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| “ | You'd really sell me out, Pam? After everything I've done for you? You'd still be putting your t-ts on the table for traffic court judges if it wasn't for me! | „ |
| ~ Provo cursing Pam James for cutting him loose |
Michael Provo is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Beautiful Frame". He is a rapist and murderer who tries to use his political connections to get away with his crimes.
He was portrayed by Enver Gjokaj, who also played Viktor Baskov in Dexter.
Biography[]
Past[]
Provo is a former ATF agent who got laid off and began working as a private investigator to make ends meet. Despite having a wife and children, he forced several women to have sex with him by threatening to put them in jail if they refused him. He also blackmailed several other people into performing illegal favors for him when needed.
He later had an affair with Jesse Sturgis, who was cheating on her abusive boyfriend Tommy Bandolce, the father of her young son, Matthew. She broke up with Provo after finding out he was married, but he did not take the rejection well, and soon found a way to re-assert his power over her; after she drunkenly called him one night to ask for a ride home from a nightclub, he raped her to re-assert his power over her. She filed charges against him, but they were dismissed. Angry that her accusation almost cost him his job and his family, he decided to get revenge against her.
"Beautiful Frame"[]
Provo breaks into Bandolce's home and shoots him dead. He then makes an anonymous domestic abuse report to the police and uses Bandocle's phone to contact Sturgis. The police arrest her moments later when they find her near Bandolce's body, and Matthew is taken away from her by Social Services.
Provo has several people he was blackmailing make false claims against Sturgis, so her credibility would be tarnished. He also attempts to flee the country with his family, but Detectives Olivia Benson and Nick Amaro of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit discovered his identity from Sturgis and bring him in for questioning. However, they are unable to interrogate him after Suffolk County District Attorney Pam James reveals that he is a confidential informant in several of her open cases.
He and James are later brought into the precinct. His guilt is exposed when Benson and Amaro show him that they know he forced his "witnesses" to make false statements against Sturgis. Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba says they are all withdrawing their accusations and providing such as texts to prove the conspiracy. Barba says he will prosecute Provo for conspiracy, which would mean that all the cases he was involved in would be called into question. James asks that Barba drop the rape charge against Provo, in return for her dismissing all charges against Sturgis. Barba agrees on the condition that James files murder charges against Provo. A furious Provo accuses James of betraying him after he made her career, but she dismisses him, eager to cut her losses. Provo threatens to take James down with him, but his threats fall on deaf ears as he is taken into custody.
Sturgis' name is cleared, and she is released and given back custody of Matthew. Provo, meanwhile, is imprisoned for life for conspiracy and murder.
External links[]
- Michael Provo on the Law & Order Wiki
