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I Think Rossi's Drive With Reid Went Better Than He Thought Would.

Indoors, Reid, a brown-haired man in a dark shirt, stands next to a desk speaking to Rossi, a seated man with salt-and-pepper hair wearing a greyish sweater. Purple subtitles read: "Extra-linguistic indicators in his writing suggest that he's most excited by the prospect of electric shock."
Rossi gestures forward with two fingers. He is wearing purple sterile gloves. Orange subtitles read: "As a method of torture. Be specific. When you're in a court, the judge will demand it."
Reid steps forward, bracing one hand on the table and gliding the other down a page, wearing purple sterile gloves. Purple subtitles read: "See how heavy his handwriting becomes? At times he's so exhilarated he actually rips through the page."
Rossi looks at Reid as he stands up straight. Purple subtitles read: "The idiolect supports that as well. I mean, nowhere else is he as creative in his descriptions."
Rossi looks back at the page as Reid's hand slides off it. He speaks, and Reid smiles softly. Orange subtitles read: "Good work. You found a signature that's easy to track."

I think rossi's drive with reid went better than he thought would.

this is really the first scene where we see a mentor-mentee dynamic developing between rossi and reid, and i think it probably happened on the drive up to philadelphia (a drive that would have taken about three hours according to google maps).

rossi's line in the second gif is especially telling for two reasons. first, he's giving reid advice on how to present evidence to a court, positioning himself as a mentor figure. (to my understanding, court testimony is most of what the real-life bau does. a lot more court testimony and long-distance consultations and lot less fieldwork). second, he says when. to me, this is rossi accepting reid as a Real FBI Agent for the first time. to him, reid testifying in front of a courtroom as to the psychology of an unsub is an inevitability. (which, again, i know in real life would be a given, as that would be the majority of his job. but cm appears to take place in a parallel universe where the bau's job description is Yes.)

and then reid responds to this by adding on more information. im not 100% sure he was originally going to say that—there's a pause between the end of his first line and the beginning of rossi's, so it's not as if rossi interrupted him, and he stammers a little in the beginning, as if he's nervous and adding more info in an attempt to impress rossi, or the hypothetical judge. ("see! i can do it!")

and rossi compliments him on it, and reid smiles. partially because he has daddy issues, partially because rossi is one of his heroes, and partially because this is the beginning of their dynamic.

anyway. now im wondering what that drive was like, if it appears to have (at least slightly) changed rossi's opinion of reid. sound off.

happier with these gifs, so feel free to critique. i know the subtitles are hard to read when they're against the white paper, sorry! should have made them darker.

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