Alexandra Cabot

ADA Alexandra "Alex" Cabot was an Assistant District Attorney with the Sex Crimes Bureau. She was also a primary character in the mid-season replacement series Conviction, where she was Bureau Chief of the Homicide Bureau.

History
The niece of Judge Bill Harriman, Cabot vigorously pursued a career with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as an adult. In 2000, she was first assigned to the Manhattan Special Victims Unit to give then-Chief Assistant District Attorney Charlie Phillips an eye into the unit as they went under the Morris Commission. Phillips wanted Cabot to find any improprieties in the unit before the commission did, as the latter's findings might have jeopardized his hopes of replacing Interim DA Nora Lewin as District Attorney. The SVU was later cleared of any wrongdoing, but Cabot stayed on as their Assistant District Attorney.

Cabot's time with the Special Victims Unit was notable for a high success rate, but also for her habit of leaning on certain judges (including her uncle, Judge Bill Harriman) for favors. One judge in particular, Judge Lena Petrovsky, went so far as to call Cabot out on her behavior after she went to Petrovsky to nullify an immunity agreement with Missy Kurtz.

After an assassination attempt by the Colombian drug cartel, she spent several years in Witness Protection. In 2005, she briefly left Witness Protection to become a witness against Liam Connors, her attempted murderer. In Conviction, Bureau Chief Cabot is engaged, and has had a brief fling with Deputy District Attorney Jim Steele. Alex's ideals and the way she does her job have changed, becoming more of a "politician" – something that often angers her staff, particularly Jessica Rossi. This was shown in an episode where she offers a rapist a deal to plead to misdemeanor sexual misconduct in exchange for his testimony against a doctor committing fraud, which goes against everything she fought for on SVU. During the show's run, it was unexplained why Cabot was able to leave the Witness Protection Program which she joined in 2003 after her life was threatened a member of the Colombian Drug Cartel. In 2009, Cabot was out of Witness Protection for three years and was contacted by Jack McCoy to reprise her role as Special Victims Unit's ADA.

It is revealed that Cabot retired as an ADA in 2012, after an abusive husband she tried to prosecute was acquitted and later murdered his wife in retaliation. Since then, she joined a secret organization helping battered women get away from their abusive husbands/boyfriends by arranging their disappearances.

Appearances

 * Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6: “Ghost”
 * Season 10
 * Season 11
 * Season 13
 * Season 19: “Sunk Cost Fallacy”
 * Conviction
 * Season 1