This is a list of characters in the television series Criminal Minds, an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS and is also shown on A&E in the United States. Criminal Minds consists of six seasons and 138 episodes as of May 18, 2011.
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Played by Thomas Gibson, Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) and BAU Unit Chief Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner used to be a prosecutor, and was formerly assigned to the FBI Field Office in Seattle. After stepping down for a period of time, he has returned to lead the unit. He has a son named Jack with his former wife Haley. They eventually divorced and remained on good terms until Haley was murdered by the psychopath George Foyet. Hotch's attempts to balance his family life and his job successfully have been something of an ongoing theme on the show.
Played by Shemar Moore, SSA Derek Morgan is a confident and assertive everyman character, the son of an African-American father and mixed-race mother. He went to Northwestern University on a football scholarship, holds a black belt in Judo, runs FBI self-defense classes, and served in a bomb squad unit and as a Chicago police officer. In season 2 it was explained that 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. In season 3 it was revealed that he hated religion because, as he said, something bad happened to him when he was 13. He went to church everyday and prayed for it to stop, but it didn't. Because of this, he had a resentment towards God and church. He prayed for the first time in 20 years, at exactly the time he later found out, that Garcia was being operated on after being shot. Former unit chief Aaron Hotchner promoted him to Unit Chief in Hotch's place, a promotion Morgan saw as only temporary until the "Boston Reaper" was captured. After Hotchner returned following grieving over his ex-wife's murder, he again took his place as unit chief.
Played by A.J. Cook, SSA Jennifer "J.J." Jareau originally acted as the team's liaison with the media and local police agencies. She has a son named Henry, with detective William LaMontagne Jr whom she met while the team were working a case in New Orleans in the Season 2 episode, 'Jones'. In the second episode of season six JJ was forced to take a promotion to the Pentagon and leaves the team for the rest of the season. JJ returns to the show in the episode titled "Lauren" where she receives a call and returns to help the BAU find Emily and capture Ian Doyle before it's too late. When Emily is stabbed by Doyle and rushed to a hospital, JJ announces she didn't make it and died. However, it is later revealed that Emily is alive and JJ meets her at a cafe in Paris where she provides her with three passports and bank accounts to start a new life in hiding from Doyle. On April 15, 2011, A.J. Cook signed a deal to return as JJ for two seasons beginning season seven. At the end of the final scene of season 6, JJ revealed that she wanted to return to the team during a conversation with Rossi. She is now a full-time profiler.
Played by Matthew Gray Gubler, SSA Dr. Spencer Reid is a genius who graduated from a Las Vegas public high school at age 12. He is almost always introduced as Dr. Reid, even as the others are introduced as Agent 'blank' because Gideon knew people would not take him seriously because of his age, as well after an introduction he never shakes hands. It has been revealed that he holds PhDs in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Engineering, BAs in Psychology and Sociology, and is working on a BA in Philosophy. He claims to have an Eidetic memory, and hints that he could possibly suffer from Schizophrenia since his mother has it. E408 He has also said that he was bullied when he was younger.
Played by Kirsten Vangsness, Penelope Garcia is the team's analyst at BAU Headquarters in Quantico, VA. She is flamboyant, fun-loving, and provides the rest of the team with comic relief whenever it is needed. She got her last name from her stepfather, hence the Latina implication, but she is not. She was shot and almost killed in season three. She and SSA Morgan share a very friendly-flirty relationship but never go beyond that, although Penelope shows mild jealousy when she sees him dancing with two other women. Penelope lost both of her parents at the age of 18 and, as she says, "went off the rails for a while." Penelope taught herself to hack after she dropped out of college and was grouped with the best hackers in the world. After being caught by the FBI, she was given a choice of living in a high security prison for the rest of her life or working for the BAU division of the FBI as an analyst. She is in a relationship with fellow FBI employee Kevin Lynch. When Jennifer Jareau leaves the BAU for a promotion to a position at the Pentagon, Garcia takes up her responsibilities as media liaison, and retains this position when JJ returns to the BAU as a profiler.
