There's the smallest exhale, a touch of tension easing out of Loki's shoulders, details a profiler would notice where the average person would not: it's relief. If SHIELD does not exist in Reid's world, neither does Loki's attempt to conquer it.

"You work to catch the truly dangerous by learning the way they think, then," he says, also paying more attention to the game than to the words. His feint had half-worked, but Reid had countered it in a way he hadn't expected. He moves another piece in a different area, to draw attention away from the half-sprung trap for now. "I cannot imagine they enjoy being so analyzed."