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3	!The Casino
4	[[folder:Charlie Cale]]
5	!!Charlie Cale
6	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NatashaLyonne
7
8	A woman blessed and cursed with the power to tell whenever someone is lying.
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10	* AllLovingHero: A more low-key example, but wherever Charlie goes, she has a natural ability to connect and become friends with people.
11	* AlliterativeName: Downplayed. Her name is '''C'''harlie '''C'''ale.
12	* AmateurSleuth: Charlie runs into a lot of murders that she's compelled to solve, despite not being a cop.
13	* BrilliantButLazy: Charlie was this before the first episode, having previously been a card shark mostly on a lark, and afterwards satisfied with the menial labor in the job Sterling Sr. forced her into, and seems just as satisfied with the odd jobs she picks up elsewhere. Sharp eyed viewers will even see that her phone and banking PIN are both 1-2-3-4. But she's still extremely sharp and cunning when applying herself.
14	* BuffySpeak: Struggles to recall technical terms like "locker" and "trapdoor", calling the latter a "flappy door".
15	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Bullshit" when someone lies. Sometimes, she says it involuntarily, which gets her in trouble in at least one occasion.
16	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Charlie is a quirky amiable drifter who solves crimes with her power to sense all lies.
17	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Charlie was nearly killed because she used her special ability to win at poker games, only to be spared when she proved to be an asset to the Frost family casino.
18	* DeadpanSnarker: As fits given [[Creator/NatashaLyonne who plays her]], Charlie has a very snarky, barbed sense of humor.
19	* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Charlie is a deconstruction of the DefectiveDetective. While it's true that she's a very smart and competent investigator who has a talent for sniffing out murderers and liars, most of the cases she solves are the result of her own involvement in what's going on, due to her on-the-run lifestyle. Furthermore, while Charlie is great at solving mysteries, she isn't capable of directly bringing people to justice because she's not affiliated with the authorities in any way, which results in people getting annoyed with her odd, questioning behavior and outright trying to kill her once they realize she knows too much.
20	* DoomMagnet: Somehow, the people she ends up getting close to either end up dead (Natalie, George, Gavin, Arthur, "Morty", [[spoiler:Sterling Sr.]]), accused/implicated of crime/death (Marge, Phil), commit a crime (Joyce, Irene, and Davis), or be related to/be a friend of someone who committed a crime (Jean and Randy). {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d on "Escape from Shit Mountain" where she states she's been a 'death magnet' for the past year.
21	* ExactWords: Charlie's ability to tell when someone's lying is apparently not based on signs of nervousness or other tells, as people can evade her detection simply by not lying directly (even if they're being deliberately deceptive). Certain character who are aware of her ability exploit this (though Charlie is also aware of this and tries to pin her suspects down to making a direct statement).
22	* {{Expy}}: Of Series/{{Columbo}} - a shabby looking investigator who withers down suspects through ObfuscatingStupidity and annoying persistence, although Charlie tends to be a little more brash than the always affable Lieutenant.
23	* GuileHero: Charlie can spot the lies people tell her, but to unravel their entire plot and bring them to justice, she has to count on her wits alone.
24	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: It's practically a RunningGag that when Charlie finds a clue, the first person she confides in is the actual killer. She almost never distrusts the villains unless they openly lie to her, and sometimes not even then.
25	* JadedWashout: Her uncanny ability to tell lies made her an unstoppable poker player - until the casino heads caught wind of her and blackballed her, leaving her to eek out a meager living as a waitress.
26	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's snarky and rough around the edges but Charlie has a good heart, is capable of immense kindness especially to friends and will go out of her way to help anyone she can.
27	* LivingLieDetector: Charlie has a knack of being able to tell when anyone is lying.
28	* LogicalWeakness:
29	** While Charlie can instantly tell if someone's lying, she can't tell ''what'' the truth is, just that what they've said is "bullshit."
30	** "Time of the Monkey" also exposes a second weakness in Charlie's ability; if the other person truly believes in what they're saying, it's going to register as truth regardless of what the truth behind what they said actually is. Charlie's ability is to spot ''lies'', not to know when something is incorrect.
31	** A third weakness is exposed in "The Future of the Sport". Charlie is prone to falling for ExactWords from the culprit. So long as they don't technically lie, the culprit can get away with hiding crucial details about what happened from her.
