About the author

Jeffrey Bryan "Jeff" Davis (born October 6, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and singer. He is most famous as a guest star on the improve comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? He also appears in Drew Carey's Green Screen Show as one of the major actors. He was also used quite a bit in the singing games, most notably with Wayne Brady singing operatic songs.

Jeff Davis was born in Los Angeles and raised in Whittier, California. He began his acting career at the age of four at the Groundlings Theater in Hollywood; playing Linus in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Davis started in commercials when he was four years old, and at age 11 was cast as Louis in the Broadway production of The King and I withYul Brynner. A national tour followed and, after 750 performances, Davis returned home to attend school.

Davis began performing with various improve troupes. He also worked with the short video website Channel 101.com and was in the Dan Harmon series Laser Fart. Soon after, he landed a recurring role on the improve series Whose Line Is It Anyway? His comedic timing won over comedian Steve Martin and the other producers of The Downer Channel, earning Davis a spot in the cast of the comedy sketch/reality series in 2001. He also has appeared in the television series The Norm Show, The Drew Carey Show and The Jamie Kennedy Experiment. Davis appeared in the acclaimed telefilm ¨Tuesdays with Morrie¨ and was a series regular in Happy Family, opposite Christine Baranski and John Larroquette, in the fall of 2003. He played the role of an attorney in the October 9th, 2008 episode of The Sarah Silverman Program.

Davis currently resides in Los Angeles and he has toured with the Drew Carey's Improve All-Stars alongside fellow Whose Liners Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Chip Esten, Brad Sherwood, Kathy Kinney, Kathy Greenwood, Julie Larson, Jonathan Mangum, Sean Mastersonand Greg Proops. Davis has also been part of two USO tours. Davis, along with Greg Proops, Ryan Stiles and Chip Esten is part of the improve comedy team, "Whose Live Anyway?" sitting in the second seat as he did on "Whose Line".

Beginnings: The Bureau of Investigation

In 1886, the Supreme Court, in Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois, found that the states had no power to regulate interstate commerce. The resulting Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 created a Federal responsibility for interstate law enforcement. The Justice Department, which had hired few permanent investigators since its establishment in 1870, made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the turn of the century, when Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for investigators. But the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by Justice, passing a law to that effect in 1908. The Attorney General moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation (BOI or BI), complete with its own staff of special agents. The Secret Service provided the Department of Justice 12 Special Agents and these agents became the first Agents in the new BOI. Thus, the first FBI agents were actually Secret Service agents. Its jurisdiction derived from the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The FBI grew out of this force of special agents created on July 26, 1908 during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Its first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the "White Slave Traffic Act," or Mann Act, passed on June 25, 1910. In 1932, it was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition and rechristened the Division of Investigation (DOI) before finally becoming an independent service within the Department of Justice in 1935. In the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime. Its motto is "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity", corresponding to the FBI initials.

The FBI's headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is located in Washington, D.C. Fifty-six field offices are located in major cities throughout the United States as well as over 400 resident agencies in smaller cities and towns across the country. More than 50 international offices called "legal attachés" are in U.S. embassies worldwide.

In the fiscal year 2008, the FBI's total budget was approximately $6.8 billion, including $410 million in program increases to counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, cybercrime, information, security, forensics, training, and criminal programs.

The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935.

The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.

Currently, the FBI's top investigative priorities are:

1. Protect the United States from terrorist attack (see counter-terrorism);

2. Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage (see counter-intelligence);

3. Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes (see cyber-warfare);

4. Combat public corruption at all levels;

5. Protect civil rights;

6. Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises (see organized crime);

7. Combat major white-collar crime;

8. Combat significant violent crime;

9. Upgrade technology for successful performance of the FBI's mission.

In August 2007, the top categories of lead criminal charges resulting from FBI investigations were:

