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William Lewis

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Pablo Schreiber

• Ax-Crazy
• Arch-Enemy: To Benson.
• Arc Villain: In season 15.
• Bullying a Dragon: Played straight once, and then subverted the next time. His kidnapping and torture of a trained police officer like Benson wasn't the brightest idea (especially for as smart as he is) when all she needed was one small opening to restrain him. The second time Lewis and Benson had a violent confrontation, however, she was completely at his mercy, and she would have been murdered by him had he not shot himself as one last torture he could inflict on her (by making her look like she'd shot him in cold blood).
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Has a penchant for tying up his victims, heating up keys and branding victims, and burning them with cigarettes in addition to the usual rape and sodomy.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo:
  • His character made a point of frequently changing his alias as he traveled across the country to evade police (either by switching his first and last names or altering their spelling) and when the SVU squad first holds him for questioning, he is reluctant to tell them when and where he was born and makes up a bunch of lies instead. Despite the fact that his character is the main focus for at least 4 episodes, Lewis' life before he dedicated his life to being a criminal is never discovered; probably because by the time NYPD realized just who and what they were dealing with, his origins were no longer a priority.
    • In the Season 15 premiere, he actually tells a very disturbing story from his childhood which he implies was the root of him becoming a heartless criminal. He watched his father beat and rape his babysitter right in front of him.
• The Dreaded: He comes to be recognized by the squad, particularly Benson, as a thoroughly dangerous psychopath, and all of them regard him as someone to be feared. He even gets a menacing nickname, "The Beast," referring to the fact that he's virtually more of a demon than a man.
• Evil Gloating: Lewis thoroughly enjoys doing this, particularly to scare/piss off Benson. He is so twisted that he was willing to testify in open court that he raped and sodomized Benson after he kidnapped her, even though he did no such thing and clearly just wanted to see her humiliated in front of her peers.
• Evil Is Bigger: The fact that William Lewis towers over all the other characters is pretty hard to miss.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: The fact that he was a violent psychopath who enjoyed causing others pain and suffering seemed to be his only unattractive trait. Lewis often used his charming good looks to help trick women into seeing him as just an innocent, misunderstood creature rather than the incarnation of pure evil itself (whenever he does manage to lawyer up, said lawyer is ALWAYS female).
• Faux Affably Evil: One of the most disturbing traits about him is that he is not a stereotypical criminal; Lewis is charming, handsome, intelligent and articulate and he knows it, which is why he uses these traits to his advantage when he goes on his crime sprees and it is also how he manages to escape trial and conviction multiple times.
• A Fool for a Client: He's prone to representing himself in trials and he's both inhumanly lucky and charismatic to pull it off.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Pretty much how his character progresses from when he is first introduced until his ultimate death.
• Has a Type: Various people have pointed out that Lewis seemed to have a thing for redheads (or vice versa). Zigzagged when it's shown that his sexual sadism has no specific "type."
• Hate Sink: He is nothing more than an monstrous rapist with no redeeming qualities.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Slightly zigzagged. He mostly victimizes women, as his main goal is to traumatize them long enough to cause permanent lifelong damage. However he was shown having no problem with killing men in cold blood (either because they were in his way or he simply felt like it). One could argue that killing a person quickly is more humane than torturing someone for hours (or days) at a time until they are begging for death as a means of escaping their agony.
  • In addition to his sadistic mode of choice in committing crimes, he also took a particular delight in antagonizing Rollins (some) and Benson (severely).
• Invincible Villain: He appears to be this for a while due to him cheating death more than once.
• Just Eat Gilligan: If Benson had shot him the moment she got him in a vulnerable position in the cabin, the story would have ended right then and there.
