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| “ | You know you wanted it, and you know you want this! | „ |
| ~ Cain while raping Jocelyn Paley. |
Adam Cain is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "25 Acts". He is a talk show host who rapes author Jocelyn Paley.
He was portrayed by Roger Bart.
Overview[]
Cain is a famous TV personality who hosts an award-winning talk show. Behind his glamorous image, however, Cain is a sexual sadist who regularly sexually harasses and assaults women, particularly ones who work for him. He once assaulted an intern so severely that he broke her wrist, and made the scandal go away by recommending her for a high-paying producer job.
His treatment of women is an open secret among his peers in broadcasting, although none of his victims dares to file official complaints against him for fear of him ruining their careers.
"Twenty-Five Acts"[]
Cain has Jocelyn Paley, the celebrated author of the BDSM erotica novel Twenty-Five Acts, as a guest on his show, where they flirt heavily for the camera. That night, he takes her out to dinner and she comes on to him by sliding her panties to him under the table. They go back to his apartment and are about to have sex when he suddenly becomes violent, slapping her in the face and spanking her with his belt. When she tells him to stop, he overpowers and rapes her while choking her with the belt so hard that he leaves deep red marks on her neck.
Paley goes to a hospital, where a nurse performs a rape kit and calls the NYPD's Special Victims Unit. Detectives Olivia Benson and Amanda Rollins try to find out what happened to her, but she denies having been raped. The following day, Benson sends Detective Fin Tutuola and Sergeant John Munch to Cain's studio to question him, but he says that the sex was consensual, and that he slapped and choked her while they were role-playing scenes from the book. That night, Cain shows up unexpectedly at her book-signing party, where he corners her in a bathroom, curses her telling on him, and rapes her again.
When Paley presses charges against Cain, he tries to get ahead of the scandal by telling his audience that he did not force her to have sex with him, and that she is only accusing him to get money and publicity. Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba has Cain publicly arrested, a situation Cain exploits by telling the reporters who are covering his arrest that the NYPD is persecuting him.
When it surfaces that Paley did not actually write the book, Cain's lawyer, Rita Calhoun, uses this revelation to characterize her to the jury as a habitual liar. Cain, meanwhile, testifies in his own defense that his sex life is active enough that he "does not need to rape". While cross-examining Cain, Barba asks him to demonstrate what he did to Paley by choking him with his own belt. He puts the belt around his neck and instructs Cain to pull on it. When Cain does as he is instructed, Barba entreats him to pull harder and harder until Cain loses his composure and violently chokes him. Once freed, Barba shows the jury that there are no marks on his neck, and then shows them photos of the choking marks he had left on Paley. The jury is horrified, and convicts Cain of first-degree rape.
Trivia[]
- Cain is primarily inspired by Greg Kelly, an anchor and former police commissioner's son who was accused of drugging and raping a woman.
- Cain is also inspired by David Letterman, a late night talk show host who had an affair with a young intern, which Joe Halderman tried to blackmail him over.
- Cain is named after the first man Adam and his son Cain from Abrahamic mythology.
External links[]
- Adam Cain on the Law & Order Wiki
