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| “ | There's more than you know. A lot more. | „ |
| ~ Beck confessing to several rapes. |
Albert Beck, also known as "The Pattern 17 Rapist", is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Pattern 17". He is a pedophile and serial rapist who preys on teenage girls and petite young women for several years.
He was portrayed by Jordan Lage.
Biography[]
Past[]
Beck worked as an EMT and was even hailed as a hero for saving several people from a train crash. He often sung in church, occasionally humming to himself. However, he was secretly a serial rapist who preyed on both young adult women and young girls, using his job to troll for victims. He choked his victims while raping them until they lost consciousness, and they woke up to him singing the hymn "The Everlasting Arms" before running away, with them never getting a good look at his face.
He eventually moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he started dating a single mother named Lauren Burns. He moved in with her and her teenage daughter Beth, before they relocated to New York City. He seduced Beth, which satisfied his urges to the point that he stopped raping for three years, which caused his case to go cold. Eventually, however, Burns discovered that Beck and Beth were sexting each other, and kicked Beck out of the house. This ultimately led to him resuming his rape spree, aided by severe backlogs in rape kit processing in police stations nationwide. Law enforcement took to calling Beck the "Pattern 17 Rapist".
In "Pattern 17"[]
The NYPD's Special Victims Unit recognizes his pattern, and Detectives Fin Tutuola and Amanda Rollins go to Atlanta to talk to Ashley Miller, one of his earlier victims. She recalls how her rapist got an alert on his pager after he assaulted her, and he told her that he had "lives to save". Fin and Rollins deduce that the rapist had to be a paramedic or a doctor, especially considering that he knew exactly how much pressure to use while choking his victims to render them unconscious without killing them.
Back in New York, Beck attacks a 12-year-old girl, but her dog bites him and scares him away, though he was unaware she shoved her headphones in the car. When she reports the assault, Fin, Rollins, Detective Dominick Carisi Jr., and Sergeant Olivia Benson have his blood (taken from the dog bite) processed and inspect cars in the parking garage of a nearby hospital and find the girl's earbuds in a car belonging to Dr. Joseph Conklin. They arrest Conklin, who confesses to writing female patients opiate prescriptions in return for sex, but denies raping anyone, and claims that the car is a hospital vehicle that several people have access to. They examine hospital security footage and see Beck getting into the car shortly before the attempted rape and realize that they have their man.
SVU find the Burns and realize that Beck stopped raping, due to Beth Burns satisfying his urges. They also learn when Lauren found out about the affair, she kicked him out and put him back on the prowl to resume his assaults. Benson and Rollins find the naked selfies Beth sent Beck and threaten to charge her along with Lauren for making and distributing child pornography unless she helps them apprehend Beck. She texts Beck to meet her in Central Park. When they meet up, however, she loses her nerve and tells him to run. He promptly flees, with Rollins and Carisi in hot pursuit, along with other cops before Tutuola tackles him and puts him under arrest.
He is brought to the precinct, where his DNA is matched to the blood from a dog bite, as well the mark on his leg and a match to the rapes in Atlanta. During his interrogation, he refuses to talk, but Tutuola tells him there is no need for him to say anything because they already have what they need to put him in prison. Confused, Beck asks Carisi what he is talking about. Carisi tells him they cannot prove that he committed the rapes, but that they have ample proof that he is guilty of child molestation and possessing child pornography, so that is all they will charge him with. Carisi then gives him a choice between having a reputation in prison as a "badass serial rapist" who eluded the police for years, or being known only as a pedophile, the lowest form of prison life. The tactic works - after Beck realizes he would never be safe in prison, he stops Carisi from leaving and confesses to all the rapes he committed, including several that the police did not know about.
He is then imprisoned for life.
Trivia[]
- Beck is primarily inspired by serial killer Serhiy Tkach.
External links[]
- Albert Beck on the Law & Order Wiki
