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| “ | They were transients and drug users and prostitutes. They were useless to society. I gave them the chance to be part of a cure. To be of use. That's science. | „ |
| ~ Mason rationalizing what he did to his victims. |
Mason Turner is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episodes "To Hell and Back, Pts. 1&2". He is a quadriplegic sexual sadist who forces his developmentally disabled brother to commit murders while he watches on a remote screen for his own sexual gratification and his delusional belief that their deaths would serve to cure his paralysis.
He was portrayed by Garret Dillahunt, who also portrayed Steve Curtis in ER, John Gavenue in Burning Bright, Kevin O'Donnell in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Krug Stillo in the remake of The Last House on the Left, Ty Walker in Justified, and Julian Pruese in Law & Order.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Mason grew up on a pig farm in Toronto with his father and developmentally disabled brother, Lucas (the BAU behavior analyst suspects Lucas has either autism or moderate intellectual disability). After graduating from medical school, Mason came home to the farm and decided to sell it. When Mason told them he was going to sell their home, Lucas became enraged and pushed him off a loft in the barn, breaking his neck and rendering him a quadriplegic.
Mason became obsessed with curing his paralysis and came to the delusional belief that he could regrow his severed spinal nerves with stem cells forcibly extracted from living human beings. He commanded Lucas to abduct vagrants, junkies, and prostitutes off of the streets, kill them, and extract viable materials from their bodies. He also derives sadistic pleasure in watching Lucas kill them on a number of mirrors over his bed.
"To Hell and Back"[]
Part 1[]
Mason is first seen when Lucas brings a young girl to his window to get his approval. Shortly after, the Behavioral Analysis Unit arrives and find him in bed. He orders them to leave. The team looks around to see that his home is filled with medical supplies, including an operating table stained with blood.
Part 2[]
After BAU Agents David Rossi, Derek Morgan, and Emily Prentiss discover a bin on Mason's property filled with dozens of pairs of blood-stained shoes, Rossi returns to interrogate him. Rossi begins by removing Mason's mirrors so that he cannot see what is going on. Mason blames the murders on Lucas and claims that Lucas threatened to kill him if he alerted the police. He tells Rossi that Lucas is dangerously insane, and that they will have to kill him.
Rossi discovers that Mason taught Lucas how to kidnap people. He then tells Rossi that there is a photo of Lucas in the other room. Rossi gets the photo and goes outside to relay the information. The local constable is then asked to get a warrant for Mason's laptop.
BAU Supervisory Agent Aaron Hotchner calls Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia and asks her to fly in to hack Mason's laptop. After hacking into Mason's computer, Garcia finds that the kidnappings were performed in order to find suitable "donors" from which to extract stem cells, which Mason wants to use to cure his paralysis.
Meanwhile, William Hightower, the brother of one of Lucas' victims, is listening outside and hears that Mason would most likely be found innocent of any direct involvement in the murders. Enraged, William walks into Mason's bedroom and, after Mason weakly grins at him, William shoots him dead.
Trivia[]
- Mason is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- William Burke and William Hare, a.k.a. "The Body Snatchers", a Scottish duo of serial killer smothering people to death to take the full payment of selling their remains for medical experimentation.
- Mason Verger, the main antagonist of Thomas Harris' novel Hannibal and its film adaptation. Like Turner, Verger is a quadriplegic sexual sadist who derives pleasure from watching acts of torture and murder on a screen from his bed.
- Stephen Norton, the main antagonist of Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, a serial proxy murderer guilty of pushing people to their limits in the interest of watching them kill each other, all so his hands are clean. Hercule Poirot saw no chance at convicting him once having identified him, so Poirot drugged and shot him in his bed to end his crimes.
- Mason can be seen as a foil to William, as they are both older siblings who took responsibility for their younger siblings when their parents died. However, whereas William loved his sister and fought to avenge her death, Mason cares nothing for Lucas and would have him killed in a heartbeat.
External Links[]
- Mason Turner on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Mason Turner on the Criminal Minds Wiki
