Odette Morton (Castle)

Odette Morton (Marisha Shine) was the plot-twist main villainess from "A Dance With Death," episode 4.18 of Castle (airdate March 12, 2012). She was introduced as the episode's main murder victim and a contestant on a reality program called, Night of Dance.
Odette was also a spoiled-rich heiress, who was originally introduced as a woman who was turning things around after surviving a recent train crash. Her only known relations were her grandfather Graham Morton, who raised her, and her brother Paul Morton. When her rich grandfather died, she dropped out of school, broke off her relationship with a nice guy, and lived a party life with drugs and huge spendings, which resulted in getting arrested many times. Her behavior was contributed to grief. However after the train wreck, she changed her ways. In a surprising twist, it was revealed that the woman who was known as Odette Morton was actually Barbra Landau, a woman who was originally believed to have died in the wreck, only for the real truth to be unveiled: Odette had died in the wreck and Barbra was living as Odette up until her own death.
Though it was revealed that the women knew each other, it was originally believed that Barbra was a villainess obsessed with Odette and her good life, and took over Odette's identity to live her life. In actuality, Odette's partying lifestyle resulted in arrests and sentences to community service, and after seeing Barbra working as a stripper at a club, she paid her to pose as Odette and serve her community service for her; even paying for plastic surgery to look exactly like Odette as part of the ruse. One of those occations was when Barbra served Odette's community service in a soup kitchen i 2010, while Odette attended a bridal shower. They were together on the train, when it crashed, Odette died and Barbra used the confusion to take over Odette's identity and left the real Odette to be identified as Barbra, having her death certificate made in Barbra's name.
During this time, Barbra asked Odette's friend, Suzanne Steiner (who had no idea that "Odette" was a phony) about the passing of Graham Morton, Odette's wealthy grandfather. The episode's progression would go on to reveal that Graham was actually murdered, with suspicion falling on Suzanne's father, Charles Carson, who worked as a butler at the Morton household for over 20 years. Charles was suspected of killing both Graham and Barbra (the latter due to finding out the truth), but during his interrogation by Richard Castle and Kate Beckett, Charles revealed that Graham and Odette were arguing over Odette dating someone who her grandfather disapproved of. He also revealed that he found a pillow near Graham on the day of his death, after putting out a kitchen fire that Odette reported, and that ended up posthumously revealing Odette as a villainous co-conspirator. Since Odette was with Carson the whole time, she must have an accomplish, who carried out the murder.
As the episode's climax revealed, Odette's lover was none other than her business manager, Samuel Lynchberg, and the couple planned to run off and marry. Graham's disapproval of the relationship led him to threaten to cut off Odette financially if she didn't end things with Samuel. Odette turned heel in response by colluding with Samuel to kill her grandfather, with Samuel smothering Graham with a pillow while the villainess was in the kitchen setting the fire. However, the evil Odette dumped Samuel after the murder, as she solely wanted her inheritance and believed that Samuel outlived his usefulness. Odette continued her partying lifestyle until she was killed in the train wreck, and it was revealed that Samuel killed Barbra on the set of the aforementioned show, as Barbra had figured out the truth about Graham's murder and because Samuel couldn't stand Odette's life being taken over by a stripper. Despite that Odette dumped him after he committed murder for her, he was still devoted to her. 
Category:2010s
Category:Arson
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Doppelganger
Category:Family Murderer
Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murder: Indirect
Category:Murderer
Category:Offscreen Death
Category:Rich
Category:Vain
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Deceased
Category:Demise: Crash