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| “ | I would wait outside the D.A.'s office until the light in his office went out. Some nights, he wouldn't even get into his car until after midnight. It was me he cared about, not you! Me! It was me he loved! | „ |
| ~ Noone bragging about his "relationship" with Ben Stone to Stone's son, Peter |
Edgar Noone, also known as the "The Infinity Rapist", is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Dear Ben". He is a serial rapist who victimized women for 30 years to keep up the relationship he imagined he had with Manhattan Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone, even after Stone's death.
He is loosely based on serial killer and rapist Joseph James DeAngelo, known as the "Golden State serial killer", who was apprehended in 2018 after more than 40 years at large.
He was portrayed by Jude Ciccolella, who also portrayed Mendelson in House, M.D, and Mortimer in Fallout: New Vegas.
Biography[]
Past[]
Noone was born and raised in New York City. He had a traumatic childhood, during which his abusive father forced him and his sister to listen while he raped their mother. Noone was so warped by this trauma that he himself grew up to become a serial rapist.
He committed 23 rapes during his reign of terror, which spanned from 1981 to 1994. He used his job as a cable repairman to get access to his victims' homes and wore a mask to hide his identity, gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, and condoms to avoid leaving his DNA. Noone targeted married couples; he would tie up the husbands and put plates on them to alert him if they moved, and then he would rape the wives at knifepoint and order them to pretend they enjoyed what he was doing to them. He would become known as the Infinity Rapist because of his compulsion to draw the infinity symbol on his victims' bedroom walls.
Noone imagined that he had a father-son relationship with Ben Stone, the Executive Assistant District Attorney of Manhattan who was investigating the case. Noone stalked Stone for years, sending him anonymous letters that contained pictures of Stone's children and lurking outside his office until dawn. Stone feared for his children's safety, and briefly sent them away to live with his sister.
Noone stopped raping when he married a woman, who presumably satisfied his violent sexual demands. Noone was also seen as a loving uncle to his sister's children and would often spend time with them, although his night terrors frightened them. His wife's death shortly before the events of the episode also took such a toll on him that he retired from his job.
Noone mourned Stone's death in 2017 as much as Stone's family did, so he kept newspaper clippings about his crimes and Stone's efforts to stop them as souvenirs.
"Dear Ben"[]
Noone begins raping again after seeing true crime writer Claire Newbury, who had written a book about the Infinity rapes, on a TV news show commenting on the arrest of Infinity copycat Karl Patton, saying that the real Infinity Rapist was probably dead. Noone stalks and rapes Newbury after incapacitating her husband. He leaves the telltale "Infinity" symbol on her wall to let the world know that he has returned. Captain Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit and Assistant District Attorney Peter Stone - Ben's son - know immediately that Newbury's rape was the work of the real Infinity Rapist, as he had forced Newbury to pretend she liked what he was doing to her, which was a detail about the Infinity rapes left out of the media.
Peter becomes determined to capture Infinity, even as Benson warns him that the search would be difficult, as Infinity wore gloves and used condoms so as not to leave his DNA at the crime scene. However, they are able to find Noone after running his DNA through a genealogy site that matched a sample that his niece previously provided. She reveals that Noone is her only male relative, and his age corresponds with Infinity's probable age.
He is eventually arrested by the Special Victims Unit and taken to their precinct, where he denies the allegations. When he meets Peter, he immediately recognizes him as Ben's son. However, his lawyer interrupts the interrogation. In court, Noone taunts Peter after he loses a motion to have him held without bail, saying that his father would have done better.
Noone is later arrested again for unpaid parking tickets. He is interrogated by Peter, with help from Benson. Peter shows him a birthday card that Infinity sent his father; Noone is genuinely touched that Ben kept them, and marvels that he cared so much. Peter replies that the card shows how little Infinity had really known about his father, who hated golf, while Benson says that Ben cared about Infinity's victims, not Infinity himself. Enraged, Noone screams that the years Ben spent investigating him proves that he loved him, thus implicating himself as Infinity.
He is then imprisoned for the rest of his life.
External links[]
- Edgar Noone on the Law & Order Wiki
