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The Face Cards are the main antagonists of the Criminal Minds two-part season finale “Hit” and “Run”. The group are a bank robbery later revealed to be secretly led by a terrorist conspiracy, creating chaotic, attention-seeking situations leading up to a master plan.

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Biography[]

Background[]

Izzy Rogers and Matthew Downs were two career criminals who found a kinship in each other’s violent campaigns. Rogers was a sadistic, chaos-aroused assassin, specializing in shootings in the stomach for maximum pain, including a contracted murder of an ambassador at Scotland Yard in 2004. Downs was an embittered, disillusioned, and cynical U.S. Marines veteran with PTSD discharged the same year. The two met in 2008, fell in love, and planned a terrorist attack on the U.S., Rogers for her own pleasure and Downs to avenge his rejection. Agreeing on a bombing, they did test runs with their constructed explosives at the capital of Chad, N’Djamena, causing massive property destruction and committing massacres especially devastating at a train station and church, killing thirty people in total. Rogers and Downs spent the next three years heisting banks around the world, six in total, Rogers shooting dead someone at each bank in her signature fashion and Downs on the floor posing as a hostage to survey the bank in the moment, hacking the security feeds to keep the recordings for the couple to relish and for law enforcement to be stymied from the sabotaged systems.

As the couple returned to the U.S., they accepted they needed help in the form of more accomplices to use to their liking and sell out when they of no benefit to Rogers and Downs any longer. They found Chris and Oliver Stratton, two convicted store and gas station armed robbers recently released from New Jersey, by unknown means, and keeping Downs a silent partner the brothers never knew about, Rogers trained the Strattons to meet the level of her efficiency. Together, they all created a group known as “The Face Cards”, armed bank robbers wearing masks that evoked lettered cards in a paying card deck. Rogers was “The Queen of Diamonds”, the chief strategist, and wore the most ornate mask. Chris was “The King of Hearts”, the muscle looking like the one in charge, and Oliver was “The Jack of Clubs”, their masks more dime-store and painted with matching patterns for their nicknames. Rogers and the Stratton surveyed the banks’ routines and layouts, timed their heists and escapes, and Rogers shot a random victim each time as part of her ritual. Across the country, the group pulled off six heists and murders without a hitch in such repeated M.O.s. Their seventh was scheduled for D.C., the primary target Rogers’ and Downs’ bombing, exactly four years after their bombings in Chad.

Hit[]

This time, Rogers planned to give up the Strattons, sending a message to the police to arrive at the bank on a tip under the alias of one of armed bank robbers responsible for the North Hollywood shootout. The trio goes into Colonial Liberty Bank, where a guard approaches them after the metal detector blares from their guns. Rogers shoots the guard, and when the group puts their masks on and starts barking orders at the employees and other hostages, Rogers announces their collective moniker and menaces everyone into submission, including in other languages when the customers don’t think they can understand her. The robbery goes smoothly, and they all go out the back while Rogers orders the witnesses to count down while they get away. However, Detectives William LaMontagne, Jr., and Jodi Ketelson arrive from Rogers’ tip, and when they see the robbers, gunfire is exchanged. Ketelson is killed instantly at the beginning with one shot to her head, but LaMontagne fires back and mortally wounds Oliver. The robbers retreat back inside and make everyone in the bank stay where they are to start the standoff. The Behavioral Analysis Unit quickly determine Rogers is the leader, and although they make a plea for the women and children to get Oliver a paramedic, Rogers kills Zack Hansen in front of his young daughter Reese as a refusal. Agent Travis Green is sent in disguised as a medic, while the agents successfully identify the Stratton brothers alone. All the while, Rogers and Chris argue while keeping up the ruse on who’s in charge, and Rogers argues with Downs, who pretends to stick up for the hostages by consoling Hannah Wakefield, who has a young son, to enforce their privately agreed act. Agent Green tries to get to Oliver, but he dies from his gunshot before Green can do much, leaving Chris grief-stricken and at risk of being more unstable. Green is ordered to pull his weapon to stop them all, but Chris reacts by shooting Green first to incapacitate him. Chris then furiously executes Green with a shot to his head. Rogers remarks she wants to see him take his time with killing people, not dispatch them.

