Helen (The Hitchhiker)

Helen (Peggy Lipton; 1946-2019) was the main villainess of "Working Girl", episode 6.11 of The Hitchhiker (airdate November 30, 1990). She was the wife of businessman Roger, with the episode's beginning having Helen confront Roger as he prepared to leave her for the night for work.
Helen pleaded with her husband to stay with her, claiming she was feeling unwell and that he had been leaving her alone every night as of late. Roger dismissed his wife's pleas and left, however, even ignoring her threat to kill herself. Scorned, Helen followed Roger as he drove to a hotel, where he was shown engaging in a tryst with call girl Lucille. As revealed later on, Helen was aware of Roger's affair with a colleague named Marie and was plotting revenge.
After spying on Lucille from the stairwell and walking into the hotel room to find her and Roger having sex, Helen turned heel by pulling out a pistol and shooting Roger, killing him. Helen then prepared to kill Lucille under the belief that she was Marie, but stopped upon learning she was a call girl who hadn't even known Roger before he was called to spend the night with him. When the house detective arrived after a guest reported the gunshot, Lucille helped Helen cover her actions by having her get into bed and cover Roger with the blanket, allowing her to pass Helen off to the detective as her lover.
While initially wary to have Lucille help cover for her, Helen helped the escort place Roger's body in the trunk of her car, going home afterwards and drinking in an attempt to forget her actions. Helen asked Lucille to stay with her and sleep in the guest room, and the next morning after being awoken by a call from Marie, opened up to her unlikely ally about Roger's affair with Marie and how she learned about it and Roger's plans to divorce her. However, after becoming unnerved by Lucille's presence and subtle threats to her, Helen attempted to call the police to report herself to the police, only to be stopped when the phone line disconnected. After going out to the pool, Helen was confronted by Lucille, who shoved Helen into the pool after decrying her as weak and revealing her true relationship to Roger: she was in fact his mistress Marie, and was angry at Helen for killing him. Afterwards, Lucille go out of the pool and later left the house, leaving Helen to succumb to the overdose of pills she took earlier and die after pulling herself out of the pool.
Category:1990s
Category:Blonde
Category:Conspirator
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Mostly Heel
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Gun
Category:Pistol
Category:Suicide
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Demise: Poison
Category:Fate: Deceased