This man is an insult to aspiring writers everywhere.
| “ | Dunn: You are supposed to be dead. Beckett: I'm sorry to disappoint you. Dunn: It was supposed to be over, Nikki. It was supposed to be done. But now, now I have to keep going. *kills random person* |
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| ~ I'll just let this stand for itself. |
Well, I’m back again with my fourth proposal. Back in July I proposed Carol Jarvis from Castle. She’s without a doubt the most obvious PE candidate in the show, but I’m surprised that the candidate I’m going to be discussing now didn’t cross my mind.
That candidate is Scott Dunn.
But without wasting any more time, let’s get into it.
What’s the Work[]
Castle is an ABC dramedy series about Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), a famous mystery writer who gets brought into a police investigation by Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) when someone begins murdering people in the style of murders from Castle’s books. He continues to work with the police, at first because he wants to use Beckett as inspiration for his books, and later because he’s been so essential to the investigations that the police want to have him around.
Beckett inspires a character called Nikki Heat (before anyone says it sounds like a stripper name… yes, they bring that up in the show), and this ends up being essential to the episodes “Tick, Tick, Tick” and “Boom!” Which leads us to…
Who is Scott and what has he Dunn?[]
(So sorry you had to read that… I just couldn’t pass up on the opportunity.)
Note: This is not plagiarism since I am the one who wrote this in his page.
Scott Dunn is an aspiring writer who seeks to create the perfect story by committing horrible crimes in the real world. He started by committing arson in 1999 before stabbing a man named Chris Doherty to death in 2004. He then began serial-killing prostitutes in Seattle before framing someone else for it and hanging them to make it look like they committed suicide.
Scott Dunn has developed an obsession with Nikki Heat, a fictional character in Richard Castle’s books, and targeted Detective Kate Beckett, the inspiration for the character of Nikki Heat.
Selecting Ben Conrad, a man whose dog got killed by another dog but lost the ensuing court case, to be his next scapegoat, Dunn killed three people involved in the case. The bullets used in the murders are inscribed with letters, so that when put together they spell out “NIKKI WILL BURN.”
As Dunn expected, the police linked Ben Conrad to the murders and tried to found him at his apartment, where Dunn kills Conrad, who he was holding captive, and makes it look like a suicide.
With the police believing the serial killer to be dead, Beckett let her guard down, allowing Dunn to detonate a bomb in Beckett’s apartment. She survived, enraging Dunn, who in response killed a random person just to taunt Beckett.
Next, Dunn took FBI Agent Jordan Shaw hostage and lured the FBI and SWAT to a building across the street from where he was holding Shaw, planning to kill the entire detail with a bomb. However, his plan was discovered by Beckett and Castle, who disarmed him and saved the detail from Dunn’s bomb. Dunn is then arrested.
Mitigating Factors[]
Dunn is psychotic but he’s clearly well aware that what he does hurts people, taunting Beckett every time he kills someone, framing other people for his actions, and generally taking pride in being a vile waste of oxygen. So yeah, moral agency is no problem here.
And beyond that there’s nothing even resembling a mitigating factor, so let’s move on.
Heinous Standard[]
To get the obvious out of the way, there’s Carol Jarvis, who tried to start a deadly flu epidemic for profit. However, she has far more resources than Scott Dunn due to her government position. Bracken, Mason Wood, and Sophia Turner all have more resources than Dunn as well.
Jerry Tyson/3XK and Van Holtzman are both serial killers like Dunn, but unlike Dunn they never made the switch to mass murder. It’s also worth noting that Tyson appears across multiple seasons, and while Holtzman only appears in a single episode, he had been active for thirty in-story years.
Finally, he’s personally evil to Beckett given his rather nasty psychological warfare methods.
Final Verdict[]
Yes