1. Bank robbery and incidental crimes (107 charges)

2. Drugs (104 charges)

3. Attempt and conspiracy (81 charges)

4. Material involving sexual exploitation of minors (53 charges)

5. Mail fraud – frauds and swindles (51 charges)

6. Bank fraud (31 charges)

7. Prohibition of illegal gambling businesses (22 charges)

8. Fraud by wire, radio, or television (20 charges)

9. Hobbs Act (Robbery and extortion affecting interstate commerce) (17 charges)

10. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)-prohibited activities (17 charges)

Behavioral Analysis Unit

The Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) is a part of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is one component of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC). The mission of the BAU is to provide behavioral based investigative and/or operational support by applying case experience, research, and training to complex and time-sensitive crimes, typically involving acts or threats of violence

§ Crimes Against Children

§ Crimes Against Adults

§ Communicated Threats

§ Corruption

§ Bombing and Arson Investigations

§ Sexual Crimes

The BAU receives requests for services from Federal, state, local, and international law enforcement agencies. Responses to these requests for BAU assistance are facilitated through the network of field NCAVC coordinators. BAU services are provided during on-site case consultations, telephone conference calls, and/or consultations held at the BAU with case investigators. However, contrary to popular belief, there is no such position in the FBI called "profiler", a position commonly seen on television and in cinema.

BAU assistance to law enforcement agencies is provided through the process of "criminal investigative analysis". Criminal investigative analysis is a process of reviewing crimes from both a behavioral and investigative perspective. It involves reviewing and assessing the facts of a criminal act, interpreting offender behavior, and interaction with the victim, as exhibited during the commission of the crime, or as displayed in the crime scene. BAU staff conducts detailed analyses of crimes for the purpose of providing one or more of the following services: crime analysis, investigative suggestions, profiles of unknown offenders, threat analysis, critical incident analysis, interview strategies, major case management, search warrant assistance, prosecutive and trial strategies, and expert testimony.

In addition to the above services, the BAU staff produced the Child Abduction Response Plan to assist investigators faced with these investigations. Recently, the BAU released "The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective" report to guide school administrators, teachers, parents, and law enforcement in identifying and evaluating threats in schools. The BAU maintains a reference file for experts in various forensic disciplines such as odontology, anthropology, entomology, or pathology.

Aboout Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama series that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS created by Jeff Davis. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit(BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself. The show is produced by The Mark Gordon Company in association with CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios. The original title for Criminal Minds was Quantico, and the pilot was filmed in Vancouver. In the Quantico script, Jason Gideon was named Jason Donovan.

On May 20, 2009, CBS officially renewed Criminal Minds for a fifth season, which premiered on September 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM EST. A spin-off to the show, Minds 2.0, has also been announced, and is set to premiere September 2010, when Criminal Minds is renewed for a sixth season.

CBS announced in October 2009 that Legacy Interactive will develop a video game based on the show. The game will require players to examine crime scenes for clues to help solve murder mysteries.

Criminal Minds proves actor Moore than pretty face

One would think that a chiselled hunk who regularly pops up on those lists of "TV's Sexiest Men" would have earned camera-hog status by now. But on this drizzly day in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood, Shemar Moore emerges from a black SUV on the set of Criminal Minds to utter just one scripted line.

Or three words, to be exact. "How's the mom?" he says to costar Thomas Gibson, referring to a character at wit's end following the abduction of her teen daughter.

Yes, just three measly words. Nice work if you can get it. "And the Emmy goes to . . ." Moore jokes as he ducks into a garage, where he hoists his T-shirt to allow a technician to remove a hidden mike and, in the process, provides a quick flash of his oft-photographed abs. Are those prolonged sighs we hear from the women in the crew?

Criminal Minds, the CBS drama about a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU), has come to the Bay Area for a two-day location shoot. And while the trip hardly seems worth the trouble for Moore, considering his brief scene, he's not complaining. It is, after all, a homecoming for the 39-year-old actor who was born in Oakland, Calif., attended high school in Palo Alto, Calif., and played baseball for the University of Santa Clara.

He's using the trip to catch up with old friends and his mother, Marilyn, a San Francisco resident who has accompanied her son to the set. It's also a chance to spend more quality time with fellow actor Forest Whitaker, making a highly anticipated Criminal Minds guest appearance.