Played by Paget Brewster, SSA Emily Prentiss is the daughter of an ambassador and a U.S. diplomat. After Agent Elle Greenaway left the BAU for good following a case when she had shot an unsub in cold blood, Prentiss showed up with papers stating she was the newest member of the BAU which caught both Hotch and Gideon off-guard as they hadn't signed off on her transfer. She became a permanent member of the team in "Lessons Learned" where it was revealed that she was fluent in Arabic. She also has a tough relationship with her mother. She got pregnant at the age of 15 and later chose to have an abortion. Prentiss is also skilled at chess. In 6x13 ("The Thirteenth Step"), Prentiss receives some disturbing news from her previous boss at Interpol. In the following episode, "Sense Memory", after coming home from work, she notices that someone had been in her house because her cat's back was wet and her window was open. She also received several strange phone calls, with the caller id saying, "Caller Unknown". This also leaves Agent Morgan concerned for Prentiss. Prentiss only appeared in 18 episodes of season 6. She faked her death to escape an old nemesis with the help of both Hotch and JJ while the rest of the team continues to assume she is dead. On May 28, 2011, it was announced that Paget Brewster would actually be returning as Emily Prentiss.
Played by Joe Mantegna, Senior SSA David Rossi, a "'founding father' of the BAU", was in early retirement until his voluntary return to the BAU in 2007, replacing Jason Gideon who had abruptly resigned from the BAU. He had retired in order to write books and go on lecture tours, but returned to settle some unfinished business which wasn't immediately specified. It was later revealed that the case involved three young children whose parents had been murdered in a possible home-invasion case that had remained unsolved. This haunted Rossi for twenty years and prompted him to return to the BAU where he eventually solved it.
Played by Mandy Patinkin, Senior SSA Jason Gideon was the BAU's best profiler. He helped Derek Morgan and Spencer Reid through their nightmares. He was shown to have a very close relationship with Reid, having hand picked Reid from the FBI Academy for his team; helping Reid through many difficulties (including his implied drug use), even leaving the good-bye letter for Reid to find. Through the first two seasons, Gideon was portrayed to be very good at chess, winning against Reid many times (only exception being Reid's birthdayE104), and encouraging him to "think outside of the box." Prior to the series, he was said to have had a "nervous breakdown" (or "major depressive episode") after he sent six men into a warehouse with a bomb in it; all six agents were killed, and he was heavily criticized about the event. He showed particular dislike for the practice of using religion as a defense or motivation for one's crimes. He blamed himself for the torture Reid received from Tobias Hankel as he had ordered Penelope Garcia to add a virus warning to the videos Hankel posted.E215 Gideon also had a son named Stephen.E111 The nature of their relationship has not been directly stated, but it was implied that they have not seen each other very recently. Gideon began to lose confidence in his profiling skills after Frank Breitkopf murdered his girlfriend, Sarah Jacobs. During his final case in Arizona, he further lost faith in his abilities when his decision to release the unsub resulted in the deaths of both the unsub and a young woman. As a result of his actions, Aaron Hotchner was suspended which was the final straw for Gideon. He then left his cabin shortly afterwards, leaving his gun and badge behind at his cabin along with a letter for Reid to find as he sought to regain belief in happy endings.
Played by Lola Glaudini, SSA Elle Greenaway was formerly assigned to FBI Field Office in Seattle, Washington and was recently assigned to the BAU, being an expert in sexual offense crimes. Her father was a police officer but was killed in the line of duty. She is half Cuban and speaks Spanish. She was shot by an unsub.E122 Though she had physically recovered, the event still left her with psychological scars.E201
As a result of those scars, Elle began acting even more harshly in Season 2, especially during a case involving a serial rapist.E205 Ultimately, she killed the suspect before he could even be properly arrested.E205 During this episode she mentioned that the unsub wrote on the wall with her blood from the wound.E205 She handed in her badge and gun, saying that it was not an admission of guilt.E206
Played by Rachel Nichols, Cadet Ashley Seaver is an FBI cadet assigned to the BAU. Her father, Charles Beauchamp, was a serial killer from North Dakota known as "the Redmond Ripper" who killed 25 women over the course of 10 years before Ashley was a teenager. He was caught by Rossi and Hotch. Since North Dakota doesn't have capital punishment, he was sentenced to life in prison. She hasn't been to see him. Though he writes to her sometimes, she never reads his letters, though she does keep them and admittedly still finds herself unable to hate him for what he did. In "What Happens at Home", the BAU investigate a series of murders in a gated community and bring Ashley along because of her understanding of the family dynamics of a serial killer. In the end, the suspect commits suicide by cop in front of her. In the next episode, she requests that the rest of her remedial training be done with the BAU and is attached to the team. It was reported that Nichols would not be returning to the show for its seventh season. In the season seven premiere it was revealed that Seaver transferred to Andi Swann's Unit.
