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“ | [...I] told you not to talk to me! | „ |
~ Page while killing a victim in a rage |
Clark Earle Page is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior episode "Strays". Page is an accomplice of human trafficker Thomas Luca and a serial killer of women working as accomplices, who Luca provides to satisfy Page's needs.
He is portrayed by Joel Bryant.
Biography[]
“ | I will burn you like I burned them! I'll cut you! I will kill you all! | „ |
~ Page snapping during aggressive interrogation |
Little is revealed about Page's life, except he lives in an impoverished neighborhood in D.C. and works as a bicycle repairman. He has a record of sex offenses and vagrancy, with a household inhalants habit bad enough he went to a hospital for butane toxicity. By unknown means, he and Luca came into contact, and Luca made Page an enforcer for Luca's human and sex trafficking ring. Page kidnapped women and girls under ruses of drug buys, staging the scenes as car accidents, and held them captive in cages in his attack, chained by their throats and fed out of dog bowls. In exchange, Luca gave Page young, blond women with drug habits as accomplices for Page to beat and torture to his liking. Page would notably burn the women behind their knee once each day he tallied for how long he "possessed" them. When he was done with the women or they angred him, Page stabbed the accomplices to death, twisting his knife with each stab to get his rage out. Four women suffered such fates, being found scattered around the neighborhood after they were killed and their murders never connected.
Page's latest target, with his new accomplice Thalia Carp, is Emily Thorpe, neither of them knowing she's the daughter of federal judge Marshall Phelps. Luring her to a fake drug buy, Page and Thalia snatch Emily before fleeing the scene, resulting in FBI director Jack Fickler assigning the Red Cell Team to the case, as Judge Phelps is a personal friend. Emily isn't located, but Page's murders are, and by this time, Page places Emily with another woman and kills Thalia in a rage when she warns them to not upset Page. Page's profiled record and nearby address leads the team straight to him, and he's arrested at his home when trying to escape, but Emily and the other woman were already taken by Luca.
Page, an incompetent and impulsive offender under Luca's thumb, is unresponsive for hours in interrogation because he can't soak in the reality of his crimes and impending penalties. When asked if the women are alive, Page breaks from his poker face and says he doesn't know. Returned his cell, Page is only brought back after the team regroup for a strategy, only for Fickler to go against protocol and order Page to be shaken and scared into answers. So Agent Jonathan "Prophet" Simms forces Page into a tape square and scares him with threats of prison and the size of his cell matching the tape. Page goes from distant and reserved to increasingly rattled, until he finally shouts at everyone threats to their lives.
Page gives no info, but Luca is still arrested, and Emily is rescued at a house party before an attendee can rape her. Page ends up either imprisoned or institutionalized, depending on his state of mind and level of competence, especially after interrogation.
Trivia[]
- Page is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Cameron Hooker, one of two people, along with his wife Janice Hooker, responsible for the kidnapping of Colleen Stan, who the couple imprisoned and raped for years, having previously killed another woman when she didn’t satisfy Cameron’s wants
- Marc Dutroux, Belgium’s worst serial killer, a serial rapist and later serial killer/rapist of girls with the assistance of accomplices, including one socialite funding his crimes reported to be tied to sex trafficking rings and nationwide political corruption.