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| “ | Bye, Bree. Thanks for selling me out. Bye, cops. I hope it's you, Detective Stabler. If it is, I'm gonna do your job for you, you giant douche. | „ |
| ~ Mazelon cursing his mother and Elliot Stabler. |
Hunter Mazelon is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Delinquent". He is a teenage murderer and serial rapist, who is himself a victim of sexual abuse.
He was portrayed by Sterling Beaumon, who also portrayed a young Benjamin Linus in Lost and Jeremy Sayer in Criminal Minds.
Biography[]
Background[]
His parents were separated, and he was raised solely by his mother Bree. He often visited father, who basically ignored him.
When he was seven, his adult babysitter Ellen Huffner sexually abused him for several months. Eventually, his mother found out about the abuse and fired Huffner, although she did not press charges against her nor get her son counseling, later stating she had hoped he would "get over it".
As a teenager, Hunter began drinking and smoking. While visiting his father, he raped dozens of women in Oregon. Eventually, a sketch was made of him by his victims and the police, resulting in him to wear a stocking mask during his assaults to hide his identity. When he returned to New York City with his mother, Hunter groped a teacher, but charges were never pursued.
"Delinquent"[]
In New York, Hunter breaks into Annie Meyers' apartment, intending to rape her, but passes out drunk and naked. When Meyers and her date finds him, he tries to flee, but he is caught by the date and is brought in by NYPD's Special Victims Unit and taken in for questioning. His mother was called but had him stay in custody before Meyers arrives provides the squad with supplies that show he intended to torture and rape her.
Detective Elliot Stabler tries to process him, but Hunter accuses Stabler of molesting him. As a result, his mother files a restraining order against Stabler, even though Hunter's accusation is almost immediately proven false.
After his arraignment, Hunter rapes a woman and accidentally kills her, leaving her body behind. SVU finds his DNA at the crime scene and matches it to that he left behind in Meyers' closet. They also match it to several unsolved rapes in Oregon, and arrest him. Bree refuses to believe that her son is a rapist, even in the face of DNA evidence.
While investigating Hunter's crimes and analyzing his motivations, Stabler deduces that Hunter was molested by an older woman, hence his obsession with hurting them.
Soon Hunter escapes custody and hurts his neck in the process, requiring hospitalization. However, he escapes from the hospital after incapacitating a nurse, provoking a citywide manhunt for him. Hunter later gets drunk and calls his mother to tell her that he is almost done with his spree, though he quickly figures out that Stabler is there, as well; he curses the latter, and tells him that he is going to "do his job for him". Bree realizes that he is talking about killing Huffner.
Stabler and his partner, Detective Olivia Benson, go Huffner's house in hopes of stopping him from killing his abuser, but they are too late; Hunter, covered in her blood, has shot her in the face and killed her. He tells them that he broke in and demanded Huffner tell him why she abused him; when she refused to give him an answer, he flew into a rage and killed her. With tears in his eyes, he says that she will never hurt anyone again, and neither will he.
He is then institutionalized for his trauma.
Trivia[]
- Hunter is inspired by real-life teenage serial killers Cody Legebokoff (in Canada) and Harvey Miguel Robinson (in the United States).
- Hunter being sexually abused by a babysitter and groping a teacher is evocative of Marlee Matlin's autobiography I'll Scream Later, in which she revealed she was sexually assaulted by a female babysitter and raped by a male teacher when she was a child.
External links[]
- Hunter Mazelon on the Law & Order Wiki
