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| “ | I was just another one of your gameboy recruits. A dime a dozen, right? | „ |
| ~ Jake when confronting his former boss about his assignments. |
| “ | They don't look like people on the screens. They just look like shadows. Black and gray smudges moving across the desert. | „ |
| ~ Jake realizing the human factor of his crimes. |
Jake Logan is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Killer App". Jake is a workplace spree killer who tries to murder every employee at the defense contractor for which he once remotely controlled drone strikes as revenge for making him responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children.
He was portrayed by Tyler Francavilla.
Biography[]
| “ | Those flyboys looked down their noses at me, said I never really put my life on the line, just stayed safe and just killed with the flick of a button. They didn't know what they were talking about. | „ |
| ~ Jake flashing back to his crimes. |
Jake is an advanced technology specialist and a first-person shooting gamer who was hired by a private military contracting company, Peakstone, to remotely control drone strikes. Jake was one of many gamers who were hired to pilot the drones on command, the company ensuring Jake was desensitized from his responsibilities to execute his obligated tasks. Jake also assisted the coders who programmed the drones with his understanding of computer software.
Jake was impacted by the toll of 15 drone strike missions he carried out, which would set the foregrounds for his eventual PTSD due to the human cost he was more in touch with. What broke him was when Peakstone suddenly terminated operations of the program and laid off the employees involved. Jake was horrified by one finding in his stats given to him in a congratulatory goodbye letter: Jake's last mission firebombed an elementary school in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, killing 379 people, most of them children. The company buried the findings and fired the workers to keep from any scrutiny and maintain its government sponsorship.
Jake finally snapped, unable to cope with his role in drone attacks and remembering the dehumanizing language by the team members, including they were "cutting the grass and pulling the weeds to take over the garden" and that the victims were "fun-sized terrorists". Jake swore vengeance against the coders and his employers for the destruction they set him up to cause, performing modifications of his own models of drones to be mounted with assault rifles with extended ammo magazines as his own personally designed killing machines.
The coders work at two offices, Ori-Gamey and N-Gen Yes, so Jake stations himself near the offices and pilots the drones into the buildings during times when he knew every coder from the program are scheduled to work. He blitzes the coders with precision-targeted gunfire aimed directly at each of them, killing them all, along with a security guard, with clustered hails of bullets.
The Department of Homeland Security suspects that a terrorist cell is behind the attack, so they call in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). The BAU suspects that the mastermind of the attack is a former Peakstone employee or contractor, so they track the coders' activities, leading them to Peakstone, which stonewalls the investigation. However, knowing Jake was employed there, they use his profile to track his activities and identify him.
Meanwhile, Jake kidnaps Tori Hoffstadt, his former boss, after shooting out her car and forcing her into his at gunpoint. In his garage workshop, he confronts her about her culpability in the elementary school bombings. Hoffstadt tries to pacify Jake by telling him he served his country by killing terrorists, but Jake says that the reality of his actions hit him hard when stepping away from the controls he was manning. Jake demands to know why the company sent him the thank you letter. Hoffstadt says that she had little involvement in the missions, but he knows she is lying and threatens to kill her. When Jake places his gun on the table and laments he never knew the truth, Hoffstadt jumps at the chance to shoot him and run.
BAU Agent Emily Prentiss uses her connections with Interpol to meet with the CEO of Peakstone, known as Mr. X, who identifies Jake as the killer. He then hacks one of his drones to shoot Jake dead with his own equipment. When Mr. X. puts a hit out on Hoffstadt as well to keep her from implicating Peakstone in war crimes, she confesses the truth about the elementary school bombing, as well as her culpability in it, in return for protection. She and the other involved parties at the company are arrested.
Trivia[]
- Jake is inspired by multiple real-life spree killers:
- Aaron Alexis, the perpetrator of the Washington Navy Yard shooting, a mass murderer in military security guilty of shooting a base he worked for because of auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions, with clearabce evaluations not catching the signs.
- David Katz, the perpetrator of the Jacksonville Landing shooting, a spree killer at a gamers convention with a history of mental illness and lack of sportsmanship, reportedly intent on shooting rivals in the attack.
- The war crimes Jake was responsible for are inspired by the recurrence of civilian casualties in drone strikes.
- With a total of 379 murders attributed to him, Jake Logan has the highest confirmed kill count within Criminal Minds, including serial killers such as Billy Flynn and Frank Breitkopf.
External Links[]
- Jake Logan on the Criminal Minds Wiki
