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| “ | Nobody says no to Markeevious! | „ |
| ~ Ryan testifying during his trial |
Markeevious Ryan is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "She Paints for Vengeance". He is a professional basketball player who rapes several exotic dancers.
He was portrayed by Wolé Parks, who also portrayed John Henry Irons in Superman and Lois and Arcadius in The Vampire Diaries.
Overview[]
Ryan is a successful professional basketball player and a pillar of his community. Behind that wholesome image, however, he is an abusive serial rapist who has assaulted several women, mostly exotic dancers. Whenever a woman refuses his advances, he physically abuses them before raping them and casually paying them off to keep them quiet. He always avoided detection because of his prestigious reputation, particularly with the local police, to whom he donated generously.
"She Paints for Vengeance"[]
At a local strip club, he asks dancer Monica Russo for a private dance in the backroom. When he propositions her for sex, she politely declines, which sends him into a rage; he then beats and rapes her. Afterward, he throws a few hundred dollars on the floor next to his crying victim.
Russo reports the rape to the police, but they do not believe her. She lashes out by painting a mural of her rape to expose Ryan and condemn the police for not taking proper action to investigate. Her efforts lead to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit deciding to investigate. They question Ryan, who claims that the sex was consensual. They also question his ex-wife, who refuses to testify against him because he financed her hair salon after they got divorced.
Russo is ultimately fired for attracting bad publicity to the club, so she starts harassing Ryan at a restaurant he owns in front of his wealthy customers and getting arrested. Angered and humiliated, Ryan files a lawsuit against Russo for defamation.
Russo is bailed out by her new lawyer, who publicly asks Ryan's other victims to come forward. Several women accuse Ryan of raping them, as well, but his lawyer is able to get their testimony suppressed as evidence, leaving only Russo's rape accusation.
During his trial, Ryan's lawyer characterizes Russo as a struggling artist looking to get rich quick by making false accusations against a wealthy celebrity. However, Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi Jr. calls Russo as a witness, and she tells the jury what he did to her and accuses him of not being man enough to face her. As intended, her remarks make Ryan so angry that he demands to testify in his own defense. Ryan tells Carisi that he does not "need" to rape women because they regularly throw themselves at him, and that Russo is like all the other women he says use him to get money and attention. He alludes to the multiple lawsuits against him as examples, which Carisi uses to his advantage by asking about the details once the judge allows it. Ryan reveals that women are always accusing him of sexual assault in order to extort money from him. When Carisi asks what happens if they turn down his advances, Ryan declares that nobody tells him no.
Ryan is found guilty of raping Russo, as well as his other victims, and imprisoned.
External links[]
- Markeevious Ryan at the Law & Order Wiki
