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| “ | I never raped no FBI skirt. Bitch ain't my type. | „ |
| ~ Coleman denying having raped FBI Agent Dana Lewis |
Seth Coleman is the main antagonist of the Special Victims Unit episode "Penetration". He is a member of the white supremacist organization the Aryan Brotherhood and a serial rapist who rapes FBI Agent Dana Lewis on the orders of Brian Ackerman, the leader of another white supremacist gang, the Revolutionary Aryan Warriors (RAW).
He was portrayed by Jeremy Davidson.
Early life[]
Coleman was a petty criminal who worked part-time as a bouncer at a club. In 1996, he asked out a club patron named Mae Ling, and stalked and raped her after she rejected him, nearly choking her to death during the assault. He was incarcerated for the rape and joined the Aryan Brotherhood in prison for protection, even though he claimed to "love Jewish broads" because they were "freaks in bed".
After he was released, he was registered as a level 3 sex offender, but he nevertheless got another job as a bouncer. He propositioned another clubgoer, Danielle Figheretti, who turned him down just as Ling had, and he responded in a similar manner - he followed her home, raped her, and nearly choked her to death. He was once again convicted and imprisoned, this time for seven years. While in prison, he made the acquaintance of Brian Ackerman, the leader of the white supremacist group Revolutionary Aryan Warriors (RAW), who hired him to rape the woman he knew as Star Morrison - who was, in reality, FBI Agent Dana Lewis - after he was paroled as revenge for her killing Ackerman's son, Kyle, five years earlier during a shootout with police.
Prison authorities mistakenly listed Coleman as being Jewish because of his last name. Six years into his sentence, he started getting letters from a woman named Jennifer Briggs as part of a Jewish prison pen pal program, but she stopped writing to him after he asked her to send him naked pictures of herself. After Coleman was released, he tracked Briggs down and raped, tortured, and murdered her as revenge for rejecting him.
"Penetration"[]
Soon after murdering Briggs, he makes good on his arrangement with Ackerman by stalking Lewis, breaking into her house, injecting her with a paralytic agent given to him by Ackerman, and beating and raping her as she lay paralyzed and helpless. After he leaves, Lewis goes to an old friend, Detective Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, and asks her to help her investigate her own rape.
Benson and her partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, who are already investigating Briggs' murder, discover her correspondence with Coleman, while Lewis identifies him as her rapist. Benson and Stabler find Coleman on his way home and try to arrest him, but a vengeful Lewis interferes by going after him on her motorcycle. She corners him and tries to shoot him dead, but she misses and the bullet ricochets, wounding Stabler in the shoulder. Nevertheless, he and Benson arrest Coleman, who confesses to raping and murdering Briggs. He refuses to admit to raping Lewis, however, saying that "FBI skirts" are not his "type".
Coleman is jailed while awaiting trial for Lewis' rape. Lewis confronts him in his cell, demanding to know why he raped her, but he claims that he does not know her and laughs at her as Benson and Stabler drag her away.
During Coleman's trial, his lawyer questions Lewis and insinuates that she deliberately manipulated the investigation to make Coleman look guilty. Assistant District Attorney Gillian Hardwicke then questions Lewis and asks her to describe what Coleman did to her. When Lewis reveals that Coleman had said, "You sure are a Star" while raping her, Benson realizes that "Star" is a reference to Lewis' old undercover alias, and she and Lewis discover in Coleman's financial records money paid to him by Ackerman from his prison commissary account. Coleman admits to raping Lewis on Ackerman's orders in return for a plea bargain, which leads to Ackerman being put in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Coleman, meanwhile, is given a life sentence for rape and murder.
External links[]
- Seth Coleman on the Law & Order Wiki
