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“ | If you think you're leavin' me, you're dumber than I thought. | „ |
~ Munson threatening his wife. |
Gary Munson is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Intersecting Lives" and "Heartfelt Passages". He is a corrupt corrections officer at Riker's Island who extorts sexual favors from female inmates, and rapes them if they do not give in. He is also responsible for the death of Special Victims Unit Sergeant Mike Dodds.
He was portrayed by Brad Garrett, who also portrayed Spike in Mighty Max, Joe Bulo in Fargo, Krang in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Tony Abado in Seinfeld, Earl Raymond in Recess, Uto in Tarzan II, Torque in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, The Giant in Hoodwinked Too, Ernst Strepfinger in Ozzy and Drix, and Robert Otto in Amphibia.
Biography[]
He and his wife, Lisa, have two young children, Tommy and Annie. His father-in-law, Bob O'Brien, is the head of the NYPD Corrections Department, and got Munson his job despite personally disliking him.
Munson is a veteran corrections officer at Riker's Island, where he mostly supervises female inmates. He abuses his authority to extort sexual favors from the inmates, threatening to harm them and their families if they do not comply, later acting on his threats by raping female relatives of theirs. If they still refuse, he rapes them in the prison chapel, where there are no security cameras. His fellow corrections officers look the other way at his crimes, particularly his subordinate Orita Wilkins, who falsifies his timecards in return for extra vacation days to spend with her daughter. It is implied he contracted an STD from his assaults and unknowingly transmitted it to his wife.
"Intersecting Lives"[]
After eating breakfast with his family, he tells his wife that he has to go in early to earn overtime pay. In reality, however, he follows one of his victims, Charisse McCabe, who has recently been granted parole, and threatens to send her back to prison unless she has sex with him. Charisse complies, but afterwards tells her social worker, Ken Randall, what Munson did to her. Randall then tells his father, Detective Fin Tutuola of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, of Charisse's allegations. Tutuola and Sergeant Mike Dodds investigate Munson under the pretense of trying to bust a prostitution ring run from within Rikers and gather enough evidence to make a case against him for rape.
To keep Charisse from testifying against him, Munson has her and her boyfriend arrested on a false charge, and then threatens to kill her if she tells on him. Charisse testifies anyway, however, with support from SVU Lieutenant Olivia Benson. Munson is arrested, but his fellow corrections officers uniformly refuse to help the prosecution. Lisa is outraged by the accusations against her husband, but Benson warns her to get tested because Munson may have contracted a sexually transmitted disease, picked up from the inmates.
"Heartfelt Passages"[]
Munson is charged with rape, but he is put on bail that his coworkers raised for him. Meanwhile at the courthouse, Lisa privately tells Benson that she has contracted an STD, and that Benson was right about her husband, whom she is divorcing. She asks Benson for help getting her and the children out of their house before Munson hurts them.
Benson and Dodds arrive at the Munson home, and Benson gets the children to safety, leaving Dodds alone to deal with Munson. When Lisa tries to leave with Dodds, however, Munson puts his service weapon against her head. Dodds tries to talk him down, but Munson resists, saying that, even if his life is over professionally, he refuses to give up his family. Dodds tries to take Munson's weapon, resulting in a struggle in which Munson accidentally shoots Dodds in the chest. Officers with the Emergency Service Unit storm in and force Munson to release Lisa before arresting him. Munson is last seen frantically asserting that his weapon went off accidentally. He is then cuffed and taken away.
Dodds dies of his injuries later that day, while Munson is imprisoned for life on charges of serial rape and murder of a cop.
Trivia[]
- Munson is primarily inspired by disgraced policeman and convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw.
External Links[]
- Gary Munson on the Law & Order Wiki
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