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| “ | That was not an assault. That was a creative collaboration. Fear, lust, release - capturing primal emotion. | „ |
| ~ Wattan rationalizing the rape that she helped Alvin Gilbert commit |
Nora Wattan is a supporting antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Fashionable Crimes". She is fashion photographer Alvin Gilbert's assistant who helps him rape his models.
She was portrayed by Sandrine Holt, who also portrayed Patricia Thornton in the reboot of MacGyver.
Overview[]
Wattan is the assistant and on-again, off-again lover of fashion photographer Alvin Gilbert, who works for his brother Benno's high couture company House of Gilbert. She helps Alvin rape the models he works with by getting them drunk before the shooting begins, while also photographing the assaults as they happen in order to blackmail the models into keeping silent; it is also implied that she derives sexual pleasure from watching Alvin commit rape.
Wattan believes that she is Alvin's "muse" and a part of the Gilbert family; in reality, however, both Alvin and Benno consider her completely expendable, merely the "hired help".
"Fashionable Crimes"[]
Wattan recruits 17-year-old aspiring model Sally Landry to pose for Alvin, while forbidding her to invite her abusive boyfriend and "manager" Matt Kroger because it would "block the creative energy". When Sally resists Alvin's advances, he tells Wattan to "chill her out", so she gives Sally a glass of wine and tells her to be more receptive to Alvin's "process". After taking pictures of Alvin raping Sally, she tells the crying girl that the camera saw her wanting what happened to her.
Sally reports the rape to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, and Lieutenant Olivia Benson and her detectives arrest Wattan and Alvin after finding the pictures of the rape on Wattan's camera, charging them both with first-degree rape. Benno gets Alvin a high-priced lawyer who gets him released on bail, but he abandons Wattan, leaving her to pay for a young, incompetent attorney out of her own pocket. Wattan insists that she did nothing wrong, claiming that what she and Alvin did to Sally was not rape, but a "creative collaboration".
Benno pays Kroger to intimidate Sally into refusing to testify against his brother, leaving the case against him in tatters. Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba decides to use the pictures Wattan took of Alvin's previous photo shoots to charge him with multiple counts of rape, and he threatens to charge her with possession of child pornography unless she provides them. When Wattan protests, Benson tells her the hard truth that she means nothing to Alvin and that Benno is prepared to throw her to the wolves. Wattan sees that Benson is right and agrees to provide Barba with the pictures of the rapes in return for a lighter prison sentence.
External links[]
- Nora Wattan on the Law & Order Wiki
