James "Jim" McCabe is a minor antagonist in Grimm.
He was a Manticore and a former soldier who abused his special status while out in Afghanistan.
Biography[]
Jim McCabe was posted in Afghanistan in 2010, being a security contractor, he and his party was struck a deal that made him exempt from the law. As such they abused there status, bother the locals, causing problems. Then on November 11, they gang raped a female soldier. She filed a compliant to her superior, Colonel Desai. However, they had already been transferred and thus escaped. Arriving back in America he went back to his security business and hired his party to work for him. However, his past began to catch up with him, when the woman, Frankie Gonzales, returned and began stalking and harassing the party trying to force them to reveal the truth. Meanwhile, another Manticore began killing his friends.
Following the death of Roy Hurd, he realized that Frankie must have had something to do with it, however, to cover the truth, when met by detective Burkhardt and Griffen, he lied to cover his tracks and set them on a false trail of all Roy's contacts and customers. One of his friends Troy Dodge, who had been overcome with guilt since the beginning but to afraid to talk, tried to spill the events, after telling his wife. Jim murdered them both to cover his secret.
Later, he was contacted by the colonel offering him the last evidence of his crime if he met him, meeting up he took the evidence but as he was leaving the colonel revealed it was him who killed the others. Realizing what this meant, he confronted the other Manticore, the colonel who was dying and racked with guilt at his failure he decided to avenge Frankie himself. The two Manticore broke into a fight, although Jim managed to get the upper hand, the colonel dodged his stinger and drew a hidden knife, stabbing his tail with it. They were interrupted when Nick and Hank rushed in, taking advantage of this, the colonel jumped at Jim, forcing him to stab him. As such Jim was arrested and imprisoned, his crimes coming out on the open, just as the colonel had wished.