Played by Brian Appel, Agent Anderson appears in "Plain Sight" (1x04),"The Fisher King" (1x22 and 2x01), "The Big Game" (2x15), as well as "Honor Among Thieves" (2x20), "The Crossing" (3x18), "100" (5x09), "The Slave of Duty" (5x10), and "Hope" (7x08). Agent Anderson was told to drive Elle home in "The Fisher King", and he dropped her off at her front door and left. She was soon shot by The Fisher King, as he had already been there, waiting for her. Hotch scolds Anderson briefly for not doing more, and quickly sends him back to the scene of the crime.
Played by Gonzalo Menendez, Agent Josh Cramer runs the FBI Field Office in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as the Organized Crime division in that city. The two episodes which take place in Baltimore, "Natural Born Killer" (1x08) and "Honor Among Thieves" (2x20) both have him liaising with the BAU.
Played by Jane Lynch, Diana Reid is Dr. Spencer Reid's mother. She first appeared as a potential target of serial killer Randall Garner, the man who shot SSA Elle Greenaway.E122 Like her son, Diana has a genius level IQ. She was once a university literature professor, but is no longer since her diagnosis of schizophrenia. She currently resides at the Las Vegas based Bennington Sanitarium, where Spencer committed her when he was eighteen. Her husband, William Reid, left her when Spencer was a child. The reason the Father left is because, he was aware his wife at the time witnessed a murder, as a family friend avenged his son's murder. He was unable to live with this knowledge though he claims he tried, he said "the weight of knowing what happened, was just too much" Much of Diana and Spencer's time while he was growing up was spent with her reading to him. Spencer writes her a letter every single day because he feels guilty about not visiting her.
Played by Nicholas Brendon, Kevin was Penelope Garcia's replacement when she was briefly suspended and hospitalised.E309 He is a former hacker like her, but he is far messier. Garcia is denied access to her system during her suspension from the BAU. Kevin takes over in the interim. He is immediately impressed with the system she has set up and her GUI. Garcia attempts to hack into the database under his watch. Kevin is unable to block her. They are each impressed with the others work, but Garcia establishes dominance. When they finally meet face-to-face, they fall in love instantly. Kevin remains in awe of Garcia. They've developed a dating relationship in spite of Garcia's 'special' relationship/mutual admiration with Agent Morgan. This is revealed at the beginning of Damaged, when Agent Rossi shows up at Garcia's apartment only to find the quirky twosome showering together.E314 In the season six finale Supply & Demand, they profess their love for each other.
Played by Josh Stewart, LaMontagne works for the New Orleans Police Department. In the Season 2 episode "Jones", it is revealed that his father William Sr. was a detective himself in the NOPD and was killed during Hurricane Katrina as he was working a case in his home and refused to leave. The case later resurfaced and LaMontagne enlisted the help of the BAU.E218 While they were there, he and JJ became romantically involved, although he wasn't mentioned again until "In Heat". In that episode, he was brought to Miami where the unsub had killed a friend and colleague of his. During the episode, it was revealed that he and JJ had been secretly contacting each other since "Jones". JJ didn't want to reveal their relationship since she believed it would complicate their personal lives, but in the end, they went public with it. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Prentiss, Morgan and Reid already knew about it. In the episode "The Crossing", JJ discovered she was pregnant and they have a boy named Henry. The actual status of JJ and Will's relationship (engaged, married, etc) has not been disclosed, though they exchanged rings with Henry's birthstone in season 4.
Played by Cade Owens, Jack Hotchner is the son of series regular Aaron Hotchner, his first appearance being in "The Fox". His mother, Haley Hotchner, is killed in season 5 by George Foyet (a.k.a "The Boston Reaper) but is spared when his father gives him a secret signal to "Work the case" it is shown in Season 7's episode "Hope" that Jack is being bullied.
Played by Meredith Monroe, Haley Hotchner was the wife of series regular Aaron Hotchner. She and Hotchner have a son, Jack.E204 They divorced due to her inability to cope with Hotch's job and duties. She is shot and killed by Hotch's nemesis, George Foyet (a.k.a. "The Boston Reaper").E509
Played by Meta Golding, Todd is JJ's replacement while she's on maternity leave. She was introduced to the team in Catching OutE405 and was educated by JJ until she went into labor.E407 Prior to that, she had spent 7 years working for the FBI's counter-terrorism unit. In the end, she announced that she would return there and that JJ would end her maternity leave and return to the team.E413
These are unsubs that are memorable because each one either affected and/or antagonized a member of the BAU. All of these unsubs are dead, and most occurred on more than one episode.