Rogers and Chris argue on what to do next, and Rogers, having prepared for this, makes Chris order for an armored truck and pilotless plane, which Rogers has to clarify is for Chad, not Switzerland. The team realizes Rogers has another partner and know about her phone call, which they try to use to make Chris forsake Rodgers, but she pressured him not to and tells him an enticing offer: he should demand for LaMontagne to be brought in. The agents refuse, so Chris makes Shawn Harper pick up the phone and say his name, before Chris executes him. Chris blames the agents and says a hostage will die every minute, preparing to kill Annie Beneville. LaMontagne acquiesces and goes inside. Chris shoots him to wound him, then the camera feed cuts out. Downs rushes to him, pretending to offer they should be turned against each other, and LaMontagne tells him to tell his wife, Agent Jennifer Jareau, that he’s sorry. LaMontagne approaches Chris and Rogers, Chris holding his gun on LaMontagne and heading to the gas lines with Rogers, after Rogers talks him down from killing Downs. Downs leads some hostages out, and Rogers makes Chris leave Oliver’s remains behind, before she bombs the bank while there are still people inside. Nineteen hostages and presumably more people in and/or out of the bank were killed, countless more people severely or minority injured.

Run[]

Chris drives the getaway SUV with LaMontagne in the backseat, Rogers watching replays of the murders on an iPad to relive her rushes she felts during each killing in the standoff. Chris is far less cooperative, shaken from the change of their habitual M.O. and the words of the agents taking effect, stopping the car and holding Rogers at gunpoint for answers on why Oliver died. Rogers says she’s his only hope of escaping alive and makes Chris find a paramedic to treat LaMontagne’s wounds. After Rogers kills the medic, they go back to the car, where Rogers is calling Downs. Fully distrustful, Chris stops the car demands to know what she’s planning next. Rogers swiftly shoots Chris mortally three times, forces LaMontagne behind the wheel while she wipes the seat, and orders him to drive off while Chris dies. Rogers and Downs reconvene, by the time the agents identify him as the final accomplice, and the couple kiss while LaMontagne watches. They make LaMontagne go to his house, where Rogers, in spite of being bad with children, holds his son Henry hostage while Downs makes LaMontagne drive him to Union Station. LaMontagne has to excuse a neighbor supervising Henry and lies Rogers is a “cousin”.

It’s in the car Downs reveals they plan to strap a bomb to LaMontagne, which is timed to detonate and destroy Union Station with a massive explosion. Rogers sits with Henry and tells him about how her grandfather was a “scary man”, while Downs steps the bomb to LaMontagne in a public bathroom, after stopping LaMontagne from trying to arrest him. In three separate timelines, Agents David Rossi and Jareau head to her house, Agent Emily Prentiss heads to LaMontagne while the station is evacuated, and Agent Derek Morgan goes after Downs. Downs fights Morgan and nearly chokes him to death, but Agent Aaron Hotchner shoots Downs dead. Rossi gets Henry to hide in a closet for “hide and seek” while JJ fights Rogers. When Rogers runs for Henry, JJ roundhouse kicks her to the ground, Rossi arresting her. Prentiss disarms the first setup of the bomb, but there’s a second timer. When she recognizes the colors of Chad’s flag, that helps her cut the right wire to diffuse the bomb successfully, much to her and LaMontagne’s surprise. Rogers’ identity is discovered once she’s taken into custody, and she’s incarcerated for her crimes, after being tried in every country where the courts are ready to take her on.

Trivia[]

  • The Face Cards are inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminal organizations:
    • The Stopwatch Gang, a gang of Canadian organized bank robbers in the United States who timed their operations to be quick and efficient with wristwatches they’d wear during the robberies.
    • The five perpetrators of the Norco shootout, a California shootout between law enforcement and armed robbers, killing a deputy and one of the robbers. The remaining robbers escaped, and all but the one who killer himself were arrested.
    • Jeffrey and Jill Erickson, an American bank robbing couple responsible also for killings of law enforcement. They used heavy duty weapons, and their M.O. involved Jeffrey committing the robberies while Jill positioned the getaway vehicles.
    • Ronald and James Allridge, an American duo of serial killers and robbers who shot witnesses and were assisted by another pair of brothers, who never expected the murders to be a part of the robberies.
    • Charles Brown and Charles Kelley, a.k.a. “The Mad Dog Killers”, an American duo of spree killers and robbers responsible for a nationwide spree of murders, robberies, and carjackings. Kelley volunteered for the Marines and was discharged due to epilepsy.
    • Weather Underground, a.k.a. “The Weathermen”, an American anti-war terrorist organization guilty of bombings, law enforcement murders, and armed robberies to fund their crimes.
    • The Symbionese Liberation Army, an American far-left terrorist militia with a history of kidnappings, political murders, and armed bank robberies, typically involving hostage-situations, to fund their crimes.
    • The hostage takers of Michelle Ramskill-Estay and Bree Ramskill, who were strapped to fake bombs so Michelle could rob the bank she worked for.
    • The Ex-Presidents, the main antagonists of the film Point Break, a bank robbery crew disguised with masks of numerous former American presidents, led by athletic daredevils.
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