32	* MadeOfIron: Over the course of the first season, Charlie is shot in the hip, gets an infection from the injury, struck by a car, has her leg broken, beaten multiple times, tased (although she did that to herself to alert authorities), and ''stabbed in the chest''. Nevertheless, Charlie proves herself to be a fighter and survives.
33	* MotorMouth: The first episode establishes that she uses this to wither down people's defenses; it's her own version of Series/{{Columbo}}'s AndAnotherThing.
34	* TheMovieBuff: Charlie carries a trunkful of [=DVDs=] with her everywhere she goes, including ''Film/{{Okja}}''.
35	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Much of Charlie's situation is due to her refusing to leave well enough alone. It gets her chased by Sterling Senior and Cliff picks up on her trail because she stays to help. Every time she solves a case, she has to leave town before the publicity brings Cliff back on her trail.
36	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Much like Columbo before her, part of her method is pretending to be more clueless than she actually is to lure people into a false sense of security. ''Unlike'' Columbo before her, however, she's not a trained detective and oftentimes really is just winging it.
37	* ProperlyParanoid: Charlie quickly realizes that Sterling Jr is just as shady as his father and records their conversation as insurance. This comes in handy when she realizes that he is a murderer and might try to kill her to silence her.
38	* SherlockScan: Like many fictional detectives, Charlie is ''very'' good at picking up important, contradictory details at a glance.
39	* SpannerInTheWorks: It's likely every one of these murders would have worked perfectly had Charlie just not been on the scene and using her skills to figure out what really happened.
40	* TomboyishName: Charlie.
41	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: As a flip-side to being the SpannerInTheWorks, Charlie inadvertently sets off a chain of events that leads to the murders of George and Arthur, and arguably also Gavin and Ava.
42	* WorkingClassHero: Charlie is a former cocktail waitress and low-grade card shark.
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44
45	[[folder:Cliff [=LeGrand=]]]
46	!!Cliff [=LeGrand=]
47	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BenjaminBratt
48
49	The Head of Security of the Frost Casino and chief henchman of Sterling Senior.
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51	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Is pretty amused at Charlie's way of destroying Sterling Junior's reputation at the casino, until [[DrivenToSuicide Junior's reaction]] ruins the joke.
52	* AffablyEvil: He's a frank but polite enforcer who's honestly impressed and even delighted by Charlie outfoxing Jr., and who repeatedly offers Charlie a chance to cooperate and avoid excessive pain… from him at least; what Sr. will do if Cliff delivers her to him is his own business.
53	* BeardOfEvil: He's a cold-hearted hitman with a neatly trimmed goatee.
54	* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:It turns out he hates Sterling Sr., and after a year of being forced to chase Charlie around he's happy to sell out to a rival criminal organization and kill him.]]
55	* TheDragon: Cliff's job is to be a professional killer and wetworks man for Sterling Sr.
56	* DragonInChief: Though he works for Sterling Sr, Cliff is the main overarching threat Charlie has to deal with throughout Season 1, being determined to find and apprehend her at any costs. [[spoiler:When he learns that Sterling doesn't even plan to kill Charlie after all, he kills his boss and frames his death on Charlie, so that he will finally get the chance to off her himself.]]
57	* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Charlie stabs him in the eye with her bachelorette party penis ring, bloodying it.]]
58	* TheHeavy: Cliff is the one personally tracking down Charlie to kidnap her, torture her, and kill her.
59	* HyperCompetentSidekick: To Sterling Jr., though Sr. is competent enough to make it clear that trope doesn't apply to their relationship.
60	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He was the murderer of the first episode, and unlike Sterling Jr., who ordered the assassination (and [[spoiler:[[DriventoSuicide offed himself]] upon hearing the repercussions of Charlie's vengeance]]), he didn't really face any repercussions. [[spoiler:Come the season finale, and the police is able to find evidence linking him to that first murder, while investigating a different murder he was ''also'' guilty of]].
61	* KnightOfCerebus: All humor and fun goes out of the series when he's present as he's a NoNonsenseVillain.
62	* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: His specialty, as he does one to a couple and then plans to do the same to Charlie.
63	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Years of working for Sterling Sr., especially the year he spent on the goose chase for Charlie in which Sterling constantly berates him and ultimately makes AllForNothing by wanting to spare Charlie drives him to assassinate him on Beatrix Hasp's behalf.]]
