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| ~ Hines preparing to force one of his victims to eat human remains. |
Wallace Hines is the main antagonist of the two-part Criminal Minds episode "The Inspiration/The Inspired". He is a serial killer who rapes, tortures, and murders women who remind him of his ex-girlfriend.
He was portrayed by Fred Koehler (who also portrays his twin brother in the same series) as an adult and Jeremy Koehenour as a child.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Hines was raised by his narcissistic mother Carla, who gave up his identical twin brother, Jesse, for adoption because she found raising two children to be too much work. His father, Bill Robbins, suffered from schizophrenia, and had little to no contact with his children. Carla eventually tired of her son and sent him to live with her sister Connie, with whom he lived until he was 30. He eventually got a job as a cook in a mall restaurant called Wheeler's.
In high school, he briefly dated a classmate named Heather, who broke up with him. He began stalking her until her parents took out a restraining order against him after he smashed up her car with a baseball bat. As a young man, he became obsessed with praying mantises, particularly with their behavior of beheading and eating their mates, and kept one as a pet.
Upon learning that Heather was getting married, Wallace snapped and developed a delusion that she and any woman who resembled her was out to get him. He attacked and murdered her, and severed her head, in keeping with his morbid obsession with praying mantises. He then began to stalk, rape, and murder women who resembled Heather, feeding them pieces of Heather's head before killing them.
"The Inspiration"[]
Wallace rapes and murders two women within three days, and then kidnaps Emma Coleman and imprisons her in his apartment. His neighbor Corin Todd complains about noise coming from his room, unaware that Emma is thumping her body onto the floor to signal for help. Hines tells Corin that his roommate and his girlfriend are having sex, and sends her away by promising to tell them to keep it down. He force-feeds Emma pieces of Heather's head, later taking her to a nearby forest to rape and kill her.
The next day, he awkwardly asks Mia Rivera, a barista at his local coffee shop, out on a date, but she politely rebuffs his advances. He hallucinates that Heather is mocking him, and he tells her to shut up. That night, he breaks into Mia's house, having stalked her after her rejection, and kidnaps her, force-feeding her pieces of Heather's head before raping and murdering her.
The following morning, Carla shows up at his apartment and asks him point-blank if he had anything to do the murders, having read about them in the newspaper. He denies it, but then hallucinates Carla vomiting up a tooth, as Mia had, prompting him to slam the door on her in terror. He later buys a snake and feeds it to his pet mantis, all while hallucinating that Heather is mocking him again. He flies into into a violent rage, physically attacking the hallucination he believes is really there. Corin once again tells him to stop making noise, but he threatens her before shutting the door in her face.
Wallace goes to work, where his boss Erik Cole berates him for being late. In retaliation, Hines puts pieces of Heather in the food he is preparing. When several customers, all women, complain about the food, Hines flies into a rage and takes the entire restaurant hostage at gunpoint. He hallucinates that Heather is yelling at him, so he attacks the vision with a meat cleaver, unaware that he is actually attacking a customer. When a security guard tries to apprehend him, Wallace shoots him dead. He flees the restaurant, later stopping at a gas station, where he sees a news report of someone who looks almost exactly like him being arrested by the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) - his long-lost brother, Jesse.
"The Inspired"[]
After Jesse is released, he kidnaps Wallace and interrogates him about his crimes, saying he fears that people will mistake him for his reviled brother and make his life miserable. After Wallace details his murders, Jesse offers to get him help, and then goes out and rapes and murders a woman, confident that Wallace will be blamed. Wallace figures out that Jesse wants to learn how to kill just like him, and agrees to teach him.
After questioning Carla, the BAU contacts Heather's parents, who agree to hold a press conference asking Hines to turn himself in. This unnerves Wallace, who has a hallucination of praying mantises crawling out of Heather's mouth.
Later, Jesse kidnaps his neighbor Elizabeth, and he and Wallace rape and murder her together. Jesse takes Wallace to the church where he was adopted, where they meet with Carla. She tells Wallace that they will go on the run together, and embraces him - and then tells Jesse to kill him. Jesse turns on her, however, holding a meat cleaver to her throat, provoking Wallace to pull a gun on his brother. Jesse tells Wallace that Carla had contacted him three months earlier and asked him to kill his brother, whom she viewed as a disappointment, but he had decided not to go through with it after seeing that they were alike. Wallace refuses to lower his weapon, so Jesse attacks him, but Wallace manages to get the better of him and shoots him dead.
The BAU storms in moments later, having deduced Carla's plan and where they would meet. Wallace pretends to be Jesse in hopes that they will let him go, but his father identifies him from his trembling right hand, a mannerism he picked up as a child. As the BAU take him and Carla into custody, a terrified Wallace screams for his mother, who merely shakes her head at him in disdain.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Wallace is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Daniel Rakowitz, a.k.a. "The Cannibal Chef", a murderer guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Swiss student Monica Beele, boiled her head, and ate it as soup.
- Robert Spahalski, a psychotic serial killer whose twin brother Stephen was imprisoned before him for a murder. The brothers shared habits and M.O.s in their murders that alluded to their similar psychiatric problems.
- Gary Heidnik, a murderer and serial kidnapper/rapist with an M.O. of force-feeding remains of women he killed to other women he held captive.
- Stephen Griffiths, a.k.a. "The Crossbow Cannibal", a British serial killer of women in prostitution with a history of stalking his former girlfriend, imprisonments for assaults and animal cruelty, and keeping lizards in his home as pets to feed live rats.
- Ralph Tortorici, a hostage-taker with schizophrenia who took a lecture hall at SUNY hostage and shot and nearly killed a student who disarmed him.
- Lawrence Bittaker, one of two "Toolbox Killers" along with Roy Norris, guilty of raping and butchering five teenage girls together.
- Ronnie Kray, one of two British identical twin brothers and gangsters, Ronnie suffering schizophrenia.
- John Harrington, the protagonistic villain of Hatchet for the Honeymoon; a serial killer of brides who later kills his wife and is haunted by her ghost out of revenge.
External Links[]
- Wallace Hines on the Criminal Minds Wiki
