Aubrey Haskins (Castle)

Aubrey Haskins (Audrey Marie Anderson) is the main villainess of "I, Witness," episode 7.13 of Castle (airdate February 2, 2015). She was the general counsel of Whitfield and Galloway, a company that was started up by Cole Whitfield.
Aubrey's brief backstory revealed that she was a sorority sister of Cole's first wife Mallory, who died when she fell into a ravine in Angeles National Forest. Furthermore, she told her friends he got away with murder after finding out about the suspicious circumstances of the alleged hiking accident, especially since Cole was the only witness to the event and had inherited several million dollars as a result. In the years that passed, she plotted revenge on him, and she joined Cole's company as part of her scheme. After hearing Cole's second wife Eva vent about their marriage and his adultery, Aubrey contacted her and (along with Robert James—the husband of one of Cole's two mistresses) cooked up a plan to ruin his life.
The plan in question began with making it appear that Cole killed Eva at their house, which would send the former to jail and leave his fortune to be inherited by the latter. Initially, their machinations were successful, as the "murder" (which was "committed" by Robert) was witnessed by Richard Castle, who was Eva's old friend from college, leading to Cole becoming the prime suspect in his second wife's "death" similar to what happened after Mallory perished. Aubrey's appearances in the episode had her supposedly coming to the defense of Cole's other mistress, Taylor McKinley, as well as Cole himself at one point.
However, Eva had second thoughts about helping her husband get convicted and had planned on coming forward about everything, which led to the vengeful mastermind killing her with an unknown blunt instrument in the former's temporary studio apartment, doing so to keep her quiet. After tossing her former female accomplice's corpse into the Hudson River, the evil Aubrey killed Cole at the Whitfield residence by drugging him with high levels of sedatives and then hanging him from a balcony inside the house to make it look like a suicide. Her villainy was revealed when Castle and Kate Beckett confronted her with their knowledge of Eva's blood and DNA being found in the trunk of her car, along with detailing exactly what she had done. After that, Aubrey was handcuffed and arrested for her crimes.
Category:2010s
Category:Betrayer
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Lawyer
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Bludgeoning
Category:Murder: Hanging
Category:Murder: Staged Suicide
Category:Vengeful
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested