Etta Davis

**Henrietta Elizabeth Davis** (née **Langford**) is a serial killer and elusive target.

## Background

*Etta Davis demonstrates that evil can hide in the most unassuming of places. The well-educated and urbane woman is a former nurse, well liked for her soothing beside manner and calm nature. It is unclear when she commenced her career of murder, but is most likely to have begun during her tenure at the Graverslyside Hospice in the 1980s. Under cover of the naturally high mortality rate of such locations, she perfected a range of skills including poisoning and directed sabotage.*

*Following the death of a former member of parliament while in her care, investigations were opened and are ongoing, but the death is likely to be ruled an accident. However, additional information provided as a part of the contract background indicates a very high likelihood that she in fact sabotaged the former Minister's wheelchair, leading to a precipitous plunge down a flight of stairs. Alarmingly, this information also indicates that her rate of predation has increased.*

*Her preferred techniques include poisonings, sabotaging fixtures, and in several cases the careful weakening of staircases. While she eschews firearms and physical combat, she is a deadly predator, who is extremely likely to kill again.*
*The current chaos in Marrakesh would provide extremely good cover for further predations, so her rapid elimination will no doubt save lives.*

## Personality

Etta Davis appears to be inspired by English serial killer Harold Shipman, who had killed several patients under his care while working as a general practitioner. Shipman also had the alias of "The Angel of Death", which may have inspired the name of the mission. Her dialogue mentions that she had a husband, and it has been presumed that she has potentially killed him by making him fall down a flight of stairs.

In the game, Etta seems to be either blind or deliberately ignoring the commanding officer's obvious distaste for her. Despite praising him as a true gentleman and a paragon of virtue upon their first encounter, she insists on calling him colonel, despite his protestations that that is not his real rank. The "colonel" often insults her and denigrates his escorting responsibility under his breath. She briefly mentions getting a cup of tea with the colonel, hinting that she may wish to murder him next.

She also has a distaste for technology, like for instance, she tends to lament the advent of various cordless phones and insults those who use email instead of letter-writing to be penpals. It is hinted that this is in part because she fears being monitored, with her being particularly frustrated by the high amount of burner phones found around the markets.

## Trivia

* Etta Davis's intel picture shows her inside the Swedish Consulate, although she does not enter the building during her mission.
* She is one of the oldest female targets in the Hitman franchise, as well as the oldest female Elusive Target in the trilogy.
* As shown in her in-game briefing, some of her notable murders include:
	+ 1998 August, two murders, County Sansbury,
	+ 1999 November, seven murders, County Holmsworth,
	+ 2001 January, five murders, County Witbury,
	+ 2002 May-August, seventeen murders, Counties Shaelsworth,
	+ 2003 August, five murders, West Umbrage,
	+ and 2004 December, eleven murders, North Willoughby.