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This episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent begins with a retirement party for a Hudson University department chair, Professor Winthrop. Winthrop disparages a fellow professor, Sanders, for being a media hound and even turning his subject matter into a rap video. He is then pestered by a graduate student Mark Bayley, who asks for more time to finish his dissertation. Two female professors, Fellows and Hitchens disparage Bayley. Prof. Sanders is pissed and confronts Winthrop in his office. Sanders then talks to Bayley and promises to grant him more time for his thesis - if he is made the new department chair.

Soon after, the department head and his secretary are found dead in his office.

The detectives investigate the scene and determine that the murder weapon is a gavel - implying that the killer thought he was getting justice by murdering Winthrop. They talk to the secretary’s roommate, who reveals that she was starting and stopping a CD on her Diskman. The detectives don’t find the CD, but they do find the words transcribed. The lyrics of the song point to an older African American man, most likely a professor at Hudson U. Which leads them to Sanders.

Sanders states that he was grading papers all night, but the detectives bust that alibi by noticing one paper with an obvious error that the professor should have caught were he actually grading papers. His assistant though, gives him a stronger alibi. The detectives then look into Mark Bayley, the grader of the paper and notice that his shoes are way too nice compared to the rest of his clothes. They find out from the exclusive store that sells those shoes, that a woman named Hitchens bought them from him.

Goren and Hitchens seem to verbally dance around each other. Hitchens is shown comforting Bayley before going to bed with him. The next day, she gets into a car and kisses Prof. Fellows, who now seems to be a lock for the department chairmanship.

Goren and Eames interrogate Bayley. When confronted with the insults that Hitchens uttered about him to Goren, Bayley appears ready to confess and implicate her too. But he goes into shock and dies.

An autopsy and medical records reveal that Bayley was allergic to peanut products. Medical records also show that he was recently rushed to the ER from a Thai restaurant. When the detectives question the hostess at that restaurant, they find out that he was there with an Australian woman who ordered for him in Thai, so he wouldn’t know the dish had peanuts. Upon further inquiry, the hostess reveals that the Australian woman spoke fluent but low class Thai and claimed to have lived in a town that has a large women’s prison. Detectives find out “Hitchens”’ real name - Nicole Wallace, and find out she had been convicted of aiding a Frenchman who murdered eight tourists to rob them.

The detectives trick Prof. Fellows into firing Hitchens/Wallace, then detain and interrogate her. The professor realizes she’s been played by the cops, re-hires “Hitchens” and sends a lawyer to spring her from detention. The police then discover that the real Prof. Hitchens had embezzled money from a foundation in Sydney. This was why Nicole had fled to the US - because financial crimes aren’t covered in the extradition treaty between the US and Australia.

But the cops discover that Hitchens cleared out her apartment and has fled, leaving a weeping Prof. Fellows.

This episode contains examples of the following tropes

• Armor-Piercing Question : Nicole tries to rattle Goren by asking when he realized his mother was abnormal. Goren fires back by asking her whether sexual abuse by her father led her to prey on men.
• Artistic License – Law : Getting terminated while on a work visa doesn’t immediately make your presence in the country illegal. You have a 60 day grace period to find a new job. Also, even a visa overstayer or undocumented migrant has the same legal protections that arrested US citizens have - the right to counsel, right to remain silent, right against detention without charges or a trial.
• Citizenship Marriage : Of sorts. Nicole has shacked up with Prof. Christine Fellows so that the latter will sponsor her work visa and eventually an Employment based Green Card.
• Depraved Bisexual : Nicole is involved in at least 9 murders, and sleeps with men and women.
• Failed a Spot Check : A paper that Prof. Sanders supposedly graded during the time of the murder, attributed a quote to T S Elliot when Sanders himself states later that it was Ezra Pound who stated that quote. This tips the detectives off to the fact that Sanders’ teaching assistant was grading those papers instead of him. Later, they use the same mistake to zero in on Mark Bayley.
• Kill and Replace : While it isn’t confirmed for sure, it is heavily implied that Nicole Wallace killed Dr. Elizabeth Hitchens and assumed her identity.
• Malcolm Xerox : Professor Sanders is a textbook example. He takes umbrage at his unorthodox teaching methods being characterized as a “rap video” and even calls the university a “plantation” and the department chair as a “massa”.
• Manipulative Bitch : Nicole Wallace manipulated Mark Bayley into murdering the head of the department. With him gone and the black professor as the prime suspect, her lover Dr. Fellows has a clear path to take over the department.
• Meaningful Appearance : Mark Bayley’s classy shoes don’t match his otherwise slovenly clothes and appearance. This tips the detectives off that someone else is buying him stuff, presumably female.
• Passed-Over Promotion : Sanders was a shoo-in to succeed Winthrop as department chair. Until Winthrop scuttled Sanders’ candidacy as well as his ability to get hired on at any other prestigious university, by raising a stink about the “rap video”.
• Perfect Poison : Nicole uses Mark Bayley’s peanut oil allergy to kill him - by spiking his nicotine gum. That said, an autopsy immediately identifies peanut oil as the method and Goren zeroes in on Nicole as the culprit.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator : Mark Bayley has been working on his doctoral thesis for ten years. And he is still nowhere close to being done. This is presumed to be the motive for murdering the Department Head - so a different one will give him yet another extension.
• The Sociopath : Nicole. Charming, manipulative and homicidal.
• Spanner in the Works : Nicole had a good thing going, having assumed the identity of Dr. Elizabeth Hitchens from Sydney Australia. Too bad, the real Elizabeth Hitchens had embezzled money and the Sydney police were closing in on her. This forced Nicole to run to the US.
• Secret Relationship : Between Nicole and Prof. Fellows. Also between Nicole and Bayley.
• Weaponized Allergy : "Hitchens" ordered Bayley a dish with peanuts, in order to trigger Bayley's allergy.
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Nicole Wallace , also known as Elizabeth Haynes (nee Hitchens) , is the main antagonist of Law & Order: Criminal Intent . A seductive, highly intelligent criminal mastermind and serial killer, she is the long-standing archnemesis of Detective Robert Goren .

