Marisol Casas (The Protector)

Marisol Casas (Justina Machado) is the villainess of "Blood", episode 1.11 of Lifetime's The Protector (airdate August 29, 2011). She was the daughter of Reina Casas and worked for the family restaurant, Don Casas, with her brothers Alberto and Danny Casas. The family was also old friends with police chief Felix Valdez.
Marisol was also revealed to be the girlfriend of the restaurant's bartender, Ryan Laughlin, who was found shot to death in the episode's opening. After detective Michelle Dulcett found out about Marisol's relationship with Ryan, Marisol confessed that she had been involved with him, but kept it secret due to knowing that her mother wouldn't approve of him.
While she claimed that she always followed her mother's wishes, Marisol secretly resented her mother for the way she controlled the family and placed more trust in Danny than her and Alberto. Things came to a head when Danny made plans to build a second Don Casas, with Reina deciding they couldn't afford to keep the old one. Marisol attempted to convince her mother that she could run the restaurant, but Reina rejected her, claiming that she would never have what it took to do so.
Enraged, the evil Marisol shot her mother to death, with Alberto helping Marisol bury her body at the construction site of the restaurant, planning to frame Danny for the murder. Ryan came back to the restaurant that night and saw the bloodied scene, resulting in Alberto killing him and staging the scene to look like a mugging gone wrong. Reina's body was eventually found and Danny was arrested, but detective Gloria Sheppard realized that if he'd done the crime, he'd have to have had help in disposing of the body, leading her to suspect Alberto and Marisol.
Fearing the police were on their trail, Alberto committed suicide in an attempt to protect Marisol from being caught, using the same gun she'd used to kill Reina. But Gloria confronted Marisol while interrogating her with Danny present, goading Marisol to confess to killing Reina, ranting about how she'd always been overlooked by her mother and tearfully revealing that she couldn't bring herself to kill Ryan. Felix subsequently led Marisol out of the interrogation room, and she was presumably arrested offscreen.
== Trivia ==
* Two months later, Justina Machado appeared on Body of Proof as the evil Emily Burrows.
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