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No one sees true night. What's really there in the dark....It's not that they can't see, they simply don't. They feel an elemental force that scares them into the deepest reaches of their minds, but they refuse to see the actual source. Something watching them, just out of their reach, something cold and frightening, something inhuman.
~ Jonny's opening monologue.
They made me watch.
~ Jonny finally remembers what happened.
You're not gonna want to miss this.
~ Jonny McHale before killing Glen Hill.

Jonathan "Jonny" McHale, also known as True Night is a villainous protagonist in the crime-drama TV series Criminal Minds. He is a psychotic vigilante who appears in the season three episode "True Night".

He is portrayed by Frankie Muniz. In-costume scenes as True Night were portrayed by James Lew.

Biography[]

Jonny McHale was a successful comic book artist, living in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Vicky Wright. One night while walking home from the store, Vicky reveals that she's pregnant and Jonny proposes to her. What was a happy moment does not last, when a gang leader named Glen Hill interrupts them. Despite Jonny offering them a little money to leave them alone, the gang grabs Vicky and beats up Jonny. They drag Vicky into an alley where they gang-rape her and force Jonny to watch. Afterwards, they murder Vicky and nearly kill Jonny, but he survives. Unfortunately, after awakening, Jonny blocked out the memory, so he couldn't really remember what his attackers looked like and they were never arrested.

Sometime after the incident, Jonny, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, dons a hooded trench coat and armed with two machetes finds an alley with members of the 23rd Street Killers. He slaughters five of them, afterwards drawing up a comic called "True Night" where a hooded figure slays werewolves.

True Night[]

After slaying two more gang members, Jonny catches the attention of the BAU. Despite being very reluctant, Jonny attends a comic book signing, but flees when he starts to suffer a delusion. While fleeing, he's hit by a car, and after the driver gets out to check on him, Jonny, presumably in his True Night persona, chokes him, only letting go when the wife of the driver starts yelling at him. Jonny gets up off the ground and wanders onto the crime scene, where his agent finds him and takes him home. Despite the agent's concerns, Jonny gets annoyed with his agent and fires him. That night, Jonny dresses like True Night and slaughters six more gang members and kidnaps Glen Hill, who he tortures and then decapitates.

After dreaming of Vicky, Jonny begins to hear her voice and follows it into an apartment below him. Meanwhile, the BAU put out a profile for the killer, and various people, including Jonny's agent all come forward. Jonny returns to his apartment and trashes it after becoming enraged. Having got the tips on Jonny McHale, the BAU bust into his apartment and arrest him. They bring him in and interrogate him, eventually ending when Jonny remembers his girlfriend's death and the murders. Afterwards, Jonny is locked up in a mental hospital where he continuously calls Vicky's cellphone just so he can hear her voice.

List of Victims[]

  • Five nameless 23rd Street Killers members - Dismembered with machetes.
  • Two nameless 23rd Street Killers members - Dismembered with machetes.
  • Jasper - attempted; briefly non-fatally choked, was released
  • Six nameless 23rd Street Killers members - Dismembered with machetes.
  • Glen Hill - Abducted, disemboweled, and dismembered with machetes.
    • Total - 14

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Trivia[]

