Marcus Talbot

Marcus Talbot is an incidental character who was briefly framed by Robert Bremmer in Out of the Light.

History
Born on January 28, 1959, Talbot was a loner, being unmarried. Fifteen years ago, he was convicted of sneaking looks at girls in the bathroom of a Hyde County art institute he worked at. Despite this history, he was able to land a job as an art teacher at Walter Randolph High School in Lake Worth sometime after being released. He resorted to taking photos of girls no younger than 16 and putting them in his personal darkroom. Simultaneously, a series of murders occurring in the area began, and the perpetrator, Robert Bremmer, somehow discovered Talbot's history and decided to frame him. Coincidentally, Marcy Owens, would-be victim of Bremmer, took Talbot's summer camp in 2006 and attended it for the following four summers.

In 2011, when the BAU was called in to investigate, Garcia looked into a list of suspects who committed any sexual crimes outside of Lake Worth prior to the murders. She narrowed it down to Talbot and expressed shock that he is a schoolteacher. Morgan goes to his residence and finds a shirt with blood on it, while Hotch and Rossi go to Walter Randolph High and arrest him. At the police station, he is yelled at by the sheriff, who demands to know where Marcy, Bremmer's latest captive, before Hotch intervenes. Meanwhile, Morgan and Reid discover Talbot's darkroom. Later, Rossi goes into the interrogation room to talk to Talbot, who constantly denies abducting Marcy and her friend Angela Proctor, only for Rossi to tell him how much Talbot wanted Marcy in order to exact a confession.

However, Talbot is exonerated when authorities discover a skull buried in his property. Reid realizes that the skull was recently buried from the fresh dirt, and Talbot is being framed. At the end of the episode, when Bremmer is killed and Marcy is rescued, Talbot is last seen hanging a photo of a captured Marcy in his darkroom, all the while whistling a merry tune. A file with Bremmer's name can be seen on his desk.

Appearances

 * Season Six
 * Out of the Light