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Character Name: Malcolm Bright
Series: Prodigal Son
Age: 33
From When?: Malcolm agreed to come on board after the end of the Season 2 finale, after stabbing his father in self defence.

Warden Justification: Malcolm is a Harvard-educated psychologist who had a ten year career at the FBI pursuing dangerous homicide suspects, including serial murderers and other killers with complicated psychoses. Most recently in his world he has been consulting on difficult homicides with the NYPD. He vastly prefers to deal with suspects using non-lethal methods, usually managing to talk even psychotic maniacs down without having to harm them physically. He can defend himself hand to hand if he has to and he knows how to use a variety of weapons, even if he prefers not to. He would take his duties seriously, and he would genuinely be interested in helping inmates improve and graduate.

Item: Malcolm carries a small leather-bound notepad in his pocket for taking notes during cases that will become his Warden item.

Abilities/Powers: Malcolm is a baseline human, though he has very high intelligence and the skills mentioned above.

Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: Malcolm will be taking his duties to the Barge and the inmates seriously. He will use his training in psychology and his experiences to attempt to connect with the inmates he’s trying to help. He will be sincerely interested in helping them. He’s not even sure what he wants for his deal, he just doesn’t want to go home to face what happened there. Helping people deal with their sins is better. In terms of weaknesses, he will not do well with inmates who outright refuse to engage. He’ll do particularly well with inmates that will - at least in time - allow a certain amount of vulnerability in their interactions. He also would not do well with someone whose crimes they’re atoning for involve remorseless murder.

Deal: He doesn’t know; right now just staying here and helping people is all he wants.

History: Season 1 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.

Sample Network Entry:
Good morning. My name is Warden Bright. I’m sure I’ll get the opportunity to meet all of you, but until then, I just want to say how much I’m looking forward to working with you here. Everyone deserves a second chance and helping people earn one is a high calling. I won’t let you down.

Sample RP: Sample from the Clipper

Special Notes: Part of Malcolm will feel like he's atoning, himself, by helping others atone.