64	* PopCulturedBadass: His preferred frame of reference for how dangerous Charlie is when trying to convince Jr. to stop his plan? Michael Westen from ''Series/BurnNotice''. In the season finale he references the ''Music/BluesTraveler'' song "Hook", reciting the rapid-fire MotorMouth section of the song as a spoken-word poem.
65	* PragmaticVillainy: In comparison to Jr. and most of the other murderers, Cliff is considerably more pragmatic and sharp, and cautiously advises Jr. to seek Sr.'s advice, while also proving capable of extricating himself from Charlie's interrogation by sticking to blunt and unrevealing truth rather than lying to her.
66	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: The modern, digital age equivalent of this; the second Charlie makes ''any'' kind of digital footprint, he homes in on her location, [[BrickJoke usually at almost exactly 4 hours from the digital footprint being made.]]
67	* StealthHiBye: Pulls this off on Charlie multiple times, though he refrains from ambushing her, preferring to just make an intimidating entrance.
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70	[[folder:Sterling Sr.]]
71	!!Sterling Frost, Sr.
72	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RonPerlman
73	!!![[spoiler:'''Killed by:''' Shot twice in the chest]]
74
75	The mob boss in charge of the Frost Casino and many other locations.
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77	* AbusiveParents: By his own admission, Sterling Sr was a pretty terrible father to Sterling Jr, berating him for his business failures and overall lack of competence. After having time to think it over, he doesn't even blame Charlie for his son's death, realizing that the unusual circumstances and his poor parenting played a hand in what happened.
78	* AffablyEvil: He speaks fondly of Charlie and even as he tells her his plans to kill her painfully seems to regret that it's come to this. [[spoiler:When he finally gets her in front of him it turns out he's since reviewed the events more fully and no longer blames her for Jr's death, meaning her no harm.]]
79	* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler:The series seems to be leading to him being the final enemy Charlie has to face, but by the time Charlie's in his hands, he's dropped all of his enmity for her and is even looking to give her her life back in exchange for one last job on his behalf. Then he's shot by Cliff, who becomes the final culprit of the first season.]]
80	* BigBad: The main antagonist of the series that Charlie is running from. [[spoiler:Until the season finale, where he's dropped all animosity with her.]]
81	* TheDon: Sterling Sr. is heavily implied to be involved in organized crime as well as corporate corruption. At the very least, he's a high-enough ranking member of the Southwest Syndicate that [[spoiler:Beatrix Hasp being implicated for his assassination sparks a war between them and the Five Families.]]
82	* TheDreaded: Charlie and Jr. both conclude that Sr. took a shine to Charlie, but Charlie still expresses a healthy fear of him before Jr. just seeing "Dad" on his cellphone after Charlie ruined him made Jr. [[spoiler:jump off a balcony.]]
83	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He may be emotionally abusive to him, but he does love his son, and is trying to catch Charlie [[spoiler:in order to make her pay for driving him to suicide.]] He also does seem to be fond of Charlie, perhaps even moreso than his actual son (at least before things go south).
84	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Apparently, he was unaware of whatever Kazimir Caine was running on his laptop, and says he would have done the same thing in Charlie's shoes.
85	* EvilOldFolks: The man's in his 70s and trying to hunt Charlie down to do God knows what to her. [[spoiler:That turns out to be recruiting her to work her lie-detecting magic on mobsters he's negotiating with and apparently either let her go or bring her back on the Frost Casino staff.]]
86	* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a menacing bass voice, courtesy of Ron Perlman.
87	* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:In the intervening year between the pilot episode and the season finale, he apparently has come to the realization that Sterling Jr.'s death was more his fault than it was Charlie's, confessing he's been a 'lousy father' when he meets with Charlie.]]
88	* ItsPersonal: He decided to spare Charlie long ago when she was a professional irritant to his business, but when [[spoiler:his son commits suicide]] due to her actions, he sics Cliff on her trail explicitly to bring her back so he can kill her painfully. [[spoiler:At first...]]
89	* LesserOfTwoEvils: He's a master of looking better entirely by comparison. Despite being a ruthless mobster by all accounts, his affability and standards paint him as a much preferable figure compared to his son and rival mobster Beatrix Hasp, who lack both of those qualities. [[spoiler:Same when it goes to Cliff, his eventual murderer.]]
90	* WeUsedToBeFriends: He originally encountered Charlie back when she was a ringer at small-time poker games, figured out her LivingLieDetector nature, and wound up giving her a job at his casino as a sort of compensation for ruining her reputation among gamblers, and was affectionate enough to call her "kid." It adds a certain bitterness on both their parts when Jr. [[spoiler:dies]] and Sr. becomes determined to exact bloody vengeance. [[spoiler:Or at least, he starts out seeking bloody vengeance...]]
