“ | They must be destroyed. | „ |
~ Brooks about his victims. |
Simon Brooks is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Trophy". He is an insane religious fanatic who kills several young Black boys because he thinks they are sinners.
He was portrayed by Isiah Whitlock Jr, who also played Carmen Grant in Lucifer and Clay Davis in The Wire.
Biography[]
Early life[]
After killing his first victim near the bank of the Hudson River, he left a note reading "They must be destroyed", leading police to suspect the killing is the work of a white supremacist. After four more murders, the police realized a serial killer was on the loose, and suspected white supremacist Andrew Dillard, a bakery truck driver whose delivery route included the schools that all the victims attended.
Dillard was later arrested and charged with the murders, but evidence exonerating him was found in the form of a witness statement claiming that one of the youths was seen by an African-American man; also, the handwriting in the notes did not match Dillard's. However, Assistant District Attorney Diana Hawthorne withheld the statement and convinced a handwriting expert to lie under oath that Dillard's handwriting matched that of the killer, leading to Dillard being convicted and Brooks escaping arrest. Brooks later confessed the murders to his mother, who put him on anti-psychotic medication that quieted his homicidal urges.
In "Trophy"[]
After his mother dies, Brooks stops taking his medication, and as a result murders two more teenagers before NYPD Homicide Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtis link him to both victims and question him. When Curtis asks him to swear to his innocence on a Bible, Brooks confesses to killing the two boys.
Brooks says that he killed the two boys because they had been wearing crucifixes and images of Saint Justin (the mascot of their school) while shoplifting and looking at pornographic magazines - which, in Brooks' mind, made them guilty of blasphemy. Briscoe and Curtis ask him if he had been inspired by Dillard, but he says that Dillard had nothing to do with any of the murders; Brooks says he killed all of the boys.
Brooks is then institutionalized after being found legally insane.
External Links[]
- Simon Brooks on the Law & Order Wiki
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