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| “ | You should have seen Craig that day. He was so handsome. [...] You know, most people take "until death do you part" for their vows. We took that part out because nothing was going to take us apart, not even death. [...] But then it got ruined. Everything, everyone out there, they just... They just couldn't, they just couldn't leave us alone. | „ |
| ~ Cheryl relaying her motives to Janice. |
Cheryl Kaline is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "The Dance of Love". Cheryl is the wife of a nighttime radio host and a serial killer of his mistresses and other women who follow him out of jealousy, before she finally works up to a confrontation directly with her husband.
She's portrayed by Scottish-Norwegian actress Linn Bjørnland.
Biography[]
What's known about Cheryl's life is she married internet call-in romance channel DJ Craig Kaline in 2008, but Craig was cheating on her with numerous women who tuned in to his show, when they weren't sending him fan mail and even their own clothes. It was bad enough Craig gifted Cheryl a bracelet once, then stole it to give to a mistress instead. Around the time the couple planned to renew their wedding vows a decade later, Cheryl found the fan letters and packages from listeners, including the other women in Craig's wife, and she finally lost it. Equipping herself with a revolver, Cheryl would go to the homes of each woman, force her way in at gunpoint, and kill them by stabbing their backs with a pair of sheep shears, which she used to cut roses in her garden. As a trademark calling card, she'd always leave a rose in each woman's mouth, but not stopping there, she either tortured or posthumously desecrated the women in violent fashions evoking the exact kinds of songs on Craig's show, as a further attack on them and on Craig's infidelities.
As March was winding down and their ceremony date was approaching, and with increasing frequency and aggression, Cheryl killed Amanda Corliss, choking her corpse with a pearl necklace to bruise her, as she requested "String of Pearls"; the next day, Cheryl cooked a box of cigarettes in the home of Muriel Gourse, whose head was forced into the smoking appliance before she was killed, alluding to her request of "Smoke Gets in You Eyes". Cheryl then kills Rita Freeze the day after, referencing her request of "Rum and Coca Cola" by mixing and zesting such a drink accordingly before drenching Rita with it after she died. But later that same day, she dunks Dee Stockton, who wanted "Three Coins in a Fountain", repeatedly into her outside fountain, before shoving a rose in her mouth and stabbing her to death. After Craig dumps his latest mistress, Janice Fox, Cheryl arrives and tenderly embraces and kisses him, lying she's nervous and that she's hoping he's as ready as she is with how much the ceremony means to her. She then requests the song of their marriage, and he promises to play it twice. When Janice, heavily scorned and furious, demands Craig play "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" or she'll tell Cheryl about the affair, Cheryl, already knowing that and more, feverishly cuts up rose after rose to prepare for her final attack on Craig.
When Craig storms over the Janice's house about the "big mistake" of threatening him, Cheryl arrives, revolver in hand, and forces Janice to stay in place while Cheryl tortures Craig with furious cut after cut for his cheating and promiscuity. She then stabs him to death and sprinkles roses all over him in Janice's bed, before kidnapping a scared and tearful Janice and telling her she's getting to her end game, revolver in hand. As the BAU agents suspected Craig to be the killer, they were surprised and go back over their profile. After dispatching Janice as a suspect because of her disappearance, they go through Cheryl's social media, where they see her rose garden and signature shears. Cheryl brings Janice, who's pleading for her life, to the arrangement of their vow renewals. Cheryl passionately goes into how she and Craig took out "til death do us part", because she believed death wouldn't separate them. The agents arrive on the scene, and when Janice runs, Cheryl turns the gun on her head. Saying she's going to "join" Craig and protesting how she "felt his voice in the air" reaching all the women who tuned into him, Agent Matthew Simmons plays into her insanity and says "in the air" is a "final song" from Craig. Cheryl presumably hallucinates accordingly, so enthralled with joy that she drops the revolver and the agents take her into custody. The banner held up for the ceremony comes off the trees it's hung from as she's taken away. In spite of the competence in her crimes, she's likely institutionalized if she's not competent to stand trial.
Quotes[]
| “ | Cheryl: You've been acting so different lately. I'm sorry. It just... It means a lot to me. It's... it's everything. Craig: And to me. Everything I do is for you. Cheryl: Play my song tonight. Craig: I'll play it twice. Cheryl: You have a great show. |
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| ~ Cheryl discussing her and Craig's wedding vows with him |
| “ | His voice, his music went out to everybody through the air. There was no way of stopping it. Do you have any idea what that feels like? No matter where I was, no matter what I was doing, I felt the air around me, and I wondered if his voice was there, talking to another woman, listening to all the things that she wanted. | „ |
| ~ Cheryl's sanity declining |
Trivia[]
- Cheryl is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Martha Beck, a serial killer along with her husband Raymond Fernandez, motivated by jealousy over the women Fernandez conned in romance scans, which Beck tried to prevent from getting as intimate as pissihle until he rage resulted in the couple murdering the women and other people.
- Evelyn Draper, the main antagonist of Play Misty for Me, the obsessed fan and stalker of a radio host escalating to endangering his life.
- Eleanor Adjai, the main antagonist of the slasher film Night School, a serial killer of women she competes with for the affections of her professor, butchering them based on lessons from his classes. He later dies in a police chase to take the rap for her.
- Terry Cruger, the main antagonist of Sea of Love, a serial killer of his wife's lovers, all out of jealousy, staging the scenes with the song “Sea of Love” playing.
- Vic Van Allen, the protagonist villain of Deep Water, a serial killer of his wife's lovers before he murders her, all out of jealousy.
External links[]
- Cheryl Kaline on the Criminal Minds Wiki
