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| “ | The circles go on forever and ever, like the way I love you. The beauty of infinity is everything ends where it begins. | „ |
| ~ Meeks to his sons. |
William Meeks is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior episode "Here is the Fire". Meeks is a serial bomber and mass murderer who tries to kill his own sons in a delusional attempt to send them to Heaven.
He's portrayed by Gary Basaraba.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Meeks is a resident of the small town of Fredericksburg and a devout Christian, an imposition he extended to his family, consisting of his wife and three sons. Meeks' wife died from a placental abruption while giving birth to the fourth son in the family, also killing their newborn child. Meeks found himself crushed and without a purpose to go on, so he decided to kill his remaining sons in his misguided hope to send them to Heaven. He requested a local pastor of a church of evangelists to baptize his three sons, then set up crosses at the creek where it happened for each of them to precede his attempts on their lives. Meeks tested his explosives there, with shrapnel for maximum destruction that included nails and toy jacks. When he was finally done, he was prepared to send his children to school carrying the bombs in their school bombs, detonating on timers matching their arrivals.
"Here is the Fire"[]
Meeks started with his youngest son Kyle, the bomb in his bag exploding and killing him and numerous other children and staff at the school, about a hundred more people so severely wounded that hospitals were crammed with emergency care patients. The Red Cell Team was immediately dispatched due to fear of terrorism. After ruling out a troubled teen, they review a note Meeks left behind, "Here I am father, here is the fire." They realize the bomber is a family annihilator with religious motivations and killed his child at the school. Meeks is identified when speaking with the pastor who baptized his children, and Kyle is confirmed to have died in the explosion. When his middle child Paul is found out to be on a field trip to se wildlife, with no cell reception, the agents pull over the bus once they find it. All the passengers and the driver are evacuated, and the agents run right before the bomb in Paul's bag goes off in the bus. Meeks is all the while with Shawn, his eldest child who he's playing hooky with, getting him to pray with him in the car.
Paul's account of Meeks' goodbye to the brothers are giving them infinity keychains confirms his next target: the hospital his wife and youngest son died at. Shawn is sent in with a backpack by Meeks, while Meeks stands outside the hospital threatening that he has the bomb. The police shot him to incapacitate him, but he and Shawn are both revealed as decoys. The bomb's in the maternity ward, where there are oxygen tanks that could be ignited by the blasts. The agents rush to the explosives with thirty seconds on the time, but successfully diffuse it. Shawn, shaken and still imprinted on by his father's religious hysteria, is set to reunite with Paul and their aunt, Rose. Meeks recovers from his gunshot and is incarcerated for his crimes.
Trivia[]
- Meeks is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Paul Orgeron, a.k.a. "The Poe Elementary School Bomber", a mass murderer responsible for using a suitcase of dynamite to kill himself, his son, and some other faculty and children at the aforementioned school his son wasn't admitted to.
- Andrew Kehoe, a.k.a. "The Bath School Bomber", a serial bomber and mass murderer of the aforementioned small town school, who also killed his wife, set off timer bombs across the town, and left written messages to police before he killed himself in another explosion.
- John List, the killer of almost his entire family out of depression, career failure, home situation problems, and religious paranoia from an orthodox Lutheran upbringing.
External Links[]
- William Meeks on the Criminal Minds Wiki
