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| “ | You're never gonna find those bitches. They're gonna die, and you're never gonna find them. | „ |
| ~ Charlie Baker taunting Detective Fin Tutuola about the women he kidnapped. |
Charlie Baker is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Dominance". He is a spree killer who rapes, tortures, and murders wealthy people and forces his younger brother (and sex slave) Billy to help him.
He was portrayed by Ian Somerhalder, who also portrayed Adam Knight in Smallville and Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Charlie and his younger brother Billy were raised by their alcoholic father, Al, after their mother left them. A violent sociopath, Charlie has a long criminal record, including burglary and assault. He grew up helping his father, a superintendent at an upscale apartment complex, performing manual labor for the building's wealthy tenants, and nurtured a burning hatred of wealthy people in general; he believed that they were simply handed lives of luxury, and thought they were better than him. He also hated his father and took his rage out on Al by beating him, often for no reason.
The one person Charlie expressed any affection for was Billy, who in turn worshiped his older brother and did anything that Charlie told him to do. Even then, however, Charlie exploited his brother's love to degrade and humiliate him.
In one such instance, he convinced his girlfriend Marie to have a threesome with him and Billy, only to start raping Billy in the middle of it. Al walked in on them and pulled Charlie off of his brother, and Charlie responded by punching him in the face and threatening to kill him, Billy, and Marie if they told anyone what had happened.
"Dominance"[]
Charlie manipulates Billy into helping him break into a townhouse owned by a wealthy man named Evan Briggs during a dinner party, and they take Briggs, his fiancée, and another couple hostage. Charlie forces the men to rape the women and then each other at gunpoint, and then made Billy shoot them all dead. Charlie also bludgeoned a latecomer to the party over the head with a wine bottle, hitting him so hard that the blow caused brain damage that eventually killed him.
His bloodlust unsatisfied, Charlie took Billy with him to Central Park to carjack a family who were driving a luxury car. Charlie once again forces the husband to rape the wife at gunpoint before forcing Billy to kill them both, and then kidnapped their teenage daughters.
The father fights back before Charlie can subdue him, leaving him with a limp. He then plants the valuables he stole from both sets of victims in Billy's work locker in order to draw suspicion away from himself should they get caught.
By this time, the NYPD's Special Victims Unit starts investigating the rape and murder spree, and briefly question Charlie, Billy, and Al, who manage the building where the carjacking victims lived. Forensics prove that the killer had access to the car keys prior to the carjacking and had industrial chemical stains on his clothes.
Detective Fin Tutuola and his temporary partner Dave Duethorn suspect that Billy is the killer, a suspicion confirmed when they find him using the victim's ATM card. They arrest him after he tries to run. Meanwhile, Charlie murders another wealthy couple on his own, this time raping the wife himself before killing them both.
Charlie and Al went to the SVU precinct to see Billy, who refuses to talk to the detectives unless he can see his brother. Charlie talks Al out of getting Billy a lawyer, and manipulates Billy into "doing the right thing" by confessing to the murders.
Soon afterward, however, Duethorn looked over the evidence again and discovers that there were two sets of footprints at both crime scenes, and that one of the killers walked with a limp, implicating Charlie as the mastermind of the murders. When Tutuola and Duethorn arrest Charlie, he gloats that they will never find the two girls.
Charlie remains defiant while Tutuola and Duethorn interrogate him, refusing to reveal the girls' location and bragging about having "showed" his victims that he was better than them. The detectives bring in Billy, who refuses to go against his brother until Al reveals that Charlie framed him by planting the evidence in his locker.
Heartbroken, Billy admits that Charlie forced him to take part in the murders, which had been all his idea. Enraged, Charlie attacks his brother, but Tutuola subdues him. Billy then tells Tutuola and Duethorn that they left the girls tied up in a water tower on the roof of their building, and the detectives managed to save them. Billy was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, while Charlie was sentenced to death and executed.
Trivia[]
- Charlie and Billy are inspired by the Carr brothers, the duo responsible for the 2000 "Wichita massacre", and Anthony and Nathaniel Cook, two brothers who committed a series of rapes and murders in Toledo, Ohio, from 1973 to 1981.
External links[]
- Charlie Baker on the Law & Order Wiki
