Henrietta Evans

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**Henrietta Evans** is the titular main antagonist of the 1993 psychological thriller drama film *The Good Daughter*. She is the female version of Henry Evans from *The Good Son*. She is the monstrous and arrogant cousin and archenemy of Marcie Evans, the film’s titular main protagonist and female version of Mark Evans.

**Early Life**

Henrietta lived in Maine with her parents, Wallace and Susan Evans, her little sister Connie Evans, and her little brother Richard Evans before he died. Two years before the movie, Henrietta killed her little brother, Richard, by drowning him in the bathtub due to jealousy of him stealing all of the love and affection and attention from her. Henrietta enjoyed killing animals with a homemade crossbow that shoots bolts and dropping human looking dummies onto the highway to cause car accidents. She had a murder shed she used as a secret personal secret serial killer hideout where she loved building deadly weapons she tested out and used to kill animals and life sized dummies she used when causing car accidents. Henrietta also enjoyed going ice skating or on hikes in the woods.

**Biography**

Since Marcie’s father must go on a business trip to Tokyo, he leaves his daughter with her uncle Wallace and aunt Susan. Soon, Marcie and her cousin Henrietta, who seems like a good friend and a nice girl at first, meet up. However, Henrietta’s true nature starts to show up after some of her behavior is revealed. Like starting out when she smoked and pressured Marcie into doing it telling her that (“she’s gonna die anyway”) and then expressed interest in death, asking how Marcie’s mother looked like when she died.

Marcie felt uncomfortable with Henrietta’s behavior and threatened to hit her if she talked about her mother again. Henrietta replied that if she did, she would throw Marcie into a well. Henrietta becomes jealous when she sees Susan hugging Marcie. Henrietta later took a home-made crossbow and revealed great aiming skills with it, hitting a tree that a cat was sitting next to. Henrietta then shot and killed a dog that had chased the two earlier, much to Marcie’s shock and horror. And she later caused a massive pile-up using a hand-made dummy named Mr. Highway.

She also implies that she probably killed her own brother before the movie’s events. A horrified Marcie tries many times to warn her uncle and aunt about Henrietta’s sick-minded behavior, but they will not listen to her. Henrietta confronts Marcie in their room when Connie shows up as well. Henrietta is displeased that Connie is in her room and makes it clear about it but is pushed away by Marcie, who pins her to a wall. Henrietta implies she is going to kill her just before Susan breaks the two up.

Susan and Wallace leave and Marcie becomes worried that Henrietta will attack Connie and finds her safe. After reading her a story to make her go to sleep, Marcie leaves the room and Henrietta reveals herself in the dark, and once again hints she will kill Connie. The next morning, Marcie wakes up and finds out Henrietta took Connie skating and leaves the house to find them. By the time she gets there, Henrietta tosses Connie onto thin ice and that she breaks through, almost drowning. Several adults rescue her, and Connie is hospitalized. Marcie once again tries to warn her uncle and her aunt, but they still refuse to listen.

Marcie later sees Henrietta talking to the therapist telling her about Marcie’s “strange behavior” successfully manipulating her. Marcie confronts Henrietta on their treehouse, where Henrietta becomes even more jealous of Marcie when she says that Susan is her mother now. Later, that night, Marcie wakes up and goes to the refrigerator at the middle of the night to get a snack and Henrietta confronts her and tells her to get whatever she wants and Marcie asks what did she do to the food, and Henrietta jokingly asks Marcie would she do something like that. Henrietta later alerts her parents about Marcie disposing the food in the garbage disposal and Susan and Wallace stop her and send her to bed.

Susan finds the rubber duck that was with Richard when he died in Henrietta’s shed and asks her about it. Henrietta lies and says she took it because “she wanted something to remember Richard by”, and she asks for it back but Susan refuses so Henry takes it away by force and runs off to the cemetery and drops it down the well. Later on, Henrietta and Marcie meet up in their room and Henrietta hints she will kill Susan. Marcie grabs a pair of scissors and pins Henrietta onto his bedroom and threatens to jab the scissors into her throat. Henrietta pressures Marcie into doing it when Wallace sees this and locks Marcie in a room until she talks.

Henrietta tricks Susan into taking a walk in the woods with her, where she finally asks if she killed her baby brother since she earlier found one the rubber duck in Henrietta’s possession, to which she replies “What if I did?”, shocking her mother and making her see the monster Henrietta truly is. Refusing to be sent somewhere where she would be given special treatment for her behavior, she tricks Susan into following her to a cliff and pushes her off, but she hangs herself to a branch below.

