#jade waters

So you know that the only way to make it through is to just buy all the bullshit. Because the alternative is just way too fucking hard.

I’ll never be over how even while being abducted, interrogated, and tortured, Emily continued talking to both Pete and Jade the way a mom would because deep down she knew they were just kids who were once victims.

Emily finishes her sentence for her and says, "Or some man is done holding you down."

She says it with so much empathy and the look on her face says she knows exactly what Jade went through. I know she had the undercover "relationship" with Ian Doyle, and that could be what she's referring to. (Her relationship with him wasn't consensual. She was playing a part, and even though they implied she did garner some feelings for him later down the line, she became physical with him because of her job and mission. They said it was her idea to become romantically involved with Doyle to get information but that doesn't mean she ever consented to sleeping with him. It was simply a part she had to endure as a means to an end.) I wonder if that's what's she is referring to or if something else happened.

This has got to be one of the most powerful scenes in Criminal Minds. It's almost too real.