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| “ | I'm holding the line against more mouths to feed, more people on Medicaid, our public schools and our hospitals, taking our jobs! These people bleed the system dry, and I stop that from happening! | „ |
| ~ O'Toole rationalizing his years of sexually abusing immigrant women |
Rory O'Toole is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "I Deserve Some Loving Too". He is a racist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who forces sex from immigrant women in return for green cards and has them deported if they refuse.
He was portrayed by Jeremy Bobb.
Early life[]
O'Toole is an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who investigates people applying for green cards and visas to enter the United States. He specializes in assessing engaged and married couples in which one of the partners is an immigrant to make sure they are not attempting a fraudulent "green card marriage". He uses his position and authority to force female immigrants to have sex with him, threatening them with deportation if they refuse; if they refuse despite his threats, he has them arrested and imprisoned for visa fraud, and then deported once they have served their sentences. By the time of the episode, he has been abusing his position in this way for years and has raped dozens of women.
In "I Deserve Some Loving Too"[]
When Sergeant Fin Tutuola and Officer Kat Tamin of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit arrest ICE data clerk Duane Varik for groping underage girls on the subway, they and Captain Olivia Benson tell O'Toole that they need to go through Varik's computer and search history to find out if he uploaded any "upskirt" pictures of his victims. O'Toole says that he will need to go through ICE's Human Relations Department and labor union, so Benson compromises and asks him to go through Varik's computer and report back to SVU if he finds anything illegal.
Varik, who is facing felony charges, says that O'Toole bragged to him about forcing sex from female immigrants in return for green cards, and offers to give SVU evidence incriminating him in return for a lenient prison sentence. Benson and Tamin question Lina Vasquez-Boyd, who received a green card from O'Toole; she says that O'Toole threatened to deport her if she didn't have sex with him, but she refuses to testify against him because she doesn't want her husband to know.
SVU Bureau Chief Christian Garland tells Benson that he needs corroborating evidence before he can bring charges against O'Toole, so Detective Amanda Rollins and her temporary partner Hasim Khaldun talk to another of O'Toole's victims, Rosamie Klein. She, too, decline to testify because she does not want her husband, Joe, to find out what O'Toole made her do, and because she fears that he will have her deported. They also talk with Maggie Quigley, whom O'Toole put in ICE detention to be deported back to Belfast after she refused his advances, and then threatened to deport her husband, a fellow immigrant whom she says she married so he could stay in the U.S.
With no victims coming forward, Rollins and Khaldun decide to set up a "honey trap" for O'Toole; they pose as an engaged couple, with Khaldun, who is of Middle Eastern descent, as the partner who needs a green card. O'Toole falls for the ruse and propositions Rollins, saying that if she has sex with him, he will give Khaldun a green card - all while Benson, Tutuola, and Tamin listen to Rollins' wiretap from a police car a few blocks away. When O'Toole tries to have sex with Rollins, they move in and arrest him.
While meeting with Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi Jr., who is prosecuting the case, O'Toole claims that he had been "testing" Rollins to make sure that her supposed marriage to Khaldun was real. In court the next day, O'Toole's lawyer, John Buchanan, calls Rollins as a witness and forces her to admit that she had been "playing a role" in her undercover interaction with O'Toole, and questions how she could have known that he was not "playing a role", as well.
In an attempt to strengthen the case, Rollins and Khaldun visit Rosamie in the apartment she shares with Joe and their daughter and entreat her to testify, but she again refuses. Khaldun speaks privately with Joe, telling him that Rosamie has nothing to be ashamed of because she only submitted to O'Toole to keep their family together. Joe and Rosamie talk about it, and she agrees to be a witness against O'Toole.
When Carisi calls Rosamie and Quigley as witnesses in court, Buchanan panics and asks the trial judge, Felicia Catano, for a one-day recess, which she grants. He and O'Toole meet with Carisi and try to negotiate a plea bargain, but Carisi says that he has enough evidence to put O'Toole in prison for rape in the first degree, and so does not need to make a deal with him. O'Toole claims that he is trying to protect U.S. borders from "a foreign invasion", but Carisi replies that he is merely a rapist preying on women who are at their most vulnerable. Facing a potential life sentence, O'Toole reluctantly agrees to plead guilty in return for a sentence of 15 years.
External links[]
- Rory O'Toole on the Law & Order Wiki
