Шемар появился на свет 20 апреля 1970 года. Произошло это в городе Окленд, расположенном в Калифорнии. Он воспитывался в многодетной семье. Он рос вместе с тремя братьями — Шебуррой, Кошено и Шеноном.
Его отец — афроамериканец. Мама имеет франко-канадское и ирландское происхождение.
Мама Шемара имеет ученую степень по математике. В младенчестве он жил вместе с ней в Дании, где она работала учительницей. Когда ему было 4 года, мать перевезла его в Бахрейн. Там будущий актер ходил в частную британскую школу. По его словам, в свое время мама уехала с ним из США не в последнюю очередь из-за запрета на межрасовые отношения и других проявлений расизма в Америке.
В конце 1970-х парень вернулся в Калифорнию, а после окончания школы в Пало-Альто стал студентом университета Санта-Клары.
Этапы развития карьеры
Важнейшим этапом в карьере Шемара стали съемки в мыльной опере «Молодые и дерзкие», которая выходит на канале CBS с первой половины 1970-х.
Он присоединился к актерскому составу в 1994 году. Ему доверили роль Малькольма Уинтерса — и именно этот герой принес большую популярность. Мур играл ее на постоянной основе в течение восьми лет. Лишь в 2005 году он окончательно ушел из «Молодых и дерзких».
актер не может похвастаться обширной фильмографией. В числе сериалов с его участием:
Среди полнометражных картин:
Кроме того, Мур озвучил супергероя Киборга, также известного как Виктор Стоун, в несколько анимационных полнометражках.
Сериал «Мыслить как преступник»
В 2005 году на канале CBS состоялась премьера процедурной драмы «Мыслить как преступник». Муру досталась роль спецагента Дерека Моргана. Он играл ее в течение 11 сезонов. Среди прочих артистов, в разное время занятых в сериале, — Пэйджет Брюстер, Мэттью Грей Габлер, Кирстен Вангснесс.
В 2016 году Шерман решил попрощаться с шоу. Мур покинул проект, чтобы расти дальше как Актер. Сериал продолжался и без его участия. Лишь в 2019 году было объявлено, что пятнадцатый сезон станет последним.
«Мыслить как преступник» принес Шерману любовь миллионов телезрителей. За роль Дерека Моргана его дважды номинировали на премию People’s Choice Awards.
Личная жизнь
Доподлинно известно, что Актер пока не успел связать себя узами брака. В числе знаменитых женщин, с которыми у него были романтические отношения, — обладательница премии «Оскар» Хэлли Берри и исполнительница хита «Un-Break My Heart» Тони Брэкстон.
В 2007 году в прессе появились пикантные фотографии мужчины: его запечатлели голым на гавайском пляже для геев. Из-за этого возник слух, что Шемар — представитель нетрадиционной сексуальной ориентации. Сам артист его опроверг, заявив, что отдает предпочтение прекрасному полу.
В 2018 году начался роман Мура и американской актрисы кубинского происхождения Анабель Акосты, которая наиболее известна по роли в сериале «База Куантико». О том, встречаются ли они до сих пор, достоверной информации нет.
В общем, пока поклонницам не о чем особо беспокоиться: обзаводиться законной женой красавец явно не торопится. Детей у него тоже нет.
Популярностью пользуется официальная страница в Инстаграм Шемара. За ее обновлениями следят более трех миллионов подписчиков. Актер находится в великолепной форме. Неудивительно, что он нередко радует поклонниц фотографиями своего обнаженного торса, которые собирают десятки тысяч лайков.
Актуальная деятельность
В 2017 году канал CBS представил на суд зрителей первый сезон криминальной драмы «Спецназ города ангелов», основанной на сериале середины 1970-х.
В этом проекте Муру досталась главная роль. Его герой – сержант Дэниэл Харрельсон-младший из Лос-Анджелеса, которого повысили до руководителя группы. Одна из его основных задач – доказать, что он действительно достоин этой должности. На данный момент полностью вышли два сезона. Сейчас идет трансляция третьего.
