“ | I used her up and I bled her dry. Do you want to hear how she screamed? How she begged for her mommy? She was a slut, that one, a real little whore! | „ |
~ Victor Paul Gitano bragging about killing a child. |
Victor Paul Gitano is the main antagonist in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Fault". He is a serial killer who kidnapped two children after murdering their parents.
He was portrayed by Lou Diamond Phillips.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- In his younger days he confessed to having raped and tortured dozens of boys and girls. Based on his homicidal nature and his later actions it can be insinuated that he possibly murdered them as well.
- He ambushed a 12-year-old boy named Jake, raped him, cut him up in depraved manners with a hunting knife, put out cigarettes on his skin, and sodomized him, possibly with the hunting knife. It lasted 12 hours and the effects were so bad that the boy became agoraphobic as a result and refused to leave his home out of fear that it would happen again.
- He was imprisoned for a few years after being caught molesting an 8-year-old girl.
- He flashes several girls at an elementary school which led to one of them reporting him.
- Later that day he murdered a mother and father by slitting their throats, then raped and strangled their eldest daughter to death out of frustration.
- He then kidnaps a young girl and her brother with clear plans to rape and torture them to death.
- When cornered by Detective Benson, he slits her throat, and then while she is incapacitated, he forces her to watch him cut the throat of the boy he kidnapped.
- In his final showdown with Benson and Stabler, he brags that the girl is dead while deriding her as a whore and slut. He also implies that he is a necrophiliac.
- When Benson says there is a sniper around, Victor panics and cowardly tries to bargain the life of the girl with his own before being shot in the head, putting an end to his depravity.
- He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever as while he said to his therapist that his mother sexually abused him, in the next session he changed his tune which suggests that he is rather manipulative and selfish and is willing to twist facts to serve his own needs which means that his earlier statement can be discarded.
- He also does not suffer from moral agency as he is shown to act like he is willing to cooperate and can present different narratives that paint him in a positive light as shown with the therapist which in turn suggests he knows the difference between right and wrong.
- Despite the high heinous standard of the franchise, he would still stand out with his unique torture methods, the psychological scars he left on his victims, his implied or possible victim count of dozens, and last but not least his personal villainy with Stabler and Benson as due to his actions on their relationship was considered irreparable for a while.
Trivia[]
- He is loosely based upon the late serial killer and child molester Joseph Edward Duncan III.
External Links[]
- Victor Paul Gitano on the Villains Wiki
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