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Ian Little is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Gabby". He is a drug dealer who helps his girlfriend Sue Walsh kidnap her cousin's daughter, sustaining major third-degree burns on his face in the process.
He was portrayed by Tysen Fraker.
Early life[]
Little was orphaned as a young child when his father killed his mother and himself.
As an adult, Little worked in his uncle's plumbing business, but made most of his money as a drug dealer. He was also arrested twice for attempted rape. He spent most of his free time smoking marijuana with his friend Doug Hoffer and Doug's wife Kate until they got divorced. He also started dating Kate's cousin, Sue Walsh.
A few days prior to the events of the episode, Walsh convinced Little to help her kidnap and murder Kate's four-year-old daughter Gabby as a way of punishing Kate for having been spared the sexual abuse Walsh endured as a child at the hands of her uncle, Kate's father. They also tried to recruit Doug, but he refused, so Sue killed him. Little tried to dispose of Doug's body by dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire, but he accidentally caused an explosion that covered his face in third-degree burns.
"Gabby"[]
Walsh and Little go through with their plan to kidnap Gabby, attracting the attention of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). They recover the abandoned van that the kidnappers were seen driving with Gabby in the backseat, and Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia traces it to the plumbing company owned by Little's uncle. They discover that Little's alibi - that he was working at the time of the kidnapping - does not match with the company's work records, so they bring Little in for questioning.
BAU Supervisory Agent Aaron Hotchner interrogates Little, who claims to have suffered the burns on his face from a cooking accident. Hotchner sees through him, however, noting that he could not have suffered such major burns from a small kitchen fire, and that he must have started a major fire that got away from him, the kind of fire that could have been caused by dousing an object - such as a corpse - in gasoline and setting it ablaze. Little becomes agitated and declares that he won't say anything else without a lawyer present, but Hotchner replies that he will have all the information he needs after the police search Little's house and the surrounding area.
When the search recovers Doug's charred remains, Hotchner and the rest of the BAU team deduce from the crime scene evidence that Walsh killed him and orchestrated Gabby's kidnapping, and that Little was merely following her orders. Hotchner confronts Little with the evidence against him and offers him the chance for a more lenient prison sentence if he reveals what he knows about the kidnapping. Little tells him about the circumstances of the kidnapping and Doug's murder, which helps the BAU catch her and rescue Gabby. Little is then imprisoned for kidnapping and being an accessory to murder.
External links[]
- Ian Little on the Criminal Minds Wiki
