Savannah Bellows (Diagnosis Murder)

Savannah Bellows (Melora Hardin) is the main villainess from "The New Healers," episode 2.14 of Diagnosis Murder (airdate January 13, 1995). She is an actress who was part of the cast of the titular show-within-a-show, The New Healers, where she plays the role of Nurse Quinn.
Savannah's backstory revealed that she was once overweight in high school, as was her boyfriend at the time, future fellow cast member Dixon Gallow. Once Dixon lost the weight, he dumped Savannah--ironically--due to her being overweight. This prompted Savannah to lose the weight, and she became an actress after quitting her job as a receptionst. She joined The New Healers knowing that Dixon was a cast member, and then rekindled her past relationship with him. Even after their tryst, Dixon did not recognize Savannah, leading to Savannah showing him their high school yearbook.
After seeing that the woman he slept with was his former girlfriend, Dixon merely laughed at Savannah and her attempts to get back with him, and as witnessed by Mark Sloan, Savannah left Dixon's trailer in anger. She then decided to kill Dixon out of revenge, using rat poison to commit the murder. The vengeful villainess soaked a towel with a modified form of rat poison, and while filming a scene from the show, the evil Savannah (while in character) dabbed Dixon with the towel as part of the act. It wasn't until Dixon went to his trailer that he dropped dead from the poisoning, after which Savannah got rid of the towel.
All the while, Savannah made an impression on Jack Edwards, to the point where romantic feelings developed. She had told Jack about how her high school boyfriend dumped her, but it was later on that Jack and others learned that the boyfriend was Dixon. After learning how and (more importantly) when the poison was administered, Mark re-enacted the scene, playing Dixon's role. The scene and Savannah's concern that she should be wearing gloves ended up revealing her as the killer, as she donned gloves to prevent herself from feeling the effects of the poison. Savannah confessed to killing Dixon, revealing that he was the one who dumped her in high school, while also expressing her anger and bitterness at her former flame. Following the reveal, a pair of police officers arrived and arrested Savannah.
==Trivia==
*Melora Hardin returned to Diagnosis Murder as the villainous Melanie Cooper in Part 1 of Season Seven's "Trash TV."
*Melora Hardin later played villainess Erin Toner on NCIS, as well as the evil Shelley Meyers on Scandal.
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