* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty much engages in SnarkToSnarkCombat with Hotch the moment they meet.
324	* DoesNotLikeGuns: Refuses to use guns in combat and is disapproving of their use by others.
325	* MartialPacifist: He doesn't use guns, but is no stranger to combat, since he prefers to use a knife and his environment to disarm and knock down his opponents. He doesn't really like it when Hotch is pretty much forced to shoot down one of the assailants coming up behind Blackwolf, but it's clear that part of it is just snark.
326	* OneShotCharacter: The sheriff of the week of "The Tribe".
327	* ProverbialWisdom: His quote above is said to Hotch before they engage the members of Cally's tribe in their attack at the local school, and it's only part of the reprimand he gives Hotch for relying on firearms throughout the episode.
328	-->'''Hotch:''' ''"Just so you know? You sound like a fortune cookie."''
329	* RageBreakingPoint: Cally's interrogation drives him up a wall when they manage to make him admit his "tribe" is just a bunch of psychopaths looking for excuses to be racist and cruel. The moment Cally refers to Blackwolf's tribe as "savages", the BAU has to restrain him from beating him to a pulp.
330	[[/folder]]
331
332	[[folder:Captain Stan Gordinski]]
333	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SkippSudduth
334
335	->''"You'll always just be 'Derek' to me."''
336
337	\
338	A Chicago detective who once arrested BAU member Derek Morgan in his youth when he got involved in a fight with gang members. He's become a recurring presence in Morgan's life ever since.
339
340	\
341	By Season 8, Gordinski has been promoted to Captain and his stance on Derek has softened significantly.
342	----
343	* TheAtoner: In "Restoration", promising Morgan to help with the case and arrest the [=UnSub=] properly. He also apologizes to him directly and later holds a press conference with him to discuss child molestation with the press.
344	* BrokenPedestal: When he learns that Carl Buford is the child rapist and murderer he's been looking for all those years, since Buford built a reputation as a respected community center owner.
345	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a hard-ass policeman with a penchant for antagonizing people he's had minor encounters with, but he's ultimately just trying to do a good job. By Season 8, the "jerk" part has [[TookALevelInKindness significantly]] subsided.
346	* InspectorJavert: He's been trying to pin Morgan for any crime he could put on him ever since he first arrested him, and is utterly confident he's doing the right thing by taking him in for the murders of three boys during "Profiler, Profiled" since he supposedly fits the profile Gideon sent him regarding the case. To say he's repentant when the truth is revealed about the case is an understatement.
347	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The culmination of "Profiler, Profiled" sees him learn of Derek's past as a victim of child molestation at the hands of Carl Buford, a community member Gordinski had a lot of respect for, and realize he's treated Morgan badly for too long. By Season 8, the change of heart clearly stuck.
348	[[/folder]]
349
350	[[folder:Sheriff Eva Ruiz]]
351	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarleneForte
352
353	->''"I feel like the only one around here who gives a damn."''
354
355	\
356	A former Brooklyn homicide detective who semi-retired to be the sheriff of the border town of Terlingua, Texas, only to notice numerous undocumented immigrants going missing and ending up dead. She calls in the BAU for help despite her colleague's protests.
357	----
358	* AllForNothing: Boyd killed her in a futile attempt to try and frame the Lugo cartel further, as well as to try and get the BAU to chase them instead. Unfortunately for him, they had already figured out that the [=UnSub=] is a cop by that point.
359	* DoNotGoGentle: Essentially cornered by Boyd, alone and without much of a fighting chance, she at least still tries to go out shooting at him. Unfortunately, he's just too quick on the draw.
360	* DueToTheDead: After Boyd is killed by the BAU, they mention that Ruiz' body was taken to her home in New York so she can receive a proper burial.
361	* OneShotCharacter: The "Cop of the Week" for Season 5's "A Rite of Passage" alongside her partner Ronald Boyd... until Boyd turns out to be the [=UnSub=] and kills her.
