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| “ | Rosie, it's time. I have a plan, and we'll be together forever. | „ |
| ~ Bremmer to his latest victim |
Robert Bremmer is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Out of the Light". He is a serial killer who preys on teenage girls who remind him of his stepdaughter, Rose.
He was portrayed by Jeffrey Meek.
Early Life[]
A successful restaurant owner and family man in Lake Worth, North Carolina, Bremmer appeared to be a pillar of his community, but had a dark secret - he was physically and sexually abusing his teenage stepdaughter, Rose. His wife Denise, Rose's mother, was frequently hospitalized for depression, allowing him near-total freedom to abuse the girl as much as he liked. When Denise finally found out what Bremmer was doing to her daughter, she tried to run away with Denise, but he caught them and forced them to stay with him. Finally driven over the edge by his abuse, Denise tried to poison Rose to put her out of her misery, and finally killed her daughter and herself by driving their car into a lake.
After Rose's death, Bremmer's obsession with her grew stronger than ever, and he began searching for a "replacement". He spent the next decade kidnapping and raping teenage girls who resembled Rose, and then stabbing them to death when he tired of them. Another local pedophile, voyeur Marcus Talbert, was identified by Bremmer, so he decided to frame Talbert by unearthing one girl Bremmer murdered and reburying her closer to Talbert's home. It's later implied the two of them were accomplices, as while Talbert was a voyeur in the crimes he was directly guilty of, he retained photos of each of the captive girls, which if he didn't steal from Bremmer, Bremmer supplied Talbert with them.
In "Out of the Light"[]
Bremmer kidnaps Marcy Owens and Angela Proctor, intending to make them his next victims, but Proctor manages to get away from him. He chases her through the woods near his property until she falls off a cliff onto the road below, fracturing her skull. The local sheriff finds her and takes her to the hospital and calls in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) to investigate after she tells them she was kidnapped. Before succumbing to her injuries, Proctor tells BAU Agent Spencer Reid, "He has Marcy," which he mishears as "He has mercy." Bremmer tells Owens that Proctor is dead and she is all alone, and puts her through more rape and torture. After he is done, Owens starts crying, and Bremmer comforts her, calling her "Rosie". She starts telling him about herself in hopes of getting him to let her go, which sends him into a fit of rage; he pulls her hair so hard that she starts crying again, accuses her of lying to him, and leaves her chained up in the dark.
Fearing that the authorities are on to him, Bremmer digs up the corpse of one of his victims and buries it on property belonging to local sex offender Marcus Talbot, a former high school teacher who had Owens in one of his classes a few years earlier. Sure enough, the BAU arrests Talbot, but ultimately let him go after a coroner finds that the girl was murdered while Talbot was in prison on voyeurism charges. The coroner also finds a high concentration of metals in her blood, which, coupled with the unique wound patterns on the body, means that the killer works with stained glass. The BAU theorizes that the killer knows Talbot, has a connection to his class, and is kidnapping girls to "replace" a female teenage family member he was abusing. Technical analyst Penelope Garcia cross-references businesses in the area with stained glass windows with guest speakers at Talbot's class and men who lost teenage, female family members, and finds Bremmer.
After Talbot is cleared, Bremmer realizes that it is only a matter of time before the BAU arrests him, and decides to kill himself and Owens in a "blaze of glory" by driving into the same lake that Denise and Rose committed suicide in. He runs into a police roadblock, however, so he threatens Owens with a knife to keep her quiet as he waits for an officer to search his car. When the BAU arrives to arrest him, however, he panics and drives through the roadblock into the lake. Bremmer tries to pull her under the water with him, but Agent Derek Morgan dives into the lake to save her. Agent Aaron Hotchner dives into the lake as well, and shoots Bremmer in the head, killing him. Owens is narrowly rescued and resuscitated once pulled out of the water.
Trivia[]
- Bremmer is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional serial killers:
- Robert Sylvester Alton, a serial killer/rapist of women of color in North Carolina, who were scattered across the town where they were murdered after being kidnapped and raped. Alton messed with authorities with anonymous phone calls, and the only woman who lives through Alton's violence miraculously survived being thrown into water after being raped.
- Marc Dutroux, a Belgian serial killer who raped and murdered young girls, often burying his victims alive.
- Bernard Giles, an American serial killer/rapist of women and girls with an estranged wife an daughter, later being caught when two kidnapped girls escaped and reported Giles.
- Robert Hansen, a.k.a. "The Butcher Baker", an American serial killer/rapist of women in prostitution who were kidnapped, raped, and murdered, buried throughout the wilderness of Alaska and caught when one woman escaped. Hansen relocated to Alaska to hide his previous record of rape.
- Nick Ruskin, the main antagonist of the book and subsequent film Kiss the Girls, a serial killer/rapist of women held simultaneously captive, caught when one woman escaped with her life and narrowly survived plunging into a stream to be found later.
External link[]
- Robert Bremmer at the Criminal Minds Wiki