• Kick the Dog: Like it's his job! He (basically) admits in one episode that this is pretty much his whole purpose for living, and makes no apologies for it.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Who wasn't cheering when Olivia beat him within an inch of his life?
• The Mentally Disturbed: Zig-zagged a bit. Lewis is fully aware of all of the horrible things he does (to others and himself) but rather than remorse and empathy, he gains mental and physical enjoyment and even arousal from causing himself and others pain and suffering. There's a scene in the episode "Surrender Benson" where the detectives discover that Lewis killed the father of his lawyer/girlfriend, and not only raped and tortured the mother, but forced Olivia to watch the entire ordeal. In the very next scene, Lewis is shown casually driving a stolen car while cheerfully singing along to the show-tune song playing on the radio as if the previous events never even happened.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His nickname is "The Beast!"
• Not Quite Dead: Olivia Benson (seemingly) beats him to death with a metal bedpost while he is handcuffed to a bed. It is later discovered that he not only survived, but died and came back to life no less than 4 times on his way to the hospital; the beating however does leave Lewis with permanent physical damage; he ends up being deaf in his left ear and partially blind in his left eye. Later on he suffers a seizure due to an overdose of a prescription drug and appears to be dying but survives that as well. In an even more bizarre twist, the medical doctors who were treating him cannot figure out how or why this occurred, stating that according to their findings, "He should still be dead." In the end he meets his demise by taking his own life: a single gunshot to the skull.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: He decides not to rape Benson because she isn't fighting him, and thus he no longer enjoys it. Possibly invoked intentionally by her.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: He's initially picked up for flashing and seems like a garden variety perv, until he's not.
• Obfuscating Insanity: Things like burning his fingertips seem Ax-Crazy at first, but he very coldly uses them to his advantage.
  • More often than not, averted for this character. William Lewis is a bona fide violent psychopath, is frequently impulsive with his actions, shows very little remorse for his actions and lacks empathy for others. If anything any time he exhibited "normal" behavior, it was usually a front used to mask his true mentality and intentions.
• Offstage Villainy: In the Season 15 premiere episode "Surrender Benson", while it is clear that Lewis has tortured and violated Olivia physically, much of his abuse isn't seen on-screen and much about her ordeal is left up to the imagination of the audience. For example the episode begins with Olivia slowly regaining consciousness (she's gagged, bound to a chair and lying on the floor). Moments later the audience can clearly see an ashtray laying near her head, filled with cigarette butts, her face is also swollen and bruised. It can only be implied what Lewis did to her before the start of the episode.
  • Also in the scene at the beach house, after Lewis tosses (a still bound and gagged) Olivia onto the bed, she gestures to him that she needs to use the toilet. After watching her struggle for a moment to stand up on her own, he helps her up and they appear to start to make their way to the bathroom down the hall but that's where the scene ends. Again, the audience has to paint a picture for themselves what happens after that (no doubt something humiliating and degrading on Olivia's part).
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. He's no relation to Dana Lewis.
  • For the record, SVU has a habit of repeatedly recycling the last names of characters throughout the run of the series, despite the fact that these characters are clearly not related in any way. It's usually portrayed as just being a "coincidence".
• Person as Verb: After Lewis' death, Olivia uses his name as a code phrase when she needs to discreetly warn her squad that she's in danger.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: From teenaged girls (and possibly younger) to elderly women, this character is a prime example of this trope.
• Rasputinian Death: The man utterly refuses to die, and not for lack of trying on the part of Benson. He survives a brutal beating by her (albeit with permanent damage), almost dies from a cardiac episode due to intentionally overdosing on smuggled medicine while in prison (which is a risky gambit on his part to get free), and finally has Benson at his mercy before ultimately killing himself to make her look like she shot him in cold blood. Even coroners and medical examiners point out that, by all accounts, he should be dead multiple times over.
