Stacy Garrett (CSI: Miami)

Stacy Garrett (Merle Dandridge) is the true main villainess from "Sleepless in Miami," episode 9.05 of CSI: Miami (airdate October 31, 2010). She ran the Black Sapphire Med-Spa, a holistic clinic, and she was approached by Horatio Caine and Frank Tripp regarding the demise of Brandon Garrett, her ex-husband, whose head was found in the Florida Everglades. Stacy informed Horatio and Tripp that they were going through a divorce, and she also claimed that it was amicable.
As Horatio correctly pointed out, however, Stacy was not pleased with Brandon wanting half of her business as part of their then-ongoing divorce. To prevent that from happening, Stacy devised a conspiracy to kill her ex-husband, hiring purported “psychic” and “healer” Elena Manus to mess with Brandon’s aura so that he’d perish, and also paying the con artist $50,000 to perpetrate the murder. It was during Brandon’s session with Elena that he suddenly died, but it was later revealed that he had been poisoned with cone snail venom just under 30 minutes before the latter arrived at his home for said session. Furthermore, the true identity of Brandon’s killer was Peter Truitt, Stacy’s illicit lover and also one of her employees, having done the murderous deed because he wanted to become her new husband.
When Horatio and Eric Delko confronted the sinister Stacy at the Black Sapphire Med-Spa, she insisted that Peter acted alone, while he contrarily yet correctly implied that his girlfriend had a villainous role; all the while, Horatio and Eric were being held at gunpoint by Peter. However, as the greedy mastermind continued to stand her ground about Peter committing the murder on his own, he suddenly held Stacy at gunpoint in order to force her to “tell the truth” about how she apparently ordered him to kill Brandon, with his delusional belief originating from the fact that he was deeply infatuated with her. After failing to get Stacy to say what he wanted her to say, Peter fled her clinic in an atempt to escape the two cops, only to be suddenly killed by an oncoming truck. Regarding the fate of the villainess, a conversation between Natalia Boa Vista and Ryan Wolfe revealed that she would be charged with plotting her ex-husband’s death, and it is assumed that Stacy was arrested offscreen sometime afterwards.
== Quotes ==
* “Because we’re married, he gets half my company. I want him dead, Elena. (Elena: “Stacy, what you’re asking is difficult... and very expensive to do.”) But I believe in you, Elena. (Elena: “Okay. Set up a meeting at his house.”)” (Stacy’s reveal as a murderous and greedy mastermind)
== Trivia ==
* Merle Dandridge later appeared on The Mentalist as greedy prosecutor Lydia Faulk.
Category:2010s
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