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| “ | I'll destroy you, you bastard! | „ |
| ~ Geddens after realizing Winslow's betrayal |
| “ | He should have never picked on me. I didn't deserve it. He thought he was so tough. The last girl, she almost knocked him out... It was the best. She really made him bleed. | „ |
| ~ Winslow relishing the memory of killing one of their victims |
Duane Winslow and Art Geddens are the main antagonists of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Watch". They are a pair of serial killers who prey on young women, with Geddens torturing and murdering them while Winslow watches.
Winslow was portrayed by the late Brad Renfro, who also portrayed Todd Bowden in Apt Pupil, while Geddens was portrayed by Ethan Embry, who also portrayed Greg Mendell in Once Upon a Time.
Early life[]
Winslow and Geddens are first cousins who grew up together. Geddens mercilessly bullied and abused Winslow, acting out from the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father, Del, who also terrorized his wife Charla, Art's mother. Winslow tolerated the abuse because he feared Geddens and because he thought he could to use it against Geddens some day. A talented artist, he drew animations of himself inflicting pain on others to gain a sense of power and control he lacked in his real life.
As an adult, Winslow suffered from severe depression and harbored violent revenge fantasies, particularly against women, who made him feel inadequate. He worked as an FAA supervisor at JFK International Airport and regularly took out his aggression on his coworkers, particularly female ones, by writing them up for as many as 20 minor infractions a day. He also volunteered with a shelter for abused women so he could use the victims' stories of domestic violence as fuel for his misogynistic fantasies of torturing and murdering women.
Geddens, meanwhile, grew up to be a merchant seaman, and hated women as well; he was arrested twice for assaulting prostitutes while on shore leave.
They became friends as adults, with Winslow claiming to have gotten over Geddens bullying him. In reality, however, Winslow planned to use him to inflict pain and suffering on as many women as possible because he was too weak and cowardly to do it himself.
They eventually began killing prostitutes together; Winslow brought them back to his apartment, where Geddens beat them to death while Winslow watched through a peephole he drilled behind a wall. Winslow would then stow their bodies in the wheel wells of departing airplanes, where they would be jettisoned from high altitudes when the planes deployed their landing gear. By the time of the episode, they had murdered four women.
"Watch"[]
When two surfers find Winslow and Geddens' latest victim, a prostitute named Marcy, Detectives Mike Logan and Carolyn Barek of the NYPD's Major Case Bureau investigate her death as a murder after finding fist-shaped bruises on her face and body. They find four similar open homicides with the same M.O. and deduce that they are looking for a serial killer who works at an airport.
While questioning employees at JFK, they find that Winslow had written most of them up for minor infractions. She and Logan question Winslow, whose sullen, resentful demeanor and discomfort around her fits her profile of the killer as a depressed, maladjusted loner who fears women and takes his frustrations out on coworkers when he is not killing. A prostitute who saw Winslow pick Marcy up identifies him, but Barek is unconvinced that he has the strength and courage he would need to kill with his bare hands, so she and Logan deduce that he is working with a partner.
Logan and Barek question Winslow again at his apartment under the pretense of asking for information about one of his coworkers. While Barek asks a deeply uncomfortable Winslow about his issues with women, Logan looks around the apartment and finds the makeshift peephole in his wall, and they both come to the conclusion that Winslow uses it to watch while his partner kills their victims.
Meanwhile, Winslow grows worried that the detectives are onto him and makes a panicked call to Geddens, only for Del and Charla to tell him that he is on assignment in Panama. While on the phone, Winslow stares predatorily at a young woman shadowboxing in a gym across the street, suggesting that he intends to make her his next victim.
Logan and Barek look through Winslow's phone records and see that he made calls to his aunt and uncle shortly before each body was found. They question Del and Charla, who tell about their son bullying Winslow as a child. They discover Geddens' arrest record, which they surprise Winslow with at work, hoping to make him suspicious of his partner; they also find cold compresses and gauze in his glove compartment, suggesting that he and Geddens are planning to kill again soon.
Geddens, meanwhile, makes himself sick by ingesting tainted liquor so he can be transported off his ship, which has just docked in New York City. He goes AWOL so he and Winslow can leave New York, but first he meets with Charla, who gives him money. Logan and Barek arrest him before he can leave, however, having been tipped off by Del, who has washed his hands of his son. Logan tries to get Geddens to confess in order to get a better deal than Winslow, but he refuses, saying that he and his cousin would never turn against each other.
Barek and Logan search Winslow's apartment again and arrest him when he comes home from work, finding a pistol in his jacket. They interrogate him alongside Winslow and show him one of Winslow's animations in which he shoots a woman dead before gunning down Geddens, Logan, and Barek before finally turning the gun on himself; the closing title card reads, "We end". Enraged, Geddens attacks Winslow, accusing him of setting up the murders, only for Winslow to mock him for crying after their first murder. As Winslow is taken into custody, he takes ghoulish pleasure in recounting how their previous victim had nearly knocked Geddens out and "really made him bleed".
Winslow and Geddens are found guilty of five murders and imprisoned for life.
Trivia[]
- Winslow and Geddens are loosely based upon Kenneth Bianchi and the late Angelo Buono, the serial killers known as the "Hillside Stranglers".
