![]() Hotch tells her she did "exceptional work" afterward and asks if she ever considered taking classes to become a full-fledged profiler. "I Like My Role"Season 2's JJ-centric "North Mammon" was the first episode to give us insight into her past, as we learn that JJ was a high school soccer star from a small Pennsylvania town (so small, that it didn't have bowling alleys, she reveals in "The Big Game.") The abduction of three high school athletes in her hometown, obviously, strikes a chord with her, and she pushes hard to solve the case ( 3:40-6:55). Remember when he took her on a date to a Washington Redskins game in the first season? Or that she's the only person who calls him "Spence" (even though we haven't heard her call him that in years)? So it was no surprise that JJ asks the resident genius to be her son Henry's godfather in Season 4's "Memoriam" - hours after Reid returned from solving a case involving his absentee father, William ( Taylor Nichols).ģ. ![]() The GodfatherJJ and Reid ( Matthew Gray Gubler) have always had a special relationship. JJ keeps her romance with Detective Will LaMontagne ( Josh Stewart) - who was first introduced in Season 2's "Jones" - on the down-low for a year because she was afraid to accept that it was "real." But after working another case together in Season 3's "In Heat" - and being pushed by Prentiss ( Paget Brewster) to "go for him" - JJ smooches her beau in front of her unsurprised colleagues.Ĥ. First (Public) KissWhat a secret-keeper that JJ is! Or at least she tried to be. Serial killer Jacob Dawes ( Michael Massee) finds out firsthand in Season 1's "Riding the Lightning" when he tries to exercise a privilege only JJ's buddies have (at :35 mark below).Ĭheck out photos of the Criminal Minds cast 5. "You're Not My Friend"As she works closely with victims' families, JJ is arguably the heart and soul of the BAU, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have some 'tude. JJ shares this information with Hotch ( Thomas Gibson) in an emotional scene after the team solves a case involving teen suicides - one of Hotch's first cases following the murder of his ex-wife, Haley ( Meredith Monroe), by The Reaper ( C. "It Does Get Better"Details about JJ's background come few and far in between, but in Season 5's "Risky Business," we learn that her sister committed suicide when JJ was 11, and that she gave JJ her necklace before doing so. Untrained in hostage-negotiation tactics, JJ gets through to Flynn when she works the personal angle, telling him she's a mother herself, and that the pain his mother caused him when he was a child was not right. Sure, this was just from last week's Season 6 premiere, "The Longest Night," but JJ's four-minute speech to unsub Billy Flynn ( Tim Curry) - who was holding a young girl hostage - gave Cook a showcase moment in her penultimate episode. In honor of her imminent departure, we're looking back at the top moments featuring our favorite pistol-whippin', dart-throwing communications liaison from the past six seasons. ![]() Cook).Ĭook's contract was not renewed by CBS in June, and the actress - who, with the exception of the pilot, has been a regular since the first season - will bid adieu to her BAU crew in Wednesday's episode, appropriately titled "JJ."Ĭriminal Minds: How will the team deal with the loss of JJ? The Behavioral Analysis Unit on Criminal Minds has always prided itself on being a family, but on Wednesday, the family will lose one member: agent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau ( A.J. ![]()
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