Laurel Harrison (Unforgettable)

Laurel Harrison (Kristen Bush) is the villainess of "Friended", episode 1.06 of Unforgettable (airdate October 25, 2011). She was the CEO of Harrison Publicity, a PR firm and represented Kelly Latimer, a woman famous for supposedly being from the Texas Latimers who mysteriously disappeared in the episode's beginning. Laurel was first questioned by detectives Mike Costello and Roe Saunders, confirming that Kelly's disappearance wasn't a publicity stunt.
Later on, it was uncovered by detective Carrie Wells that the rivalry between Kelly and fellow "celebutante" Ashley Phillips (who was also a client of Laurel's) was simply an act orchestrated by Laurel to make the women famous (as in actuality, Kelly and Ashley were friends). Laurel also knew a deep secret of Kelly's: she was actually Leanne Farley, a woman who run away to New York and changed her identity to escape her abusive husband.
In the episode's climax, Laurel's assistant Zeke provided the police with a recorded phone call between Laurel and Kelly, revealing that Laurel had been Kelly's killer. During the call, Kelly tearfully revealed that her boyfriend Dean Mark Claman had broken up with her and that she'd told him about her true identity, angering Laurel. When Laurel went to the park where Kelly had called her from, Kelly continued to lament how she couldn't keep up with her facade before passing out. At that, the evil Laurel shoved Kelly's body into the river to drown, believing she was dying anyways after feeling her pulse.
After listening to the recorded call, Carrie and detective Al Burns brought Laurel back to the park (under the pretense of her identifying a suspect) before playing the recording for her. After being told (falsely) by Carrie that DNA evidence was found under Kelly's fingernail, Laurel confessed to killing Kelly, claiming she hadn't wanted to hurt her while angrily blasting her late client for (in her mind) not appreciating the life she'd given her. After Carrie chastised Laurel for not being a real friend to Kelly, the villainess was taken into custody.
== Trivia ==
* Laurel Harrison is Unforgettable's first true villainess (without a Freudian Excuse)
* Kristen Bush previously appeared on Law & Order: SVU as evil terrorist Haley Kerns, and on Blue Bloods as the villainous Carol Hoffman.
== Quotes ==
* "I didn't want to hurt her. I just....she was sitting right here going on and on, about Dean and Ashley, and how much she loved them. She was going to go off, start a new life. She had a life here, I gave it to her! She passed out. I felt her pulse. She'd taken so many drugs, she was practically dead already! And I thought.... (Carrie: "You thought it would solve all your problems?") She had everything that anyone could want, and she wanted to die." (Laurel's confession to killing Kelly Latimer/Leanne Farley)
Category:2010s
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Drowning
Category:Show Business
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested