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Aida Limited is the overarching antagonistic network in the second season of Criminal Minds: Evolution. Aida is a private military contracting brand run by Frank Church, a disgraced military brat creating Aida as his personal cult and child trafficking network, while espousing he was instead the crusader against the very crimes he was guilty of.
Biography[]
Aida was grown from Church's business expertise, when he was too unruly for the military. Church was a pedophile and a dangerous criminal with grandiose delusions, which he used his company as a smoke screen to hide behind. Church had two primary goals: rape children to his pleasure, and create an army of child soldiers to grow into his brainwashed mercenaries. Needing a foundation to build from, he established a youth facility in Utah, Stuart House, where he planned to paint it as an agrarian rehab facility, while it was always his personal torture and experimentation program. Church's goal was to single out the children he, not only wanted to rape for himself, specifically girls, but to sexually and physically brutalize preteen and teen kids there to shatter their sanity, then condition them into his lies and make them imprint on him for dependence. Dr. Jill Gideon, a biological psychologist and the widow of FBI Agent Jason Gideon, found Jason's paper he wrote with Agent David Rossi to identify the key traits of at-risk kids and the means to turn them into homicidal psychopaths. Jill reverse engineered the paper and gave it to Stuart House, believing the lies it would treat the children imprisoned there. Church instead reverted it back to his original blueprint and put five imprisoned kids, known as the "Gold Stars", through the very violence the papers described. The kids were brainwashed with conspiracy theories of kabals, child trafficking, and government corruption, then trained in firearms, combat, and other skills and tactics to make them his personal killers. Damien Booth and Jade Waters, "Gold Stars 1 and 2", were his most promising victims for his personal uses, Church having also raped Jade when she was incapacitated and restrained. It was bad enough when they were shown the very places they were held captive, they believed Church raided them instead of built them, not remembering he was the mastermind behind their captivity. One of the kids, Aiden Keller, was too traumatically shattered from his experiences, reduced to a psychotic state and attacking the eyes of an employee that raped him, so he was thrown out and left to fend for himself. Dana Howe was a devout killer, but Church found her too much a liability to know the truth, so she was backup for Damien and Jade. Pete Bailey, the brother of murdered FBI Deputy Director Doug Bailey, never actively participated in the murders Church ordered, but he was closely affiliated with the other Gold Star Killers, the only people he trusted. After the first trial run, Church lied to numerous families to give their children over to him, where he tortured and trained them the same way after solidifying his program back at his barracks, holding hundreds of children captive them to make them slaves and killers.
Church ordered the group to murder numerous staff members of Aida and Stuart House, disguising their deaths as natural, suicides, accidents, and other misdirecting circumstances to not show up as murders. Damien even killed his own family based on Church's lies, and as Damien and Jade became a modern day Bonnie and Clyde, they grew closer and became a couple as much as a killing team. Church hired criminal network financier Sebastian Gasper to pay a "Strike Team", a group of professionals with day jobs and private military training, to be mercenaries killing the Gold Stars once they were useless to him. By unknown means, the Gold Stars found out first, and Damien butchered all of them to stop the plan. In the meantime, Jade killed deputies in Utah, not just affiliated with Stuart House, but colleagues of her father Rick, he killer of her mother guilty of imprisoning her in Stuart House to silence her testimony. Rick tried to shoot her, but Jade got the upper hand and killed him instead. Aiden was provoked by the killings and had a nervous breakdown, targeting other employees to kidnap and bring to the abandoned properties at Stuart House, along with at least one family member. He would torture the employees by gouging their eyes and shocking them with the same electrified prods he was a battered with. Aiden was the first Gold Star the FBI found, but they shot him to save a woman he was holding captive before they could get his testimony. All of the killers has signatures, most commonly involving eyes. Like Aiden, Damien and Jade would mutilate the eyes of the Strike Team and the deputies they targeted. They changed their M.O. in a couple fashions: a cop on the Strike Team was terrorized from his wife's eyes being gouged in front of him before she was murdered, resulting in his suicide. Jade mutilated her father and other deputies with a makeshift tattoo needle, which she used to mark her arm with an eye for each of her murders. Damien and Jade had signatures for their crimes: Damien left a bullet with a gold star shell casing in each chamber of the Strike Team's guns after they were each killed. Jade stole the deputy's badges after she murdered them. As a gift, Damien did so with the final Strike Team member he killed, after instead mutilating the man by cutting out his tongue.
