| “ | We're the same, Seeley. We both want to do the right thing. | „ |
| ~ Jacob Broadsky to Seeley Booth of their moralities. |
| “ | There's something you should consider, Booth. Of all the people that have died in our little clash of wills, Paula was the only good person. I really liked her, and you're the reason she's dead. So tell me, standing in front of God, which one of us will be judged more harshly? | „ |
| ~ Broadsky taunting Booth for Paula Ashwaldt's suicide. |
Jacob "Jake" Ripkin Broadsky is the main antagonist in Season 6 of the 2005 FOX crime-comedy TV-series Bones.
He was the former mentor to Seeley Booth and a former military sniper turned mercenary, who went through vigilantist means by assassinating people deemed unfit for society without proceeding their trial. Broadsky's clients pay him for bounties marked on criminals who had harmed society, while simultaneously also harming society himself, with a victim whom he professionally killed for their property to assassinate Heather Taffet. His plans of vigilante justice turned south when anyone intervened in his occasional murders, as he planned revenge upon Booth upon his associate's fate.
He was portrayed by Arnold Vosloo, who also played Imhotep in The Mummy films, François Molay in Agent Cody Banks, Habib Marwan in 24, Spirit Killer in Charmed, Colonel Coetzee in Blood Diamond and Zartan in the G.I. Joe film series.
Biography[]
Jacob Ripkin Broadsky was officially born on March 13, 1970 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Not much is known about his childhood, but he received Special Forces training in the military and graduated at the top sixteen of his class at Fort Stewart.
He was formerly a military sniper during the Gulf War who trained Seeley Booth during his time in the army, serving as both a mentor and a friend to Booth and his soldier friend William Preston, indirectly involved with potential assassinations. During his time in the army, he had saved twelve soldiers' lives, including one of his associates, Paula Ashwaldt, and many records of his good deeds as a sniper are not allocated officially in the system. As one of the best snipers in the world, Broadsky moved on to a hostage rescue unit. One year in, Broadsky shot and killed a masked gunman to save a hostage, but was indicted for murder as he was not officially ordered to do so. Before he could be formally charged, Broadsky went into hiding.
Assassination Spree[]
Although he presumably had been a bounty hunter for years, he did not resurface on the radar until he successfully assassinated Heather Taffet, aka The Gravedigger, with a single rifle shot from the .338 Lapua Magnum by a custom-made pure copper bullet. Hired by James Kent in exchange for two million dollars, the father of two of Taffet's victims, Broadsky sniped her from an apartment complex that he murdered the owner Tracy Leveque for access to. He used one of her tables as a sniping post, acting upon this for the challenge rather than for the view.
He is then identified when he purchased land for a hideout in Seeley Booth's name, where Booth conversed Broadsky about the recent Gravedigger assassination, and that he could properly search Broadsky's land because the alias Seeley Booth is under Booth's own name. Booth chased him down but suffered a leg injury, followed by the trailer explosion trap Broadsky himself activated, including the evidence tying him to the assassination later destroyed, allowing Broadsky to get away unharmed and scot-free.
Broadsky continued assassinating those who he feels evaded the justice system, obtaining the profiles of high-profile criminals from Ashwaldt. He secretly resided inside an apartment, shaving his beard, suiting himself up, looking from his window, packing up his sniper and heading off to his next target, not before answering Ashwaldt's call about meeting at a cabin. His next victim was a counterfeiter named Walter Crane (or Walter Coolidge), who arrived for a deal, yet Broadsky showed up in a suit to disguise and blend within society, only to pierce a shot through Coolidge's neck as a means of "disconnecting the computer," a golden shot for snipers.
Broadsky's innocent victim's murder from the apartment complex placed a devastating toll on both Kent and Ashwaldt, as they never acknowledged his commitment to pursue and achieve his goals, let alone killing innocents to assassinate one specifically. Ashwaldt later committed suicide at her office desk for her accessory to murder an innocent woman who never committed wrongdoing. When Broadsky ackowledged this news, he blamed Booth for reasonably guilt-tripping Ashwaldt into her death. He confronted Booth in his own apartment, and warning him that he would have no problem making Booth's son Parker, a fatherless child.
Broadsky went to a weapons manufacturer named Benny Winkler, whom he specified the blueprint of his supposed next target's location, being the courthouse's men's restroom. Winkler later delivered Broadsky the customized smart-bullet ammunition for his specifications of the room in a locker at the bus station for him to retrieve and utilize them later at night. Broadsky heeds his next criminal target from the court house, Gregory Allen, a crooked cop on trial for bribery. With this information, he equipped his AM-40 rifle, and thermal-scanned the mens' restroom to set up his sniping grounds. Before Broadsky can assassinate Allen with the smart bullet, Booth and Brennan intervened from a different yet adjusted building and stopped him in time, destroying his rifle as a result. Therefore, he escaped before Booth can contact the FBI for a manhunt, being on the run once more.
Personal Vendetta[]
After escaping from an attempted assassination, he convened with a person named Matt Leishenger, who appeared to be a security guard operating at the port. Leishenger was training with Broadsky, whom's sniper rifle he uses to train and shoots an apple. Once Broadsky requested his rifle and security pass, yet Leishenger refused, Broadsky then professionally attacked and stabbed Leishenger to death, while having injured his own arm in the process, later escaping with a foreseeing disadvantage.
