Which Criminal Minds Episode Did Morgan Call Garcia Baby Girl

"	Ane of the last things I said earlier he shot me was everything happens for a reason. Derek, if I lose organized religion in that then nothing in my life makes sense.	"

Penelope Grace Garcia is the BAU's erstwhile Technical Analyst and also the squad's Media Liaison Officer since Jennifer Jareau's promotion to Supervisory Special Agent; the latter is a job that she formerly shared with Aaron Hotchner before his departure from the BAU and shared the position with Emily Prentiss prior to her own departure in the show's series finale "And in the Cease..." in Season Fifteen.

Background

Garcia was born sometime in 1977 in San Francisco, California. When she was eighteen, her parents died in a auto blow acquired by a drunk driver. They were out looking for her, as Garcia still hadn't come habitation by her curfew. She has stated that after her parents died, she dropped out of the California Institute of Technology, went "underground" but connected to teach herself computer coding to keep herself together, and started dressing in goth way. She had been placed on one of the FBI's lists that concerned a small-scale handful of extremely talented withal dangerous hackers in the world, and the FBI recruited her from there ("Penelope"). Prior to her recruitment, she was a vigilante hacker mentored by Shane Wyeth, who would hack into companies and other businesses whom she felt were engaged in criminal activities, which attracted the attention of the FBI. Her hacker nickname was "The Black Queen", likely due to her habit of dressing in black, Gothic clothing, and makeup. The BAU arrested her in 2004 while they were investigating the instance of John Nichols and Sam Russell. She was given a selection to either piece of work for them as their Technical Annotator (every bit Hotch deduced a kind and loving nature from her cyber-protests) or serve jail fourth dimension; she decided to accept the chore. According to Shane, she did so considering she wanted to do something more useful and noble than violating and vandalizing websites.

On Criminal Minds

In "Blood Hungry", Garcia is forced to piece of work with Gideon after he injured his leg and becomes bellyaching by some of his habits. She believe Gideon sends her flowers the following episode, when she goes to give thanks him she notices his collection of photos of saved victims and he says they're sort of his family, However he later questions Hotch who revealed he sent the flowers to make her experience appreciated merely he states I sent her a gift an MP3 player.

In "Secrets and Lies", while the rest of the team get to Langley for a case involving an informant and a mole, she stay dorsum with JJ and when she asks the two CIA agents speak go with them to her part to give her access to their system she's informed she'southward on a list fifty-fifty though she works for the FBI.

In "The Fisher Male monarch, Part 1", Garcia is chastised past Gideon for playing a game on her personal laptop, which allowed a hacker to go into the Bureau's computer system, only makes upwards for it past finding a suspect.

In "The Fisher Rex, Part 2", Reid tells Garcia about his mother's schizophrenia, making her the first person in the squad to know.

In the episode "Sexual practice, Nativity, Expiry", she showed a fondness for Reid, offer to accept him out on the town to altitude himself from Nathan Harris (the main suspect in the murders committed past Ronald Weems). However, this was interrupted by the subject field's attempted suicide.

In the episode "Lucky," Garcia was shot by Jason Clark Battle, a man she had just gone on a date with.

In the episode "Penelope", Garcia is rushed to the hospital after the gunshot. She survives the gunshot and quickly recovers but is attacked again after she is released from the hospital. The aggressor targeting her is revealed to be Jason with a "hero homicide complex", putting people in danger in club to save them for his ain glory. She recovers from her set on and helps JJ impale Jason while he held Adam Fuchs hostage. By the episode'southward end, she's introduced to Kevin Lynch and before long becomes romantically involve with him.

In "House on Burn", Garcia has a profiler moment when working on a case. At the finish of the episode, she admits to Hotch that she doesn't desire to get within someone'south head and prefers to run across the good in person; Hotch praises her for her efforts and would never want to alter.

In the episode "The Eyes Have it", Garcia gets a asking from JJ to assist Derek, who is temporarily the team'due south Interim Unit of measurement Chief, get established in an office of his own.

In the episode "100", Garcia is instrumental in narrowing down George Foyet'due south location, with the aid of Kevin Lynch. She cantankerous-referenced all of the medications that Foyet required and found out that he was back in the D.C. area. Reid would later discover his allonym (Peter Rhea). She immediately started crying upon hearing Foyet killing Haley Brooks, Hotch'southward ex-married woman.