362	* SacrificialLion: Ruiz does her best to stop the [=UnSub=] once she realizes who he is, but he guns her down.
363	* ThatOneCase: She keeps a newspaper article with her talking about a case she once worked on back in New York, the murder of a couple witnessed by their young daughter.
364	[[/folder]]
365
366	[[folder:Matt Spicer]]
367	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EricClose
368
369	->''"I love you, Ellie."''
370
371	\
372	A California detective investigating the Prince of Darkness killings, having called the BAU to help with the proceedings. His own involvement in the case is bigger than he realizes.
373	----
374	* HeroicSacrifice: Lets himself be killed by Billy Flynn so his daughter will survive. Unfortunately, [[AllForNothing he never planned to kill her anyway]].
375	* ItsPersonal: The Prince of Darkness case, since it's his biggest unsolved case to that point and, as it turns out, the killer murdered his own parents when he was younger.
376	* YouOweMe: Billy Flynn started killing in California again because he was building up to Matt's family, since he feels responsible for Spicer's rise in the ranks after letting him live.
377	[[/folder]]
378
379
380	!Other Notable Characters
381
382	[[folder:Lila Archer]]
383	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AmberHeard
384
385	->''"I'm not gonna stop living my life. I'm just not."''
386
387	\
388	A TV actress on the rise who's been targeted by a vicious stalker killing people she cares about. The BAU's investigation gets her interested in Reid.
389	----
390	* DamselInDistress: At the end of the episode when Maggie Lowe holds her at gunpoint in her bedroom, requiring Reid to talk her down.
391	* TheNotLoveInterest: Due to their careers and the risk involved in Reid's, he ultimately rejects her proposals to start dating and she moves on to focus on her acting.
392	* {{Protectorate}}: Reid's, as he was assigned to keep her safe at her home after she previously showed an interest on him. He does end up having to save her when the [=UnSub=], Lila's friend Maggie, sneaks into her home and threatens to kill Lila if her "affection" isn't returned.
393	[[/folder]]
394
395	[[folder:Evan Abby]]
396	!!!'''Played by:''' Tom Schanley
397
398	->''" There's something missing from this scenario, don't ya think? The innocent family? You know, the victims. That's what the suit's for, right? So you can see the terror on their faces as they burn."''
399
400	\
401	A former environmental lawyer who formed the Earth Defense Force to protest companies failing to clean up leaking chemical storage tanks, he is initially suspected of being the [=UnSub=] behind a series of arson attacks on people his group named and shamed. Though cleared as a suspect, he and Hotch form a connection during the investigation.
402	----
403	* AnimalWrongsGroup: Averted: the [=BAU=] initially assume the Earth Defense Force to be one of these, but Abby asserts that they never went beyond political protests and campaigning, and [[EveryoneHasStandards they certainly do not stoop to murder to make their point]].
404	* DeadpanSnarker: Upon spotting Prentiss holding a camera she's been using to take surveillance photos of him, Abby snarks "Hope your pictures come out ok".
405	* EveryoneHasStandards: He has no problem with naming and shaming people who break environmental laws online, but he is genuinely appalled when the [=BAU=] inform him an arsonist [=UnSub=] is exploiting his group to find victims among those he listed online, since he never advocated killing anyone to make his point.
406	-->'''Vincent Styles''': ''[about the victims]'' Why do you care? You didn't know them.
407	-->'''Evan Abby''': ''[outraged]'' [[SuddenlyShouting NEITHER DID YOU!]]
408	** When Abby cannot bring himself to look at photos of the Unsub's victims, Gideon concludes he's innocent, as if he were the Unsub, [[NightmareFetishist he would not be able to look away]].
