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| “ | I was thinking about what he did to Zeke, and I couldn't help myself. I forced him to drive out to the train tracks, and I shot him. | „ |
| ~ Julia confessing to murdering her husband, Deacon |
Julia Brinn is a supporting antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Quarry". She is a housewife who murders her husband after finding out that he molested their son.
She was portrayed by Angelica Page, who also portrayed Mrs. Collins in The Sixth Sense.
Early life[]
Julia and her husband, Deacon, had a son named Zeke, and they appeared to be the perfect family, with Deacon providing his wife and son a comfortable, upper middle class lifestyle. Behind that bright facade, however, Julia and Deacon had an unhappy marriage, with Deacon showing little sexual interest in her. She suspected that he was cheating on her, unaware that the truth was far worse - he was in fact a pedophile who sexually abused prepubescent boys, and in 1980, at the age of 13, he had raped and murdered a seven-year-old boy named Jeffrey Ronson and forced another of his victims, Jefrey's best friend Avery Shaw, to help him bury the body.
One year prior to the events of the episode, one of Deacon's now-adult victims, Avery Shaw, began writing him anonymous letters threatening to expose him as a child molester. While Deacon made sure Julia never read these letters, the stress of knowing that someone knew his secret, drove him to withdraw even more from his family, until he finally moved out.
He rented an apartment in which he molested dozens of boys, including Zeke, and recorded himself abusing them, keeping the recordings as trophies. He eventually moved back in with Julia and Zeke, but their marriage remained dysfunctional.
"Quarry"[]
When Jeffrey's remains are discovered thanks to a tip that Shaw sent anonymously to Detective Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, she reopens his murder case to find out whether serial child molester Lucas Biggs, who is scheduled to be executed for killing one of his victims, committed the crime. She talks to Deacon and Julia at Jeffrey's memorial, and they both deny knowing anything about the boy's murder, which occurred while Deacon was babysitting him, even while insisting that Biggs must have committed the crime.
Zeke, meanwhile, starts acting out, and Julia asks him what is wrong, keeping at him until he finally reveals that Deacon is abusing him. Horrified and enraged, Julia calls Deacon at his apartment demanding to know if he had harmed their son. Deacon denies it and promises to come home to talk to her about Zeke's accusations, intending to persuade her that it is all a misunderstanding.
When he arrives, however, he discovers that Julia has one of the recordings of him abusing Zeke - anonymously mailed to her by Shaw, who had also threatened Deacon at gunpoint just before she had called. Deacon begs her not to go to the police, promising to move away and never bother her or Zeke again. When Julia hesitates, Deacon threatens her with Shaw's gun, which he had left at Deacon's apartment. A struggle ensues in which Julia wrests the gun away from Deacon and shoots him dead in a fit of rage. Panicked, she takes his body to a nearby train yard and leaves it on the tracks, where it is run over and cut in half by a freight train, making his death look like a suicide.
Eventually, however, Deacon's autopsy reveals that he was murdered. Biggs tells Benson before he is executed that Deacon raped and murdered Jeffrey. Benson also finds out that Deacon abused Shaw, who falsely confesses to killing Deacon to atone for helping him bury Jeffrey's body. Benson, Detective John Munch, and crime scene technician Brian O'Halloran search Deacon's apartment and find a recording of Shaw interrupting him while molesting a boy and threatening to kill him; they see him sparing Deacon's life, however, proving that his confession was a lie. Benson checks Deacon's phone records to find out who called him after Shaw left, and discovers that it was Julia.
Benson brings Julia to the SVU station house under the pretense of needing more information about her husband's apartment. Shen then confronts Julia with one of Deacon's recordings of him abusing Zeke, and then accuses her point-blank of murdering her husband. Julia bursts into tears and confesses, saying that she was so angry with Deacon for hurting Zeke that she lost control. She is then imprisoned for murder, while Shaw is exonerated.
External links[]
- Julia Brinn on the Law & Order Wiki