Played by Keith Carradine, Frank Breitkopf is a textbook psychopath incapable of feeling any empathy towards others. He's also unable to feel any guilt or remorse, and claims no responsibility for his actions.
Like others of his type, he is highly intelligent, manipulative and narcissistic. The BAU discovers that he always travels east and west along the same highway, and all of his victims were along his route. While investigating a series of murders, Gideon and Morgan meet Frank at a remote Nevada diner. Frank is interested in Gideon's name and explains to him what it means in Biblical terms. He explains that Jason comes from the Greek word meaning "to heal", and Gideon is an Israelite who led his people against the Midianites. Frank wonders what his parents had planned for him. He then explains that Frank comes from the Germanic word for "spear".
The two agents then identify themselves and demand to know where "she" - Sheriff Davis - is. Frank explains that he is going to finish his milkshake. Gideon asks Frank if he would like to know how they caught him. Meanwhile, police cars have surrounded the diner. During flashbacks, the team realizes that Frank is sticking around town because of a local woman named Jane, an intended victim who had earned Frank's respect by not showing fear when he had previously abducted her years before. He had fallen in love with her, and had been passing through town each time he was in the area just to watch her and leave her gifts--wind chimes made of human rib bones.
Frank is led outside of the diner by Morgan and Gideon. They are met by the local authorities, including Sheriff Davis, who had been found at Jane's house. Frank tells Gideon that if he is allowed to get away with Jane, he will reveal the location of a busload of children he has kidnapped. Gideon is skeptical, but eventually believes that Frank would not actually harm children. Gideon drives the two of them to the desert, and Frank tells Gideon that the children are two miles to the west. Gideon allows them to leave, locates the school bus and calls for support. They follow Frank and Jane's footprints into the desert, where they disappear. Gideon declares "We'll find him".
Frank appears later in the season finale "No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank" travelling to Maryland, where Gideon lives. Frank continues to taunt him, leaving a trail of victims behind as he challenges Gideon to catch him.
Frank even manages to murder Gideon's girlfriend, Sarah Jacobs in Gideon's own apartment, prompting Gideon to go on the run which also results in the BAU being shut out off the local police investigation due to "conflict of interest".
The BAU manage to call and warn the previous other victims about the impending danger. Unfortunately, they are too late to stop Rebecca Bryant, the daughter--and former hostage--of Randall Garner from becoming yet another of Frank's victims. Gideon learns that Frank is now killing all of the victims that Gideon had previously rescued, in anger for his girlfriend, Jane, leaving him. Frank also kidnaps Tracy Davis who had previously appeared in "The Boogeyman" and arranges a meeting with the team, leaving a message saying "7am, Union Station" in Rebecca's dead hands.
When the team, along with Jane, finally locates and confronts Frank at the train station, Gideon appears and intervenes. Frank then grabs Jane's wrists, tells her he loves her, and the two jump onto nearby train tracks, and a train kills them.
Left psychologically scarred and grief-stricken after losing his girlfriend, Sarah Jacobs to Frank along with the revelation that Hotch has gotten a two-week suspension, Gideon abruptly leaves the BAU for good at the beginning of Season 3.
