SVU? Details on the Officer
Who is Duarte in ‘Law & Order: SVU’? The officer, portrayed by means of Maurice Compte, plays an important part in the series’ twenty fourth season.
Spoiler alert: This article incorporates spoilers for Law & Order: SVU Season 24, Episode 12.
Serial dramas like Law & Order: SVU steadily have surprising twists and turns, but not anything is as crazy as Captain Mike Duarte’s (Maurice Compte) arc all through the 24th season. First introduced to us in Season 24, Episode 2, “The One You Feed,” Duarte’s story takes a surprising flip in Episode 12, “Blood Out.”
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Throughout Maurice’s 4 appearances as Duarte, his and Benson’s (Mariska Hargitay) dating has been entrance and middle. So who precisely is Duarte, and will have to we expect to see more of him in Law & Order: SVU?
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In ‘Law & Order: SVU,’ Duarte is the Captain of the Bronx Gang Unit in the NYPD.
Duarte first seems when he’s referred to as in to lend a hand Benson investigate the gang rape of Nora Whitman and her family’s attack in “The One You Feed.” But Benson and Duarte clash from the getgo with their Alpha personalities. Add in the undeniable fact that Duarte used to be quick to disregard rape fees and was extra interested in going after the BX9 gang, and Benson wasn't glad.
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However, this all comes to a head in Episode 10, “Jumped In,” when Benson and her son are attacked, and the attacker was once part of the BX9 gang. Now, Benson and Duarte are pressured to work in combination to take down BX9 and its leader, Oscar Papa (Goya Robles). By Episode 12, Oscar is dealing with the “order” part of “legislation and order” as he stands trial.
It’s a shaky trial and with Duarte publicly at its helm, the BX9 contributors aren’t too satisfied. He turns down a trip and chooses to walk, and several BX9 contributors encompass him, attacking him with machetes. If that sounds inconceivable to live on, that’s as a result of it is.
After a 4 episode arc and a seeming solution with Benson, Duarte dies in surgical treatment after the incident. Oscar reveals, “He wanted to take away the entirety I built. Couldn’t allow that to happen,” incriminating himself.
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Maurice Compte portrayed Captain Mike Duarte in ‘Law & Order: SVU.’
Although he was once simplest in 4 episodes, Maurice’s portrayal of Duarte will probably be remembered long into SVU history. In fact, Maurice was so adept at playing the officer because he had a similar upbringing to the persona. He advised NBC News that he knew gang members and law enforcement officials while growing up.
“At its very best, I understood why they had been doing it,” Maurice stated of a few of the gang members he knew from his group. “Because they have been being marginalized by way of society and so they had been being kicked out all over the place and all they'd was once each different. It was just a herbal formation. But there are a large number of dark factors.”
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While Maurice was playing a personality who used to be with reference to home for him in SVU, he has been around Hollywood for fairly a while as more than a few other characters. He’s most definitely most recognizable as Horacio Carrillo in Narcos, in addition to Gaff in Breaking Bad. Most recently, he played U.S. Attorney General Martin Savoy in Section 8. He has a number of long run initiatives on the method, reminiscent of Hellfire and Little Dixie.
SVU’s episode on Jan. 26 may have been the end of Duarte, but we've plenty extra of Maurice to stay up for.
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