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⌈ Secret Post #5083 ⌋

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Re: Storylines that have always bugged you

[(Anonymous)]

I forget what season of Criminal Minds this was, but it was during Jennifer Love Hewitt's time on the show... Reid was in the hospital and someone came to kill him and Garcia saved him by shooting the killer, who turned out to be a dirty cop (I think?) who had committed other crimes and that was enough to land him on death row. This really disturbs Garcia, who doesn't believe in capital punishment, so she travels to see him and speak with him before he's executed and Morgan is just AWFUL to her about it. He doesn't understand why she'd do this, he implies she's sick for wanting to see this guy, he refuses to support her, ducks her calls, etc. She's leaving him voicemails begging him to call her back because she needs him and Morgan just ghosts her.

MORGAN WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO GARCIA DAMMIT. They make it up by the end of the episode but that was such a stupid, OOC thing to write.

Re: Storylines that have always bugged you

[(Anonymous)]

Hewitt was in season 10, so that would've been when the episode with Garcia going to visit the guy and Morgan getting upset about it aired. The attempted shooting happened in the season 9 finale, before Hewitt came on board.

And yeah, I remember a lot of the fandom saying similar things about Morgan's reaction in that episode. I can understand his struggle to grasp why Garcia would want to meet that guy, and show him any kind of sympathy besides, because he is the sort who has a hard time forgiving people and can hold on to pain. And he has gotten snippy with her before, so that aspect wasn't so out of character, either (though, yes, him implying she was "sick" for doing so was very WTF?).

The ghosting thing, though, yeah, that was just plain weird. I was actually planning to write a fic addressing that aspect at one point-I had a theory that, in her effort to protect Reid, Garcia had put her life in danger, too, so I figured that would dredge up memories for Morgan of that guy who'd shot Garcia a number of seasons earlier, and that would, naturally, be a painful thing for him to recall. Add in the fact that Reid, whom he's also very protective of and who's had plenty of his own near death experiences, was in danger and it would've just been a double whammy. As a result, that anger and those triggering memories, combined with his struggle to understand Garcia's sympathy for this guy, would've led him to close himself off. I got sidetracked with other things and never got around to working more on it, though-the draft is still sitting in my folder somewhere.

But yeah, that's kind of my handwave-y attempt to explain that. I feel like if the show had addressed some of those past issues while exploring that rift between them in the episode, it might've made his behavior more understandable to some degree.