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93	[[folder:Sterling Jr.]]
94	!!Sterling Frost, Jr.
95	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AdrienBrody
96	!!![[spoiler:'''Killed by:''' Fall from self-inflicted jump off of a balcony]]
97
98	The boss in charge of the Frost Casino who starts off the problems.
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100	* AuthorityInNameOnly: He's in charge of the Frost Casino but micromanaged by his dad.
101	* BerserkButton: While mostly TranquilFury, he does not like it that whenever he plans something his subordinates are more concerned with what his father would want or would do. He ends up ignoring sensible advice from Cliff because the latter makes the mistake of bringing up his father.
102	* BigBadWannabe: He has ambition and authority granted from his father, but clearly doesn't stack-up compared to his old man, and [[spoiler:doesn't make it past the first episode.]]
103	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:When Charlie reveals to the gambling world how dirty the Frost Casino is willing to play with their high-rollers, he jumps off a balcony.]]
104	* SmugSnake: Unlike most of the other antagonists in the series, Jr. was not only informed about Charlie's LivingLieDetector, he proved it to himself and attempted to recruit her to scam the casino's "whale." He then proceeds to still need her help to plot their scam, and still tries to lie to her face about what happened to her friend [[spoiler:and sets up his own doom doing so.]]
105	* WellDoneSonGuy: His desire to prove he can handle the situation without his father's help after a series of previous screw-ups shapes the first episode, and when he fails [[spoiler:receiving a call from his father prompts his suicide.]]
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107
108	!Culprits
109	[[folder:Jed]]
110	!!Jed
111	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ColtonRyan
112
113	A insecure young man living at a truck stop.
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115	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Jed is unkempt, socially awkward and laser focused on winning Sara over. He spies on Sara from the garage's roof, kills Damien so he can use his lottery winnings to woo her and unsubtly tries to use Sara's wish to go to Hawaii to get her to go out with him. Most of his encounters with Sara show her being scared or creeped out by him, with Damien confronting Jed about his treatment of her before he's killed.
116	* CrowbarCombatant: He ultimately uses a crowbar to bash in Damian's head.
117	* DoggedNiceGuy: The bad version of the trope, annoyed that the local Goth Girl won't pay attention to him.
118	* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Even before Charlie exposes him, he seems well on his way to letting the stolen ticket ruin his life by not working, planning expensive travel, and generally acting like he won millions rather than thousands.
119	* {{Greed}}: It's the chance to steal Damien's $25,000 lottery ticket that motivates his murder.
120	* IronicEcho: The first to throw Charlie's "bullshit" back at her, calling her bluff and catching her in a lie.
121	* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Burns the lottery ticket as the police close in, either so no one else can claim it or that it wouldn't be used as evidence (not that it matters).
122	* NoSocialSkills: Shy and withdrawn, he attempts to hit on his crush the day after her boyfriend was murdered.
123	* SmallNameBigEgo: He looks down on the rest of the people living at the truck stop despite having done nothing in his life either.
124	* TheResenter: His frustration with his life has made him immensely bitter towards anyone he perceives as having greater fortune than him.
125	* SmallTownBoredom: He hates his small town existence but can't bring himself to leave either.
126	* VehicularSabotage: After Charlie confronts him over having murdered Damian, he cuts into her brake lines. Luckily for her, Abe notices this and fixes them for free.
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128
129	[[folder:Taffy and Mandy]]
130	!!Taffy Boyle
131	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LilRelHowery
132
133	The owner of a local barbecue that killed his own brother.
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135	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: When the dog Charlie finds starts yapping at him during the murder, he clubs it on the head with one of the wood chunks George used in his smoking.
136	* CainAndAbel: Is the Cain in that he murdered his brother.
137	* {{Greed}}: It's implied that the reason Taffy kills his brother is the latter selling his half of the business would expose his financial irregularities.
138	* FauxAffablyEvil: Taffy is a sharp-dressed, charismatic businessman who hosts his own radio show and is beloved by his customers. However, he gets testy when Charlie starts pressing him before finally blowing up at her.
139	* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: He kills his brother and attempts to pass it off as a suicide.
140	* StealingFromTheTill: He has a unique method of accounting he's eager no one else get a look at.