In "Exit Wounds", Derek and Penelope shared a room when the team had to double up due to lack of rooms, prompting Penelope to call dibs with Morgan. Her fellow Kevin quickly became jealous, calling him a "Muscle-Bound Modern-Day 007", Penelope quickly retorting that he'southward more of a Jason Bourne. Subsequently she witnessed a murder, she ran towards the victim causing Morgan to be mad at her, commenting on that behavior as reckless. Then Morgan wanted to conduct a cerebral interview which made Penelope angry. Towards the end of the episode Penelope comments on her change of behavior towards seeing blood. This prompted Morgan to comment that she'south irresolute into someone stronger than she realizes, that she cared enough to risk her life to save someone else'southward. She then revealed that she'due south scared she's changing into someone she's not only then she can do the job. Derek then tells her that she sees the beauty in everything and anybody wherever she goes and that he'll go along protecting her so that she won't change.

In the episode "Compromising Positions", she wishes to accept on JJ's old chore. Although Hotch is reluctant at beginning, he agrees. She changes her appearance in the process to look more professional. However, the pressure brought from juggling between the ii jobs in the wake of the instance of James Thomas takes a toll on her heed, and she begins to stress out. At the end of the episode, Garcia agrees with Hotch's proposal that she should simply have on the office of JJ'due south job that she can practice from BAU headquarters while remaining as the Technical Annotator.

In "Hope", Garcia becomes personally involved in a example when a fellow member of her support group goes missing on the seventh anniversary of her daughter's abduction, and she asks the residual of the team for help in finding her.

In "Snake Eyes", Garcia worries about her relationship with Morgan afterwards finding him in her flat in a towel. In the end of the episode, Morgan clarifies to her that Garcia chosen him subsequently she and Kevin got into a fight and naught sexual happened between her and Morgan.

In "I Dear You lot, Tommy Brown", Garcia discovers Kevin is trying to suggest to her, which she turned downwardly at the end of the episode, leading to their breakdown.

In "The Silencer", Garcia and Morgan come back from visiting Prentiss in London, where they see their newest squad member, Alex Blake. Garcia researched Blake and is iffy nigh; accidentally getting off on an bad-mannered notation with her. However non used to Prentiss leaving again and change in general, Morgan snaps Garcia out of it. At the end of the episode, Blake and Garcia meet up and redo their introductions, starting a friendship.

In "The Wheels on the Coach", Garcia works with Kevin during a instance in DC involving a mass abduction of a school bus filled with students.

In "Magnificent Light", Garcia encourages Morgan to go to a dinner honoring an old family unit friend and later accompanies him.

In "The Gathering", Garcia is given ukulele lessons by Sam, someone she used to date.

In "Brothers Hotchner" and "The Replicator", Garcia's computers are hacked by the Replicator, disabling it after showing photos of the team on the screens forth with the word "Zugzwang" written over and over, causing her freak out. She cries when she realizes that he was in her firm afterwards she's told by Kevin that he didn't get into her computers at Quantico.

In "Route 66", Garcia stays by Hotch's stay at the hospital due to the internal bleeding from the stab wounds he sustained at the easily of Foyet.

In "The Black Queen", Garcia is forced to revisit her quondam past as a hacker after the BAU revisits an former case on request by Shane Wyeth and his hacker group Star Bedchamber. As a result, she visits Shane at the Star Chamber headquarters, appealing to him by dressing up in her erstwhile habiliment. He is able to give her some information merely winds up arguing with her and stating his disapproval of her new life. Later, Garcia confronts Shane online, where he reveals that he had been post-obit her life ever since she joined up the BAU, consequently misinterpreting her relationship with Morgan as an actual romantic relationship. Later on Shane survives a nearly-fatal attack by the unsub, Garcia approaches him and reconciles with him.

In the episode "200", she assisted in the search for JJ (who was abducted by the Regime Squad), by hacking into a database containing data relating to JJ'southward time at the U.Southward. Country Section. Garcia too manages to deduce JJ'due south location afterwards receiving a distress warning triggered by JJ.

