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Joseph Roke and Olena (surname unknown) are the original main antagonists of the Rizzoli & Isles novel "Vanish". Olena and Roke are two hostage-takers at the very hospital where Detective Jane Rizzoli is due to give birth. Roke is a conspiracy theorist out to try and expose genuine corruption and organized crime, while Olena is one of the conspiracy's victims and liabilities.
Biography[]
Little is revealed about Roke's background. He was a military-trained bomb diffuser, who became unstable during his reassignment to Kuwait. For reasons unknown, he was dishonorably discharged after a history of fighting with comrades, disobedience, and ultimately the assault of a fellow soldier. Roke returned to the U.S. and settled in isolation in Virginia, where he began sinking into paranoid delusions, highly focused on outlandish government conspiracies. He was one of many diehard subscribers to D.C. political journalist Peter Lukas, who would report one crime, scandal, and shady deal after the next against the most prominent players in federal governance and law. Finding himself a revolutionary, Roke's call to arms as a solitary extremist was "The die is cast", a battle cry of Julius Caesar. Roke came across two Eastern European teenagers, Mila and Olena. Mila was the more terrified and conscionable hardened of the two, while Olena was bitter from trauma and said herself to Mila she'd risk everything to live. Olena and Mila were captive sex trafficking victims, at a cabin in Pennsylvania operated by a network of corrupt national intelligence and security officials. Mila was the only one Olena trusted, as Mila didn't dare try to sell her out and was terrified to be indefinitely trapped in the cabin, unlike the other panicking and hopeless girls captive with them. When mercenaries for the network slaughtered all the girls there, as well as the former victim overseeing the girls' captivity, Mila and Olena escaped, running into Roke. In a duffel bag they took with them for supplies, they found a tape of the reason for the massacre: the most dangerous of all the ringleaders, U.S. Director of Intelligence Carleton Wynne, raped and murdered the youngest girl, a preteen, shortly after she arrived, the other ladies butchered by operatives to cover up the crime. Roke agreed to a pact with the two survivors, making copies of the tapes for each of the three and pushing for whatever possible actions to be taken so the crimes would be exposed while the trio were hiding. They narrowly escaped the operatives, as Roke was stopped by them at a gas station and he lied to protect Mila and Olena. The mercenaries still followed the trio to Roke's cabin, burning it once the three narrowly escaped.
Shortly before they split up, a New Haven traffic cop pulled them over, but Roke was decompensating by this point. He shot the officer to quickly end the traffic stop and flee, Olena and Mila narrowly caught on the dash camera footage. While Mila was taking shelter and Olena was a distraction for the operatives, Roke mailed his copy of the tape to Lukas. Lukas, long annoyed by conspiracy theorists contacting him and beleaguered by his job taking him away from home and failing to pay him what wanted, decided he wanted no part in the publicity in the scandal. Instead, he provided the information straight to Wynne for a payoff, which left the mercenaries closing in on the trio. Olena was eventually caught, having been viciously overdosed on phenobarbital and then thrown into Hingham Bay. She lived, but her hypothermia left her to be presumed dead and placed in Dr. Maura Isles' morgue freezer. Dr. Isles heard Olena slamming against the inside of the drawer to break free, but she kept going in and out of consciousness, meaning Dr. isles had to follow the sounds very closely. When she found Olena, Olena opened her eyes, then Dr. Isles pulled her out when Olena was just about to black out again. EMTs responded swiftly, and Dr. Isles accompanied them to the ER, Isles explicitly staying next to Olena to reassure her she was safe while she was restrained and resuscitated. By this point, a hitman snuck into the hospital dressed as a guard and armed with a gun loaded with duplex shots, prepared to kill Olena. When Olena saw him, she instantly grabbed the gun and fired, killing the guard instantly. As the rest of the staff cleared out, Olena took Dr. Isles hostage, trying to slowly leave the hospital in spite of Isles' pleas for her to stop. Security and other responders stopped Olena from getting away, but Dr. Isles used the distraction so she herself would break free and escape unharmed. Olena resorted to taking hostages, in Diagnostic Imaging of all places, where Detective Jane Rizzoli was placed shortly after her water broke.
