Played by Kirsten Vangsness, Penelope García is the team's Technical Analyst at BAU headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. She is flamboyant, a non-conformist, kind, fun-loving and provides the rest of the team with comic and compassionate relief whenever it is needed. Penelope is an "only child," and her parents were both killed in a tragic car accident when she was a minor. She was later adopted and her last name was changed to García by her adoptive parents. Although she is an Anglo-Caucasian, she celebrates presumably Mexican/Mexican-American traditions from her adoptive parents.
She and SSA Morgan share a very friendly-flirty relationship which never goes beyond that, although Penelope did show mild jealousy when she saw him dancing with two other women. In turn, Morgan, responded negatively when asked for proposal advice by her then-boyfriend, fellow FBI computer tech, Kevin Lynch. Penelope taught herself to hack after she dropped out of college and was aligned with the best underground hackers in the world. After being caught by the FBI, she was given a choice of living in a high-security prison for the rest of her life or working for the BAU division of the FBI as an analyst. Two episodes focus on García's character. In "Penelope," she was shot and almost killed in season three. When Jennifer Jareau leaves the BAU for a promotion to a position at the Pentagon, García volunteers to take up her responsibilities as media liaison, completely changing her looks. She quickly realizes the job is not for her and resumes her job as technical analyst. The liaison position is then split between her and Hotch, a job she retains when JJ returns to the BAU as a profiler. In "The Black Queen", Penelope's past is brought up after a series of flashbacks. In those flashbacks the viewers see a Goth looking García. Her background and history are revealed, indicating that her extraordinary computer skills are self-taught. She is overcome by guilt by her past actions, so much so that when her hacker ex-boyfriend needed to be caught she volunteered to become bait. In this situation she was really uncomfortable and said that she would never do it again. Penelope stated that she didn't know why she was ever "that" person.
She and SSA Morgan share a very friendly-flirty relationship which never goes beyond that, although Penelope did show mild jealousy when she saw him dancing with two other women. In turn, Morgan, responded negatively when asked for proposal advice by her then-boyfriend, fellow FBI computer tech, Kevin Lynch. Penelope taught herself to hack after she dropped out of college and was aligned with the best underground hackers in the world. After being caught by the FBI, she was given a choice of living in a high-security prison for the rest of her life or working for the BAU division of the FBI as an analyst. Two episodes focus on García's character. In "Penelope," she was shot and almost killed in season three. When Jennifer Jareau leaves the BAU for a promotion to a position at the Pentagon, García volunteers to take up her responsibilities as media liaison, completely changing her looks. She quickly realizes the job is not for her and resumes her job as technical analyst. The liaison position is then split between her and Hotch, a job she retains when JJ returns to the BAU as a profiler. In "The Black Queen", Penelope's past is brought up after a series of flashbacks. In those flashbacks the viewers see a Goth looking García. Her background and history are revealed, indicating that her extraordinary computer skills are self-taught. She is overcome by guilt by her past actions, so much so that when her hacker ex-boyfriend needed to be caught she volunteered to become bait. In this situation she was really uncomfortable and said that she would never do it again. Penelope stated that she didn't know why she was ever "that" person.
Garcia is from San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. A drunk driver killed her parents in a car accident when she was eighteen, and she now helps counsel the families of murder victims in her spare time. Garcia has stated that after her parents died, she dropped out of Caltech and went "underground" but continued to teach herself computer coding. She had been placed on one of the FBI's hacker lists (she was one of a small handful of extremely useful or dangerous hackers in the world), and they recruited her from there.[3] It has also been mentioned, when she was not allowed to travel with the team to Langley, that she was on the CIA's "lists" as well.[4] JJ joked that Garcia belonged to that list when she (unsuccessfully) tried to hack the CIA for information (namely, Prince William's cellphone number) and information on Diana, Princess of Wales' death and other government conspiracies. Penelope is into online games, specifically MMOGs, as she was once seen playing a game about Camelot on the BAU network, 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 Reid, they use to catch him and save the woman.[5] Garner hacked into Garcia'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. At the end of the Season 6 episode "Compromising Positions", Hotch comments that Garcia submitted her resume on homemade pink stationery when she applied for a job at the FBI. The Season 9 episode "The Black Queen" reveals that Penelope was arrested by the FBI in San Jose, California after she hacked into the computer systems of a cosmetics company, prompted by outrage over its use of animals in product testing. Hotch offered her a choice of facing prosecution or joining the BAU to help track down serial killers; when she reacted with disdain, he noted her scrupulous morality in choosing targets. Penelope accepted the job and hand-wrote a résumé for Hotch to give to the FBI's human resources department, using the aforementioned pink stationery that she had in her purse.
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