Griffin Welks is the minor antagonist of The Mentalist TV-show. He is a worker of a laboratory, who turned out to be a thief. He was played by J.C. MacKenzie.
Biography[]
Another investigation begins in an unconventional way for Teresa Lisbon's team. Dr. Alicia Seberg is infected with a dangerous virus that is slowly killing her. Certain that someone has malicious intent behind what happened, Alicia calls Patrick Jane via video link and begs him to find her killer. Patrick, unable to refuse, involves Teresa Lisbon's team, of which he is an independent consultant, in the case. An investigation into the incident begins. Teresa arrives at the scene and immediately interrogates Alicia. She assures that she did not touch the ampoule with the virus, but found it open on the floor when she came to work. After this, Alicia says goodbye to her husband and daughter and dies. The company's employees are vaccinated. Meanwhile, the police are checking which of the employees had access to the viruses (after all, only a limited number of people had access to the lab with the viruses, since there was an eye scanner on the door). Meanwhile, Patrick is studying that very eye scanner. Unexpectedly, the scanner gives Patrick access to the lab (which should not have happened). Patrick immediately reports this to Teresa. It turns out that anyone could have entered the lab and opened the flask with the virus. At this time, the CBI has a clear suspect. The fact is that Alicia's husband was cheating on her. Alicia did not mind, since she herself had a lover (which she managed to tell Patrick and Teresa about before her death). Now the police believe that it was her husband's lover who could have killed Alicia. Patrick encourages her to run away, and he pretends to have broken another flask with the same virus. He is counting on the killer trying to escape. One of Alicia's colleagues, Griffin Welks, tries to escape. However, Kimball Cho and Wayne Rigsby (members of Teresa and Patrick's team) catch him. He tells why he did all this. The fact is that the same virus is expensive on the black market. Therefore, Griffin stole and sold it. He invested the money he received in real estate. However, there was supposed to be an audit that day. The shortage would have been revealed. In his great wisdom, Griffin decided to spill the virus in the lab where Alicia worked. In this way, the shortage would be attributed to the negligence of Alicia and the management, who did not ensure that the scanner only allowed a limited list of people.