Elle, Derek, JJ and Harry were gathered around Reid as he tried to blow out the candles on his birthday cake.
Morgan: Come on, man. Blow, baby, blow.
Walsh: You got this, Doc.
Greenaway: I thought you were full of hot air, Reid.
The candles kept relighting no matter how hard he blew.
Morgan: Come on, Reid.
JJ: They're trick candle, Spence, okay? They... they're going to come back on every time.
Morgan: Mommy to the rescue.
Reid: Mommy?
Greenaway: Ignore him.
Walsh: So, how does 24 feel, Reid?
Reid: It feels the same as 23 and 22 did.
Walsh: That's probably because you have the brain of a 40 year-old.
Morgan: Reid, does it make you legal yet?
JJ took the candles out of the cake.
JJ: Hope you like chocolate.
Morgan: You blew wax on the cake, man.
Reid: Sorry.
Reid got up to go talk to Gideon while the others stayed to cut the cake.
Morgan: 24. What I wouldn't give to turn back the clock.
Walsh: Really?
Morgan: Hell yeah. Ya boy was a king back in the day.
Greenaway: I get what you mean. I was back in New York when I was 24. Best years of my life.
Morgan: That's what I'm talking about. How about you, Walsh?
Walsh: Let's see. 24. That would be in 2002. So, I would've just gotten back from my tour.
Elle: Tour? Like a war tour or a tour of Europe?
Walsh: The war kind.
Morgan: You were in the military?
Walsh: British Army since I was 17. Last tour I did was 2003 in Iraq.
Morgan: You're telling me you fought in two wars? You? Harry Walsh?
Walsh: Of course not.
Morgan: Thank god, cause I thought I was going crazy. There's no way you've been to war.
Walsh: Oh no, I meant I've been to more than those two. I was in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, 2 tours in Afghanistan and 1 tour in Iraq.
Morgan: You're kidding right?
Walsh: Nope.
Elle: What regiment?
Walsh: Uhm. Hey, how about this cake, JJ?
JJ: Yep. Hey, Spence. First piece for the birthday boy.
Reid walked back over. They all starting eating their slices of the birthday cake, only to be interrupted by Hotch.
Hotch: Sorry, guys. Party's over.
Walsh: Can't have anything in this office.
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The team were sat in the briefing room. Hotch entered with JJ who handed out the case information to everyone.
Hotch: We're going to San Diego.
Morgan: But not for the surfing, huh?
JJ: They're calling him the "Tommy Killer."
Hotch: Six women raped and murdered in their homes in the last three weeks.
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Criminal Minds (S1 - S8)
FanfictionHarry Walsh is a transfer to the BAU directly from Scotland Yard in London, England. He uses his skills along with the rest of his team to help bring dangerous criminals to justice.