10 интересных фактов о сериале «Мыслить как преступник»
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Джон Уэйн Гейси, серийный маньяк
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Один из сценаристов сериала ― Джим Клемент, бывший сотрудник настоящего Отдела поведенческого анализа ФБР.
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Большинство забавных диалогов агента Дерека Моргана и Пенелопы Гарсии не придуманы, а взяты из реальной жизни: так актеры Шемар Мур и Кирстен Вангнесс дурачились на съемках.
Спецагент Дерек Морган (Шемар Мур) и Пенелопа Гарсиа (Кирстен Вангнесс)
Каждый главный герой перенес личную травму, и это не совпадение. Как рассказал продюсер сериала Брин Фрейзер, это сделано для того, чтобы уравновесить темную историю, которая раскрывается в каждой серии. Личная история должна быть эмоционально равнозначна истории преступника или разбавлять ее.
Брин Фрейзер и Мэтью Грей Гублер
Биография некоторых героев не укладывается в хронологические рамки. Например, агент Хотчнер выучился на юриста, поработал прокурором, попал в ФБР, дослужился до топовой должности в отделе поведенческого анализа и умудрился не постареть за это время.
Аарон Хотчнер (Томас Гибсон)
Мэттью Грей Гублер получил отказ на первом прослушивании на роль Спенсера Рида. Затем его несколько раз приглашали на повторное прослушивание и каждый раз отказывали снова. В конце концов, актера все-таки утвердили на роль.
Спенсер Рид (Мэттью Грей Гублер)
На этапе подготовки к съемкам сериал носил рабочее название «Куантико» ― по названию места, где располагается офис профайлеров.
Актеры Джо Мантенья, Томас Гибсон и сценарист Джеймс Клемент у академии ФБР в Куантико
В исходном сценарии герой Мэнди Патинкина носит имя Джейсон Донован, а не Гидеон. Почему имя поменялось, доподлинно не известно, зато мы знаем, что сына актера зовут Гидеон.
Актер Мэнди Патинкин (исполняет роль Гидеона) с сыном Гидеоном
Создатели сериала не планировали, что Пенелопа (героиня Кирстен Вангнесс) будет постоянным персонажем ― актриса должна была сыграть всего в одном эпизоде, но сделала это так хорошо, что ее не захотели отпускать.
Пенелопа Гарсиа (Кирстен Вангнесс)
Бессменные композиторы сериала ― братья Стефан и Марк Фантини. До участия в сериале они работали с Ринго Старром и группой The Eagles.
Будучи подростком, он обнаруживает тело неопознанного молодого человека, которое глубоко на него повлияло. Затем Дерек организует сбор средств в своем районе, чтобы иметь возможность оплатить его похороны и подарить ему надгробие. С тех пор он навещал ее на кладбище всякий раз, когда был в своем родном городе, чтобы увидеть свою семью.
Его двоюродный брат пропал без вести в течение нескольких лет, и в 23-м эпизоде шестого сезона Дерек лжет своей тете, утверждая, что его кузина Синди мертва и находится среди жертв этого дела, так что она переворачивает страницу. В следующем сезоне Дереку придется столкнуться со своей ложью, когда его кузен случайно увидит живым одной из его сестер, а затем найдет.
С начала девятого сезона Морган встречается со своей соседкой Саванной Хейс. Их романтические отношения остаются крепкими, несмотря на крайнюю преданность этих двоих своей работе, и Дерек даже встретился с родителями Саванны в середине сезона.
В одиннадцатом сезоне, после того, как его похитили и пытали наемники, он женится на Саванне, которая беременна. После мести Моргану, где она, в свою очередь, была близка к смерти, он и Саванна стали родителями маленького мальчика, Хэнка Спенсера Моргана. Затем Дерек прекращает свою карьеру профилировщика, чтобы посвятить себя жене и сыну.
