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| “ | You screw me over, I'm gonna rip you a new one! | „ |
| ~ Blair threatening a training officer. |
Kirstin Blair is the main antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Navy Blues". She is a pilot with the U.S. Navy who murders her lover after he refuses to leave his wife for her.
She was portrayed by Kate Walsh, who also portrayed The Handler in The Umbrella Academy.
Early life[]
Blair came from a Navy family, so she joined up herself to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a pilot. When she began training, however, it became obvious that she lacked the skills necessary to fly a plane, especially at night; she failed three training sessions, each time nearly crashing.
Nevertheless, her superiors wanted the publicity of training a female pilot, something rare in the Navy, so they decided to keep her in the program. While her skills improved somewhat over time, she was still far behind her fellow officers in terms of training and basic ability.
She had an affair with another officer, Navy Chief Robert Stroud, who was married to a Navy Quartermaster. She fell in love with him, while he considered the relationship merely a fling, one of many he had with several female officers over the years. When he refused to leave his wife for her, Blair became enraged and shot him dead in her car.
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NYPD Homicide Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtis investigate Stroud's murder and question Blair, asking her whether she had a sexual relationship with him; she denies it, saying that a relationship with another officer, particularly one who is already married, is against the Code of Military Justice. However, Stroud's wife tells the detectives that Blair is lying and was indeed sleeping with her husband, while Blair's ex-boyfriend tells them that she left him for another Naval officer whom she described as "the man of her dreams". Finally, Briscoe and Curtis examine her car and find that the windshield is new, having replaced glass that had been shattered by a bullet, which proves that she is the killer.
After she is arrested, Blair claims that Stroud attacked her after she broke off their relationship, and that she killed him in self-defense. Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy does not believe her, however, and has Briscoe and Curtis trace her movements on the night of the shooting. Witnesses inform them that Blair was sitting in the passenger seat, not driving the car as she claimed, meaning the shots were fired from her direction, making it more likely that she shot him while he was in a reclined position, not lunging forward. After a brief conflict with the Navy over jurisdiction of the case, McCoy and Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross indict Blair for murder in the second degree.
During the ensuing trial, Blair's lawyer brings up Stroud's history of sexually harassing female officers and argues that Blair is being persecuted by the Navy and the district attorney's office because she is a woman in a male-dominated job. McCoy and Ross cross-examine Stroud's wife and Blair's ex-boyfriend, who both testify that Blair was obsessed with Stroud. Blair insists that she ended the relationship and denies being angry with him, claiming that she keeps a tight rein on her emotions as part of her job.
McCoy and Ross check with Blair's training officer, who provides them with a recording of one of Blair's failed tests, during which she panicked and threatened him. McCoy plays the recording for the jury, who are visibly disturbed by the angry, violent demeanor she exhibits on it. Knowing that she will likely be convicted, Blair pleads guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter, with a prison sentence of 8 1/2 to 25 years in prison. Following her plea deal, she talks with the press, claiming that the Navy and the district attorney's office are out to get her.
External links[]
- Kirstin Blair on the Law & Order Wiki
