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| “ | You don't understand. This is where it is. It has to be here. It has to be. This is where she was infected. I have to find it. | „ |
| ~ Caleb's desperation to stop his hallucinations. |
Caleb Sands is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Mixed Signals". Caleb is an extremely paranoid spree killer out to find the source of a hallucinatory affliction, at the cost of the lives of people he assumes are in the way.
He's portrayed by Billy Lush.
Biography[]
Caleb worked as a solar panel installer in Taos, New Mexico, with his wife Sarah, who was the reason for the move to the city with her ambitions in sculpting. Taos was one citing of a phenomenon known as The Hum, a low-frequency sound (or hallucination of one) that's known to drive people insane. When Sarah became a victim, Caleb took all precautions, keeping every electrical appliance and device from running in the house, then moving to a cabin away from the city reserved for artists. As they neared the end of Caleb's employment contract and needed to leave, with Sarah still hearing the noise, she snapped and drilled into her temporal lobe in hopes of stopping herself from hearing the Hum, only to kill herself. Caleb found her dead when he returned home, the trauma so bad he also started hearing the Hum. He buried Sarah and said on message boards she took part in that she was going on vacation. Sands became more unhinged from the hallucinations and decided to get rid of the Hum by any means necessary.
He first buys a noise-cancelling box from schoolteacher Steve Kante, who designed the boxes himself. When it fails, Caleb uses the same drill Sarah died by to kill Kante in the exact same fashion. He then went to Dr. Stacy Uqalla for treatment, but when she failed, he broke into her office at night and rummaged through her records for answers. When she arrived, he interrogated her and killed her two when she didn't give the answers he wanted. Believing construction and development had the answer, he tied up Ben Montoya at one of the sites he worked on and interrogated him too. He was baffled as well, so Caleb killed him as well. Caleb then went to the library to look for city blueprints, and when he was turned away, he nearly killed Alma Hernandez outside the library in the parking lot. He realized she was deaf and released her, saying she was "lucky" for not having the hallucinations. Knowing an electromagnetic field resided in the city, Caleb desperately kidnapped one of the power plant workers, Jake Owens, and made him start a power outage. The hallucinations stayed, so Caleb furiously killed Owens by repeatedly stabbing him with the running drill out of his own decompensation.
Lost on answers, Caleb frantically returns to his former cabin, where a couple expecting a baby, Joe and Chikodili Mahoney, now reside. He forces the couple aside and strips a wall of decorations before he starts smashing through the boards with a large ax. When the BAU arrives to stop him, Agent Tara Lewis pleads she understands his loss and Sarah's pain, as she was married to a man with a drug addiction he didn't get help for. Caleb, exhausted, said there's nowhere else to look for the Hum, continuing to hear it in the confrontation, and saying he couldn't believe Sarah until he kept hearing it, mixed with her screaming and sound of the drill she killed herself with. He was detained and presumably institutionalized, the couple extremely shaken but physically unharmed.
Trivia[]
- Caleb is inspired by Craig Jacobsen, a serial killer of women convicted after murdering a woman who came into the Spy Craft store he worked at, leaving her dead in the Mojave Desert.