В заключительном эпизоде 12 сезона Морган появляется перед своими бывшими коллегами из BAU, чтобы предупредить их о неудавшейся ловушке, которую мистер Грифф якобы попытался устроить для него, предлагая им повод для его поиска. Он также снова появляется в офисах в начале тринадцатого сезона, чтобы утешить Гарсию, который из-за всплывшего на поверхность старого дела вспоминает попытку убийства, жертвой которой она была. Он пользуется случаем, чтобы показать ей видео своего сына.
Личность
Личность Дерека кардинально меняется на протяжении всего сериала.
Он также спортсмен, поддерживающий свою физическую форму. Он очень хорошо известен в своем старом районе Чикаго, в основном среди молодежи, для которой он является моделью.
На работе
Специальный агент Морган имеет очень обширный профессиональный опыт: став профессиональным специалистом по навязчивым преступлениям, он также провел расследование, работая под прикрытием в течение 18 месяцев и являясь экспертом по взрывчатым веществам. Он также является руководителем обучения ФБР.
Дерек очень защищает своих коллег и очень любит свою работу, но Хотч несколько раз критикует его за то, что он по-настоящему никому не доверяет. Дерек также очень скрытен и очень часто замыкается, чтобы не выражать то, что он чувствует. Чтобы выпустить пар в сложных делах, он использует свои ручные навыки, ремонтируя принадлежащие ему дома.
I study guys like you for a living, I know more about you than you know about yourself.
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Derek Morgan is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. For a time, he was the acting unit chief of the BAU, taking over as Hotch stepped down temporally. Morgan specialized in explosives, fixations, and obsessive behaviors. He officially resigned from the BAU in Season Eleven in order to be with his new family. His position was taken over by Luke Alvez in Season Twelve.
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Background
Morgan was born on June 6, 1973, to an African-American father and a Caucasian mother. During high school, Morgan was popular from his sophomore year to graduation; he confided to Reid that he got his «ass kicked every day» during his freshman year. He went to Northwestern University on a football scholarship and is an honor graduate in Law, holds a black belt in Judo, runs FBI self-defense classes, served in a bomb squad unit, and worked as a Chicago police officer. He and his two sisters, Sarah and Desiree, grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood. The three of them were close to their paternal aunt Yvonne and cousin Cindi, whose house they would stay at whenever their parents were working.
At the age of ten, Morgan was a witness to the shooting death of his father Hank, a police officer. After his father’s death, Morgan struggled somewhat with youthful fighting, earning him a juvenile criminal record. He was taken under the wing of a local youth center coordinator, Carl Buford. Buford acted as a surrogate father to Morgan, helping Morgan to obtain the aforementioned football scholarship, but Buford was also sexually abusing him, which Morgan revealed several years later, under extreme duress. As a teen, he discovered the body of an unidentified boy, which had a profound effect on him (he went door to door in order to collect money to buy the boy a headstone and visited the boy’s grave every time he came home to Chicago).
Personality
«We all have people in our lives. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. But they shape us, Detective. That’s why you have that badge. That’s why the two of us are sitting in this car right now.»
Morgan’s personality has changed dramatically several times during the course of the series. At the beginning of Season One, Derek appears to be an overeager attention seeker, wearing three-piece suits and constantly quoting regulations and being the only member of the team who understood Reid’s «jokes». His personality would then shift to a suave, ladies man-type before finally settling into the serious, grim-faced agent that he is today, especially following his temporary promotion to Acting Unit Chief. However, he still maintains the suave attitude towards women, only in a more mature fashion. He has shown to be very flirtatious towards Penelope Garcia.
Season One
Morgan in the field during a terrorist strike.
In the season premiere, «Extreme Aggressor», Morgan was supposed to be in Boston for a case that resulted in the deaths of six agents and a hostage, causing Gideon to take a six-month leave.
