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Emily Prentiss (played by Paget Brewster) is the daughter of an ambassador. After Agent Elle Greenaway left the BAU, Prentiss showed up with papers stating she was the newest member of the BAU. Her arrival surprised both Aaron Hotchner and Jason Gideon, as neither of them had signed off on the transfer. Prentiss insisted that her mother has not pulled any strings for her to get the assignment. She initially joined the team on a probationary basis. Prentiss had a globe-trotting childhood at her mother's side, but it was not always a happy one.
Prentiss told Rossi that while she was in Italy (as a result of one of her mother's diplomatic postings) she became pregnant at age 15. Matthew Benton, a friend of Emily's (and one of the men whose deaths they later investigated) had helped her get an abortion, which she did against the warnings of her priest and without her parents' knowledge. She is a graduate of Yale and has been working for the FBI for a little under ten years, primarily in the Midwest. Prentiss has an obvious talent for languages. She is fluent in Arabic, as much of her childhood was spent traveling and residing in the Middle East. She is also fluent in Italian and Spanish, though her Russian is very basic and stilted. After being pressured by Section Chief Erin Strauss to assist in the end of Hotch's career, she briefly resigned from the FBI. However, Garcia managed to keep her departure on hold in the computer system just long enough for the rest of the team to convince her to stay with the BAU. Upon her return, Section Chief Strauss remarked 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. Once, she and Reid were held hostage by a cult. When the cult leader found out that one of them was an FBI agent, Prentiss took the fall, partially to protect Reid, and was beaten viciously by the cult leader. Reid felt guilty for what happened, since the cult leader appeared to be suspecting him at first, but Prentiss adamantly told him that it was not his fault. It was Emily who discovered Hotch's absence after he was stabbed by George Foyet, and she ran point from his apartment and the hospital in the aftermath.
