criminalxminds | A few questions

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A few questions

Does anyone know exactly what Agent Anderson's portfolio is? Would Hotch be his supervisor to any extent? I'm guessing Hotch's rank and general "Hotchness" is more than enough to inspire deference.
What other divisions might be housed in that building?
Does anyone remember the episode in which Garcia first accompanied the team on the jet?
Does anyone ever wish Reid would walk into the bullpen and say, "I've been down in the basement where the X-Files offices used to be; have you guys ever heard the rumours about that division?"

2. According to http://www.fbi.gov/hq/td/academy/academy.htm, the complex at Quantico houses many other kinds of training (besides just the Academy) as well as the FBI Library, the Behavioral Science Unit (whose relationship with the BAU is hard to decipher - see http://www.fbi.gov/hq/isd/cirg/ncavc.htm and http://www.fbi.gov/hq/td/academy/bsu/bsu.htm), the Futures Working Group (a collaboration between the Society of Police Futurists and the FBI, in which the BSU is also involved), the office of Technology, Research, and Curriculum Development (which leads four programs: The Curriculum Development and Evaluation Unit, the Distance Learning Technology Unit, the Virtual Academy Unit, and the FBI Library).

I keep trying to get a definitive answer on the real-world location of the BAU offices, but the website is darned fuzzy. Much complicated by the BAU having once been the BSU, before the BSU divided into the two more specialized units. The BSU is definitely part of the Quantico complex, though. (And Mulder, we learned from various X-Files references, was a BSU agent, back before the units did their cell-mitosis trick.)

[Dear heaven, woman, quit exposing your TV geekitude.]

Aw, heck, I should just phone the public info officer in the local field office and ask. But that would take the mystery out of it...

I admire TV geekitude!

Aw, heck, I should just phone the public info officer in the local field office and ask. But that would take the mystery out of it...

Isn't that the absolute truth? You want to know because it's fascinating but when you do know the magic of it dulls a bit.

It's canon in the show that the main office is at Quantico (and in RL the BSU is still at Quantico), but I couldn't find -anything- about the real BAU office. Crazy frustrating!