- “You know I'd make a freight train take a dirt road, so do not get in my way.”
- ―Aimes to Tess.
Aimes is the secondary antagonist of the 2023 film Fast X. He is a member of the Agency and an ally of the Reyes crime family. Shortly after the death of Hernan Reyes, Aimes aided Hernan's son Dante in his plans for world domination and getting his revenge for his father's death, a plot in which he assists by pretending to be a no-nonsense member of the Agency who teams up with Dom before revealing he was always loyal to Dante and had tricked the Agency to go against Dom and his crew. He is also Tess' former superior as well as Mr. Nobody's former right-hand man.
Background[]
In 2011, Aimes was approached by Hernan Reyes to form a partnership for unknown reasons. During this time he met and befriended Hernan's son, Dante Reyes. On the day the partnership was finalized, the vault containing all of the Reyes' family money was stolen by Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Conner. Additionally, Hernan was killed by Luke Hobbs.
Following Hernan's death and the destruction of the Reyes' criminal empire, Aimes continued his partnership with Dante, who almost faced death himself, and the two vowed to get revenge on Dom and the rest of his crew for the heist. Aimes took a job with the Agency, a covert ops organization led by Mr. Nobody, most likely as a means to keep tabs on Dom and his crew who were also employed by the Agency on an on-call basis. To that end, he gathered records and intel on Dom's crew, their family members, and any associates of theirs.
After Mr. Nobody's disappearance, and possible death, in 2020, following a plane crash in Montequinto, Aimes was appointed as the new head of the Agency, much to the chagrin of Mr. Nobody's daughter, Tess, who did not agree with his stance towards the Toretto crew, unaware he was a double agent for Dante and believed he had just a different outlook than her father, who used the family for many jobs for the Agency that inevitably ended up saving the world from harm.
Personality[]
Aimes is presented as a tough, no nonsense man, obsessed with finding Dom for unknown reasons. He knows everything from the start about Dante and Dom, revealing that Dante was Cipher's former secret employer and manipulator. He does seem to redeem himself and understand that Dom isn't guilty, up until he reveals his true self; a ruthless, sadistic and sociopathic mercenary from Dante's army who takes no qualms in aiding a catastrophic plan for world conquest or destruction if it doesn't work.
Aimes from the start seemed a sneaky and deceiving individual, but when revealing his alignment to Dante, having the CIA trust him and help him bend the laws of the world, and all this done before he presumably kills Dom's crew, Aimes was quickly revealed as a sociopathic tyrant, only loyal to Dante and having no remorse if he manages to kill lots of people rather then saving their lives, as the CIA suggests.
Appearances[]
Fast X[]
Helping Dante put his plan of revenge into motion, Aimes lured Roman Pearce to Rome on a fake assignment from the Agency that they have to recover a chip belonging to a supercomputer that was being transported in a truck through the city. Roman brings in Tej Parker, Han Seoul-Oh, and Ramsey for help and the group travel to Rome together to complete the job, unaware that it is a setup by Aimes and Dante to frame them for a terrorist attack.
This was only discovered when Little Nobody, former associate of Mr. Nobody, arrived at the Toretto home to arrest an injured Cipher, who was approached by Dante when he tried to form a partnership with her as he turned her own men against her and almost killed her when she refused as she desperately went to Dom, who stayed in Los Angles with Letty and little Brian, for help, into custody, reveals that he was unaware of any job being run by the Agency in Rome to the Torettos. Taking Cipher's warning into consideration and seeing how confused Little Nobody looked, Dom and Letty realized that the mission was a setup and the three left to rescue their friends.
However, despite being discovered by the Toretto crew as Dom, Letty and Little Nobody were successful in warning their friends about the setup, Aimes and Dante were able to successfully frame the family as terrorist. Although Dom and most of the crew escape, Aimes was able to capture Letty as the police arrested her and took her into his custody.
After framing Dom and his family as terrorists, Aimes' next step in Dante's plan was turning the Agency against the Toretto crew in order to use their resources to capture the team for his partner. However, before he pleaded his case with the Agency, Aimes was approached by Tess, who disagreed with his stance on Dom and his team as she knew something was wrong. Aimes pleaded his case with the Agency as he brought up the Toretto crew's past crimes and that some of their members were former law enforcers, such as Brian O'Conner, Luke Hobbs, Elena Neves and Mr. Nobody.