In "Mr. & Mrs. Anderson", Garcia and Sam double-date with Morgan and Savannah subsequently concluding a case.

In the episode "Demons", she shot Greg Baylor later he tried to kill Reid while he was recovering in a Texas hospital after being shot in the neck past Justin Mills. During the shooting, she used Reid's own gun, which she quickly grabbed from an items pocketbook.

In the episode "Fire", however, Garcia has been shown to be traumatized by her shooting Baylor. To get over her fears, she goes to visit him in Texas before he is nearly to be executed by the state for his crimes. However, before she leaves, Garcia gets into an statement with Morgan over the betoken of the trip. Upon visiting the captive, she learns he has no one who would sentry his execution and still support him, so is requested by him to be the 1 to do and then. After thinking it over, she does so and is forced to picket as he is executed.

In Season Eleven, it is revealed that Garcia was listed as a target by a network of hitmen after she began investigating them in the deep web during the case of Giuseppe Montolo. Her identity was unknown to the network, so they dubbed her as "The Dirty Dozen". This was unknown to the BAU until the events of "Target Rich," where she realized that she inadvertently uses a dozen servers to bounce her signal while working. Equally a result, she was relocated to an old room in the BAU headquarters for her living quarters, but she continued her normal operations in assisting the BAU in cases. Garcia was finally able to come out of hiding when the BAU tracked downwardly all of the members of the network and dismantled the organization in "Entropy".

In "A Cute Disaster", Garcia is named the godmother of Morgan and Savannah's son, Hank Spencer Morgan, and admits to Morgan that she'due south glad he didn't take a girl, but Morgan tells her Garcia will always be his original baby girl.

Throughout nearly of Flavour Twelve, afterwards Morgan's difference and the addition of Luke Alvez to the BAU, Garcia becomes uncharacteristically distant and withdrawn from him, frequently calling him 'Newbie' until in "Reddish Lite", the season twelve finale, Morgan returns after Peter Lewis tried to coax out the squad and asked Garcia to cut him some slack, despite her reluctance.

In "Light-green Light", after Reid puts himself in solitary solitude after stabbing himself when the other inmates find out he's a fed and framing another inmate, Garcia hands Prentiss her resignation in case Reid dies in prison. She is emotional after seeing Reid being released from prison.

Picking up from "Ruddy Lite" and into "Wheels Upward", Garcia calls Matthew Simmons from the IRT following an assail on the BAU. She is devastated and comforted by Alvez upon seeing Stephen Walker's corpse every bit he did not survive the crash. She is also worried near Reid'south behavior.

In "Lucky Strikes", a case brings Garcia bad memories from beingness shot ten years agone, resulting in the render of Derek Morgan, to help her cope.

In "All You Can Consume", as the squad handles a case without her, Garcia heads to San Francisco after being asked by 1 of her stepbrothers, Carlos, to give an victim's impact statement nigh the boozer driver that killed their parents every bit he'south up for parole. In the stop, the drunk driver, Jesse Wilson, is granted parole after Garcia's voice communication, leaving Carlos upset.

At the cease of "Believer", Garcia is held at gunpoint by members of The Believers and Mary Meadows after she shoots Owen Quinn and gives Reid the choice to assist break out their leader, Benjamin David Merva and messiah Theo Holston, from FBI custody or permit Garcia dice. Despite this, Garcia tells Reid to shoot Meadows. Picking up in "300," she, Reid, and Theo are held captive by the cult and is forced by Meadows to make their vehicles untraceable. With the aid of Reid, Penelope manages to escape, running over Meadows and going to the BAU for help. Despite Theo'due south decease at the hands of the Believers, in the end, Garcia is relieved to see Reid alive after the team returns abode from Kentucky.

In "Innocence", Garcia admits to Prentiss she's yet struggling with being abducted and as well tells Prentiss nigh her recently strained relationship with Carlos afterwards forgiven the man that killed their parents. Prentiss and Rossi bring Carlos in to help Garcia cope also as meliorate their relationship.

In "Saturday", Garcia reveals that she has a Russian stalker during a stalking example involving one of her students at a Hacker Workshop at the BAU headquarters.

