Miss Scarlet (film)

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## Creation & Appearances

### Created by

John Landis
Jonathan Lloyd

## Personal details

### Status

Alive
Incarcerated (Endings A and C)

## Professional & social status

### Known for

Operating a undercover escort service in Washington D.C.

## Relationships

### Other affiliates

* Yvette (former employee; deceased)
* Mr. Boddy  (blackmailer; deceased)

## Source

**Miss Scarlet** is a character from the 1985 film *Clue*, based on the board game of the same name. In the film, Miss Scarlet is a pseudonym given to an unnamed woman who is the proprietor of an escort service based in Washington, D.C. She was being blackmailed by Mr. Boddy and was invited by Wadsworth to Hill House to discuss the matter.

In the film, Miss Scarlet is played by American actress Lesley Ann Warren.

## Profile

### Appearance

Miss Scarlet is an attractive middle-age woman with short-length curly brown hair and brown eyes. Her attire is a emerald green silk dress with a silk teal scarf. She is also seen wearing a green overcoat before arriving at Hill House.

### Personality

In a 2021 interview with Vulture, Warren described her character as the following:

>  Miss Scarlet to me was really smart and really in charge and ran a very successful business — albeit a little nefarious. She was in control of her life as she saw it. She was a powerful woman and used her sexuality to get what she wanted, but she wouldn’t be used by anybody else. Those were some of the qualities that attracted me to her.
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## Role in the film

**SPOILER WARNING: This section contains spoilers.**
Prior to the events of the film, Miss Scarlet ran an underground brothel in Washington, DC, which was extremely popular, as Mr. Green mentions that half of Washington is aware of it. Unbeknownst to her, one of her call girls, Yvette was secretly a spy for a man named Mr. Boddy, and discovered that Scarlet had been bribing one of the cops in the area to not let anyone know about her business. Boddy would go on to blackmail Scarlet for money. One night, she was invited to a New England mansion by a man named Wadsworth, alongside Boddy and five other people blackmailed by him: they were given the aliases Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Green, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, and Col. Mustard, the last of whom was a client of Scarlet.

One day, she, along with five other people, were invited to a dining party at a mysterious mansion in New England by an then unknown person where they stated that a certain "financial obligation" while come to an end.

While on her way, her car broke down, and she was driven to the mansion by Plum. Wadsworth reveals that the reason he brought them all to the mansion was because of his awareness of the groups blackmail, and sought to use them to get back at Mr. Boddy. Boddy proceeded to give Scarlet and the others a series of weapons, with Scarlet receiving a candlestick, asking them to kill Wadsworth, in order to keep their secrets all to themselves. Upon turning the lights out, a gunshot rang out, and upon turning the lights back on, Boddy himself was found "dead" on the floor.

From then on, the rest of the night was spent attempting to discover the person who killed Boddy. When splitting up, Scarlet searched alongside Mustard, and discovered a secret passage. During the night, multiple other people are killed, all of whom were associates of Boddy: The cook, who worked for Peacock, Yvette, who worked at Scarlet t's brothel and slept with Mrs. White's husband, the cop Scarlet bribed, a motorist who worked for Col. Mustard during WWII, and a singing telegram who was a former patient of Plum's whom he slept with. The cop and singing telegram were murdered while the lights were out. After turning the lights back on, Wadsworth than proceeds to explain who the murderers were:

### "That's how it could have happened."

In the first ending, Scarlet was the mastermind of the murders. Boddy and the cook were killed by Yvette, a former employee of Miss Scarlet, before Scarlet herself turned out the power and strangled her, before killing the cop and the singing telegram girl. Scarlet pulls out the revolver, and reveals her motivation: to sell the secrets of the group to the highest bidder. Wadsworth than claims that Scarlet's gun is out of bullets. The two then proceed to argue, only for the doorbell to ring, allowing Wadsworth to disarm her. Law enforcement enters the house, and Wadsworth reveals himself as an FBI agent, and proceeds to taunt Scarlet, only to accidentally fire the gun, as it indeed still had a bullet left.

### "But how about this?"

In the second ending, very murder is revealed to have been perpetrated by Mrs. Peacock, having taken bribes from foreign powers. She holds the group at gunpoint in order to leave. In order to convince her of her victory, Wadsworth begins singing, "For She's a Jolly Good Fellow", which the rest of the guests than take part in. Wadsworth then reveals himself as an FBI agent, as law enforcement arrest Mrs. Peacock outside. Wadsworth asks the group if they would like fruit or dessert.

### "But here's what really happened."

In the true and canon ending, Wadsworth reveals that each person at the party killed a different person: Plum killed Boddy, Peacock killed the cook, Mustard killed the motorist, White killed Yvette, Scarlet killed the cop, and Wadsworth shot the singing telegram girl. Wadsworth than reveals himself to be the true Mr. Boddy, pulls out the revolver, and explains that he invited them there to kill off his spies and informants. When Boddy explains that he plans to continue blackmailing them all, Mr. Green shoots him and reveals himself as a plant for the FBI. He brings in local law enforcement, at which point Scarlet and the rest of the group begin accusing each other. Mr. Green explains they all did it, before saying that he is going to go home and sleep with his wife, mocking his previous lie of being a closeted homosexual.

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## References

1. ↑ Ivie, Devon (2021-07-28). Lesley Ann Warren Answers Every Question We Have About *Clue*. Vulture.