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| “ | Who you callin' stupid, you scum-suckin' bitch? | „ |
| ~ Gilmore insulting Alexandra Cabot. |
Earl Gilmore, alias Earl Miller, is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Noncompliance". He is a murderer and serial rapist who frames a mentally ill man for raping and killing a woman.
He was portrayed by Danny Mastrogiorgio, who also portrayed Frankie Carbone in Gotham and Toni Cipriani in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
Early life[]
Gilmore is a career criminal with a long record of committing assault and armed robbery. He was eventually arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for armed robbery. When he arrived in prison, he was repeatedly raped by his cellmate until he worked out enough to be able to fight back. He also became a sexual predator in his own right, raping every new prisoner who arrived on his cell block.
He won early release after serving seven years, over the objections of many of the facility's guards. Once free, he changed his name to Earl Miller and resumed his life as a drifter and petty thief. He also began stalking Maggie Sandomir, a clerk at a convenience store in his neighborhood.
"Noncompliance"[]
One morning, Gilmore ambushes Sandommir in the convenience store, rapes her, and shoots her in the head, killing her. While he empties the cash register, however, Sandomir's coworker and friend Mark Nash surprises him from behind and stabs him in the back; as Gilmore tries to get away, Nash also stabs him in the genitals. He then throws Gilmore in the dumpster behind the store, but police responding to the disturbance arrest him and take Gilmore to a hospital, believing him to be a customer who walked in on Nash robbing the store and raping and murdering Sandomir. Nash, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has recently stopped taking his medication, offers only disordered descriptions of his own hallucinations.
Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit question Gilmore, who implicates Nash. They also interrogate Nash, who still refuses to take his medication. When Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot tries to legally force him to take the medication so he will be fit to stand trial, his mother hires a lawyer to prevent it, fearing that he will hurt himself without the hallucinations that have kept him alive for years.
Meanwhile, DNA analysis of the crime scene reveals Gilmore's real identity and criminal record, arousing suspicion in the SVU team. Detectives John Munch and Fin Tutuola talk to one of Gilmore's former guards, who reveals Gilmore's history of rape, while Benson and Stabler revisit Gilmore's statement and compare it to the evidence, determining that the crime could not possibly have occurred the way he described it.
Munch and Tutuola invite Gilmore to the SVU station house under the guise of wanting help debunking Nash's alibi. Once he is there, however, Munch and Tutuola confront him with the evidence against him, and he demands a lawyer. Nash, meanwhile, finally agrees to take his medication and describes seeing Gilmore rape and murder Sandovir. Defense attorney Dawn DeNoon tries in vain to persuade Cabot of Gilmore's innocence, but he shows his true colors when he calls Cabot a "scum sucking bitch". Cabot cooly replies that DNA evidence conclusively proves that Gilmore is guilty and that his only hope of avoiding the death penalty is to confess. With no way out, Gilmore confesses to the rape and murder, and is sentenced to life in prison.
Trivia[]
- Gilmore's case is inspired by multiple real-life criminal cases:
- The rape and murder of Victoria Payman by one of her colleagues.
- The rape and murder of Dorothy Drain and the attempted murder of her sister Barbara, which Joe Arridy was executed for in spite of the conviction of Frank Aguilar for the attacks.
- Gilmore's lawyer, Dawn DeNoon, is named after one of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's head writers and producers.
External links[]
- Earl Gilmore on the Law & Order Wiki
