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“ | I'm beginning to think mother was right about you... | „ |
~ Randy while attacking his girlfriend. |
Randy Jacobs is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "The Bond".
He is a vengeful serial killer who hunts down and murders to people who separated him from his mother Flora, who is also a serial killer.
He is portrayed by Wilson Bethel, who also portrays Benjamin Poindexter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV shows Daredevil and its upcoming Disney+ continuation Daredevil: Born Again.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Randy was conceived when his mother Flora was raped by a trucker, who also cut off her left ear. After giving birth to Randy, Flora began taking him along while she murdered truckers as surrogates for her rapist. She finally found the culprit and forced Randy to cut his father's ear off; she then tortured and murdered her abuser right in front of the boy. Soon afterward, she was arrested and institutionalized, and Randy was put into the foster care system.
He was eventually adopted by the Jacobs family, and repressed his memories of the murders. Even though he could not remember his trauma, however, he began suffering nightmares and anxiety without knowing why, and was socially withdrawn and inept; the only positive relationship he ever managed to form was with his girlfriend, Chloe Andrews.
As an adult, Randy found Flora and tried to forge a relationship with her. Flora convinced him that she would love him if he killed the people in the foster care system who took him away from her.
"The Bond"[]
Randy begins his killing spree by strangling Claire Westchester, his former elementary school teacher who reported Flora's abuse, with a rope; he then does the same to Frank Myers, the public defender who represented Flora at her trial. He then cuts off their left ears and keeps them as souvenirs. He poses their bodies in truck stop bathrooms as an unconscious references to the men his mother murdered.
He then goes to visit his mother in the psychiatric hospital she is institutionalized in, and shows her an engagement ring he plans to give to Chloe. He asks if he can invite his father to the wedding. Flora replies that his father is the reason she is in prison. He then begins stalking his next intended victim, real estate agent Linda Cavalry, who testified against Flora. He asks Linda if he can look at the house she is showing, and then subdues and kidnaps her. He takes her to a truck stop bathroom, where he strangles her to death.
Randy visits Flora again, but is puzzled when she appears angry with him, and particularly jealous of Chloe. After a brief argument, she tells him to leave. That night, he has a nightmare about mutilating someone's ear, and wakes up screaming next to Chloe, who reminds him that he has not filled his prescription for anti-anxiety medication in months. He admits that Flora told him to stop taking the medication, and Chloe replies that Flora is a bad influence on him. Enraged, Randy begins choking Chloe, screaming that his mother was right about her. He stops short of killing her, however, and storms out as she gasps for air.
The next day, he visits Flora, and tells her she was right about Chloe, and shows her a picture of Cavalry's dead body; she is overjoyed, and says that it is the "perfect" present. She then tells him that he needs to kill Chloe.
Meanwhile, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) investigates the murders, profiling the killer as trying to avenge some real or imagined wrong he believes his victims have committed against him. From the degree of rage shown in the murders and the fact that each of the victims were somehow involved in the family court system, BAU Agent David Rossi theorizes that the killer was taken away from his parents by the state. He also posits that the killer's compulsion to pose the victims' bodies in truck stop bathrooms reflects a trauma he suffered in such a bathroom. Using this profile, technical analyst Penelope Garcia cross-references family court cases in the area with murders and assaults committed in truck stop bathrooms, and finds records of Flora's arrest and imprisonment, as well as Randy's foster care records, thus identifying him as the killer.
Randy ambushes Chloe as she is leaving their apartment and kidnaps her. He takes her to the barn where Flora held his father captive, but she manages to get away from him and lock herself in the barn. He breaks in and holds her at knifepoint, just as BAU Agents Derek Morgan and Tara Lewis burst in and try to talk him down by telling him the truth about what Flora did to him, including making him participate in murdering his own father. Randy starts having flashbacks of the murders that Flora made him watch, but still protests that his father deserved what happened to him; Morgan replies that he does not have to be defined by the sins of his parents. This strikes a chord in Randy, who lets Chloe go and tearfully begs her forgiveness as Morgan and Lewis take him into custody. Randy is institutionalized in the same hospital as his mother, and later cuts his own ear off.
Trivia[]
- Randy is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Kenneth Kimes, Jr., the son and accomplice of con artist and murderer Sante Kimes, who also made Ken, Jr., participate in murder as well, under oppressive influence that reportedly included Sante raping Ken, Jr.
- Norman Bates, the main antagonist of the film Psycho, a serial killer, most of women, with an alternate personality of his mother, which makes him kill women he likes and whoever gets close to arresting him.
External links[]
- Randy Jacobs on the Criminal Minds Wiki