After surviving the Tobias Hankel case, Season 2 Spencer Reid is still the same awkward, glasses-wearing genius—quick to ramble through statistics, easily flustered, and quietly struggling with what happened. Working beside him is a fellow young profiler who joined the BAU around the same time: brilliant, sharp, and capable of understanding the darkest criminal minds without losing herself. As a highly intelligent unsub becomes fixated on her, Spencer finds himself fighting not only to save her, but to protect the one person who has become his safest place before either of them realizes just how deeply he’s fallen for her.