Name: Derek Morgan
Gender: Male
Family: Two sisters, Sarah and Desirée
Job: BAU Special Agent
Rank: Supervisor
Specialty: Obsessional crimes
Status: Alive
Portrayed By: Shemar Moore
First Appearance: Extreme Aggressor
Derek Morgan is a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.
Background:
Morgan is a confident and assertive everyman character, the son of an African-American father and Caucasian mother. He holds a black belt in Judo, runs FBI self-defense classes, and previously served in a bomb squad unit and as a Chicago police officer. He and his two sisters grew up in a tough urban Chicago neighborhood. After the death of his father when he was ten, Morgan struggled somewhat; youthful fighting earned 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 and helped Morgan to obtain a college football scholarship, but also sexually abused him — the episode Profiler Profiled revealed and focused on this.
On the Job:
Morgan in the field during a terrorist strike
In the episode Lo-Fi it is told that he is being looked at to replace SSA Joyner and head up the New York field office. In Mayhem, Hotch doesn't recommend him because he said that Derek 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 until Hotchner shoots the suspect and saves his life.
In Omnivore, Derek came very close to being killed by The Reaper (George Foyet). The Unsub had shot him in the shoulder and Derek was rendered unconscious. Since The Reaper was a power/control type killer, Derek's unconscious state was a turn off and The Reaper spared him.
Notes:
His sidearm is a Glock 17, with detatchable flashlight.
Derek is an insomniac.
He is a Metallica fan.[1]
Derek was originally named "Tim". ("Compulsion")