  • Jonny is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
    • Pedro Rodrigues Filho, a Brazilian serial killer vigilante responsible for the murders of gang members to avenge the death of his pregnant girlfriend.
    • Joseph Christopher, a.k.a. "The .22 Caliber Killer" and "The Midtown Slasher", a serial killer of men and boys of color across New York out of paranoid schizophrenia, using a shotgun and knives while prowling the streets, and was reported to have choked a man to near-death in one attack.
    • Eric Draven, the protagonist of the pulp fiction film The Crow and the last role of Brandon Lee, who was killed from a poorly maintained prop gun while on set. Draven also rampaged on a gang after the murder of his fiancé by their members, and Jonny’s career as a comic book artist is likely an illusion to the story originally being a comic series.
    • Coincidentally, the actor who fired the fatal shot, Michael Massee, starred in Criminal Minds as serial killer Jacob Dawes, along with many other villain and otherwise character roles. Massee has now passed away from stomach cancer, but not before giving an interview where he’s publicly spoken for the only time about the shooting of Lee.
    • Paul McCormack, a.k.a. “The Handcuff Killer”, the main antagonist of the film The Killing Hour. “Mac”, as he’s nicknamed, is a serial killer in the interest of murdering people tied to the gang-rape and murderer of a sex worker. However, he’s revealed to have been the leader of the gang and her killer, murdering his accomplices as witnesses. Someone else draws premonitory pictures that symbolize his crimes.
    • Walter Sparrow, the protagonist is hidden villain of The Number 23. Sparrow is a writer responsible for the murder of a woman he was in love with, a memory he buried until he wrote it in a book about the 23 enigma he published and later stumbled across without any recollection of it.
  • Jonny is the first UnSub in the series to have been the main focus of the episode since he had the most screen time and he was revealed to be the killer in the beginning.

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Season 1
Adrian Bale | Bruno Hawks | Clara Hayes | Cory Bridges | David Walker | Donald Curtis | Eddie Mays | Edward Hill | Hassan Nadir | Jackson Cally & His Tribe | Jacob Dawes | L.D.S.K. | Maggie Lowe | Mark Gregory | Mary Mays | Michael Russo | Pablo Vargas | Richard Slessman | Ted Bryar | The Fisher King | The Footpath Killer | The Fox | The Keystone Killer | The Seattle Strangler | The Tommy Killer | The Vigilante | Vincent Perotta | Vincent Shyer | Will Sykes


Season 2
Amber Canardo | Carl Buford | Charles Holcombe | Frank Breitkopf | Hayden Rawlings | Jamal Abaza | Jeffrey Charles | Joe Mulford | Kenneth Roberts | Lyov Lysowksy | Marcus Younger | Michael Earlson | Mulford Brothers | Nathan Harris | Rodney Harris | Ronald Weems | Roy Woodridge | Sarah Danlin | Steven Foster | Terrance Wakeland | The Fisher King | The Hollow Man | The Mill Creek Killer | The Stripping Bandit | Tobias Hankel | Tony Canardo | Vincent Stiles | William Lee


Season 3
23rd Street Killers | Anna Begley | Charlie Wilkinson | Chester Hardwick | David Smith | Francis Goehring | Gary and Ervin Robles | Glen Hill | Henry Frost | Jason Clark Battle | Jeremy Andrus | Joe | Joe Smith | Lucky | Mike Hicks | New York Terrorist Cell | Owen Savage | Peter Redding | Phillip Hensen | Richard Jacobs | Robert Wilkinson | Ryan Phillips | Stanley Howard | Steven Fitzgerald | Susan Jacobs | The Blue Ridge Strangler | The Campus Killer | The Have-You-Seen-Me Murderer | True Night


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Season 5
Anita Roycewood | Arthur Malcolm | Bill Hodges | Bosola | Boyd Schuller | Connor O'Brien | Dale Schrader | Darrin Call | Earl Bulford | Gina King | Joe Belser | John Vincent Bell | Juliet Monroe | Miranda Dracar | Omar Morales | Owen Porter | Patrick Meyers | Prince of Darkness | Ray Campion | Robert Burke | Robert Johnson | Roger Roycewood | Ronald Boyd | Samantha Malcolm | The Fox | The Hollow Creek Killer | The Reaper | The Reimanns | Turner's Group | Wade Hatchett | William O'Brien | Will Summers


Season 6
Ben Foster | Bill Thomas | Blake Wells | Brandon Stiles | Colby Bachner | Drew Jacobs | Greg Phinney | Hollis Walker Jr. | Ian Doyle | James Barrett | James Stanworth | James Thomas | Jane Gould | Jeremy Sayer | Kaman Scott | Lucy | Michael Kosina | Prince of Darkness | Ray Donovan | Rhett Walden | Robert Bremmer | Shane Wyland | Shelley Chamberlain | Steve | Sydney Manning | Syd Pearson | The Butcher


