[ Reid shrugs one shoulder. ] We bring them in, we don't sentence them. But generally-- yeah. [ In some states, the death penalty is involved, so she isn't totally wrong. Sometimes they get away, more often than he'd like, but not as often as the overall murder solve rate would lead someone to believe.

He immediately has to bite down on his instinctive reflex to follow up with her comment -- Oh really, who? -- which is a pure investigator's impulse. Not the FBI here, Spencer. And he's sure she means something more innocuous than he would jump to. Everyone keeps assuring him this is a place of fluff and bunnies and, basically, somewhere Garcia would vacation. Permission given, he moves right on. ]

So species don't live in homogeneous groups? [ he questions, appreciating immensely that she uses the technically-correct species here instead of the more fumbling, awkwardly applied race that humans would be prone to. ] What I mean is, you're all used to dealing with one another? First contact must've been quite a while ago.