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“ | Who's gonna believe a little nobody, anyway? | „ |
~ Gammon mocking Camille after raping her. |
Alexander Gammon is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Branded".
He was portrayed by Jason Wiles, who also portrayed Caleb Dale Sheppard in Criminal Minds.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Gammon was the son of a wealthy CEO and as a teenager volunteered as a counselor at a summer camp, where he was known as a bully who took special delight in harassing the female campers. He abused his position to lure a girl named Camille Walters, who had a crush on him, into the woods, where he and his friend Bill Dixon gang-raped her, and then intimidated fellow counselor Victor Ramos into raping her, as well. After he was done with Walters, Gammon told the crying girl no one would believe her because she was "a little nobody". Ramos got Walters pregnant, and she gave the child, a girl, up for adoption.
Over the next decade, he paid Dixon and Ramos off for their silence and took control of his father's company, becoming a successful businessman. He also raped several women and paid them off to stay quiet.
"Branded"[]
Fourteen years later, Walters encounters her daughter by chance, which sets her off to get revenge against her rapists. She tracks down Dixon and Ramos and brands and sodomizes them. Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, who have been investigating the assaults, warn Gammon that he could be next. They eventually arrest Camile before she can harm him.
While Benson and Stabler interrogate her, Walters accuses Gammon of having raped her 14 years earlier, but Gammon denies it, dismissing her as insane. However, the detectives manage to find Walters' 13-year-old daughter Hannah and test her DNA, proving that one of the men is her biological father and thus proving that Walters' story is true.
Gammon and Dixon testify against Walters during her trial, lying that she had been promiscuous and prone to violent outbursts while attending camp. Later on, Assistant District Attorney Gillian Hardwicke secretly has SVU bring Hannah in as a surprise witness, falsely telling Gammon that she doesn't know Hannah. It is revealed to the men as Camile's daughter conceived from the rape. Walters' lawyer asks Hannah to point out her biological father, and she points to where Gammon and Ramos are sitting together and says, "the man in blue." Believing she is talking about him, Gammon protests that the girl's paternity has nothing to do with the case, but the judge orders him to sit down. The lawyer asks if Hannah was talking about Gammon, but Hannah replies, "No, the man behind him," indicating Ramos. Unable to stand the guilt any longer and learning he has another daughter; Ramos admits to the gang rape. Desperate, Gammon tells him to shut up, but Ramos doesn't keep quiet and apologizes to Camille for everything, while revealing that Gammon has paid for his and Dixon's silence for years. Ramos angrily pushes Gammon while condemning him for arranging the rape and voicing his shame in his compliance until he is hauled out on the judge's order, but before he leaves, Ramos reveals that he knows from doing Gammon's taxes that he has raped other women and bought their silence, as well. Gammon tries to maintain his composure, while Stabler took note of Ramos' statement.
Gammon is later brought back to the SVU precinct, where Stabler informs him that Dixon and Ramos have been arrested for perjury, but that he is facing a much harsher sentence. Gammon asks him how they knew Ramos was the father, and Stabler replies they tested Dixon and Ramos' DNA while the men were in the hospital, as well as the DNA found on Gammon's coffee cup. Stabler then reveals that they looked into Ramos' accusations and found two of Gammon's victims, who are now giving the money back and pressing charges against him and unlike Camille the statute of limitations hasn't passed. Defeated, Gammon asks Stabler what will happen to him next; Stabler replies, "Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200." Camille was watching and is pleased by getting justice.
Sure enough, Gammon is found guilty of multiple counts of rape and given a lengthy prison sentence.
External links[]
- Alexander Gammon at the Law & Order Wiki