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Character Name:Malcolm Bright

Age:33

Canon:Prodigal Son

Canon point:End of S2E13: The Last Weekend

History: Biography - S1 Season 2 - Malcolm was unraveling as he continued covering for his sister's murder of Endicott. Having told her that he did it to spare her the pain of having killed someone - she still couldn't remember anything from that night - the only person he could talk to about it was their father, who instructed him on disposing of Endicott's body and cleaning up the scene. When Endicott's body turned up in a lake in Lithuania, it seemed like the Whitlys were in the clear, but a Europol agent determined that Endicott wasn't killed in Lithuania and he followed the trail to New York and the Whitlys. At Claremont, a new doctor - Vivian Capshaw - put Martin to work in the infirmary and he began provoking her, looking to form a connection with an eye to taking advantage of her in his plans to escape. Meanwhile, Ainsley remembered that she killed Endicott and did not appreciate Malcolm's cover story, pranking him into thinking she killed again. When he found out it was pigs blood, he confronted her but she told him she had to teach him never to lie to her again. With Europol actively pursuing the Whitlys in the form of famous profiler Simon 'the Mind Sleuth' Hoxley, the family circled the wagons to protect each other. Simon tried confronting Martin, but Capshaw put a stop to it. Meanwhile, Malcolm worked on the case that brought him there - the murders of everyone involved in disposing of Endicott's body. He was concerned the courier he handed the bags to would be next so he tracked her down, only to find out she was the killer and that she intended to kill Hoxley. He saved Hoxley's life and, in doing so, convinced him of Malcolm's innocence in the death of Endicott. Hoxley decided that the courier killed him, like she killed the others in his network. The Whitlys were off the hook. Shortly afterwards, Martin escaped from Claremont and Malcolm joined the Marshals' manhunt for him. He found one of Martin's co-escapees first and the Marshals shot him in the head, convincing him that they would kill Martin on sight. He wanted to take him alive and send him back to prison, so he tried searching for him with the NYPD, having become convinced that Capshaw actually kidnapped Martin at the time of his escape. Nobody believed him and he was sure that they also didn't care if Martin was killed. He tracked Capshaw down and let her drug him so she would take him to Martin. She did take him to Martin, but tried to use him to convince Martin that she was his equal by giving him a pulmonary embolism. She was going to bring him back from it, but Dani and Ainsley had tracked her down, knowing Malcolm was going after her. When they knocked on the door, she abandoned Malcolm to stab herself in the shoulder and answer it. Martin struggled free of the chair Vivian had him tied to and saved Malcolm himself. Malcolm heard Dani upstairs and was afraid she would shoot him on sight, so he told him to run. Martin did. But he drugged Malcolm to sleep and took him with him to Vermont, where he was determined to win Malcolm's trust by solving a long running serial killer case with him. Malcolm had worked on the case of the Woodsman while he was with the FBI, but the Woodsman wrote to Martin in prison and Martin had access to information Malcolm hadn't had before. Using the information, they tracked him down and saved the victim he'd kidnapped, but then Malcolm called the police and Martin tried to run. Malcolm followed him, telling him that he didn't belong in society but Malcolm was trying to save him. Martin decided the only thing to do was kill Malcolm, telling him that he'd been a good father, but Malcolm had never been a good son. Martin pulled out a knife he'd taken from the Woodsman, but Malcolm deflected the blow, turning the knife on Martin and stabbing him in the abdomen just as the police arrived.

Personality:As his mentor once said, "Malcolm Bright is going to do whatever Malcolm Bright wants to do and we can't control him". Once he sets his mind to something, he’ll pursue it with a singlemindedness that can be downright dangerous, particularly to himself. He’s gotten injured more than once going off by himself to pursue a lead, and will go to extremes (lying to a suspect, setting a fire in an airtight vault, ET CETERA) to play it out. When he gets a mystery under his skin, he's relentless in solving it. Malcolm has enormous empathy for other people. For him, justice applies even to the most depraved minds. He was kicked out of the FBI for punching a sheriff that killed a surrendering suspect, in spite of the fact that the suspect was a serial killer who pickled people’s faces. He’d been in the process of talking the man down, empathizing with him, and insisting that no one is born broken—someone breaks us. Solving cases is also his coping mechanism for dealing with mental health struggles stemming from the cPTSD that he carries. It came about as a result discovering of his serial killer father's crimes, and the subsequent frequent chloroforming his father did to him to keep him silent and make him forget. Consistently throughout the series he focuses on the problems he can solve and distances himself as best he can from the ones he can’t. For example, when he discovers his girlfriend was using him for information, he buries his feelings in solving another case. His words are “This, I can’t fix. That, I can.” He feels deeply for vulnerable people and people who have been victimized, going to bat for people that others write off as lost causes. He insists at one point that an agoraphobic recluse could be the best witness Major Crimes has ever had, even though the rest of the team has written him off as a nutcase. He goes after people who take advantage of others with mercilessness—his attitude toward organized religion is an excellent example. He’s irreverent, dismissive, and insulting when dealing with the powerful figures in the Catholic church after an exorcist is murdered in a church. He also has low self-esteem, seeing his ability to solve cases as one of the few areas where he carries worth. When he’s unconscious and hallucinating during the second season, even his dream-self, living in an ideal world and forgetting his old life, he tells his partner that he doesn’t feel like he deserves it. That’s consistent throughout the series, with Malcolm clinging to affection wherever he can find it and never protesting when he’s treated badly. He feels like he’s already getting more than he deserves.

Suitability:This place is a mystery and he sticks out a mystery until he solves it.

Powers/Abilities:Very high intelligence, investigative/deductive skills, ability to read people's emotions on their faces and make deductions about their motives.

Entity Affinity:The Eye: People drawn to the Eye often have a drive to uncover knowledge even at cost to themselves or those they love. This is exactly Malcolm's issue and the Eye will eat well.

Inventory:Flip phone, large serrated knife, denim jacket, a small key, his wallet

Samples:Looking for something - internal thoughts. Discussing herbs and PTSD - dialogue