• Sadist: When Olivia goes limp after agreeing to let him rape her instead of his young hostage, Lewis gets bored and moves on to something else, because he gets off on the struggle.
• Serial Rapist: A very sickening example of one, and also a serial kidnapper.
• Slasher Smile: He can let out some positively unhinged ones◊ with little provocations.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Oh, very much. He only appeared in a handful of episodes, yet he had an extreme impact on Benson's mental well-being. Seasons later, Benson still recalls his torture of her as one of the most traumatic experiences of her life.
• The Sociopath: One of the most unhinged ones in the entire franchise. He has zero shred of empathy for anyone, including himself, and only exists (by his own admission) to cause as much pain and misery to everyone around him - especially women.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Lewis tended to speak in a soft, sweet tone when threatening/torturing his victims, which made him all the more frightening.
  • Except in the episode "Psycho/Therapist" when he was cross-examining/humiliating Olivia Benson when she had to testify against him in court; watching this seemingly always stoic psychopath suddenly fly into a raging fit is possibly more terrifying than when he used his light and breathy tone.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Lewis gives one of these to Olivia Benson and it nearly costs him his life.
• Trademark Favorite Food: His trademark favorite beverage are cans of 5Krazies.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Averted; he was always a wrong creature, and he claimed that his father's girlfriend raping him (at the age of eight) and then watching said woman get raped herself was the greatest day of his life, as it gave him his purpose: causing pain to women.
• Villains Never Lie: One of the cruel ironies about his screwed up personality; Lewis tended to only lie when trying to plead his "innocence" front of the police, in front of his attorney or in open court. However whenever he was already engaging in illegal activity, he rarely lied or bluffed, even calling himself "a man of his word", especially if you happen to be his next potential victim. Basically if he said he was going to do something to you (or to someone else), it was pretty much a done deal. Sadly, there was virtually NO limit to the things that he did.
  • He tended not to lie to Olivia when it was just the two of them alone. For example when Lewis is driving a stolen car with Liv laying bound and gagged in the backseat and the car gets pulled over by a cop. Lewis tells Liv that if the cop notices that anything is amiss, he will kill him ("One move and he's dead.") Unfortunately the young male cop does begin to get suspicious of Lewis' behavior but just as he's barely beginning to question Lewis about what's in the back seat, he briefly stuns the cop by punching him in the face, takes the cops gun, then shoots him in the head point-blank.
• Would Hit a Girl: Lewis' main reason for existing seemed to be for the purpose of sexually humiliating women. Even worse, he made no exceptions when it came to the age of his victims; from women in their 60's to a girl in her mid-teens.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Lewis didn't seem to have anything against assaulting pre-pubescent girls as well. In the episode "Surrender Benson" when Lewis is just a few seconds away from removing Olivia's pants in order to rape her he is interrupted by the unannounced arrival of the cleaning woman knocking on the front door. He answers the door, apparently intent on getting rid of the cleaning woman and doesn't seem very interested in her until he notices that she's brought her 5-year-old daughter along, which seems to suddenly spark his interest and he immediately ushers both mother and daughter inside the house. He later comments that the 5-year-old girl (named 'Luisa') is "a cutie" in a tone that is far from innocent.
  • In "Beast's Obsession", Lewis kidnaps a 12-year-old girl, and makes several sickening comments about her being on the cusp of puberty (just on the verge of becoming a woman but still physically resembling a child). He makes possibly the most revolting comment when talking to Olivia Benson about the young girl, stating quite bluntly that he's "going to be her first" (a statement that pretty much speaks for itself). moments after leading a handcuffed Olivia to where the young, frightened girl is tied up by her arms, he gives Olivia an ultimatum: to either let herself be raped by Lewis and force the girl to watch, or she can choose to let him rape the girl first while Olivia watches instead. He makes it clear that he is fine either way.

