Ray Darrell

Ray Darrell is a criminal leader, a killer whom Grace helped to put on death row.

Grace and another officer went undercover to join Darrell's group and get enough evidence to convict him. They were eventually discovered, and Grace had to watch as her partner was killed, in a process that took eight hours. Grace doesn't mention how she managed to get away from them, but Darrell was arrested at some point afterwards.

While on the flight to a maximum-security facility in Colorado--accompanied by Terrell and Grace--Darrell and his followers are set loose with the help of a crooked security guard. They plan to combine a shipment of pesticide with a particular solvent to create a binary nerve gas. They will use the plane to spread the gas, slaughtering a city full of people.

Prior to Darrell's arrest, he is known to have killed 17 people, although Grace says that it is more likely 24.

Darrell is played by Bret Michaels.

Darrell is killed by Grace during the big final hand-to-hand fight on the plane planned to use spreading the gas. She broke his neck with her legs after jumping on his shoulders and taking down him. Two loud cracks are clearly detected.

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