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| “ | How does it feel, Detective Benson, to have your credibility shattered and your life in ruins? | „ |
| ~ Detective Eric Plummer tauting Detective Olivia Benson while holding a woman hostage. |
Eric Plummer is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Wrath". He is a serial killer who murders people connected to cases investigated by Detective Olivia Benson as revenge for Benson's role in his unjust imprisonment years earlier.
He is portrayed by Justin Kirk.
Biography
Plummer had been investigated by Detective Benson years ago for rape and attempted murder. He was innocent, but due to bad eyewitness testimony, he was falsely convicted and sent to prison. During his incarceration, his wife divorced him, and he was regularly beaten, raped, and tortured. He was also given a cellmate, Russell Williams, whom he talked to about Detective Benson. He also used Williams to send letters to his ex-wife without the warden knowing. Seven years later, he was exonerated due to new DNA evidence. He changed his name and got a job at Baseline Labs, but he still felt vengeance towards Detective Benson and planned revenge.
Plummer stalked Benson while she was handling cases. He then lured three people connected to those cases to an office space that he had rented by sending them a letter claiming that they'd won a computer. Once they were in his office, he killed them by drugging them with Valium and potassium chloride. He viewed them as victims of Benson who needed to be put out of their misery. He then took their bodies to a federally funded area to ensure national attention.
While SVU is investigating the murders, Plummer continues to stalk Benson and follows her when she question Bruce Derricks, the abusive father of one of the people he killed, while he is in holding on a drunk and disorderly conduct. He pays Derricks' bail and then kills him. However, unlike the others, he drugs him with Pavulon, viewing him as a perpetrator and wanting him to suffer. He then puts his body in front of Benson’s apartment door for her to see.
Plummer is eventually identified as a suspect and brought in for questioning. He denies everything, and since there is not enough evidence, the detectives are forced to let him go. Benson later sees Plummer on her way back from a bar and attempts to get a warrant because of this, but Cabot says they can't because they had made a mistake before. Later, Cabot convinces an EADA to give Plummer's former cellmate, who is currently on trial for another murder, a deal in exchange for information that could lead to Plummer's arrest. He tells them about the letters, which the detectives later find at Plummer's ex-wife apartment. Then, while searching Plummer's apartment, they find the drugs that he used to kill his victims.
However, before he could be arrested, Plummer holds a woman gunpoint in front of Benson. She offers to testify on his behalf if he stands down, but Plummer rejects the offer and prepares to shoot the woman, only to be shot dead by Benson. His gun is then revealed to not have been loaded, and Plummer had used her to commit suicide-by-cop.
