getting Reid's message (and the aftermath: "What's my worst quality?")

I love that moment so much. Because Hotch looks like he'd be a stick-in-the-mud type of guy who can't admit to weakness, and to be hurt by what happened would be a perfectly human reaction (which is why everyone's brain goes there first, and they all try to comfort him). But he's actually not thinking about himself at all, he's trying to figure out the message Reid sent him. The fact that he's flawed and that others can see he's flawed doesn't bother him. That's the one thing he has in spades that the others either lack or need to work on, that ability to recognize his own flaws and be okay with them. It's what allows him to put criticism of them aside and focus on the team and the case. <3