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Christina Logan is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Mother". She is a woman who murdered her abusive mother and led her son to believe she was his sister as a teenager, and who assaults her son's therapist as an adult.
She was portrayed by Sherri Parker Lee.
Early life[]
Christina grew up in Medina, California, the only child of Victoria Logan, a religious zealot who regularly beat her and blamed her for her husband, Christina's father, leaving her for another woman. Victoria hated men, believing them to be "dirty", and she inflicted particularly brutal beatings upon Christina whenever boys paid attention to her, excusing her behavior by telling Christina that she needed to be disciplined to keep her from "becoming a whore" like the one her father had run off with.
Christina rebelled against her mother as a teenager by having sex with several boys at her school, eventually getting pregnant at age 14. Victoria was so angry when Christina told her she was pregnant that she beat her daughter nearly to death. Christina's baby survived the physical trauma, however, so Victoria sent her to a facility for unwed mothers to give birth to the child, whom she named Robert.
Victoria disowned Christina and sent her to live with relatives in Minnesota. She also took custody of Robert, whom she treated with even greater cruelty that she had Christina; she scrubbed him raw in the bathtub, forced him to pray for forgiveness just for being born, and at one point tried to castrate him by tying a string around his penis and pulling it tight, leaving him in agonizing pain.
When Robert was seven, Christina came home and tried to take him away from her mother. Horrified and enraged to see what Victoria had done to her son, she set her mother's house on fire and left her to burn to death. She told the traumatized boy that she was his sister and that he was never to tell anyone who had set the fire. Not knowing what else to do, Robert backed up Christina's story to the police that the fire had been an accident. She then took Robert with her to live in New York City.
As an adult, Christina became an addictions crisis counselor and kept a watchful eye on Robert, putting him through medical school and attempting to help him overcome the severe depression, mood swings, and delusional episodes he suffered as a result of Victoria's abuse.
Robert began therapy with Dr. Greta Heints, a psychotherapist whose practice revolved around "reparenting" her patients, most of whom were civilly committed sex offenders. Christina was immediately jealous, believing that Heints was interfering in her relationship with her "brother". She told Robert that she did not approve of him being in therapy, but he ignored her because he had already developed a childlike dependence upon Heints, eventually becoming obsessed with her.
"Mother"[]
Eventually, Heints sees that Robert has formed an unhealthy attachment to her and transfers him to another therapist, which he sees as her "breaking up" with him. He tries to kill himself, but Christina manages to save his life and admits him to a psychiatric hospital for 24 hours. She blames Heints for Robert's suffering, so she breaks into the doctor's office files and finds out that their therapy consisted of Heints making him listen to tapes of her speaking to him as a mother figure and making inappropriate, borderline sexual remarks. Enraged, Christina decides to punish her.
Christina calls Heints and says that Robert is "in trouble" at a crack house. Heints goes to the crack house, where Christina blitz-attacks her from behind and knocks her unconscious. She then binds Heints' hands with duct tape, tears open her shirt, pulls down her pants, and kicks her repeatedly in the groin, determined to hurt and humiliate Heints as revenge for the pain that she was convinced she had inflicted on Robert.
The NYPD's Special Victims Unit investigates Heints' attack as a sexual assault and suspect that the assailant is one of her patients. Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler initially believe that Bennie Edgar Ralsey, a convicted serial rapist who used duct tape to restrain his victims, committed the assault, but they soon find that he could not have done it because he was at his girlfriend's apartment in violation of the terms of his release, which gets him sent back to the hospital where Heints had treated him.
Christina breaks into Heints' office once again and trashes it, stealing all of her files pertaining to Robert so the police will not suspect him. Benson and Stabler come to suspect him anyway, however, after they find multiple messages from Robert on Heints' answering machine, all begging her to "take him back". Before they can question him, however, Robert slashes his wrists, and Heints refuses to allow them to talk to him in the hospital as he recovers. The detectives then question Christina, who says that had Robert hospitalized the night of Heints' assault.
Benson and Stabler find out that Robert had checked out of the hospital against doctors' advice for five hours the night of the assault, however, so they arrest him. He is found incompetent to stand trial after he shouts at Heints that he loves her and that they are meant to be together, eventually having to be dragged out of court and put in restraints.
Christina, meanwhile, brings the tapes of Heints' sessions with Robert to the SVU station house, demanding that they charge Heints with malpractice. Benson and Stabler question Heints about the therapy she administered to Robert and, while she admits that she behaved unprofessionally, there is nothing they can charge her with. They end up arresting Christina, however, after forensic testing turns up her fingerprints on the duct tape used to bind Heints. She admits to attacking Heints, claiming that she was only trying to protect her brother.
While assisting the investigation, Detectives John Munch and Fin Tutuola find newspaper articles about the fire that killed Victoria, which contradicts Christina's claims that her mother died of cancer. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang questions Robert, who reveals what Victoria did to him and admits that Christina set the fire that killed her. Benson and Stabler interrogate Christina in jail while she awaits her trial, and she admits that Robert is her son, not her brother, and that she killed her mother to protect him; as she goes back to her cell, she says that any mother would have done the same thing.
She is found guilty of murder and assault and imprisoned for life.
External links[]
- Christina Logan on the Law & Order Wiki
