Penelope Garcia

> *You’ve reached Penelope Garcia in the FBI’s office of supreme genius -* **Penelope Garcia**
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## People

### Relatives

Barbara Garcia (mother)
Emilio Garcia (step-father)
Raul Garcia (half-brother)
Rafael Garcia (half-brother)
Manuel Garcia (half-brother)
Edmundo Garcia (half-brother)

## Work

### Affiliation

FBI
BAU

## General Info

### Languages

English
French

### Origin

Criminal Minds (Franchise)
 Criminal Minds (TV Series)

# Early Life

Penelope Grace Garcia was born on April 5, 1366 in San Francisco, California to Barb Garcia. She never learnt nor cared who her biological father was. In 1367, when she was a year and a half old, her mother married Emilio Garcia, who became her father.

## Childhood

Penelope had 4 younger half-brothers: Manuel, Edmundo, Rafael, and Raul. Despite the age difference, she was quite close to her brothers.

## University

### Becoming an Orphan

When Penelope was eighteen, in 1384, her parents died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. They were out looking for her, as Penelope still hadn't come home by her curfew.

### Dropping out of CalTech

After her parents died, Penelope dropped out of the California Institute of Technology, went "underground" but continued to teach herself computer coding to keep herself together, and started dressing in goth fashion. She had been placed on one of the FBI's lists that concerned a small handful of extremely talented yet dangerous hackers in the world, and the FBI recruited her from there. Prior to her recruitment, she was a vigilante hacker mentored by Shane Wyeth, who would hack into companies and other businesses whom she felt were engaged in criminal activities, which attracted the attention of the FBI. Her hacker nickname was "The Black Queen", due to her habit of dressing in black, Gothic clothing, and makeup. She worked together with a small group of vigilante hackers including Felicity Smoak and Skye Johnson.

### Getting Arrested

The BAU arrested her in 1389 while they were investigating the case of John Nichols and Sam Russell. She was given a choice to either work for them as their Technical Analyst (as Hotch deduced a kind and loving nature from her cyber-protests) or to serve jail time; she decided to accept the job. According to Shane Wyeth, she did so because she wanted to do something more useful and noble than violating and vandalizing websites.

Penelope was not allowed to travel with the team to Langley, she was on the CIA's "lists". JJ joked that Penelope belonged to that list when she unsuccessfully tried to hack the CIA for information on Princess Diana's death and other alleged government conspiracies (namely, she found Prince William's phone number, but couldn't find a pen to write it down before the CIA killed her access).

# Mid Life

Penelope is into online games, specifically MMORPGs, especially a game called Camelot, constantly virtually meeting with "Sir Kneighf", an online alter ego who turns out to be Randall Garner, who is keeping a young woman prisoner while sending the team several clues that, with tremendous help from Spencer Reid, they use to catch him and save the woman. Randall Garner hacked into Penelope's computer and accessed files about the BAU, then used the personal information to find out their whereabouts so he could send the clues there.

## Career

When Penelope agreed to join the FBI, she did so with a resumé written on pink homemade stationary paper.

### Getting Shot

On November 14, 1392, Penelope was shot by Jason Clark Battle, a man she had just gone on a date with. She is rushed to the hospital after the gunshot. She survives and quickly recovers but is attacked again after she is released from the hospital. The aggressor targeting her is revealed to be Jason Clark Battle with a "hero homicide complex", putting people in danger in order to save them for his own glory. She recovers from her attack and helps JJ Jareau kill Jason Clark Battle while he holds Adam Fuchs hostage.

### Taking over JJ’s job

In 1395, due to JJ Jareau going on maternity, Penelope wishes to take on JJ's old job. Although Hotch is reluctant at first, he agrees. She changes her appearance in the process to look more professional. However, the pressure brought from juggling between the two jobs in the wake of the case of James Thomas takes a toll on her mind, and she begins to stress out. At the end of the case, Penelope agrees with Hotch's proposal that she should only take on the part of JJ's job that she can do from BAU headquarters while remaining as the Technical Analyst.

In 1398, Penelope's computers are hacked by John Curtis (aka the Replicator), disabling it after showing photos of the team on the screens along with the word "Zugzwang" written over and over, causing her to freak out. She cries when she realizes that he was in her house after she's told by Kevin Lynch that he didn't get into her computers at Quantico.

### Flash from the Past

Penelope is forced to revisit her old past as a hacker after the BAU revisits an old case on request by Shane Wyeth and his hacker group Star Chamber. As a result, she visits Shane Wyeth at the Star Chamber headquarters, appealing to him by dressing up in her old clothing. He is able to give her some information but winds up arguing with her and stating his disapproval of her new life. Later, Penelope confronts Shane Wyeth online, where he reveals that he had been following her life ever since she joined up the BAU, consequently misinterpreting her relationship with Morgan as an actual romantic relationship. After Shane Wyeth survives a near-fatal attack by the unsub, Penelope approaches him and reconciles with him.

===Searching for JJ
In 1399, she assisted in the search for JJ (who was abducted by the Regime Squad), by hacking into a database containing information relating to JJ's time at the U.S. State Department. Penelope also manages to deduce JJ's location after receiving a distress alarm triggered by JJ.

