Will Sykes

"I can't change this city without help. People need to be inspired. They need to see me, they need to hear my voice."

Will Sykes was a copycat killer who appeared in A Real Rain.

History
Sykes worked as a security guard at a boutique in SoHo, New York City. In 2005, he was the victim of a mugging and spent two days in intensive care. When a series of vigilante murders occurred, he saw it as a chance to become famous, suffering from narcissistic delusions. Intending to take the credit for being the vigilante, he went to Central Park carrying a gun, planning to kill any random criminal who approached him. When he was approached by an undercover cop, Sykes, mistakenly thinking the cop was a mugger trying to attack him, shot him and fled. Sykes then showed up at a police station and confessed to all the murders.

Suspicious, Gideon took part in Sykes's interrogation. When Sykes was asked why he killed a cop, he claimed he did it to prove to the police how futile and dangerous chasing criminals the legal way is-still unaware of the fact that the man he had killed had been a cop and not a would-be mugger. He also claimed to have turned himself in so he could reach out to the public and inspire them. When Gideon asks him about the murder of Walter Derbin, one of the vigilante's victims, Sykes simply says it was because he was a wife beater, but doesn't elaborate. When Gideon asks if he stabbed Father Breeman, a priest acquitted of child molestation and another victim of the vigilante's, in the groin because he was a pedophile, Sykes says "it's what he deserved", revealing that he was not the real vigilante, for Father Breeman was only stabbed through the ear, like the other victims. Sykes was then presumably charged with killing the undercover cop, while a man named Marvin Doyle, revealed to be the true vigilante, was shot and killed when he attempted to kill another victim.

Modus Operandi
Sykes killed his victim, an undercover cop, by shooting him in the chest with an M1911, mistakenly thinking the cop was a mugger trying to attack him. He had presumably intended to copy the rest of Marvin's M.O., but was interrupted. Unlike Marvin, Sykes wandered around aimlessly, waiting for a criminal to attack him; Marvin instead approached specific victims that he targeted beforehand.

Known Victims

 * Unnamed undercover policeman

Appearances

 * Season One
 * "A Real Rain"