Snakkle Lists Criminal Minds’ Sexy Dr. Reid’s Top 10 Moments

In this episode, Reid struggles with his failure to get his gun certification and feeling unimportant to the team. While working a case, he and Hotch are taken hostage. Faking a fight with Reid to distract the unsub, Hotch starts kicking Reid so Reid can grab his spare gun from his ankle holster. Reid is able to retrieve the gun and shoot the unsub. After, Hotch says to Reid, “Well, I hope I didn't hurt you too badly,” to which Reid replies, “Hotch, I was a 12-year-old child prodigy in a Las Vegas public high school. You kick like a 9-year-old girl.”

A paranoid schizophrenic who believes that the government is “watching” him takes a train full of passengers, including Elle, hostage. The man believes that he has a microchip implanted in his arm. Reid enters the train under the guise of removing the chip and uses a sleight of hand to produce a small chip after cutting open the man’s arm. Proving that you don’t always have to go in guns blazing, Reid uses a magic trick to subdue the unsub and save the day.

One of the best things about Spencer Reid is his relationships with the other agents, including Derek Morgan. In this scene, Reid and Morgan get trapped in an elevator.  Morgan teases Reid much like an older brother would torment a younger sibling.

After hours of studying blog entries related to a case, Dr. Reid finds small idiosyncrasies suggesting that they are looking for two unsubs working as a pair. His obvious overenthusiasm causes one of the local detectives to ask Rossi, “Where’d you find this kid?”—to which Rossi replies, “He was left in a basket on the steps of the FBI."

The extent of Reid’s genius often leaves outsiders completely baffled, but every so often he leaves even his team members speechless. In this scene, he cracks a cipher based on a 400-year-old code used by a prisoner to get messages to his girlfriend.

When the team is presented with a particularly gruesome case from Los Angeles, the following conversation takes place in the conference room.
Rossi: Remind me again why it’s called the city of angels? Reid: It was originally called the town of our Lady the Queen of the Angels… (pause) Reid: That was a rhetorical question, wasn’t it?

In this episode, Reid returns from Las Vegas emotionally drained after dealing with issues revolving around his parents and his childhood. In his absence, JJ has gone into labor and delivered a healthy baby boy. We get to see the softer side of Reid as he visits JJ and baby Henry at the hospital.

While the team is in transit to a case, Emily is seen working on a star puzzle. Reid asks her what it is, and she explains that it is a nearly impossible puzzle to complete because the pieces are intricately put together to form a perfect star. She tells the story of the star puzzle, and as is often the case with his analytical mind, Reid completely misses the point.

In another scene from this episode, Reid calls Emily Prentiss, excited because a Russian movie, Solaris, is showing at a local theater. Prentiss thinks Reid has been put up to calling her to check on her, but it turns out he really did want to take her to see the movie. They ended the conversation like this:
Prentiss: Thank you. Reid: For what? Prentiss: For being you. Reid: Aw, thanks. I don't know how to be anyone else.
In true Dr. Reid fashion, his last statement is said in earnest with no irony, as if he really needs to make clear that he doesn’t know how to be anyone but himself. Thank goodness for that.

There are many things that Dr. Reid is an expert in; pop culture is not one of them, as is evident in this scene where he has no idea what the Twilight books are.