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| “ | They're throwaways. With my movies, they get to feel my love, and the love of our family. | „ |
| ~ Daniel Brooks rationalizing his pedophilia to Larissa Welch. |
Daniel Brooks is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Possessed". He is a victim of pedophile Orville Underwood who grows up to be a child molester and child pornographer in his own right.
He was portrayed by Brian Justin Crum.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Brooks was kidnapped as a child by pedophile Orville Underwood, who forced him to perform in child pornography with little girls, particularly Larissa Welch, whom Underwood had remade as "Brandy", the "star" of his films. Underwood kept his victims in line by threatening to give them to "Coventry", a fictional organization that would supposedly kill them and their entire families.
Brooks was Larissa's only protector, and eventually helped her escape Underwood's clutches by distracting him long enough to allow her to escape. A year later, Underwood was arrested for kidnapping and child sexual abuse, but managed to win an acquittal.
Brooks, meanwhile, was warped by Underwood's abuse, and grew up to be a pedophile himself. Like Underwood before him, he kidnapped children and forced them into child pornography, threatening to let "Coventry" kill them if they told anyone. He held his victims captive inside an abandoned factory.
"Possessed"[]
After Larissa is attacked and raped by Eldon Balogh, an obsessed fan of the "Brandy" videos, Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit investigate her attack and find out about the child pornography series. Larissa tells them about the abuse she suffered, and how Daniel helped her escape. When the case against Underwood falls apart due to lack of evidence, Larissa begs them to find Daniel so he can testify about what Underwood did to them.
Benson and Stabler investigate Brooks' life after the videos, only to find that he has largely disappeared. Fortunately, they are able to find old property records of the abandoned warehouse, and head there in hopes of finding Brooks. They are just in time to stop Brooks from filming the rape and torture of a little boy and girl, but Brooks runs away, using a little boy as a human shield. Stabler corners Brooks, who threatens to kill the boy by throwing him off a ledge, but Stabler manages to get him to release the child by saying he wants to help bring down Underwood. Benson and Stabler then arrest Brooks.
During interrogation, Brooks presents a flat affect, and claims that the boy he had once been no longer exists; Benson and Stabler both remark that he seems dead inside. Larissa comes to see Brooks at Riker's Island, and asks him why he had grown up to become just like Underwood. Brooks replies that he loves the children he abuses, and rationalizes that abuse as a way that "they get to feel [his] love". He then says that they are both broken beyond repair. In a moment of conscience, however, he tells Larissa that Underwood is still abusing children, which leads to a confrontation in which Larissa kills Underwood to stop him from raping another little girl. Brooks is then imprisoned for kidnapping, child sexual abuse, and child pornography.
Trivia[]
- Brooks is inspired by Alex Cabarga, a child sexual abuse victim whose abuser manipulated him into filming child pornography before they were both arrested.
External links[]
- Daniel Brooks on the Law & Order Wiki
