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Officer John Cooper is a fictional character who appears on the American television series ''Southland''. A veteran officer with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Cooper is a Police Officer III+1, which is a Senior Lead Officer, serving as a field training officer in the Hollywood Division in West Bureau. He is played by Michael Cudlitz. ==Fictional character biography== Little is known of Cooper's background. He has said that his father, who taught him to shoot guns, was in and out of prison during Cooper's childhood. His father has been incarcerated since 1991 for the rape and murder〔''Southland'' Season 3 Episode 5, "The Winds".〕 of Cooper's 16-year-old girlfriend.〔''Southland'' Season 3 Episode 8, "Fixing a Hole"〕 Cooper attended Susan Miller Dorsey High School.〔''Southland'' Season 1 Episode 2, "Mozambique"〕 He joined the LAPD in 1992 because it was the only job that someone of his educational level could start out earning $30,000 a year at the time. Cooper was previously married to Laurie, a nurse. They are divorced but remain on friendly terms, although Cooper refused her request to donate sperm for her to conceive a child.〔''Southland'' Season 2 Episode 6, "Maximum Deployment"〕 Cooper suffers from chronic back pain, which he attributes to an on-the-job injury. He wears a back brace and self-medicates with pain pills, which he obtains from his ex-wife, drug dealers, and crime scenes he assists in investigating.〔''Southland'' Season 1 Episode 6, "Westside"〕 Cooper has refused to "go through channels" to receive treatment, saying that should he do so he would be taken off the streets and, if he could not work on the streets, he would "rather be dead". He has, however, sought relief through alternative medicine techniques like acupuncture.〔 After finally beginning to understand he has a problem,〔 Cooper decides to quit self-medicating.〔 He soon begins using again, leading to a negative effect on his job performance and an angry confrontation with Sherman.〔''Southland'' Season 3 Episode 9, "Failure Drill"〕 Following his failure to back Sherman up in pursuit of a rape suspect, Sherman tells Cooper to check himself into rehab, or Sherman will advise the watch commander to order Cooper to take a drug test. Season three ends with Ben's taking him to a hospital for a medical detox and back treatment.〔''Southland'' Season 3 Episode 10, "Graduation Day"〕 Season 4 opens with Cooper's returning to street duty following back surgery and rehabilitation. He is no longer partnered with Ben Sherman but instead with Jessica Tang (Lucy Liu). She is charged with evaluating his fitness for street duty following his medical treatment.〔''Southland'' Season 4 Episode 1, "Wednesday"〕 They initially work well together and, following an encounter with a suicidal gay teenager, Tang and Cooper have a conversation in which she makes it clear she is aware of his homosexuality and it is not an issue.〔''Southland'' Season 4 Episode 5, "Legacy"〕 However, their relationship becomes strained after Tang shoots a teenager wielding what turns out to be a toy gun. Cooper realizes that Tang removed the orange tip from the toy's barrel after the shooting, but he does not give that information during the investigation into the incident. The season ends with Tang's being promoted and moved to a different area division; she gives Cooper the orange tip as a keepsake. The opening of season 5 sees Cooper returning to his role as a Training Officer, with new trainee Officer Gary Steele (Derek Ray), a military veteran who served in Afghanistan and joined the LAPD because it paid more than other available jobs.〔''Southland'' Season 5 Episode 1, "Hats and Bats"〕 When the team comes under fire and Steele fails to return fire, Cooper removes Steele's badge and washes him out.〔''Southland'' Season 5 Episode 2, "Heat"〕 Cooper is next partnered with Officer Henry "Hank" Lucero (Anthony Ruivivar).〔''Southland'' Season 5 Episode 3, "Babel"〕 Their relationship is amicable, although Cooper becomes increasingly weary of Lucero's homophobic remarks. This comes to a head when Cooper takes Lucero to a bar, reveals that it's a gay bar, and comes out to him. Lucero initially insists he is all right with the situation, but outside the bar the men come to blows, and Lucero calls Cooper a "faggot". The next day a routine disturbance call goes terribly wrong and Cooper and Lucero are kidnapped by two drug addicts, who take Cooper's weapon. Lucero is killed, but Cooper escapes.〔''Southland Season 5 Episode 9, "Chaos"〕 He returns to work 18 days after the incident but is frustrated in his attempts to be returned to full duty.〔''Southland'' Season 5 Episode 10, "Reckoning"〕 Cooper's personal life suffers over the course of the season, beginning when Caesar, with whom Cooper has been involved for three years, leaves him when Cooper refuses to discuss making the relationship more formal.〔 He engages in a series of one-night stands and begins drinking more heavily, although he does not relapse into drug use. Elements of his past haunt him. His original Training Officer, Hicks (Gerald McRaney), spirals into alcoholism and suicidal depression to the point where Cooper feels compelled to keep him prisoner in Cooper's house to prevent him from killing himself. John's father reaches out from prison and, when Cooper visits, tells him he would preferred for Cooper to have never existed than turn out homosexual.〔''Southland Season 5 Episode 7, "Heroes"〕 After initially refusing Laurie's request to have a child with her, Cooper changes his mind. Laurie is at first pleased, but following Cooper's own downward spiral following his ordeal, she tells him she no longer wants to have a baby with him. The series ends with an altercation between Cooper and two of Laurie's neighbors, whom Cooper had had words with earlier in the season. Cooper assaults the men after one calls him a "pig", pistol whipping one severely with the man's own gun. The responding police order Cooper to show his hands and, when they spot the gun, open fire, shooting him twice in his torso.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Cooper (Southland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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