YMMV / Jack Caffery

• Complete Monster:
  • Birdman & The Treatment: Ivan Penderecki, the series' only recurring antagonist, is DI Jack Caffery's next door neighbour and an utterly loathsome pedophile. Running a child pornography ring, Ivan partook in the sexual abuse of dozens of young boys and filmed the rapes to sell on to other members. Ivan also abducted Jack’s brother Ewan and rendered the boy brain dead by throwing him across a room when he tried to resist the rape, leaving it to his number two Carl Lamb to murder him. Realizing that Jack was searching for answers, Ivan waged a decades long campaign of mental cruelty against him: pretending to burn Ewan's bones on a bonfire; posting countless taunting letters to him; and even manipulating Jack's mentally ill girlfriend into giving him Ewan's toys so he could set them on fire in front of Jack. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Ivan decided to send Jack on a wild goose chase for Ewan's body as a final taunt and committed suicide to prevent him from getting any answers.
  • Birdman: Malcolm Bliss is a sexually sadistic psychopath. Embittered against women due to his unattractive appearance, Bliss began serially raping women at a young age, claiming at least four victims every year. Meeting a woman called Joni and becoming sexually obsessed with her, Bliss decides to rape and mutilate dead prostitutes as a substitute. Roping a rich aristocrat called Toby Harteveld into his scheme, Bliss has Harteveld kill five prostitutes for him before mutilating the breasts of each one and sewing a bird inside the chest to mimic the sound of a dying heartbeat, raping the remains as the bird suffocates. When the bodies are discovered, Bliss abducts an innocent housewife and forces her to see pictures of a child being raped, before mutilating her breasts with no anaesthetic and dumping her in a dustbin. When Joni rejects Bliss due to his creepy behaviour, Bliss rips out her breast implants with a hacksaw and, when Rebecca interrupts them, abducts them both. Killing Joni by snapping her spine and shoving a broken bottle up her vagina, Bliss flees when the police corner him. Luring out DI Essex, Bliss slices off his limbs with a hacksaw, before gloating to Jack Caffery that he enjoyed torturing Rebecca to death.
  • The Treatment: Carl Lamb is as equally depraved a member of Ivan Penderecki's pedophile ring as Ivan himself. When Carl was just a teenager, he sold out his own sister to the ring and allowed her to be raped by its members, all whilst taking photos for his own sick pleasure; alongside raping dozens of young boys. Abusing Jack's brother Ewan alongside Ivan, Carl only backed out of killing the boy out of cowardice and, upon realizing that he had been rendered brain dead, decided to exploit him as slave labour. Continuing his depraved abuse by raping him countless times and beating him, Carl decided to use the boy to blackmail Ivan for money.
  • Skin: Georges Gerber masquerades as a well-meaning, polite surgeon, but is in fact a vicious Serial Rapist and Serial Killer. Sexually obsessed with skin, Gerber skinned countless animals alive from a young age, some of them with no anaesthetic. Using his career as a surgeon to fulfill his sexual fantasies, Gerber would use his operations to rape his own patients and slice off a piece of their skin to keep as a trophy. Masturbating into all the skins he’s collected, Gerber began murdering women by making them overdose after deciding that watching them die would be just as exciting. First targeting a former victim who was blackmailing him, Gerber raped and sexually assaulted her whilst she expired from the drugs, before doing the same to a nurse who tried to raise concerns about his behaviour. Murdering yet another patient in the same way and dumping her body in a car, Gerber attempted to drug Caffery upon being confronted and sealed him up inside a disused bomb shelter to starve to death.
• Squick: There is no shortage of unsettling imagery in the novels, from birds in ribcages to recorded child abuse.