141
142	!!Mandy Boyle
143	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DanielleMacdonald
144
145	The wife of the barbecue's pitmaster.
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147	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Mandy seems to be a loving and supporting wife to George at first. However, not only is she aware that Taffy killed her husband, but it was her idea.
148	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrays her husband, and is clearly treacherous enough to Charlie that Charlie manipulated her into betraying Taffy.
149	* EngineeredPublicConfession: Austin and Charlie fool her into confessing down the phone about planning George's murder with Taffy, getting her arrested when Austin plays it on one of his radio shows.
150	* ExactWords: Once Mandy finds out about Charlie's ability, she chooses her words very carefully to avoid lying. Too bad her earlier lie has already raised Charlie's suspicion.
151	* LadyMacbeth: As stated everywhere else in her profile, she encouraged, plotted, and worked with Taffy to kill her husband, and is revealed to be in a relationship with Taffy.
152	* TheManBehindTheMan: George's murder was her plan.
153	* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:{{Invoked\|Trope}} by Charlie.]] When Taffy calls her in panic telling her that Charlie has found evidence of their scheme, Mandy sells him out to the cops. [[spoiler:Except that the 'Taffy' that called her was actually one of Austin's pitch-perfect impressions, and the whole thing was a trap to catch both of them.]]
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155
156	[[folder:Doxxxology]]
157	!!Ruby Ruin, Al, Eskie
158	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ChloeSevigny (Ruby), [[Music/TheMountainGoats John Darnielle]] (Al), G.K. Umeh (Eskie)
159
160	A heavy metal band that kills their drummer in order to steal his hit song for their own.
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162	* AccidentalPublicConfession: Al starts writing a song about how you "can't un-murder someone" but Ruby stops him before it can become this.
163	* AlliterativeName: The head of the band, '''Ru'''by '''Ru'''in.
164	* AmoralAttorney: Well, "Amoral guy taking an MSL course online" (in his words, "[He] can't afford to sell out"), but Eskie is in on the murder plot and taking a study in law.
165	* BerserkButton: Ruby may have grown to hate "Staplehead", but when performing it, '''do''' '''''NOT''''' steal her scream note. Gavin took a punch to the face for that one.
166	* CreativeSterility: The motive behind the murder. They are just plain bad at writing songs - their one hit was written by a former drummer who then left with all the song's royalties. When Gavin showed them a potential hit, they killed him to steal his idea.
167	* IronicName: A doxology is "an expression of praise to God". Some Christians aren't horribly fond of heavy metal.
168	* OneHitWonder: An InUniverse example. Their song "Staplehead" is all they're known for, much to their chagrin.
169	* StolenCreditBackfire: Doxxxology murdered Gavin to steal credit for his song "Sucker Punch". [[spoiler:They realize too late that Gavin actually copied the theme song of ''Series/{{Benson}}'' for "Sucker Punch's" instrumental]].
170	* StupidCrooks: Al is probably the weakest link in the band. If not for trying to sell Gavin's actual amp online, then he definitely applies when he tries to write a song called "You Can't Un-Murder Someone".
171	* UncertainDoom: It's not shown if there was any police investigation after the podcast of their crime was released, but it's safe to say that with that and their "hit" [[spoiler:being a rock version of the ''Series/{{Benson}}'' theme]], whatever's left of their music career is gone for good.
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173
174	[[folder:Irene and Joyce]]
175	!!Irene Smothers and Joyce Carter
176	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JudithLight (Irene), Creator/SEpathaMerkerson (Joyce)
177
178	A pair of residents at Mossy Oaks Retirement home. Formerly hippies in the 70s, the two were thick as thieves and in with a group of protestors until a police raid left them imprisoned and Irene paraplegic. When they discover their old group leader Gabriel has moved in (and sold them out), they decide on murder.
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180	* CoolOldLady: Charlie thinks they are pretty damn badass when they tell her their life stories. When she finds out who they really were and what they're capable of now, that image flies right out the window.
181	-->'''Charlie:''' I really thought you two guys were these super cool old women, standing up for what you believe in and holding the assholes accountable... Oh, wow... ''You're'' the assholes. Yikes.
182	* EvilCripple: Irene took a gunshot to the back, rendering her legs paralyzed. She was willing to bomb several kids at an elite prep school as a protest, and was willing to murder Betty when she revealed she was going to talk to the feds (albeit more about their "sexual play", not realizing it was them setting up an alibi for their murder).
