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| “ | Don't you run from me! You made a mistake, and now you have to pay for it. Now get on your knees! | „ |
| ~ Latimer abusing his wife. |
Brent Latimer is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Persona". He is the abusive husband of Mia Latimer who beats, rapes, and ultimately kills her.
He was portrayed by the late Nathaniel Marston.
Early life[]
Latimer is a wealthy businessman who is married to a woman named Mia. They met when she was 18 and he swept her off her feet with his wealth and charm, convincing her to drop out of college and marry him.
He showed his true, abusive colors once they were married, however; he forced her to sign a prenuptial agreement that would leave her with nothing if she left him; forbade her to have a job or any contact with her friends and family; and viciously beat her whenever said or did anything. intentionally or not, to wound his fragile ego. He also forced her to have sex with him whether she wanted to or not and kept a large cache of firearms on prominent display in their apartment as a constant reminder that he could kill her anytime he wanted to.
In "Persona"[]
One night, Latimer rapes Mia after she rebuffs his sexual advances. Fearing that she is pregnant, Mia goes the next morning to a pharmacy to get the morning after pill and gets into an altercation with the pharmacist when the latter hesitates to give it to her. When the police arrive, she says that her husband raped her.
Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit investigate Mia's accusation and interview the Latimers' elderly neighbors, Jonah and Linnie Malcolm, who both say that they heard Latimer beating Mia the night before. That, and the results of Mia's rape trauma exam, is enough for Benson and Stabler to arrest Latimer for domestic violence and spousal rape.
At Latimer's arraignment, the judge orders him held on $50,000 bail, which he posts immediately afterward. The judge also orders him to turn in his firearms to the police. Latimer freezes Mia's bank account and cancels her credit card, and then shows up at their apartment in violation of the judge's orders to charm Mia into taking him back. Benson and Stabler try to arrest him for violating the judge's orders, but Mia, who is afraid to go out into the world alone for the first time, says that she has decided to drop the charges against him. Benson is left with no choice but to leave the Latimers' apartment; Latimer arrogantly calls after her to make sure that his guns are returned.
Linnie - who, unbeknownst to Benson and Jonah, is really Caroline Cresswell, who killed her abusive first husband 30 years earlier and has been living as a fugitive ever since - implores Benson to stop Latimer from hurting Mia again. Benson waits in the downstairs lobby of the apartment building for a few hours in order to catch Latimer in act of abusing Mia, and springs into action when she hears him threatening to make her "pay for her mistake" of pressing charges against him. Benson breaks down their door, but she is too late to save Mia; Latimer stabs her in the heart with a kitchen knife, and she falls to the ground and dies. Latimer panics and claims that Mia attacked him as Benson arrests him, but forensic analysis of the crime scene reveals that she was not advancing on him when she was stabbed, proving that he killed her in cold blood. Latimer is found guilty of murder, and he is imprisoned for life.
External links[]
- Brent Latimer on the Law & Order Wiki
