TVLINE | Did any of these new reveals make you, as her portrayer, go, “Wow”?
Yes — the one about her parents and how they died. I knew they died in a car accident, but the fact that they died in a car accident while [SPOILER REDACTED] made me go, “Ohhh, that explains a lot about her.” She’s still a rebel but she almost constantly has this guilt about her being-a-weirdo-but-can’t-help-it kind of a thing. And like I said, we had the most amazing guest cast, including Jack Coleman (Heroes, as a member of the survivors’ support group) and Bridget Branagh…. They carry a lot of the show.
TVLINE | And you got to share scenes with both?
I did. Really, it’s a Garcia episode, but when I read it, I thought, “This is about them, the Jack and Brigid characters” — and in a great way. Yet it doesn’t pull away from it being a Garcia episode.
TVLINE | I hear that in this episode, Garcia is in “BAU sleuth” mode.
She is! She gets to do a lot of stuff that doesn’t usually do. She is in this in a way that you don’t usually see, although she’s still dressed like herself. She’s such the empath of the group, so you get to see her use that emotional “heart on her sleeve” thing. Pardon my French, but she actually gets to use it as her bitch! Usually she’s just the one freaking out, but here she presents the case to the team, she’s out in the field more than you have ever seen, and she helps take down the bad guy in kind of a way.

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