Samantha Northcliff (Castle)

Samantha Northcliff (Constance Forslund) is a villainess from "The Blame Game," episode 8.12 of Castle (airdate February 22, 2016). She is a psychiatrist and the wife of fellow psychiatrist Geoffrey Northcliff.
The episode had the NYPD investigating the murder of news reporter Emma Matthews, and it was revealed to be connected to the Northcliffs, as Emma worked as a dog walker for the couple. As Emma would later uncover, Samantha and Geoffrey worked on an experiment in separation anxiety in children, and among their subjects was their own twin offspring, Brandon and Fay. Videos were shown of each twin--in separate rooms--working on various puzzles, and one of them had Fay pleading with her parents to stop the experiment.
However, the evil Samantha and her equally callous husband ignored their daughter's pleas and continued their work, which ended up affecting both children negatively. Brandon and Fay became traumatized by the experiments; Fay to the point where she committed suicide by hanging a week prior to the events. Brandon was believed to have become a recluse, but in actuality, he became vengeful and deranged following his sister's suicide. As part of his vengeful plan, Brandon tied up and gagged both of his parents and forced them to watch videos of his own separation anxiety experiment, which included six people--Richard Castle and Kate Beckett being among them.
Samantha and Geoffrey were both suspected of killing Emma after her mission was uncovered, but after Javier Esposito and Kevin Ryan found the villainous couple tied up and gagged while seated in front of the monitors, Samantha stated that their son, Brandon, was the culprit, and pointed him out as one of the people in the monitors. Brandon killed Emma because (in his mind) her plan to simply expose his parents wasn't enough, and while Brandon ended up arrested, Samantha's fate wasn't revealed.
Category:2010s
Category:A Taste Of Her Own Medicine
Category:Blonde
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Gagged
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Mother
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Would Hurt a Child
Category:Fate: Inconclusive