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| “ | I used to think I was alone. I'm not. There are hundreds of thousands of people just like me. Maybe millions. Go ahead, arrest us, persecute us. We're not going away. We're not gonna play by your rules, and nothing you can ever do will change that. | „ |
| ~ Nicholas Taylor defending his pedophilia to Elliot Stabler and Sam Bishop. |
Nicholas Taylor is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Pandora". He is a pedophile and sexual predator who sexually abuses his own daughter and trades child pornography with fellow child molester Erich Tassig. He is also the prime suspect in two murders.
He is portrayed by Stephen Gavedon, who also portrayed Russell Lowery in the original Law & Order.
Biography[]
Taylor raped his daughter Amy repeatedly beginning when she was three years old, while taking pictures and uploading them on a child pornography site to other pedophiles across the country. Being in contact with these pedophiles, he helped Czech child pornographer Erich Tassig seduce and lure 14-year-old Mia Van Wagner out of the country. At another point, he corresponded online with Meredith McGrath, an informant with the US Attorney General's office who posed as another child molester in order to infiltrate the pedophile ring and help federal authorities put them in prison.
In "Pandora"[]
Taylor murders McGrath after learning she is an undercover informant. He blitz attacks her as she is getting into her car, and bludgeons and rapes her with a tire iron before gluing her mouth shut and locking her in the trunk so she would suffocate to death. He takes her purse that contains her driver's license and address. He breaks into her apartment, kills her husband Roger, and takes her computer.
McGrath's murder eventually leads Detective Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit and Detective Sam Bishop of the Homicide Department to investigate a missing girl who is later revealed to be a victim of a child pornography ring in Prague, led by Tassig. They eventually arrest Tassig's acquaintances and threaten Tassig him with life in prison unless he reveals the identity of the people funding the ring and the raid gives them Taylor's address.
Stabler and Bishop arrive at Taylor's house, where Amy answers the door; Stabler recognizes her from Taylor's child porn site. Amy lets them in, and Stabler leaves her with Bishop while he goes after Taylor. Stabler finds Taylor sleeping and ponders on killing him in his sleep for his crimes but his reasoning takes and he yells at him to wake up and arrests him. When Stabler and Bishop interrogate Taylor, they reveal that they found his fingerprints at the McGrath crime scene and tell him that he will not be getting a plea bargain. Taylor justifies his abuse of Amy as an act of love and says that he murdered the McGraths because Meredith betrayed him. He then gloats that there are millions of people just like him and says that putting them in prison will not make them go away. However, his words disgust the detectives who call him and his like minded fellows freaks for their crimes.
Taylor is found guilty of murder, rape, child sexual abuse, child pornography distribution, and conspiracy in the first degree, and is presumably executed for his crimes.
External links[]
- Nicholas Taylor at the Law & Order Wiki
