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“ | Beauty can cover a multitude of sins. But underneath, we all look the same. | „ |
~ Frank Breitkopf |
“ | What's the psychopath got in the bag, Jason? | „ |
~ Frank Breitkopf using Gideon's description of him being a psychopathic sexual sadist against him. |
Frank Breitkopf is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episodes "No Way Out" and "No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank." He is a psychopathic serial killer and FBI Agent Jason Gideon's archenemy.
He was portrayed by Keith Carradine, who also voiced Blake Dexter in Hitman: Absolution.
What Makes him Close to Pure Evil?[]
Background[]
- Despite his mom regularly being incarcerated for solicitation as a prostitute and showing sex with clients in front of him, his backstory is not tragic AT ALL as he doesn’t seem to be affected in any way except sadism.
- It's slightly implied he killed his mother.
- Over around 30 years, he has claimed at the bare minimum, 171 victims, ranging from 20 to 50, and always targeting outcasts like runaways and gang members.
- His sadistic M.O. is to inject his victims with Ketamine, kidnap them, and bring them to his van where he performs Vivisection/surgery while they are not just alive but awake.
- Kidnapped "Crazy" Jane Harty and when she showed no fear on her death bed, he spared her and sent some of the rib bones from his victims to Jane, most of the bundles having around ten bones and he therefore has claimed hundreds.
- Jane, while crazy before, turned into a somewhat fanatic to Frank and was willing to commit suicide for his love.
- In 1997 he killed an unidentified man and put his torso in Golconda, Nevada.
"No Way Out"[]
- Murdered Reno Rodriguez (a gang member) and Katherine Hale (a runaway) dumping the gang member's rib cage and the runaway's right arm in the same place he killed a man in 1997.
- Sadistically taunts Jason Gideon by saying he would feel no care if a woman committed suicide and coldly threatens the husband of Georgia Davis about where he took her.
- Slams a bag that contained a head, on the table he was sitting at to end the conversation between Gideon and the husband.
- Sneaks into Georgia Davis's house and injects her with ketamine to later torture, Davis got PSTD in addition to witnessing Frank kill a local.
- When the BAU finds his Van and Barn, they find dozens of bone chimes hanging, the body of a local, and of course, Georgia Davis.
- Killed the driver and teacher of a bus and took 15 kids, hostage, even putting them in the desert day and night to make them die from the weather.
No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank".[]
- Disguised as Gideon, he went into the house of his girlfriend, Sarah Jacobs, killed her, and put a piece of her rib bone in her hand.
- Paid a kid ten dollars to send a message to the BAU saying he would kill them all (Referencing the victims on Gideon's notebook) until he gets Jane back.
- Still disguised as Gideon, he enters the house of Rebecca Bryant, the daughter and hostage victim of Randall Garner/Fisher King who Spencer Reid saved and kills her in the same way he killed all his victims.
- Took the almost victim of Jeffrey Charles, Tracy Belle, and called Gideon to taunt him about killing her.
- In his final moments, professing his love for Hanratty, he holds hands with her and jumps in front of an oncoming train.
- His murders resulted in Gideon gaining severe PSTD and eventually leaving in Season 3.
What Prevents him from Being Pure Evil[]
- Despite it being implied that he killed his mother and his mom not doing anything with him, he manages to show visible anger when Hotchner talks about what job she had and how she is dead.
- Has a twisted but genuine love for Jane Hanratty proven by him killing victims and sending rib bones to her, taking a bus full of children hostage to go with Jane, stopping his murders when with her, preventing himself from hurting her in a heated argument, and confessing love before their suicide.
Trivia[]
- Ironically enough, despite playing a serial killer hunted by the FBI, Keith Carradine would later portray FBI Agent Frank Lundy in Seasons 2 and 4 of Dexter, with him investigating the Trinity Killer (another prolific serial killer) in Season 4.
External Links[]
- Frank Breitkopf on the Criminal Minds Wiki
- Frank Breitkopf on the Villains Wiki
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