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| “ | You have a granddaughter named Tess. Jump or she dies tomorrow. | „ |
| ~ Jarvis threatening Eleanor Parsons. |
Bryce Jarvis is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Surface Tension". Jarvis is a mentally unstable serial killer, turning from violently murdering women to Satanic delusions pushing him to drive community figures to suicide.
He was portrayed by Eric Henry.
Biography[]
Jarvis lived in a religiously zealous and paranoid house, where his parents Fred and Marnie indoctrinated him to imprint on their insanity. They also sexually battered him, but Social Services couldn't find enough evidence to remove him from their house. When his parents were jailed for fraud in 2013, Jarvis had a mental breakdown that left him psychiatrically committed for a temporary inpatient stay. After less than a couple weeks, Jarvis was released, followed by him carrying out a statewide series of rapes and strangulations of six women all the way into 2016. In 2015, Jarvis lost his home and his parents to a massive sinkhole, leaving him with no one to turn to and reducing him to vagrancy. Jarvis' crimes pulled away from his pattern killings, as he gained full-blown religious paranoia derived from Satanism he believed explained the devastation on his life. Looking for "sacrifices" in the good Samaritans at the shelters who would assist him, Jarvis would stalk them and their families and steal their belongings to scare them. He'd confront his targets with threats against their loved ones if they didn't commit suicide. In just the span of ten days in January 2017, Jarvis successfully forced the suicides of Helen Bollinger in her car and George Findley in his home, both by drug overdoses. Throughout his crimes, Jarvis would burn himself as a ritualistic self-flagellation, either with candle flames or a large heating fan in his abandoned hideout.
Jarvis grew bolder by the time he targeted Owen Sims, forcing a revolver to his head under the threat of his children's murders. Owen's wife Beth inconveniently came home to stay right into the scene, which left Jarvis holding a 9mm pistol to her head as additional threat. Beth tried to scream for Owen to stop, but Owen killed himself with the revolver regardless. As Beth was a witness, Jarvis shot her in her head and killed her instantly. As per his usual ritual, Owen was painted with a star formation on his skin, evoking the constellation Ophiuchus to represent Satan, adding one more star than painted on the last victim. Accordingly, while Beth was left behind, Owen was also left dead in a sinkhole like the last two victims, which all would show Ophiuchus from an aerial view with the same connections as the victims were painted with. While accepting food from an organized stand, Jarvis meets Eleanor Parsons and sets his sights on her next. Jarvis knocks Eleanor out and kidnaps her, painting Ophiuchus on her arm with yet another star, then taking her to another sinkhole that would be next to paint the constellation on the map of his crimes. When Eleanor wakes up, Jarvis forces her at gunpoint to the sinkhole, saying he'll kill her granddaughter Tess if she doesn't jump in. Eleanor refuses, still unphased when Jarvis threatens both their lives. With the agents of the BAU rushing to the scene, tracking his motive, his profile, and his DNA matching his original murder spree, Agent Luke Alvez shoots Jarvis in his stomach, Agent Jennifer Jareau rushing to save Eleanor. When she's rescued, Jarvis tries to crawl to the sinkhole himself to die, but Alvez fights Jarvis' shouts and thrashing to handcuff him. Jarvis gets medical attention for his wound and is either incarcerated or institutionalized, depending on his competence at the trial.
Trivia[]
- Jarvis is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- The "California Astrological Killer", an unidentified serial killer of women who were found dead in ravines in the state.
- Gary Taylor, a.k.a. "The Royal Oak Sniper" and "The Phantom Sniper", a serial killer/rapist of women across the country, guilty of at least four women's murders across the country, escalating from assaults to rapes to murders, including in Florida, with constantly changing M.O.s and debatable paychiatric illnesses.
- Leslie Burchart, a homeless serial killer driven by schizophrenia and a confessed suspect in the unsolved "Golden Years Murders".
- Herbert Mullen, a serial killer motivated by paranoid delusions of human sacrifice deriving from natural disaster and grief from the lost of his best friend to a car crash.
- The "South Florida Serial Murderer, a unidentified serial rapist and strangler of women in prostitution across Florida, including retired Playboy model Star Stowe.
- Jean Lerner, the main protagonist of the horror film W Delta Z a.k.a. The Killing Gene, a serial killer who targets couples, forcing one of them to choose to kill the other to save themselves, as her mother chose to die to save her life.
External links[]
- Bryce Jarvis on the Criminal Minds Wiki
