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| “ | There is no honor in surrender. There is no one left to bury me. I will die alone. | „ |
| ~ Klahan to Clara Seger before slitting his throat. |
Klahan (Thai: กล้าหาญ, Kl̂ā h̄āỵ) is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders pilot episode “The Harmful One”. He is a Thai tribesman and a killer looking for human sacrifices to give in honor of his family.
He was portrayed by Doua Moua, who also played Fong/Spider in Gran Torino.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Klahan’s family in their tribe in the Chonburi Province of Thailand gradually died, ending with his grandmother. Klahan also had a criminal record, one imprisonment being for menacing trespassers with a spear, after which is when he heard his grandmother died. Klahan snapped and wanted to offer honorary sacrifices to his family, so he hunted and killed animals to brand with his family crest. Believing it wasn’t enough, Klahan wanted to sacrifice people, so he found a group of American volunteers, Sarah Harris, Laura Johnson, and Jeff Little, in the area to target.
"The Harmful One"[]
Klahan quickly dispatched Little, who he figured would’ve been the strongest of the three, by cutting his throat with a kukri, branding his neck and leaving his remains in a ravine. A petty thief who robbed Little of his money was ruled out, and Little was identified from a statutory rape charge that left him expelled from Tulane University. Klahan hides Sarah and Laura in a bunker, where he restrains them to hardware in the shelter. After some time, Klahan forces the girls out into the woods while it’s raining hard. He releases them to pressure them to run, which they do, offering Klahan a chase to prove himself through in hopes he succeeds in killing them in the end. Klahan also set up traps, including a tripwire which pierces Laura’s leg to slow the women down. Klahan finds Laura while Sarah’s trying to find leaves for a compress, but Sarah knocks him unconscious, and the women take off.
After a failed attempt to hide in the bunker, the women are cornered the next day and about to be shot with Klahan’s carbine rifle. However, the International Response Team and local law enforcement stop him, Agent Clara Seger showing Klahan a photo of his family to appeal to his compassion. Klahan acquiesces and releases the women, but he bemoans how he has no family to bury him, saying he’ll preserve his honor by refusing to surrender. In spite of Seger realizing what he means and shrieking at him not to, Klahan kills himself by slashing his own throat with his own kukri. Seger is shaken, but her determination encourages her to accept the outcome and it doesn’t stop her from doing more for other people.
Trivia[]
- Klahan was loosely inspired by Robert Hansen, a.k.a. "The Butcher Baker", an Alaskan serial killer of women in prostitution, kidnapping them in his van, raping and torturing them, and then setting them off into woods to hunt them by shooting them with a rifle.
- Although Klahan is Thai, the actor who plays him, Doua Moua, is an American of Laosian and Hmong descent (which is the same ethnicity as the first antagonist he played in his career, Fong (aka Spider) from Gran Torino).
External Links[]
- Klahan on the Criminal Minds Wiki
