Cressida Gardner (Perception)

Cressida Gardner (Elizabeth McLaughlin) is the main villainess from "Romeo," the penultimate episode of Perception (airdate March 10, 2015). She is the daughter of Professor Gardner, a teacher at Dr. Daniel Pierce's school who was later revealed to be having an extramarital affair with student Lily Williams.
Lily was found shot to death late one night, with Pierce and dean Paul Haley finding her body. Lily's boyfriend, Jesse Branson, was the prime suspect in the murder, though it was a suggestive photo of Lily in Haley's office that ended up revealing Gardner's affair with his student. Pierce suspected Gardner and his wife in Lily's murder, but after one of his hallucinations mentioned teen angst and "daddy issues," he came to the conclusion that Cressida was Lily's killer.
It was a week prior that Cressida found out about her father's affair with Lily, as she walked in on them in his office. She had planned to tell her mother, but couldn't bear to do it due to Mrs. Gardner's love for her husband. On the night of the murder, Cressida decided to take her mother's gun and confront Lily by calling her a homewrecker and telling her to stay away from her father. Lily, who was only two years older than Cressida, responded by stating that she and Professor Gardner were in love, and that he was even planning on leaving his wife so they could be together. At that moment, the evil Cressida pointed her gun at Lily, and later fired her weapon in a fit of rage, killing Lily instantly.
Pierce and Kate Moretti confronted Cressida once she returned home, and it was there that the villainess confessed everything. She continued lashing out at Lily's claim about the two of them being friends during the confrontation, and also voiced her disgust over Lily possibly being her stepmother. Cressida also claimed that she took the gun to scare her and she didn't know it was loaded, while adding that her intent was not to kill Lily. After her parents returned home, Cressida broke down and hugged her father after saying that she didn't want him to leave her and her mother, and she was later arrested (off-screen) for killing Lily.
== Trivia ==
* Cressida Gardner was Perception's final one-shot villainess.
==Gallery==
Cressida Kills Lily.gif|Cressida shooting and killing Lily Williams
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