Brock Alecksen

Brock Alecksen is a military squad captain responsible for a friendly fire, abetting in covering up a rape committed by Blake Rickford, and eventually two murders of men from his squad, appearing in Wounded and Warrior in Perception.

Background
Alecksen led a military squadron stationed in Afghanistan, but had a deadly, success-damaging secret. In a mission in Qalat Valley, when troops were attacked by enemies, Alecksen gave coordinate to a tank for what he thought at the time was an enemy vehicle. To Alecksen's horror, and that of the rest of the division, the tank actually got coordinate for one of the infantry's Hummer's killing three soldiers and paralyzing one, Gabrielle Blair, in a friendly fire rocket launch. The tragedy was covered up and Alecksen continued his duties, including planning to submit a report on the rape of Kendra Murphy by unruly socialite Blake Rickford. However, Rickford knew about Qalat Valley and blackmailed Alecksen to sweet the report under the rug which was successful.

Wounded
It would all once again become an issue when Murphy, her brain rotted by herpes contracted from Rickford all those years ago, blew up a small convenience store and nearly killed the owner and herself. When she was diagnosed and hospitalized for treatment, Rickford ran to the congressman and demanded a cover-up, which the congressman in turn ordered from Alecksen. When Hank McPhee, one soldier who knew the truth, was finally ready to come clean to Murphy at the hospital, Alecksen killed him by bashing his head with broken concrete from a parking spot. Murphy was framed from having found McPhee and been covered in his blood. Alecksen later poisoned Anthony Hicks, another soldier, with his own heroin, and left a "suicide" note to eliminate another witness.

Warrior
What Kate Moretti was placed on trial for Rickford trying to murder her by Moretti killing him instead, Blair, being able to sing out her account after years of not speaking, told the full truth of the friendly fire once Daniel Pierce and Donnie Ryan found her. Confronting Alecksen, he quotes legendary military film The Thin Red Line. Pierce and Ryan realize that same line was in Hicks' suicide note, revealing Alecksen as the killer. Alecksen confesses the murders were his idea but the congressman said to silence the soldiers and not caring how. The guilty parties are arrested and shamed, Moretti and Murphy's names are restored, and Moretti's cleared of charges and reinstated. The entire coverage of the revealed scandal reaches everyone still left standing and brings closure and justice through the publicity.

Modus Operandi
When Alecksen order the rocket launch, he directed the shot at what Alecksen assumed to be an enemy vehicle but was really a Hummer filled with people from his own platoon. Three soldiers were killed and one, Gabrielle Blair, was permanently paralyzed and left with Broca's aphasia. Alecksen endangered Kendra Murphy when Blake Rickford raped her, by covering up the rape and leaving her brain to be deteriorated by Rickford's herpes. That in turn led her judgment to be impaired enough she nearly killed herself and corner shop owner with a grenade. When Hank McPhee was ready to tell Murphy the truth, Alecksen killed him by bashing his head with a broken parking spot stop bar. Anthony Hicks was also killed as a witness with a fatal overdose of heroin, leaving a fake "suicide" note quoting famous military movie The Thin Red Line. Rickford's congressman father inadvertently abetted in the murders when simply telling Alecksen to silence the scandal but not specifying how.

Known Victims

 * Three unidentified soldiers (incidental; killed by a friendly fire shot from a tank on Alecksen's orders)
 * Gabrielle Blair (incidental; permanently paralyzed by a friendly fire shot from a tank on Alecksen's orders)
 * Kendra Murphy (covered up her rape by Blake Rickford; later left her brain to be eaten by herpes)
 * Unidentified corner store owner (nearly killed by a grenade Kendra Murphy set off in her deteriorated state)
 * Hank McPhee (struck once in the head with a piece of a concrete parking spot bar)
 * Anthony Hicks (poisoned with a heroin overdose; faked a suicide note quoted from "The Thin Red Line" postmortem)

Appearances
Perception


 * Wounded
 * Warrior