People keep saying that they want to see Elle come back as an unsub, but I think it's highly unlikely, compared to Gideon at least. Elle strikes me as someone who primary had two major stressor in her life (or three, if you count the death of her father), when she was raped in college (character sheet), and when the Fisher King shot her inside her own home, probably reminding her of the first (she remembers the Fishier King's fingers being inside her wound). I don't see anything morally wrong with Elle shooting the repeated rapist - one who had already driven one of his victims to suicide - but Elle's decision to shoot him was driven less by what he did, and more by what was happening in her life, that she was shot in her own home after being sent home by her boss, something she threw at Hotch during the period where this happen.
Elle handed in her badge, and then she walked away, I don't think she'll do it again, I don't think she'll hunt down rapists and I think she'll view her time with the BAU, or the last months, as a bad time for her and strive not to be in the same situation again.
Gideon on the other hand, is a Complex-PTSD case, Boston stands out and so does the murder of Sarah in his bed, but I think so much has gotten to him there is no longer a clear incident or incidents for him to get over, it all blends together, that's apparent when he told Hotch why the cabin was important to him, it was that one place* in the world where he could be free from the sounds of pleading victims.
My predictions of Gideon, and I say this as a fan with love and concern, are not good. Without intervention (like, if he runs into Elle or his son or his old mentor or someone he knows who'll latches on), Gideon is going to keep driving until he gets sick and die, have an accident on the road, or until he runs into something horrible. Considering Gideon's luck (Footpath Killer, Frank's interest in him), and that a lot of serial killers roam along highways, the last one is high. He's going to snap, kill himself, or Reid is going to get the call about his old mentor being in a nut house, OR, he's going to become an unsub.
"I guess if I ever let my mind go there..."
...and if at this point in his life, Gideon becomes an unsub, I don't think he'll be like Dexter, he's too emotional. Remember how he broke the rules an saved Billie's life in "What Fresh Hell?" I loved him for that, the girl would have been dead if he haven't burst into the house, gun drawn on the very guilty unsub - but the right/wrong of that action hinges on Gideon's instincts being right, and I believe his instincts are wrecked now (I think the BAU got the wrong dude in "Doubt"). Gideon as an unsub would get some innocent people killed...like the afore-referenced Twilight episode.
Hell, Gideon had actually started hallucinating Sarah before he left, and he said that he kept seeing everyone's death. Mentally unstable.
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Elle handed in her badge, and then she walked away, I don't think she'll do it again, I don't think she'll hunt down rapists and I think she'll view her time with the BAU, or the last months, as a bad time for her and strive not to be in the same situation again.
Gideon on the other hand, is a Complex-PTSD case, Boston stands out and so does the murder of Sarah in his bed, but I think so much has gotten to him there is no longer a clear incident or incidents for him to get over, it all blends together, that's apparent when he told Hotch why the cabin was important to him, it was that one place* in the world where he could be free from the sounds of pleading victims.
My predictions of Gideon, and I say this as a fan with love and concern, are not good. Without intervention (like, if he runs into Elle or his son or his old mentor or someone he knows who'll latches on), Gideon is going to keep driving until he gets sick and die, have an accident on the road, or until he runs into something horrible. Considering Gideon's luck (Footpath Killer, Frank's interest in him), and that a lot of serial killers roam along highways, the last one is high. He's going to snap, kill himself, or Reid is going to get the call about his old mentor being in a nut house, OR, he's going to become an unsub.
"I guess if I ever let my mind go there..."
...and if at this point in his life, Gideon becomes an unsub, I don't think he'll be like Dexter, he's too emotional. Remember how he broke the rules an saved Billie's life in "What Fresh Hell?" I loved him for that, the girl would have been dead if he haven't burst into the house, gun drawn on the very guilty unsub - but the right/wrong of that action hinges on Gideon's instincts being right, and I believe his instincts are wrecked now (I think the BAU got the wrong dude in "Doubt"). Gideon as an unsub would get some innocent people killed...like the afore-referenced Twilight episode.
Hell, Gideon had actually started hallucinating Sarah before he left, and he said that he kept seeing everyone's death. Mentally unstable.