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| “ | Everyone thinks she was some kind of hero. She was more worried about saving the world than saving her own daughter! | „ |
| ~ Emmy about her mother. |
Emily "Emmy" Eckhouse is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Home Invasions". She is a teenage girl who orchestrates the murders of her sexually abusive father and her mother, whom she blames for allowing the abuse.
She was portrayed by Lauren Kelly.
Early life[]
Emmy is the daughter of gay rights advocate Joan Eckhouse and her husband Sidney. Her home life was turbulent; Joan, a closeted lesbian, was secretly in a relationship with her business partner Maureen Manning, while Sidney, a closeted pedophile, began molesting Emmy when she was 13, and the abuse escalated until he finally raped her, giving her herpes.
The only people in Emmy's life that she could count on were her boyfriend Rob Fisher, her family's housekeeper Carmen Vasquz, and Carmen's brother, Jimmy. She felt too ashamed to tell Rob, but she did tell Carmen, who was more of a mother to her than Joan ever was. Carmen tried to tell Joan about the abuse, but she refused to believe her and fired her. Desperate to stop the abuse, Emmy planned with Carmen and Jimmy to have her father killed; she also wanted her mother dead for allowing the abuse to happen in the first place.
The plan was for Emmy to spend the night at Rob's house, and for Jimmy to break into Sidney and Joan's house and shoot them dead.
"Home Invasions"[]
The night the shootings, however, Rob's father, who thinks Emmy is too attached to his son, refuses to let her come over. Jimmy breaks into the house and opens fire, killing Sidney and Joan as planned, but accidentally shoots Emmy in the head. He then spray-paints homophobic slurs on the walls to make the shooting look like a hate crime, as he, Emmy, and Carmen had planned.
Emmy survives the shooting and is taken to a hospital, where she feigns grief for her parents when Detectives Olivia Benson and Nick Amaro of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit question her. Eventually, however, Benson and Amaro uncover Jimmy and Carmen's role in the shooting. When Emmy's blood tests show that she has the same strain of herpes that her father had, the SVU detectives realize that Sidney had been sexually abusing her, and that she set up the shooting to kill him.
Benson and Amaro visit Emmy in the hospital, where Rob is at her side. They confront her with the evidence against her, and she tearfully confesses to arranging the shooting. When Benson asks her why she had her mother killed as well as her father, she says she hated Joan more than Sidney because she knew about the abuse and did nothing to protect her. When Benson and Amaro place her under arrest, Emmy tells a heartbroken Rob that, even though she is going to prison, she feels free for the first time in her life.
External links[]
- Emmy Eckhouse on the Law & Order Wiki
