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Mark Zabel is the incidental antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Truth or Dare". Mark is a threatened spree killer whose wife Lynn was taken hostage by his friend Casey Allen Pinkner, as part of Pinkner's revenge plan over his manslaughter case Mark played a significant part in.
He's portrayed by Rusty Joiner.
Biography[]
Mark, a musician, destroyed his friendship with Pinkner from a game of Truth or Dare. Mark dared Pinkner and a drunk bar patron into a game of chicken in between each other, where they'd see who'd sooner hit their breaks or swerve when they drove directly at each other. As Pinkner wanted a power trip, he refused to flinch and killed the patron. Pinkner tried to defend his case by revealing the circumstances, but Mark never came forward as a witness. Combined with Pinkner's record of anger issues and rebellion against authority, it convinced the judge to sentence Pinkner to several years in prison.
The moment Pinkner got out, with how long he held his grudge, he took Lynn hostage in the Mark family home and forced Mark to be his proxy in a series of revenge murders. Hoping Mark felt as powerless as Pinkner did in court, Pinkner threatened to kill Lynn if Mark didn't ram the cars of and shoot people involved in the case, whose names Pinkner gave Mark in the form of a hit list. After Mark stalked and killed two people, the Behavioral Analysis Unit quickly identified him, cornering him with local police while he still had one man left to kill. Mark tried to stop police and plead his case, but when he went for a photo of Lynn in his shirt the police feared was a gun, they opened fire on Mark and killed him. Pinkner then shot Lynn, resulting in the spree continuing. Pinkner was eventually cornered and shot after a lengthy standoff.
Trivia[]
- Mark is inspired by Adam Emery, a killer convicted in absentia of a road rage stabbing in Rhode Island. He fled before his sentencing and killed his wife and himself, writing suicide notes for them both. His wife's skull was later recovered, but Emery, alive or dead, has never been found.