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| “ | No. With America, there is no future. | „ |
| ~ Natalie during the killing spree. |
| “ | Let's give 'em something they can't ignore. | „ |
| ~ Nick reassuring Natalie. |
Natalie Knox and Nick Jamison are the main antagonists of the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders episode "The Ballad of Nick & Nat". The couple were Americans with renounced citizenship who committed a politically-motivated spree in Cuba to spread their anti-American overtones.
Natalie is portrayed by Ambyr Childers, and Nick is portrayed by Michael William Freeman.
Biography[]
Early Life and Crimes[]
Natalie and Nick both grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and were drawn to each other as high school sweethearts from different traumatic childhoods. Natalie's mother, who had a drug habit, shooed the police away when Natalie reported her mother's third husband, a prison guard, for raping her at age nine, her mother lying that she made the report up. Nick's mother abandoned him and his father when he was five, leading to Nick's diagnosis of intermittent explosive disorder at the age of ten. Natalie and Nick, long trying to support themselves from job to job, blamed their problems on America in general, becoming expatriates illegally entering Cuba through Mexico, as Natalie's Cuban-born neighbor Nona Gutierrez lost her parents during the Batista regime and said she missed her birth country. They revoked their citizenships in 2013 and were enjoying their lives together until 2015. On November of that year, American tourist Stan Williams cornered Natalie in an alley behind a bar in Havana and raped her. Nick rushed in to rescue her, and they both beat and kicked Williams into the ground, Natalie with full intention on killing him. Nick stopped her by carrying her away, Natalie screaming with rage as they fled. By this point, Natalie became fully anti-American and brought Nick on her obsession to spread her message with a violent crime spree. Finding another American named Victor Foster in Santiago de Cuba, Natalie somehow snatched his Colt pistol, shot him, and made off with the gun and his car with Nick. As the duo wanted to emulate anti-Americanism, wanting quotes by Che Guevara alluded to at every scene, Victor's mouth had an apple shoved inside.
The Ballad of Nick & Nat[]
Finding Rodrigo Fernandez, a Cuban-American man from Miami, in a bar in Camajuani, Natalie engages him at a bar to lure him, choosing him as their next target. Rodrigo followed Natalie outside in his car when she was walking down the road, offering her a ride. She gets in, and Nick, who was following them the entire time, hops into the backseat. When Rodrigo protests, Natalie pulls the pistol and says "he's with me", before shooting Rodrigo dead with one shot. Natalie then stomps on a worm, places it in a glass mescal bottle, and leaves it on Rodrigo after he's dead. Natalie and Nick arrive at a novelty store in Tarafa, and she ties on one of the shirts in front of the clerk. She remarks on the American flag he hung on the wall, and he mentions he believes in America providing a better future. Natalie bitterly says there's no future with America, shoots the man dead, shoves the flag in his mouth, kisses his forehead, and paints "BLESS YOUR HEART" at the scene. With each new killing, Natalie grows bold enough to mail photos of the dead men to news networks, with captions in Spanish, in hopes of their publication.
In a macabre moment, Natalie and Nick sit in the car, while Natalie sings and hums "My Country Tis of Thee", paints blood on her and Nick's faces, and has Nick lick her finger before they kiss. With Natalie being too fired up from her rage and extremism, Nick says she should take a nap. Natalie interprets this as him not believing in her and her cause and ordering him to leave, but he stays and gets closer to her. When they're standing under a statue of Guevara in Santa Clara, they hear two American staring up at it and discussing it. When Natalie hears one, Austin Morrison, insult Guevara, she gives the gun to Nick and makes him shoot Austin dead to prove his devotion. Natalie and nick are identify from Natalie's print retained from her daycare work in America. Natalie's furious it's still not getting the public's attention, so she and Nick finally agree to an endgame. Returning to Havana, they go to the lobby of the Hotel Nacional, where Nick shoots the security guard. Holding the gun on everyone present, Nick orders a nearby report to start a live broadcast, and Natalie starts protesting against America. The International Response Team show up with the police and the military. Natalie is originally enraged, especially since the U.S. sent FBI agents for the investigation, but Agent Jack Garrett quickly reassures her they've accepted her message. Natalie weeps and rejoices with Nick that they were successful. Convinced to surrender, Natalie is instead stopped by Nick, who says they're in it together and it shouldn't stop at their affirmation. Despite Agent Garrett's warnings, Nick raises the gun at the responding forces, and they shoot both of the couple dead with a hail of gunfire.
Trivia[]
- Natalie and Nick are inspired by multiple real-life spree killing duos:
- Hermann Duft and Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer, two German citizens responsible for a murder and robbery spree in Greece while posing as tourists.
- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barlow, the most famous American outlaw couple and the leaders of the Barrow gang. Barrow having been raped in prison and the duo literally dying in a hail of bullets from a gunfight with police. There's a poem ironically nicknamed "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" written by Parker, who titled it "The Trail's End".
- Juan Chavez and Hector Fernandez, a.k.a. "The Thrill Killers", a duo of American spree killers responsihle for a similar shared history of shootings, robberies, carjackings, and even the leader making the follower use the gun at least once.
- John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, a.k.a. "The D.C. Snipers", a serial killer duo of shooters across the capital area of the U.S., sending a harassing message to the police written on a tarot card. Muhammad, the leader, did most of the killing, training Malvo to commit some murders later.
- Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, two teenage Americans who conspired in a nationwide killing spree while still high school sweethearts.
- George York and James Latham, two American spree killers and the last hanged inmates of Kansas, with a similar timeline of assaults, murders, and carjackings.
- Mickey and Mallory Knox, the main antagonists of Natural Born Killers, a murders couple of spree killers with histories of domestic abuse and who kicked off their spree when Mallory was being harassed at a pit stop.
- Natalie alone is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber", a serial bomber motivated by paranoia over technological evolution, gong into an isolation after a psychotic break and mailing manifestos throughout his spree.
- Aileen Wuornos, a.k.a. "The Florida Highway Killer", a serial shooter of men driven by a similar background of childhood rapes by family and the rape of the first man she shot.
- Thana, the protagonistic villain of the exploitation film Ms .45, a quiet seamstress who goes on a manhating killing spree after being raped twice in one night, starting with killing the second rapist.
- Nick alone has a similar background to Joseph Paul Franklin, a.k.a. "The Racist Killer", a Mobile, Alabama native with an absent parent and abusive childhood, resulting in a series of racist shootings across the nation and Franklin even committing robberies to fund his crimes.