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“ | Beauty can cover a multitude of sins. But underneath, we all look exactly the same. | „ |
~ Frank Breitkopf |
“ | What's the psychopath got in the bag, Jason? | „ |
~ Frank Breitkopf |
Frank Breitkopf is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episodes "No Way Out" and "No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank". He is a psychopathic serial killer and FBI Agent Jason Gideon's archenemy.
He was portrayed by Keith Carradine, who also voiced Blake Dexter in Hitman: Absolution.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Frank never knew his father. His mother, Mary Louise Breitkopf, was a German immigrant prostitute who made him watch as she serviced her clients, eventually turning him into a sexually sadistic psychopath. Frank ultimately killed his mother and preserved her corpse for years in her old apartment. After killing his mother, he began traveling around the U.S., killing women of varying ages who, in some way or another, reminded him of her.
He kidnapped a mentally ill woman named "Crazy" Jane Hanratty, but spared her life and let her go because he could tell she was not afraid of him. He would occasionally give her "gifts" of wind chimes made of the bones from his victims' ribcages, leaving them on her porch and disappearing.
Meeting Jason Gideon[]
After the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) tie Frank to a series of murders and the disappearance of Sheriff Georgia Davis, Agents Jason Gideon and Derek Morgan find him at a diner, drinking a strawberry milkshake. Frank taunts them, taking a particular interest in getting under Gideon's skin.
Georgia is ultimately found by the authorities, traumatized, inside Frank's trailer. Frank then says that he will give Gideon the location of a bus full of children he had kidnapped earlier, but only if he could leave with Jane, who believes she is in love with him. Gideon agrees, but promises that he will not stop until he has caught Frank. Frank and Jane then disappear into the desert.
Death[]
Frank eventually murders Gideon's old friend Sarah Jacobs and, later, serial killer Randall Garner's daughter Rebecca Bryant. He also kidnaps serial killer Jeffrey Charles' would-be victim Tracy Belle, and demands to see Jane in return for letting her go. The BAU interview Jane, who says that she left Frank after he began killing again. Gideon theorizes that Frank is intent on killing people he and the BAU saved.
Realizing that he will soon be arrested, Frank demands that Gideon bring Jane to him at a train station. Frank tells Jane that they belong together, but do not fit in the world; he then grabs Jane and jumps in the front of a train, killing both Jane and himself.
Body Count[]
- Mary Louis Breitkopf (possibly)
- (unknown first name) V. Alberts
- Francine Aurora
- (unknown first name) U. Averys
- Evette Banner
- Selma Brooks
- Benjamin Delherd
- Sally Hollister
- Clayton Little
- Joan Norwich
- Muriel Waltman
- (unknown first name) B. Wolcott
- Unknown Man
- Reno Rodriguez
- Katherine Hale
- Unnamed Bus Driver
- Annie (surname unknown)
- Sarah Jacobs
- Rebecca Bryant
- At least 158 other unknown people (possibly even more)
- Total - At least 177 people
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Frank is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- David Parker Ray, a.k.a. “The Toy Box Killer”, a serial rapist and suspected serial killer of women across Arizona and New Mexico with accomplice, kidnapping and torturing them all with an uncannily similar set up to Frank’s vehicle and weapons.
- The Chowchilla kidnappers, a trio of mass abductors of a bus driver and multiple children, who were held in a quarry for ransom. In real life, they escaped to freedom and rescue.
- David Griffin, the main antagonist of the film The Watcher, a serial killer of women daring the FBI agent on his case to catch him, even after killing the agent’s girlfriend and additionally scarring him by making him watch women die from narrowly missing the chance to save them from Griffin.
- Peter Evans, the protagonistic villain of Bug, a psychotic war veteran who draws a woman into his delusions, then kills to keep her with him and commits a double suicide with her.
- BAU Agent Emily Prentiss mentions the existence of a yet-to-be-identified "I-80 Killer" targeting co-eds in Indiana in the episode "The Last Word". Frank would search for victims while traveling along that particular highway. In that same episode, BAU Agent Spencer Reid mentions that it is very rare for two independent serial killers to be active within the same area.
- Frank is the first antagonist in the series that manages to escape from the BAU without being arrested or killed, albeit briefly.
- He is also the first antagonist whose actions caused a senior member of BAU (beyond the field agents) to permanently retire from his position (and the entire series), and therefore being the first antagonist who caused a major impact on the BAU's leadership. In Frank's case, it is Gideon, who was the Unit Chief prior to his retirement.
External links[]
- Frank Breitkopf on the Criminal Minds Wiki