She was portrayed by Olivia d'Abo .

• 1 Early life
• 2.1 "Anti-Thesis"
• 2.2 "Zoonotic" and "Person of Interest"
• 2.3 "Great Barrier"
• 2.5 "Slither"
• 2.6 "Frame"
• 2.7 Jo: Catacombs
• 3.1 Directly
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Early life [ ]

Nicole Wallace was born in Australia. It is implied that her father molested her as a child. Goren at one point theorized that the trauma bred in her an intense hatred of both men and women, and an all-consuming need to manipulate and destroy anyone who got close to her.

As a young woman, she visited Thailand and met a con artist named Bernard Fremont . She and Fremont went on a killing spree, targeting male tourists. She seduced the men, and set them up for Fremont to rob and kill them. They killed eight men before they were caught. Fremont was sentenced to life in prison, but Nicole agreed to testify against him in return for a ten-year prison sentence. After she got out, she moved back to Australia, and briefly supported herself as a prostitute before marrying a man named Rohan Barlett and giving birth to a child named Hannah.

When Hannah was three years old, Nicole began to suspect that Hannah was stealing Rohan's attention from her; Goren later theorizes that Nicole had internalized her father's warped view of little girls as sex objects, and so she saw her own child as a sexual rival. One day, Nicole flew into a rage and twisted Hannah's arm until it fractured. Upon realizing what she had done, she snapped the child's neck and buried the body in the iron-rich soils of Australian wetlands (which later prevented DNA evidence from proving it was her child). She told people that her child was lost at sea, but the police still investigated her. Fearing that she might get caught, she murdered an embezzler named Elizabeth Hitchens and stole her identity to flee to America, where she used Hitchens' credentials to become a visiting literature professor at Hudson University.

Appearances [ ]

"anti-thesis" [ ].

Nicole needs a permanent, salaried job to get a work visa, allowing her to stay in America without going to jail for Hitchens' crimes. In order to ensure her job at HU, she seduces a professor named Christine Fellowes, as she was one of the two people on campus who were qualified for a job opening (Head of American Studies) on campus and would give her a permanent position so she could stay in the U.S. However, the university Dean, Franklin Winthrop, is unsure who to give the job to.

Nicole seduces Hudson graduate student Mark Bayley and tells him to murder Winthrop, misleading him into believing that his graduate advisor, Roland Sanders, would be promoted to Dean and give him more time to finish his thesis. Bayley kills Winthrop and his secretary, and Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames of the NYPD's Major Case Squad investigate the murders. Goren questions Nicole, and they are immediately fascinated with each other, even as they both sense that the other is dangerous.

Nicole researches Goren and learns of his parents' divorce and his mother's mental illness. To cover her tracks, she murders Bayley by exposing him to peanuts, to which he is deathly allergic.

Goren pursues her as a suspect, however, eventually exposing her for stealing Hitchens' identity and having Winthrop killed. As a murder suspect, Nicole could be deported back to Australia, because she lacks American citizenship. Fellowes fires her, meaning that, as an unemployed illegal immigrant with no status, she can be held in jail indefinitely.

While Goren interrogates her, she taunts him with her knowledge of his unhappy childhood, while he counters that he has deduced that she was sexually abused as a child by her father, a notion that she emphatically denies. Moments later, she is set free by the university's lawyer, who had secured a writ of habeas corpus for her. By the time Goren and Eames gather enough evidence to arrest her again, however, she has fled the country without a trace.

"Zoonotic" and "Person of Interest" [ ]

Nicole meets a wealthy man named Gavin Haynes while on the run and marries him. Nicole is thus safe from extradition, since she became an American citizen upon her marriage. She still resents Goren, however, and decides to discredit and ruin him.

She sleeps with bacteriologists Roger Stern and Scott Borman and steals two grams of anthrax from Davis' personal collection. She then meets a woman named Connie Matson at a bar near a U.S. Air Force base, and sleeps with her to gain her trust. Nicole persuades Connie to get some anthrax vaccine boosters so she could buy them from her, setting in motion the events of "Person of Interest".

