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| “ | That's what sons are for. | „ |
| ~ Jonas Slaughter admitting to killing his own son. |
Jonas Slaughter, Jr. is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Proud Flesh". He is a radio mogul who has his own son killed to keep majority control of his family trust.
He was portrayed by Malcolm McDowell, who also portrayed Alex in A Clockwork Orange, the title character in Caligula, Colonel F. E. Cochrane in Blue Thunder, Tolian Soran in Star Trek: Generations, Captain Von Berkow in The Passage, Gangster in Gangster no. 1, Kesslee in Tank Girl, Andrej Evilenko in Evilenko, Marcus Kane in Doomsday, Arkady Duvall in Batman: The Animated Series, Arnold Gundars in I Spy, Dr. Monty in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Molag Bal in The Elder Scrolls Online, Sinclair in Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series, Daniel Linderman in Heroes, Merlyn the Archer in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, Zarm in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Mad Mod in Teen Titans, Leonard Wolf in Silent Hill: Revelations, John Henry Eden in Fallout 3, Geoffrey Tolwyn in the Wing Commander video game series, John Rainbird in Firestarter 2: Rekindled, James Moriarty in Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes, Ogthar in Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone, Mayor Scamboli in Pinocchio 3000, Veris Hydan in Star Wars: Rebels, Tower in Phineas and Ferb, Dr. Calico in Bolt, Death in Castlevania, Lord Fathom in Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Jorhan Stahl in Killzone 3, The Shaman in the Aladdin TV series, Lord Maliss in Happily Ever After and Darren Vogel in Crime Scene Investigation. Miami.
Biography[]
Past[]
Slaughter is the billionaire CEO of the Slaughter Radio Corporation, one of the most powerful media conglomerates in New York City. He has two grown sons, Chance and Jonas III, nicknamed "Tripp", with his late first wife, and a young daughter, Emma, with his second wife, Anna, an immigrant from China who is several decades his junior. He treats his sons more like his employees than his children, particularly Chance, whom he calls "my right hand". Tripp, meanwhile, is an alcoholic ne'er-do-well and the thorn in his father's side.
The Slaughter Radio Corporation is worth billions, but is almost entirely tied up in a family trust that Slaughter has recently rewritten to give himself and Anna the majority of the money.
"Proud Flesh"[]
The day after Slaughter's birthday party, Tripp is found dead in his apartment, asphyxiated in an apparent sex game gone wrong. Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames of the NYPD's Major Case Squad investigate and find out that Tripp had been trying to renegotiate the family trust to give himself and his wife and children more money, which makes them suspicious of Anna.
They look into her past and discover that she was once married to Larry Lewis, a Princeton economics professor, and had broken up his first marriage. They question Lewis, who admits that, after Anna left him, Slaughter bought him off with his own satellite radio show to stop him from revealing the details of their affair.
After discovering the struggle over the family trust, Goren and Eames question Slaughter and Anna. Under Goren's relentless interrogation, Slaughter blurts out that he had Tripp, whom he writes off as a "lost boy", killed to protect his own share of the trust. Goren then tells Anna that Slaughter was planning to frame her for Tripp's murder. Enraged, Slaughter denounces Anna as "yellow trash" and their daughter as a "mongrel" as Goren and Eames arrest him.
At his arraignment, the judge grants Slaughter bail, and Slaughter makes a public statement proclaiming his innocence. Moments later, Chance accuses Anna of destroying the family and pulls a gun on her, forcing Eames to shoot him. As he dies, Chance confesses to killing Tripp, which seemingly exonerates his father. Goren doesn't believe it, however, and accuses Slaughter of using his son to get out of trouble; Slaughter coldly replies, "That's what sons are for," and gets into a car with Chance's widow and their son, having already made the boy Chance's replacement as his heir apparent. Whether the charges against him are dismissed or not is uncertain.