"I'm a huge fan with much respect. I love watching him work," Moore says, after snapping off a couple of iPhone photos of Whitaker mugging with Mom. "He has the most unique and powerful presence."

If things go as planned, Moore and Whitaker will become Criminal Minds brethren of sorts. CBS has chosen this episode to introduce Oscar-winning Whitaker and a new set of BAU characters before potentially spinning them off into their own show next fall.

Moore, a former print model who launched his television career in 1994 on the daytime soap The Young and the Restless, admits that, for him, acting used to be more about the "fame and the parties." Now, it's about the work.

"I've had a lot of success in 16 years, but in some ways it still feels brand new because there's still so much I haven't done," he says. "I treat my career like school. The soap opera days were like high school. Now I'm in college and hopefully I'll go to grad school (feature films) and catch the bus with Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith and the others . . .

"The more I evolve as an actor, it's proof that I'm evolving as a person," says Moore. "Because the only way I can find the colours of a character I play is to allow myself to dig within myself and find those qualities."

And be so much more than just that "pretty boy."

"If how I look helps me get a date or makes you want to see the movie, I'll use it. I'm not crazy," he says with a sly smile. "But being cute doesn't keep you in the game for 16 years. I had to bring something else to the table because there's a lot of eye candy out there. Plus I'm getting older. My little six-pack has probably turned into a two-pack and eventually it's going to be a keg."

Final Replacement for Patinkin - Mantegna!

The comings and goings around Criminal Minds could come to an end: none of Gene Davis or Michael Keaton, who would take the place of the actor Mandy Patinkin Joe Mantegna, would be known for several roles in film, one of them as the hijacker small child of "Baby on Board".
This time the rumors about his involvement can be dispelled doubt because the actor has signed on ... on what it can create uncertainty is whether to conduct the same paper (only with different faces) that Patinkin or enter it as a new character star in the Behavioral Analysis Unit.
Also considering the possibility that, as some chapters have engravings of next season, Mandy appears in the first and kindly return them to CBS after leaving them stranded. And after a few chapters, Mantegna made his appearance to begin a new stage in Criminal Minds.

Replacement for Patikin?

A few days ago I commented on the departure of his starring Mandy Patinkin on Criminal Minds, who graciously call the operating Solita II as creative differences argued for this outcome.
But the apathy would be completed. One of the actors in the series, Sherman Moore confirmed that the rumors that roamed around a single name: the surprise is a woman's name and is called Geena Davis.
Although not finalized, he said in an interview to TV Guide site, which is also the name card of Michael Keaton while not the strongest candidate to occupy the chair of the role.
About Patinkin's departure, Moore said he did not like the way it was more a matter of "defrauding the team had been formed. But sliding wrinkled and charged that person is a volatile personality.

William LaMontagne Jr.

Played by Josh Stewart, Detective LaMontagne was first seen in 2x18 ("Jones") as a New Orleans detective investigating a serial killer case which had initially belonged to his father. Detective William LaMontange Sr. was a detective and had made a breakthrough in the case right before being killed in Hurricane Katrina. The unsub was believed to have suffered the same fate, but when evidence to the contrary arose, Detective LaMontagne took over the case using the work his father had done and a single clue carved on the wall by his father, just before he had died. Detective LaMontagne Jr. called in the BAU to assist him, and they were ultimately successful in capturing the unsub. LaMontagne Jr. spent much of his time on the case choosing to work closely with Agent Jareau.

In 3x17 ("In Heat"), it was revealed that they had been involved for over a year, and in 3x18 ("The Crossing"), JJ called Will to tell him she was pregnant with his child. In the season three finale ("Lo-Fi") Will showed up in New York City while the BAU was on a case, reiterating an off-screen proposal of marriage, and further telling JJ that he would be willing to give up his shield, move to Virginia, and raise their baby. As of early season 4, Will had moved to Virginia, and is apparently now serving as stay-at-home dad to their son, Henry. JJ has not, as yet, canonically accepted the marriage proposal, but they did exchange rings with insets of Henry's birthstone, citrine. He is seen briefly in the 100^th episode getting medicine for Henry with JJ.

Jack Hotchner

His first appearance was in The Fox, when his parents introduced him to the team as a newborn. He was not seen until Machismo and then in In Name and Blood, the last time he will be living with both his parents in the same house.

From then on we see little glimpses of him when his father visits him (Seven Seconds) or when he gets to watch some homemade videos he keeps with him, like in Pleasure is my Business, until Faceless, Nameless when Hotch must say goodbye to him because his mother and him are placed under witness protection after being threatened by Foyet.

His next appearence is again in video format, this time shown to Hotch by Sam Kessmeyer in the episode Reckoner, and we learn his birthday is that day or a near previous one.

In 100 he's seen with his mother in an unknown location when she gets tricked by Foyet to come back to their home, where he's waiting for them. In his eagerness to make Hotch suffer, Foyet allows a lenghty phone call between Haley, Hotch and Jack, and his father gets to tell him to "work the case", a code phrase for him to hide in a bin and wait for his dad to get him, which will be fundamental to save his life.

We see him for the last time in The Slave of Duty, first at his mom funeral and wake and later with his dad at the condo where they are going to live together; in a couple of secuences it's revealed how much he miss his mom and that he thinks his daddy is like Captain America.

Kevin Lynch

Kevin was Garcia's replacement when she was taken off the case in Penelope. He is also a former hacker, but he is also far messier than Garcia. When they met in the end of the episode, they fell in love with each other. They've apparently been dating ever since. They had a date at Garcia's apartment in the beginning of Damaged. In Roadkill, he asked Garcia to apply with him for a high-security job with NASA outside of the country, but she was reluctant to leave the team. The job fell through when Garcia hacked the NASA database to find out where he'd be stationed.

Erin Strauss

She seemed to be under the impression that Hotchner's team was disorganized and posed a threat to the BAU, prompting her to enlist Emily Prentiss to spy on the them (a manoeuvre that backfired when Prentiss resigned her position instead) and to attempt Hotch's removal from the BAU with a pending investigation on his methods. She backed off her attention from the team after experiencing first hand what the team lives with every case in the field (In Name and Blood), but not before making sure that they understood that none of them will ever be able to move up in any higher positions within the FBI.

In the episode "100", she conducted the inquiry into the events surrounding the actual beating to death of George Foyet. She questioned each team member in turn to get to the bottom of the situation, and ensure that "a bloodbath like this never happens again." She finally questioned Hotch, who told her that he believed if Foyet were allowed to get up off of the floor, he would have killed Jack too. She effectively cleared him saying, "That's good enough for me". She also fell away from her cold and spiteful personality that was the norm for most previous episodes and sincerely told Hotch how sorry she was and that "if there is anything you [Hotch] or your son needs..." she would help.

Diana Reid

Like her son, Diana Reid is a genius--though her IQ is never mentioned. She raised Spencer as a single mother after her husband left her due to her schizophrenia. She read to Spencer often, enforcing his already growing intelligence. From her, Spencer learned that the best way to learn is to do "the research" on your own. Through the years, the reading time began to take place in her bedroom, where she spent most of her time on medication.

When Spencer was eighteen, he made the difficult decision to finally have her committed. She now resides in Bennington Sanitarium, where she receives a letter from her son everyday.

Jordan Todd

She was formerly assigned the Counter Terrorism Unit, and has signed on to the BAU team as a temporary replacement for JJ while she is on maternity leave. There have also been hints (4x05 "Catching Out," 4x08 "Masterpiece") that Morgan may be attracted to her, and vice versa. In 4x11 "Normal," Jordan makes a press conference and afterward participates in a raid on the UnSub's home - finding his entire family shot dead. She goes outside and begins to blame herself for the deaths of the family - because of the press conference making the UnSub commit the act. Rossi then comes outside and sits down next to her, comforting her and explaining to her that it wasn't her fault. Jordan then starts crying, and admits that she can't handle the pressures of her new position.

