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“ | Don't be afraid, nobody will ever find us here. | „ |
~ Allie to the boys. |
John and Allie Henson, aka The Henson Twins, are the main antagonists of the Criminal Minds episode "Elliot's Pond". They are two siblings who were kidnapped as children and held prisoner for 30 years, and began kidnapping children themselves to have "company".
John is portrayed by Rob Zabrecky, and Allie by Truly Magyar.
Early life[]
John, Allie, and their older brother Deeley grew up in Elliot's Pond, a small town in Delaware, in a dysfunctional home; their father was distant from them and their stepmother was emotionally abusive, so all they had was each other.
One night in 1983, Deeley took them out fishing, and Deeley raced them home through a cornfield. At that moment, Reginald Clemmons, a mentally ill local hermit who lived in the woods as a survivalist, grabbed John and Allie and took them back to his old house. He hid them so well that they were never seen again, and suspicion fell on Deeley; the local police and townsfolk believed he killed them, while his parents blamed him for their disappearance. Wracked with guilt, Deeley became an alcoholic and lived a lonely existence as the town pariah.
John and Allie, meanwhile, lived in Clemmons' cellar, where he taught them how to live off the land and instilled in them his paranoid hatred of the outside world. After he died, however, John and Allie became desperate for companionship, and began planning to kidnap children to "raise" as Clemmons had them.
In "Elliot's Pond"[]
While prowling in the woods, John and Allie find three young boys - William "Bones" Jarvis, Josh Harmon, and P.K. Riggins - playing in the dark, and kidnap them. They keep the boys in the cellar, just as Clemmons had done to them. That night, the boys try to escape through the cellar window, but Allie catches them. The following night, John and Allie cook dinner for the boys and have an awkward, fearful "family dinner" in total silence. Allie tells them not to worry because no one will find them; while she means to reassure them that they are safe from the hostile outside world, the boys take it as a threat.
Meanwhile, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) investigates the kidnapping, and they theorize that the kidnapper was somehow involved in the twins' disappearance back in 1983. They talk to Deeley, who tells them about the night of the kidnapping, while the local sheriff tells them about Clemmons, whom he had always suspected. Reasoning that, even if Clemmons were still alive, he would be too old and weak to kidnap three healthy children. Agent Luke Alvez then ventures that the twins themselves may have taken the boys; having been brainwashed by Clemmons to fear the outside world, they may believe that they are saving the boys by keeping them isolated from society. The agents then head to Clemmons' farm to investigate.
Josh pretends to have a seizure to distract John and Allie long enough for the other boys to get away. As John and Allie go to check on him, the other boys run for the front door. Just then, the BAU bursts through the door and rescues the boys, while taking John and Allie into custody. Deeley visits his brother and sister in the local jail, and the siblings have a tearful reunion. John and Allie are then found guilty of kidnapping, but because of their exceptional circumstances, they are put in a psychiatric hospital rather than a prison.
External links[]
- The Henson Twins on the Criminal Minds Wiki