When Matson gets the vaccines, Nicole kills her by hitting her over the head with a dumbbell. She steals the vaccines, and frames scientist Dan Croydon, a deadbeat dad who Nicole knew would remind Goren of his own father. Just as she planned, Goren relentlessly pursues Croydon, ruining his reputation. She invites herself into Croydon's apartment, has sex with him, and entices him to write a note expressing his anger at Goren. When he is finished, she kills him and makes it look like a suicide. She then leaves the vaccines and vial of anthrax on a train to Montreal to prove Croydon's innocence and ruin Goren's reputation. Nicole later approaches Goren at a restaurant and taunts him about his public disgrace. She also introduces him to her new husband, Gavin Haynes.

Realizing her plan, Goren has her arrested for stealing the anthrax. During her interrogation, Nicole once again tries to get inside Goren's head, while also mocking Eames, who was a pregnancy surrogate for her sister's child, for having "eggs ripe and ready for hire". Goren tells Nicole that she has become the abuser of the "sparkling little girl" she once was, and that she keeps trying to destroy him because she knows, deep down, that he is right about her. He then says that she has been exposed to anthrax, to which she replies that she has been vaccinated; this finally proves that she is not Elizabeth Hitchens, who had no record of being vaccinated against anthrax. As Garen arrests her for murder, she warns him that she is not finished with him.

Nevertheless, Haynes stands by Nicole and even finances her successful defense to the murder charge.

"Great Barrier" [ ]

A young Japanese-American woman named Ella Miyazaki robs several jewelry stores, taking millions of dollars in diamonds. She briefly works with a male accomplice, who is found murdered by an injection of succinylcholine. Goren and Eames begin tracking her down, believing that she killed her accomplice for his share of the profits. The investigation leads Goren and Eames to a description matching Nicole, and they realize she has resurfaced.

Nicole, who is Ella's lover as well as her partner in crime, sends her to kill Haynes by tampering with the elevator in his apartment, but Goren manages to save him. Nicole then shows up at the Major Case Squad's precinct to offer Goren a truce, promising to give up the diamond theft scam in return for him leaving her and Ella alone.

Goren is nonetheless more determined than ever to put her away, and he and Eames eventually find evidence of Hannah's death. Goren brings Nicole in for questioning and accuses her of killing her own daughter because she saw the girl as a sexual rival, having internalized her father's excuse that young girls are too attractive to resist. Enraged, Wallace denies the accusation, and resolves to destroy Goren once and for all.

Goren, however, closes the net tighter around Nicole by arresting Ella and showing her evidence proving that Nicole killed her own child. He then tells Ella that Nicole will eventually kill her, too, unless she helps them. Ella agrees to wear a wire and meet with Nicole, while Goren and Eames listen in. Nicole discovers Ella's betrayal, however, and throws Ella and herself out of the window before Goren and Eames can stop her; Ella's body is found, but Nicole has disappeared.

Nicole re-emerges a year later, now working as a librarian and engaged to Dr. Evan Chapel ; however, it is implied that she murdered Evan's brother Larry and made it look like an accidental drug overdose. Goren believes that Nicole is planning to kill Evan's daughter Gwen in order to collect on the girl's trust fund. During the investigation, however, Goren learns that Evan is in fact trying to kill Gwen, and Nicole is trying to protect the girl, whom she has grown to love, in her own way.

Goren confronts Nicole and tells her that she will always pose a threat to anyone who gets close to her; he then implores her to help him protect Gwen. Nicole gives Goren evidence implicating Chapel in killing his wife, but she insists that she will be a good mother to Gwen. She then kidnaps the girl, but, in a rare moment of conscience, leaves her with an aunt in Arizona. She then leaves a voicemail for Goren admitting that he was right and cursing him for taking away her last chance at happiness.

"Slither" [ ]

In 2005, Bernard Fremont , Nicole's former partner in crime, is arrested for the murder of Russ Corbett. As he is leaving the courthouse after his arraignment, an unidentified woman stabs him with a syringe, killing him instantly. Though he cannot prove it, Goren believes Nicole was the assailant, murdering Fremont as revenge for turning her into a killer.

"Frame" [ ]

When Goren's brother Frank is murdered via a drug overdose, Goren immediately suspects Nicole. She sends flowers to the hospital and Goren's desk before disappearing. After Goren and Eames follow several cryptic messages apparently left by Nicole, they discover a box containing a human heart, which they believe to be another one of Nicole's victims. However, medical examiner Elizabeth Rodgers confirms that the heart is in fact Nicole's.

Goren eventually finds out that Nicole and Frank were both murdered by his mentor, Dr. Declan Gage, who was trying to "free" Goren from the baggage of his past. According to Gage, Nicole's last words were "Tell Bobby he was the only man I ever loved."

Jo: Catacombs [ ]

In 2013, an unidentified woman resembling Nicole in appearance and mannerisms appears in Paris under the alias of "Madeline Haynes", at some point meeting and beginning a relationship with Minister of Foreign Affairs Pepin. She starts squatting in a hospice patient's house, because she didn't have a home of her own. Madeline eventually gets pregnant with Pepin's child and wants him to leave his wife. When he refuses, she begins a relationship with a microbiologist named Silvie Ferrier, and another relationship with a pastry chef. She is domineering with Silvie to the point where she forces her to wear clothes that are too small for her.