Season 7
Ben Bradstone | Bill Rogers | Caleb Rossmore | Chase Whitaker | Chloe Donaghy | Chris Shelton | Clark Preston | Colonel Ron Massey | Curtis Banks | Donald and Linda Collins | Dylan Kohler | George Kelling | Harvey Morell | Herman Scobie | Ian Doyle | Izzy Rogers | James Heathridge | J.B. Allen | Jeffrey Collins | Jimmy Hall | Lachlan McDermott | Lewis Ramsey | Lieutenant Shockley Tawes | Luke Dolan | Malcolm Ford | Margaret Hallman | Matthew Downs | Mike Janeczko | Randy Slade | Robert Adams | Rodney Garrett | Roscoe Gulch | The Face Cards | The Piano Man | The Womb Raider | Travis James | Trevor Mills


Season 8
Adam Rain | Arthur Rykov | Bryan Hughes | Carl Buford | Carl Finster | Chad Mills | Darlene Beckett | David Roy Turner | Diane Turner | Donnie Bidwell | Ellen Russell | Emma Kerrigan | Jason Nelson | John Nelson | Johnny Ray Covey | Larry Feretich | Mark Jackson | Matt and Josh Moore | Paul Westin | Peter Harper | Phillip Connor | Raoul Whalen | Rodney Harris | Russell Smith | Sera Morrison | Tess Mynock | The Replicator | The Silencer | Toby Whitewood | Tory Chapman | Willie Kestler


Season 9
Alan and Judith Anderson | Anton Harris | Carla Hines | Cesar Jones | Charles Johnson | Clifford Walsh | Colin Bramwell | Daniel Milworth | Daria Samsen | David Wade Cunningham | Eddie Lee Wilcox | Edward Ray Stokes | Eric Carcani | Ian Little | Jesse Gentry | Joe Bachner | John Nichols | Justin Mills | Leland Duncan | Marvin Caul | Michael Feehan | Michael Hastings | Michelle Fader | Nicole Jones | Owen McGregor | Ronald Underwood | Sam Russell | Sheila Harrison | Sue Walsh | Tanner Johnson | Tivon Askari | Wallace Hines | Wayne Gulino | William Harding | Woodsman Killer


Season 10
Alex Zorgen | Allen Archer | Benton Farland | Brian Stiller | Claire Dunbar | Colin Dupley | Colton Grant | Dale Shavers | Danny Stokes | Dinah Troy | Don Black | Donna Mangold | Donnie Mallick | Ellen Connell | Frank Cosgrove | Hayman Vasher | Jack Westbrook | James Burke | Jerry Tidwell | John David Bidwell | Jon Kanak | Justin Leu | Kyle Zorgen | Leo Jenkins | Marc Clifford | Miles Hendrick | Mr. Tidwell | Mr. Scratch | Patrick Butler | Patrick Jon Murphy | Peter Folkmore | Randall Jefferson Jones | Steven Parkett | Taras Yudin | The Mirror Man | Weeks


Season 11
Al Eisenmund | Andrew Meeks | Antonia Slade | Benjamin Wade | Betty Wilson | Brian Cochran | Chazz Montolo | Claude Barlow | Dana Seavers | Edgar Solomon | Eric Rawdon | Flora Martin | Flora Martin's Rapist | Giuseppe Montolo | Jacob DuFour | James O'Neill | Jillian Carter | John Bradley | Johnson | Joseph Berzon | Leonard Ennis | Lester Turner | Matthew Franks | Michael Clark Thompson | Michael Lee Peterson | Ms .45 | Mitchell Crossford | Mr. Scratch | Patrick Sorenson | Paul Larson | Randy Jacobs | Robert Boles | Sam Burnett | Skull Tattoo Man | The Bomber | The Chemist | The Sniper | Tommy Larson | William Cochran | William Duke Mason | William Taylor