Henrietta tries to drop a large rock on Susan to finish her off, but Marcie immediately comes to her rescue and battles Henrietta. As the two girls wrestle, they almost fall down the cliff, but Susan (having just reached the top) hangs onto them both tries to save them both, but soon realizes that only one can be saved. Remembering that Henrietta tried to kill her (and would likely try again), being too dangerous to be left alive and beyond saving, she reluctantly releases Henrietta, despite her desperate pleas that he loves her, leaving her screaming and falling to her death onto the rocks below. Susan pulls Marcie up from the ledge and they look down upon Henrietta’s body on the rocks below before she is washed away into the sea, and they both share an emotional embrace.

**Personality**

Henrietta was an extremely ruthless, dishonest, disrespectful, callous, dishonorable, rude, manipulative, sadistic, unsympathetic, selfish, and ungrateful child who never appreciated the well-being of others. She found the idea of death to be rather enthralling, with the exception of his own. Not only did Henrietta show no remorse for her actions, but she enjoyed them immensely; for example, after murdering an aggressive dog with her homemade crossbow, rather than feeling remorse or regret for what he had done, Henrietta instead felt only joy and satisfaction and had a broad, wicked smile on his face whilst watching the car accident she caused get bigger. Henrietta has been described as a Cluster B psychopath with antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders with sadistic features. Thus, while psychopathic and twisted, she is capable of understanding why her actions are so terrible.

It seemed that envy was what awoke the beast in Henrietta as she drowned her baby brother, Richard, in the bathtub purely out of jealousy for how her parents were paying more attention to her, even giving her Henrietta’s favorite rubber duck, which Henrietta kept after she killed him as it was in her words; “It was mine before it was his,” after finding that killing Richard had been so easy for her, Henrietta discovered that she did not feel saddened when bad things happened to other people and then learned to live by a philosophy; “Once you realize that you can do anything, you’re free. You could fly. Nobody can touch you, nobody”.

Henrietta took surprisingly little to no care of her own health, rationalizing that smoking was okay because everyone would die one way or another. Had she lived to be older, she possibly would have started using other drugs and alcohol. Henrietta stated that she used to be afraid before realizing that doing horrible things made her happy instead of sad or had no impact on her either way. Therefore, it is possible that she is willing to die in order to torment others as long as it’s done by her own terms.

Henrietta’s reason for attempting to kill her little sister and mother seemed to stem from a desire to devastate Marcie more than from jealousy, as she noticed how close Marcie was becoming to them both and had already demonstrated that other people’s suffering thrilled her. Henrietta had already made it clear she disliked (and even hated) her sister, Connie, but it was odd how she chose to kill her mother instead of Marcie. She possibly preferred her to be dead than be a mother/mother-figure to anyone else or felt that she was too close to learning the truth about Richard’s death.

Henrietta never felt any genuine love for anyone, even for her family, it was likely that she only wanted Richard out of the way so she would get all the attention and praise of her family and so that they would serve her. Henrietta was horrible to Connie; aside from trying to kill her, she would psychologically and physically torture her on many occasions and addressed her as “vermin” at one point.

Henrietta was also surprisingly calculating for her young age, she was able to make the murder of Richard and the attempted murder of Connie seem like an accident. She also stretched out her hand towards Connie to make it seem like he was trying to save her, though considering her sadistic personality, she may have also tantalized her sister by keeping her hand right out of her reach.

Had Henrietta gotten away with killing her mother, she could have lied about it, having been there when it happened and it would have been surmised that she had either fallen or committed suicide due to her heartbreak over Richard’s death, the latter of which is something everyone knew she felt guilty for. Henrietta also convinced everyone that Marcie’s grievance over her mother was driving her to insanity, keeping all suspicion off herself, and was even willing to blame her for the traffic collision she caused.

At first, Henrietta’s psychopathic nature had simply been due to jealousy, but since then it had developed to the point that another person’s life having value was a fact that Henry simply ignored. The shine she took to Marcie at first was possible because she saw Marcie as a potential pawn rather than a friend, as she viewed everyone he knew as disposable if they no longer satisfied her needs or posed a threat to her freedom (which was what she valued above everything else).

What was really disturbing about Henrietta was that she understood the difference between right and wrong, and knew perfectly well that what she was doing was bad but he did not care. If she wanted to do something and if it was within her reach to do it, she would - without caring at all about how it affected other people or, as mentioned above, if she endangered her life in the process.

Despite Henrietta’s interest in death and enjoyment for causing it to others, she valued her own life and was afraid of dying herself; as far as Henrietta was concerned, it was OK for everyone except herself to die or be in pain (or at least, refusing to let others kill her unless she wants to), she briefly tried to convince Marcie to follow in her footsteps and give up all traces of empathy so her life would be better, possibly implying that Henrietta thought everyone should be like her. Henrietta also had a ridiculously excessive sense of self-worth, as she felt that she was entitled to everything she wanted just because she wanted it, with no rational reasoning.