183	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
184	** Despite their awful nature, the two truly care for each other, Joyce running up to comfort Irene shortly after she got shot by the police.
185	** The two genuinely loved Gabriel before he revealed that he sold them out.
186	* EvilOldFolks: Two elderly women who used to be domestic terrorists and are now murderers in their senior years.
187	* ExternalCombustion: The two rig a golf cart to blow this way as a way of bumping off Charlie.
188	* HorrorHippies: The duo were in a hippie sort of cult willing to bomb wealthy teens, and in their winter years are willing to commit murder and have the capacity to do so.
189	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: They seem to be snarky but overall well-meaning hippie old ladies, having fought in their youth for peace and equality. Then it's revealed that "fight" was much uglier than they mentioned, and they show their true colors as the most petty, vengeful and unstable of the killers Charlie encountered so far.
190	* {{Revenge}}: Uniquely among the killers shown so far, their primary motivation is to get revenge on the mole that led to their imprisonment and Irene's crippling.
191	* StrongerThanTheyLook: Irene may be in a wheelchair, but has the upper body strength to climb up a flower trellis two stories.
192	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Charlie tells the pair point blank how they did it and ready to tell the FBI. After a HaveYouToldAnyoneElse moment, the pair attack Charie who realizes too late she's dealing with two women who spent decades in prison and, despite their age, are more than ready to kill her to protect themselves.
193	* UnreliableNarrator: The way they told Charlie their story, the two were a pair of hippies planning a peaceful protest when the cops cruelly gunned them down unarmed. While they really didn't have guns on them during the raid, they were actually planning to blow up a Model UN.
194	* VitriolicBestBuds: They argue with each other constantly, but they always have each other's backs.
195	* WellIntentionedExtremist: How they defend their plans to bomb a bunch of teenagers, to "send a message to the next generation," and still refuse to accept how bad they were.
196	* WouldHurtAChild: The plan that they were going to execute in the 70s before their arrest was not a protest as Charlie was led to believe, but rather an attempted bombing of the Model UN, an educational simulation in which teenage students perform as ambassadors. Irene and Joyce self-justified this horrific act as "sending a message to the future war criminals" by killing the children of the elite.
197	[[/folder]]
198
199	[[folder:Kathleen and Michael]]
200	!!Kathleen Townsend and Michael Graves
201	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EllenBarkin (Kathleen), Creator/TimMeadows (Michael)
202
203	Two washed-up former television actors once known for police procedural "Spooky and the Cop", the two have since become bitter arch-nemeses and have fallen to obscurity. Kathleen comes up to Michael, now married to wealthy online entrepreneur Ava, desperately begging him to join her stage production of "The Ghosts of Pensacola", inevitably leading to their feud reigniting on the backstage. However, there's more to the two than meets the eye, and the play leads to deadly consequences...
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205	* AttentionWhore: Kathleen ''loves'' being the focus of attention and is positively gleeful when the news around Ava's death gets their play attention, caring even more about that than the money.
206	* BuddyCopShow: The duo are most well-known for performing in one called "Spooky and the Cop", centering around a police detective teaming up with what looks like a fortune teller to solve crimes.
207	* EngineeredPublicConfession: Charlie leaves a microphone in the dressing room so that the Sheriff in the audience will hear them discussing Ava's murder and their attempted murder of Rebecca.
208	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: They're murderers but genuinely care a lot for one another.
209	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Michael schemed to murder his wife for her money but is furious at Kathleen trying to kill Rebecca to get out of paying her the blackmail money.
210	* GracefulLoser: After their schemes are exposed to the police, Kathleen decides to instead channel the experience into delivering a performance of a lifetime, and convinces Michael to go along. The resulting performance brought even Charlie, who has spent most of the episode mocking the play, to tears.
211	* HenpeckedHusband: Michael lives mostly off of Ava's money, a fact Kathleen is quick to mock him about, and she wants him to give up acting entirely, albeit more because she sees how miserable he is doing it.
212	* LargeHam: Kathleen is always full on and does everything dramatically, even when not acting. Ellen Barkin was clearly enjoying herself a lot in the role.
213	* LongGame: The pair spent a ''year'' setting up this plot of Michael wooing Ava, marrying her and acting like they were hated enemies to bump Ava off for the money.
