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| “ | He's mine, he's mine, he's mine... you can't have him, go away! | „ |
| ~ Gina while being arrested. |
Gina King is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "The Performer". She is a delusional schizophrenic who is obsessed with the has-been rock star Dante, whom Dante's manager Ray Campion manipulates into killing women in order to create publicity for Dante's new album.
She was portrayed by Inbar Lavi, who also played Eve in Lucifer.
Biography[]
Gina suffers from severe paranoid schizophrenia, and has delusions that she is a vampire. She becomes obsessed with fading Goth rock star Paul Davies, whose stage persona is a vampire named Dante, as she creates websites devoted to him writes him rambling fan letters in which she promises to kill for him so they can be together "in the undead".
Dante's unscrupulous manager, Ray Campion, reads Gina's letters and concocts a plan to use her to boost Dante's flagging album sales. He contacts her and tells her that Dante wants her to kill for him to prove her love, and at Campion's instigation strangles four fans, pokes fang-like holes in their necks to drain their blood, and write the words "The Liar" - the title of Dante's latest album - on the bodies of some of them in their own blood. One of the victims, Tara Ferris, is Gina's best friend and fellow Dante fanatic.
The murders attract publicity, especially after the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit arrests Dante on suspicion of committing the murders. They take him into custody after Agent Emily Prentiss notices that a car belonging to one of the victims is parked in Dante's drive way, having been planted there by Campion. As Prentiss questions Dante, Agent Spencer Reid examines the crime scene evidence and finds that the DNA from saliva found on the victims' wounds belongs to a woman. After technical analyst Penelope Garcia uncovers Gina's obsessive online writings about killing for Dante, she and Reid deduce that she is the killer.
Campion calls Dante to tell him that sales of The Liar have gone through the roof, and promises to "fix" his legal predicament, alerting the team to his involvement in the murders. Agent Jennifer Jareau goes to arrest Gina, but Campion knocks her unconscious with a shovel, and tells an agitated Gina to kill her. Before Gina can do anything, however, the rest of the BAU team arrives and takes her and Campion into custody. Gina is then presumably institutionalized.
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Trivia[]
- Gina is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Paula Goodspeed, the stalker of Paula Abdul, who auditioned on American Idol and was rejected, gained attention for following Abdul online, and then overdosed herself in her car near Abdul's home.
- Veronica Compton, an accomplice of Kenneth Bianchi, one of the "Hillside Stranglers", who was directed into an attempted copycat murder based on the Stranglers to cast doubt on the serial killers' guilt.
- Luke Helder, a.k.a. "The Midwest Pipe Bomber", a nationwide serial bomber with a history of grunge music performance in college. Helder bombed letter boxes and wanted to draw the Nirvana logo on the map of the United States with the locations, leaving manifesto pages implying he wanted immortal fame like his idol, deceased grunge musician Kurt Cobain. His band’s albums spiked in sales once he was identified and arrested.
- John Hinckley, Jr., the stalker of Jodie Foster and attempted assassin of then-American president Ronald Reagan, in imitation of Jodie's appearance in Taxi Driver.
- Richard Chase, a.k.a. "The Vampire of Sacramento", a serial killer and "vampirist" with schizophrenia, which extended to killing people so he'd drink they're blood.
- Albert Fish, a.k.a. "The Gray Man", a serial killer/rapist of children with a history of familial mental illness, obscene letters to women, religious delusions driving him to kill, and cannibalism of the remains of the children he murdered.
- Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. "The Mikwaukee Cannibal", a serial killer/rapist of men and boys of color raised by his grandmother and similar preserving mutilated remains of people he killed to eat them. Like Gina wearing goth outfits in tribute to Dante, Dahmer wore yellow contacts when scouting for men to look like a “sith” from Star Wars.
- The killers of Elyse Pahler, who was gang-raped a tortured to death to evoke Slayer, a death metal band who was later sued by Elyse's family for inspiring the murder.
- John Neville, the main antagonist if the giallo film Eyes of Laura Mars, a police detective and serial killer of people in the life of artistic photographer Laura Mars, evoking her published history in his murders while seducing her in person and stalking her during his murders. He's revealed to have been motivated by dissociative identity disorder.
- Nina, a mental patient with Renfield's syndrome who goes on a violent spree to drink blood after a psychiatrist takes on her case when he's in no condition to do so.
External Links[]
- Gina King on the Criminal Minds Wiki
