Blake Wells

"That is gonna be the knife you kill yourself with."

Blake Wells is a fisherman-turned-serial killer who appeared in Season Six of Criminal Minds.

Background
Blake was abused by his father Chuck, who made him work with him in his profession as a fisherman. Sometime prior to Big Sea, his mother died of breast cancer and he started killing in Jacksonville, starting with Chuck. The BAU was called in when his graveyard was exposed when a water pump dug up several skeletons.

Big Sea
Blake is first seen in his ship cutting up a fish, presumably to relieve him of his murderous urges, while a man calls out for help from inside. He then goes inside and proceeds to blow a strange powder in the man's face, ignoring his pleas to not do so. In the background, a teenage boy, the captive's son, watches. Blake then gives the man a set of knives and tells him to choose one. The man chooses one of the knives, and Blake eerily tells him that it is the knife he kills himself with.

As the BAU attempts to identify more of Blake's victims, Blake orders the man to tell his son how he abandoned him and how he stopped loving him. Whenever the man disobeys, he stabs himself with the knife he "chose". When Blake leaves, the father and son share a touching moment before Blake comes back to cut up some more fish. The father spots Blake's keys to his chains and pretends to vomit, forcing Blake to unlock the father's chains, allowing the father to attack him. The fight moves to the ship's upper deck, where the both of them fall overboard and into the ocean. The son manages to unlock his own chains with the keys, which Blake dropped, and comes up to investigate. Blake comes back to the surface, having killed the father.

The father is found, and he is identified as Gary Rhymer, his son being named James. Blake later forces James to go through what Blake had to go through: work through life as a fisherman. Threatening James with slitting his throat, Blake watches as James carries a large, dead fish to his ship. He then forces James to gut the fish, but James refuses, just as Morgan and several SWAT agents arrive. Morgan talks Blake into releasing James and getting himself arrested. Morgan later shows Blake photos of potential victims, and when he shows a photo of Cindy, his missing cousin, who was presumed to be one of Blake's victims, he tells her that when he slit her throat, she cried out for him. However, Morgan believes that Blake didn't kill her, in spite of his cries that he did.

Modus Operandi
Blake initially targeted people such as prostitutes and drug addicts, but he eventually moved on to stronger, healthier people. He would abduct them from cities in the East Coast, take them to Jacksonville, and forge their writing style. He would use this to write postcards to his victims' families and/or friends in order to make them believe they are away for a while. After doing so, he would blow a strange powder in his victims' faces, which motivate them to torture themselves with a variety of Blake's knives supplied by him.

Known Victims

 * Chuck Wells
 * Numerous unidentified victims killed prior to Big Sea. Known ones include:
 * An unidentified prostitute
 * An unidentified meth addict
 * An unidentified African-American woman in her twenties
 * Dr. Samantha Cormick
 * Carol Reid
 * Alton McKey
 * Cindy Burns
 * Gary Rhymer and his son James

Appearances

 * Season Six


 * "Big Sea"