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Colin Bramwell is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode “Final Shot”. Bramwell is an elite soldier and a hitman hired to go on a killing spree to cover up the murder of the real target: his client's ex-wife.
He was portrayed by Mike Colter, who also portrayed Joseph Serumaga in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
Bramwell worked in special forces in South Africa as an elite sniper, collaborating in Mombasa with Albanian fellow soldier Eric Carcani on assignment. When his division investigated him for theft of federal documents, Bramwell was let go. Years later, Carcani reconnected with Bramwell, as he had a job for him while he was in a seminar in Houston. Carcani wanted Bramwell to track down Carcani's ex-wife Maya, who went into hiding in Dallas to escape Carcani beating her and kill her. Bramwell entered the U.S. on a tourist visa and made preparations for a week while in hiding. His plans were to be coincidentally executed on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in the same city.
Bramwell begins by shooting and killing the women in the battered women’s organization who provided Maya sanctuary. Bramwell first murders Alice Emerson in Archer Plaza, but to cover his tracks, he executed five other people in a massacre at the same time. He then finds Rebecca Schroeder at a gas station and shoots her and two other people dead later that day. During the massacres, Bramwell conditioned himself with "fantasy integration" focus, where he made up an alternate reality under which he could drive himself to commit the shootings. He also employed additional calculations, such as cutting a hole in glass to align his rifle at the Archer Plaza massacre, and hiding in a van while he was careful to avoid shooting cars in his way at the gas station. After eliminating other suspects, the Behavioral Analysis Unit realized the killer was targeting each and every shooting, as they figured out Alice and Rebecca were the targets due to Bramwell targeting all his "kill shots" so that each woman would be shot in the middle of the massacre, to distract from the motive while also preventing their escapes. Bramwell also shot a phone in Rebecca’s hand she was planning to use to call Maya to warn her.
Carcani is suspected once the connection is revealed, but he flees and shoots at the agents when they arrive at his office, and he died from being hit by a bus. When his alibi checks out, Bramwell is identified as the killer from the two soldiers’ shared service records and Bramwell’s visa application. Bramwell has already tracked Maya to a hotel, where he gets too lost in his “fantasy” that he takes too much time to wait for an opportune vantage point. As he refocuses and prepares to shoot Maya, Agent Aaron Hotchner, having tracked Maya as well with his team, shoots Bramwell dead and saves Maya.
Trivia[]
- Bramwell is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- John Allen Muhammad, one of the two "D.C. Snipers", a military veteran and serial killer of random pedestrians with his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, reportedly motivated by killing his ex-wife to get custody of their children.
- Charles Whitman, a.k.a. "The Texas Bell Tower Sniper", a mass murderer and military veteran responsible for killing his mother and wife, then perching himself on a university bell tower with rifles and shooting pedestrians in a massacre.
- Milton Johnson, a.k.a. "The Weekend Murderer", a serial killer/mass murderer with a preceding criminal record responsible for several massacres across Illinois, including one in a public road intersection.
- The killers of Sean Healy, a New York City prosecutor who was assassinated by a stray bullet when rival gangs were exchanging gunfire.
External links[]
- Colin Bramwell on the Criminal Minds Wiki
