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| “ | I didn't wanna hurt those girls! He made me do it! | „ |
| ~ Wayne blaming his father for his actions. |
Wayne Hankett is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Wannabe". He is a serial rapist and flasher who sexually abuses young girls on the orders of his abusive father Travis.
He is portrayed by Raphael Sbarge, who also portrayed Carl Finster in Criminal Minds and Davis Scolfield in Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.
Early life[]
Wayne's mother died of cancer when he was a child, for which his abusive father Travis blamed him. Travis was also a sexual sadist and serial rapist who preyed on young girls until he lost the ability to get an erection. Travis also brought prostitutes home and made Wayne watch while he rough sex with them, and even brought one home to have sex with Wayne when he was 12 to "break him in". Wayne could not perform with his father watching, however, which only made Travis hate him more. Travis' abuse turned Wayne into a sexually dysfunctional manchild who could not hold down a job or a relationship, and lived with his father well into his 30s.
After Travis developed impotence, he forced Wayne to flash and rape little girls and record the assaults with a hidden camera so Travis could masturbate to them. Wayne did as he was told to win his father's love, but Travis still physically and emotionally abused him, hitting him and calling him a failure who should never have been born.
By the time of the episode, he had raped four girls, and flashed several others.
In "Wannabe"[]
Wayne breaks into an electronics store and hijacks the TV feed so he can expose himself to the entire store. He runs away, but teenager Brad Fletcher, who is posing as a police officer, tackles and subdues him, while accusing him of trying to rape a little girl. Wayne denies it, but Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit arrest him regardless, based on witness identification of a Florida-shaped birthmark above his groin. Travis reluctantly bails Wayne out of jail and berates him once again for being a failure.
When Assistant District Attorney Jo Marlowe finds out that Fletcher is not really a police officer, however, she is forced to drop the charges against Wayne. SVU Detectives John Munch and Fin Tutuola search Travis' house, and eventually find Wayne's digital camera with recordings of several other of Wayne's rapes, giving them evidence they need to arrest him once again. Fletcher, meanwhile, breaks into Travis' house to find more evidence, and walks in on Travis masturbating to a recording of one of Wayne's rapes. Travis shoots Fletcher in the back as he runs away, and so both father and son are arrested - Travis for attempted murder, and Wayne for rape.
Benson interrogates Wayne, while Stabler questions Travis. Benson plays "bad cop" with Wayne, accusing him of shaming his father, which provokes Wayne to reveal the abuse that Travis subjected him to, and accuse his father of forcing him to commit the flashings and rapes, for which he professes remorse. When Stabler confronts Travis with the evidence against him, Travis rationalizes his crimes by saying that Wayne "couldn't get a girl any other way" than indecent exposure and rape. Benson and Stabler take Wayne and Travis, respectively, to central booking, where they run into each other. Wayne tells his father he loves him, but Travis heartlessly disowns him, telling him he wished he had had him aborted. Wayne and Travis are then both imprisoned.
External links[]
- Wayne Hankett on the Law & Order Wiki
