| “ | You people...ruined...everything. | ” |
— Green once arrested
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Tyler Green is a hacker and vigilante who is featured in Criminal Minds: Evolution, seeking revenge on Sicarius for the murder of his sister, Alison, a goal led him to cross paths with Penelope Garcia and the BAU. Initally a recurring character, he was later upgraded to a main character in the second season. In the third season, he becomes an agent in training, initially assigned to the BAU.
Background[]
While in the military, Green was deployed across various theaters of war, including Darfur and the Middle East, where he participated in various clandestine operations.
He served two tours in Afghanistan working military intelligence. There, he worked as a spotter for drone strikes, where he would lure enemy targets into the kill zone, witness the attack, and report back. After several reprimands for drug use and refusal to follow orders, Green was dishonorably discharged after he posted videos of the aftermath of drone strikes online. Soon after this, he began a romantic relationship with Teresa Campos, a woman who worked at the bar where he'd begun frequently drinking.
In 2007, Green's sister Alison dated a man named Lee Duvall, in a relationship that was abusive. He was really serial killer Elias Voit, targeting Alison as one of his earliest victims. Green was one of the last people who saw her alive, as she wanted him to babysit her infant nephew Blake. Green investigated his sister's death for ten years, maintaining a relationship with his nephew Blake throughout. His obsessive for her led Green to come across a lead involving Voit's network of serial killers. Teresa told him to take the information to the police but he refused, believing they'd just screw it up. This led to the end of their relationship, and he soon stopped contacting her entirely.
He infiltrated Voit's network, hoping to find him by lying about wanting to be one of the killers he trained. He began gathering evidence for anonymously informing to Penelope Garcia. He became close enough to receive one of Sicarius's kill kits and devised a plan to lure him into the open so he could kill him, before committing suicide.
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Season One[]
"I'll stop taking advantage of our really intense, incredible connection. I'll help you forget that part of us ever existed. I'll leave you alone. 'Cause the truth is...I don't deserve you."
- Green apologizing to Garcia
Green first sent encrypted data that would activate the transponders in Voit's kill kits to Garcia. When Garcia activated them, Voit was tipped off, which led to Green lividly calling her and telling her people would die. Green then set his plan into action, telling Voit to meet him at a public park, where Green was carrying a dud bomb filled woth soap and minerals. The agents arrested him, which revealed Voit was baiting Green to see how easily he could get to Voit or get caught. Green refused to talk in interrogating, until Lewis revealed she knew about Green's sister. He finally spoke, muttering the law ruined his plans.
Garcia was encouraged to reveal she was his contact and talk to him. However, he still refused to communicate, until he was told they'd give him a cognitive interview and help him figure out whay he knows from the last time he saw Alison, once Garcia got her resentments of him out of her system. Green recalled Lee as Alison's boyfriend, as well as his regret for staying with friends instead of joining Lee and Alison for their planned dinner. After recalling a silent call from Alison's number, he realized Lee was the killer, even recalling Voit terrorized him with details of Alison's murder. He then demanded to be taken back to his cell.
In "True Conviction", he rings Garcia to bail him out after he gets into a bar fight. She later kisses him.
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Season Two[]
During "Contagion", Tyler participates in a stakeout with Tara Lewis and Rebecca Wilson and leaves to break into the storefront office they are watching, under the guise of getting vegan food.
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Season Three[]
In "Swimmer's Calculus", Tyler, now a New Agent Trainee, joins the BAU as they investigate a series of murders, though he is not allowed to wield a real gun; instead, he carries an orange replica to get him used to the feel of having a gun. He also carries an army knife on an ankle holster. He uses this knife to save the unsub's last two attempted victims by cutting the pool cover they are trapped under, allowing Alvez to dive in. At the end of the episode, Tyler finds out he has been assigned to the FBI office in Mobile, Alabama. In "The Zookeeper", Tyler is reassigned to the BAU, due to his invaluable knowledge of the Sicarius case.
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Profile[]
Green was accurately profiled as ex-military due to his choice language in Voit's forums being the same conditioning federal agencies training their agents and soldiers with to follow orders for high-risk operations. He was also believed to have PTSD from his experiences, and he would defy authority badly enough he'd refuse to communicate and cooperate with the law.
Trivia[]
- Tyler bears some similarities to William Hightower ("To Hell and Back, Part 1" and "To Hell and Back, Part 2") - Both are former members of the military who searched for their missing sisters, with both attempting to take down the serial killer who they believed killed them (Hightower shot and killed Mason Turner, while Green infiltrated Elias Voit's serial killer network and attempted to lure him to a park), with both men being arrested for their actions.
- He has never “opened the window of opportunity” in diving into the catalogue of Bruce Springsteen’s music. (“Time to Say Goodbye”)
Appearances[]
Criminal Minds: Evolution[]
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Appearances |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | |
| Season 16 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Season 17 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Season 18 | 6 | ||||||||||
References[]
- ↑ Stands for "New Agent Trainee"