Broadsky approached to Ashwaldt's grave, delivering her flowers and a phone where Booth later retrieves upon staking at the cemetery. Booth answered Broadsky's incoming call, where he threatened Booth that he would never see a bullet take him out. Broadsky now made his commitment personal, as he was watching Booth and Agent Genevieve Shaw uncover Leishenger's murder and robbery, while simultaneously creating a custom bullet made for Booth.
He then arrived to the crane's control room, used an infrared scope of Leishenger's custom-made rifle to scan the Jeffersonian Institution where Booth worked with the rest of his team. He called Booth's phone to get his precise location, but Booth handed his phone over to one of the lab interns, Vincent Nigel-Murray, who instead answered. Perceiving that Nigel-Murray is technically Booth, Broadsky fired Leishenger's rifle towards Nigel-Murray's heart, where he then succumbed to the fatal wound, pleading that he was not ready to die in the process.
An enraged Booth located Broadsky to the docks and engaged in a sniper-to-sniper fight. Since Broadsky was at a marksmanship disadvantage due to his broken arm, yet had the higher ground than Booth, Booth used Broadsky's broken arm to his advantage with the lower ground position. Broadsky is then shot in the leg by Booth, including the applied force to the wound site which temporarily incapacitated Broadsky, leading to his capture and subsequent imprisonment.
Personality[]
| “ | Sweets: Being the cause of someone's death, no matter what the circumstances, leaves a man with a great burden. And people deal with that burden in different ways. You know, some, some celebrate it. They relish the power as a way of justifying what they have done. Others, like Broadsky-- they justify another way. They feel that it's their destiny to mete out justice. They convince themselves that they have the moral high ground to make these calls. It's the only way they can live with what they've done. | „ |
| ~ Sweets explaining Broadsky's rationale. |
Jacob Broadsky believed in moral righteousness, where those who are deemed unfit for society should be exiled from life, like criminals who do harm and terrify innocents.
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Accomplices[]
Confirmed[]
| Paula Ashwaldt | Got profiled targets' information from. |
| Benny Winkler | A weapons and ammunition manufacturer who provided custom weaponry to him. |
Clients[]
| James Kent | A client who paid him to assassinate Heather Taffet. |
| Raul Ortiz | A client who paid him to assassinate Walter Coolidge. |
| Unknown client | A client who paid him to assassinate Gregory Allen. |
Victims[]
Confirmed[]
| Unnamed gunman | Assassinated to save the hostage in the process. |
| Tracy Leveque | Stabbed in the neck, with her apartment complex used as a sniping ground against Heather Taffet. |
| Heather Taffet | Pierced in the head with a .338 Lapua Magnum, along with decapitation. |
| Walter Coolidge | Pierced through the spinal cord, coined "disconnecting the computer." |
| Matt Leishenger | Beaten and had his throat slashed, with his credentials used to access the docks. |
| Vincent Nigel-Murray | Pierced through the heart, perceived as Seeley Booth. |
Attempted[]
| Gregory Allen | Attempted to obliterate with an exploding bullet, yet unknowingly saved by Seeley Booth in time. |
| Seeley Booth | Attempted to blow up with an exploding trailer and assassinate with a custom thermal-detection sniper rifle but ended up killing Vincent Nigel-Murray. |
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
| “ | You could never stand the idea of collateral damage. | „ |
| “ | Sorry, I'm coming in from the north side. Can you see me? | „ |
| ~ Broadsky moments before assassinating Coolidge. |
| “ | The day I wake up, and there are no more bad people that need killing, you're the one I come to. | „ |
| ~ Broadsky's aftermath plans. |
| “ | Booth: I'm coming after you, and I'm gonna catch you. And next time I have you in my sights, I'm not aiming for your knees. Broadsky: Good to know. Because if that moment comes, I will not hesitate to make that sweet son of yours fatherless. |
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| ~ Broadsky's threat to Booth with his son Parker. |
| “ | Winkler: All he told me were the specs I needed to design the bullet! Booth: Which were? Draw. Winkler: It was going to be used in a rectangular room, 30 feet long by 18 feet. It has marble paneling and a marble floor, and a ceiling-- 12 feet high, made of copper. It has a window on this wall-- one by four feet, the bottom sill eight feet off the floor. |
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| ~ Winkler describing Broadsky's specifications of his potential target. |
| “ | My conscience is clear, and since you're trying to stop me, you're playing the wrong team. | „ |
| “ | And don't you forget, you never see the bullet that takes you down. | „ |
| ~ Broadsky's to Booth's foreseeing supposed fate. |
| “ | Booth: Broadsky! You missed! Broadsky: Happens to the best of us! Booth: Not to you, not to me! You wanna give up? Broadsky: You want to give up? Booth: You know that's not my thing. |
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| ~ Broadsky upon missing the shot towards Booth. |
| “ | Booth: Drop your weapon or I'll blow your head off. Broadsky: Breaking tradition here. Snipers go for high ground, Booth. Booth: Your hand's broken; you can't adjust. Broadsky: How could you possibly know that? Booth: Boy you killed-- the squint-- he was a good kid. You did wrong there. Broadsky: Collateral damage in the pursuit of a greater good. |
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| ~ Broadsky to Booth, dismissing Vincent Nigel-Murray as a random obstacle. |
Trivia[]
- He is the first serial killer to survive their respective story arc, followed by Glen Durant, where they both were coincidentally imprisoned at the end of their appearances.
- Despite making it his mission to kill criminals that get away with their crimes, he kills more innocent people than actual criminals.
- He served as the Anti-Booth, much like Heather Taffet served as the Anti-Brennan.
External Links[]
- Jacob Broadsky on the Bones Wiki
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