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| “ | Where are they? I want them to say this to my face! Huh? BITCHES! SAY IT TO MY FACE! | „ |
| ~ Brittany cursing her friends for testifying against her. |
Brittany O'Malley is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Mean". She is a sociopathic teenage girl who tortures and murders her best friend as revenge for stealing her boyfriend.
She was portrayed by Kelli Garner.
Early life[]
Brittany is the "Queen Bee" of her high school, Tanner Day Academy, and the leader of a clique that included Emily Sullivan, Andrea Kent, and Paige Summerbee. Beneath her upbeat, innocent façade, however, she is a violent sociopath who cruelly bullies the school's unpopular students and flies into violent rages whenever she does not get what she wants. Her mother, Sarah, is afraid of her, to the point that she does whatever Brittany wants and puts up with her blatant disrespect.
Shortly before the events of the episode, she started dating Lukas Croft, a 23-year-old failed actor. She told him to make a pass at Emily as a "friendship test", but she became enraged when she found out that they had begun dating. She devised a plan to torture and kill her as revenge.
Brittany got beer from Lukas, and she, Andrea, and Paige got Emily drunk; they then knocked her unconscious, tied her up, and put her in the trunk of her own car. They took her to an isolated area, where Brittany beat and tortured her, at one point cutting her repeatedly with manicure scissors and putting out cigarettes on her skin. They then took a train home, leaving Emily alone to bleed to death.
"Mean"[]
Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit investigate Emily's murder and question Brittany, Andrea, and Paige, who all feign grief for their friend. Brittany mentions that Emily had been dating Lukas in order to steer suspicion toward him, but when Benson and Stabler question him, he claims that all he did was buy beer for the girls; he also says that Brittany poisoned his cat after they broke up, which leads the detectives to suspect her.
Soon afterward, however, Brittany is taken to a hospital, the victim of a physical assault. Benson and Stabler ask her who attacked her, and she accuses ex-con Troy Linsky, who had been expelled from Tanner Day Academy a few years earlier. They arrest Linsky, who says that he attacked Brittany because she and her friends had tormented his younger sister Agnes for years, the last straw being when Brittany secretly took pictures of the overweight Agnes changing in the girls' locker room and posted them online. Benson and Stabler question Brittany about the photos, and she claims that she took them to get back at Agnes for killing Emily. The detectives quickly discover that Agnes is innocent, however, and find out from Lukas that he had seen Emily in the trunk of Brittany's car when he bought the girls beer.
Benson and Stabler arrest Brittany, Andrea, and Paige at a school pep rally. Benson and Stabler interrogate Brittany about Emily's murder, while Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak questions Andrea and Paige in a separate room. The girls all claim to be innocent at first, but when Novak threatens Andrea and Paige with life in prison, they both implicate Brittany in torturing and murdering Emily. When SVU Captain Donald Cragen tells Brittany that her friends have turned on her, she flies into a rage and screams threats at them.
All three girls are charged with Emily's murder, but Andrea and Paige's lawyers claim on their clients' behalf that Brittany did not tell them she was going to kill Emily, which would make her solely responsible for the murder. Novak does not believe them, however, so she makes a deal with Brittany, against whom she has little physical evidence, to testify against them in return for a chance at lesser sentence.
Brittany testifies in court that Andrea and Paige helped her kill Emily by restraining her and hitting her a few times. When Andrea and Paige's lawyers cross-examine Brittany, they ask her if their clients helped her torture Emily or if it was their idea to leave her to die, she unemotionally admits to doing those things all by herself.
Andrea testifies that kidnapping Emily was all Brittany's idea, and that neither she nor Paige knew that Brittany was going to kill her. While cross-examining her, Novak notices a sapphire ring on her finger, and asks her what her birthstone is; Andrea replies that her birthstone is garnet. Novak then says that Emily's class ring - which had a sapphire stone - was missing, and that the ring Andrea is wearing matches it exactly, thus proving that Andrea stole her ring from her dying friend's finger. Panicked, Andrea blames Paige and Brittany for the murder; Paige then accuses Andrea of stealing Emily's purse. Ultimately, Andrea and Paige are found guilty and being sentenced to life in prison and Brittany sentenced to lesser sentence, per her deal with Novak.
External links[]
- Brittany O'Malley on the Law & Order Wiki
