Paul Stevens

Paul Stevens is introduced in Scorched as an LAFD fire investigator, assisting the FBI on an arson investigation, the latest one turning deadly by killing a salesman at a car dealership. As another fire breaks out, deliberately sabotaging sprinkles and locking the doors to suffocate six fireman, the team realizes the fires are meant to be deadly. When an ecoterrorist group and a student caught at a construction site turn up as unlikely suspects, they feel like they're nowhere, until they find evidence in the student's roommate, Ethan Powell, who's been posting arson schematics in chat forums uncanny to the wave of arsons. None other than Stevens is revealed to be the one utilizing the arson physics in the series of fatal fires, to get revenge for not becoming a fireman on the field when his application was rejected, always having been disgruntled with his job as an investigator. When he's found cornered at the construction site with a jar of white phosphorous, he confesses and tries to make a run for it. However, he trips and drops the jar in a tunnel, bursting and incinerating him alive instantly in the blast, to the dismay of the agents trying to apprehend him.