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| “ | Lainie's been teasing me for months, putting a show on in front of her window. She wanted it, and I gave it to her. | „ |
| ~ Bryce justifying raping Lainie McCallum. |
Bryce Kelton is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Witness". He is a rapist who attacks his neighbour and causes her to get a fatal staph infection.
He was portrayed by Eric Lange.
Biography[]
Bryce was obsessed with Lainie McCallum, a woman who lived across the street from him who often undressed in front of her window and liked to dress in revealing clothes, which Bryce viewed as Lainie deliberately teasing him. Eventually his obsession reached a boiling point and he attacked Lainie in her stairwell at knifepoint, cutting Lainie's hand during the rape. The rape was interrupted by Nardalee Ula, an illegal immigrant from the DRC, who attacked Bryce and ripped his mask off, allowing Lainie to escape. Bryce stopped Nardalee from reporting the incident by threatening to reveal her immigration status so she would be deported back to the DRC.
"Witness"[]
Lainie reports her rape to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, who initially do not believe her story after Nardalee denies stopping her rape. However, while interviewing Lainie at her apartment, Detective Elliot Stabler notices Bryce watching Lainie through his telescope and realizes that he has been spying on her. Suspicious, Stabler and his partner, Detective Olivia Benson, go to Bryce's apartment and notice that he has a black eye from where Nardalee hit him, taking him to the station to interview him further. Bryce's fingerprints and DNA are soon linked to the crime scene, but Bryce claims that he and Lainie were acting out a consensual rape fantasy.
Bryce is charged with rape, and taunts Lainie about her clothes after encountering her outside the grand jury hearing, which backfires as it proves to her that he is the rapist after she was previously uncertain. However, during her testimony before the grand jury Lainie collapses in the courtroom from a staph infection as a result of the cut on her hand. Benson and Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot visit Lainie, who has been told that she only has a few hours to live, and they manage to get her to record a video denouncing Bryce as her rapist before she dies. Cabot then charges Bryce with felony murder to render Lainie's dying declaration admissible.
Meanwhile, the SVU detectives manage to track down Nardalee, who has gone off the grid. Cabot persuades her to testify, which allows her to secure an indictment against Bryce, but he retaliates by denouncing Nardalee to ICE and having her arrested. Cabot narrowly prevents her from being deported by charging Bryce with witness tampering, making Nardalee a victim in the case and granting her a temporary visa so she can testify.
At trial, Bryce is cautioned by the judge after Lainie's video provokes him into an outburst in the courtroom. Bryce's lawyer, Roger Kressler, tries to discredit Nardalee's testimony by accusing her of "seeing rape everywhere" after being raped and tortured by militia in the DRC, but she refutes this. The jury eventually acquits Bryce of murder and witness tampering, but finds him guilty of rape.
External links[]
- Bryce Kelton on the Law & Order Wiki
