Emily Prentiss


 

 




Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss graduated from Yale University before joining the FBI. She worked in the Midwest (Chicago and St Louis) before coming  to Quantico, VA, to join the BAU.

As Season 2 unfolds, it is clear that her appointment to the BAU is tinged with suspicion, since she joins soon after Elle Greenaway leaves. Although she has no specific experience of BAU-type cases, she has had around ten years' worth of general field experience. She impresses Hotch in her first appearance in 2x09 'The Last Word'', with her insight into a (then) current BAU case.

By early Season 3, we discover that Section Chief Erin Strauss had been using her as a mole to dig up compromising information on Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner. Prentiss tenders her resignation rather than betray her Unit Chief and the BAU team, and tells Hotch and Strauss of her intention to sit the Foreign Service exam. Hotch convinces her stay, recognizing her talent and potential as a member of the BAU, and grateful that she chose not to pass on any damaging information to Strauss.

  • She was born at 7.12am on October 12th, sometime in the 1970s - according to Reid. Garcia confirms that this classifies her as a Libra (4x11, 'Cold Comfort').


  • She used to have goth/punk tendencies when she was in high school - Garcia digs up an old yearbook photo in 3x19 'Tabula Rasa''.

  • She is very well traveled, having accompanied her mother (Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss) on many foreign assignments. She is fluent in a number of languages, including Arabic (2x10 'Lessons Learned'). Although she knows some Russian (2x20 'Honor Among Thieves'),  she confesses to Hotch that she's not very good at speaking the language. 


  • She loathes politics in the workplace. She first tells Hotch about her distaste for politics in 2x11 'Sex, Birth, Death', and repeats this in 3x02, 'In Birth and Death'.

Thereafter, Emily settles fully into the Unit, and develops close relationships with her colleagues, particularly Jennifer Jareau and Penelope Garcia. We know that they socialize together outside of work. Her relationship with Derek Morgan was solidified fairly early on, and in Season 4, she grows closer to Reid, following a shaky start. 

  • Emily would like to have children some day. This becomes clear in 3x04 'Children of the Dark', when she expresses a desire to foster/adopt an orphaned girl the team encounters while working on a case. At the end of the episode, she discusses this with JJ, and JJ tells her that she 'can see it' - she can envision Emily having a family of her own.


  • She has a complex relationship with religion, having once been a devout Catholic. 


  • When she was fifteen, she had an abortion -  she tells Rossi in 4x17,'Demonology'.


  • She is a fan of Kurt Vonnegut's novels (something she has in common with Derek Morgan), and a self-confessed nerd.


  • She enjoys her coffee with Splenda, a popular artificial sweetener.


  • In 4x09 '52 Pickup' she tells Hotch that she has dated worse men than Viper, which seems to surprise him.


  • She may own a hot tub.


































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