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| “ | It's obvious you don't care about Teddy. We do. I'm not saying another word. | „ |
| ~ Lucas refusing to give up Teddy Winnock's location. |
Guy Lucas is an antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Web". He is a pedophile who colludes with his fellow subscribers to a child pornography website to help kidnap the teenage boy who runs the site.
He was portrayed by Gregg Edelman.
Biography[]
Lucas is a pediatrician at Mercy Hospital in New York City. He had a good reputation among his colleagues and well respected. However, he was secretly a pedophile who subscribed to child pornography websites under the username "SunshineGuy9000". His favorite website was Teddy's Treehouse, where he and his fellow subscribers paid $30 a month to an underage boy named Teddy Winnock in return for videos of Teddy molesting his younger brother Jake. Like much of the website's subscriber base, Lucas had deluded himself into believing he was in love with Teddy and sent in requests for him to perform specific sex acts with Jake in his videos.
"Web"[]
Teddy is arrested by the NYPD's Special Victims Unit for molesting Jake and his website is soon discovered. When he is released into his mother's custody for the night, one of his subscribers, Funfella, hears he has been released and begins messaging his fellow subscribers to help get him out. At Funfella's behest, Lucas and another subscriber, GoodFriend22, formulate a plan to help Teddy escape and message him to escape out his bedroom window and meet up with Lucas, who takes him to the Eagle Plaza Apartments building where he films his videos. The plan is that GoodFriend22 will then pick him up and take him somewhere he can hide from the police; however, unknown to Lucas, GoodFriend22 plans to have Teddy all to himself and kidnaps him once Lucas is gone so he can keep him as a sex slave.
The Special Victims Unit discover the subscriber's plot when they monitor the website and see a post by "SunshineGuy9000" where he declares that Teddy is "at the nest" and that "help is on the way" in response to a post asking for help getting him out. Zessner is soon identified as the person who sent the original post and tells the SVU that "the nest" is at Eagle Plaza. However, when the SVU arrive they find that Teddy has been kidnapped and realize the kidnapper was the help that was "on the way" mentioned in SunshineGuy9000's post.
Realizing that finding SunshineGuy9000 is their only hope of finding Teddy, Detective Elliot Stabler enlists his former partner Olivia Benson, who now works in computer crimes, to track down SunshineGuy's IP address using cutting-edge software. Benson easily traces the IP to Lucas' office at Mercy Hospital and Stabler and Detective Fin Tutuola arrest Lucas while he is with a patient; Lucas tells them as he is led away that they will never find Teddy.
Lucas refuses to cooperate with the SVU, having convinced himself that he is protecting Teddy. While he is in custody, Benson pulls his phone records and finds messages between Lucas and GoodFriend22, but is unable to identify the latter. Meanwhile, T.A.R.U. technician Ruben Morales, who is especially invested in finding Teddy, attacks Lucas in the interrogation room and tries to beat Teddy's location out of him but is restrained by Benson and Stabler. Although shaken, Lucas continues stonewalling them, and Stabler realizes that he is unaware of Teddy's kidnapping and shows him a video of Teddy being drugged and kidnapped by GoodFriend22. Benson then tells Lucas that the boy he loves is being hurt by his kidnapper and the only way to help him is to tell them who the kidnapper is. Through tears, Lucas states he only wanted to protect Teddy and frantically proclaims that the video must be a fake.
Seeing that Lucas will not be convinced, Benson and Stabler decide to try something else. They pretend that Lucas was right about the video being fake and release him from custody, claiming they have nothing to hold him on. As they expected, Lucas would likely consider the truth and immediately goes to an Internet café and messages GoodFriend22 to ask if Teddy is safe. When he messages back to say that Teddy is all right, Benson is able to trace his IP address, allowing Stabler and Tutuola to arrest GoodFriend22 and recover Teddy, who agrees to give up all his subscribers.
Lucas meanwhile is presumably imprisoned for child pornography and obstruction of justice.
