James Burke

James Burke is a terrorist and the main antagonist of episode Hero Worship in Criminal Minds.

History
Burker has already been a member of the Indianopolis community. He was a nacissist and believes himself to be a god. In 2014, he was found having a sexual relationship with a high school student at the ethanol plant. The relationship was legal since in the student was 18 years of age and no acusation was registered at the time. He later lost his job when he violated his contrated. He later became very angry and vowed revenger against the alleged authory in Indianopolis. A month after he resigned, he caused a fire at the ethanol plant where his where his relationship was discovered. He later dropped a bomb at Delancy Elementary School to cause panic and fear on the school board. Despite this Burker did not intend to kill anyone during the incident. While the incident claimed any causality. However, when Allen Archer realized about the incident and decided to imitate it to save life and become a hero.

Hero Worship
When Burker knew this he was angry and decided to make a bomb and go after Allen by imitating him and stealing his credits. He then placed a bomb on Allen's car that was saved an unmasked by BAU and stuck. Soon after Burker pays a man to put a fake bomb to distract the BAU while he puts a real bomb in the award of Allen. Reid finds Burker and they try to convince him to leave the bomb, only that he refuses, so Reid tries to appeal to his narcissitic ego that did not start right, but with Reid's insistence on Burker surrenders and is arrested and taken away by Reid.