409	* {{Foil}}: To Hotch. They're both [[MarriedToTheJob career driven men]] (Abby an environmental lawyer, Hotch an FBI agent) who are [[GoodParents devoted fathers]], but regret their careers mean they're not as big a presence in their sons' lives as they might wish, and that their careers caused their once happy marriages to deteriorate, and it's implied they were [[WideEyedIdealist more idealistic in their youth]] before becoming more jaded due to the nature of their work. Both of them have sons who lose a parent due to the actions of an Unsub that their fathers went on to kill (Abby killed Vincent Styles in a HeroicSuicide, while Hotch beat George Foyet to death for his murder of Haley).
410	* FlawExploitation: Knowing from Hotch that Vincent Styles is [[{{Narcissist}} a complete narcissist]], Abby flatters Styles into believing he needs his help to commit an act of arson, luring Styles into a fatal trap.
411	* HeroicSuicide: He's already dying of cancer, so he has no problem with killing himself if [[TakingYouWithMe it takes the pyromaniac Unsub who infiltrated his organisation with him]]. Hotch even states afterwards that Evan wanted his death to mean something.
412	-->'''Vincent Styles''': [[VillainousBreakdown How do you plan on getting out of here]]?!
413	-->'''Evan Abby''': [[PreMortemOneLiner I don't]].
414	* KillItWithFire: Lures Vincent Styles into a building full of leaking benzene tanks and sets it ablaze, killing them both.
415	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The folder quote is part of him giving one to Vincent Styles, the [=UnSub=] exploiting his group to find potential victims.
416	* SecretlyDying: Abby is hiding his terminal leukemia from his family. Hotch figures it out by recognizing the pattern his own father went through before his death: unexplained weight loss, visiting lawyers, closing bank accounts, etc.
417	* TheTopicOfCancer: He has terminal leukaemia, caused by years of working around leaking underground chemical storage tanks. Abby considers it a form of LaserGuidedKarma for his years of helping corporations hide evidence of their chemical leaks instead of actually cleaning it up.
418	* YouWouldntShootMe: When Stiles realises Abby has worked out he's the [=UnSub=], he pulls out a gun, clearly intending to [[HeKnowsTooMuch shoot Abby to cover his tracks]]. To his horror, Abby dares Stiles to shoot him, pointing out that the muzzle flare from the gunshot alone will be enough to ignite the leaking benzene tanks under the warehouse they're in.
419	* YourDaysAreNumbered: He's got six months to live from terminal leukaemia. While trailing him for surveillance, Hotch and Prentiss realise that what they suspected was him about to make a run for it was Abby setting his affairs in order.
420
421	[[/folder]]
422
423
424	[[folder:Nathan Harris]]
425	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AntonYelchin
426
427	->''"I didn't kill her, I just... Really wanted to."''
428
429	\
430	An incidental character met by Reid in Season 2 during a case involving a vigilante-type spree killer. Harris is a mentally-disturbed young man who fantasizes about killing prostitutes, but who sought out Spencer to get help.
431	----
432	* BeingEvilSucks: He's essentially developing a type of psychopathy that involves sexual sadism, and this would usually mean he'd be just another [=UnSub=]... Except instead of giving into the urge to kill, he actively seeks out the [=BAU=] in order to get help, since he doesn't want to do it and it's greatly distressing him.
433	* DrivenToSuicide: He's thankfully stopped by the prostitute he lured into a room with him when she calls Reid and helps him with his slit wrists.
434	* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: A dark variation. He certainly ''wants'' to be a better person despite his mother claiming he's already a nice guy, and he's actively trying to seek help for his condition, except his condition is psychopathy and he's fighting an urge to kill for pleasure, all while being accused of the spree killings taking place during the episode.
435	* RedHerring: He spends most of "Sex, Birth, Death" being accused of being the [=UnSub=] since he tangentially fits the profile, and admitted to wanting to kill prostitutes just when the spree killings began. Except of course, he's not the killer, nor does he want to be one.
436	** The whole episode also teases that he might end up succumbing and kill someone, but when he finally does get the chance, he ends up trying to kill himself instead.
437	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: He's finally given the opportunity to kill a prostitute near the end after having one alone with him in a motel room. But after so much mental torture and still wanting to resist his violent urges, he ends up cutting his own wrists instead of hurting her, and she successfully helps to contain the bleeding until paramedics arrive.