In «The Popular Kids», Morgan is the first to know that Reid’s been having nightmares about their work. He told Hotch and Gideon about it, making Reid furious with him who Morgan soon tells him about his own share of nightmares and how to cope with them. He saves Reid after he is briefly held hostage whom Morgan figured out was the unsub.
Season Two
In «The Fisher King, Part 2,» Morgan is shocked to hear that Elle was shot in her apartment.
Years later, in «Profiler, Profiled» Morgan’s past would come back to haunt him when he was arrested by the Chicago Police Department for the murder of the unidentified boy and two others. The lead detective (who had arrested Morgan several times as a boy) believed Morgan was guilty and used a BAU profile done by Jason Gideon (who was unaware Morgan was the prime suspect) to support his case. Believing he was being framed by the real killer, the BAU searched through Morgan’s life and background to prove him innocent, which Garcia was uncomfortable doing. They later identified Carl Buford as the man who set Morgan up to take the fall (Buford was friends with the lead detective). When Hotch asked about Carl, Morgan told him to back off. He then escaped police custody and spoke to a local boy who was friends with the latest victim. The boy revealed he was currently being molested by Carl and that the latest victim knew about it. Morgan confronted Carl, who initially denied that anything happened between them, and told Morgan the other boy was lying. Refusing to back down (and wishing that he had told someone about Carl when he was a kid), Morgan eventually got Carl to admit to the abuse. Carl’s admission was overheard by Chicago detectives (who were hiding nearby), and they arrested him. Carl pleaded with Morgan to help him, and Morgan simply told him, «You go to hell.»
Season Three
In «Lucky», Morgan is told about Garcia’s date with a man who she fixed his laptop for him.
In «Penelope», Morgan rushes to the hospital after hearing Garcia has been shot.
In the episode «Lo-Fi» it is told that he is being looked at to replace SSA Kate Joyner and head up the New York field office.
Season Four
In «Mayhem» Hotch doesn’t recommend him because he said that Morgan doesn’t have enough trust in his coworkers.
In «Catching Out» he chases the unsub to a train where he hangs on for dear life and the killer tries to knock him off. Finally, Hotch shoots the killer and saves his life.
Season Five
In «Nameless, Faceless», Foyet comes back to haunt the team as he used Morgan’s stolen credentials to impersonate as him when Foyet dropped Hotch at a hospital after breaking into Hotch’s apartment and stabbing him nine times.
In «Hopeless» Derek gets involved if unintentionally with one of the relatives of one of the victims, Tamara Barnes.
In «Cradle to Grave» Hotch works Morgan harder than usual. As such, Morgan unintentionally lashes out at Jennifer Jareau. She tells Morgan that Hotch has been getting some heat from Strauss. Hotch later tells Morgan that he is stepping down as Unit Chief and, in order to keep the team together by promoting from within the Unit, would like Derek to be Unit Chief.
In «The Eyes Have It» Morgan is successful in his first case as Acting Unit Chief. At the end of the episode, he is given his own office, which was acquired after JJ and Garcia had pulled some strings when its previous occupant, one Agent Hall, was set to retire soon. He also sees Tamara Barnes throughout the episode. They meet at an outdoor coffee shop where Tamara gifts Morgan a silver cross necklace that belonged to her brother William. She also suggests that they get a drink eventually when his job dies down.
In «100», like the rest of the team, Morgan is shocked to hear Foyet kill Haley Brooks, Hotch’s ex-wife. Morgan pulled Hotch away from Foyet after beating him to death and apologies for his loss.
In «The Slave of Duty», Morgan and the rest of the team worry and wonder if Hotch will come back in the aftermath of Haley’s death at the hands of Foyet.
In «Retaliation», towards the end of the episode, Hotch approaches Morgan at his desk and lets him know he appreciated what he did for the team as Acting Unit Chief, complimenting his natural leadership and initiative. Morgan finishes his paperwork for Hotch, letting him know that he knows how precious time a child needs with a single parent.
