Maximillian Williams

Maximillian Williams was a vampire. He was the brother of Don Williams and father of Cat Crawfield.

Disappearance and Change into a Vampire
While Max was a federal officer investigating Liam Flannery, he abruptly disappeared. Years passed with no word from Max, and no one would tell the last case which Max had been working on at the time of his disappearance. His younger brother Don joined the FBI in hopes of finding Max again. When Don found out what Max had really been chasing in his disappearance, he vowed to continue his brother's hunt and give him justice. Then one day, out of the blue, Max came to Don and told him to forget about Liam and the underworld, or he would kill him. Don was stricken.

About six months after this, Max, who was newly changed into a vampire by Ian, was in Licking Falls, Ohio; for a time. There he seduced Justina Crawfield, only revealing his true nature as a vampire to Justina after sleeping with her. Horrified, Justina twisted the story into a rape story, claiming that Max had raped her. She submitted a report of rape to the police, but no one believed her because of the supernatural traits which she described in her attacker.

Fatherhood
Five months later, Justina gave birth to Max's daughter, half-vampire Cat Crawfield. Max never had contact with his daughter or was even aware that she existed. Justina taught Cat that all vampires were evil murderers, and this fostered in Cat a hatred of all vampires, particularly Max. Eventually, this led Cat to a hobby and profession of killing vampires, partly in hopes that she could meet and kill her own father one day.

In her twenties, Cat met Ian on a job but spared his life to repay a life debt. Ian noted the similarities between Max and Cat. When he mentioned this to Max, Max decided that he did not want to be a father and hired a hit man to kill Cat. The attempt failed.

In a confrontation with Ian, Ian brought out Max, offering to give Max to her if she would leave her lover Bones behind and become one of his people. Cat married Bones on the spot, commenting that the one thing Max had ever done for her was to give away the bride at her marriage to Bones.

With secret funding from Patra, Max tried to kill Cat again. He tricked her into visiting her mother, where he and an accomplice ambushed them. Playing Cat and Justina against each other to get them to cooperate, he tortures Cat by repeatedly shooting, stabbing, cutting, and hitting her, and by and holding a flame to her skin. If she makes sound during the torture, Max will go for her mother. Cat holds out as long as she can, but when she finally cries out, Max goes to Justina, who is tied up nearby. While he deliberates which of her fingers to cut off, Bones and Annette crash the house and rescue them both. During the scuffle, Cat almost bleeds to death when Max tries to slit her throat, but Bones is able to heal her with his blood in time. Max is then apprehended and returned to Ian.

Ian is furious with Max's actions and cuts Max off from his line, which means that Max is no longer Ian's responsibility or under Ian's protection. Max is to be imprisoned for life. That night, Bones participates in a public torture of Max. Justina is present and finds the event informative, but Bones does not permit Cat to attend the event, so she is not present.