| “ | Tell my dad everything. He'll come to my cell now. He'll listen to me. However long it takes. | „ |
| ~ Jo after being arrested |
Jo Gage is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Blind Spot".
She was played by Martha Plimpton.
Backstory[]
Jo Gage is the daughter of criminal profiler Declan Gage, and the childhood friend of her father's protege, Detective Robert Goren. However, Jo's childhood was not a happy one; for one, Declan wanted a son, leading to years of neglect. Her mother committed suicide when Jo was only seven. To become close to her eccentric and asocial father, Jo became Declan's pupil in the study of serial killers;n she knew, even as a child, that he did not know how to communicate with her any other way. Even as though he considers her a brilliant "student", however, Declan ignores her in virtually every other way.
"Blind spot[]
When he teaches her (incorrectly) that women cannot be serial killers, Jo began a series of murders not only to prove him wrong, but get his attention for the first time in her life. While donning a hooded disguise, Jo entered the home of a woman named Heidi Conington, attacking and abducting Heidi before killing her. Heidi's ex-boyfriend, Enrique Zuella, was accused of the murder, but he was cleared after Jo killed her roommate, Jenna Shea. Jo was introduced in the episode after Declan appeared as a consultant to the case, as he suspected that the murders were committed by a serial killer named Sebastian, who used the same M.O.: tying up the victims and gagging them with duct tape before killing them.
Seeing her father led Jo to believe that her plan was working and that Declan would notice her, but after seeing that he was spending more time with Goren than with her, Jo decided go to after another victim: Goren's partner, Alexandra Eames, who entered her home and saw that her birdcage was empty. She was later knocked out by Jo and taken to an abandoned warehouse, where the villainess had another victim tied up in another room. Jo later sent a text message to Goren regarding Eames, doing so under the Sebastian name, though Jo's true plan was to frame her father, as she left her weapons of choice in Declan's trunk. Declan was under intense suspicion even after Eames escaped, and the episode's final scenes had Goren and Jo watching Declan's interrogation. The two of them began chatting and bringing up Jo's upbringing, with Jo revealing that Declan wanted a boy and that she learned everything about serial killers from him.
It was after the subject of female serial killers was brought up that Jo's reveal as a villainess occurred, as she unabashedly confessed to the murders and the attempt on Eames. She stated that she wanted her father's attention and that she took Eames because Declan was spending all his time with Goren. As Jo was taken away and arrested, she told Goren to tell Declan everything. A later episode, "Frame," revealed that Jo was placed in an asylum, and was placed in a coma after biting off her tongue, doing so because she never wanted to see Declan again.
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External Links[]
- Jo Gage on the Law & Order Wiki
