Who is emily prentiss

Emily gasps in shock and collapses; Doyle, himself badly injured, crawls over to her and softly asks, "Where is he? Where's Declan? Emily, tell me where he is. Morgan shouts for paramedics. His sense of betrayal gone, he tends to Emily and tries to keep her conscious. I know what you did for Declan. I am so proud of you. Do you understand that? I proud of you because you are my friend and you are my partner. Later, the team waits endlessly in the hospital until JJ enters and somberly announces that Emily never made it off the operating table.

As the others break down, she steps into the corridor and speaks with Hotch. Though we can't hear their conversation, JJ appears to tell him, "We did the best we could," to which he bleakly replies, "I know. Each member of the team places a rose on the casket, and then all of them form a protective ring around it.

Morgan and Garcia hold hands; JJ and Hotch exchange significant glances with each other. She offers the woman passports for three different countries, as well as bank account numbers to keep her comfortable.

The woman, who has Emily's telltale bitten fingernails, thanks her; JJ tells her, "Good luck", and the woman disappears into the night. We later learn that Emily's surgeons had actually managed to save her life and that Hotch and JJ had decided to fake her death to protect her from Doyle "It Takes a Village".

Still critical, Emily was airlifted to Bethesda under tight security while the team was being informed of her death. She then stayed at Bethesda until she was well enough to travel, at which point she was assigned to Paris under an assumed name.

Morgan took her apparent death particularly hard, feeling she would have lived if he had just arrived sixty seconds earlier. In fact, so great is his guilt and outrage that he spends all his free time hunting down Doyle. In it, we discover that she spent considerable time in the Middle East as a child, traveling with her parents, and is well-versed in the Arabic language and culture. This is the first episode where Prentiss really proves that she has potential as a profiler, picking up on the subtleties within the words and actions of their suspect.

It becomes fairly clear to Hotch and the viewers that Prentiss harbors a strong dislike of politics. This is also the first sign we've seen that Prentiss doesn't like her mother. No explanation is given for this bond. Prentiss, clearly put out, responds that she "compartmentalizes better than most people. Prentiss tries and fails to cheer Morgan up when the head detective on the case is shot. At the end of the episode she makes a potentially significant, though probably meaningless, slip of the tongue, saying she hasn't read Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night in, "Fif— like, twelve years.

Up until " Revelations ," Reid had been friendly to Prentiss — more-so than anyone else on the team. In " Distress ," as a result of his own trauma and, to some extent, Prentiss' unwillingness to let his strange actions slide like the rest of the team, Reid snaps at her several times, and they spend the entire episode — and some subsequent ones — on uncomfortable terms.

In this episode, we also find out that Prentiss speaks fluent Spanish. When Reid misses a flight intentionally, Prentiss is tempted to express her doubts about him to Gideon, only to find that Gideon is having the same doubts. Her mother comes to the BAU and asks that they take the case of a Russian man who has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, or so his family thinks. Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss used to work at the Ukrainian consulate, and Prentiss knows a good deal of Russian.

Prentiss' relationship with her mother is clearly strained, from their interactions in the episode, and notably her father is not mentioned. Prentiss states that she has never seen her mother with her guard down. At the end of the episode, it's clear that she identifies with the victim, Bobbi, who asks her how unsubs can act the way they do. Prentiss says that the unsubs don't think like them, but later, on the plane, she confides to Morgan that they do.

We don't see Prentiss' response. He informs her that her resignation isn't in the system yet so they are bound to help the team in this case, which is later found to be Garcia's doing. Prentiss puts herself in harm's way when she knocks on the door of the unsub's home and his son lets her in. She is armed with Morgan's gun and convinces the boy she knows the father and he invited her over.

She finds out where the father is and goes into the room where he is holding his latest victim, the school nurse, hostage. He clubs Prentiss on the head with a piece of wood and hands his son the gun and tries to get is son to shoot Prentiss. Prentiss is disoriented but manages to send the signal out via her cell to the team to come in.

She is okay and announces "is it wrong that I am happy to be back? She returns home and reflects from her window in her apartment. She's shocked to see Hotch has beaten Foyet to death. She became repeatedly disturbed by how the victims were forced to live their final moments in fear and insecurity by the unsub. She personally kicked him to the ground and as she puts her gun to his head, she tells him that when an inmate tries to have his way with him, just play along, as he forced his victims to do.

In " Retaliation ", Prentiss is in a car accident while transporting a prisoner to the local police station. Despite sustaining severe injuries, Prentiss manages to escape the police cruiser via the windshield and fire on the fleeing suspects as they escape.

Morgan finds Prentiss on the roadside and she is taken to the hospital where she is treated for a concussion and several cuts and contusions. She insists on quickly returning to the job and plays an instrumental role in solving the case. She is almost killed by the unsub but Rawson, who was using a sniper rifle from another rooftop, manages to shot the unsub twice and kills him.

In " Exit Wounds ", Prentiss is debating on whether she should call Rawson or get a cat. She eventually gets a black cat named Sergio. In " Compromising Positions ", she risks her life and is nearly killed while going undercover in order to dissuade a mentally-unstable unsub who is in the company of numerous bar patrons and employees, all in danger of being gunned down.

