You were right. I am like you. I've always been like you.Jesse to his twin brother Wallace.
Jesse Gentry is the secondary antagonist of the two-part Criminal Minds episodes "The Inspiration" and "The Inspired". He is a psychopath who conspires with his mother Carla Hines to kill his twin brother Wallace, only to "bond" with his long-lost sibling over their shared bloodlust and hatred of women.
He was portrayed by Fred Koehler, who also portrays Wallace.
Biography
Early life
Jesse and his identical twin brother Wallace were separated at the age of two when their narcissistic mother, Carla Hines, gave Jesse up for adoption; she found raising two children to be too much work, and also believed that Wallace loved her more. Their father, Bill Robbins, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had little to no contact with his children.
Jesse grew up in a stable adoptive home, but nonetheless developed into a psychopath who harbored a savage hatred of women, stemming from his resentment of his mother for giving him away. Wallace had similar pathologies, but where he became a delusional, misanthropic loner, Jesse excelled academically and professionally, hiding his true nature behind the façade of a bright young man on his way to bigger and better things.
Three months prior to the episode, Carla contacted him through the law firm run by her attorney, Mark Anderson, where Jesse worked as a paralegal. She asked him to kill Wallace, who she saw as a disappointment, and told him that he was the son she should have kept. Jesse agreed, all the while secretly planning to kill Carla as revenge for abandoning him. Unbeknownst to either of them. however, Wallace had begun raping and murdering women, and was wanted by the FBI.
"The Inspiration"
Jesse is first seen getting arrested by the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), who believes he is Wallace.
"The Inspired"
The BAU eventually realizes they have the wrong brother, and release Jesse, who then follows Wallace to his apartment and kidnaps him. He ties Wallace up his house and interrogates him about his murders, claiming that he fears people will mistake him for his infamous brother and wants to know what he is in for; in reality, however, Jesse wants to know about Wallace's crimes because he sees in his brother a chance to learn how to commit the violent crimes he has always fantasized about. He pretends that he wants to get Wallace help and tries to drug him so he can lay low until the FBI moves on. He then breaks into a woman's house, rapes her, and shoots her dead.
When he returns home, Jesse finds that Wallace faked taking the drugs, and has figured out what his brother really wants from him. Much to Jesse's surprise, Wallace says he wants to teach him how to kill so they can murder together as a "team". Jesse then kidnaps his neighbor, Elizabeth, and he and Wallace rape and murder her together.
Afterward, Jesse and Wallace decide to meet up with Carla at the church where she gave Jesse up for adoption. Wallace believes that the three of them are going to go the run together, while Carla thinks that Jesse is going to kill his brother. Jesse surprises both of them, however, by putting a knife to Carla's throat and declaring that he is going to kill her as revenge for abandoning him. Wallace points a gun at him and demands that he let their mother go, but Jesse replies that she deserves it and reveals Carla's plan to kill him. He then tells Wallace that they are just alike and will be much happier with Carla dead, but Wallace refuses to lower his weapon. Enraged, Jesse attacks his brother, who manages to shoot him dead. The BAU arrives moments later and arrests Wallace and Carla.
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Trivia
- Gentry is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Stephen Spahalski, a murderer whose twin brother Robert would become a serial killer after Stephen was imprisoned for murder. The brothers shared M.O.s and habits in their crimes to point to their similar psyches and psychiatric afflictions.
- Veronica Compton, the accomplice of one of the "Hillside Stranglers", Kenneth Bianchi, and an attempted copycat murderer of a woman to cast suspicion away from Bianchi.
- Roy Norris, one of two "Toolbox Killers" with Lawrence Bittaker, guilty of raping and torturing five kidnapped teenage girls to death.
- Reggie Kray, one of two British identical twin brothers and gangsters, Reggie being the calculating psychopath.
- Lia Abbott, the main antagonist of Stranger with My Face, an estranged twin sister of the protagonist of the story who tries to kill her friends and loved ones and steal her twin’s body using astral projection to vindicate herself of being abandoned and left to a worse home life.
- Henry Evans, the main antagonist of the film The Good Son, a sociopathic killer child out to murder his cousin over competition for Henry's mother's affections, only to die in a final confrontation.
External Links
- Jesse Gentry on the Criminal Minds Wiki