Dr. Greg Yates

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Other Appearances: Chicago P.D.

Played By: Dallas Roberts

• Book Ends: His first and final episodes are both set in Chicago P.D..
• Boom, Headshot!: How he dispatches some victims following his escape. This is later how he dies.
• Calling Card: Paints his victims' fingernails with green nail polish. Following his escape from prison, he leaves behind a taunting letter for the police to find.
• Character Tics: Has an eerie habit of slowly rolling his head every time he's relishing in his crimes. This is what tips the SVU off to his weakness.
• Consulting a Convicted Killer: The SVU detectives interrogate him when Carl Rudnick kills a woman and tries to pin it on him.
• Expy: Of William Lewis. Both are terrifyingly psychopathic serial rapists/killers who were active all over the country for a number of years, became particularly fixated on the lead female detectives of the featured police units, embarked on a killing spree after realizing they were the prime suspects of said unit's investigations, kidnapped a member of said unit during this killing spree (though Benson escaped whereas Yates's victim, Nadia Decotis, was not so lucky), eventually got captured, represented themselves at their trials, and got convicted. This is pushed a little further in "Nationwide Manhunt", when Yates, like Lewis, escapes from prison (with help from the same person, no less), embarks on another killing spree, and finally dies after a standoff with the objects of their obsession. A Twitter account went as far as to list all of the instances where certain lines in Yates's dialogue are similar or even identical to Lewis's (there are many).
• Faux Affably Evil: He charms his victims with his politeness as a way to lower their guard and lure them in.
• Has a Type: Primarily targets young brunette women who remind him of his mother.
• Intercontinuity Crossover: With Chicago P.D.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: As a sexual sadist, he not only enjoys raping and murdering his victims, he is aroused by the description of such acts. This turns out to be his downfall, in addition to creeping out everyone in the courtroom.
• It's All About Me: His stressor for killing was being abandoned by his mother as a child, even though she and his father were forced to give him away because of his already-alarming psychopathic tendencies, and the fact that they had a baby girl on the way and they wanted to keep her safe.
• Morality Pet: His fiancée Susie Frain is this to him. Despite her matching his victim preference to a T, he has never harmed her once during the 20 years they've been together. When Carl Rudnick kills Susie, Yates is legitimately dismayed by this, especially after finding out Susie was pregnant.
• Revenge: First enacted it on Rudnick for killing his fiancée, torturing him and leaving him for dead. Then, he tried to carry it out against his sister following his escape, but when that failed, he went after his father. He is more successful in that regard.
• Ripped from the Headlines: His life and crimes are technically a fictionalized biography of Ted Bundy. Barba even lampshades this in "Nationwide Manhunt". His and Rudnick's prison escape is also clearly based on one at Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015.
• Sadist: An accurate description of Yates.
• Serial Killer: Of brunette women. After his prison escape, he's willing to go after other people as well.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Speaks in a soft, convincingly friendly tone while charming his victims. Downplayed whenever he speaks to the detectives, where his tone takes on a robotic flatness. Defied during his trial in "Daydream Believer", when he starts shouting at Melinda Warner, demanding her to thoroughly describe, in court, the horrifying, agonizing way one of his victims died.
• That One Case: For Chicago detective Erin Lindsay, because he murdered her best friend Nadia Decotis.
• Wicked Pretentious: Shortly before he dies, he rants about his theory that Humans Are Bastards because of Cain and Abel, believing that we must all be descendants of Cain (since Abel died) and thus are all murderers at heart. He evidently never read the Bible since there was a third brother, Seth, from whose line most humans are supposed to come from.
• You All Meet in a Cell: Inverted. Yates and Rudnick knew each other in medical school. After he was convicted, Yates assisted the SVU team in putting away Rudnick. Then, they connected in jail and masterminded an escape.
• You Look Familiar: Roberts played a murderous lawyer in season 19 of the regular Law and Order show, and like Yates his previous character even stood in his own defence (successfully that time) and tried to kill a main character (DA Mike Cutter in that case), though unlike Yates his previous villain was motivated by greed.

Dr. Carl Rudnick

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Jefferson Mays

• Creepy Crossdresser: After he murders his Swiss girlfriend, he dresses as a woman to reenter the U.S. He continues this cross-dressing during the course of his future crimes.
• Disguised in Drag: Cross-dresses every time he needs to evade authorities.
• Has a Type: Seems to have a thing for redheads, since they resemble his girlfriend. It's also apparently because of their higher susceptibility to pain.
• Mad Doctor: A former Medical Examiner, who enjoys carving people up and talks to himself.
• Recurring Character: Appears in six episodes (seven, if you would consider the fact that one episode is a two-hour, two-part special), but it's only in his fifth episode where his true nature is revealed.
• Ripped from the Headlines: His case is clearly based on Robert Durst, including his crossdressing and his wealthy upbringing, and even all the way down to his accidental confession, talking to himself while not realising he could be heard. Barba even lampshades this in "Nationwide Manhunt". His and Yates's prison escape is also clearly based on one at Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015, while the way he is found and arrested is definitely reminiscent of the capture of terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
• Serial Killer: Of redheaded women.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: His appearances in season 16 portray him as a professional, if not a little awkward, medical examiner who assists the SVU with his autopsies and during trial. In the premiere of season 17, on the other hand...
• Wicked Cultured: He comes from a wealthy family, and speaks in a proper, formal manner. He's also mentioned to be a fan of Tomaso Albinoni.
• You Look Familiar: Mays played a lawyer in season 19 of the regular Law and Order show.