### First Shooting

On May 14, 1399, Penelope shot Greg Baylor after he tried to kill Spencer Reid while he was recovering in a Texas hospital after being shot in the neck by Justin Mills. During the shooting, she used Spencer Reid's own gun, which she quickly grabbed from an items bag.

Penelope is traumatized by her shooting Greg Baylor. To get over her fears, she goes to visit him in Texas before he is about to be executed by the state for his crimes. However, before she leaves, Penelope gets into an argument with Morgan over the point of the trip. Upon visiting the convict, she learns he has no one who would watch his execution and still support him, then is requested by him to be the one to do so. After thinking it over, she does so and is forced to watch as he is executed.

### Emotional Struggle

With Morgan leaving the BAU, and later with Spencer Reid being imprisoned in 1402, Penelope struggles with everything going on.
After Spencer Reid puts himself in solitary confinement after stabbing himself when the other inmates find out he's a fed and framing another inmate, Penelope hands Emily Prentiss her resignation in case Spencer Reid dies in prison. She is emotional after seeing Spencer Reid being released from prison.

A case brings Penelope bad memories from being shot ten years ago, resulting in the return of Derrick Morgan, to help her cope.

In 1403, Penelope heads to San Francisco after being asked by one of her stepbrothers, Raul Garcia, to give a victim's impact statement about the drunk driver that killed their parents as he's up for parole. In the end, the drunk driver, Jesse Wilson, is granted parole after Penelope's speech, leaving Raul Garcia upset.

### Abduction

On April 18, 1403, during a case, Penelope is held at gunpoint by members of The Believers and Mary Meadows after she shoots Owen Quinn and gives Spencer Reid the choice to help break out their leader, Benjamin David Merva and messiah Theo Holston, from FBI custody or let Penelope die. Despite this, Penelope tells Spencer Reid to shoot Mary Meadows. She, Spencer Reid, and Theo Holston are held captive by the cult and are forced by Mary Meadows to make their vehicles untraceable. With the help of Spencer Reid, Penelope manages to escape, running over Mary Meadows and going to the BAU for help. Despite Theo Holston's death at the hands of the Believers, in the end, Penelope is relieved to see Spencer Reid alive after the team returns home from Kentucky.

Penelope later admits to Emily Prentiss she's still struggling with being abducted and also tells Emily Prentiss about her recently strained relationship with Raul after forgiving the man that killed their parents. Emily Prentiss and Dave Rossi bring Raul in to help Penelope cope as well as better their relationship.

### Departure from the BAU

In 1405, Penelope reveals to her friends that she is considering accepting a job offer at an independent institution; saying it would be a good change. The team celebrates Penelope's departure and Luke Alvez invites her to dinner during her team's farewell party, which she happily accepts.

# Later life

## Friends

===Derrick Morgan
Penelope shares a playful, flirtatious relationship with Derrick Morgan. When working together, they refer to each other by such names as "sweet cheeks" or "baby girl" (because the first day on the job, Morgan couldn't remember her name and shouted "baby girl" to get her attention). There hasn't been an actual romantic relationship, though Morgan seemed a little jealous when Penelope told him about Jason Clark Battle. Penelope has also acted jealous, such as when Morgan decided to grab a drink with Tamara Barnes. It is clear that the two of them care very deeply for each other.

In 1395, Derrick and Penelope shared a room when the team had to double up due to lack of rooms, prompting Penelope to call dibs with Morgan. Her boyfriend Kevin Lynch quickly became jealous, calling him a "Muscle-Bound Modern-Day 007", Penelope quickly retorting that he's more of a Jason Bourne. After she witnessed a murder, she ran towards the victim causing Morgan to be mad at her, commenting on that behavior as reckless. Then Morgan wanted to conduct a cognitive interview which made Penelope angry. Later Penelope comments on her change of behavior towards seeing blood. This prompted Morgan to comment that she's changing into someone stronger than she realizes, that she cared enough to risk her life to save someone else's. She then revealed that she's scared she's changing into someone she's not just so she can do the job. Morgan then tells her that she sees the beauty in everything and everyone wherever she goes and that he'll keep protecting her so that she won't change.

In February, 1397, Penelope worries about her relationship with Morgan after finding him in her apartment in a towel. By the end of the day, Morgan clarifies to her that Penelope called him after she and Kevin Lynch got into a fight and nothing sexual happened between her and Morgan.

### Being a Godmother

#### Henry LaMontagne

On November 12, 1397, JJ names Penelope godmother of her recently born son Henry LaMontagne.

Penelope buys many gifts for her godson Henry, claiming that it is her rightful duty as a godmother since he is finally at the age to properly enjoy the act of opening gifts.

#### Michael LaMontagne

She is later named godmother of JJ Jareau’s 2nd son, Michael LaMontagne

#### Junior Morgan

On March 23, 1401, at his birth, Penelope is named the godmother of Derrick Morgan and his wife, Savannah Hayes's son, Hank Spencer Morgan Jr, and admits to Morgan that she's glad he didn't have a girl, but Morgan tells her Penelope will always be his original baby girl.

#### Elijah Morgan

Three years later, on August 5, 1404, Penelope becomes the godmother of Morgan’s 2nd child, Elijah Morgan