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| “ | Don't get mad at me. I just collect a little interest on your daddy's loan. Get mad at him. He is weak man. Men like him, they are food for wolves. | „ |
| ~ Matic manipulating Maggie Colter |
Simon Matic is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Homo Homini Lupus". Matic is a Serbian war criminal and eventual enforcer-for-hire, with a propensity for raping women and girls as part of his M.O.
He was portrayed by English actor Ritchie Coster, who also portrayed Carlo Parisi in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mark Bruner in Law & Order, The Chechen in The Dark Knight, Dietrich Banning in The Tuxedo, Arthur Blisterman in CSI: Las Vegas, and Pope in The Walking Dead.
Biography[]
Matic was one of multiple Serb Volunteer Guard enforcers during the Bosnian cleansing wars. He and his accomplices raped and brutalized numerous women and girls in the custodies of the armies he worked for. To flee prosecution and sustain himself through crime and his personal pleasures, Matic fled to the United States and became an enforcer for hire. He left contact information and arranged untraceable calls with burner phones to numerous career criminals, getting cuts of ransoms they extorted from victims once he was hired. Matic held victims or their families captive, and to terrorize his employers' targets, as well as for his enjoyment and false sense of empowerment, Matic raped women and girls he held captive until the money was paid and he was to release them. Matic raped hostages even when employers told him not, and he was never identified by name by the time he was next hired.
Matic was finally solicited by loan shark Carl Pettijohn, kidnapping Mike Colter's wife and daughters due to not paying his debts. Per his usual, Matic called Colter with his demands and said he'd continuously rape his eldest daughter Maggie until the ransom was paid, Matic following through by raping her at least twice during her captivity. Colter appealed to his father Melvyn with the new danger increasing his urgency, and with a promise for the Colters to lie no kidnapping took place, the family was released. However, once Pettjohn was tracked and told Matic lied about not hurting the family, he gave up the gangster who referred Matic to Pettijohn, Nicky Torres. Torres gave up Matic, and his right-hand ma was shot while Matic was arrested.
Maggie had to be encouraged to speak up after her trauma, and when she was informed about Matic's crimes and forced to confront how he warped her and made her suppress her trauma, she told the information the detectives needed: he had a tattoo on his back from his time in Guard, resembling a tiger (the "Tigers" where the Guard's overcompensating nickname) and showing the Guard's initials in the Serbian language. Matic was tricked into showing his tattoo before arraignment, and he would be imprisoned for life on multiple felony charges. He was presumably also up for extradition for facing war crime charges.
Trivia[]
- Matic's crimes take inspiration from the kidnapping for ransom of John Paul Getty III.
- Matic's war criminal history is inspired by the long list of sexual violence offenders in genocidal armies and militias during the Bosnian War.