Played by James Van Der Beek, Tobias originally had a happy upbringing and was a straight A student. When his mother left his father, Charles, for another man, he became abusive towards Tobias, quoting biblical scripture and used the Bible as a punishment guide. Charles once branded a cross on Tobias's forehead with a red hot poker. On another occasion, he "'baptized" Tobias by nearly drowning him in the tub. He would also take Tobias hunting against his will. Later, Charles became very painfully ill, eventually ordering Tobias to kill him in order to put an end to it. Tobias argued "Thou shalt not kill" which Charles countered with "Honor thy father". In the end, Tobias killed him and placed the body in a large walk-in freezer under their house. While his father had been around, Tobias had been addicted to the drug dilaudid and would cut it with psychedelic drugs. He later went to Narcotics Anonymous and, with the help of his sponsor, became clean. This substance abuse, combined with the moral dilemma of killing his father, caused Tobias' mind to fracture and split into three different personalities: his own, his father's as a way to keep him alive, and that of Raphael, a ruthless angel hellbent on doing God's will. At some point, he got a job as a tech support and would use his job to gain entry to the webcams of potential victims. Tobias is first seen at the house of a couple whom "Raphael" chose to kill because of their excessive wealth. While waiting for another couple that was present inside the house to leave, the Tobias and Raphael personalities argue over their right to commit murder, but the Tobias personality immediately surrenders. When the second couple leaves, Tobias gains entry to the house just as the couple goes upstairs. About to follow them, the Tobias personality takes dominant control and he calls 911, alerting the 911 operator of the couple's impending doom in a panicked tone before the Raphael personality takes control and Tobias rushes upstairs to murder the couple, recording the entire scene. The couple's death leads to the summoning of the BAU. Tobias is later seen looking through the webcam of the aforementioned couple, as Morgan looks back at the crime scene. When reviews of the posted video of the couple's grisly death aren't what he originally expected, Tobias later enters the home of a woman "Raphael" chose to kill because they witnessed her committing adultery via her webcam. Calling 911 as the Raphael personality, Tobias calmly tells the 911 operator of what he is about to do and then goes upstairs. The BAU arrives to find the man the woman was cheating with dead and the woman missing.
Later, the BAU finds a posted video of the woman held captive, and they watch helplessly as she is torn apart by three dogs. One of the local policemen recognizes the dogs from another case in which a man, Tobias, was a witness. JJ and Reid go to Tobias's to question him, but he doesn't supply much important information to them and thwarts Reid's entry inside his house in a suspicious manner. When Reid spots Tobias's webcams, he concludes that he is the UnSub and he and JJ split up when Tobias flees. JJ goes inside the nearby barnhouse to find herself standing on the remains of the adulterous woman and facing the dogs that killed her. Meanwhile, Reid, in the middle of a cornfield, hears Tobias arguing with his Raphael personality before slapping himself, thinking Raphael slapped him. Upon hearing JJ's screams, Reid attempts to run out of the cornfield, only to be overpowered by Tobias and held at gunpoint. Reid watches in shock as the Tobias and Raphael personalities argue again.
The rest of the BAU team arrives at the Hankel farm to find a traumatized JJ in the barn beside the corpses of the three dogs, all of which she shot, but no sign of Tobias or Reid. They set up a base at the farm to begin investigating the bank of computers, realizing they are the source of the live feeds showing the murders. They also realize that Tobias has taken Reid, but they don't know where. Tobias is later seen driving in his pickup truck with an unconscious Reid on the floorboards, reminiscing of a time in which his father took him hunting against his own will. He then deliberately stops and asks for directions, dropping a huge clue he knows the police will pick up on. He then drives in the opposite direction, effectively losing anyone who might follow.
When Reid regains consciousness, it is evening and he is sitting in a wooden chair in the middle of a rusty cabin. His wrists are handcuffed in front with a leather strap between them binding him to the chair. He is confronted by Tobias, who has been waiting for him to wake up. After introducing himself as the Raphael personality, he immediately shows him one bullet, calling it "God's Will." Tobias places the bullet in his revolver and spins the chamber, and aims it at Reid and pulls the trigger. It is a blank.
It is daylight when Tobias returns to the cabin with firewood gathered from the grounds. Reid realizes from one abusive exchange that he is not Raphael or Tobias, and attempts to placate him fail when Reid is accused of lying. Reid denies this, saying he is neither a liar nor a sinner. Angered, Tobias strips Reid of his shoes and one sock, and tortures Reid by beating the sole of his foot to extract a confession of sin from him. This is the first step towards Tobias's justification of murder: once the sin is confessed, the sinner can be executed. Reid's attempts to stave off the inevitable by quoting Bible scripture don't succeed, receiving only the reply, "the Devil knows how to read, too". When the Tobias personality takes control, he tries to ease Reid's pain by injecting him with dilaudid. The drug causes Reid to have flashbacks of his childhood.
Later, Tobias, as the Raphael personality, kills another couple in their home, then returns to the cabin. As the Charles personality, he sets up a camera and beats Reid, streaming the video feed to the rest of the BAU team back at Tobias's home. Tobias then shoves Reid, still tied to the chair, to the floor. As a result, Reid begins convulsing and is unable to breathe. The Tobias personality takes over again and revives Reid. He (as Raphael this time) compares the BAU team to the seven Archangels of the Book of Revelation in the Bible. He orders Reid to choose one of his teammates to die. Reid chooses Hotch, calling him a classic narcissist, and misquotes a verse from Genesis in order to send the BAU a clue to his whereabouts.
