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| “ | We had sex. Just like other people who meet at a bar. I'm guilty of cheating on my wife, that's all. | „ |
| ~ Carter attempting to lie about raping Tara. |
Logan Carter is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Flight Risk".
He was portrayed by Martin Donovan, who also portrayed Dr. Archibald Newlands in an earlier SVU episode, as well as Zaman Druce in DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Mitchell Carson in Ant-Man, Isaac Frost in Beyond and Tom Buchanan in the 2000 TV movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Biography[]
A pilot with an exemplary record, Carter was well known for his skilled flying at Optimum Air. He was married with a daughter.
Behind his respectable façade, however, he was a sexual predator who targeted his female coworkers, touching and speaking to them inappropriately before ultimately raping them. Whenever he had to work with his victims, he would taunt them over their ordeal, triggering their trauma.
Optimum Air was aware of complaints against him and bribed his victims to keep quiet.
Flight Risk[]
When Carter rapes fellow pilot Tara Sidnana, the airline tries to make the problem go away by promising her that she will never have to work with him again. Six months later, however, she is assigned to be his co-pilot during a flight thanks to a scheduling error. During the flight, he subtly intimidates and harasses her, causing her to suffer a flashback of the rape. After he leaves the cockpit, she has a panic attack and attempts to make an emergency landing at the airport, but her erratic action causes everyone to think she is going to crash. Eventually, Carter is able to get her out of the cockpit and land safely, looking like a hero; Sidnana, meanwhile, is branded a terrorist.
While being interrogated by Lieutenant Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, Sidnana reveals that Carter raped her, and the unit's detectives looked into his background to find proof. When they question Carter, he says that he and Sidnana had a consensual affair and she was upset after he called it off. With no proof of rape, his lawyer Roger Kressler had him leave the precinct.
Further digging leads SVU to former Optimum Air co-pilot now pilot captain Jeanne Howell, who reveals that Carter had raped her as well and she was offered a promotion and transferred to cover it up. With that, Benson arrests Carter for rape, and he goes back to the precinct.
During the interrogation, he tries to discredit Howell but Detective Amanda Rollins and A.D.A Rafael Barba reveal that Howell had kept proof of the rape: pictures of the bruises Carter inflicted upon her and threatening emails he sent her to keep quiet. Seeing the incriminating evidence, Kressler asks Barba what's he after and Barba offers Carter a plea bargain in which he would serve 10 years in prison. Carter tries to protest, but Barba tells him that, should he take his chances and be found guilty of both rapes, he will serve 25 years. After sharing looks with his lawyer, he accepts defeat and agrees to take the deal, and is ultimately imprisoned for the rapes. Barba also filed grand larceny charges against Optimum Air for having a rapist like Carter around and had many female employees come forward about their abuse.
Trivia[]
- Carter is based on Gameel Al-Batouti, a sexually aggressive pilot considered responsible for a plane crash and resulting mass murder of everyone on board, along with killing himself in the cockpit.
External links[]
- Logan Carter on the Law & Order Wiki