Bronwyn Freed Wilkins

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Sarah Bisman

• All Girls Want Bad Boys: And how. She could be the poster child for hybristophilia. After serving as a juror during William Lewis' trial, she helps him break out of prison, then she's one of those watching Rudnick's trial. After Rudnick is convicted, she helps him and Yates escape from prison.
• Bound and Gagged: How the team finds her. Still defending her friends.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Appears in the background a few times before her role is revealed.
• Jail Bake: A goodie basket and a lasagna lunch.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: The charges against her for aiding Lewis's escape were dropped due to political pressure to hide the corrupt prison system, but she is later arrested for aiding Rudnick and Yates and will most certainly go to prison this time.
• Meaningful Name: Bronwyn Freed.
• Ripped from the Headlines: Her character seems to be inspired by Gillian Guess. Later, her participation in Yates and Rudnick's escape from prison becomes similar to the main accomplice in the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape.

Rob Miller

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Titus Welliver

• Amoral Attorney: He raped fellow lawyer Nikki Staines.
• Arc Villain: For Season 20.
• Beard of Evil: He's sporting a thick beard and is a rapist.

Bart Ganzel

Appearances: Law & Order | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Peter Jacobson

• Put on a Bus to Hell: Sent to prison for life for prostitution, murdering a prostitute and trying to frame Cragen for it, and attempting to kill Cragen and Cassidy. He deserves it.

Lewis Hodda

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Tom Sizemore

• Psycho for Hire: An arsonist-for-hire who uses his job to over up his child murders.
• Would Hurt a Child: He's a Serial Killer who murders children.

April Troost

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Law & Order

Played By: Estella Warren

• Abusive Parents: Uses her infant daughter's location as bargaining chip to get immunity for her crimes.
• Big Bad: of the SVU Season 7 episode "Design" and the Law & Order Season 16 episode "Flaw."
• False Rape Accusation: Accuses her victim Barclay Pallister of raping 'her.'
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After getting immunity for her crimes on SVU, she finally gets jailed on the parent show.
• Parental Abandonment: Had no second thoughts about leaving her and Barclay's daughter Sarah after getting immunity, not that Barclay would have let her anywhere near Sarah.
• Serial Rapist: Drugged and harvested the sperm of multiple men through use of a cattle prod, giving most of the samples to her father's fertility clinic while using Barclay Pallister's to become pregnant.

Johnny Drake

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Charles Halford

A notorious sex trafficker and the biological father of Noah Porter-Benson.

• Disappeared Dad: Killed by Amaro in a courthouse shootout while Noah's a baby. Needless to say, Noah's better off without him.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Is revealed to be Noah's biological father at the end of his debut episode.
• Serial Rapist: Comes with being a notorious sex trafficker.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only appearing in two episodes, he made a big impact on Olivia's life by fathering her adopted son.

Gary Munson

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Brad Garrett

A Riker's Island corrections officer who used his position to rape multiple female inmates.

• Arc Villain: Of the final two episodes of Season 17.
• Cop Killer: Responsible for the death of Sgt. Mike Dodds.
• Crime After Crime: Was already facing hard prison time and registering as a sex offender for multiple counts of rape, his killing of Sgt. Dodds ensures he'll get life without parole.
• Domestic Abuse: Takes his wife hostage when she decides to leave him after realizing his guilt.
• Serial Rapist: Used his position as a Riker's Island CO to rape multiple female inmates.

Fran Stanton

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Ally Walker

A psychiatrist who falsely diagnosed her underage patient Andrew Hingham with schizophrenia so she could pursue a sexual relationship with him.

• Big Bad: Of the Season 11 episode "Conned."
• Ephebophile: Raped Andrew for 3 years from ages 13 to 16, to the point she bore his son.
• False Rape Accusation: To have Andrew all to herself and keep him away from his girlfriend Mallory who he met in summer school, Dr. Stanton went to Mallory's parents and falsely claimed that Andrew sexually assaulted her. This allowed her to argue that Andrew needed to be in a psychiatric hospital rather than prison, giving her the chance to use drugs and manipulation in order to maintain control of him.
• Hospital Hottie: A blonde Statuesque Stunner^note Ally Walker is 5'10 which Fin even lampshades, to the point she gets a scene in a bathrobe.
• Medication Tampering: Intentionally faked Andrew's schizophrenia diagnosis, including using medication to induce symptoms, as part of her abuse.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Abused her profession to have Andrew for herself. At her allocution, Judge Preston calls her out on abusing her professional relationshp with Andrew "in the most contemptable way."

Pam Adler

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Paige Turco

A lawyer who took part in the rape of a male stripper at her friend's bachelorette party.

