Sister Nora

**Sister Nora** (Krista Bridges) was the main villainess of the 2017 Lifetime film *Sometimes the Good Kill* (airdate April 28, 2017). She was introduced as a senior sister at the St. Theresa Abbey who joined in order to avoid marriage and practice medicine. Her brief backstory also divulged that she was once the girlfriend of Joseph Kinsella, who eventually became a property developer. After he cheated on her with Sister Joy, which led to the birth of Sister Oona, Nora devised a twisted plan for revenge against Joy that was also meant to make him "want [her]" again.

Years later, Nora began manipulating Oona by hiding behind the vent in her cell and posing as the "voices of the angels," convincing her to try to "[bring herself] closer to God" by climbing the building's tower. However, after that, she began coercing her into becoming her oblivious accomplice by acting "bossy" and "angry" whenever she refused to comply. She also used the Abbey's secret tunnels to sneak around unnoticed.

Her first intended victim was the current Mother Superior, who swept Joy and Joseph's relationship under the proverbial rug. Nora told Oona to take her up a set of scaffolding and shove her to her demise; when she continuously refused to do so, the sinister mastermind killed Mother Superior herself by using Sister Faith's shovel to pry a rock free and then pushing it onto her. In the aftermath of the murder, Nora berated Oona by saying that "it was all [her] fault" and that "confession wasn't enough for what [she'd] done," ominously warning her to "keep it a secret forever."

As a result, Joy was voted in as the new Mother Superior in a close election. However, it played right into Nora's nefarious scheme since the election was her idea in the first place. She intended to discredit Joseph's second ex-girlfriend before having his concept of closing the Abbey down and converting it into condominiums become a reality. Additionally, she let Sister Talia (the film's protagonist) suspect everyone around her, along with informing Sister Jean about Joy's past sacrilegious activities in order to "fan [the] flames" of "dirty [gossiping]" as a distraction.

Nora then told Oona to bring a radio to Sister Mary (who was the last sister to cast her vote, having ultimately voted for Joy after a period of indecisiveness) while she bathed "as a surprise," which allowed the villainess to drop the radio into the tub, electrocuting her to death. Additionally, Conor—Joseph's nephew and a handyman Faith was infatuated with—accidentally found a trap door that served as an entrance to the tunnels, leading to Nora murdering him by setting up a truck he was working on to crush him. On the morning after his demise, Joy instructed both Nora and Talia to take Conor's corpse to the convent's cold storage room.

Talia later began to learn about Oona's "voices" when she overheard her talking with said "voices." After Nora instructed Oona to "deal with her," the latter whispered to the former that she would "be back" before informing Talia about how "[they] almost always" answered her on top of "[telling her] what to do." When Talia spotted Nora hiding behind the vent and tried to use a table lamp to see her, the delusional woman made two attempts to stab her in her face with the tip of a spear, failing both times. With both her and Faith gone for the time being, Nora proceeded to influence Oona into attempting to kill her mother by saying that she was "the wrong Mother Superior" and also that she "had to do it." After Talia witnessed Oona choking Joy, she separated them and then discovered what the "voices" told her to do.

Nora's climactic villainous reveal came when Talia found her with Joy's corpse in the Abbey's infirmary, with Nora herself having already killed her with a chokehold. Cornered, the murderous criminal divulged her intention to "bring [the Abbey] down," berated her victims, and admitted to "[telling] Jean about Joy." When Faith entered the room, Nora pointed Talia's gun at them, calling her a "whore" and Talia an "assassin" while she continued ranting—along with mentioning that Joseph "was [hers]" before "[Joy] got her fangs in him." Furthermore, Talia deduced the rest of the spree killer's plan, with the former going on to claim that people "can come back from anything," citing herself as an example. In response, Nora repeatedly said she "[hadn't been] saved" and moved closer to the pair so that she could kill them, only for Talia to body slam her to the floor after she managed to fire the gun once. In the brief struggle that ensued, she killed Nora in self-defense by pulling the gun's trigger while it was pointed at her head.