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| “ | I've known Tandi since she was eight. I watched that girl grow up. I supported her family while her Dad was sick. I have loved her like a daughter, and to suggest that I might harm her... well, that's disgusting! | „ |
| ~ Tucker feigning outrage when accused of raping Tandi McCain |
Mike Tucker is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Outcry". He is a serial rapist of who preys on teenage girls, including the stepdaughter of one of his employees.
He was portrayed by John Bedford Lloyd, who also portrayed Jonathan Ryder and Christian Varick in the original Law & Order.
Early life[]
Tucker is the owner and CEO of Tucker Construction, a successful real estate development company in Manhattan. While he is wealthy and well-liked by his employees, however, his public image masks his true nature: he is a sexual predator who takes sadistic pleasure in raping teenage girls.
Shortly before the events of the episode, he finds Tandi McCain, the 16-year-old stepdaughter of his employee and friend Ron McCain, at the site of one of the buildings he is constructing, a dormitory for Hudson University, drunk after going to a party. He tells her to come with him to get cleaned up, and he then overpowers and rapes her. He threatens to fire Ron if she tells anyone and throws $20 at her to take a cab home before leaving. Frightened and traumatized, Tandi hides at the construction site for two days.
"Outcry"[]
When Tandi is found by the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, she tells Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler that she was attacked and gang-raped by a group of Army cadets; she does not identify Tucker as her rapist because she fears he will fire Ron, who has a history of heart disease and needs to keep his insurance.
During the investigation, Benson and Stabler find inconsistencies in Tandi's story, including that she went to a party that very night with the men she has accused of raping her. They briefly suspect Ron of raping Tandi, so they question Tucker about him; he subtly points them in his direction by "offhandedly" mentioning that he had once been investigated for child abuse, while hypocritically praising him as a good father. When Ron is arrested for punching Stabler for insinuating that he raped Tandi, Tucker pays his bail.
Desperate to protect Ron and make the story go away, Tandi tells a reporter that she lied about being raped. Stabler and Detective Fin Tutuola reluctantly arrest her for filing a false police report, and Benson interrogates her until she finally admits that Tucker raped her. When the detectives arrest Tucker for first-degree rape, he feigns outrage, claiming that he loves Tandi like a daughter.
During Tucker's trial, Tandi tells the jury what he did to her, as well as why she lied about it. Tucker's lawyer, Roger Kressler, calls Stabler as a witness and insinuates that he and Benson are framing Tucker to get a conviction. The jury ultimately finds Tucker not guilty. Moments later, however, another teenage girl named Allison Luhan approaches Benson and Stabler and says that Tucker had raped her six months earlier. Tucker is then presumably arrested for Allison's rape and imprisoned.
External links[]
- Mike Tucker on the Law & Order Wiki