In "Confront Off", Garcia reveals that she is considering accepting a task offer at an contained institution; says it would be a good change. In the concluding episode, "And in the End...", the team celebrates Penelope'south departure and Luke invites her to dinner during her team'due south adieu party, which she happily accepts.

Suspect Behavior

Garcia serves as Technical Analyst for Sam Cooper's squad at the same time as for Hotch's.

On the Task

Garcia seems to share a playful, flirtatious relationship with Derek Morgan. When working together, they refer to each other by such names equally "sweet cheeks" or "babe girl" (later revealed because the first day on the job, Morgan couldn't remember her proper name and shouted "infant girl" to get her attention). There hasn't been an actual romantic relationship, though Morgan seemed a little jealous when Garcia told him almost Jason Clark Battle. Garcia has as well acted jealous, such every bit when Morgan decided to take hold of a beverage with Tamara Barnes. It is articulate that the two of them care very securely for each other.

Some cases seem to swallow away at Garcia, as she often gets nervous or upset when analyzing video or sound recordings of murders or other serious crimes. Ofttimes, she has to listen to and watch them over and over once again.

Personal Life

"I'm not good at this part. Every time you guys get abroad, I know you lot're in all kinds of ginormous danger, and all I can exercise is sit here in my bubble, and I promise, and I pray and I will my babies to come back to me. I endeavour to stay positive, but I don't know how to do this."

It has been mentioned that when Garcia was not allowed to travel with the squad to Langley, she was on the CIA'due south "lists" as well ("Secrets and Lies"). JJ joked that Garcia belonged to that listing when she unsuccessfully tried to hack the CIA for information on Princess Diana's death and other alleged government conspiracies (namely, she found Prince William's telephone number, but couldn't observe a pen to write information technology downwards earlier the CIA killed her access).

Garcia is into online games, specifically MMORPGs, as she was one time seen playing a game about Camelot on the BAU network, constantly about coming together with "Sir Kneighf", an online modify ego who turns out to be Randall Garner, who is keeping a young woman prisoner while sending the squad several clues that, with tremendous help from Reid, they employ to catch him and salve the woman ("The Fisher Male monarch, Role 1"). Garner hacked into Garcia'southward computer and accessed files about the BAU, and then used the personal data to find out their whereabouts so he could send the clues at that place. Hotch states at one point that when Garcia practical for her position, she submitted her resume on "pink, homemade jotter".

At the start of Flavour Three, she meets Kevin Lynch and somewhen becomes romantically involved with him. In Flavor Seven, Kevin tried to suggest to Garcia merely didn't get the chance to do so. Garcia later figured it out past hacking into his estimator and finding out that he was looking for rings. As a consequence, she turns him downwards, and their relationship appears to have ended ("I Love You, Tommy Brown"). Garcia eventually becomes involved with an old flame, Sam. In the concluding episode of season 15, "And In the Terminate..." , Luke Alvez asks her out for dinner, an offering which she happily accepts.