214	* MasterActor: Only when properly motivated. They managed to convince everyone that they were still enemies and Michael seduced Ava even though they are in love with each other. When their murder was exposed, they gave their all into their final performance dramatically improving the quality compared to their first performance.
215	* SmallNameBigEgo: Both may qualify as their only fame was a goofy "psychic cop" TV show from thirty years ago. But Kathleen takes it to a new level as she acts like she's a world-famous, award-winning actress railing on anyone who dares not take "the craft" seriously and treats the play like it's on Broadway or London's West End rather than a small theatre in Connecticut.
216	* UglyGuyHotWife: Michael isn't exactly ugly but he's older and has a somewhat slovenly appearance. Ava however is much younger and far more beautiful. He's also this to Kathleen who has aged far more gracefully.
217	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: They were decently big TV stars at one time but are now doing whatever cheap work they can find and Kathleen in particular mentions the demoralizing state of her career as an older actress, bouncing around from "mom to Senator to Dementia patient".
218	[[/folder]]
219
220	[[folder:Keith]]
221	!!Keith Owens
222	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TimBlakeNelson
223
224	A veteran racer in Tennessee.
225	----
226	* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He may be willing to sabotage his young rival, but he's at least willing to publicly confess to what he had done, something Davis has no intention of doing.
227	* BaitAndSwitchBoss: He's presented as the episode's culprit in the first act of the episode, showing us the process of him sabotaging Davis' car. The second act shows us a second act of sabotage by Davis, Keith's role in the crime is figured out by Charlie relatively quickly, and he confesses to the public shortly afterward, removing the need to search for evidence for his part and leaving Davis as the true antagonist.
228	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's genuinely devastated when his daughter ends up in the car he sabotaged, and the resulting guilt makes him publicly confess.
229	* InTheBlood: His father and grandfather were both champion racers, and his daughter Katy is eager to follow in his footsteps.
230	* VehicularSabotage: He tampers with Davis' engine in order to get him to crash, with disastrous consequences.
231	[[/folder]]
232
233	[[folder:Davis]]
234	!!Davis [=McDowell=]
235	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CharlesMelton
236
237	An up-and-coming racer in Tennessee.
238	----
239	* AffablyEvil: Davis deeply cares for his mother and is nice to little children. He also put his main rival's daughter in a coma in his attempt to kill her and have said rival blamed for it.
240	* AllForNothing: He ends up falling into the same nerves that screwed up Keith's career, meaning while he may not be outright busted for trying to kill Katy, once she actually does start racing him, he's going to be left eating her dust.
241	* AlliterativeName: '''D'''avis Mc'''D'''owell.
242	* BaitAndSwitch: At first the audience is led to believe that Davis is the victim and Keith is the killer. Then it gets flipped when we see that Katy was the one driving Davis's car. Worse, Davis had discovered Keith's sabotage and implemented a sabotage of his own to make the car crash potentially fatal.
243	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He remains quite close to his mother, Jean.
244	* FriendToAllChildren: As much of an asshole as he is, he's ''excellent'' with his younger fans, palling around with them and giving them honest advice.
245	* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. Charlie is unable to get any evidence of his crimes, leaving everybody else unaware of his sabotage. However, due to Katy recovering, and him beginning to develop the same nerves that threw Keith off his game, it's implied it won't be long until his career comes to an end.
246	* PyrrhicVictory: His sabotage gets him the championship, but as Charlie tells him, his nerves (and Katy's impending debut on the track) means he won't have it for very long.
247	* VehicularSabotage: He was on the receiving end of it by Keith, and compounded it by tampering with his car's seatbelt. Not that he intended to drive it, of course.
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Laura]]
251	!!Laura
252	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CherryJones
253	!!!'''Killed by:''' Suicide by jumping off a ledge
254
255	One of the three founders of Lights and Motion, a pioneering visual effects company.
256	----
257	* EvilIsPetty: Back in 1989, she disabled the red light a young actress named Lily was using to signify that she needed air while shooting an underwater scene, simply out of frustration that they were doing too many takes.
258	* FunWithAcronyms: LAM, the company she founded with Arthur and Max, stands for Lights and Motion, but it also stands for '''L'''aura, '''A'''rthur, and '''M'''ax.
259	* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She impulsively causes the death of Lily, a young actress, in 1989, and murders Max and Arthur in the present day when they find out the truth while reviewing old footage.
260	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Laura has this expression written all over her face when she sees Arthur throw the reel containing the footage of her crime into a fire, knowing that she already poisoned him. (He spliced out the footage containing the crime itself and hid it in one of his creations, but she didn't know that.)
