Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a fictional character on the TV drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Ice-T.

Fin is the second-most prolific character in the Law & Order franchise, having appeared in 456 episodes of SVU, behind only Olivia Benson.

[3][4] According to the Season 11 episode "Disabled", Fin, while still in the police academy, was forced by circumstances to place his maternal grandfather, whom he credits for raising him, in a nursing home.

Tutuola later describes institutionalizing his grandfather as "the worst decision [he] ever made"; in his grief, rage, and guilt, he started fights with fellow officers "for the hell of it" and was almost kicked off the force until an academy instructor intervened and helped him salvage his career.

[8] A former narcotics detective, Fin joins the SVU squad in the season 2 premiere "Wrong Is Right", as a replacement for Monique Jeffries (Michelle Hurd).

Unlike them, he views justice in a "black and white" manner and believes that all criminals should be punished, regardless of the circumstances under which they commit the crime.

He also tries to separate his private and professional life as much as possible and keeps a tight rein on his emotions, refusing to talk about his problems or to admit that the grisly nature of his work often affects him.

[9] During an investigation of prisoner sexual abuse, both Fin and Benson go undercover to Sealview Correctional Facility, and he saves her from being raped by a guard.

[16] They repair their relationship, however, after she reveals that she had been raped years earlier in Atlanta by her then-superior officer, Deputy Chief Charles Patton (Harry Hamlin), who has a long history of sexually abusing the female detectives in his squad.

Along with Benson and ADA Rafael Barba (Raúl Esparza), Fin helps her bring Patton to justice for raping his latest victim, Detective Reese Taymor (Dreama Walker).

[17] In "Making a Rapist", DNA evidence exonerates Sean Roberts (Henry Thomas), a man Fin had arrested for rape in 2000.

In the season 19 premiere "Gone Fishin'", Fin recruits some men from Cuba to kidnap fugitive serial rapist Byron Marks (Will Chase) and bring him to New York.

In "Sightless in a Savage Land", Fin becomes engaged to Sergeant Phoebe Baker (Jennifer Esposito), his former partner from Narcotics.

Over the 20 seasons the character has been featured on the show, Fin has come to respect and trust his SVU colleagues, even though they often disagree over the best way to solve cases.

Fin is shot and gravely wounded while attempting to stop a holdup at a bodega; after being released from the hospital, he spends little time recovering, instead throwing himself back into work finding a kidnapping victim and busting a methamphetamine lab.

Teresa at first refuses to testify, forcing the judge to remand her into custody for contempt of court, but she eventually reveals that Darius is the product of an incestuous rape.