When Silvie discovers Madeline is pregnant, Madeline kills her and stages the crime scene to make it appear as if Satanists and her boss committed the murder. During the course of the investigation, it is revealed that Madeline plans to kill Pepin's family so she can have him all to herself and have a family of her own. Her plan is stopped and she is arrested for the murders and attempted poisonings. However, she manages to escape justice by setting up a Korean gang for the crime. It is later revealed that her DNA is not a match to Nicole Wallace's on file and the minister releases her from prison. It is ultimately left ambiguous if she is Nicole Wallace.

Victims [ ]

Directly [ ].

• Hannah Barlett
• Elizabeth Hitchens
• Mark Bayley
• Connie Matson
• Daniel Croydon
• Zach Thaler
• Ella Miyazaki
• Larry Chapel
• Bernard Fremont
• Frank Goren
• Silvie Ferrier*
• Adele Gauthier*
• Unnamed Pastry Chef*

Indirect [ ]

• Eight Male Tourists: Killed By Bernard Fremont
• Franklin Winthrop: Bludgeoned By Mark Bayley
• Kate Robbins: Bludgeoned By Mark Bayley
• The attempted banquet mass poisoning: assaulted by the Pastry Chef*
• Sixteen unnamed guests*
• Deputy Minister Pepin's Unnamed wife*
• Deputy Minister Pepin's Unnamed daughter*
• Deputy Minister Pepin's Unnamed son*

*Committed by "Madeleine Haynes"

Gallery [ ]

• Nicole is primarily inspired by James Moriarty , the main villain of the late Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes stories.
• According to actress Olivia d'Abo and series creator René Balcer , Madeline Haynes, who appears in the episode of "Jo", is Nicole Wallace with a new alias. Peculiarly, her DNA wasn't a match, meaning she likely used forensic trickery to escape and assume a new identity.
• Two endings for "Great Barrier" were shot - one in which Nicole's death is shown onscreen, and another in which her fate is left ambiguous. Both episodes were aired, and viewers were asked to phone NBC and say which they preferred. The ambiguous ending won, giving the series' writers the freedom to include her in later episodes.
• Coincidentally, Nicole shares her name with MSNBC news anchor and former White House Communications Director Nicole Wallace .

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• Nicole Wallace on the Law & Order Wiki

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The antithesis of law and order

President Donald Trump took his discord-and-turmoil tour to Kenosha , Wisconsin, on Tuesday, re-roiling a town that had calmed itself after a week of unrest.

Trump did not meet with the family of Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot by a police officer seven times in the back, a stomach-turning act that the president likened to a golfer who misses a short putt.

By contrast, he offered supportive comments about Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who drove to Kenosha from Illinois with an AR-15 to join the fray and is accused of shooting three protesters, killing two. Rittenhouse has been charged with first-degree murder , but Trump made the public case that he was acting in self-defense.

Trump, along with Attorney General Bill Barr, rolled into Kenosha — over the objections of the city’s mayor and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers , who told the president that, “I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing.”

Trump’s claim to being a law and order president would be risible were it not tragic. His presidency represents the antithesis of law and order. No president has been less respectful of law, both specific legislative enactments and the very concept of the rule of law, not of men.

Is it any wonder that chaos follows him like a bridal train? This is his governing strategy. But the aberration of his presidency goes much deeper than his phony lip service to law and order.

As his comments about Rittenhouse demonstrate, Trump encourages his supporters to take the law into their own hands. It serves his purposes to have them ignite a melee with Black Lives Matter protesters. Trump’s only campaign tactic left at this point, given the COVID-19 catastrophe, is to play out the lie that murderous left-wing mobs are amassing at the gates and only he can stop them.   

He is our first pro-vigilante president.

Consider his many acts going back to the start of his term, beginning with his infamous reaction — “you also had very fine people on both sides” — after a car plowed into a group of counterprotesters at a huge white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Or his pardons of the Hammonds , who were convicted of setting fire to federal land, the case that inspired the Bundy family to lead an armed standoff against the federal government at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Or his commentary on the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Or on Sunday, when he praised hundreds of supporters — he tweeted that they were “GREAT PATRIOTS” — who invaded Portland in a terrifying caravan, and shot paintballs and chemical irritants at protesters from the back of their trucks.

Rittenhouse has already become a hero for far-right websites frequented by Trump supporters, one of whom, in a tweet that Trump “liked,” called the accused murderer “a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump.”

Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., was right on the money when he said Trump “sees this violence, and his ability to agitate more of it, as useful to this campaign. What it does to the country, the loss of life, he doesn’t care.”

Trump’s embrace of vigilantism fits very well with his distinctly racist rhetoric. His desperate fiction is that his supporters, nearly all white, are peace-loving patriots, whereas the Black and brown victims of racism and police attacks are, in his dog-whistle descriptions, anarchists, rioters and criminals.

The facts are exactly to the contrary. A review of politically motivated attacks in the last 25 years by the Center for Strategic and International Studies determined that there were more than five times as many persons killed by right-wing violence as by left-wing violence. The anti-fascist movement antifa was linked to exactly one death over that period, and the person who died was the attacker.

Trump’s vigilantism is an astonishing full-frontal attack on the state’s authority, as manifested in the law — which he is supposed to defend as the head of this administration. This fits nowhere within any identifiable strains of American political thought, such as conservatism or even a states’ rights ideology.

Instead, Trump’s ethos rejects the most basic tenet of civil society, namely the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. For political philosophers from Hobbes forward, this principle is foundational to ordered civilization.

