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| “ | That heifer told me she was gonna torture me! | „ |
| ~ Andrews rationalizing raping his own wife |
Lloyd Andrews is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Asunder". He is a police officer who abuses and rapes his wife, Patricia.
He was portrayed by Nestor Serrano, who also portrayed Hector Estrada in Dexter and Navi Araz in 24.
Overview[]
Andrews is an NYPD officer who typically works with homicides. He and his wife, Patricia, have a volatile marriage, in which they both verbally and physically abuse each other, often having loud, violent arguments in full view of their friends and neighbors. He nevertheless brags to his fellow police officers about their passionate sex life, as well as the many affairs he has on the side.
In "Asunder"[]
As he gets ready for work one morning, Andrews and Patricia get into yet another argument in which she accuses him of cheating on her. When he pushes her aside and tries to leave, she throws a frying pan at him, hitting him in the back of the head. Enraged, he grabs her by the neck and drags her back into their apartment, where he overpowers and rapes her.
Patricia goes to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit and reports the rape, but she is hesitant to press charges, fearing that it will end their marriage. Detectives Olivia Benson and John Munch interview her separately, and they note that she gives them each inconsistent accounts of the assault; while Benson believes that Patricia is simply traumatized, Munch suspects that she is making the story up. Detective Elliot Stabler joins Andrews and his fellow officers in a pickup basketball game to size him up, and he realizes that Andrews is violent and aggressive when he elbows him in the face to keep the ball away from him.
SVU Captain Donakd Cragen and Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot try to bring a case against Andrews, but they are both stymied by their respective superiors, who dismiss Patricia's accusation as the vengeance of a scorned wife and excuse Andrews' actions as "boys will be boys". Their fortunes change when Benson and Stabler are called to a domestic dispute between Andrews and Patricia in which she tells the detectives that he admitted to raping her. They arrest Andrews, who accuses Patricia of lying, and Cabot charges him with first degree rape, sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct.
During the ensuing bench trial, Andrews testifies in his own defense that he has never abused Patricia, and that he merely told her what he thought she wanted to hear to bring the argument to an end. When Cabot confronts him with the fact that he had told Patricia that he could "do her" anytime he wanted, however, he flies into a rage and calls his own wife a "heifer". This makes his lawyer nervous, so he tries to make a deal with Cabot in which Andrews would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and voluntarily give up his badge, but she refuses to consider any deal that does not include jail time and registration as a sex offender.
Ultimately, however, the trial judge rules that there is not enough evidence to convict Andrews and dismisses the charges against him. Patricia, who has been watching the trial from the gallery, runs to her husband, and they kiss passionately as Cabot and Munch look on in disbelief.
External links[]
- Lloyd Andrews on the Law & Order Wiki