Serial killer Elias Voit got into contact with the Gold Stars, so he knew about the program. He lured them to a meeting, where they tried to bomb him, but the attempt was a failure. When Damien got him alone, Voit lied the FBI's paper was "proof" they were directly culpable for Church's crimes. Voit later arranged his lawyer, Vincent Orlov, to send Damien and Jade a GPS tracker to one of Voit's storm shelters for more information later. Gasper was tracked when his position was identified, so Church said he'd be killed if veteran and agency consultant Tyler Green wasn't killed instead. Gasper was arrested in a sting to prevent that. As Jill realized what Stuart House had done, she tried to appeal to Damien and Jade. Luring Damien, she brought him to Jason's cabin, where the paper was written, when he took her hostage. With her pleas, she successfully deprogrammed him, leaving him distraught over his crimes. She promised he'd be treated fairly if he surrendered, but when it looked like he'd be peacefully arrested, he saw Jade was aiming a rifle. Devastated by his crimes and unable to live with them, Damien signaled Jane to shoot him and put him pout of his misery. She then programmed the rifle for automatic operation to fire stray bullets for her escape. Jade was heartbroken Damien was dead, and because she was still brainwashed, she was as furious as ever and wanted revenge. To this end, she gouged the eyes of a state trooper with the assistance of Dana and left him alive to tell the FBI she wanted to be left alone, that she was returning to Aida's barracks. Church was identified, but he didn't budge in interrogation and instead insulted the FBI. The agency released him with the embarrassment of the paper the agents wrote being held over the office as leverage. Jade and Dana reached the bunker, where Voit arranged a corkboard diorama to blame the FBI for all the torture they were put through. The women returned to the barracks, rigging the storm shelter to explode once three state troopers entered after finding it, killing them as a parting attack against law & justice.
Church separated Jade, then executed Dana with a shot to her head. He then approached the training children and stopped one girl, Mila Sandoval, from being too violent from her emotions. But when Mila confided in Jade she remembered Church raped her, Jade had flashbacks as well and realized the truth. Church's conditioning no longer worked on her when showing her the padded cells he imprisoned her and other kids in, so she pulled away from with without showing as much. When the FBI found out about Church's child smuggling, they arranged a raid, but his security refused to let them in. Jade, in the meantime, woke up and saw Mila being prepared for another rape. She was tased by an employee and took her place, Church saying she was "his favorite" before torturing her again. However, she woke up before she could be transported unconscious back to her bed and killed two guards, telling Mila to run out of the barracks with the kids to the other agents for safety. She then worked with Pete to rig the barracks with explosives. Once set off, they kidnapped Church and Agent Emily Prentiss, who Pete blamed for Doug's death. Jae confronted them both, and when Church wouldn't confess to his crimes, Jade executed him with a shot to his head. When Prentiss wouldn't say she got Doug killed, she requested a "trial", so Jade and Pete interrogated her, then shocked her when she gave them answers they didn't want. They were prepared to bomb and shoot responding law enforcement, but hacking into their computer system, the agents projected Voit's confession to Doug's murder. They both surrendered, Jade nearly killing herself from being devastated from all the lies and crimes she was entangled in. Prentiss implied she was a victim of rape herself and promised to take Jade's statement. Jade and Pete were imprisoned, and Mila gave a thank you and goodbye hug when reuniting with Jade. Pete saw his and Doug's parents before being taken into custody.
Trivia[]
- Aida Limited, Stuart House, and its affiliated groups and networks are inspired by multiple real-life criminal networks and facilities:
- Diamond Ranch Academy, a facility in Utah under scrutiny for abuse and neglect of the children enrolled at the school, including which led to the death of one girl from infection.
- The Breithvik, Iceland boys' home, where the boys were beaten and raped by the staff regularly, horrifically enough once the home was closed and the victims were compensated, most of the victims grew into criminal records of their own.
- The Florida School for Boys, a violent facility in Florida with a history of torturing, raping, and murdering boys who were detained there. To this day, an estimated hundred boys' remains are still buried and need to be returned to their families.
- The Wilkinson Home for Boys, a violent facility in New York with a history of brutalizing and raping boys who were detained there, resulting in the shooting of one of the chief staff and offenders by some of the victims. The crimes are covered in the memoir Sleepers and the resulting film adaptation.