Reid then has a flashback about him sending his mother to the asylum. Tobias, still as Raphael, tells him that he has dishonored his mother and broken one of the Ten Commandments. Tobias then drags Reid to a cemetery and forces him to dig his own grave, but is distracted by the arrival of the BAU, who had realized where Tobias was keeping Spencer due to Reid's aforementioned tip-off. Realizing that they were there, Reid pretended to be too weak to keep digging the grave, causing Tobias to become frustrated, causing the Charles personality to take over again and snatch the shovel off of Reid, calling him weak. Then, when Charles was distracted, Reid grabbed his gun. The Charles personality, who apparently didn't know that the three personalities were not separate people, told Spencer that he could not shoot all of them because there was only one bullet in the gun he was holding. However, Reid, knowing the error of that statement, pulled the trigger. The personalities of Charles and Raphael were killed instantly; Tobias just had time to thank Spencer for killing them and hope that he would be reunited with his dead mother. Spencer also had time to apologize to him for what had happened. Just before leaving, Reid takes with him Tobias's dilaudid eventually leading to his drug addiction.
In the season 4 episode "Conflicted", Tobias Henkel is revealed to have stuck in Reid's memories. "Conflicted" features an unsub who has dissociative identity disorder and has been raping and killing men on spring break while in his alternative personality.
Played by C. Thomas Howell, he is first seen in the Season 4 Episode Omnivore. Ten years earlier, Hotch and a local detective named Shaunessy had been hunting a serial killer known as The Boston Reaper, who always wore a mask and black clothing and would kill couples along highways in Boston at night. Between 1995 and 1998, he had attacked 21 people, only one of which survived, until Shaunessy made a deal to stop hunting him, which was successful. As a result, the FBI, having never developed a working profile, was unable to catch him.
Hotch and his team are called up to Boston because Shaunessy is dying and knows that his demise will cause the Reaper to start killing again, which is proven true that night. George Foyet is supposedly the only surviving victim of The Reaper. Hotch and Rossi pay him a visit to get information. Hotch and Rossi offer him protection, but he refuses to let The Reaper's attack drive him out of Boston.
Hotch gets a call at his hotel from The Reaper, who offers him the same deal that was offered to Shaunessy. Hotchner blows him off, and in anger, The Reaper steps onto a nearby coach bus and shoots everyone on board. When the team arrives at the crime scene, they find each of Foyet's three addresses written in blood on the windows. The team then rushes to Foyet's latest address, where Morgan is knocked out by The Reaper. The Reaper vanishes, but not before stealing Morgan's badge and leaving a bullet behind to taunt him. After Morgan regains consciousness, the BAU finds a large amount of Foyet's blood. It appears that Foyet had been murdered by The Reaper, but his body is not found.
Garcia digs through Foyet's records, and finds out that he had been a substitute high school teacher, but was fired for sexual assault on a girl. Hotchner then recalls Foyet's earlier statement about his fiance's murder: "Do you know long it takes to stab someone 67 times?" Based on the sexual assault charge, and knowing too many details about the murder, Hotch concludes that George Foyet is The Reaper, and that he had stabbed himself to inject himself in the investigation. A reporter who is writing a True Crime novel about The Reaper is meeting with Foyet at a previously unknown fourth address, and Garcia tracks it from the reporter's cell phone. George Foyet then reveals his true identity to the unsuspecting reporter, angry because the reporter had written that The Reaper was either dead or in jail. While holding the reporter at gunpoint, the BAU storms the house and arrests Foyet without incident. However, while in jail, he inflicts an open cut on his hand and makes himself appear to be vomiting blood. When he is rushed to the infirmary, he escapes the prison.
