"Lauren" Question

[ffaddict89.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching "Lauren" - I know lol but I wasn't able to watch it yesterday and my DVR only "partially" recorded it *rolls eyes*.

Since this may contain spoilers for this episode and possibly a past episode from season....2 or 3 maybe, please look under the cut for my question.

I considered looking through the post that was focused on this episode, but there are 631 comments lol and I'm not sure I have that kind of patients.


In "Lauren" they mention numerous times the fact that the only family Emily had was the team. Then, at Emily's funeral, the only people who were the main focus was the team and you really couldn't tell who anyone else was.

So, my question is what's up with Emily's mom? I know we met her in that episode about the Russian family. Even if Emily isn't really dead, wouldn't it be kind of weird if her mom wasn't at the "funeral"? Did something happen to her mom that I'm forgetting or didn't know about?

Just wondering if anyone noticed this and could tell me if I'm just being stupid and forgetting something.

Comments

[anariazanyr.livejournal.com]

In Valhalla Emily mentioned that she is in Italy.
I think they probably told her that Emily is alive, she is her mother after all, and she is an ambassador, but she should have been at the funeral anyway.

We don't see the whole crowd so I guess they thought why pay the actress when we can just assume that she is there somewhere off camera.

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

I had the same idea, but when rewatching it I saw the camera never even takes a sweep of the "crowd" so to speak, so I'm assuming that's where Ambassador Prentiss is. There's one partial shot where you see someone sitting in the typical "mourning mother" position on TV, so I just like to imagine that's her.

Or she had an assignment so important in Italy she couldn't come (in Honor Among Thieves it clearly showed her job was more important than her family).

[lovechilde.livejournal.com]

Actually, they never say where her father is, either- whether he's dead or alive, still married to her mother or not. It's all pretty vague with her.

Me, I wonder who's taking care of her cat now.

[x-forgetromeo.livejournal.com]

We don't know anything about Prentiss's dad. And Emily's mom was probably in the crowd - all we saw was the close-ups of the team. I'm sure she was there. And I don't think she would know that Emily was alive - it was established in this episode that Emily's family is the team. If she's not close enough to her mother for her mom to have been in danger...I don't see the reason for telling her the truth and putting a target on her back.

[ravenboo.livejournal.com]

I noticed her Mom wasn't there, I also noticed Strauss wasn't there either..one would think her mother and her Section Chief would have been at the "fauxneral". It would have been nice to mention what happened to Sergio her cat too, and was I the only one that thought the teams reaction to JJ arriving was odd?. I would have expected a chorus of JJ !! and probably a running hug from Garcia...They all just stared at her. Hmmm.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

I wondered this too. I'm sure she was problably somewhere the camera didn't hit at the funeral. And hopefully she was told the truth. However, saying that the team was emily's only family was a bit strange.

[scarredlove.livejournal.com]

My biggest question wasn't whether or not her mom was there, although in my mind Emily has always kind of seemed like she raised herself because her mom always put her job before anything else, and I think she may have made a few mentions to this effect throughout the series. That's always been my impression at least.

My biggest question was where was the American flag on her coffin? We've seen every cop on this show, who was killed, have an American flag covering their coffin. I just found that really strange.