Season 12
Alan Crawford | Bea Adams | Ben Davis | Bryce Jarvis | Calvin Shaw | Cormac Burton | John David Bates | John Malone | Jonathan Rhodes | Kevin Decker | Kyle Ecklund | Lindsey Vaughn | Lionel Wilkins | Mark Tolson | Mr. Scratch | Ms .45 | Sara McLean | Stuart Barker | The Bone Crusher | The Crimson King | The Day/Night Killer | The Henson Twins | The Womb Raider | Zeke Daniels


Season 13
Asclepius | Caleb Sands | Cheryl Kaline | Desi Gutierrez | Gabriel Merza | Irene Jacobs | Jake Logan | Jess Carney | Josh Martin | Justin Franco | Kevin Peck | Kevon Winters | Lawrence Coleman | Leonard Hagland | Linda Barnes | Lindsey Vaughn | Lucky | Marcus Manning | Mark Henshaw | Mary Meadows | Melissa Miller | Michelle Gorman | Mr. Scratch | Mr. X | Sal Capilano | The Believers | The Horseman | The Central Park Ripper | The Messiah | The Neon Terror | Wick Rollins | William Lynch


Season 14
Arthur Brodie | Casey Allen Pinkner | David Smith | Dorothy and Karl Elgin | Douglas Knight | Dustin Eisworth | Edward Addison | Eduardo Ramos | Elizabeth Rhodes | Emmanuel Rask | Galina Kadlec | Grace Lynch | Jacob Wallace | James and Marcus Wells | Jeremy Grant | Jordan Halloran | Lindsey Vaughn | Mary Meadows | Roberta Lynch | Robert Smith | Stephanie Carter | The Believers | The Chameleon | The Messiah | The Tall Man | Varnville Unsub | Wayne Hollis


Season 15
Beaumont Unsub | George Kyle Peters | Grace Lynch | Hayes Cullinan | Juliette Weaver | Lindsey Vaughn | Louie's Gang | Louis Chaycon | Ms .45 | Roberta Lynch | Sebastian Hurst | Shelby Mattson | The Manner Street Killer | The Chameleon


Criminal Minds: Evolution
Arthur Kiel | Benjamin Reeves | Cyrus Lebrun | Elias Voit | Frank Scelsa | Gael and Jude Bruneau | Mitch Nevins | Robert Harris | Rory Gilcrest | Silvio Herrera | Tawny Smith


Books
Daniel Dryden | David Yarno and Becker Chapin | Herman Kotchman | Suzanne and Lawrence Silvan


Suspect Behavior
Clark Earle Page | Davis Scolfield | Deirdre Norris | Indianapolis Unsub | Jason Wheeler | Kelvin Cornwell | Leonard Keane | Marcus Lee Graham | Matthew Keane | Margaret McKenna | Michael Vinoda | Rachel Lancroft | Rawlins | Richard Stahl | Thomas Luca | Trevor Norris | Veronica Day | William Meeks


Beyond Borders Season 1
Abu Hakim Al Badi | Antonio Cayetan | Curtis Miller | Hasina | Klahan | Marion Codwell | Natalie Knox and Nick Jamison | Neith Ghannam | The Butcher of Paris | Paul Ntombi | Pretorius | Rafael Acosta | Samraj Sabah | Saraphina Labeau | The Tuareg Brothers | Xavi and Simon Alonso | Yukio Aito


Beyond Borders Season 2
Al Gui | Bangladeshi Unsub | Bishop | Brunswick Mission Church | Damien Andrews | Elijah Ward | Lee Geon-woo | Giannis Petrou | Ian Wilson | Ivan Kozar | Linda Barnes | Metal Fang | Michael Huang | Nazmi Dushku | Onario Alighieri | Rosa Fernandez | The Gonzalez Sisters | The Monster of Florence | The Sticker | Scott Davis | Yoo Su-bin |


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