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| “ | All of you who have destroyed my life will soon know what it is like to lose a loved one. I have police and military training. I know your tactics. Do not try to stop me. | „ |
| ~ Gloria's threatening message to the NYPD. |
Gloria Montero is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Poisoned Motive".
She was portrayed by Jessica Camacho, who later played Eva Salinas in Frequency.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Gloria is the daughter of former NYPD Narcotics Detective Luis Montero, who partnered with Detective Fin Tutuola. Years before the episode takes place, Luis took a bullet for Fin and ended up on disability. He got a second job as a security guard to pay his for cancer treatments for his wife and Gloria's mother, Rita. His lieutenant, Toni Howard, reported him for moonlighting, which is forbidden by the NYPD code of conduct, and he ended up losing his disability benefits. Fin, who had by then transferred to the Special Victims Unit, gradually lost touch with Luis, in part because he felt responsible for his former partner's injury.
Gloria, meanwhile, joined the U.S. Army and trained as a marksman, but she received an honorable discharge due to her depression and anxiety stemming from the declining health of her mother, who eventually passed away. Gloria joined the police academy a month later, but she was let go when she failed a psychological exam.
In "Poisoned Motive"[]
After being kicked out of the academy, Gloria snaps and embarks on a murderous rampage against the people she believed wronged her family, shooting the people closest to them to make them feel her pain. She shoots Fin's new partner, Detective Amanda Rollins, in the shoulder with a scoped .45-caliber Les Bear Prowler pistol stolen by Luis during an undercover operation. Gloria later goes after Toni Howard by shooting and killing her son, Mark, and also kills Ana Tejada, the girlfriend of drug lord Benito Escobar, the man who shot Luis.
After finding out what Gloria has done, Luis tries to take the blame for her crimes to protect his daughter, but SVU has already figured out that Gloria is the true killer. Meanwhile, Gloria kills a traffic cop who ticketed Luis' vehicle, and later places the victim in her car and sets it ablaze. Gloria then releases a video manifesto, which she records at the hospital where her mother died after killing a security guard.
Gloria breaks into Tom Hamill's house, where she and her family lived in happier times. She takes Hamill's wife and son hostage, threatening to kill them unless she can talk to her father. The police allow Luis to talk to her over the phone, and she breaks down crying as she apologizes to him for what she has done, even as Luis says that he is really to blame because he did not pay closer attention to what she was going through.
She then demands to talk to Fin, who is outside with Luis. Fin enters the house wearing a bulletproof vest, but takes it off as a show of good faith. Gloria accuses Fin of abandoning her father after he was wounded, and refuses to accept his apologies for not making more of an effort to look out for her and Luis. When Gloria starts crying, Fin uses her distraction to disarm and handcuff her, and leads her outside to surrender peacefully. Gloria has a tearful exchange with Luis as she is taken into custody, and is presumably sentenced to life in prison for murder, kidnapping, and assaulting a police officer.
Gallery[]
External links[]
- Gloria Montero on the Law & Order Wiki
