Dr. Katherine Simmons (Becker)

Dr. Katherine Simmons (Rhea Perlman) is the villainess from Becker's fourth season opener, "Psycho Therapy" (airdate October 1, 2001). She is the assigned therapist for Dr. John Becker.
Becker was court-ordered to see Katherine due to his problems with authority, and in the beginning of the episode, Katherine was introduced as a positive person who sees the bright side when plagued with problems--and managed to maintain her upbeat personality even after Becker's first session has him ranting about everything that bothered him. Becker's second session with Katherine nearly consisted of complete silence, until he spoke with just a few minutes left. He witnesses a person from the phone company inconveniencing Katherine when he tells her that he needed to fix the phone, only for Katherine to ask him to come back tomorrow.
Becker expresses his anger over Katherine's niceness to the phone repairman, who Becker stated was never coming back. Katherine defended the man by explaining that he probably had a busy schedule, only for Becker to state that people like him needed to be held accountable for pushing over people like Katherine. Katherine finally shouted at Becker for his attitude, and later compared him to some of the people who have plagued her--including a woman who shoved her to get to the subway, causing Katherine to break her foot.
Later in the episode, Becker enters his home, where he is surprisingly encountered by Katherine, who informed Becker that she started to feel empowered when she yelled at him. She added that Becker's intuition about the phone repairman was correct: he never showed up, and in response, Katherine turned heel by using a pair of wire cutters to cut the repairman's brake lines in his car, stating that she did so feeling that Becker would do the same thing. In addition, the evil Katherine revealed that she did the same thing to her accountant, her landlord, and even her ex-husband, all while feeling extreme pleasure over her actions, which she referred to as Becker's "philosophy." 
Becker replied that he had no philosophy; he rants but doesn't go to any extremes. He then comes to the conclusion that Katherine's actions were a test to make him face his anger, but when Katherine dismisses the claim, Becker realized that his therapist is a genuine psychotic villainess. The end of the episode sees Katherine shouting at passengers before encountering Becker, while claiming that she's "fighting the good fight" before signing Becker's form that confirmed his latest session.
Category:2000s
Category:Attempted Murder
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Delusional
Category:Glasses
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Psychotic
Category:Sadist
Category:Villainous Reveal
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