Foyet later reappears at the end of the Season 4 episode ("...And Back"), when he surprises Hotchner at gunpoint in his own apartment, saying "You should've made a deal." A shot is heard as the episode cuts to black. In the Season 5 premiere episode ("Nameless, Faceless"), when Hotch does not show up to work, Prentiss goes to his apartment to check on him. She finds a pool of blood and a bullet in the wall. When she calls the ER, she finds out that someone dropped off an "FBI Agent Derek Morgan" although Morgan is accounted for, meaning that The Reaper dropped off Hotchner at the ER and let him live. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Foyet had shot the wall next to Hotchner. Hotch tried to take him down, but Foyet prevailed in the struggle. He then stabbed Hotch 9 times, but did so only to wound him. When Hotch wakes up, he figures out that Foyet let him live because he intends to go after Haley and Jack. The BAU then raid Haley's apartment, where they find her and Jack unharmed. At the end of the episode, Hotchner places his family under the protective custody of the US Marshal Service.
At the end of the Season 5 episode "Outfoxed", it is revealed that Foyet had been sending letters to Karl Arnold aka The Fox, a serial killer Hotch and the team put away in Season 1. In the following episode, "100", the team becomes hot on Foyet's trail again after finding an alias, Peter Rhea, that Foyet had been using to buy painkillers with at area pharmacies. They find his apartment and storm it, but find that he has already left, and is carrying several guns. They go to the home of Sam Kazmayer, the Marshal assigned to protect Haley and Jack, where he has been shot 3 times, missing 2 fingers, and has been left for dead by Foyet. Right before he dies, he reveals that Foyet took his phone and had gotten a hold of Haley. Foyet called Haley, posing as a US Marshal, and stated that Hotch was dead and that she needed to relocate. He manages to lure her to her own house. Hotch figures this out, and rushes there to save them. Foyet has Haley call Hotch, and she then determines that she is in danger. Hotch manages to tell Jack in code to hide in a hope chest until he gets there. Hotch arrives at home too late to save his wife, and finds Foyet hiding behind a curtain. He shoots Foyet in the chest several times, who had been wearing a bulletproof vest. A struggle ensues between Hotchner and Foyet. Hotch gets the upper hand and forces Foyet to the floor and beats him until he surrenders. However Hotchner, overcome with grief and rage, beats Foyet to death, where his team finds him, stricken with grief and still thrashing the corpse of Foyet. Morgan pulls Hotch off of Foyet and briefly comforts him, telling him "it's over, man." Section Chief Erin Strauss refers to the crime scene as a "bloodbath".
Played by Tim Curry, Billy was born in 1955 in Southern California. His mother, Nora Flynn, was a prostitute who would put him in the bedroom closet and make him watch her have sex with her clients. She would also pimp him out to them on occasions. When he was 13, he finally snapped and shot her and a client to death, making the latter beg for his life before shooting him anyway. He was arrested and found guilty, but was released from juvenile detention when he turned 18, never making any statement as to why he killed his mother. In 1984, he began burglarizing houses across California (coinciding with the first known murders committed by real-life serial killer Richard Ramirez, on whom Flynn appears to be based) and quickly escalated to murdering the residents of the houses as well as robbing them. He would strike when it was dark, either during lightouts or by cutting the power himself, torture his victims, rape the female ones and kill everyone in the family, usually leaving behind a single survivor (unless there are more children, as he never kills children), usually killing them using a .44 revolver. After a number of murders, he left California in an RV and continued his killings across the U.S. In 2010 (Our Darkest Hour), after 26 years of seemingly unconnected murdering, he returned to California upon learning that Detective Matt Spicer, one of his survivors, had a daughter, Ellie, and feeling responsible for her since she would not have been born if he had not let Matt live.
Upon returning to LA, he begins recreating his original murders before abducting Ellie and her aunt, Kristin, and taking them to the home where he killed Spicer's parents. As the BAU has figured out his goals, Derek and Spicer goes to the house while the others are stuck in traffic as the power had gone out all over LA. Inside, Flynn ambushes Morgan and ties him up. When Spicer arrives, Flynn holds Ellie at gunpoint, forcing Spicer to surrender. After Derek promises Spicer he wasn't going to let anything happen to Ellie, Flynn executes Spicer with a single shot in the chest and leaves, taking Ellie with him. After taking her to his RV, killing another couple on the way using an unknowing Ellie as bait, he shared his twisted philosophy with her, saying him choosing who lives and dies makes him like God. He then kills a motorist about to call the authorities after hearing about Billy's RV on the radio. Flynn then takes her along on his next home invasion, trying to form a "team" with her. After he kills the father, he learns that Ellie sent one of the family's sons to the neighbors to call the police. They leave and find that the residents have rallied together outside. Flynn steals the family's car and drives away with Ellie.