There really is no precedent for Trump’s despicable stratagem among American presidents. To find one, we would have to consult the playbook of authoritarian thugs such as Viktor Orban or Vladimir Putin: Incite violence, including at the hands of your brown-shirt faithful, blame it on the other (refugees, Jews, Crimean nationalists) and use it to justify strong-arm tactics.

For the president to promote outlaw tactics is beyond perverse. It is a direct assault on democratic rule. If Trump can succeed in winning reelection on these terms, we will lose, and may never reclaim, our status as a democracy governed by law.

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A brilliant, calculating sociopath, Nicole was the only person who was ever able to get the better of Goren and took particular delight in confronting him about his unhappy childhood and career hurdles, which he always retorted by regularly regarding her own traumatic past and failures at a safe, normal life.

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Very little is known about Nicole's past, although it was apparently so painful that she went to great lengths to keep anyone from learning about it. As best as can be determined, she was born somewhere in Queensland, Australia . Detective Goren once speculated that she was molested by her father from the age of three. Nicole has vehemently denied this is true, but once said in private to Gwen Chapel that "sometimes daddies love too much".

Nicole later surfaced in Thailand , where she met a charismatic sociopath named Bernard Fremont . Fremont saw great potential in her and trained her as his apprentice-in-crime. Together, they robbed and murdered eight tourists, for which she was imprisoned for ten years. While in prison, she learned to speak Thai, though only low-class, likely picking up the language from her fellow prisoners. After she served her time, she moved back to Australia to start a new life. In 1995, she was living in Bendigo and was vaccinated for anthrax there. One year later, she met a man named Daniel Croydon , who was studying anthrax in Bendigo.

As an adult, she married Rohan Bartlett, and the two had a daughter named Hannah together in 1997. Things were apparently normal up until her daughter Hannah turned three. After that point, Nicole began to fear that her daughter Hannah would become a rival for Rohan's affections; Goren later speculates that she had internalized her father's excuse that young girls are too attractive for men to resist. On September 12, 2000, while visiting Stradbroke Island at the beach with her daughter, she broke the girl's neck and arm, killing her, leaving her feeling remorse with what she had done. The child's father reported the crime to the Queensland Police at 2:30pm. Then, she later came up with the cover story that her daughter drowned in the waters off Stradbroke Island. She was never conclusively connected to the crime, but a year later, she left the country under the name of Elizabeth Hitchens after her daughter Hannah's body was discovered. Police in Brisbane would later find the body of an unidentified woman, suspected to be the real Hitchens.

Nicole first became known to Goren and Eames while using her Hitchens identity. Under this alias, she was employed as a visiting professor at Hudson University . While there, she became romantically involved with Professor Christine Fellowes , who was in line to become the head of the American Studies department. Wallace arranged for the dean's murder, knowing he was deciding on that position. Nicole hoped that Fellowes would get the position because of the suspicion cast on another candidate through the killer, Mark Bayley . To cover her tracks, she poisons Bayley after talking with Goren. However, her scheme is eventually discovered, and her fake identity's embezzlement is exposed, which gives her motive for the murders. As a murder suspect, Nicole could be deported back to Australia because she lacks American citizenship. When Eames and Goren arrived to arrest her, she had already fled. ( CI : " Anti-Thesis ")

She eventually meets a man named Gavin Haynes while on the run, seducing and marrying him. Nicole is thus safe from extradition since she becomes an American citizen upon her marriage. She decides to get revenge on Goren for exposing her scheme. To this end, she seduces and sleeps with Doctors Roger Stern and Scott Borman , also stealing two grams of anthrax from Davis' personal collection. She then met a woman named Connie Matson at a bar near a U.S. Air Force base and slept with her to gain her trust. Nicole then persuaded Connie to get some anthrax vaccine boosters so she could buy them from her. ( CI : " Zoonotic ")

When Connie managed to get the vaccines, Nicole killed her by hitting her over the head with a dumbbell, stole the vaccines, and framed Dan Croydon, a deadbeat dad whom Nicole knew would remind Goren of his own father. When Goren relentlessly pursued Croydon, she invited herself into Croydon's apartment, had sex with him, and enticed him to write a note expressing his anger at Goren. When he was finished, she killed him and made it look like a suicide. She then left the vaccines and vial of anthrax on a train to Montreal to prove Croydon's innocence and ruin Goren's reputation. Nicole later met Goren in a diner and taunted him. She also introduced him to Gavin. Goren had her arrested on suspicion of stealing the anthrax and tricked her into revealing her true identity. She is then arrested for murder. ( CI : " A Person of Interest ")

Nevertheless, Haynes stood by Nicole and even used his money to finance her successful defense to the murder charge. ( CI : " Pas de Deux ")

The marriage ended after Nicole said that she was unable to bear children and "didn't see the point" of seeing a doctor about it. Sometime after, Nicole took a new lover, Ella Miyazaki , and began training her to be her accomplice, just as Fremont had trained her. Upon learning that Haynes had revealed her infertility to Goren and Eames, she sent Ella to kill her ex-husband by trapping him in an elevator and stealing his asthma inhaler so he would have an attack and suffocate. However, this attempt was averted by Goren. Eventually, the murder of her own daughter Hannah was revealed, which persuaded Ella to turn on Nicole. When Nicole figured it out, Nicole killed her and she faked her own death. ( CI : " Great Barrier ")

