Marla Bracketts (The Wrong Woman)

Marla Bracketts (Suzanne Krull; 1966-2013) is a villainess from the 2013 Lifetime film The Wrong Woman (airdate December 28, 2013). She was the prosecution's key witness in the case against main protagonist Ellen Plainview, who was accused of attacking Faye Walker in an underground parking lot. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, however, a police officer was the true attacker.
Marla testified that while she was driving at night, she saw Ellen at a dumpster wiping a metal object, which she described as a tire iron, and tossing it into the aforementioned dumpster. However, a cross-examination revealed that Marla's testimony was false and given purely out of revenge. It also revealed a past incident involving Marla's son, as he was a patient for the dentist who Ellen worked for. Ellen spotted Marla's son attempting to climb into an aquarium, prompting the former to pull him down in order to prevent him from getting hurt.
However, Marla believed that Ellen was rough with her son, and she used her anger at Ellen's genial gesture to lie under oath and attempt to paint the protagonist as an attacker. She even defended her deceptive stance when she was called out by Ellen's defense lawyer, with the evil Marla stating that Ellen "looked guilty." Ellen represented herself later in the film and cross-examined Marla, who responded to the former's question about how fast she was driving by stating that she drove the speed limit. 
Ellen later played a video of a car going down that same area and driving the speed limit, and asked Marla what she saw near the dumpster. The villainess was unable to describe what she saw, which contradicted her earlier claim that she saw Ellen dumping a tire iron. After playing the video again, Ellen zoomed in on the dumpster, only to show Ben holding up a sign that said "Hello, Marla," resulting in the villainess' humiliation when laughter filled the courtroom. 
== Trivia ==
* Suzanne Krull passed away on July 27, 2013, five months before the film aired.
* Marla Bracketts is similar to Vera Dutton from Mommy, I Didn't Do It (the 2017 sequel to The Wrong Woman), as both of them were deceptive villainesses who falsely implicated the films' respective protagonists for a crime they never committed solely out of a strong desire to exact revenge on them.
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