While audiences learned that Prentiss survived her stabbing and was on the run in Paris at the end of her final episode in Season 6, "Lauren," the BAU team had to readjust to the news of her survival in the Season 7 premiere, "It Takes a Village," causing some drama in particular with long-term agent Reid.
However, after her resurrection , neither Prentiss nor Brewster felt the same about their work. After being refused the provision to audition for a pilot season, and with the final year up on her contract, Brewster decided to quit Criminal Minds with the Season 7 finale.
Brewster made two guest appearances on Criminal Minds between seasons 7 and The milestone th episode in Season 9 brought the head of Interpol, Prentiss, back to help recover the kidnapped Agent Jareau, while longtime BAU member Derek Morgan's final episode in Season 11 saw Prentiss return to say her goodbye. Apart from those two episodes, Brewster stayed from the show for five whole years. But neither Brewster nor Prentiss could stay away forever, however. Once again, Brewster was brought back not only to reprise her character but also to act as the new unit chief.
From the middle of Season 12 until the show's 15th and final season, Prentiss remained as head of the BAU. Brewster's tenure on Criminal Minds was anything but consistent, with a mid-series start, a death and multiple departures.
But it's a testament to her skills as an actor and the design of her character that fans have been on board the entire time, always eager for the reappearance of Emily Prentiss.
The show deploys quite a bit of handwaving to explain just how the trio pulled off this deception, especially considering the fact that several members of a crack investigative team like the BAU were fooled. To even accept the successful ruse and Prentiss' equally unlikely return after Doyle is dealt with in Season 7, "Criminal Minds" requires an unusually high level of suspension of disbelief — and that's part of what irked all the fans.
The other part of this storyline that makes fans cringe is the effect Prentiss' deception has on the rest of the BAU, which any long-time viewer will tell you is pretty much a family. Her unwitting teammates are rightfully traumatized, and Reid even takes a few episodes to get over the lie after she returns to the group, though they ultimately patch things up.
Perhaps Prentiss, Hotch, and JJ were justified in wanting to protect the rest of the BAU from Doyle, a proven killer with no qualms about targeting law enforcement. Considering all the trauma this team had already endured by Season 6, however, forcing them to face the death of a beloved team member likely wasn't worth the cost. The last thing this crew needed was a dead Emily Prentiss on their collective conscience, and for a few in-show months, that's what she gave them.
For a time, she was placed on administrative leave and suspension, pending an investigation by Assistant Director Linda Barnes ; her position taken over by Jennifer Jareau temporarily.
Emily Prentiss was born on October 12, , at a. Due to her mother's diplomatic background, Prentiss traveled a lot when she was a child, living in several Middle Eastern countries and at one point in Rome.
In " Demonology ", Prentiss reveals that she became pregnant as a teenager in Rome from wanting to fit in. When she went to talk to her priest, he said that if she got an abortion, she would not be welcome in the church. Her friend Matthew Benton encouraged her to go to an abortion clinic, and after the abortion, he helped her find the courage to come back to church. In her first appearance, she recognizes Hotch from one of his first commands: security clearances for her mother, Elizabeth Prentiss , a U.
Her arrival surprises both Hotch and Gideon , as neither of them had signed off on the transfer. Prentiss insists her parents have not pulled strings for her. Ultimately, she joins the team at the end of " The Last Word " on a probationary basis as a replacement for Agent Elle Greenaway. She is a graduate of Chesapeake Bay University, where she earned her B. Due to spending her early life with her parents on diplomatic missions to the Middle East, she speaks fluent Arabic and is familiar with that area's local culture.
She also speaks fluent Spanish, French, Italian, and some Russian. She appears to be skilled at chess, and it is possible that she is better at the game than Reid. JJ once asked Prentiss how she could handle the stress from being with the BAU, especially since her last position was a desk job.
Hotch concurred that she had "never blinked," and Prentiss could only reason that she "compartmentalizes better than most" " Revelations ". After a bad date in the following episode, she admits to Morgan that she is a "nerd," despite how much she tries to hide it.
For this reason, she hasn't had much success romantically. She discovers that she and Morgan share similar tastes in books when they begin discussing Kurt Vonnegut , particularly Slaughterhouse 5. Prentiss is very level-headed and calm, sometimes it could be said that she seems to be dealing with the cases in an even more professional manner than some other members of the BAU. However, like Elle before her, Prentiss lets her own emotions get the better of her on a few occasions.
She has been shown to react emotionally at the crime scenes and feels a strong surge of empathy for the victims. She also appears highly intelligent and driven.
Prentiss is willing to put herself at risk to protect others and has a very sarcastic sense of humor. In " Lessons Learned ", in her first case with the team, she, Gideon, and Reid travels to Gitmo to question and help interrogate suspected terrorist Jamal Abaza behind the scenes.
In, " Sex, Birth, Death ", Prentiss is accused by Hotch of leaking information about a case to a congresswoman. Firmly denying this accusation, Prentiss tells Hotch that she thinks politics "makes people distrustful, hate themselves, tear families apart and damage people," implying that her home life as a child was not pleasant, due to her mother's job. In " Honor Among Thieves ", Prentiss' mother comes to the team for help on a case. By the episode's end, Prentiss invites her mother to dinner, hoping to repair their strained relationship.
Strauss asks Prentiss to sabotage Hotch's career by spying on him and relaying confidences back to Strauss, especially concerning Elle Greenaway's shooting of a suspect and Reid's struggle with Dilaudid. She seems to consider this offer, and the season ends with a cliffhanger. In " Doubt ", Prentiss is called by Strauss to see if she has made any process on finding information on Hotch.
Prentiss throws her cell phone in the nearest trash can after hanging up. After some convincing from Hotch, she returns to the team for a case ; her resignation having never gone through the system due to technical interference from Garcia, and the issue has not been brought up since. Upon her return, Section Chief Strauss remarks that neither Prentiss, Hotch, nor the rest of the team would be able to climb the ladder to the top because of all this, thus putting an end to some of Prentiss's future ambitions.
In " Seven Seconds ", Prentiss figures out that the aunt of the victim was the unsub, whom she kidnapped to protect her husband , who was molesting her and interrogates her for the victim's location. In " 3rd Life ", she implied to Hotch that when she was an adolescent, she smoked and dressed inappropriately as a way to rebel against her parents. In " Tabula Rasa ", a high school photo reveals that Emily was a goth.
In the season finale " Lo-Fi ", she shoots and kills an armed suspect after the suspect shoots a New York police officer. In the episode " Minimal Loss ", she and Reid are held hostage by a religious cult. When the cult leader finds out that one of them is an FBI agent, Prentiss admits her identity, partially to protect Reid, and ends up getting beaten by the leader. Prentiss antagonizes the leader by twice repeating "I can take it" to keep the rest of the team from coming in, knowing that they are listening via bugs and that it would put everyone inside of the building in danger.
Later, Prentiss reassures Reid that it was not his fault and asks him not to feel guilty. In " Demonology ", more of Prentiss' childhood is revealed after hearing and learning from an old friend that their childhood friend died, prompting her and the rest of the team to investigate a series of deaths involving exorcisms. Everyone's favorite Interpol agent returns to Criminal Minds as a series regular this Fall. Click through for a quick refresher before the Season 12 premiere on Wednesday, Sept.
In a short amount of time, she became an essential member of the BAU. Season 6, Episode 16, "Coda" Midway through Season 6, Prentiss learned from her former colleague at Interpol that Ian Doyle, a highly dangerous criminal, had escaped from a North Korean prison and was completely off the grid.
Eventually Doyle — who Prentiss helped put away by going undercover as his girlfriend—surfaced in D.
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