In «The Uncanny Valley», on board the teams plane towards the beginning of the episode, it’s seen that Hotch is giving out the orders, signifying Morgan’s step down as Acting Unit Chief and Hotch’s step back up to Unit Chief.
In «Exit Wounds», Derek and Penelope shared a room when the team had to double up due to lack of rooms, prompting Penelope to call dibs with Morgan. Her boyfriend Kevin quickly became jealous, calling him a «Muscle-Bound Modern-Day 007», Penelope quickly retorting that he’s more of a Jason Bourne. After she witnessed a murder, she ran towards the victim causing Morgan to be mad at her, commenting on that behavior as reckless. Then Morgan wanted to conduct a cognitive interview which made Penelope angry. Towards the end of the episode Penelope comments on her change of behavior towards seeing blood. This prompted Morgan to comment that she’s changing into someone stronger than she realizes, that she cared enough to risk her life to save someone else’s. She then revealed that she’s scared she’s changing into someone she’s not just so she can do the job. Derek then tells her that she sees the beauty in everything and everyone wherever she goes and that he’ll keep protecting her so that she won’t change.
In «Our Darkest Hour», Morgan was attacked by a serial killer who killed Detective Matt Spicer in front of his eyes. At the end of the episode, Morgan and Spicer’s sister had to watch as the unsub abducted Spicer’s daughter, with Morgan vowing «We will find you, you sick son of a bitch.»
Season Six
In «The Longest Night», Morgan is able to rescue Spicer’s daughter and kill the unsub.
In «Remembrance of Things Past», Ellie is keeping in touch with Morgan, updating her about her social life.
In «Safe Haven», Morgan is visited by Ellie after the latter runs away from her foster family and reunites Ellie with her biological mother.
In «Lauren» Morgan was angry with Prentiss for never telling the team of her past with Ian Doyle and the extents to which she went to get his profile. However, he was also extremely worried about her and was the agent who found her moments after she was stabbed by Doyle. After it was announced that Prentiss had ‘died’, Morgan reacted badly and blamed himself for her ‘death’.
In «Supply and Demand», Morgan shoots dead the leader of a human trafficking ring who attempted to shoot Rossi.
Season Seven
In «It Takes a Village», Morgan is speechless and reacts badly after being told and seeing Prentiss alive.
In «Dorado Falls», Morgan recovers from the shock quite quickly but later falsely told Prentiss that she had to undertake recertification training. When she confronted him about lying, he told her that he didn’t want to lose her again and needed some reassurance. They then agreed to meet up for ten hours of training.
In «Painless» Morgan engaged in a practical joke ‘war’ with Reid, giving Reid’s phone number to the press. Non-stop calls irritated Reid until he eventually lost his temper and yelled into the phone at one of his callers. On the plane, it is revealed that Reid hacked his MP3 player so that Morgan couldn’t turn it off and could only hear Reid screaming and Reid hacked Morgan’s phone so that he thought Garcia was calling, only to hear more screaming. Impressed, Rossi waves a white cloth as a signal that Morgan should surrender, but he refused, insisting that it was over before telling Reid that «payback’s a bitch».
In «Self-Fulfilling Prophecy», Morgan and Hotch clash about Strauss during the investigation of a case.
In «A Thin Line», Morgan and Prentiss have disagreements about an FBI training session. Towards the end of the episode, Morgan shoots the unsub dead and feels guilty after Prentiss is shot in the arm, causing her to wear a sling, since she got hurt on his watch and tries to apologize to Prentiss for it. After she gently teases him, Prentiss tells Morgan that what happened to her was not his fault, it was just part of the job.
In «I Love You, Tommy Brown», Morgan is asked by Kevin Lynch to help him propose to Garcia.
In «Foundation», Morgan tries to connect with a young boy after he is found and another boy goes missing.
In «The Company», Morgan’s lie comes back to haunt him when Desiree sees a woman who resembles their presumed-dead cousin, Cindi, having the team reopen her disappearance case.
