Elle Greenaway

Elle Greenaway was a former Supervisory Special Agent with the BAU. Her speciality was sexual offense crimes.

Background
Elle was introduced to the show in the pilot episode, Extreme Aggressor where she helped the BAU capture a possible suspect. She also shot the UnSub in that same episode when he tried to kill Gideon. Following on from that, she joined the BAU, filing the vacant spot she had hoping to get although Gideon told her that she was very impatient and ordered her to correct it.

Her father was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty when she was a child. She is half Cuban and speaks Spanish as seen in the episode, Machismo. Her time at the BAU was successful until she was shot by an Unsub in the season 1 finale, who broke into her home and awaited her arrival home from the BAU. He also stuck his fingers into her wound and wrote the word, RULES on the wall using her blood. While being having surgery, she also had a heart-to-heart talk with her dead father which helped her resolve some issues and also inspired her to return to the real world.

Though physically recovered by the end of the season 2 premiere, the event still left her with psychological scars as she felt no longer safe in her home after her attack. She returned to the team in P911 where she worked with the FBI's Innocent Images Unit to help them track down the whereabouts of a missing boy.

Everything seemed to be going well for her up until the episode, Aftermath where the team were asked to help arrest a serial rapist. This triggered Elle's downward sprial and she began acting more harshly, even laying into the local police department after they had failed to notice that a woman was being raped in her own home. In an effort to capture him, Elle went undercover but her emotional attachment to the case blew the operation.

Back at the station, Elle watched furiously as the rapist was released from custody. Enraged, she began targeting her own team-members, even blaming Hotch for sending her home which led to her getting shot. Ultimately, she took the law into her own hands and killed the suspect before he could even be properly arrested. During this episode she mentions that The Fisher King had written on the wall with her blood from the wound.

In ''The Boogeyman", Elle missed a psychological evaulation, forcing Hotch to stay behind to find her while Gideon and the rest of the team headed to Texas. She eventually returned to the BAU but handed in her badge and gun to Hotch, saying that it was not an admission of guilt. With that, Elle offically resigned from the FBI and was replaced by Emily Prentiss.

Behind the Scenes
Greenaway was portrayed by Lola Glaudini. Her reasons for leaving the show were that she had become unhappy with being in Los Angeles and wanted to go back to the East Coast.