Nicole re-emerged a year later, now working as a librarian and engaged to Dr. Evan Chapel ; however, it is strongly implied that she murdered Evan's brother Larry and made it look like an accidental drug overdose. Goren believed that Nicole was planning to kill Evan's daughter Gwen in order to collect on the girl's trust fund. During the investigation, Goren learned that Evan was, in fact, trying to kill Gwen, and Nicole was trying to protect the girl, whom she had grown to love Goren confronted Wallace and told her that she would always pose a threat to anyone who got close to her, and implored her to help him protect Gwen. Nicole gave Goren evidence implicating Chapel in the murder of his wife and the assault of his daughter but insisted that she could be a good mother to Gwen. She then kidnapped the girl, but, in a rare moment of conscience, left her with her aunt in Arizona. She then left a voicemail for Goren admitting that he was right and cursing him for taking away her last chance at happiness. ( CI : " Grow ")

In 2005, Bernard Fremont was arrested for the murder of Russ Corbett. As he was leaving the courthouse after his arraignment, an unidentified woman stabbed him with a syringe, killing him instantly. Though he would never be able to prove it, Goren believed Nicole to be the assailant. ( CI : " Slither ")

In 2008, she was murdered herself by Dr. Declan Gage , who cut her heart out after manipulating her to murder Frank Goren , Robert's brother. According to Gage, her last words were "Tell Bobby he was the only man I ever loved." While it's never revealed who Bobby was, it's possible she means Goren since his first name is Robert ( CI : " Frame ").

Goren thought about his initial encounter with Nicole during a therapy session with psychologist Paula Gyson . ( CI : " Boots on the Ground ")

Accomplices

• Bernard Fremont
• Mark Bayley
• Ella Miyazaki
• Declan Gage
• Victim: Officer William Davis
• Victim: Monica Chapel
• Attempted Victim: Gwen Chapel

Known Victims

• Unknown dates from 1985 to 1987, Thailand: Eight unnamed men (all seduced by Nicole and killed by Fremont)
• September 12, 2000: Hannah June Bartlett (twisted her arm until it fractured and broke her neck)
• Unknown date in 2001: Elizabeth Hitchens (murdered)
• Franklin Winthrop (bludgeoned with a gavel by Bayley at Nicole's direction)
• Kate Robbins (bludgeoned with a gavel by Bayley at Nicole's direction)
• October 2: Mark Bayley (poisoned with peanut oil in his nicotine gum)
• April 17: Connie Matson (bludgeoned over the head with a dumbbell)
• April 23: Daniel Croydon (strangled and staged his death to look like a suicide)
• May 18: Zach Thaler (injected with a fatal dose of succinylcholine)
• Gavin Haynes (assaulted; Ella attempted to suffocate him in an elevator)
• Ella Miyazaki (crushed her trachea)
• August 2005: Larry Chapel (injected with a fatal dose of potassium chloride under his tongue)
• December 2006: Bernard Fremont (poisoned)
• Frank Goren (injected with a fatal dose of succinylcholine at Gage's direction)
• Robert Goren (stalked and harassed with Gage's conspiracy)
• Her fingerprints are later matched to a murderer named Madeleine Haynes on the French crime series Jo and according to actress Olivia d'Abo and the series creator René Balcer , Madeline is Nicole Wallace with a new alias. Peculiarly, her DNA wasn't a match, meaning she likely used forensic trickery to escape and assume a new identity.
• Viewers were polled to see whether Nicole would die on Great Barrier . East Coast viewers saw Nicole live; the West Coast viewers saw her die.

Appearances

• Season 2 : " Anti-Thesis " • " A Person of Interest "
• Season 4 : " Great Barrier "
• Season 5 : " Grow "
• Season 7 : " Frame "
• Season 10 : " Boots on the Ground " (archive footage)
• 1 Olivia Benson
• 2 Elliot Stabler
• 3 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU will be back for the 2024-25 season after NBC renewed the pair of shows but spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime is in a slightly more precarious position.

The network has renewed Law & Order for Season 24, while Law & Order: SVU will be back for Season 26.

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Law & Order itself has gone through some significant casting changes. Jeffrey Donovan, who played Detective Frank Cosgrove, left before production and Veep’s Reid Scott joined the cast as Detective Vincent Riley.

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Then after nearly 30 years and more than 400 episodes, it emerged that Sam Waterson, who played Jack McCoy, was leaving the show . Scandal’s Tony Goldwyn joined as the new DA, Nicholas Baxter.

Mehcad Brooks, Camryn Manheim, Hugh Dancy and Odelya Halevi also star.

Law & Order is averaging 7.7 million viewers, which is up +56% and up +122% in the demo, according to NBC.

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Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law

Federal d.c. judge reggie b. walton warned trump’s attacks on hush-money trial judge and others could lead to violence. reagan, bush-appointed judges decry jan. 6 revisionism, threats..

A Republican-appointed judge denounced Donald Trump’s social media attacks against the judge presiding over the former president’s hush money trial in Manhattan and his daughter , calling them assaults on the rule of law that could lead to violence and tyranny.

