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| “ | You're gonna feel what it's like to watch someone you care about bleed to death in front of you. | „ |
| ~ James taunting Emily Prentiss as he prepares to kill Andrew Mendoza |
| “ | You don't care about me or my brother. You'd just as soon shoot us dead in the street! | „ |
| ~ Marcus condemning Prentiss |
James and Marcus Wells are the main antagonists of the Criminal Minds episode "Twenty Seven". The Wells brothers are a duo of spree killers driving people to their neighborhoods and repeatedly hacking them as a dare against the system to save them in time if they're in poorer areas.
James was portrayed by Joshua Elijah Reese, and Marcus was portrayed by Tre Hall.
Biography[]
James and Marcus lost their parents at an early age and were the father figures of their brother Tom, who they raised in the hopes of leaving their struggling neighborhood in D.C. and independently making his life. In spite of James' repeat offender's record, he took two jobs for Tom to get great schooling. Sadly, one night outside the Hard Times nightclub, a man named Lonny Carson stabbed Tom to death. His brothers placed nine calls to 911, but Tom died, the ambulance arriving in an allotted twenty-seven minutes. Blaming classism for Tom dying in his own neighborhood, James and Marcus waged a revenge campaign against more economically stable and safer people, in the hopes of making a point that they wouldn't be saved if they died in lower-rate areas. On November 14, 2018, they began snatching people from public locations, dropping them off at unsafe streets, and chasing them down with machetes before slashing them, leaving them to bleed to dare the medics to reach them in time. Charles O'Neill was attacked on Noma and later died; Kary Karlsson was chased down Trinidad and Park Ji Sung down K Street, but they both lived. The brothers successfully killed another man on Heights Park. Marcus had spotted two women watching Park die, but he fled since another man told him to stay away.
A manhunt ensued, but a public panic resulted in unnamed black-American man Peter Salah being shot in a parking garage. A trail of blood from the last crime scene leads to Marcus, who's arrested and taken into custody. Marcus is uncooperative, counts down the minutes until Agent Emily Prentiss smashes the timer, and taunts that there'll be another attack. Marcus becomes spiteful when not only do the agents identify them, but they know it's because of Tom's murder. Mentioning Peter's earlier murder, Marcus irately professes nobody cares about him and his family, that all the attacks are for Tom and the police can't stop their payback. When Prentiss says they don't get any messages across and need to "do the right thing" by surrendering, Marcus takes offense and says Tom paid with his life for living the straight and narrow. When Prentiss asks why the number twenty seven is significant, Marcus just says he can't get it out of his head and wants a lawyer.
James, by this point, marched onto the grounds of Hallridge University for another attack, but the agents and police already started evacuating students. James threatens a woman at the school with a machete, and Agent Andrew Mendoza offers to take her place. James agrees and lets her go, and when Prentiss arrives, James cuts Mendoza's torso and leaves him to bleed on the ground. Knowing full well the agents are in a relationship, James refuses to surrender, recounting Tom's death out loud. Prentiss says their crimes won't make changes, and when news crews arrive, she swears with the attention the brothers gathered, she'll tell their motives to everyone. Mendoza elbows James away to lunge out of the way, and when James charges at Prentiss, she tackles into the ground, and all the agents arrive to arrest him. James and Marcus are incarcerated for their crimes.
Trivia[]
- The Wells brothers are inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, a duo of extremism terrorists responsible for the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby with the use of the same weapons.
- Anthony and Nathaniel Cook, two brothers responsible for a violent spree of attacks against couples, which were only continued by Anthony halfway through.
- Reginald and Jonathan Carr, two brothers responsible for the Wichita massacre, which killed several people of higher-class backgrounds.
- The murder of Tom Wells appears to be inspired by the murder of Paul Broussard, a gay man who was stabbed to death by a group of youths in Montrose, only for the ambulance to fail in urgency of response, which was blamed for Paul's death that could've ultimately been prevented.
- The murder of Peter Salah appears to be inspired by the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman.
External links[]
- Marcus Wells on the Criminal Minds Wiki
- James Wells on the Criminal Minds Wiki
