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| “ | They always lie. | „ |
| ~ Marvin Doyle about his victims. |
| “ | They killed my parents. | „ |
| ~ Marvin Doyle referring to his parents murders. |
Marvin Doyle, also known as The Vigilante, is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "A Real Rain". He is a vigilante serial killer who targets criminals who have escaped the justice system.
He is portrayed by Ethan Phillips.
Biography[]
Marvin Doyle worked as a court stenographer, often having to witness guilty people get acquitted of their crimes. In 2004, his parents were killed in a home invasion and the perpetrator was never caught. Having found his parents' bodies, Doyle was traumatized and began hearing the voices of defendants whose cases he had transcribed, particularly the ones that referred to themselves as the "victims". He tried to block them out, via soundproofing his apartment with aluminum foil, but they would never go away. Eventually, he snapped and decided to try to get rid of them by murdering the guilty people he was hearing. He started with a woman acquitted of giving her lover a fatal overdose and a man acquitted of vehicular manslaughter.
"A Real Rain"[]
Doyle's third victim is a cab driver who was charged with domestic abuse, but was acquitted. He takes a ride in the cab to a desolate part of Manhattan, then when he gets there, he shoots the cab driver dead. The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) are called in to help investigate the murders, and profile the killer as an insecure but organized man who will not stop killing until he is caught.
That same night, Doyle waits for a priest who was charged with child molestation, but was found not guilty. As he waits, an old woman starts speaking to him, asking if he is all right, but Doyle doesn't hear her. She leaves and Doyle gets in the confessional booth, opens the window and shoots the priest.
The BAU respond to the scene and interview the witness who tells them that the killer's behavior was strange, as if he was lost in his own head, and his hands were constantly acting like they were playing the piano. The witness also tells them about the child molestation case against the victim. After learning that, Agent Aaron Hotchner asks technical analyst Penelope Garcia to look into the other victims' pasts for criminal records. Sure enough, each victim had a criminal charge that they were acquitted of. The first victim, Rachel Holman, accidentally killed her boyfriend by overdosing him with heroin. The second victim, Kaveh Surrani, killed someone while driving drunk. With this new information, the BAU profile the killer as a vigilante.
While the BAU are having dinner at a Chinese restaurant, Doyle murders a man named Shawn Cooley who killed two police officers, but was released for lack of evidence because the only witness to the crime was murdered. The next night, Doyle's crimes inspire a narcissistic security guard named Will Sykes to go out in the park looking for a criminal to murder. However, he kills an undercover cop and tries to take credit for Doyle's murders. BAU Supervisory Agent Jason Gideon knows immediately that Sykes is not the killer, and tricks him into revealing it by asking if he had stabbed the priest in the groin because he was suspected of child molestation, leaving out that the priest had not in fact been stabbed in the groin. Sykes says that the priest deserved it, unintentionally revealing that he is not the vigilante.
While looking in the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, Agent Derek Morgan talks to a clerk and finds out that court transcripts are usually three months late, meaning that the vigilante would not have known about Derbin's trial unless he worked at the courthouse. Hotchner asks Garcia to look up the court stenographer for each of the cases, which turns out to be Marvin Doyle. Hotchner asks her to find out whether Doyle was ever connected to a violent crime, which leads to them finding out about Doyle's parents. Now sure that they have their man, the BAU goes to the court house to find him, but fund that he has called in sick.
Meanwhile, Doyle stalks a man who murdered his own parents, claiming that they abused him as a child. Doyle follows the man into his apartment and shoots him. He holds him at gunpoint, when the BAU arrive and order him to surrender. Gideon tries to reason with Doyle, but the latter is shot dead by Hotch while attempting to hand Gideon his gun.
List of Victims[]
- 1: Rachel Holman - Shot in the chest, stabbed in the ear with a flint knife.
- 2: Kaveh Surrani - Shot, stabbed in the ear with a flint knife.
- 3: Walter Derbin - Shot, stabbed in the ear with a flint knife.
- 4: Father Breeman - Shot, stabbed in the ear with a flint knife.
- 5: Shawn Cooley - Shot, stabbed in the ear with a flint knife.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Doyle appears to be inspired by Herbert Mullin, an American serial killer with paranoid schizophrenia after his best friend died in a car accident, killing various random people, sometimes after stalking them, by shooting and stabbing out of paranoid delusions.
- Hotch shooting Doyle might've been something to do with the story Gideon told about their first case in Iowa when a child serial killer, Gideon talked into surrendering, went on to kill another kid after being released.
- Hotch shooting Doyle is sort of a What the Hell, Hero moment, because Doyle wasn't a bad person, just mentally ill.
- Though, it might've been because Doyle looked like he was about to shoot Gideon. Furthermore, it is possible that he killed him so people wouldn't see him as some short of martyr. Given that some people defened Doyle's actions in the press interview, this attempt failed.
