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| “ | In Heaven or in Hell. Which one are you gonna go to, huh? You got anything you wanna get off your chest, 'cause the hour of reckoning is upon you, preacher-man! | „ |
| ~ McGregor to Justin Mills. |
Deputy Owen McGregor is an antagonist in the TV series Criminal Minds, serving as the main antagonist of the Season Nine two-part finale "Angels" and "Demons". He is a corrupt deputy of Texas who runs several criminal activities within the state. He is also the leader of a group of corrupt deputies.
He was portrayed by Michael Trucco, who also portrayed Eric Lutz in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Alec in Charmed, and Ethan Murphy in The Good Doctor.
Biography[]
Background[]
McGregor was born on December 8, 1981, and became a Sheriff's Deputy in some point of his adult life. He was corrupt, and ran a wide variety of criminal businesses within the department, such as drug, human and arms trafficking.
Viewing the Sheriff as a potential threat to his criminal empire, he ordered his deputies to orchestrate his death during a shootout. That failed, however, so a deputy killed him by lethal poisoning. However, the entire conspiracy was witnessed by a group of prostitutes, employed by Justin Mills, with whom McGregor offered a deal in exchange for his silence. In 2013, he and his deputies systematically tortured and killed Mills' prostitutes. They partially intend to silence them, one after another, but the murders were also a part of a larger scheme to orchestrate the death of Peter Coleman, a former Texas Ranger who became the new sheriff of Texas.
"Angels"[]
At the beginning of the episode, McGregor and his deputies kill Abigail Jones and Tabitha Ryerson. Mills threatens Travis (who was McGregor's informant) to find McGregor. When Travis does, McGregor offers him drugs in exchange for getting Mills to meet up at the local restaurant. Travis does so and Mills takes the bait, which McGregor kills Travis with a gun, then he kills two more of Mills' prostitutes and set their bodies, along with Travis', in wait for Mills at the bar.
When Mills discovers them, McGregor calls him and mocks him before telling him that he left weapons for him to use against the police when they come to confront him. Not knowing the BAU discerned the innocence, Mills equips himself with the weapons and prepares to ambush them and the deputies as they arrive. As McGregor fires, he wounds Coleman and tricks the deputies to shooting at Mills. As Coleman was killed in the shootout, McGregor flees as Mills continue to shoot.
"Demons"[]
The shootout come to an end when Mills is forced out of the bar by Agents Derek Morgan and Jennifer Jareau of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), Mills was killed by Morgan, while his fellow BAU Agent Spencer Reid escapes to a hospital to recover after he is shot in the neck by Mills. McGregor orders his deputies to kill the BAU, when he tries to kill Reid, he is stopped by BAU Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia. McGregor then orders Baylor to kill two of them, and he found Bennett and Lorenzana wounded, and killed them in a fit of rage. He then heads to a junkyard he owns, where three of his deputies are present. Jareau, Morgan, and Agent Aaron Hotchner engage in the shootout with McGregor. All the deputies are killed, and McGregor tries to kill Hotchner in his last stand, but is killed by him in return.
Trivia[]
- McGregor and his gang of deputies are inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals and criminal cases:
- The prevalence of gang in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the crimes associated with their groups, typically motivated out of racial and ethnic supremacy.
- The Jeff Davis 8 case, where eight high-risk women in Louisiana were found dead in various bayous, preceded by revelations of local corruption and more violent crimes.
- Dennis Peck, the main antagonist of Internal Affairs, a dirty cop guilty of numerous criminal operations, which results in violent confrontations with investigators out to arrest him.
External Links[]
- Owen McGregor on the Criminal Minds Wiki