Katharine "Kate" Macer (1983-) was a Phoenix-based FBI special agent.
Biography[]
Kate Macer was born February 23, 1983 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the second oldest of four siblings. She joined the FBI in 2005 at the age of twenty-three and mainly operated in Phoenix, Arizona shortly thereafter.
She took command of the Phoenix office's kidnapping response team in 2012, distinguishing herself in the process. Her 2015 discovery of a Chandler, Arizona Sonora Cartel safehouse where the bodies of 42 Mexican immigrants were stashed led to her being recommended for participation in a CIA-FBI joint task force assigned to take down the cartel's US chief Manuel Diaz. During the course of the operation, Macer disapproved of her CIA colleagues' violence and keeping her in the dark, although CIA agent Alejandro Gillick saved her from being choked to death by a Phoenix policeman whom she had invited to her bedroom, and whom she had recognized as a cartel operative from his blue wristband. Macer's attempts to persuade her supervisor Dave Jennings to simply press charges against Diaz rather than use him to get to his boss Fausto Alarcon were shot down, and she attempted to arrest Gillick when, during the 2015 Nogales tunnel raid, he kidnapped a corrupt Mexican policeman and forced him to take him to Diaz. Gillick shot Macer twice in her bulletproof vest as a warning to never aim her gun at him again, and, back on the US side of the border, she assaulted CIA agent Matt Graver for his dirty tactics. Ultimately, Graver revealed that the plan was to restore the drug trade to being a single, Colombian-run operation that would be easier to control. Macer threatened to publicize the CIA's plan, but, the next day, Gillick forced her - at gunpoint - to sign a statement attesting to the operation's legality.