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| “ | I didn't take her - you lost her. That's gotta hurt. | „ |
| ~ Brouchard taunting Olivia Benson about kidnapping Maddie Flynn |
George Brouchard is a supporting antagonist in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He is a pedophile who kidnaps young girls and makes them his own personal sex slaves before selling them on the dark web.
He was portrayed by Patrick Carroll.
Early life[]
A lifelong drifter, con artist, and child rapist, Brouchard spent years scraping out a living in his native Canada by committing credit card fraud, dealing drugs, and trafficking young girls, whom he also rapes. His M.O. is to kidnap the girls in broad daylight, drug them with fentanyl, "break them in" by repeatedly raping them, and then selling them off to the highest bidder on the dark web.
He was arrested several times for fraud, drug possession, and burglary, but every time he managed to avoid prison by pleading guilty to lesser offenses and being sentenced to probation.
Appearances[]
"Tunnel Blind"[]
While he only appears briefly in this episode, Brouchard's actions are significant to the plot. He stalks and kidnaps 15-year-old Maddie Flynn while she is out shopping with her parents and drives away with her in his van. Captain Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit sees them together and senses that something is wrong, but she has no legal reason to stop them and lets them go. When Maddie's parents contact SVU for help, she realizes that her hunch was right, and becomes obsessed with rescuing the girl.
Brouchard drugs Maddie with fentanyl and keeps her as his prisoner at a cheap motel, along with another of his victims, Tonya Garcia. For six weeks, he bathes Maddie and touches her inappropriately, even taking a lock of her hair and wearing it in a locket around his neck.
When the SVU team traces Maddie to the motel, Brouchard panics and flees with her, but not before putting a heavily drugged Tonya in a body bag and leaving her submerged in a bathtub. Fortunately, Benson and her detectives arrive in time to save her, but Brouchard and Maddie are long gone.
"Zone Rouge"[]
With Maddie's picture now in the press thanks to Benson, Brouchard tries to avoid getting caught by cutting and dying her hair and passing her off as a boy with glasses. He boards a train to Pittsburgh with her and tells her to keep quiet, but while he is in the bathroom, she slips a note reading, "Call the NYPD" to the man sitting behind her; by coincidence, the man is Cash Bowford, a drug mule who is planning to do business with Brouchard, whom he has never actually met. Amused by what he thinks is an addict going through withdrawal, he takes Maddie's picture with his phone. Bowford's girlfriend finds the note and gives it the local police, who then send it to Benson. Maddie's parents confirmed the picture and handwriting, which further SVU's resolve to find her.
Benson and Sergeant Fin Tutuola recover security footage of Brouchard and Maddie at the train station and show it to Tonya, who identifies Brouchard as the man who kidnapped and raped her. Benson goes to Pittsburgh to assist the local police's investigation, along with FBI Agent Savannah Sykes, who has profiled the kidnapper.
When Bowford's girlfriend, Heather Pettinger, finds Maddie's picture and the note, she alerts the police, who bring them both in for questioning. Both Bowford and his girlfriend were shocked at Maddie's identity and giving some of the little info they had. Benson and Sykes learn from Pettinger about Bowford's business dealings with Brouchard. Benson and Sykes trace Brouchard to a train leaving Pittsburgh, and they lead a cadre of police officers to the station to intercept him. Brouchard tries to escape, but Benson and Sykes subdue him and find a wad of cash in his luggage, realizing that he has sold her.
Benson and Sykes take Brouchard into custody and interrogates him, but he simply taunts them about "losing" Maddie. However, he is shocked when Benson revealed she saw him in the van with Maddie and that Tanya survived his attack on her. He then offers to tell Benson where Maddie is in return for being sent to a prison "with a view of the mountains". Before he and his lawyer can make a deal, however, Tutuola informs Benson that Maddie has been traced to one of Brouchard's clients. Benson and Sykes rescue Maddie, and Brouchard is charged with kidnapping.
"Combat Fatigue"[]
Brouchard is found guilty of kidnapping, but he asks for the jury to be polled; one of the jurors, Slater Dent, says she wants to change her vote to not guilty, claiming that the other jurors coerced her. Another juror tells Judge Karen Blake that Brouchard had been looking at Dent seductively throughout the trial and may have manipulated her into believing his innocence - which proves to be true when Dent says that she and Brouchard "have a connection" and that they will be together "after he is exonerated". Blake declares a mistrial, leaving the prosecution in jeopardy.
Maddie's mother, Eileen, tells Benson that Maddie has been abusing Oxycodone to numb the trauma, and that she told her that she and Brouchard had consensual sexual activity during her captivity. Maddie, who had denied being raped when she was rescued, says that she shared her first kiss with Brouchard and that he had touched her genitals while bathing her. Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi Jr. charges Brouchard with kidnapping and child sexual abuse, and a grand jury indicts him.
Carisi offers to let Brouchard plead guilty in return for a sentence of 25 years in prison instead of life, but he refuses. When Carisi threatens to call Tanya as a witness to tell the jury what he did to her, Brouchard says that he was merely trying to "cure" her of her "suppressive" personality. He then fires his lawyer and announces that he will represent himself. After he is released on bail, he makes menacing remarks toward Benson and Eileen. Maddie's father, Peter, later shows Benson a number of intimate texts between Brouchard and Eileen, which Eileen tries to explain as a desperate effort to get him on her side and leave Maddie alone.
During Brouchard's trial, he accuses Sykes of being unnecessarily rough with him during his arrest because she wanted to take the disappearance of her sister years earlier out on him. While cross-examining Maddie, meanwhile, he suggests that she liked being with him and that it felt good when he touched her, confusing her into agreeing with him.
That night, Eileen shows up at Brouchard's motel and holds him at gunpoint, demanding that he give her the lock of Maddie's hair. Benson intervenes, however, and manages to talk her down.
The jury finds Brouchard guilty on all charges; when asked if he wants to poll the jury, he simply shakes his head, finally defeated. He is then sentenced to life in prison.
Personality[]
As profiled by Sykes, Brouchard is a "messianic nihilist", a narcissistic psychopath who sees himself as innately superior to other people and derives a sense of power and importance from manipulating and toying with them. His egomania drives him call attention to himself and take unnecessary risks, which, ironically, make it easier for authorities to catch him.
Despite this severe personality defects, he is extremely intelligent and well-read; he quotes William Blake's poem "Eternity" while Benson interrogates him. He is also a cunning manipulator, adept at sensing and exploiting weakness.
External links[]
- George Brouchard on the Law & Order Wiki
