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Jay Carlin is the main antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Submission". He is a con artist who, with the help of an unethical reporter, murders his friend's wife to keep her from exposing his crimes and frames him for her death.
He was portrayed by David Harbour, who also portrayed Gregg Beam in Quantum of Solace, Paul Devildis in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Terry Jessup in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ray in A Walk Among the Tombstones, and District Attorney Frank Scanlon in The Green Hornet.
Early life[]
Carlin is a career criminal and con artist who poses as a fine wine dealer, scamming his clients by disguising cheap wine as rare and antique vintages and charging exorbitant prices. He also runs a dog fighting ring, charging "select clients" admission to watch stray dogs that he had beaten and starved attack and kill each other. He runs both with the financial backing of his friend and business partner, Marty Vance.
Eventually, Vance's wife, Lauren, found out what her husband and Carlin had been doing, and was so horrified that she filed for divorce and threatened to go to the police. Panicked, Carlin murdered Lauren and fed her corpse to his fighting dogs.
Soon afterward, he started a relationship with Dawn Talley, a reporter for a TV news station who was covering Lauren's disappearance, and who was sleeping with Vance to get closer to the story. Together, they planned to frame Vance for his wife's murder, which would liquidate his investment in the wine business and make them both rich. They also bury what is left of Lauren in the kennel where Carlin finds the animals.
"Submission"[]
When Carlin's dog fighting ring is busted by the police, a human finger, doused in chlorine, is found in the stomach of one of the dead dogs. NYPD Homicide Detectives Ed Green and Cyrus Lupo question Carlin, who has been released on bail, and he tells them to talk to Vance, blaming him for organizing the dog fighting ring. Forensic examination of the finger reveals traces of Lauren's favorite shade of fingernail polish, which Talley includes in her coverage of Lauren's disappearance, all but accusing him of killing her.
Executive Assistant Michael Cutter and Assistant District Attorney Connie Rubirosa suspect that Vance killed his wife and convene a grand jury, with Talley as their star witness. She testifies that Vance told her that he buried Lauren's remains in the kennel, which results in Rubirosa getting a search warrant for the premises. Green and Lupo finding what is left of Lauren there and arrest Vance for murder. Carlin, meanwhile, offers to testify against Vance in return for Cutter making the animal abuse charges against him go away.
While preparing their case against Vance, Cutter and Rubirosa discover that he had been using his investment in Carlin's wine business to hide his assets from Lauren in the divorce, supposedly giving him motive to kill her - but also giving Carlin motive, as police investigation of Vance's financial contributions would have harmed his business. Cutter and Rubirosa have one of the bottles of wine Carlin sells examined by a wine expert, who reveals not only Carlin's counterfeiting scam, but the fact that the wine corks have been treated with the same kind of chlorine found on Lauren's fingernail. Meanwhile, Green and Lupo search Carlin's apartment and find a sex tape of Carlin and Talley, revealing that they are in cahoots.
Cutter calls Talley in to his office under the pretense of discussing her testimony in Vance's trial, and he tells her that unidentified footprints have been found in the kennel. As Cutter intended, Talley gets nervous and tells Carlin to come to the kennel with her and destroy the evidence. Cutter, Rubirosa, Green, and Lupo surprise them there and put them under arrest. Cutter plays them the security footage showing Carlin opening the lock on the kennel, proving that he had been there before, and Talley urging him to get rid of the evidence, which proves their guilt.
Carlin is imprisoned for life for murder, fraud, counterfeiting, and animal abuse, while Talley is imprisoned for being an accessory to murder.
External links[]
- Jay Carlin on the Law & Order Wiki
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