Once the Agency made the majority vote into manhunting Dom and his family, Aimes warned Tess to stay out of his way, as she mutters that she'll go her own way. After informing Dante that he successfully got the Agency vote into hunting Dom and his family, Aimes boarded a plane so he can follow the family, especially Dom's son Brian as a hostage for the latter. However, Aimes found out that Tess stole the God's Eye drive so he can't track them. Aimes then informed Dante that Tess stole God's Eye but did figure out that Brian was in Los Angeles with Dom's sister Mia Toretto as he also intends to take her as well. However, Aimes failed to kidnap Brain and Mia as her and Dom's brother Jakob Toretto arrived to bring their nephew to safety while she left to go into hiding with her husband and kids. Later, Aimes saw Tess talking to Letty but didn't get to see a lot of the footage, as she blocked the video so she can help her escape the Agency custody.
Aimes then found out through Dante that Dom followed him to Rio and headed over there to capture him, after he met with Isabel Neves. However, Aimes was unaware that Dom was on good terms with the residents as they share a glance with him then pulled guns on him to delay him. Aimes then fought and takes down the residents but lost track of Dom. Fortunately for him, Aimes was informed by Dante that Dom was at the old Rio police station where the vault was stolen from and apprehends him along with a couple of agents from the Agency.
As they drive over the same highway where Hernan was killed, their car is ambushed by Dante and his men, all of this being a ruse to cover Aimes' tracks and allowing Dante to steal the God's Eye drive from Tess who also shows up.
Aimes throws Dom a gun, appearing to now take his side and realising why Mr. Nobody chose him and the two work together to take down Dante's men, however Dante 'escapes' with the God's Eye chip after shooting Tess who Isabel takes to the hospital, Aimes presumably gets shot during the attack. Aimes and Dom agree to work together and head to Portugal where Dante will be following his son.
As Dante chases Brian and Jakob Toretto through Portugal, Dom instructs Aimes to have the plane's pilots lower the plane near the highway. Aimes tells Dom there's no space to land, however Dom reveals he has no intention on landing and drives his 1970 Dodge Charger R/T out of the plane and onto the road below. Aimes instructs Dom to take a service road which will lead to an airstrip where Aimes will land his plane and where another plane transporting Roman, Tej, Ramsay and Han will be meeting them. After Dom frees his son from Dante's captivity, he takes the service road as instructed but finds himself being cornered by two trucks on a narrow bridge leading to a dam.
As Roman, Tej, Ramsey and Han's plane arrives, it was shot down by Aimes, who finally revealed that he has been working for Dante for the past ten years, and the plane crashes and seemingly kills the occupants, leaving their fates unknown. Dom then drives his car off the bridge and into the dam below. However, Dante than reveals that he rigged the area with explosives which he detonates, leaving Dom’s fate unknown. Aimes would later help Dante get revenge on Luke Hobbs next, since he was the one who shot Hernan Reyes.
Fast XI[]
Coming soon!
Trivia[]
- Keanu Reeves was considered to play Aimes before Alan Ritchmon was cast but couldn't take the role because of scheduling conflicts with John Wick - Chapter 4.
- Aimes is Mr. Nobody's successor and the current leader of the CIA, only with Tess being his second in command.
- However, it is possible that since Tess was Nobody's daughter that Aimes wasn't really meant to be the leader of the organization, as he might have even usurped his position without him knowing.
- According to Alan Richtson, there was an early version of the Fast X screenplay in which Aimes and Dante Reyes were brothers. This would have also made Aimes in turn another son of Hernan Reyes.
- Aimes was reportedly a creation from Fast & Furious director Justin Lin, who was originally directing Fast X before exiting the film apparently due to creative conflicts with Vin Diesel and being replaced by Louis Leterrier.
- Amies is considered an evil counterpart to Luke Hobbs:
- Both work for the agency and were task to hunt down Toretto and his crew. However, the big difference between the two was Aimes is a traitor working for Dante and pretended to help Toretto to stop Dante.
- Amies is also similar to Riley Hicks:
- Both work for the agency and are both traitors working for the big bad.
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