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| “ | I am... an artiste. I took flesh and bone and made them, uh... transcendent. But none of this would be possible without you. You are my muse, Amy. Because of you, I am transcendent. | „ |
| ~ Mossier telling his therapist that he killed to get her attention, |
Paul Mossier is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders episode "The Lonely Heart". He is a French lovesick spree killer, strangling and mutilating women across Paris to get the attention of his former psychotherapist, whom he fell in love with.
He was portrayed by Italian actor Ivo Nandi.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Mossier is a far-removed descendent of the historic Boulangers family, a French woodworks dynasty near Marseilles. His father, who wanted him to grow into the family business, was abusive to him, once burning his hand with a cigar and rejecting him as family from lacking perfection in the craft. When Mossier grew to be unstable, his family disavowed him from their ranks. Part of this was from his long record of assaults and attempted assaults, typically of women. When Mossier attempted to attack an officer in 2015, he was institutionalized at L'institut du Pinel. A young American therapist named Amy Wallace volunteered at the hospital to provide her specialty of art therapy.
Mossier was delighted to take the class, in spite of his illustrations often presenting as macabre. In a matter of transference, Mossier became obsessed and even smitten with Amy, getting discharged from the hospital despite the risk the staff saw he posed, in his hopes of reuniting with Amy and professing his love for her. When he discovered she got engaged while she briefly left France, Mossier snapped and decided to send a message to communicate his dangerous obsession, seeing if he could kill American women around France and stage them in gory messages of love. Needing a cover to attract women's attention with their guard down, as well as hide in pain sight, he started running a gypsy cab service with stolen license plates.
"The Lonely Heart"[]
Mossier finds elementary school teacher Samantha Wade walking home from a night eating out, and her heel snaps while walking home. Mossier drives up and offers her a ride home, which she agrees to after hesitation. Mossier then strangles Samantha to death with his bare hands, impaling her eyes with family-inherited timber scribes after she's dead and posing her seated. The staging of her murder is meant as a love totem, alluding to the phrase "blinded by love".
Mossier then finds publicist Bianca Lewis the next morning, lying she left something when reaching her apartment door. When she opens it, he barges in, grabs her by her throat, and pins her to a wall, muttering in French her murder will "be over soon". After killing her, he beheads Bianca and takes her head with him, sitting her upright to display the next twist on a phrase of love, "lost my head".
Mossier then picks Katherine Baker, a music student, when she's leaving her restaurant job. After Mossier makes small chat with Katherine and compliments her, she requests to be let off early when the questions get too personal. When he refuses, she not only becomes more insistent, Katherine threatens to take his picture to the cops. Mossier speeds up his car, resulting in Katherine jumping out to save her life. Mossier responds by running her over to kill, then cuts out her heart and places it in her hand to show the message "my heart's in my hands".
When the Parisian police go to the press with the information on his vehicle, Mossier screams in a rage and trashes his private workshop in Villepinte, which he uses as his hideout. Mossier then commandeers a tow truck and comes across Alexandra Lafayette. he's about to abandon her when she's French, but pressed for time, he kidnaps her with his ruse and strangles her too. Using a large butcher's knife, he cuts Alexandra's stomach open and fills it with dead grass demon butterflies, native to India, evoking "butterflies in my stomach". He tries to pose her at her home, but Mossier flees when her husband arrives.
The IRT eventually comes to realize the motive from the symbolism behind the murders, and Mossier is identified from the traditional tools he used in the murders holding his family emblem, as well as the butterflies being identified in species, leading to his burglary arrest at the House O' Butterflies shop where he stole them from. The IRT then get his history from the hospital, finding the drawings he made starkly resembling the murders. By this point, Mossier visits Amy personally, while she's preparing to move out. Apologizing for surprising her, Mossier pleads for her to come with him and view his demonstration of his obsession with her. She lies she'll get her coat and slowly closes the door, but Mossier chokes her unconscious and kidnaps her.
Holding her captive in his shop, Mossier stops Amy from leave, in which she knocks over Bianca's head and screams Mossier covers her mouth and insist she sees the entirety of his actions. While playing a record, Mossier says to a terrified Amy he detests the press saying he's "The Butcher of Paris", saying he's an artist and Amy is the muse who inspired him. When telling his father's abuse, Amy does her best to show sympathy. Delighted, Mossier turns on a light and shows a sheet with crude depictions of his crimes painted all over it, vehemently inquiring if Amy likes it. Amy, shocked and horrified, says Mossier is "disgusting" and has "always been sick". Heartbroken, Mossier cuts with palm with a linoleum knife while muttering and shouting in French, smears his blood on Amy's face, and knocks her back in her chair. While she pleads for her life, Amy sees Mossier grab a broad hatchet, prepared to kill her in his devastation. IRT Agent Jack Garrett shoots Mossier's shoulder, while Agent Clara Seger rushes to Amy. When Mossier refuses Garrett's orders to surrender and marches toward him, hatchet in hand, Garrett shoots him dead.
Trivia[]
- Mossier is inspired by multiple real-life serial killers:
- Edmund Kemper, a.k.a. "The Co-Ed Killer", an American serial killer of women pretending to be a taxi driver so he could butcher them to death, out of his obsession with another woman in his life: his mother, who he wanted to kill out of rage. Kemper also had a record that got him committed to a hospital as a teen, until he was released when coming of age.
- Levi Bellfield, a.k.a. "The Bus Stop Stalker", a British serial killer/rapist of teenage girls, who he prowled for as he cruised along Surrey roads, then raped, clubbed to death with a hammer, and scattered across Surrey where their bodies were left. Belfield once ran over a teenage girl who tried to escape him, miraculously living theiugh the attempt.
- Mossier was nicknamed "The Butcher of Paris" by the press. As Mossier himself pointed out, a real French serial killer, Marcel Petiot, was given the same nickname for a series of killings of war refugees by poisoning just to rob them with accomplices.
External links[]
- Paul Mossier on the Criminal Minds Wiki
