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Tate and Liam Rivers are the main antagonists of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Fast Times @TheWheelHouse". They are a pair of popular social media brothers who are famous on TikTok and have a large fanbase.
Tate was portrayed Jakob Winter and Liam was portrayed by Conor Sweeney.
Biography[]
Tate and and Liam Rivers are the most popular members of their friend Diggy Wheeler's content house, known as the "Wheel House". They post content on TikTok and have a very large following and fanbase. In reality, however, they are arrogant bullies and predators who rape girls who go to the Wheelhouse to try out as members.
TikToker Willa Bartola is invited by Diggy to the Wheel House to try to be their newest member, Willa being infatuated with Tate and Liam, having been direct messaging Tate. She goes with her friend Kevan, a former member of the Wheel House who dislikes Tate and Liam and wants to protect Willa from them. Willa meets Diggy, who has a crush on her and Tate and Liam, filming TikToks with them and performing dances. Later that night, they spend time in the hot tub, Tate and Liam having gotten Willa drunk. While Diggy takes a call from the Wheel House's business manager Lenny, Tate and Liam take Willa down to the basement where they gang-rape her. Afterwards, Kevan finds Willa crying in the corner of the basement.
Willa posts a video on her TikTok, revealing that Tate and Liam raped her, but takes it down due to the slew of hate and cyberbullying she gets from Tate and Liam's fans. Olivia Benson's son, Noah, shows her the video Willa posted about her assault, leading the SVU detectives to track her down and learn from her and Kevan what had happened. Diggy was convinced by Liam and Tate not to let her join the Wheel House and they their sex was consensual.
Diggy invites Willa to the Wheel House, wanting to apologize to her about her being upset, Jett Slootmaekers going undercover to protect her. At the Wheel House, Willa is ambushed by Tate and Liam who aggressively intimidate her and force her to film a livestream with them and say that she lied about the rape, complicating the case. Jett reveals herself to Tate and Liam who are both taken in for questioning by the police.Tate and Liam's arrest sparks an outrage among Wheel House fans, and Tate and Liam use their platform to blame the detectives and incite a riot against them, leading a crowd to get violent towards Amanda Rollins and Dominic Carisi, one fan hitting Carisi with a drink. Tate and Liam slander Willa, calling her a "pick-me girl" and bragging about how they "double-teamed" her.
Feeling remorse over what happened and realizing that Willa is telling the truth, he takes her side and ends up defending her in court. Tate and Liam laugh at him and he has a breakdown, revealing that he had walked out numerous other girls in tears who Tate and Liam had assaulted, covering for them every time, and voicing his anger about them raping Willa who they cared about. He is held in contempt of court and the jury declares Tate and Liam not guilty. The detectives discover that Tate and Liam had bribed the jury, offering a spot in the Wheel House in exchange for a not guilty verdict. Upon the discover of this, Tate and Liam are arrested and sentenced to prison.
Personality[]
Tate and Liam are arrogant, entitled bullies who abuse their fame to commit rape. They treat everyone around them poorly and are known to be homophobic misogynists. They show absolutely no remorse in their terrible actions and take pleasure in slut-shaming Willa and claiming that she made up their accusations as an effort to turn everyone against her, intimidating her into saying she made up what they did.
External links[]
- Tate Rivers on the Law & Order Wiki
- Liam Rivers on the Law & Order Wiki
