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| “ | I saved those girls. They're alive because of me. | „ |
| ~ Michael Williams rationalizing his crimes. |
Michael Williams is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Imprisoned Lives". He is a pedophile who kidnaps, rapes, and imprisons several young girls, creating a cult-like "family" of the children he forces them to bear.
He was portrayed by the late Michael Massee, who also portrayed Funboy in The Crow, Jacob Dawes in Criminal Minds, Spellbinder in The Batman, Gustav Fiers in The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, and Ira Gaines in 24.
Biography
Early life
Williams is a pedophile who preys on young girls. He kidnaps three girls over an 18-year period, snatching them with the help of his first victim, April Hendricks, whom he brainwashes into believing he saved her from her mother's abusive boyfriend. He keeps his victims chained up in the basement of the house owned by Agnes Mignetti, a friend of his late mother.
He makes his victims call him "Pa" and Hendricks "Ma", and controls their every move, telling them when they can and cannot go outside. He rapes them until they mature past his age preference, and then has April help him kidnap another young girl.
He also lives at his other residence with his submissive wife Dagmara, Mignetti's former nurse, and his two sons by her. He fathers several children with his victims, particularly Kayla Greyland, his second victim, who gave birth to a son she named Buddy. Dagmara remains willfully ignorant about her husband's crimes.
After Mignetti dies, Williams does not report it so he can continue to collect her Social Security checks, and buries her in the backyard. He poses as Mignetti's son to avoid suspicion.
"Imprisoned Lives"
Williams takes Buddy to Times Square, but abandons him there when a police officer approaches them. Realizing that his crimes would soon be discovered, he takes April and Kayla and attempts to leave town, leaving his third victim, Rhonda Davis, for dead because his abuse has left her malnourished and brain-damaged. He later leaves April and Kayla at a MacDonalds, and goes back to his other residence as if nothing has happened.
The NYPD's Special Victims Unit finds April and interrogates her about Williams' whereabouts, but she is too traumatized to give them any useful information. Fortunately, Kayla manages to make it back to Mignetti's house, where she tells the police and press her real identity. She tells Detective Olivia Benson that Buddy is her son, but that he does not know who she really is, as "Pa" had made the boy believe she was her sister, "Sissy". Moments later, the police find Mignetti's body.
Benson investigates the case further and discovers that, as a teenager, April had been friendly with her school's janitor, Michael Williams, who was questioned about her disappearance. Benson and her partner, Detective Nick Amaro, go to Williams' residence and arrest him on suspicion of having murdered Mignetti and kidnapping the three women.
Benson and Amaro interrogate Williams, while Detective Amanda Rollins questions Dagmara, who insists that Williams is a good man and refuses to believe he did anything wrong. Williams, meanwhile, denies having killed Mignetti, and insists that he "saved" his victims from lives of drug abuse and poverty. When Benson presses him about the rapes, he says that, after kidnapping Rhonda, he no longer needed to rape children. Finally, he admits that he is Buddy's father, and that he provided the boy with the only home he has ever known.
After deciding to provide Williams' victims with counseling, Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba declares that he will make sure that Williams goes to prison for the rest of his life.
External Links
- Michael Williams on the Law & Order Wiki
