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Henry Mesner is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Born Psychopath" and "Post-Graduate Psychopath".
He is a ten-year-old boy who sadistically abused and tried to kill his family by burning down his apartment which could have killed multiple people, but fortunately he is institutionalized. when he gets older, after being released from juvenile detention, he goes on a rape and murder spree.
He was portrayed by Ethan Cutkosky.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Mim Close to being Pure Evil[]
"Born Psychopath"[]
- He was said to have assaulted many kids while in his school and had lots of temper tantrums.
- Starting off the episode, Henry Mesner pushes his little sister Ruby down the stairs, resulting in fractured ribs and other major injuries. When interviewed, he lies and claims that their babysitter Irina did it while attempting to frame her.
- It is very quickly discovered that Henry Mesner has been consistently abusing his sister with Ruby referring to him as 'The Monster' with another case being Henry getting Ruby's fingers stick in the door and Henry slamming the door on her.
- His parents fare no better with Henry constantly getting angry at them for telling him off.
- He states multiple times that he hates his sister, and he wanted to 'experiment', seeing if pushing her down the stairs would kill her.
- At one point he is confronted by his mother about his behavior, when she tries to tuck her to bed, Henry refuses and pulls out a knife and then callously slashes her hands.
- Later in the episode, after his parents told him about him going in a treatment facility, he snaps and proceeds to trap his mother in the laundry room, then ties up her sister in the bed and then sets some matches to light a fire, we see smoke filling up the room as Henry callously watches his own sister choke nearly to death. The scene after has the fire team even saying that Henry nearly set the entire apartment on fire which could have potentially killed dozens of people.
- Henry then goes to Toby's house (his friend) and proceeds to tie Toby up and lock him in the closet with a bag over his head, threatening to shoot him before Henry then abuses and drowns their pet dog named 'Snowball', killing her.
- He then steals the gun that belonged to Toby's father and takes another young boy as a hostage, holding a gun to the boy's head.
- The block is cleared away as Amaro confronts Henry, he manages to convince Henry to let the young boy go by promising to give him his gun.
- Amaro says 'maybe later' which sets Henry off as he callously brags about what might happen if he shot him, he then eventually does though it's a non-fatal shot (he expresses open intent to kill him when he's incapacitated).
- His psychotic and unhinged behavior manages to freak out several members of the squad with even B.D Wong stating that "he's only ever felt chills twice in his life and the latter was with death row serial killers".
- He does not care for his parents' well-being and acts outright abusive to them, he is not only manipulative but very intelligent, outright faking emotions multiple times throughout the episode, even to his own father at the end of the episode.
"Post-Graduate Psychopath"[]
- After being institutionalized for 8 years, he pretends to be 'treated' and manipulates the institute staff into letting him go.
- Immediately after returning to society, he initiates his rampage by murdering his step mom, his dad, and his 5 year old half brother
- He then tracks down, ties up, tortures, and brutally rapes Libby Blandon before stealing her debit card and code.
- He stalks and tracks down Rollins (the daughter of one his therapists) and gives a toy to her daughter and names it 'Snowball' in an attempt to taunt her.
- He makes a homeless man buy a bunch of objects such as rope, zip-ties, duct tape and a hand torch; clearly to use during his rampage.
- When speaking with his sister Ruby who is now 13 years old, he expresses nothing but hate and contempt for her and the rest of his family.
- He raids the house of Ruby's adoptive parents, ties up her older adoptive sister (possibly raped her) and kidnapped his younger sister and takes her to an amusement park that's closed down.
- Rollins finds the two in the 'mirror funhouse' where Henry holds a gun to Ruby's head, outright exclaiming that he's 'glad' his mother is dead and expressing intent to kill his sister, Rollins manages to stop this by claiming that she was the one who got Henry institutionalized which enrages him.
- Rollins manages to convince him to let Ruby go with Henry now wanting to talk to Rollins, he explains about a disturbing experience he had when he was 6 when he watched his friend Oscar, and his mother drown to death.
- Henry exclaims that he just 'did what the ocean wanted him to do' and 'floated with the tide', leaving his friend to die. He claims this is the 'first time' he knew he was different and that he was bummed he didn't get to physically see the death of his friend and his mother.
- Henry does agree to surrender but largely due to the fact that he's aware that he'll just be institutionalized again, not incarcerated. Rollins even comments that his killing spree is 'all he's been thinking about for 8 years', outright hoping that whoever locks Henry up 'throws away the key'.
- When put into trial, he manages to elude jail-time via 'reason of insanity' and outright demonstrates a ploy to re-affirm that by going berserk and stabbing Carisi in the ear with a pencil in the court room.
- Rollins visits him as he's being institutionalized and threatens to kill him if he ever comes near her family or Carisi again, Henry Mesner responds to this with an unsettling smile.
- While he does have a friendship with Connor and his sister, seeing as he is a master manipulator who made his parents think he was normal, the probability of the friendship being real is highly unlikely, it's also mostly offscreen, therefore it relies on some speculation.
- Despite being called "two spectrums beyond normal social behavior", he still has clear moral agency as he is sadistic and manipulative, coupled with the fact being beyond social behavior just shows he cannot make usual friendships.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Evil?[]
- While not having any other moments of goodness, he has a pet-the-dog moment where he releases one his victims, Ruby, so that he can accept a deal with Rollins to talk.
External Links[]
- Henry Mesner on the Villains Wiki
- Henry Mesner on the Law & Order Wiki
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