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| “ | You don't know what it's like to have to wake up and be perfect every day! Nobody wants me to be gay - not my parents, not my friends, nobody. I-I just wanted to talk to her, make her understand that she couldn't press charges against Denny without ruining everything. But she just wouldn't listen! | „ |
| ~ Alicia explaining why she killed Julie Cade. |
Alicia Milford is the main antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Girl Most Likely". She is a teenage girl who murders her girlfriend to prevent being outed as a lesbian.
She was portrayed by Caroline Dhavernas, who also portrayed Alana Bloom in the TV series Hannibal.
Early life[]
Alicia was one of the smartest, most popular students at Strickland Academy, an elite private high school in Manhattan; she was on the honor roll and the captain of the cheerleading squad, and she was a finalist for a prestigious academic award that would guarantee her enrollment in the Ivy League college of her choice. She was also a lesbian, but she kept her sexual orientation hidden from everyone she knew for fear of being shunned by her friends and disowned by her homophobic parents.
In her senior year, she began a clandestine relationship with her classmate and best friend Julie Cade, who was also closeted. One night, they went to a party together, during which Julie was sexually assaulted by John Lucero and Denny Cannon, two classmates whom she had earlier reported to Strickland's dean for posting sexist comments online about girls at school, including her. When they asked her why she didn't want to have sex with them, she blurted out that she liked girls.
The next day, Julie met with Alicia in the laundry room of her apartment building and told her about the assault. When Julie said that she was going to report John and Denny to the police, Alicia panicked, fearing that their relationship would be brought to light if it became public knowledge that Julie was gay. She begged Julie not to go to the police, but Julie was adamant that the boys be held accountable for what they did. They got into an argument that ended with Alicia shoving Julie up against a washing machine so hard that Julie hit her head and suffered a fatal brain injury. Terrified, Alicia ran out of the building.
"Girl Most Likely"[]
NYPD Homicide Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green investigate Julie's murder and ask Alicia if her friend had a problem with anyone at school or if she had been involved with a teacher. Alicia heatedly replies that Julie was not seeing anyone and that, if she had a problem with someone, it was probably about the sexist online comments made about her. This leads Briscoe and Green to discover that Julie had reported John and Denny to the dean, giving them motive to kill her. Briscoe and Green ask Alicia about the assault, but she says she knows nothing about it.
Briscoe and Green bring the boys to their station house for questioning, but they both deny doing anything to Julie and ask for lawyers. When Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy and Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn threaten to prosecute them for murder, however, they admit to assaulting Julie and explain that they stopped after she said she was a lesbian. Meanwhile, forensic testing of the jacket Julie was wearing at the time of her death reveals strands of long brown hair - exactly like Alicia's.
McCoy and Southerlyn question Alicia in front of her parents about her relationship with Julie, but Alicia insists that she is not a lesbian, while her parents throw them out of their house for suggesting that their daughter is a "pervert". Realizing that Alicia killed Julie to keep her sexuality a secret, McCoy plans to use the threat of being outed to get her to confess to the murder, even though Southerlyn - who, later in the series, is revealed to be a lesbian herself - has misgivings about the strategy, saying that it plays into the idea that being gay is something to be ashamed of.
They meet with Alicia and the lawyer that her parents retained on her behalf and tell her that, should she choose to go to trial, everyone she knows, including her parents, will find out that she is gay. Over her lawyer's objections, Alicia says she will plead guilty if it means she can keep her secret. She tearfully confesses to killing Julie in order to stop her from pressing charges against John and Denny and thereby revealing their relationship. She then agrees to plead guilty to manslaughter in the first degree in return for a reduced prison sentence.
External links[]
- Alicia Milford on the Law & Order Wiki
