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Scott Kagen is a supporting antagonist in the Criminal Minds episode "Middle Man". He is a member of a gang of serial rapists who prey on exotic dancers.
He was portrayed by Jake Thomas.
Early life[]
Kagen was a friendless, socially inept student at Ernstrom College in Greenwood, Indiana. He had a criminal record for marijuana and cocaine possession and other drug-related misdemeanors.
A few months before the events of the episode, he tried to pledge Ernstrom's Kappa Iota Phi fraternity, but was rejected. He was befriended by Michael Kosina and Chris Salters, two former classmates who had also been rejected by the fraternity, and who had been kicked out of school for sexually harassing female students. Sensing that he was angry at the rejection and naturally submissive, Kosina and Salters talked Kagen into joining a group they called the "Johnson County Brotherhood", telling him they would get revenge on the community that rejected them by kidnapping and raping exotic dancers, forcing them to perform stripteases between the assaults. It was Kagen's job to tie their victims up and keep them from escaping once Kosina and Salters had subdued them.
By the time of the episode, they had kidnapped and raped two women. Unbeknownst to Kagen and Salters, Kosina murdered them after the rapes.
"Middle Man"[]
Kagen, Kosina, and Salters chase their latest victim, Meredith Joy, in their truck through an isolated cornfield and eventually capture and rape her. After they are done with her, Kosina drags her off into the cornfield and strangles her to death, once again without Kagen's or Salters' knowledge. Soon afterward, the three kidnap and rape another dancer, Stephanie Wilson, and hold her prisoner in the basement of Kosina's house.
The local police - led by Salters' father, Sheriff Jeff Salters - ask the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) to profile Meredith's killers, and they soon discover that her murder is linked to two other rape-homicides. They hold a press conference at a local TV station and profile the killers as young, socially maladjusted men who had recently been expelled from Ernstrom College and were targeting exotic dancers as revenge against a community they feel has wronged them.
Kagen and Salters happen to be watching the press conference while hanging out at the bar where Salters works, and they both realize, to their horror, that Kosina murdered the women they raped. They both confront Kosina, who coldly admits killing the women to make sure they didn't go to the police. He then orders Kagen to look after Wilson while and Kosina go hunt for another victim. Wilson begs him to let her go and tells him that she has a young daughter; while he is too afraid of Kosina to let her go, Kagen - the only member of the gang with a conscience - promises her he will do everything he can to get her back to her daughter.
As the BAU gets closer to arresting the trio, Kagen panics and tells Kosina he wants out. Kosina responds by beating him to a pulp with a baseball bat and dragging him out to the cornfield where he killed Joy, with a reluctant Salters in tow. He orders Salters to beat Kagen to death with the bat, reasoning that he has outlived his usefulness and become a liability. Terrified that Kosina will kill him if he refuses, Kagen beats in Kagen's head with the bat as the latter begs for his life.
Soon after Kagen's murder, the BAU finds Kosina and Salters, killing the former and arresting the latter.
External links[]
- Scott Kagen on the Criminal Minds Wiki