When the BAU learn Billy's identity through newspaper clippings about his mother's murder found in his RV, they contact Flynn by having JJ talk to him using the city's emergency broadcast system. She reminds him that what he is doing to Ellie is just what his mother used to do to him and reminds him that he is in charge and can choose to spare Ellie the suffering he endured during his childhood. In response, he lets Ellie go and takes a couple hostage in their home. He calls the LAPD outside and requests that Morgan enter, alone. He complies and confronts Flynn. When he shares more about his mother's death, he recounts how she looked relieved when he killed her and asks whether or not he just imagined it to make killing her easier to live with. He then asks whether or not Morgan believes in heaven. During his monologue, he is crying. Morgan raises his gun, realizing Flynn's intention to die. Flynn stands up and lifts his gun in an ambiguous motion - aiming it at one of the hostages - and is brutally shot ten times by Morgan, his eyes rolling back in his head and his mouth draping open as he falls back onto the bed and dies. Ellie is secured outside, and Morgan takes the child into his arms, letting her know it was over.
Played by Timothy V. Murphy, Doyle is a mysterious figure from Emily Prentiss's past, Doyle is the leader of a breakaway IRA faction and considered to be a highly dangerous criminal by Interpol. He was a Captain in the Army and later adopted "Valhalla" as his personal moniker. When Prentiss went undercover to capture him, her undercover identity was an arms dealer named "Lauren Reynolds." She grew very close to him and he even confessed to her that he had a son, Declan. In "The Thirteenth Step", Doyle had escaped from a political prison in North Korea and was "off the grid." He then made his way into Russia, stabbed a driver to death for his car. In the next episode "Sense Memory", after returning home from work, Prentiss receives several hang-up calls on her cell phone from an "Unknown Caller", prompting her to turn off the lights and sit at the end of the hallway with her gun. Upon her return home on a subsequent night from a case, Prentiss finds an anonymous gift on her doorstep, containing a single purple flower. She experiences a flashback to a past undercover job in France, during which she was gardening at her lawn in order to keep Doyle under surveillance. Doyle was arrested by the French police, but not before he realized that Prentiss was an undercover agent. Recognizing that the gift of the purple flower means Doyle knows where she lives, Prentiss picks up her cat and her bag and leaves her apartment. Prentiss then enlisted two former Interpol colleagues in hunting him down while also insisting that she would not drag her BAU colleagues into the mess.
In the episode "Valhalla" when a series of murders happened around the DC area, Prentiss knew it had to be Doyle, who was assassinating former operatives involved in his capture. Prentiss still hasn't told her team that she has a connection with Doyle because she was trying to save her team after he threatens to kill them if she said anything. Tsia Mosely, one of the Interpol Colleagues, gets shot in the head by Doyle while visiting someone and it took a lot for Prentiss not to break down and cry. She also discovered that her other Interpol contact, Clyde Easter, knew more about Doyle than he was telling Emily and she couldn't trust him anymore. After the end of the episode, Prentiss looked around the BAU room at her team with tears in her eyes because she was worried about them, she didn't want them getting hurt or killed by Doyle because of her so she just turned around and walked out of the BAU, not even looking back. It was better for her to leave and solve this thing once and for all with Doyle and that was her plan. In the episode "Lauren", Prentiss confronted Doyle, tracking down a low-level Irish mobster and learning from him where Doyle was. When she attacked their car, Doyle flanked her and shot her in the abdomen. Because she wore a bullet-proof vest, she survived, but was abducted. As the BAU approached the building where she was held, she revealed to Doyle that she was responsible for getting his son out of his life; she staged some photos of him and his caregiver being executed, pictures that were used by the North Koreans to interrogate him while he was in captivity. When she reveals that he is still alive somewhere, Doyle begins furiously beating her. During the fight, she is stabbed in the abdomen with a sharp wooden stick. When Doyle hears the sound of gunfire (Morgan, accompanied by SWAT, gunning down his remaining henchman), he fled the building and wasn't seen for the rest of the episode, suggesting that he had gone into hiding again.
In the first episode of Season 7, "It Takes A Village", Doyle is eventually killed by Chloe Donaghy who was one of his former lovers. It is also revealed that the two had a son, Declan. Chloe is shot by Lachlan McDermott, her accomplice who was intending to go through with the exchange where the BAU offered them Doyle in exchange for Declan. Chloe shoots Doyle and then gets shot herself by the BAU seconds later.
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