Rizzoli, Dr. Stephanie Tam, and four other hostages, from employees to a disgruntled patient, were all held at gunpoint while Olena called into a local radio station, threatening to shoot everyone and putting out the call "the die is cast" to bring Roke to the hospital. He breached the hospital, slipping past the command centers with his uniform and arms, and joined her inside, releasing demands that they speak with Lukas in the interest of publicizing the tape of Wynne murdering the trafficked girl. Rizzoli, like everyone outside of the hospital, believed Roke and Olena were simply unhinged, Olena relaying to Rizzoli she was wearing a medical band with "Jane Doe" on it while she was captive. Rizzoli did her best avoiding any revelations that she was a cop, but newscaster Zoe Fossey leaked the information regardless. By this point, Roke and Olena are provoked to demand answers from Rizzoli at gunpoint, Rizzoli lifting her hospital gown to show her pregnancy to them directly. When they accept she's there by sheer coincidence, Roke and Olena push for her, in spite of her being in labor, to hear them out about the tape. She doesn't believe them because of Roke's instability reducing his credibility, as well as his believe of conspiracy theories that muddy the truth. However, when she reveals her husband, Agent Gabriel Dean, is in the FBI, Roke makes Rizzoli give him Dean's number to call him. Roke demands Dean be their ally, agreeing to release hostages when he and Lukas arrive. When higher clearance law enforcement cut the communications and take over the raid preparations, Roke still decides to reach Dean by releasing the patient and one of the orderlies. Dean goes in on his own, securing the releases of all the other hostages, except for Rizzoli and Dean. They're prepared to show the tape, specifically with the backdrop of Ballentree, America's most powerful private contractor, being involved in the network, which is why Dean doesn't believe them. However, a tactical response unit sprayed fentanyl gas into the rooms through the vents to knock everyone unconscious. Wynne's accomplices had already lied to the response officers, manipulating them into not taking Roke and Olena alive, instead executing them with shots to their heads. Olena whispered "Mila knows" to Rizzoli shortly before she was slaughtered so the case wasn't over and Rizzoli and Dean would investigate. Rizzoli would still successfully give birth safely to her healthy newborn daughter Regina.
They indeed did so, as when the FBI was taking control of the investigation and taking all the evidence, competing with all the operatives so they themselves could track Mila in time to protect her as a witness, Dean and Rizzoli discovered the cabin and realized Mila's life was in danger. Mila responded after much back and forth through a personal ad Rizzoli put out, reading "the die is cast". Mila showed Rizzoli the tape, Rizzoli then turning to Lukas once the evidence was provided, as he strung the team along with what he knew in pieces so he himself would find Mila. He finally revealed his treason by bringing an operative to kill Mila, Rizzoli, and even Regina, but Mila shot the operative, and Dean arrested Lukas. The FBI and DOJ protected Mila while gathering her statements and uncovering more crimes from the ring, including the murder of Mila's friend Anya who refused the trafficking networks.
Victims[]
- Kuwait: Unidentified military soldier (assaulted by Roke)
- New Haven, Connecticut: Unidentified traffic officer (shot by Roke)
- The hospital hostage crisis: (most of them held hostage at gunpoint by Roke and Olena; were later rescued)
- Unnamed mercenary (shot with his own duplex bullets gun by Olena)
- Dr. Maura Isles (escaped shortly after)
- Detective Jane Rizzoli
- Dr. Stephanie Tam
- Mac
- Domenica
- Glenna
- Mr. Bodine
- Agent Gabriel Dean
Trivia[]
- Roke and Olena are inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals and criminal cases:
- Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, the perpetrators of the Norrmalmstorg robbery and the resulting hostage-crisis.
- Catrien de Cuyper, a dead Belgian girl reported to have been a trafficking victim by Michel Nihoul, who Regina Louf testified ordered Regina to kill Catrien before she was thrown into water.
- Peter Evans and Agnes White, a paranoid military veteran and a battered woman hiding with him who falls under his delusions; they're the main characters of the play Bug, which became a film subsequently after "Vanish" was published.