“When judges are threatened, and particularly when their family is threatened, it’s something that’s wrong and should not happen,” U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in a live interview Thursday. He added, “It is very troubling because I think it is an attack on the rule of law.”

The unusual media statement by a sitting federal judge came after Trump blasted New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and his daughter, Loren Merchan, criticizing her affiliation with a digital marketing company that works with Democratic candidates and erroneously attributing to her a social media post showing Trump behind bars.

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Walton, who was appointed by presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush to courts in Washington in 1981 and 1991, said “any reasonable, thinking person” would appreciate the impact of Trump’s rhetoric on some followers, intentional or not. The judge recalled how a disgruntled litigant killed the son and wounded the husband of New Jersey federal Judge Esther Salas at her home in a 2020 shooting.

Since late 2020, as Trump began escalating his attacks on the judiciary, serious investigated threats against federal judges have more than doubled , from 224 in 2021 to 457 in 2023, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, as first reported by Reuters. Federal judges in Washington say at least half of trial judges handling cases arising from the Jan. 6 , 2021, attack on the Capitol have received a surge in threats and harassment, including death threats to their homes, with Trump’s election obstruction trial judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, placed under 24-hour protection.

“The rule of law can only be maintained if we have independent judicial officers who are able to do their job and ensure that the laws are in fact enforced and that the laws are applied equally to everybody who appears in our courthouse,” Walton told CNN. He was prompted to speak out of concern for the “future of our country and the future of democracy in our country,” Walton said, “because if we don’t have a viable court system that’s able to function efficiently, then we have tyranny.”

Walton’s remarks came as several federal judges in Washington appointed by Republican presidents have spoken with increasing urgency about Trump’s disregard for historical facts and alarmed at his increasingly graphic and at times violent description of defendants prosecuted in the Jan. 6 riot as “ political prisoners ” and “hostages” who did nothing wrong.

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“In my 37 years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream,” U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said in a January sentencing. “ I have been dismayed to see distortions and outright falsehoods seep into the public consciousness .”

U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan similarly told a group of Georgetown Law School students in January that false claims that riot defendants were acting like tourists or patriots were destructive rewriting of reality. “There’s a danger that is embedded now in our communities across the country,” Hogan said.

“And we have to wonder where this is going to end up if that’s part of our history, this fraudulent story” by Trump that the 2020 election was stolen. Hogan spoke shortly after his retirement after completing 40 years on the bench and sentencing 26 Jan. 6 riot defendants.

Hogan and Lamberth were both appointed by Reagan, and both served as chief judges of the U.S. District Court in Washington, where judges have presided over more than 1,350 prosecutions for the riot that resulted after Trump urged his supporters to march to the Capitol where Congress was certifying the results of the 2020 election.

Five people died in the Jan. 6 attack or in the immediate aftermath, as pro-Trump rioters injured more than 100 police officers, ransacked Capitol offices, and forced lawmakers to evacuate. About 486 defendants have been charged with assaulting or impeding officers or employees, including 127 charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury.

Trump has claimed he is a victim of political persecution by the Biden administration as the two men face a 2024 rematch of the 2020 election, and continues to maintain he won the last time, despite repudiation of his arguments by nearly 40 courts, his own White House counsel, attorney general and members of his campaign. He faces a $450 million civil fraud verdict against his businesses, and four separate criminal cases charging him with paying hush money to an adult film actress, mishandling classified documents, and interfering with the 2020 election results.

Several of the 23 D.C. federal judges who have sentenced Jan. 6 defendants have noted Trump’s role in events, including judges appointed by presidents of both parties. But the recent statements by appointees of Trump’s GOP predecessors is notable in breaking with partisan affiliation. After one Jan. 6 trial last year, Walton called Trump a “charlatan” who led followers into believing unfounded allegations and falsehoods, and who “doesn’t in my view really care about democracy but only about power. And as a result of that, it’s tearing this country apart.”

All three judges have warned of a significant increase in the number of threats they and other judges have faced since the Capitol attack, which Walton called “very, very very concerning.”

“I’ve been a judge for over 40 years. And, this is a new phenomenon. I’m not saying that it didn’t happen before, but it was very rare that I would ever receive any type of a threat,” Walton said. “And unfortunately, that is no longer, the case.”

Hogan told law students threats had increased, “no question about it, I think encouraged by the prior president, unfortunately.”

“I would say half our judges have been seriously threatened” regarding their handling of cases related to Trump, Hogan said in a Jan. 22 law school talk. “It makes you nervous.”

A Texas woman was charged with threatening to kill Chutkan shortly after she was assigned Trump’s case last August, leaving a voice-mail message in the judge’s chambers calling Chutkan a racial slur and saying, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b----,” according to charging papers.

In January, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron received a bomb threat to his Long Island home, hours before closing arguments were set to begin in Trump’s civil fraud case over which he was presiding.

Authorities are increasing security at the federal courthouse in Washington at a time when Attorney General Merrick Garland has said that law enforcement has seen a “deeply disturbing spike” in threats and attacks on public officials, including judges and prosecutors in Trump’s cases, even as the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee has predicted “ bedlam in the country ” if his criminal cases damage his candidacy.

Lamberth has said he could not deny the facts after presiding over dozens of cases, listening to hundreds of hours of testimony, and receiving thousands of pages of briefing.

