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| “ | Nicky didn't say they were going to kill Jason! They just wanted to talk to him! | „ |
| ~ Emily upon getting caught. |
Emily McCooper is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Gone". She is a court officer whom rapist and murderer Nicky Pratt seduces and manipulates into helping sabotage the trial against him.
She was portrayed by Maggie Siff.
Biography[]
Emily McCooper is a newly hired court officer assigned to guard Judge Elizabeth Donnelly's office. When wealthy college students Nicky Pratt and Doug Waverly are brought to trial for raping and murdering teenager Jennifer Durning, Nicky approaches Emily and tells her she would "look hot out of uniform"; later that day, they have sex.
Nicky manipulates her into believing he actually cares about her by showering her with expensive presents, including as a new Mercedes Benz. In return, he asks her to bug Donnelly's office so he can find out more about Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak's prosecution strategy against him and Doug. She does as he asks, even though getting caught would mean losing her job and going to prison; she puts a microphone transmitter in Donnelly's private bathroom after pretending to feel sick.
Nicky then manipulates her into picking up Jason King, Novak's chief witness against him and Doug, at his parents' house and dropping him off with him and Doug, claiming that they just want to talk to him. After she leaves Jason with them, however, they kill him and dump his body in the river.
Novak and District Attorney Arthur Branch suspect that Nicky and Doug have a spy on Donnelly's staff, so they talk with Donnelly and have her office searched, recovering the bug in the judge's bathroom. Without Jason's testimony, however, Donnelly has no choice but to dismiss the case against Nicky and Doug.
Novak and Detective Elliot Stabler interview Donnelly's other staff members, who reveal that McCooper had been in the judge's bathroom. Novak, Stabler, and Donnelly herself interrogate McCooper, who claims that the car was a gift from her father after her old car broke down. Stabler confronts her with her old car's tire tracks found outside Jason's parents' house, however, while Donnelly threatens her with life in prison unless she talks. McCooper breaks down and admits what she did, while insisting that she did not know that Nicky and Doug were going to kill Jason. After Jason's dead body is found and Nicky and Doug are arrested for his murder, McCooper also goes to prison for kidnapping and being an accessory to murder.
External links[]
- Emily McCooper on the Law & Order Wiki