438	[[/folder]]
439
440	[[folder:Tracy Belle]]
441	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ElleFanning
442
443	A recurring character in Season 2, Tracy was a little girl and one of Jeffrey Charles' intended victims before the [=BAU=] saved her. Except a returning Frank Breitkopf targets her and other people saved by the team in order to kill them.
444	----
445	* BackForTheFinale: Season 2's finale, that is. She's an intended victim of Frank Breitkopf's revenge against the team, having already been kidnapped by the time the team follows his trail to Virginia.
446	* DamselInDistress: The poor girl can't catch a break. She was almost killed by one of her own classmates, and then a creepy old man kidnaps and tries to kill her just to mess with the [=BAU=].
447	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A blond-haired little girl and cute as a button.
448	[[/folder]]
449
450	[[folder:Carrie Ortiz]]
451	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoannaFlores
452
453	->''"Are there any happy families?"''
454
455	\
456	A girl orphaned in Season 3, who catches Prentiss's attention.
457	----
458	* SoleSurvivor: Carrie is the only survivor of the attack on the Ortiz family due to Ervin messing up the lethal injection on her. She suffers from SurvivorGuilt as a result.
459	* SympathyForTheDevil: Once Carrie learns of Ervin's abuse, she is much more compassionate towards him despite him having attempted to kill her.
460	[[/folder]]
461
462	[[folder:Paul Davies (Dante)]]
463	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/GavinRossdale
464
465	->''"You know, all I ever really wanted to do was make music, and I'm not sure when that stopped being enough."''
466
467	\
468	A goth rock musician with a wild lifestyle who becomes a suspect during Season 5's "The Performer" after his fans start showing up dead with his album's name carved on their bodies.
469	----
470	* {{Foil}}: Lila Archer was a clean-cut actress still on the rise who loved what she did, but had her views rocked when the [=UnSub=] of her episode, her own best friend, killed people she cared about personally, yet Lila still insisted on continuing without fear. Dante's career, meanwhile, is at a low point by the time of his episode and, with his own agent orchestrating the death of his fans for the sake of profit, it's implied that he plans on retiring, or at least restarting his image and approach to music.
471	* {{Goth}}: A goth rock musician whose stage persona is a "vampire lord", with his fangirls as his "legion". This is downplayed, however, in that Paul Davies is seemingly tired of his persona and the lifestyle it brought him.
472	* JadedProfessional: It's clear from his attitude that being surrounded by crazy fans and indulging in the "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll" life has ultimately left Davies jaded on the profession, having lost track of his original passion along the way. The fact that the recent string of deaths was orchestrated by his agent didn't help.
473	[[/folder]]
474
475	[[folder:Ellie Spicer]]
476	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/IsabellaMurad
477	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/elliespicer.jpg]]
478
479	->''"Can't kill 'em all, can you?"''
480
481	\
482	An intended victim of the "Prince of Darkness" in Season 7, he took her in after murdering her entire family with the intention of molding her into a killer.
483	----
484	* BoyishShortHair: Done by Billy so she'll look less like a girl, also to help change her appearance so she wouldn't be easy to spot.
485	* BrokenBird: Watched her family die before her eyes, then ended up kidnapped by the man responsible after he developed a disturbing interest in her. It's amazing how she actually ends up downplaying this trope by staying firmly against Billy Flynn the whole way through.
486	* {{Foil}}: To Tracy Belle from Season 2. Both were intended victims of dangerous [=UnSubs=] who were saved just in time by the [=BAU=], but Tracy is a blond-haired GirlyGirl and still has her family with her, while Ellie is a black-haired {{Tomboy}} who tragically lost most of hers and acts a lot more maturely than her age suggests.
487	* ImportantHaircut: Billy cuts her hair to make her look less like her description.
