Aaron Hotchner grew up suffering physical abuse at the hands of his workaholic, lawyer father. (Season 1). It's strongly implied that his mother did little to stop the abuse.
Really? It's never stated that his father was the abuser. With his father at work so much it could easily have been his mother. Or step-father, depending on how old Aaron was when his father died and whether his mother remarried.
Hotch has a younger brother named Sean, who is a chef in NYC. Their father survived cancer, but later died of a heart-attack at 47, while Sean was still a child.
I always thought it was the other way around - a heart attack is more survivable than lung cancer, especially since Hotch talks about his father visiting banks and lawyers, "getting his affairs in order".
Anyway. Enough nit-pickery.
I think the character trait that strikes me most is one that is not immediately obvious. Hotch presents the image of a classic, buttoned down "FBI Guy". Mr. Rules. And he certainly is one to enforce the rules.
But when the chips are down and the sewage is in the ventilation system, Ethics trump Rules.
Morgan: Is that wise? Hotch: No, but it is in order.
Pretty much all his actions in "No Way Out II". Also visible in "Profiler, Profiled" if you subscribe to the theory - as I do - that Hotch let Morgan escape.
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Really? It's never stated that his father was the abuser. With his father at work so much it could easily have been his mother. Or step-father, depending on how old Aaron was when his father died and whether his mother remarried.
Hotch has a younger brother named Sean, who is a chef in NYC. Their father survived cancer, but later died of a heart-attack at 47, while Sean was still a child.
I always thought it was the other way around - a heart attack is more survivable than lung cancer, especially since Hotch talks about his father visiting banks and lawyers, "getting his affairs in order".
Anyway. Enough nit-pickery.
I think the character trait that strikes me most is one that is not immediately obvious. Hotch presents the image of a classic, buttoned down "FBI Guy". Mr. Rules. And he certainly is one to enforce the rules.
But when the chips are down and the sewage is in the ventilation system, Ethics trump Rules.
Morgan: Is that wise?
Hotch: No, but it is in order.
Pretty much all his actions in "No Way Out II". Also visible in "Profiler, Profiled" if you subscribe to the theory - as I do - that Hotch let Morgan escape.