Vanessa Lowenthal (Taxi Brooklyn)

Vanessa Lowenthal (Jadyn Douglas) is the villainess of "Brooklyn Heights", episode 1.02 of Taxi Brooklyn (airdate July 2, 2014). She was the wife of Mark Lowenthal, the son of wealthy entrepreneur Sasha Lowenthal.
When Mark's troubled brother Ian disappeared, Sasha reported him as missing and specifically requested detective Cat Sullivan handle the case (for her work capturing the infamous Park Slope Stalker). When Cat came to the Lowenthal mansion to talk with Sasha, Vanessa shared Mark's belief that Ian's disappearance was a result of him going back to his old ways, with Vanessa revealing Ian's past drug addiction.
After Ian's body was found, Sasha's assistant (and Ian's girlfriend) Carmen Lopez was suspected by the FBI for killing Ian. But as revealed in the episode's climax, Vanessa had been behind Ian's death, having Russ (the Lowenthal's chef and Vanessa's illicit lover) poison him with a fatal overdose of rophenol. For motive, Sasha was revealed to be suffering from terminal cancer that gave her a year to live, and Ian was planning to donate stem cells to save his mother's life. But the evil Vanessa wanted Sasha and Ian dead, as that would allow Mark to become the sole heir to his family's fortune--and allow Vanessa to take take half of it after she divorced Mark six months later. To cover her tracks, Vanessa falsely claimed she saw Ian and Carmen fight the day of his murder, framing her.
When Cat and Leo Romba began to suspect Russ of being involved in Ian's death and Russ began to panic, Vanessa killed him by stabbing him with a knife, and later attacked Mark when he tried to stop her. She then left to take a private helicopter out of the country, taking Sasha as a hostage and telling Mark that she would kill her if the police tried to stop her. Mark briefly trapped Cat and Leo in the kitchen freezer after they found Russ' body, but eventually released them and confessed to his wife's evil deeds. The FBI was able to reach the heliport before Vanessa could get away, and the villainess was placed under arrest.
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