Gabriella Luca (The Mysteries of Laura)

Gabriella Luca (Nicole Ansari-Cox) is the hidden villainess of "The Mystery of the Red Runway", episode 1.06 of The Mysteries of Laura (airdate October 22, 2014). She was the head of Mareteia Imports and worked alongside renowned fashion designer Tom Burke as co-chair of his anti-counterfeiting campaign. But this was revealed to be a front, as Gabriella and Tom were secretly colluding to sell counterfeits of Tom's products.
When Tom's assistant Tyler Cole learned that Tom had stolen his designs to use for counterfeiting and made plans to expose his boss's secret operation, Tom shot and killed him to keep him quiet. When Laura Diamond and her team initially believed that Tom was the true target of Tyler's killer and his murder was a case of mistaken identity, Gabriella and Tom plotted to go along with their belief, with Gabriella even having one of her henchmen shoot at Tom outside a fashion event to further the ruse. But at the last minute, the evil Gabriella changed the plan and had her henchman really shoot Tom rather than missing.
As the team began to uncover the counterfeiting ring, Laura and Billy Soto questioned Gabriella at her shop. While Gabriella denied knowing anything, Laura was tipped off to her villainous nature when she noticed her aggressively eating pistachios as they talked (having previously learned that Gabriella was a nervous eater). After seeing that one of Gabriella's workers was the same man Billy and Meredith Bose had seen in an illegal sweatshop and who Laura had deduced was Tom's shooter, he and Gabriella were arrested, with both immediately getting lawyers and refusing to talk. After Tom was revealed as Gabriella's criminal partner, Gabriella was most likely sent to prison along with him and her henchman.
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