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| “ | I could have anyone I wanted. For a thousand miles, I was their God! They were mine until I dumped them in the warehouse and went back to get a new batch! | „ |
| ~ Lopez bragging about raping the women he trafficked. |
Miguel Lopez is the main antagonist of the two-part Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Remember Me" and "Remember Me, Too". He is a web developer and former human trafficker who is held hostage by one of his victims, Lourdes Vega.
He was portrayed by Carlos Miranda.
His Evil Ranking[]
What makes him close to Pure Evil?[]
- Working for the cartel from the early 2010s to 2018 under the employment of Jorge Diaz, he abducted several women through fake nanny jobs. While he kept the victims for thousands of miles and smuggled them across the border, he repeatably raped and tortured them by burning, beating, cutting, and starving them before dropping them off into domestic slavery, threatening to kill them if they spoke up.
- In one instance, he kidnapped Lourdes Vega and her friends, Lucita and Estela. He once pushed Lourdes into the dirt, where she grabbed a broken bottle to numb the pain, which she said she couldn’t even feel anymore after the fourth incident.
- In addition, Maria, a nanny who was one of Lourdes's friends, was herself a victim, based on her uncomfortable attitude while being interrogated on whether she knew Miguel Lopez.
- When the trio attempted to escape, he captured them and forced Vega to decide who would die. Sadly, she was unable to respond, and Lopez responded by shooting both Luciate and Estela in front of Lourdes.
- Years later, Lourdes not only had marks from the pocket knife cuts and cigar burns, but she also had hallucinations and nightmares of what she had experienced.
- Even after becoming a web developer, he continued to have connections with the cartel, as he was friends with Jorge Diaz, the brother of human trafficker Diego Diaz, and he could have even used his website designing skills as a way to make fake nanny websites like he originally did.
- Years later, Lourdes finds him in a club and lures him into his room before pistol-whipping and torturing him. She then bludgeons Jorge, and when Olivia Benson walks in, she takes a police officer and Benson hostage. In the hostage situation, he continues to fuel her rage by hypocritically faking sympathy for her and talking about how he would never hurt a woman since he has two sisters.
- He plays a sympathetic man who was framed for his crimes in court, continuing to tell Vega that he is sorry about what happened to her.
- Out of revenge, Diego Diaz threatens A.D.A. Peter Stone by saying he will hurt her sister, which ends up in Peter being aggressive to his colleagues.
- All because of him, Diego Diaz and 2 other cartel members attacked the nursing home Pamela was in by killing several officers and guards, forcing the employees into a closet, and kidnapping Pamela and bringing her to a warehouse full of 4 slaves.
- When faced with the choice of telling Benson and Stone his crimes, he states, “For a thousand miles, I was their God! They were mine until I dumped them in the warehouse and went back to get a new batch!”
- After giving them the location of the warehouse out of fear he will be murdered, Diego ends up killing Pamela by shooting her many times, and overall, every action committed by Diego is Miguel’s fault as he was the one to delay his confession, which would end up in Jorge’s death.
- While he proclaims to have two sisters, it's never confirmed if he actually has them or if just made it up when he was tortured, and even if they do exist, the relationship is never shown enough to be a redeeming quality.
- Despite never telling Diego to kidnap Pamela, he is still responsible for the crime and he shows no remorse for it, so it still holds up as a heinous action on his part.
What prevents him from being Pure Evil?[]
- Because he ultimately relies on fridge horror, he fails to human traffickers with more confirmed victims, but considering his varied torture, his two murders, his indirect murders, and personal villainy, he manages to pass the baseline.
- He possibly cares for his sick grandmother as he mentions helping her and going to her house when as young as two years old. Considering how he used her as a way to make an excuse and seem inconspicuous, It’s a fairly minor and debatable prevention.
External links[]
- Miguel Lopez on the Villains Wiki
- Miguel Lopez on the Law & Order Wiki