Haley Hotchner

Played by Meredith Monroe, she was the high school sweetheart, and then wife, of Aaron Hotchner. According to 1x22 ("The Fisher King, Part 1"), Hotch spotted her in the hallways and was instantly smitten. Since she was in the school musical production, he joined as well, playing "the worst Fourth Pirate ever." Together they have a son named Jack, born in late 2005. Their marital issues were a running theme early on, specifically Haley's feelings that Hotch devoted more time to the job and the team than he did to his family. It all came to head in the first episodes of Season 3, and by the end of episode 3x02 ("In Name and Blood," also entitled "In Birth and Death"), Haley moved herself and Jack out of the house. At the end of episode 3x03 ("Scared to Death") Hotch mentioned to Morgan that he wasn't sure if Haley was coming back. Hotch was served with divorce papers as he was leaving the office for the day, at the end of episode 3x11 ("Birthright"); at Haley's request, and without retaining a lawyer, he signed them three episodes later (3x14, "Damaged").

Until 5x01, she and Jack were apparently still living in the house she and Hotch had shared. After being mentioned, but not seen, for nearly two seasons, Haley appeared in 5x01 ("Faceless, Nameless"). George Foyet, the Boston Reaper, stabbed Hotch, and stole Haley's address from Hotch's address book. Though she and Jack were soon found unharmed, they were taken into protective custody, intentionally leaving Hotch unaware of their new location. This left Hotch devastated, knowing that he would only be able to see Haley and Jack again once the Reaper was caught. In episode 5-09 "100", Haley is lured to her old home by George Foyet, who has led her to believe that the agent addressed to protect her is dead as well as Hotch. Once in the house with Foyet, he has her call Hotch and she realizes the peril she is in. Hotch tells her to be brave and show Foyet no fear as they tearfully say their goodbyes to each other. Foyet then shoots Haley to death while Hotch and the team listens over the phone.

Elle Greenaway

Elle was formerly assigned to FBI Field Office in Seattle, Washington;
then requested to be assigned to the BAU. She is an expert in sex crimes. Her father was a New York City Police Officer but was killed in the line of duty. She is half Cuban and speaks Spanish. After she was shot in the Season 1 finale, she returned to the BAU rather quickly, against the advice of the rest of the team. Not long after, she staked out and shot a serial rapist in cold-blood because of his crimes against women (2x05 - The Aftermath). Her ability to continue work as a profiler was questioned by Hotch and Gideon because of this, even though the local police force deemed it self-defense. She turned her badge and her gun over to Hotch,declaring that it was not an admission of guilt. She then walked out of the BAU and hasn't been seen since. (2x06 -The Boogeyman)

Jason Gideon

Jason Gideon (played by Mandy Patinkin) was the BAU's best profiler on the CBS crime drama, Criminal Minds. He helped Morgan and Reid through their nightmares. He is shown to have a very close relationship with Reid, having hand picked Reid from the FBI Academy for his team; helping Reid through many difficulties (including his implied drug use), even leaving the good-bye letter for Reid to find. His 'father-son' relationship with Reid extended to non-work aspects as well; such as when he encourage Reid to ask JJ out on a date (by buying Redskin tickets for Reid's birthday), and insisting on 'Dr. Reid', as he believes people respect the young genius more. Through the first two season, Gideon is portrayed to be very good at chess, winning against Reid many times (only exception being Reid's birthday, 1x04), and encouraging him to 'think outside of the box'.

Prior to the series, he is said to have had a "nervous breakdown" (or "major depressive episode") after he sent six men into a warehouse in Boston with a bomb in it. All six agents were killed, and he was heavily criticized about the event. He would later confront the bomber, Adrian Bale and finally face the demons that had haunted him for months. He shows particular dislike for the practice of using religion as a defense or motivation for one's crimes.

He blamed himself for the torture Reid received from Henkle as he had ordered Garcia to add a virus warning to the videos Hankle posted. Gideon also has a son named Stephen, as shown in episode 1x11 ("Blood Hungry"). The nature of their relationship has not been directly stated, but it is implied that they have not seen each other very recently. Gideon began to lose confidence in his profiling skills after Frank murdered his girlfriend. During his final case in Arizona, he further lost faith in his abilities when his decision to release the unsub resulted in the deaths of both the unsub and a young woman.