Notes

• She is from San Francisco, California, and that she is a dropout from Caltech, a school Reid also went to. ("Penelope")
• She refers to a public restroom as a loo. ("Lucky")
• She exclusively uses a Linux based operating system on her computers.
• She likes to "remove herself" from the images she sees on her computer screens, which is why she has toys and other items she likes around her in her office.
• She doesn't speak Spanish even though her final name is Castilian. She mentions in "Machismo" that information technology is the surname of her stepfather, who is Hispanic.
• She can speak French ("Empty Planet") and is seen trying to learn Italian. ("In Heat")
• She maintains a strict adherence to "The Hacker Lawmaking" of conduct.
• Prentiss refers to Garcia equally "the world'southward sexiest hacker". ("The Performer")
• She suffers from coulrophobia, a fear of clowns. This stemmed from an incident that occurred when she was twelve; a clown at a birthday political party grabbed her chest and made a honking audio. She has been afraid of clowns always since, commenting, "Plain making it funny makes information technology okay."
• Her proper name, Penelope, is actually an homage to Moneypenny (from the Bond films). She is seen as Morgan's Moneypenny.
• Garcia became a goth afterward her parents' deaths. She reveals this to Chris, a Gothic boy in "Risky Business organization".
• At the stop of "Memoriam", JJ names her godmother of her recently born son Henry.
• She buys many gifts for her godson Henry, claiming that information technology is her rightful duty as a godmother since he is at the age to properly savour the human action of opening gifts.
• She rarely travels with the team, but when she does, she tends to limited her love for the jet accommodations.
• She applied for her job at the BAU with a resumé written on pink homemade stationary paper.
• JJ and Morgan are her all-time friends.
• Her car is named Esther.
• Her hobbies include knitting and making soup (Suspect Behavior episode "Lonely Heart").
• She is a fan of the book The Emerald Sea of Dreams ("3rd Life") and patently also of the graphic novel Ghost Globe ("Penelope")
• She has a lamp with a Dawna Markova quote hand-painted on it; it reads: "I will non die an unlived life. I will non alive in fearfulness of falling or communicable fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open up me, to brand me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my middle until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the side by side every bit bloom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit." ("Penelope")
• Her favorite writer is mythologist Joseph Campbell. ("Hope")
• She is a fan of sci-fi sitcom Pocket-size Wonder. ("Roadkill")
• She is a vegetarian. ("Proof", "Smashing")
• She is a fan of movies by Federico Fellini. ("Proof")
• She is in a survivors' back up group, though after her run-in with Bill Rogers in the episode, it has since disbanded. ("Hope")
• She initially blamed herself for the expiry of her parents considering they were out looking for her after she had broken her curfew. ("Promise")
• She chosen Hotch by his first name during "Charm and Harm", but in the other episodes, she calls him "sir".
• She had dyed her hair red before ("The Uncanny Valley") and wore a blonde wig during ("Reflection of Desire") for a printing conference. Returned to her red pilus again and kept it like that until ("Today I Exercise") where she dyed it back to blonde, her original hair color, which she has kept to this twenty-four hours.
• She has a philosophy that "the world is just teeming with awesome people". ("House on Burn")
• She likes conspiracy theories, which likely stems from her previous activities as an anti-regime hacker. ("Terminal Shot")
• She is left-handed.
• She was mistakenly referred to as "SSA Garcia" past a police sergeant who wrote her an email giving verification of a doubtable's alibi. ("Final Shot")
• Her stepfather took Mean solar day of the Expressionless celebrations very seriously, which rubbed off on her in her developed years. ("In The Claret")
• She owned a cat called "Simba", who passed away. ("In The Blood")
• She labels Hotch as "Sir Hotch" on her cellphone. ("The Black Queen")
• She has held a gun (not hers) twice in her career with the BAU (despite not assertive in them). The commencement incident was the second attempt on her life by Jason Clark Boxing in "Penelope" (in which Morgan equips her with his fill-in Glock 26 while he wards off Battle). The second was during an endeavor on Reid's life past Greg Baylor in "Demons" (in which she quickly grabs Reid'southward Smith & Wesson Model 65 revolver).
  • During the second case, she has likewise used the gun to shoot someone for the outset time in her life (the undercover nurse trying to kill Reid).
• She is nearsighted. ("Scream")
• She once followed a male child across the entire length of a embankment considering he was belongings a kite. ("Seven Seconds")
• She takes intendance of Sergio, Prentiss' former true cat, presumably since Prentiss left for London. ("Awake")
• She is the kickoff and only grapheme to appear in all three serial of the Criminal Minds universe: she was a series regular in both the main serial and its start spin-off Suspect Beliefs, and she guest-starred in 2 episodes of the second spin-off Beyond Borders.
• Her FBI badge number is 0019er-0. ("Wheels Up")
• She bought Rossi a cigar case that also doubles as a Faraday muzzle. ("Wheels Up")
• She may accept a tattoo saying "Baby Girl", Morgan's frequently used pet proper name for her. ("Grit and Bones")
• She was a fan of Jonny McHale'south comics. But after she found out that Jonny is a psychotic series killer, she likely isn't anymore. ("Truthful Dark")

Behind the Scenes

In the "Making Of" documentary for Season Iii, Vangsness stated that Garcia'due south bullet injury was moved from her chest to her stomach betwixt the episodes "Lucky" and "Penelope" since a breast injury would mean there would be a large scar on her chest for several following episodes that would require makeup and also meant that Garcia wouldn't be able to show any cleavage.

References

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