Cathy (Tru Calling)

Cathy aka Chris Barronson (Andrea Anders) is the villainess of "Rear Window", episode 1.18 of Tru Calling (airdate April 22, 2004). She was a neighbor of series protagonist Tru Davies and, as later revealed, a serial identity thief who would steal the credit cards of countless people and blow through their money. By the episode's events, Cathy's latest victim was Chris Barronson, who found out what Cathy had done and began calling her numerous times to threaten her.
Tru witnessed firsthand one such call that Cathy got while in a local diner, and the two women seemed to form a quick friendship. Later in the episode, though, the real Chris Barronson was brought into the morgue, having gone to Cathy's apartment to confront her only to be murdered by Matt Baxter, another neighbor of Cathy and Tru's who had become obsessed with the former. This served to allow Tru to uncover Cathy's lie, as the real Chris Barronson was a man.
After Chris asked Tru to save him, her powers allowed her to rewind the day to do so, allowing Tru to investigate. When first questioned by Tru, Cathy claimed that Chris had stolen her identity and was now threatening her. But the truth was revealed when Tru's boss Davis invited Chris to the morgue, where he revealed Cathy's manipulative nature and proved his truthfulness by showing his driver's license. Tru confronted Cathy outside her building and tried to convince her to stop, but Cathy simply boasted of her criminal lifestyle and warned Tru to stay out of her business. But later, after Tru told Cathy that she was in over her head, Cathy tearfully claimed that she had started stealing identities to financially support herself and hadn't expected it to go that far. She then appeared to make amends with Chris by meeting him at the diner with Tru to repay him the money she had stolen from him.
But later on, it was revealed that the money Cathy had given Chris was fake, causing him to storm to Cathy's building to confront her. Like before, Matt attacked Chris under the belief that he was trying to hurt Cathy, but Tru managed to intervene and stop Matt from killing him. She then tracked Cathy down to a car rental shop, the conniving thief having taken a picture of Tru's credit card to steal her identity. After calling her out for her manipulative and greedy ways, the police arrived and arrested Cathy (offscreen).
Category:2000s
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Category:Live Action Villainess
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