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| “ | We committed no crime. Nobody got hurt. | „ |
| ~ Amy rationalizing the scam she pulled |
Amy Newhouse is the main antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Misconception". She is a con artist who scams her boss into believing her unborn child is his, and who then provokes a miscarriage by having her boyfriend beat her up in order to frame her boss and sue him for $10 million.
She was portrayed by Molly Price.
Early life[]
Newhouse and her boyfriend, Christopher Baylor, moved to New York City from Wisconsin after Baylor, a lawyer, was disbarred for suborning perjury. They concocted a plan to scam wealthy lawyer David Alcott out of his entire net worth of $10 million. Newhouse got a job at Alcott's firm as his legal secretary and started an affair with him. She then conceived a child with Baylor and told Alcott it was his, threatening to tell his wife unless he gave her money.
Newhouse and Baylor then launched the second part of their plan: to induce a miscarriage so they could implicate Alcott for the fetus' death and sue him for $10 million. Baylor assured her that, even if they got caught, they would face no penalty because there was no evidence that they knew the fetus was 24 weeks old, the age at which harming a fetus is considered a crime.
"Misconception"[]
Newhouse leaves work late one night to walk to the subway, and Baylor kicked her several times in the stomach, killing the unborn baby and rendering Newhouse infertile.
NYPD Homicide Sergeant Phil Cerreta and Detective Mike Logan investigate the assault as an attempted murder, and they come to suspect Alcott when Newhouse gives them a tape recording that she secretly made of the two of them having sex. The detectives arrest Alcott, and Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone and Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette charge him with attempted murder. Newhouse and Baylor, meanwhile, file a civil suit against Alcott for $10 million, although they settle for $1 million from Alcott's wife, who is divorcing him.
Stone and Robinette's investigation eventually reveals that Alcott was in another part of the city on the night of the assault, that Baylor has a history of abusing Newhouse, and that he, not Alcott, is the baby's father. Cerreta and Logan interrogate Newhouse, who admits the blackmail scheme. She and Baylor insist that they did not know the age of the fetus, meaning that, legally, they are not guilty of attempted murder.
During the trial, however, Stone submits forensic evidence that Newhouse and Baylor knew the age of the fetus and confronts Newhouse with it while cross-examining it. Newhouse tearfully admits their guilt, and they are both convicted of second-degree murder.
External links[]
- Amy Newhouse on the Law & Order Wiki
