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John Mills is the main antagonist in the 2004 crime thriller Twisted. Mills is the ex-partner of Jessica Shepard's police father, eventually becoming her superior once she joined as well. It's soon after revealed he's a serial killer, responsible for the murders of Mrs. Shepard's lovers as well as Jessica Shepard's parents, framing her father for all the crimes in a fake suicide. He would later go on to murder the junior Detective Shepard's lovers once she started becoming promiscuous like her mother, seeing it as a "redemptive" action to "save" her from her mother's habits.

He was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, who also portrayed Derrick Vann in The Man, Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction, Carl Lee Hailey in A Time to Kill, Elijah Price in the Unbreakable series, and Mr. Barron in Miss Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Biography[]

Mills was the ex-partner and best friend of Jessica Shepard's father when they both worked on the force. Their marriage struggled however, as Jessica's mother would always be having sexual relations outside of the Shepard family marriage, including himself. Mills couldn't bear to watch his partner to be devastated by his wife's infidelity, let alone encourage it, even after he told Mr. Shepard himself and caused him to delve into depression and drinking, so he wage his own "vindicating" on Mrs. Shepard's numerous lovers by killing them all in a series of murders in the 70s. When he realized this still wouldn't save their marriage, to protect the young Jessica Shepard from influence he felt could warp her in the future, he killed both her parents as well, staging it like a murder-suicide and framing her father for the crimes. Not only did this severely scar the younger Shepard, she was fostered by Mills for the rest of her life, never knowing he was always truly behind the murders. It only got worse when she grew up to also be a detective, a successful one at that, as she also eventually took in a string of lovers and started drinking. Seeing this as a provocation, Mills, flashing back to his previous killings, decided to start all over again with Shepard to see if she could be saved instead. After successfully overpowering and capturing serial killer Edmund Cutler, with excessive force and much police praise, Mills celebrates with her with a drink, where they reminisce over and mourn the past. This soon after takes a side position when one of her one-night stands and petty ex-con Bob Sherman is murdered, followed by the murder of Lawrence Gebler three days later, Shepard staying on the case as "bait" despite the fact she's all too close to the case. She has blackouts from her alcoholism, but despite telling Mills and her assigned psychologist after Cutler's arrest, Dr. Melvin Frank, she keeps pressing forward. This only improves to endanger more, as two more lovers of hers are soon after killed in the same fashion: Ray Porter, Cutler's defense attorney who summoned her when he was killed, and Jimmy Schmidt, an SFPD officer whose corpse was found in her bed. Her alcoholic blackouts, violent episodes, series of affairs, and Shepard's own paranoia make her seem all the more a suspect, especially to Inspector Dale Becker, a bitter rival of Shepard's. But when the cause of death of each murdered man is revealed to be a blow from a yawara, a Japanese striking weapon, which Shepard used earlier in the movie, she's immediately arrested. She's soon after bailed by Mills when coroner and forensic pathologist Lisa reveals from her bloodwork she was roofied when the murders occurred, knocking her unconscious at the times of the killings. Mills has Shepard come with him to confront Mike Delmarco, Shepard's new partner, Mills "suspecting" him of the murders. Arriving at his home on the quayside, Mills pours wine to give to Delmarco and catch him off guard, while arranging personal items on the dining table. Shepard notes the obvious: the arrangement is uncanny to her father's "suicide", completed by Delmarco being incapacitated at the table end since the wine was spiked with Rohypnol, revealing Mills as the killer, both in the past and present. Starting off when saying he and Shepard "are in this together", he goes on a rant of confessing to the murders, from Mrs. Shepard's infidelity to Mr. Shepard's drinking to all the crimes Mills committed and the setups he made so Shepard would grow up without the influence of her parents. This buys enough time, in spite of Shepard's shock, for Delmarco to escape. When Shepard tries to run as well, Mills knocks her down before catching up to Delmarco at the docks, flipping his signature Zippo lighter's cap, yawara in hand. Just as he's about to kill Delmarco, Shepard comes in and saves him. Mills then gives an ultimatum, finally giving up on "saving" her, he asks if she wants to shoot a "respected cop" like him and be framed, or be a hero but die. That much of a confession is enough for the rest of the force on the case, along with her old partner Wilson Jefferson, to hear the confession over a phone Shepard brought with her, enough to exonerate her and confirm Mills' guilt. Turning and aiming the revolver at his own head, Mills congratulates Shepard, saying she has "one final test". He then turns and aims to provoke her to shoot, committing suicide by cop. He flies back into the water from the docks, his lifeless corpse floating with the sea lions swimming around.

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