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| “ | I should've cried for Katie. I guess there's some things I just can't fake. | „ |
| ~ Sera Morrison showing her true colors after getting caught. |
Sera Morrison is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "All That Remains". She is a sociopathic teenager who murders her own mother and sister and tries to frame her father for her crimes.
She was portrayed by Sophi Biarley.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Sera was born into a turbulent home. Her father, Bruce, was an alcoholic who suffered from dissociative identity disorder (DID), and his sadistic alternate personality, "Johnny", wreaked havoc upon the family for years. As a result, Sera grew up to be a sociopath, incapable of empathizing or connecting emotionally with anyone, even her own family. She particularly despised her younger sister, Katie, and their mother Judy, who she believed loved Katie more than her. She was nevertheless extremely bright; by the age of 17 she had a 4.0 GPA in school, and had accepted an early admission to Stanford University. She was also a talented writer, taking after her father, a college English professor.
Sera murdered Judy during a blackout, a crime for which her father was suspected. Needing a patsy, she befriended her soccer coach (and Judy's former lover) Jeff Godwin and told him of her unhappy home life, knowing that he would eventually attack her father. She also had Bruce's medications terminated so he would grow more unstable, intending to use him as another fall guy.
"All That Remains"[]
Bruce, acting under "Johnny"'s control, kidnaps Katie and leaves her in the woods near his house - where Sera later beats her to death in the hopes that the police will blame Bruce for her death. When the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) investigates Katie's murder, Sera pretends to be in shock and stricken with grief. When they arrest Bruce, she pretends to be traumatized, accusing him of abusing her and Katie and demanding to know where Katie's body is.
BAU Agent Jennifer Jareau takes pity on Sera and offers to take her home, but grows suspicious upon seeing her change in affect, from hysteria to perfect calm in a matter of minutes, as well as her apparent lack of grief for her sister. At Sera's house, Jareau covertly calls her BAU colleagues to let them know that she is in danger. Sera realizes that Jareau is on to her, however, and takes her hostage. While holding Jareau prisoner, she gloats that, even if she gets caught, she can claim that she suffers from PTSD and get away with her crimes by pleading insanity.
Moments later, Jareau's fellow BAU Agents Derek Morgan and Spencer Reid, having deduced that Sera is the real culprit, burst into the house and try to arrest her. Sera blames her actions on trauma caused by her father's abuse, and Morgan plays along with her lies in order to give Reid enough time to arrest her. She is last seen taken into custody, having seemingly accept her defeat.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The Morrison family case is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional murderers:
- Joshua Powell, the prime suspect in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan, and killed himself and his and Susan's two sons in a murder-suicide in 2013.
- Tom Bonney, the murderer of his daughter Kathy during an argument, which he defended in court as having come from a switch to one of his dissociative alters.
- Mort Rainey, the protagonistic villain of Secret Window, a struggling writer revealed to be a serial killer who envisions his alter personality angering him into killing his wife.
External links[]
- Sera Morrison on the Criminal Minds Wiki
