Hailey Nuriyev

Hailey Nuriyev is a guest character and guest hero appearing in the FBI episode "Prey". She's a Ukrainian-American woman who was kidnapped, raped, tortured, and sexually trafficked along with her sister Brooke. When the ring's leader, Stepan Tsarko, nearly killed her, she fought to escape and worked with American federal agents to save her sister.
She's portrayed by Bulgarian-American actress Iliana Raykovska, better known as Ili Ray.
==Biography==
Hailey and her sister Brooke were born in Ukraine to a Ukrainian father and an American mother. Their mother returned to America, where she died several years later, leaving them with their father in their small rural village of Teriveve. An employment agency offered to take them to America, and Hailey was eager to try and reconnect with their mother or at least know more about the country the other halves of the sisters' shared nationality comes from. Hailey was primarily behind the motivation, which is one of the biggest reasons Brooke was convinced and happy to join her sister.
Hailey and Brooke were met at an arranged location by the operations' leader, "Snake", really a Ukrainian-American national named Stepan Tsarko, and his Ukrainian henchmen "Spider" and "Hog". The Nuriyev sisters were kidnapped, blidfolded, and transported between numerous basements. For three days on end, the women were violently gang-raped by Tsarko and his cronies. This wold progress to torture, beatings, and, By Tsarko personally, crown patterns carved into their shoulders with hot blades to brand them out of dominance. Tsarko then trafficked the sisters to paying johns to be raped and exploited further, keeping Hailey and Brooke separate from each other and the ring's operations being kept nearly airtight with little room for escape. A doctor named Artem Byovsky was the only kind conspirator in the ring, which Hailey remembered every time she needed her wounds treated.
Hailey was horrified to hear Brooke was getting sick, which Tsarko would kill women in the ring's captivity over because they became obsolete or angered him, among other motives. Hailey panicked and saw her strongest willpower yet fight for her and Brooke's escape, pleading with a john for mercy by calling 911 so Brooke would get to a hospital. The john panicked and hung up the phone out of fearing getting caught. Hailey was not only devastated, but frightened even further when Tsarko found out and lost it, kidnapping her instead of Brooke because she broke the clandestine state of the ring. Tsarko raped her again, dragged her to the mass grave where the women Tsarko killed were buried, and stabbed her around 30 times. Assuming she was dead, Tsarko buried her in a fresh grave. However, still alive, Hailey pshed right out of that grave, ran out of the woods, and ran into the patriarch of a family in a nearby neighborhood when she scrambled and stumbled into their unfenced backyard. As she flailed and cried, the man called her at the same time he was shouting for his wife and daughter to call an ambulance Hailey was narrowly rescued, with surgeries put on emergency orders one after the next.
In between surgeries, Hailey was spoken to by FBI Agents Maggie Bell and Omar Zidan. She tearfully cried and panicked, elaborating she was afraid her sister was still in captivity. She regretted out loud ever answering the and felt she was too naive a village farm girl, but Agent Bell reassured her she's a victim because she was targeted by willing criminals like anyone could be. Getting Hailey to take a moment to recompose and being attentive enough to talk, Bell heard from Hailey the horrors of the kidnappings, rapes, tortures, and trafficking, then she finally revealed she was nearly killed because she fought to save herself and Brooke. Before she was taken for another surgery, she begged the agents to find her sister. When she was finally finished, the agents returned after finding the john, asking if there was more she could remember. She mentioned Dr. Byovsky, who she remembered for his compassion. Tsarko later killed him to tie up loose ends, nearly killing Agent Bell in his escape.
Thankfully, a sting led to Tsarko's arrest, and blackmailing him with his oligarch accomplices arranging hits on him when the case went public, Tsarko revealed the location of the hideout where Brooke and the other women and girls were held captive. The cover was nearly blown when some cronies were spooked, but all captive women and girls were saved, and all accomplices still alive and present were arrested. Brooke was tracked and told by Agent Bell about her sister asking to meet her again. Hailey and Brooke warmly and emotionally reunited at the hospital ready to return home once recovered. Hailey was hesitant she wouldn't easily recover from her trauma, but Brooke was readily confident in a surprising and welcome change. Agent Bell vehemently congratulated Hailey for saving her life and Brooke's against all odds, which she meekly accepted from not wanting to feel more than the human being she remembered herself as.
==Personality==
Hailey is who anyone would expect from a young adult in the new millennium: ambitious, hopeful, careful, and as prepared as she cares in the interest of a stable life expected from anyone. She grew to keep family one of her highest virtues because of her small community and making the best of an absent mother, especially with a sister to mutually look after. Because she never let any pain or feelings of abandonment come from her mother returning to America, she instead wanted to emigrate from Ukraine to America to learn more and be educated on the world. She was eager from being acepted by the false ad as expected when she saw a ticket to accomplish her dreams, but Hailey wasn't totally unsteady, as she saw her sister as one of her primary responsibilities for their travel across Europe the Atlantic.
Hailey was reasonably feeling, of emotion and of physical pain and strain, which left her immeasurably scarred from being raped, tortured, and held captive by an international sex trafficking operation. She was even more frightened, heartbroken, and filled with dread her sister Brooke was put through just as much violence and exploitation, but her sense of identity and conscience and her family are some of the biggest reasons Hailey didn't lose herself and her livelihood, let alone her sister. When she feared losing her family, and jut as well her hope, she didn't feel defeated or capitulate, but panicked and turned herself toward motivated and planning an escape. Even after being violently brutalized to near-death one last time, she didn't stop looking toward her family and her future and ran to the nearest help she could find, hoping for the best and refusing any different, all for her life and family.
She was understandably heightened, indescribably shaken and traumatized, and doing her best to steady her energy and reassurance when she ended up at the hospital. However, with her pain and fear, from flashbacks to her mind swimming and dread and potentials, she mustered up what she could to support authorities and strain herself just enough she got the authorities to try to fight for Brooke too, while saving herself for surgery and recovery. She lamented being lured and trapped along with Brooke, but because she wanted the trauma to stop or outright go away, let alone the same for Brooke and obviously to get her sister back. Being a natural human being who wants to remember herself as such, she likes compliments as healthily as she does, finding safeguards in remembering who she is even if she's complimented for more. Despite her hesitance and fear of her hope dwindling well after her escape and reunion with her sister, she didn't lose sight of her future and her sense of love and happiness because her family and loved ones were still there to share and need it with and for her. Even with sense of suspense and apprehension, her sense and odds of safety diminished, her rational senses reassured her personal self she could still have chance and even so much as find closure, guaranteed or not, likely or miraculously rare.
==Trivia==
*The episode is partly inspired by the West Mesa Murders, a series of murders of nine women found in a mass grave in New Mexico whose killers were never caught. Thankfully, all women have been identified and their remains returned to their loved ones to be laid to rest. It's popularly presumed they were all victims of human and sex trafficking before they were all murdered.
*Hailey is highly similar to Kate McTiernan, a supporting hero in the book Kiss the Girls and its film adaptation. McTiernan is a medical student at UNC Chapel Hill who was kidnapped, held captive, and repeatedly raped along with several other women by a serial killer nicknamed Casanova', murdering any captive women Casanova was done with after fighting back or breaking grounds rules he sets. Casanova was assisted by another serial killer, nicknamed The Gentleman Caller McTiernan did defy Casanova, but also took her chance to fight back, fled through the woods to safety, and was hospitalized and rescued. her testimony and collaboration with law enforcement led to Casanova's eventual defeat.
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