Lori Oliver (Motive)

Lori Oliver (Enuka Okuma) was a villainess from "Kiss of Death," the penultimate episode of Motive's second season (airdate August 20, 2014). She was a famous crime novelist and the wife of Gary Oliver.
Five years prior to the events, Lori's manager, Craig Davis (who was also revealed as her illicit lover), received a manuscript written by a man named Dustin Hess, which was called, A Perfect Murder. Under the belief that he was turned down, Dustin gave up his dreams of becoming an author and became a creative writing teacher. However, as Dustin would later learn, Lori actually stole his manuscript and published it as her own--word for word. Dustin compared his manuscript with Lori's novel and was angered to see that it was a direct match, and regarding the novel, it became a best seller.
Other than fame, the evil Lori gained a huge fanbase due to her plagiarism, with numerous students from Dustin's class being part of Lori's fan club. Dustin planned to kill Lori for revenge, but he waited until the episode's events to do so, as it took him that long to find the perfect weapon. In an ironic twist, Dustin took an idea from one of his students, Doug Butcher, who wrote a story where its killer uses dimethylmercury poisoning to commit murder. Dustin used that to lace the poison in Lori's perfume, and it was in the beginning of the episode that Lori fatally succumbed to the poisoning during a writer's conference.
Category:2010s
Category:Adulteress
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Deceiver
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Man Kills Villainess
Category:Thief
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Deceased
Category:Demise: Poison