Gail McHottie (The Finder)

Gail McHottie (Kelly Carlson) is the hidden villainess of "The Conversation", episode 1.10 of Fox's The Finder (airdate April 20, 2012). She was a former FBI agent who began working for power plant Everglade Petrochemical. Sometime prior to the episode, boiler room employee Carlos Abreu discovered that the company had unknowingly burned hazardous chemicals and was hiding the truth to save face--and Gail was tasked with keeping Carlos from exposing the company's secret after CEO Dwayne Anderson failed to blackmail Carlos into being quiet.
When Walter Sherman was hired by Carlos' wife Marta and daughter Adina to find Carlos, he went to investigate their house and ran into Gail, who claimed to be an FBI agent investigating to see if Carlos had returned to his gang life. To keep up her deception, she gave Walter her personal home number, claiming to want to use him as a "confidential informant". While helping in Walter's investigation, Gail was implied to be behind the staged suicide of Carlos' friend and co-worker Raul Valerio and the attempted murder of Marta and Adina, as the hotel room they were hiding at had a bomb secretly planted in it (which went off while the two were talking with Walter and Leo Knox).
Gail was revealed as a villainous insider after Walter infiltrated Everglade Petrochemical and found a list of the dangerous chemicals burned at the plant where Carlos had hidden it: inside a metal box stored inside an incinerator. As he left the plant, he ran into Gail and connected the dots to realize her true motivation, whilst admitting that he had been too blinded by her looks to realize it prior. Gail confirmed Walter's accusation by pulling out her gun and demanding Walter give her the list--stating that shooting someone was the reason she was fired by the FBI. Walter was able to defeat Gail by placing a hand on the temporarily disabled electric fence and faking that he was electrocuted. When Gail tried to retrieve the list, Walter shoved Gail into the fence, causing her gun to become stuck in the fence just as it turned back on. The fence non-fatally shocked Gail and allowed Walter to escape. Leo was able to scare Dwayne Anderson into coming forward about his company's actions, leaving Gail's fate unknown.
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Category:2010s
Category:Attempted Murder
Category:Blonde
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
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Category:Explosives
Category:FBI Agent
Category:Femme Fatale
Category:Knocked Out
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Chemicals
Category:Murder: Staged Suicide
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Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Inconclusive