Season Eight
In «The Silencer», Morgan returns with Garcia after visiting Prentiss in London when they meet their newest team member, Alex Blake. Garcia admits to doing research about Blake and has an embarrassing introductory moment with her; meanwhile, Morgan seems to like Blake. During the case, Morgan knows Garcia is still iffy about her and helps her snap out of it, knowing she’s still raw about Prentiss leaving again.
In «The Apprenticeship», Morgan recruits Reid Morgan to join the bureau softball team for a game against the Secret Service. Morgan’s pep talk with him causes Reid to win the game for the Bureau.
In «Magnificent Light», Morgan declines to attend a dinner honoring an old family friend, due to not being ready to talk about his late father to the public. Garcia encourages him to get past it. Deciding to go and take Garcia as his date, he makes a speech. Unbeknowest to him, someone takes his empty wine glass.
In «Restoration» Morgan is forced to confront his demons regarding Carl when a spree killer appears in Chicago and is revealed to be one of Carl’s former victims. He goes to Carl for information about all of the victims he molested and is taunted briefly by him on two occasions. However, Carl agrees to give him a list of his victims after Morgan threatens to tell the other inmates (who are only aware of Carl’s murders and not his pedophilic tendencies) about the true nature of his incarceration. When Rodney Harris is identified as the unsub, Morgan approaches him as he holds his own family hostage. He reveals to him that he too was molested by Carl and manages to convince him to surrender. At the end of the episode, Morgan learns, to his shock, that Carl was killed by other inmates, who had seen a news report revealing Carl’s true crimes.
In «The Replicator», Morgan is held at gunpoint by a delusional Rossi in his office, who was poisoned from a forged report on Strauss’ autopsy done by The Replicator himself, John Curtis, using Morgan’s DNA from the glass Curtis took during the dinner in «Magnificent Light» to make Rossi believe Morgan was responsible for Strauss’ death.
Season Nine
In «The Inspiration», following the death of Erin Strauss, Morgan thinks Hotch might take her position if elected for the job.
In «The Return» it is revealed that Morgan had a girlfriend prior to Season Nine, named Savannah Hayes, who is his neighbor and works as a nurse at Bethesda General Hospital. However, their relationship was shown to be strained due to the demands of their jobs. It is revealed that the two of them met after Morgan became depressed over a case that ended badly and Savannah approached him.
In the two-part finale, Morgan is shot twice by a suspect in «Angels» and in the follow-up episode, «Demons», it is revealed that both of the bullets that hit him struck his bulletproof vest, although he then receives a graze wound to the arm while he was engaging the suspect, whom he manages to kill.
Season Ten
In «Hashtag», Morgan and Savannah struggle to find quality time for each other with their busy careers but by the end of the episode, they move into a suburban house. He is forced to shot the unsub when he has a hostage in the neck on national TV.
In «The Boys of Sudworth Place», Morgan’s past with Buford comes back when a case connects to his victims.
In «Lockdown», Morgan, along with Kate Callahan and Officer Tom Polinsky, are taken hostage by Weeks’ accomplices during a prison riot when Julio Watson, who struck a friendship with Morgan after being interrogated by him, stops them. After the riot breaks up, Morgan thanks Watson for his help before leaving.
Season Eleven
In «A Badge and a Gun» he is attacked by a group of men and abducted while buying ice cream for Savannah.
In «Derek» the follow-up to «A Badge and a Gun,» Edgar Solomon tortures Morgan by beating and then burning him. However, the torture is unsuccessful, as Morgan dissociates himself from the pain and has visions of his father Hank assisting him. When Solomon orders his men to have Morgan stripped down, Morgan overpowers one of the men and shoots everyone. Solomon, who was the sole survivor of the shooting, calls John Bradley to kill Morgan and eats the phone’s SIM card. After Solomon succumbs to his gunshot wound, Morgan retrieves the SIM card from his stomach, places it on the phone, and gives the BAU his location. Soon after, Bradley arrives to finish the job and Morgan attacks him. Bradley pins Morgan down by stabbing him in the hand, but before he could finish him, he is shot and killed by Reid. At the hospital, Morgan is treated for his injuries. When he wakes up, Savannah tells him that she is expecting their first child, but Morgan tells her that he already knew and then proposes to her, which she accepts.
