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| “ | Adam doesn't need you anymore. | „ |
| ~ Adam's altar ego, "Amanda", threatening Julie Riley. |
Adam Jackson, also known as Amanda, is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds Season 4 episode "Conflicted". He is a serial killer with dissociative identity disorder whose female alternate personality rapes and murders abusive men.
He was portrayed by Jackson Rathbone, while his alternate personality, "Amanda", was voiced by Milissa Skoro.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Adam Jackson was born in Texas and had a dysfunctional childhood; his mother died when he was a little boy, and he was raised by his stepfather, Mark Harrison, who used to beat him and make him wear dresses before sexually abusing him. The abuse warped him and caused Adam to develop a protective alternate personality named Amanda, who would take over for Adam during the abuse, so he wouldn't have to suffer. Although Amanda took over for him, Adam was still deeply traumatized and took up drugs to cope. He was expelled from school for possession of drugs and had been arrested a couple times.
He was eventually hired at a hotel as a janitor and found a motherly figure in a woman named Julie Riley, who also worked at the hotel. During spring break at the hotel, a drunk named William Browder harasses Julie by the pool and Adam stands up for her. However, William pushes Adam down, which awakens the protective Amanda who proceeds to tackle William into the pool. After the altercation, that night, Amanda targets William. She seduces him, takes him up to a room, ties him to the bed, rapes and murders him, and leaves his body in a fetal position in the closet. His body was soon discovered by Adam, who showed up to clean the room the next morning.
"Conflicted"[]
A day later, Amanda rapes and kills another man named Daniel Keller. His body is once again found by Adam who shows up to clean the room the next morning. With two murders taking place at the same hotel, the police call in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), who initially believe that the murders are being committed by a man and a woman working together.
After Adam/Amanda rapes and kills a third man, Adam is interviewed by BAU Agents Spencer Reid and Derek Morgan. The team conclude that he fits the profile of the submissive male partner, suspecting that Julie is the dominant female in the team. Reid subjects Adam to a polygraph, which he passes. However, after he passes Adam confidently stares Reid down, an uncharacteristic act for a submissive. Reid realizes that Adam suffers from a split personality and is both the male and the female.
Julie searches for Adam and finds several items belonging to his previous victims in his room. She confronts him, but his Amanda persona takes over and incapacitates her before escaping. Amanda then makes her way to Corpus Christi and confronts Harrison. The BAU tracks Amanda down and finds her about to asphyxiate Harrison with a plastic bag. Reid is successfully able to talk Adam into surrendering; however, in a final act of mercy, Amanda takes permanent possession of the body. S/he is then institutionalized.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Adam is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Billy Milligan, a.k.a. "The Campus Rapist", a serial rapist of college women in Ohio who was also afflicted with multiple personalities.
- Colin Ireland, a.k.a. "The Gay Slayer", a serial killer of men he seduced and brought to hotels before suffocating them to death.
- Samantha Gray, the protagonist of the film Schizo; a serial killer of people in her life, starting with her abusive mother, then people who get close to her past while she has fugue states; her spree ends when she kills her mother's lover by pushing him to his death.
- Tony Rendina, the main antagonist of the giallo film A Blade in the Dark; a serial killer, mostly of women, with an alternate personality of a woman with murderous urges due to childhood trauma. He rented out his house and killed women who went to the property out of hating his alter and feeling less of a man.
- In the season four DVDs for Criminal Minds, there exists a deleted scene where Adam shoots Morgan in the shoulder.
External Links[]
- Adam Jackson on the Criminal Minds Wiki
