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“college is absolutely nothing like this” “why are we writing four people on the team scoring a hat trick in one game” “so tech work is nothing like this, hope that helps!”

today i was rewatching seven seconds (best cm episode ever btw nothing will ever top seven seconds) and if you look at emily's face when the uncle was explaining that maybe katie was just playing dress-up you can see in her eyes how she put the pieces together in her head that there was something going on and that the uncle may have done something to katie

it's even more obvious when you watch the clip like you see the moment when it clicks for her but she couldn't say anything unless she had proof of it

and i have to admire paget's acting here too because she was just so good at the subtle changes with just her eyes and body language she was just too good in this ep this was HER ep

she’s been shown on multiple occasions to have superior emotional intelligence and streets smarts to the rest of the team. she’s also a proficient polyglot, which indicates discipline, memorization skills, and a large understanding of linguistics. Reid’s genius (DO NOT(!!) BURN ME AT THE STAKE FOR THIS) is in great part credited to his eidetic memory, and from what i have seen he has a lot of superficial knowledge in many different areas, which is not bad! im not saying all of his knowledge is superficial, no no.

what i am saying is that the cm writers were too afraid to overshadow reid’s genius persona with emily’s multifaceted sexy baddie groove thang. I personally think her iq is above 160, maybe even reaching mid 170’s.

don’t even get me started on her spy training, the amount of discipline, intelligence, intuition and nameless amount of abilities it took to hide emily for so long when she ‘was’ lauren, then to hide lauren forever when she was emily. THEN TO HIDE BOTH OF THEM WHEN SHE ‘DIED’

oh, the tragedy of emily prentiss.

i def think emily is both book smart AND street smart, and because of her parents' occupation, she grew up n several countries and probably had to acclimate herself on the culture from these countries which would sort of expand her knowledge about things in life (i also like to think that her childhood of being exposed to many different cultures made her an excellent spy because it meant she knew how to blend in or make herself act/sound like a local in whatever area she needed to infiltrate)