In the six months between his abduction and the events of «The Sandman» he and Savannah married. At the end of the episode, Savannah is shot by an unseen sniper.
In «A Beautiful Disaster», Morgan brings Savannah to the hospital. The BAU comes to the hospital and takes charge of the case, and Hotch takes Morgan off the case because of his personal connection to it. The team figures out that the unsub is Chazz Montolo, the father of the late Giuseppe Montolo, who was arrested by and later killed in front of Morgan. Montolo leaves a note in one of the payphones that he used to call Garcia. JJ shows Morgan the note even though he is off the case because she believes that he should be on it. Morgan lies to JJ, saying that he doesn’t understand the contents of the note. Once he has a moment to himself, he leaves the hospital to confront Montolo, who is at one of Morgan’s renovated houses.
Morgan finds himself in a hostage situation with a gun pointed at him. Montolo threatens the BAU and plays a game of Russian Roulette with Morgan. Montolo allows him to say goodbye to the team on the phone, but Morgan gets the upper hand and gets Montolo on the ground. The BAU team comes right on time, and apprehend Montolo. Back at the hospital, Savannah is in the middle of a C-section and Morgan arrives just in time for the arrival of his newborn son. As the team celebrates with Morgan, he talks with Hotch about his departure from the team in order to protect his family and to be around for his son. Morgan says goodbye to JJ, Reid, and Garcia. Before he leaves the building, he looks into the conference room and watches his team work one last time before his departure.
Season Twelve
In «Red Light» Morgan stopped by the BAU after he received a text message from Peter Lewis aka Mr. Scratch.
Season Thirteen
In «Lucky Strikes» Morgan visited the BAU to lend Penelope Garcia emotional support on a case.
Season Fourteen
In «Flesh and Blood», Morgan is seen via flashbacks in relations to the team’s current case.
Season Fifteen
In «And in the End. «, he is seen in Reid’s dream after falling unconscious in his apartment due to being injured in an explosion caused by Everett Lynch.
Relationships
Penelope Garcia
Derek shares a special relationship with Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia. In «Penelope», Derek’s love for his «Baby Girl» was evident as he stayed by her side protecting her and caring for her during her recovery. Penelope’s love for her «Hot Stuff» and «Gorgeous» (as she calls Derek) was also evident in Mayhem and Lessons Learned as she sat with her face full of fear and terror at the thought of losing him. Derek and Penelope have had no romantic involvement, but the deep love they share is proof positive that they have a lifelong bond because neither one can survive without the other. They have a sibling-like bond. In «Exit Wounds», Derek and Penelope shared a room when the team had to double up due to lack of rooms, prompting Penelope to call dibs with Morgan. Her boyfriend Kevin quickly became jealous, calling him a «Muscle-Bound Modern-Day 007», Penelope quickly retorting that he’s more of a Jason Bourne. After she witnessed a murder, she ran towards the victim causing Morgan to be mad at her, commenting on that behavior as reckless. Then Morgan wanted to conduct a cognitive interview which made Penelope angry. Towards the end of the episode, they made up per usual.
Notes
Behind the Scenes
Derek Morgan is portrayed by former soap actor Shemar Moore.
During Season Ten, Moore believed that he would depart from his role of Morgan during that time since his contract was about to end. However, he was convinced to stay in Season Eleven in order to give his character a proper sendoff. According to showrunner Erica Messer, Morgan was originally going to appear in Season Eleven’s first six episodes before departing, but it didn’t feel like enough appearances. The staff eventually settled on Morgan departing in the eighteenth episode. [2] [3] [4]
Актеры Джо Мантенья, Томас Гибсон и сценарист Джеймс Клемент у академии ФБР в Куантико
