Natalie Hill

**Natalie Hill** was a housekeeper at Frost Casino and Charlie Cale's best friend. She was murdered as a result of the crime she witnessed at the casino.

## Series

### Season 1

Natalie cleans the rooms at the Frost Casino until she arrives at the Presidential Suite. She knocks and when there's no answer, enters to begin cleaning. She stops when she sees an open laptop, approaching it with horror. She leaves the room, collects herself, then gets her phone to take a picture of the screen. She leaves before the man inside can see her. Once in the stairwell, she tries to call someone but there’s no answer. She walks through the casino to tell Mr. LeGrand what she found. He escorts her upstairs where he calls in a code red. They show the evidence to their boss, Sterling Frost Jr. Sterling is in shock since it’s the Caine suite, though Natalie is sure of what she saw and knows this is a big deal. Sterling adds this isn’t just beyond moral revulsion but illegal, so now they’re going to do what they have to do. She worries about her cart and checking out, but Sterling tells her not to clock out as they’ll handle all of it. They’ll be there for her, making sure she feels safe going home to her husband. He discreetly deletes the photo from her phone, instructing her not to tell anyone about this until they contact the FBI.

Natalie gathers her belongings and leaves the casino, ignoring the goodbyes of a worker taking a break. She drives home and the second she walks through the door, Cliff pulls the trigger. He then stages the crime scene to make it look as though her husband Jerry shot Natalie and then himself. Cliff calls Sterling to tell him it’s done.

A few mornings before the murder, Charlie Cale calls Natalie to ask for a ride to work, since her car won't start. On the way, Charlie brings up a child porn ring on the dark web run by Russia. Natalie doesn’t see why she reads the news when she can’t do anything about it. Charlie’s doing something about it right now by tweeting.

The girls scan their keycards and then empty their belongings into buckets so they can pass through the metal detector, chatting as they do. Natalie states she’s fine, but Charlie knows she’s bullshitting - when she hears bullshit she says bullshit. Natalie’s sunglasses set off the metal detector twice, so Charlie takes them off as it’s a pound of chrome on her face. She stops when she sees the black eye underneath, cursing the son of a bitch responsible. She tries to follow Natalie, but her cell phone sets off the detector.

The female employees talk in the locker room about what incited the violence. Natalie was knitting when their Apple TV showed a gallery of photos from her husband Jay’s phone cloud. Among them were dick pics, and she questioned who he was sending the pictures to. He denied it and then hit her. She locks her locker and Charlie hopes she kicked him out. Natalie says she did, but Charlie knows it’s bullshit. As the day goes on, Charlie is called up to Sterling Frost Jr.'s office and thex Natalie that she’ll be late since she’s getting fired but will Uber home.

Down in the casino, Jerry is shouting for Natalie and causing a scene. Charlie runs out to stop him, but he’s belligerent. Two security guards slam him onto the table. She spots a gun, which Cliff grabs from Jerry’s ankle holster. They drag Jerry out of the casino while Charlie assures Natalie they got him. Natalie explains that he sent her crazy texts all morning but she had her phone off during her shift and didn’t see it. The manager gives her the rest of the day off, asking if she has somewhere safe to go. Charlie insists Natalie’s staying with her tonight.

Back in the trailer, Charlie tells Natalie to get a restraining order against Jerry but she can't as it’s his house. She can’t divorce him because she signed something that means she can’t have it. She can't afford to be out on her ass right now, either. Charlie offers to let her stay with her but she can’t. She hugs her friend, joking that Charlie must have been a knight in a past life.

That evening at work, Natalie and Cliff visit Sterling with the evidence against Caine that ultimately gets her killed. Meanwhile, Charlie checks her phone to see a missed call from Natalie and tries to call her back, but she doesn’t answer. Charlie wakes up the next morning to a headline - “LOCAL WOMAN SLAIN” - and a picture of Natalie attached. The article says it’s a murder-suicide committed by Jerry Hill.

The girls talk in the locker room about Natalie’s last shift and how odd she acted. Charlie confirms from Michelle that Natalie left a little after eight, checking it against the time of Natalie’s missed call to Charlie at 7:56 pm. However, she usually gets off a few hours later. The police are about to cut the lock off Natalie’s locker, but Michelle intervenes as she knows her combo. Charlie refuses to let go of her feeling there's a lie in the story about Natalie's death, as things don't add up. Her investigation leads her to Natalie's house, where she finds her tablet and accesses it using the locker combination that Michelle knows. Charlie ultimately finds the photo Natalie took of Caine's laptop, piecing together what happened.

She confronts Sterling about her suspicions. Natalie did the right thing when she saw something awful, and Sterling had Cliff kill her for it. She tells him to look her in the eye and say bullshit if it isn’t true. When he doesn’t, she presses on. There’s only one reason she would take a picture of Caine’s laptop, and that’s to turn him in, to show someone, like the police. But she didn’t show the police, she tried to call Charlie but she missed it. So Charlie figured that Natalie came to him and Cliff that night. Sterling scoffs that’s a lot of accusation based on figures. Charlie, however, was figuring this morning when she saw the TV footage and now, she knows. Jerry had his stupid pearl-handled pistol when he came to the casino, but when he passes through the metal detector on the way out, it doesn’t go off. This means he didn’t have it when he left, and she already knows from Cliff that Jerry didn’t come back to the casino. Which means the night of the murder, was right here with Cliff. Charlie ultimately leaks the audio of Sterling planning to cheat in the poker game which gets him blackballed from the gambling world. Overcome with his failures, Sterling jumps off the balcony to his death. After narrowly escaping Cliff, Charlie types out an email to Sheriff Parker, the FBI, CIA, and Oprah titled “the truth” which contains the photo Natalie Hill took in Kazimir Caine’s hotel room. She’s trusting them to do their job. The death of Sterling puts Charlie in the crosshairs of his father, Sterling Frost Sr., and she flees town to hide from him.

## Trivia

* Her locker combination and tablet pin is 9248.