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| “ | I hurt so bad, and I just wanted someone else to hurt as bad as I did. | „ |
| ~ Deacon Brinn making excuses for molesting children. |
Deacon Brinn is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Quarry".
He is a victim of child molester Lucas Biggs, who grew up to be a pedophile as well. He molested and murdered seven-year-old Jeffrey Ronson when he was 13, and went on to abuse dozens of little boys, including his own son.
He was portrayed by Terry Serpico, who also played Les Cooper and William Taverts in two different episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Earl Danzinger in The Purge: Election Year and Captain Turner in Cobra Kai.
Biography[]
Background[]
In 1980, 13-year-old Brinn was molested by his Little League coach, Lucas Biggs. The abuse Brinn suffered warped him, and he began molesting younger boys to make someone weaker than him feel as ashamed, degraded, and powerless as he did. His first known victims were seven-year-old Avery Shaw and his seven-year-old neighbor, Jeffrey Ronson, whom he ended up murdering when the boy fought back. Brinn then made Shaw help him bury Jeffrey's body in a nearby quarry, threatening to hurt him or blame him for the murder if he told anyone. Brinn also spat gum on Jeffrey's corpse while burying him. Suspicion fell on Biggs after he was sentenced to death for killing one of his victims, but no one was able to prove that he murdered Jeffrey.
As an adult, Brinn went to college and became a businessman and married a woman named Julia, with whom he had a son, Zeke. He continued molesting little boys, however, including his own son. He also recorded the abuse so he could watch it later and relive the experience.
"Quarry"[]
In 2005, Jeffrey's remains are discovered in the quarry, once Detective Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit was sent a letter that revealed the body's location. Benson interviews everyone who knew him at the wake, including Brinn. He tells Benson that he was supposed to be babysitting Jeffrey the night he disappeared but claims he went to a party instead, feigning guilt at the mention. He points her in the direction of Biggs, who is awaiting execution. Biggs denies killing Jeffrey, but admits to molesting Brinn after smelling his old baseball cap. When Benson confronts him, Brinn breaks down in tears when recalling the abuse, but says he doesn't know anything about Jeffrey's murder; he also implies that Biggs must have done it.
Soon afterward, Brinn is found dead in a nearby train yard, his body cut in half by a train. Benson assumes Brinn committed suicide because he couldn't deal with the memories of the abuse he suffered. However, an autopsy reveals that Brinn was shot before being hit by the train, and further investigation of the Jeffrey Ronson crime scene uncovers chewing gum with Brinn's DNA on it. Benson realizes that Brinn killed Jeffrey, and either committed suicide out of guilt or was murdered by someone who knows what he did.
Benson discovers from Biggs that Avery Shaw had been stalking Brinn and writing him letters threatening to expose him as a child molester, so she thinks that Shaw killed him. It is also revealed Shaw sent letters to Benson after stalking her, as well. When Shaw is arrested, he readily confesses to killing Brinn, but insists that he did not do it because he wanted revenge, but because he found out that Brinn was still sexually abusing children. Shaw reveals that when he confronted Brinn, he was watching a tape of himself sexually abusing a little boy. Unsatisfied, Benson, along with her SVU colleague John Munch and crime scene technician Ryan O'Halloran, search Brinn's house, where they find videotapes of Brinn sexually abusing boys, including his own son, Zeke.
In one of the tapes, Shaw is shown breaking into Brinn's house with a gun, demanding to know why Brinn raped him. Brinn replies that he had been so traumatized by Biggs' abuse that he had wanted to inflict his pain on someone else, and that he chose Shaw because he knew he would not tell anybody. Shaw forces Brinn to admit to abusing dozens of little boys. Brinn tells Shaw he has every right to kill him, but that he does not have it in him to commit murder. Shaw ultimately throws the gun away and leaves. Brinn then receives a phone call that seems to upset him, which Benson ultimately traces through phone records to his wife, Julia.
Benson interrogates Julia, who says that her marriage to Brinn had been on the rocks for years, to the point that he had briefly moved out. When Zeke told her that Brinn had been molesting him, she calls her husband and threatened to turn him in to the police. Brinn drove to their house and begged her not to send him to prison, promising to move away and never bother her or Zeke again. Nevertheless, an enraged Julia forced him into the car and had him drive him to the train yard. She then shot him dead and put his body on the tracks to be run over to make it look like he killed himself.
Julia is arrested and imprisoned for murdering Brinn, while Shaw is released from jail, and Biggs is executed on schedule.
External links[]
- Deacon Brinn on the Law & Order Wiki
