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Boyd Schuller, also known as The Planner, is the overarching antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode “Reckoner”. Schuller is a retired judge responsible for arranging a hit list and hiring mob mercenary Tony Mecacci to execute his demands as he nears death.
He’s portrayed by Lawrence Pressman, who also portrayed Dr. Alan Colter in Law & Order and Dr. Russell Pike in NCIS.
History[]
Schuller’s wife Emma was struck with a vehicle and killed in 2007 by Dan Patton while he was driving drunk. Schiller was long intolerant of offenders getting off on charges in his courtroom, but his wife’s manslaughter broke him. When Schuller was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2008, he was pushed over the edge, deciding on retribution to settle the score with exonerated convicts, including Patton.
Schuller somehow came into contact with Mecacci, agreeing to his 50 grand fee to wire to the Cayman Islands and only meeting once while otherwise speaking over the phone. Schuller contracted retributive tortures, mutilations, and murders of defendants of cases in Schuller’s who escaped Justice, all of them guilty of crimes against children, either intentionally arranged or by sheer coincidence.
Schuller’s first target is Rita Haslat, a social worker guilty of disregarding multiple cases of child abuse and neglect. Model of one child’s death, Mecacci held Haslat in captivity and starved her for weeks before killing her. Meccaci then killed Ben Livington and castrated him after he died for raping children, then killed Ben Vanderwaal and cut off his hands for fondling his stepdaughter. Schuller received updates from Mecacci in the form of photo proof of the accomplished hits.
When Patton’s murder approaches, Schuller turns himself into the police as a distraction. He confesses in full to his crimes, but the agents know he’s stonewalling. Agent David Rossi, who grew up in the area and knew Emma, lied he and Emma had an affair to stoke Schuller’s ire and get him to reveal any missing details to find the hitman. Schuller alludes to the hits not being over, which the agents catch onto, but they’re too late to stop Mecacci from bludgeoning Patton to death with a baseball bat to mimic Emma’s fatal wounds.
Schuller’s obligated to assist in drawing out Mecacci for arrest. Instead, Rossi’s childhood friend, mobster Ray Finnegan, is murdered by Mecacci in a sting. Schuyler is charged under the lie that he’s cooperating, but he taunts the agents by saying there’s one more hit he ordered. A sniper shot strikes Schuller while he’s escorted by police, killing Schuller on sight. It’s revealed he paid Mecacci to snipe him in an assisted suicide. Mecacci is later killed in revenge by one of Finnegan’s associates.
Trivia[]
- Schuller may have been inspired by Lawrence Wargrave, the overarching antagonist of And Then There Were None. Wargrave lures several escaped felons to an island to kill them one by one as punishment for various murders and manslaughters they were all responsible for.