488	* LittleMissBadass: Stands up to Billy and manages to screw over one of his crimes, mocking him the entire time. She also manages to run away from her negligent foster home and buy airplane tickets all on her own.
489	* MissingMom: Her mom disappeared for years. And then Billy offed her dad...
490	* MoralityPet: To Billy Flynn, who murdered her father, raped her aunt, killed her grandparents...and sees Ellie as a granddaughter figure.
491	[[/folder]]
492
493	[[folder:Julio Ruiz]]
494	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/HakeemKaeKazim
495
496	->''"Your head is spinning because it's full of ghosts. You think you can do this work day in, day out and you don't carry it with you? It's eating your soul."''
497
498	\
499	An incidental character met in Season 6. Julio is an ex-gangster and Palo practitioner brought in as a suspect in Hollis Walker's murders.
500	----
501	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: His eyes pretty much lock on to Reid the second they first see each other, and he immediately figures out he's suffering from headaches, as well as his overall personality, just by looking at him during interrogation. The man could easily be mistaken as a Palo counterpart to the BAU themselves from just how fast he can read people.
502	* BadassInDistress: He's taken hostage by Hollis Walker when his apprentice Elian is kidnapped and he goes looking for him. It was pretty much the first of two terrible ideas Walker would have that night.
503	* HolierThanThou: Distrusts police because of his upbringing and acts like they're merely pegging him for the criminal as an easy excuse, often citing his religion to distance himself from human cruelty. The ''second'' he hears that Elian might be the next victim, he drops it.
504	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's quiet and distrusting of cops because of his history, but he works at a community center helping people and his practice is always done to help the locals. He also volunteers to help the BAU and cites a short Mayombe prayer to protect Reid when they go after the [=UnSub=].
505	* JerkassHasAPoint: He acts sanctimonious about it at first, but he correctly guesses Reid is putting up a facade of wellness to hide that the constant hardship of being an FBI agent is starting to get to him, and the headaches are only a part of it.
506	* RedHerring: Set up as one because of the profile marking him as a suspect of the killings in Miami. The team abandons the idea when Julio points out the inconsistencies with the Palo set-ups in the crime scenes, realizing the killer is only using the religion superficially.
507	* ReformedCriminal: A former member of a gang known as "Los Machetes", responsible for a string of gruesome deaths in Miami. He's been clean ever since he left.
508	* TheUnblinking: Stares at the one-way mirror like this when he's brought for interrogation. He's looking straight at Reid even through it.
509	[[/folder]]
510
511	[[folder:Sandra Madsen]]
512	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KimHawthorne
513
514	A narcissistic newswoman and director of Channel 3 News in Miami from Season 13. Her coverage of a child's near-death experience years before becomes the focus of the BAU's investigation when said child resurfaces as a dangerous [=UnSub=].
515	----
516	* CompositeCharacter: She has the same type of disturbing need for attention and glory as Agent Jill Morris from Season 3, but with the job of Morris' deceased best friend Katrina Townsley, a reporter.
517	* {{Foil}}: To Jeffrey Whitfield, the [=UnSub=]. Both crave attention from the media and both have an unethical approach to it, but even Sandra in her narcissism wouldn't resort to killing the way Jeffrey did.
518	* IgnoredAesop: The whole episode is a traumatic reminder towards Sandra of how dangerous her own need of attention is, especially when she's held hostage and almost killed for all the world to witness in a livestream set up by the [=UnSub=]... Except when he's arrested and Rossi confronts her, she's learned ''nothing'', even expressing a sense of ''thrill'' during the hostage situation and feeling completely validated when the reporters outside the Channel 3 HQ want to talk to her next.
519	* ThatOneCase: The carjacking case that traumatized Jeffrey Whitfield was both her biggest opportunity and a life-long waiting time bomb, having kickstarted her career as well as Jeffrey's StartOfDarkness. It was her interview that awakened his AttentionWhore tendencies and, unfortunately for the BAU, she's hell-bent on continuing her involvement years later.
520	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / CriminalMindsOthers