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| “ | He got her pregnant. He should pay. | „ |
| ~ Baylor justifying his and Amy Newhouse's scheme to blackmail David Alcott |
Christopher "Chris" Baylor is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Misconception". He is a con artist who, along with his girlfriend, scams a wealthy lawyer into believing their unborn child is his, and then induces a miscarriage so they can frame and sue him.
He was portrayed by Reed Diamond, who also portrayed Daniel Whitehall in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Falcone in Mighty Ducks.
Early life[]
Baylor worked as a lawyer in his native Wisconsin until he was disbarred for knowingly allowing a witness to lie under oath. He and his girlfriend, Amy Newhouse, moved to New York City, where he got a job as a cab driver, and she started working as a legal secretary - and also became small-time con artists to supplement their respective incomes.
Baylor got Newhouse pregnant, and together they hatched to a plan to scam Newhouse's boss, David Alcott, out of millions by making him believe that their unborn child was his. Shortly after Newhouse got pregnant, she had sex with Alcott, told him that her baby was his, and threatened to tell his wife unless he gave her money.
She and Baylor then staged a mugging when she left work, repeatedly kicking her in the belly in order to force a miscarriage and render her infertile, for which they planned to frame and sue Alcott for his entire net worth - $10 million.
"Misconception"[]
NYPD Homicide Sergeant Phil Cerreta and Detective Mike Logan investigate the attack on Newhouse as an attempted murder. When they tell Baylor what happened, he feigns grief and outrage for his unborn child, while secretly directing Newhouse to reveal her affair with Alcott to the detectives in order to implicate him as the assailant.
Sure enough, Cerreta and Logan eventually arrest Alcott, and Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone and Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette charge him with attempted murder. Baylor and Newhouse, meanwhile, sue him for $10 million.
Further investigation proves that Alcott could not have attacked Newhouse, however, because he was in another part of the city at the time; forensic examination of Newhouse's fetus, meanwhile, proves that it was conceived before she had sex with Alcott, leaving Baylor as the father. Cerreta and Logan discover that Baylor has a history of abusing Newhouse, and Alcott's wife, who is divorcing him for cheating on her, persuades Baylor and Newhouse to drop their lawsuit in return for $1 million. This makes the detectives suspicious, so they interrogate Newhouse until she confesses to the blackmail scheme.
Stone and Robinette charge Baylor and Newhouse with attempted murder, but Baylor insists that the fetus was less than 24 weeks old, and therefore cannot legally be considered a person. During the trial, however, Stone produces forensic evidence proving that Baylor and Newhouse were aware of the pregnancy two weeks earlier than they claimed, meaning the fetus had legal personhood, thus proving their guilt.
Baylor and Newhouse are both found guilty of attempted murder and imprisoned.
External links[]
- Christopher Baylor on the Law & Order Wiki
