Mark Bandit

Mark Bandit is a raccoon and one of the three victims of serial killer Orin Draftwell (The Cartographer) in We Can Fix Pawbert. A hospital administrator, Bandit is murdered approximately two weeks before the events of S02E11 "The Cartographer" for his alleged role in covering up a surgical error that resulted in a patient's death.

Background

Mark Bandit worked as a hospital administrator in Zootopia. At some point prior to his death, he was involved in an incident where a surgical error at his facility resulted in a patient's death. An internal review found no wrongdoing, and Bandit faced no professional consequences.

Series History

Season 2

S02E11 "The Cartographer"

Bandit is identified as the second of the Cartographer's three victims during the BAU briefing. His body was found two weeks prior to Cedric Damm's murder, dumped at another old Lynxley operational site---a pattern that connects all three killings.

Spencer Reid provides the victimology analysis: Bandit was a hospital administrator who covered up a surgical error that resulted in one death. The internal review cleared him of wrongdoing, but the Cartographer deemed him guilty anyway.

Emily Prentiss observes that all three victims "share a common thread: all were involved in scandals or failures that resulted in civilian deaths, but were cleared by official investigations." The Cartographer targeted mammals he believed escaped justice, regardless of whether the official findings were correct.

Connection to the Case

Bandit's murder, along with those of Cedric Damm and Fawnley Creighton, establishes the pattern that leads the investigation to Orin Draftwell. The dump sites---all old Lynxley operational locations---trigger ZSI's involvement and raise initial concerns about a potential connection to the Clawrence investigation, though the BAU ultimately determines the cases are separate.

The discovery of Draftwell's workshop reveals extensive files on all his victims, documenting his research into their past incidents and his rationalization for targeting them as "flaws" in the city's system.

Trivia

• Bandit is only mentioned in the BAU briefing; his murder occurred before the episode's events.
• His profession as a hospital administrator contrasts with Cedric Damm's blue-collar maintenance work, showing that the Cartographer targeted mammals from various social strata.
• The one death attributed to the surgical cover-up makes Bandit the victim associated with the fewest casualties, suggesting the Cartographer didn't weight his judgments by body count.