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| “ | If something's important enough, you find a way. | „ |
| ~ Randolph |
Sergeant Teresa "Terry" Randolph is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Badge". Randolph is an NYPD school security cop and a ruthless robber and mass murderer, primarily targeting the drug dealers in her district.
She was portrayed by Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis, who also portrayed Amanda Waller in the DC Extended Universe, Dr. Gaul in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Chameleon in Kung Fu Panda 4.
Biography[]
| “ | It's like what I tell my girls: don't suffer future pain, take care of business here and now. | „ |
| ~ Randolph to one of her colleagues/accomplices. |
A Marine Corps veteran, Randolph was remembered by Lieutenant Anita Van Buren while Randolph was in training that she was more effort, less professional character. Randolph became proficient in computers and forensics during her tenure, often pulling double duty for the wages to care for her mother Pauline and Randolph's daughters. She could never pass the psych exams, or beat sexism on the force enough, to make detective, but with her experience in policing street crime, she rose to the rank of sergeant. Randolph sent messages across her district by arresting and beating the worst repeat offenders. After retiring on disability, and while retaining her pension, Randolph found a commanding position in the School Security Division, but the money she was living on wasn't enough for her standards. She and her colleagues became a police gang responsible for robbing drug dealers, and to gain a steady position to threaten the networks in their district, they broke into the one of one of the worst dealers, Rudy Suarez, tied him and his girlfriend up, and shot them both dead. Randolph's boss, Mancuso, was paid his own kickbacks by her crew to look the other way.
Accountant Ron Sherwood noticed the financial discrepancies in Randolph's division, so when Officer Phil LeGrand's forced resignation wasn't enough to close the investigations, she began framing him for the racketeering, creating fictitious activities where Sherwood would look like he used stolen credit cards to solicit sex workers. Before Sherwood could figure everything out an report her unit, Randolph and her accomplices broke into his family's house, bludgeoned Sherwood's wife Mandy with a baseball bat, smothered his kids Billy and Sarah with pillows, and then stabbed his heart, staging the entire massacre as a family murder-suicide. The detectives on the case realize cops are behind the massacre once they realize their forensic knowledge, which was juxtaposed by one mistake with blood spatter patterns to prove it was a setup. They then go to the grounds she patrols to harass the students she harasses and draw attention by threatening her turf. It works, and Randolph takes an instant disliking to Robert Goren, who maintains an oppositional demeanor to Randolph while Alexandra Eames plays the good cop. Randolph throws LeGrand, who killed himself earlier, under the bus when they ask about him.
Cecilia Wang, an employee for the Chief of Detectives who didn't charge her daughter Carla years ago as a favor, tells Randolph about the Leuco blood spatter spray the police are looking for, so Randolph has someone at the Crime Scene Unit swap the spray with a different solution for her as a misdirection. The Major Case Squad executed a search warrant on her home, and Goren tries to turn her family on her by mentioning her robberies and murders, Eames acting more sympathetic. For a sting, they suggest subtly Randolph missed evidence in the computers at the 27th Precinct. Randolph takes the bait, and see the opens the file she's tricked to, resulting in her arrest for attempted cyber-theft. She pleads for the police to not take her daughters, and Goren, not saying they have that intention, does say with her killings, including of other children, she's in no position to defend herself as a mother. All of Randolph's ranks and awards would be stripped, and she would be in prison for the rest of her life.
Trivia[]
- Randolph is inspired by Antoinette Frank, a murderer sentenced to death along with her accomplice, drug dealer Rogers Lacaze, for the murders of a Vietnamese-American family during a robbery at their business, as well as her partner on the force. She failed multiple psych examples, but she was still hired by the New Orleans PD to represent women and officers of color, in spite of the department not improving his history of corruption in full.
External links[]
- Terry Randolph on the Law & Order Wiki
