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“ | You damn half-breed, you don't know anything! | „ |
~ Trevor Mills cursing Derek Morgan. |
Trevor Mills is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "A Thin Line". He is a mass murderer who kills white suburban families so his mentor, Clark Preston, can blame them on immigrants in order to be elected Mayor of Los Angeles.
He was portrayed by Kevin Sheridan.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Mills was born and raised in the Inland Empire neighborhood of Los Angeles. In 2002, when Mills was 15, two African-American criminals, Ronnie Green and Carlos Jackson, broke into the Mills house, killed Mills' father Robert and sister Julie, and raped and beat his mother Pamela so severely that she was left in a persistent vegetative state.
Clark Preston, a local real estate developer and politician, used the family's tragedy to promote his own racist, anti-immigrant political agenda, saying the crime and others like it in the area were a consequence of the "browning of America". He also bought good press by paying Pamela's medical bills and becoming a mentor and father figure to Mills, who grows to worship him and adopt his white supremacist views, while Preston also manipulated him into donating Pamela's monthly disability check to his political action campaign. Unbeknownst to Mills, however, Preston paid Green and Jackson to kill his family as part of a scheme to lower the neighborhood's property values so he could buy the land for cheap.
"A Thin Line"[]
When Preston decides to run for Mayor of Los Angeles, he tells Mills to murder families in white, suburban neighborhoods so he can use them as a political issue. Mills, by now completely brainwashed, readily does as he is told, murdering two such families in the span of a month. The local police contact the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) to profile what are initially believed to be robbery-homicides committed by multiple assailants working together.
When BAU agents Aaron Hotchner and Derek Morgan question Preston about his campaign rhetoric's possible effect on the killer, Preston visits Mills and tells him to lay low. Mills senses that Preston is distancing himself from him, and commits another familicide as brutally as he can in order to impress him. He also kidnaps day laborer Ramon Gomez, intending to frame him for the murders, but Gomez manages to get away and talks to the BAU, who profile the killer until they are able to determine Mills' guilt.
Frightened and confused, Mills goes to Preston's campaign headquarters for help, but Preston washes his hands of him and has him thrown out. Mills bids goodbye to his mother and, in a desperate attempt to win back Preston's approval, kidnaps Preston's campaign opponent, Hilary Ross, intending to kill her so Preston will be elected by default. The BAU intercept him, however, and Morgan tells him the truth about Preston's complicity in his family's murder. Mills refuses to believe it, however, and angrily shoots another BAU agent, Emily Prentiss, in the shoulder. This prompts Supervisory Agent David Rossi to return fire, shooting Mills in the chest and killing him. Soon afterward, the BAU arrests Preston for orchestrating Mills' killing spree.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Mills is inspired by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a devout follower of white supremacist Matthew F. Hale responsible for a racist shooting spree on numerous marginalized groups in several American states, before committing suicide during a high-speed chase away from police.
External Links[]
- Trevor Mills on the Criminal Minds Wiki