“The rioters interfered with a necessary step in the constitutional process, disrupted the lawful transfer of power and thus jeopardized the American constitutional order. Although the rioters failed in their ultimate goal, their actions nonetheless resulted in the deaths of multiple people, injury to over 140 members of law enforcement and lasting trauma for our entire nation,” Lamberth said in January. “This was not patriotism; it was the antithesis of patriotism.”

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The latest: The Supreme Court will review Donald Trump’s unprecedented claim that he is shielded from prosecution for actions taken while in office. Supreme Court arguments are set for the week of April 22. Here’s what happens next .

The charges: Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Here’s a breakdown of the charges against Trump and what they mean, and things that stand out from the Trump indictment . Read the full text of the 45-page indictment .

The trial: The March 4 trial date has been taken off the calendar and jury selection has been postponed indefinitely while Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution remains on appeal .

The case: The special counsel’s office has been investigating whether Trump or those close to him violated the law by interfering with the lawful transfer of power after the 2020 presidential election or with Congress’s confirmation of the results on Jan. 6, 2021. It is one of several ongoing investigations involving Trump .

Can Trump still run for president? While it has never been attempted by a candidate from a major party before, Trump is allowed to run for president while under indictment in four separate cases — or even if he is convicted of a crime.

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As Law And Order: Organized Crime Waits For Renewal News, I Think Danielle Moné Truitt Summed Up Best Why We Need Season 5

T he majority of the Law & Order TV universe got some great news recently with the renewals for the 2024-2025 TV season... but Law & Order: Organized Crime was left out when Law & Order Season 24 and SVU Season 26 were ordered . While the wait is on to find out if Elliot Stabler, Ayanna Bell, and the rest of the OC task force will be back for another round, the lack of renewal news has me flashing back to when I spoke with actress Danielle Moné Truitt earlier in the 2024 TV schedule , and her comments that really demonstrate why the show needs a fifth season.

Organized Crime is the most serialized of the three Law & Order shows, and two of the four seasons so far have run for fewer than the usual 22 episodes for the franchise's procedurals. Season 4 picked up with the task force – to quote Danielle Moné Truitt –  "just a little off" in the wake of Det. Jamie Whelan's death the previous season.

While there was no way of knowing back in January that fans would be waiting on OC renewal news just a couple of months later with L&O and SVU already guaranteed returns, what Truitt said about the team then still demonstrates now why they make for such compelling television, and there's no reason to expect that would change. On the topic of her character bringing an artificial intelligence expert into the dynamic after Whelan's death in the Season 3 finale , the actress said:

I think that's the reason why she is open to embracing it. They lost Whelan and she really does believe that maybe if they were using this technology that maybe they wouldn't have lost him. They would have been able to capture that guy without losing a part of the team. We're human, there's definitely human error. I personally think that's what makes life beautiful, is human error. [laughs] That's just how I think personally.

The characters of Law & Order: Organized Crime are just very human, with plenty of human error to go around. Just look at everything from Stabler's handling of The Letter years ago to Reyes and Jet having a messy affair to start Season 4. Every scene with the extended Stabler family is full of human error this year, both in the present and revealed from the past.

And that helps make OC must-see on a weekly basis for me, because what would be the fun in a serialized TV show if it was full of perfect characters who only ever make the right decisions? And would we be invested in their relationships if the sailing was always smooth?

I've been a fan of Law & Order: SVU going back to when I was probably too young to be watching it and have tuned in to every episode of the Law & Order revival, but OC is the show that proved the very long-running franchise can still try new things and do them well. During our conversation ahead of Season 4, Danielle Moné Truitt went on:

When you're in that line of work, and Bell already lost Gina, she lost Morales, and now Whelan, I think she's just tired. She's tired of taking these losses on her watch. So whatever she can do, to protect the team, to protect civilians, and to make their jobs not only easier, but just so that they can be more accurate in the decisions that they're making, I think Bell's going to try it. She's going to try it.

Bell continuing to try even when the odds are stacked against her both personally and professionally is another part of the appeal of the show, and a quality that she shares with the others on her team. For as much as Stabler has gotten in his own way over the years ( again, see: The Letter ), he never gives up, and the same can be said for Jet as the other main character who has been around from the beginning. Truitt went on to name another element of OC that stands out:

I don't think you can just do AI for everything and it's going to be perfect all the time. I think the human instinct, the gut was given to us for a reason, and I think it all has a place.

Considering how often at least one person on the team is going rogue, "human instinct" is an essential aspect of Organized Crime . It's also an element that receives a lot more focus on OC than the more procedural SVU and L&O . Just this season alone, we've seen how Stabler was right about the importance of trusting his gut, but Jet has been right too about AI as an asset in their investigations.

There's a focus on character that can't really be found elsewhere on a weekly basis on its fellow Law & Order shows, and I'm crossing my fingers that it's not something that fans will have to lose any time soon. It's much too soon for Law & Order: Organized Crime to come to an end, and I think that new showrunner John Shiban has brought the Breaking Bad touch to OC in the best way.

For now, we can only wait and see if NBC orders Season 5 of Law & Order: Organized Crime . To show some support, tune in to new episodes when Season 4 returns on April 11, and stream earlier episodes via a Peacock Premium subscription .