When she accidentally gets one of the unsub's facts wrong, he is provoked into shooting her, but she shoots him first, firing her pistol hidden in a purse. Prentiss then watches as he dies. In " The Thirteenth Step ", Prentiss learns from a former colleague at Interpol, Sean McAllister , that Ian Doyle , an apparently highly dangerous criminal, has escaped from his North Korean prison and gone off the grid and apparently killed a man and stole his car.

Sean warned her that he might come after her and that everyone is in danger. At the beginning of " Sense Memory ", in her apartment, when the phone rings and the caller ID is unknown, Prentiss lets it go to message and listens to the recording. The caller, presumably Doyle, is completely silent and hangs up. In response, Prentiss sets up some noise-traps near all entrances and exits in the apartment, sits down in the hallway with a gun, turns off the lights, and waits.

When Prentiss returns to her apartment after a case, she finds a package by her door. When she opens the package, it turns out to contain a small, purple-white flower. There is a flashback to some time earlier when she is working in a flowerbed filled with the same flowers, apparently by a mansion somewhere in France. When authorities, presumably Interpol, arrive and drive away with her, Doyle watches her from a balcony. He calls someone and tells the other person to "stay on on top of [it]". As he is arrested by English-speaking authorities, he looks down at one of the flowers that Prentiss dropped.

In " Coda ", Doyle resurfaced in D. Soon after in " Valhalla ", he began killing people connected to his case as well as their families. During the investigation, he kills one of Prentiss's former colleagues, Tsia Mosely.

It is also revealed that Prentiss, Sean, Tsia, and two other colleagues were part of a team assembled by Interpol that profiled terrorists and helped apprehend them, codenamed JTF In " Lauren ", Prentiss goes after him alone.

As she holds a submachine gun at his men, he flanks her and shoots her in the abdomen. She survives, wearing a bulletproof vest, and is abducted and taken to the group's HQ. She is tortured and beaten as Doyle recounts what happened after his arrest: he was taken to a prison in North Korea, where he resisted in interrogation for two years, hoping to see his son, Declan, again. When he was shown a series of pictures of Declan and his legal guardian being executed by a mostly unseen figure, he broke down completely and would remain there for another five years.

Unbeknownst to him, the pictures were actually staged by Prentiss in order to save Declan from his father's life. The BAU , having found the photos, notices that the nails of the hand holding the gun are completely bitten down; Prentiss was a compulsive nail biter when nervous. Obtaining the address of the house, they conduct a stealth raid on it, killing all of Doyle's men. As Doyle, furious to learn how he was deceived by Prentiss, begins furiously beating her.

She gets the upper hand and knocks him to the floor with a wooden stick. Once she drops it, Doyle grabs it and stabs it into her abdomen. Hearing the gunfire approach, he escapes and isn't seen for the rest of the episode. The BAU arrive and take Prentiss to a hospital, where they are told that she didn't survive. They all attend Prentiss' funeral.

In the final scene, JJ is seen approaching a woman whose face is unseen in France and giving her passports for three different countries and a bank account in each one. The woman's hands are shown to the viewers to have completely bitten-down nails, implying that it is Prentiss, who is alive and has faked her own death in order to go into hiding from Doyle, thus protecting the rest of the BAU team from him.

The rest of the team missed her dearly and struggled to cope with the loss for the remainder of the season. In " It Takes a Village ", she reunites with the team when they are forced to team up with Doyle in an effort to save Declan from a trio of international criminals seeking revenge on Doyle.

Although they are successful in saving Declan, Doyle is shot and mortally wounded by the trio's leader , dying as Prentiss watches in shock. In " Proof ", Prentiss and JJ received the cold shoulder from Reid because he was not informed that she was still alive after Doyle supposedly "killed" her, viewing that as betrayal.

She eventually made amends with Reid, telling him that she regretted every moment of not letting him know but that it was necessary in order to protect herself and more importantly, the team.

She reminds him that while he lost one friend, she lost six. Reid forgave her and they became friends again. In " Dorado Falls ", Morgan lies to Prentiss and tells her she had to undertake recertification training.

When she confronted near the episode's end, he told her that he didn't want to lose her again and needed some reassurance. They agreed to ten hours of training. In " Unknown Subject ", Prentiss started to deal with her traumatic experience caused by Doyle. This is particularly evidenced by her personal connection with Regina Lampert , a victim of a serial rapist whom she later abducts, tortures, and tries to kill in revenge.

Prentiss is shot in the arm by the unsub before being shot down by Morgan. She is temporarily injured and forced to wear a sling. Morgan feels guilty that Prentiss was again hurt on his watch and tries to apologize to Prentiss. Personality… calm, selfless, and intelligent.

Prentiss is very driven, and is willing to put herself at risk for the safety of others. She cares deeply about justice and shows a lot of empathy, perhaps more so than her colleagues.

Prentiss is calculating, and handles her situations professionally. Although she has trust issues due to her background as an undercover agent, she has a sense of humor and forms bonds with other members of the BAU. Geniuses who work for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit are chasing down serial killers and battling their own minds. Although they work for the "good guys," the lines are not always so clear. Search Charactour. Sign Up Log In. Recommendations Fans of her also like:.