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| “ | I just wanted my life back! | „ |
| ~ Angela's justification for killing Derek Tanner. |
Angela Agnelli is an antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Hooked". She is an underage girl who regularly has sex with older men and eventually murders one of them in order to steal back a sex tape he made of her.
She was portrayed by Hayden Panettiere.
Biography[]
Angela and her best friend Lisa Downey both attended St. Tabitha's Preparatory School, a Catholic school in Bayside, Queens. However, like many girls at the school, they did not live the lifestyle that was expected of them and began meeting boys online for sex. At first they only hooked up with boys at the school, with Angela starting a trend of wearing coloured bracelets to signify which sex acts they were willing to perform, but they soon started hooking up with older, college-age boys, and then with overage men. The girls soon worked out a way they could get something in return for sex and began prostituting themselves to older men at the local mall in exchange for expensive gifts. While hooking at the mall, Lisa and Angela were approached by a desk clerk at the Barrington Hotel who offered them a job working as prostitutes at the hotel in return for money. Angela refused, as she only did it for clothes, but Lisa agreed and started turning tricks at the Barrington, bringing Angela expensive soaps and shampoos that she took from the hotel.
At some point Lisa told Angela about her relationship with Derek Tanner, a customer at the hotel who had become obsessed with her. The two girls were later offered $500 to have sex with each other and Tanner on tape; Angela didn't want to, but Lisa pressured her into accepting by telling her how much she needed the money. After making the tape, Lisa admitted to Angela that she had started making hardcore porn films for porn producer Max Long, showing her the DVDs she appeared in, and that she had wanted Angela to appear in the tape so she could use it as an audition to become a porn star too, telling her how much money she could make. Angela found the experience humiliating and refused Lisa's offer, but continued prostituting herself to men for clothes down at the mall.
In "Hooked"[]
After Long murders Lisa, the NYPD's Special Victims Unit interview Angela to find out if Lisa was seeing any boys when she was killed. Angela claims that Lisa never had a boyfriend and that she started the sex bracelets as a joke, but the SVU soon find out that Lisa was hooking up with older men online and interview Angela again. She admits that Lisa was hooking with boys and had a college-age boyfriend who she believed was physically abusing her.
The SVU later work out that Lisa was prostituting herself to a sales manager at the mall in return for designer clothing and go to interview him. However, when they try to talk to him they find him in the act of receiving oral sex from Angela in the stockroom. Angela admits that she and Lisa had sex with older men in return for gifts and tells the SVU how Lisa was recruited to work as a prostitute at the Barrington Hotel.
After Dr. Tanner's relationship with Lisa is discovered by the SVU, he is arrested but soon released after being given an alibi by his co-workers. Angela hears about the arrest and, realizing that it is only a matter of time before her sex tape is discovered, she goes to Tanner's apartment with her father's gun to demand he give her the tape so she can dispose of it. Tanner refuses, believing she will turn him in for statutory rape, and tries to grab the gun, leading Angela to shoot him dead in a moment of panic. She manages to retrieve the tape before escaping.
Despite Tanner's murder, the SVU soon turn their attention to Angela again after finding a St. Tabitha's school scarf in his medical locker with Angela's initials monogrammed on it, which Tanner had taken from her after she wore it in the sex tape. Suspicious of Angela, the SVU get permission to search her locker and soon find the sex tape of her, Lisa, and Tanner. Angela claims that Lisa gave her the tape and finally admits that Lisa was doing hardcore porn, giving the SVU Max Long's name. Further investigation soon reveals that Max killed Lisa to cover up the fact that she had HIV when she appeared in his films and he is arrested and imprisoned for her murder.
The SVU remain suspicious however, as Max has an airtight alibi for Tanner's murder. Forensic testing then leads to the discovery that Angela's sex tape has gunshot residue on it, and that the same fingerprints from Tanner's apartment are on the tape. The SVU realize that Tanner had the tape and Angela killed him and stole it from his apartment to conceal its existence. Angela is confronted at her school by Detective Elliot Stabler and tearfully admits that she killed Tanner and stole the tape, telling Stabler that she only wanted her life back. The episode ends with Stabler arresting Angela for murder.
External links[]
- Angela Agnelli on the Law & Order Wiki
