Sylvia Fairbourn (Monk)

Sylvia Fairbourn (Kathy Baker) is the villainess from "Mr. Monk Goes to Jail," the second season finale of Monk (airdate March 5, 2004). She is a librarian at a prison where death row inmate Ray Kaspo was murdered--45 minutes before he was scheduled to be executed.
As Sharona later revealed, Sylvia is the mother of author J.T. DeMornay, who wrote a tell-all book about millionaire Lambert Lawson. Lawson was suing him regarding the book, but his death of kidney failure kiboshed the lawsuit. After learning that Kaspo's organs would be donated to Lawson, Sylvia paid Tucker, one of the cooks at the prison, to poison Kaspo's last meal, which killed Kaspo and destroyed his organs. As a result, Sylvia was culpable in not only Kaspo's death, but Lawson's as well.
Sylvia later killed Tucker to keep him from talking, but Adrian Monk was on the case once Tucker's body was found. She sent Monk to interrogate Spyder Rudner (hoping Spyder would kill him), with a false claim that Spyder knew Kaspo when they met in Calgary. When that plan fails, the evil Sylvia sent a group of Nazi inmates to kill Monk, but he is rescued by Spyder. Though it is not shown or revealed, Sylvia is arrested for her crimes.
== Trivia ==
* Kathy Baker later appeared on Law & Order: SVU as remorseful villainess Hannah Curtis and on Criminal Minds as the evil Linda Collins.
==Gallery==
Sinister Sylvia.jpg|Sylvia with one of the Nazi inmates
Sylvia and Tucker.jpg|Sylvia shown smiling evilly while bargaining with Tucker
Category:2000s
Category:Attempted Murder
Category:Blonde
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Mother
Category:Murder: Indirect
Category:Murder: Poison
Category:Murderer
Category:Serial Killer
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested