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“ | You are a fool if you think they're gonna put me in prison with all that I know. | „ |
~ Hawks taunting Jason Gideon. |
Bruno Hawks is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Secrets and Lies". He is the corrupt CIA Deputy Director of Operations who is secretly helping Saudi diplomat Hassan Nadir fund terrorist attacks.
He was portrayed by Ray Baker, who also played Ethan McKendrick in Silverado.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Hawks is an old friend of Jason Gideon, the head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), having served in the military with him. He is a widower with two adult children, who, by his own admission, barely know him. It is also implied that he had a difficult relationship with his father; while hypothetically profiling him, Gideon says that Hawks spent much of his life trying to get his father's approval, as well as trying to avoid his mistakes.
At some point, Hawks met Saudi diplomat Hassan Nadir and discovered that he was secretly funding terrorist groups. Rather than investigate or arrest Nadir, however, Hawks went into business with him, supplying him with classified information and covering up his physical and sexual abuse of his wife, Aliyah, in return for $20 million.
"Secrets and Lies"[]
When Aliyah fakes her death in order to seek the CIA's protection from her husband, Hawks tells Nadir that she is alive, allowing Nadir to kidnap her and their children. One of Hawks' agents, John Summers, finds out that there is a mole in the agency, and orders psychological profiles of three suspects: Agents Gina Sanchez, Kruger Spence, and Olivia Hopkins. The BAU creates the profiles, and Gideon meets with Summers to deliver them.
Hawks, meanwhile, teams up with Nadir to kidnap and torture Summers for get him to reveal Aliyah's whereabouts; when Summers refuses to divulge them, Hawks breaks his neck and shoots the corpse in the mouth to make it look like a suicide. Nadir finds Aliyah and the children anyway, and kidnaps them.
Gideon tells Hawks he suspects foul play, and Hawks tries to misdirect him by asking for his help finding the mole. Using verbal clues Summers made while talking to Gideon, the BAU deduces that Nadir is holding Aliyah and the children captive in a shipping container. The BAU sits in on Hawks' command center to help the investigation, unaware that Hawks is manipulating them.
Hopkins becomes suspicious of Hawks and starts looking through his financial records, finding the money Nadir had given him. Hawks kills her by breaking her neck, and plants an encrypted email from Nadir on Spence's laptop, making it look like he had killed Hopkins on the terrorist's orders. When the CIA's geothermal satellite locates Aliyah, the BAU sends Agent Derek Morgan and Sanchez to rescue her. Morgan tries to arrest Nadir, but Sanchez unexpectedly pulls a gun on him, making him believe that she is the mole.
Sanchez calls Hawks and asks for his order to kill Morgan, Aliyah, and the children, which he grants while cutting off the satellite's visual feed. Four gunshots are heard, suggesting that she killed Morgan and Nadir's family on Hawks' command. Much to Hawks' surprise, however, Gideon reveals that Sanchez only fired her weapon into the air, and hands Hawks a note from her identifying him as the mole. Knowing that Nadir will testify against him, Hawks surrenders, while arrogantly proclaiming that he knows too much to go to prison. He is proven wrong, however, when he is imprisoned for life for treason and murder.
Trivia[]
- Hawks is inspired by the late Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was arrested in 2001 for selling classified information to Russian intelligence.
External Links[]
- Bruno Hawks on the Criminal Minds Wiki