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| “ | This is a mistake! You don't know what you're doing! | „ |
| ~ Cochran warning the BAU about the Libertad Cartel. |
Brian Cochran is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Internal Affairs"; he also appears as a minor character in the later episode "Entropy". He is the corrupt Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), who is secretly working with the Libertad drug cartel to smuggle narcotics over the U.S.-Mexico border.
He was portrayed by Tom Everett.
Early life[]
Cochran spent his entire professional life in government, and eventually rose to become the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA). At some point in his career, however, he started secretly working for the Libertad Cartel in Mexico, taking bribes to smuggle drugs across the border and act as an intermediary in ordering the murders of the cartel's competition. He also ran the cartel's online business, under the code name "George Washington".
On December 2, 2014, he went to Fort Meade and ordered a report on serial killer Jacob DuFour, who was committing murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the heart of the cartel's territory. He took advantage of the situation by sending people the cartel saw as threats into the area, where DuFour would then kill them. This led to the murders of DEA Agents Mark Bowers and John Portman, both of whom were working undercover to find the leader of the cartel.
Appearances[]
"Internal Affairs"[]
Cochran calls Jillian Carter, his chief lieutenant in the cartel, and tells her that Sarah Miles, their newest recruit, is in fact an undercover DEA agent. He tells her to take Miles to DuFour's hideout in Juarez.
When the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) starts investigating Dufour and connects him to the cartel, Cochran gets nervous and tries to frame Assistant DEA Director Bernard Graff; when that does not work, he orders hits on Graff and DEA informant Simon Kahn. Both assassinations are carried out, with Kahn being murdered by cartel hitmen and Graff being murdered by Zac Rubenis, a member of a loose online network of contract killers connected to criminal mastermind Cat Adams.
After the BAU rescues Miles and kills Dufour, they realize that he had help from someone in the DEA. BAU Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia discovers $5 million in Bitcoin in a Panamanian bank account in Cochran's name, and traces phone calls between Cochran and Carter. Agents David Rossi and Jennifer Jareau arrest the latter, while Agent Aaron Hotchner calls Cochran into a formal meeting and confronts him with the evidence against him. Cochran dismisses it, until NSA Agent Tony Axelrod walks into the meeting and borrows a pen from Cochran and reveals to Hotchner that the pen is really a flash drive containing the access codes to the cartel's servers. Hotchner arrests Cochran, who warns him that does know who he is dealing with.
"Entropy"[]
Cochran is put in solitary confinement in USP Terre Haute at Hotchner's request, in order to protect him from the assassin network. In return for the protection, Cochran tells Hotchner and Garcia all he knows about the assassin network from his prison cell via videoconference.
External links[]
- Brian Cochran on the Criminal Minds Wiki