Henrietta’s greatest weakness was her incapability to understand love completely, this was evident by when she still thought that her mother would always love her unconditionally, even after she had subtly admitted to killing Richard to her mother and then tried to kill her despite her trying to reach her upon finding out her true nature. Henrietta also asked Marcie if a person is expected to cry at their mother’s funeral, apparently only guessing that it is something most people would do.

**Quotes**

> **Marcie**: Where are we going?
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> **Henrietta**: We're here. Here, help me rest him up here.
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> **Marcie**: Okay.
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> [Marcie helps Henrietta put the dummy "Mr. Highway" over the top of the freeway overpass.]
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> **Henrietta**: Come on, Mr. Highway! Take a look. (turns to Marcie) Poor Mr. Highway. He's thinking about the end. He's had enough of this terrible life.
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> **Marcie**: What?
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> **Henrietta**: Say goodbye!
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> [Henrietta drops Mr. Highway off of the ramp and onto the road causing the crashes and deaths of people.]
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> **Marcie**: No!
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> [Henrietta smiles sadistically at the pileup she caused while Marcie looks down in horror.]
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> **Henrietta**: I feel sorry for you Marcie, you just don't know how to have fun.
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> **Marcie**: What?
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> **Henrietta**: It's because you're scared all the time, I know, I used to be scared too, but that was before I found out.
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> **Marcie**: Found out what?
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> **Henrietta**: That once you realize you can do anything, you're free. You could fly. Nobody can touch you. Nobody. Marcie, don't be afraid to fly.
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> You like my sister, don't you? Such a sweet little girl... it'd be too bad if something were to happen to her... like she got hurt... you'd be sad, wouldn't you, Marcie? But hey, accidents can happen...
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> [Henrietta meets Marcie up at the treehouse.]
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> **Henrietta**: You sure missed an interesting session! I like therapy!
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> **Marcie**: What did you tell her?
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> **Henrietta**: Sorry, that's strictly confidential, but you better stop telling lies about me because no one's gonna believe you.
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> **Marcie**: Sooner or later, they're gonna find out about you!
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> **Henrietta**: Who's they? My dad? My mom?
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> **Marcie**: I told your mom.
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> **Henrietta**: Why would she believe you? She's my mom, not yours.
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> **Marcie**: You know you're wrong about that! She is my mother!
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> **Henrietta**: Your mom? You crazy!? Your mom's maggot food!
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> **Marcie**: My mom said she'd always be with me, she tells your mom there's a way of coming back, but I guess you wouldn't understand that, but it's true. She's my mother now!
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> [Marcie starts to head down out of the treehouse.]
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> **Henrietta**: Hey, Marcie!
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> [Marcie stops on the rope and looks up.]
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> **Henrietta**: Don't f-ck with me.
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> [Marcie continues to slide down while Henrietta watches her.]
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> [Henrietta spots Marcie looking through the refrigerator at night.]**Henrietta**: Looking for a midnight snack? Go ahead, eat, drink, don't let me stop you!
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> **Marcie**: What did you do?
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> **Henrietta**: Do? Me? Oh, I get it, you think I put something in my family's food. You think that I? Marcie, come on, do you really think I'd do a thing like that?
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> [Henrietta comes into the shed and spots her mother, Susan.]
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> **Henrietta**: Mom, what are you doing?
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> **Susan**: I was just, I was just looking around.
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> **Henrietta**: Uh-huh.
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> **Susan**: Henrietta, if something were wrong, you would tell me wouldn't you?
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> **Henrietta**: What do you mean?
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> **Susan**: I mean sometimes when we're kids we do things that um...
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> **Henrietta**: What kind of things?
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> **Susan**: Things we feel bad about.
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> **Henrietta**: I don't feel bad about anything.
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> [Susan holds up Henrietta's rubber duck she hid in the shed.]
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> **Susan**: Look what I've found!
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> [Henrietta sees the rubber duck in her hand.]
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> **Henrietta**: Where did you get that?
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> **Susan**: You know where I got it. I couldn't find it after Richard's accident. Have you had it all this time?
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> **Henrietta**: It was mine before it was hers!
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> **Susan**: But you knew I was looking for it. How did you get it? Henry? How did you get this?
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> **Henrietta**: I took it. I'm sorry mom. I took it because I wanted something to remember Richard by. That's all. So can I have it back please?
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> **Susan**: No, no you can't have it back!
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> **Henrietta**: But it's mine.
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> **Susan**: Henrietta?
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> **Henrietta**: GIVE IT TO ME!
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> **Marcie**: What are you doing?
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> **Henrietta**: Missing someone?
