Sister Oona

**Sister Oona** (Yulia Petrauskas) is the hidden (redeemed) secondary villainess of the 2017 Lifetime film *Sometimes the Good Kill* (airdate April 28, 2017). She is a sister at the St. Theresa Abbey.

## Events/Backstory

Oona was introduced as worrying about what it was like for Mother Superior during her last moments alive shortly after Sister Faith, Sister Talia (the film's protagonist), Sister Mai, and properly developer Joseph Kinsella found her corpse near a set of scaffolding located along the outside of the Abbey. Both Talia and Faith comforted her, with the former hugging her and the latter stating that she had "gone to God." For much of the film, she was shown to be an eccentric and innocently insensitive woman with a habit of trying to "[bring herself] closer to God" by climbing the building's tower. Talia eventually uncovered that her mother was Sister Joy, who was voted in as the new Mother Superior in a close election, and that her father was Joseph.

Later on, when Talia promised Oona that she would tell a secret of hers if she told her one first, the latter voiced that she had been hearing about her mother being a nun, after which she displayed agitation at the former breaking her promise. Demanding "silence" in the convent's refectory, Joy reprimanded her daughter for her latest "obscene [outburst]" and told her to "tidy [herself]" as well. That night, Talia heard Oona becoming upset while talking to the "voices of the angels," which were coming from behind a vent in her cell. Being told to "deal with her," the latter whispered that she would "be back" before informing the former about how "[they] almost always" answered her on top of "[telling her] what to do." Stunned by that detail, Talia tried to see the "angels" with the help of a table lamp, but they tried to stab her face twice with the tip of a spear, only to fail both times.

## Reveal/Redemption

At the beginning of the film's climax, Oona was revealed as a villainess when Talia witnessed her trying to choke Joy to death. Saying that her would-be victim was her mother, she took her down and pinned her to the floor, with Oona stating that Joy was "the wrong Mother Superior" and hissing in a rage. This was followed by her calming down and saying that "the voices" stated "[she] had to do it," with Joy cradling her daughter as she broke down into tears.

During the resulting conversation, Oona was unveiled as an unwitting pawn who was used by the true mastermind: another St. Theresa Abbey sister. She was the person hiding behind Oona's vent, having been manipulating her as part of her vengeful plan against Joy for "[getting] her fangs in [Joseph]" while *she* was his girlfriend as well. It was to involve her discrediting her ex-boyfriend's second former lover before having the Abbey closed down and converted into condominiums (which was Joseph's concept), hoping to make him "want [her]" again.

Her first order was for her to take the previous Mother Superior up a set of scaffolding and shove her to her death; when Oona continuously refused, she killed the woman who swept Joy and Joseph's relationship under the proverbial rug herself by using Faith's shovel to pry a rock free and pushing it onto her. In the aftermath of the murder, she bullied her, saying "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." She 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 was bathing "as a surprise," which allowed for her to fatally electrocute Mary by dropping the radio into the tub. Furthermore, after murdering Joseph's nephew Conor—a handyman Sister Faith was infatuated with—but failing to do the same to Talia, she influenced her oblivious accomplice into making her attempt on Joy's life.

After remorsefully admitting to everything and voicing her uncertainty about the identity of the "angels," Oona remained in Joy's arms after Talia left, resurfacing after the mastermind's villainous reveal and subsequent death during a brief struggle. Walking and kneeling next to Joy's corpse in the Abbey's infirmary, she tearfully begged for her to wake up several times. Minutes later, while sitting against a wall in one of the building's hallways, Sister Cypriana sat down beside Oona, calmly confirming the revelation and reassuring the teary-eyed woman that she would tell her "all about" why Joy never told her that she was her mother. Her fate beyond that was never disclosed.