• Amoral Attorney: A defense attorney who took part in raping stripper Peter Smith.
• Big Bad: Of the Season 3 episode "Ridicule."

Other/Miscellaneous

Sister Peg

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Charlayne Woodard

A Catholic nun who lived and worked in New York City. Most of her work involves helping and protecting prostitutes. As such, she sometimes comes into contact with Manhattan SVU Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. Usually referred to as "the one who gives prostitutes clean needles."

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• Back for the Dead: After last appearing in Season 8, she returns to the show in the Season 12 finale, only to be killed-off by the Victim of the Week who snaps and started shooting.
• Being Good Sucks: In episodes where the Victim of the Week is a prostitute, their pissed as fuck pimps usually try to get them back and beat up Peg for getting in their way.
• Berserk Button: Slut-Shaming and having the Disposable Sex Worker mentality.
• Black Boss Lady: She runs a shelter for homeless people and sex workers who want to start over.
• Butt-Monkey: The sex workers or homeless people she helps on-screen oftentimes bring nothing but bad news, at times even getting Sister Peg hurt for her troubles.
• Commuting on a Bus: She's a notable Recurring Character since the third season, but has missed the entirety of Seasons 7, 9, 10, and 11.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's very witty and and very, very snarky.
• Dress Code: Averted. Despite being a nun, she's never once seen wearing a religious habit.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Does not appear in the show until Season 3.
• Killed Off for Real: At the end of Season 12.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: After years as a recurring character helping SVU detectives with various cases, and despite the potentially threatening people she connected to on a daily basis, she ends up an offhand casualty of a young woman that went trigger happy in the 16th precinct with the intention of killing the three men that had a hand in her mother’s murder.
• Nuns Are Funny: She's oftentimes the source of witty and snarky dialogues.
• Sacrificial Lion: Her death coincided with Stabler, Warner, and Huang's departures, indicating an End of an Age for the show.

Reverend Curtis

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Leslie Odom Jr.

A reverend who acts as a representative of the lower class of the population.

• Expy: Of the character of Sister Peg in that he works for the people he sees as victims, but different from her in that he's not even half as helpful to the detectives as she was and is a lot more critical if the detectives or the AD As draw attention away from the social aspect of cases.
• Hypocrite: He’s a crusader for those he sees as the less fortunate and will call out anyone that he sees getting in the way of his agenda to right the system’s wrongs. However, he's willing to turn a blind eye to his chosen mayoral candidate soliciting photos from a teenage girl without regard for morality or his ethics as a preacher.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Expect him to be at the forefront of any case that involves social class differences.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He’s right that sometimes the law isn’t very fair in its dealings to the people. But he will slander anyone that crosses his path if doing so will futher his own personal agenda even if they share his sentiments about a given case.

Dr. Cap Jackson

Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Played By: Jeremy Irons

A psychiatrist who specializes in treating sex addiction.

• Actor Allusion: Irons had previously played perhaps the most famous literary paedophile of all time, Humbert Humbert in the movie adaptation of Lolita.
• Aerith and Bob: Cap is a very unconventional name.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Consuming too much alcohol led him to believe that he molested his own daughter. He actually didn't, but his relationship with her is damaged nonetheless since the one he actually slept with was his daughter's best friend who she was in-love with.
• Break Them by Talking: Even more adept at this than Huang. In his second appearance, his gentle demeanor is so soothing that the suspect 1) lets him and the cops into her house to investigate the suspected crime scene (despite her initial reluctance), then 2) waives her right to a lawyer (after he stupidly tells her she doesn't need one only to be reprimanded by Stabler) just so she can continue to talk to him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: For the longest time, he believed he slept with his daughter due to the Alcohol-Induced Idiocy mentioned above. The Reveal about what really happened and the circumstances behind it didn't lessen his guilt. He actually slept with her best friend (it was fully consensual), and the reason his daughter resented him after that incident is because she was in love with said best friend.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter ultimately succumbs to the injuries she received.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Doubles as Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! He disregards the rules of his own therapy sessions to allow Elliot to catch the perp who assaulted several women including Cap's daughter.
• Stacy's Mom: His daughter's best friend was attracted to him, and she consented on him making a move on her when he was drunk.
• The Shrink: He specializes on treating sex addiction.
• Temporary Substitute: Subs for Huang after his unofficial departure.

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