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| “ | I think we're ready to meet. Trust me. I know what you want. | „ |
| ~ William Lee threatening one of his victims. |
William Lee is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Aftermath". He is a serial rapist, stalker, and murderer who preys on teenage girls and young women.
He was portrayed by Jason London.
Biography[]
A chronic underachiever, William Lee lives with his mother and works a menial job as a telemarketer for a sperm bank. He becomes obsessed with the idea of turning his life around by having a child, but is too socially inept and immature to date women his own age, so he begins stalking and raping college girls at a religious university in the hopes of getting them pregnant. He succeeds with one of his victims, who eventually commits suicide. After her death, Lee starts attacking older women who are trying to conceive via artificial insemination at the sperm bank he represents.
"Aftermath"[]
Lee becomes fixated on one of the sperm bank customers, Alicia Jordan, and leaves a threatening message on her answering machine. He then breaks into her house and rapes her at gunpoint. He then rapes and (unintentionally) kills Lisa Blake, which draws the attention of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU).
While developing a psychological profile of the killer, BAU Agent Elle Greenaway theorizes that he is a telemarketer for the sperm bank from his choice of victims and the ease with which he finds their phone numbers. She goes undercover at the bank's call center as an employee, complete with a nearby "cover house", and waits for the killer to start stalking her. Sure enough, Lee begins creeping around the house in his car; Greenaway runs his license plate through DMV records and discovers his identity. When Lee tries to break in, Greenaway surprises him by drawing her service weapon and arresting him.
While interrogating Lee, Supervisory Agents Jason Gideon and Aaron Hotchner play "good cop" in order to build a rapport with him, feeding Lee's ego by saying that he is the best thing that ever happened to his victims. Just as they are getting somewhere with him, however, his lawyer arrives and stops the interrogation on the grounds that Greenaway arrested him without evidence.
Determined to catch Lee in the act, Greenaway follows him to his mother's house and confronts him. Lee pleads innocence at first, but then begins to throw Greenaway off balance by telling her how attractive she is, and that she should find a man to take care of her. He then thanks her for his freedom, saying that without her unlawful arrest he would have been locked up. Finally, he taunts her by whispering in her ear that she has "made a lot of women very happy". Enraged, Greenaway shoots him dead. The investigation into his death occurs in the following episode, which ends in Greenaway quitting the FBI before Hotchner can fire her.
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Trivia[]
- Lee is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- The Boston Strangler case and the prime suspect, Albert DeSalvo. DeSalvo similarly restrained and raped women while threatening them with a weapon, and the Strangler changed intended victims during his spree. DeSalvo was also arrested while posing as a motorist.
- Troy Graves, a.k.a. "The Center City Rapist", a serial rapist and murderer guilty of multiple break-in rapes of women in two spearate cities and timelines, including a rape and murder of one woman in thw first timeline.
- Billy Mulligan, a.k.a. "The Campus Rapist", a serial rapist of college women at gunpoint, also targeting a woman outside of the college dorms.
- Judge Charles Lomax and Peter Laver, the main antagonists of the British film Night After Night After Night, a corrupt judge guilty of the rapes and murders of women, including an inspector's wife, and the prime suspect of the inspector who he hounds for a conviction, despite the prime suspect not being the killer.
- William Lee is the first antagonist in the series to be killed by a protagonist in cold blood to avenge an innocent person, another notable example being Hotchner beating George Foyet to death for killing his wife.
External Links[]
- William Lee on the Criminal Minds Wiki