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> **Marcie**: Who?
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> **Henrietta**: Marcie, did you cry at your mom's funeral?
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> **Marcie**: Why?
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> **Henrietta**: I don't know, I figured you expected to cry at your mom's funeral, but I don't know.
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> **Marcie**: You wouldn't!
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> **Henrietta**: Wouldn't what?
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> **Marcie**: Hurt her.
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> [Henrietta grabs a wooden airplane toy.]
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> **Henrietta**: Do you really think I'd hurt my own? Oh, wait!
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> **Marcie**: What?
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> **Henrietta**: I just remembered, she's not my mom anymore, she's yours, isn't that what you said? She's your mother now!
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> **Marcie**: Yeah.
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> **Henrietta**: Your mom, my mom, what the hell? We'll both miss her.
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> **Marcie**: I'll kill you first!
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> **Henrietta**: Poor Marcie, so violent, so disturbed. If you don't watch out, they're gonna lock you up!
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> [Henrietta throws the airplane toy and Marcie quickly grabs a pair of scissors and restrains Henrietta to the bed and puts the scissors to her throat.]
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> **Marcie**: I could kill you now!
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> **Henrietta**: Go ahead, jam it in, gotta push pretty hard though, the blood will go right across the room, come on, come on.
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> [Wallace comes in the room.]
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> **Wallace**: Henrietta, have you seen my-
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> **Henrietta**: Dad! dad! help me!
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> **Wallace**: Marcie! (runs over and takes the scissors out of Marcie's hand and grabs her) What the hell do you think you were doing!? Answer me, goddammit!
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> **Henrietta**: Don't be mad at Marcie, she's not really herself!
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> [Wallace takes Marcie out of the room.]
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> **Wallace**: This is serious Marcie, you could've hurt her!
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> **Marcie**: She's the one who wants to hurt people!
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> **Henrietta**: Marcie, I'm sorry you don't want to be friends!
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> **Susan**: Henrietta?
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> **Henrietta**: Yes mom?
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> **Susan**: You have to tell me the truth now. What happened the night Richard died?
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> **Henrietta**: Don't you know?
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> **Susan**: I'd like to hear it from you.
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> **Henrietta**: I was downstairs playing.
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> [Susan gets down in Henrietta's face.]
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> **Susan**: Henrietta, don't lie to me, alright, just don't lie to me. Now you tell me. Did you kill Richard?
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> **Henrietta**: What if I did?
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> **Susan**: Well um...
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> **Henrietta**: What mom?
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> **Susan**: We'll get you help.
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> **Henrietta**: You don't look too good mom, looks like you need the help.
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> **Susan**: You have to trust me, Henrietta.
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> **Henry**: No, no I can't. You just want to send me **Henrietta**, don't you?
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> **Susan**: What no, no I don't.
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> **Henrietta**: You want to put me in one of those places!
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> **Susan**: No, Henrietta.
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> **Henrietta**: I'd much rather die, you hear me? I'd much rather be dead!
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> [Henrietta runs off.]
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> **Susan**: Henrietta! Henrietta, no!
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> [Susan chases after Henrietta.]
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> **Henrietta**: Looking for me mom?
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> **Susan**: Oh, Henrietta!
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> **Henrietta**: You really thought I was gonna jump huh? I guess you don't know me very well Mom!
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> [Henrietta runs up to her mom and shoves her off the cliff trying to kill her.]
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> **Susan**: Oh, Henrietta! (screams as she falls down but luckily grabs on a branch, saving her.) Henrietta!?
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> [Henrietta appears with a rock about to throw at Susan.]
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> **Henrietta**: Yes mom?
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> [Henrietta raises the rock ready to throw at Susan.]
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> **Susan**: Henrietta, please! No!
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> [Marcie suddenly appears just in time to stop Henrietta from killing Susan and tackles Henrietta making her drop the rock, almost hitting Susan.]
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> Mom, mom I love you! Mom, I need your other hand!
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> **Henrietta**: Mom, Mom help me!
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> **Susan**: Henrietta...
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> **Henrietta**: Mom!
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> **Susan**: Henrietta...
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> [Susan drops Henrietta as she screams while falling to her death while she helps up Marcie.]
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**Appearance**

Henrietta Evans is a slender young girl with blonde hair, brown eyes and pale skin. Henrietta wears a lot of red and black winter clothes. She also loves to wear plaid as she is seen wearing a lot of red and black or black and white plaid in the movie. Henrietta also wore one black Nike and one white Nike shoe on each foot.