As a result of his actions Hotch was suspended and this was the final straw for Gideon. Leaving his gun and badge behind at his cabin with a letter for Reid to find, he left to wayfare and to regain belief in himself and happy endings. Gideon shared much in common with real life FBI profiler John E. Douglas, who has written many books on the subject. Similarities include that both controversially predicted an unsub would have a stammer, and both required a prolonged leave of absence due to stress related illnesses acquired as a result of the job. He was replaced by David Rossi.

David Rossi

Rossi was born and raised on Long Island, New York, in the town of Commack. As a child, he was friends with a young Emma Taylor, who he refers to as the "one who got away." He was also close with Ray Finnegan, who eventually grew up to be a prominent local mobster. Rossi, however, avoided the lure of organized crime, and joined the Marines. After being discharged, Dave was recruited by the Bureau. He subsequently cut most ties with his former life, not even returning to Commack for Emma's funeral in early 2009. Rossi has had an apparently illustrious FBI career and sterling reputation, even outside the BAU confines. He claims to have "written the book" on hostage negotiation, and stepped in as a hostage negotiator in 4×03 ("Minimal Loss") when his fellow agents Reid and Prentiss were held hostage. He takes an annual leave to do cross-country lecture and book-signing tours, which apparently attract a lot of female fans, "if Barry Manilow isn't in town." He worked with Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) prior to his retirement from the Bureau. Rossi has been married 3 times, but has said the only people he knew how to make happy were "divorce lawyers". One ex-wife allegedly said he had a "flair for the dramatic", but he never specified which. He seems to be a lapsed Catholic, but still has a close relationship with D.C. priest Father James Davison.

Rossi was in early retirement until his voluntary return to the BAU in 2007. He had retired in order to write books and go on lecture tours, but returned to settle some unfinished business which wasn't immediately specified. Having served in an early form of the BAU, it was initially hard for Rossi to acclimatize to the current team structure, but he eventually did. Rossi revealed to Sheriff Caulfield his reason for returning: he held out a charm bracelet with the names of three children from one of his first cases. The children had found their parents stabbed to death in the family home with an axe, but the BAU couldn't solve the case. Rossi had promised the children he would find out who did it. Each year on Christmas Eve, Rossi called the children to let them know he hadn't forgotten them and hadn't given up on solving the case of their parents' murders. He kept with this tradition through his return to the BAU, though none of the children had replied to his most recent calls. The case had gone unsolved for 20 years. It was finally solved when the BAU found that a mentally handicapped carny clown had committed the murders accidentally when he broke into the house to play with the oldest daughter, the father surprised the man in the parents' bedroom and triggered the resulting attacks. After finally solving the case he gave to the kids, now grown up, the bracelet he kept with him and the house where the murders took place, which he had bought. While initially Rossi came back from retirement only to solve this case he continues working in the BAU.

Penelope Garcia

Penelope Garcia is the team's Audio/Visual Technician at BAU Headquarters in Quantico, VA. When she speaks with Morgan they use pet names such as "hot stuff" or "sweet cheeks" or he calls her "baby-cakes". Garcia frequently answers the phone with comments like "This is the office of All Knowing; how may I be of assistance?" She is into online games, specifically MMPORGs. She has broken down crying several times due to the fact that the area of her job is to listen to and watch terrifying things in her office to analyze them for the team. However, according to Hotch, she "fills her office with figurines and color to remind herself to smile as the horror fills her screens."

Garcia was shot by an UnSub with the hero/homicide complex in Season three by the name of Jason Clark Battle ("Lucky" and "Penelope") when she flags several open homicides to help out the families she helps council without knowing that Battle is the murderer in all of the cases. She has since recovered, and is currently dating another Technical Analyst by the name of Kevin Lynch. She may also be the only person that Derek Morgan truly trusts, and they are considered to be best friends.