261	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: She insists that every crime she committed was for the sake of the company and its workers. However, while she and Max live in incredible wealth, actors like Lily get killed under lax safety conditions and long-time employees like Raoul are virtually abandoned or fired at Laura's whim. By all accounts, the success of ''Laura'' is the only consistent factor among all her behavior.
262	* SanitySlippage: While she does her best to keep her wits about her, it's clear that murdering Max, and later Arthur, has taken a major toll on her. She grows increasingly tense and snappish as she tries to clean up her mess, eventually leading to a VillainousBreakdown.
263	* VillainousBreakdown: She can barely stumble through the speech she gives at the gala hosted in Arthur's honor, clumsily justifying her actions and hallucinating Arthur in the audience. By the time Charlie and Raoul project the footage of Lily's murder for the audience to see, she's lost it completely, stumbling through the displays from ''The Orpheus Syndrome'' and imagining them coming to life before leaping to her death.
264	[[/folder]]
265
266	[[folder:Trey]]
267	!!Trey Nelson
268	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JosephGordonLevitt
269
270	A finance bro under house arrest with a dark secret.
271	----
272	* ChaoticStupid: Trey is maybe the single least clever, most impulsive, most idiotic murderer in the show… but it arguably makes him among the most dangerous because of how quickly he resorts to murder.
273	* FauxAffablyEvil: He has Joseph Gordon Levitt's natural charm but beneath it, he's an unpleasant jerk and beneath ''that'', he's a sociopathic killer who cares for no one but himself.
274	* HateSink: In a show that's never been particularly interested in making its villains sympathetic, Trey stands out as one with absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
275	* SayingTooMuch: He repeatedly says that he "can't have another chick going crazy on him again," arousing the suspicions of Jimmy, who had previously believed that Chloe's death was an accident.
276	* TheSociopath: He's a very accurate portrayal of a low-functioning one: He's manipulative and superficially charming, has very poor impulse control, is callous and insensitive to others, has little to no empathy and can lie, betray and even commit murder without any hint of remorse.
277	* StupidEvil: He's possibly both the most reprehensible killer in the series thus far and the dumbest as well.
278	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He absolutely loves coconut rum.
279	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: The fact that he refuses to tip his deliveryman, despite clearly being wealthy and living well out of the way in the mountains, shows [[{{Jerkass}} what kind of guy he is]].
280	[[/folder]]
281
282	!Victims
283	[[folder:Natalie and Jerry]]
284	!!Natalie and Jerry Hill
285	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DaschaPolanco (Natalie), Michael Reagan (Jerry)
286	!!!'''Killed by:''' Gunshot to the chest (Natalie) and head (Jerry)
287
288	A dysfunctional couple murdered by Cliff after Natalie tries to expose a terrible secret.
289	----
290	* AssholeVictim: Jerry was a drunk and an abuser. He only died to be the fall guy for Natalie's murder to keep her quiet, but there's a reason why Charlie focuses more on Natalie's murder than his.
291	* BoomHeadshot: Jerry gets it via a bullet to the head. It helps to sell the suicide angle.
292	* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Jerry is murdered and the gun put in his hand to sell the idea that he murdered Natalie and then killed himself.
293	* ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted. Throughout season 1, Charlie consistently refers to Natalie's death and its impact on her life.
294	* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: A murder-suicide, to be exact.
295	* SheKnowsTooMuch: When Natalie takes the photo of what she saw on Caine's laptop and showed it to Cliff and Sterling, she unknowingly signed her death warrant.
296	[[/folder]]
297
298	[[folder:Damian]]
299	!!Damian
300	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/BrandonMichealHall
301	!!!'''Killed by:''' Blow to the head with a crowbar
302
303	A sandwich maker on [=TikTok=] that is also a former Marine.
304	----
305	* BludgeonedToDeath: He takes a fall from the mechanic's roof, but manages to survive until Jed bashes him in the head with a crowbar.
306	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: While not happy about him following Sara, Damien is actually trying to give good advice to Jed.
307	* NotQuiteDead: Jed pushes Damien off the roof of the gas station, but when he goes down to retrieve his winning lottery ticket, it turns out the fall didn't completely kill him. Jed has to finish him off with a crowbar.
308	* SemperFi: Served time in the Marine Corps before coming to work at the Subway. He hated his time there and spent most of it doing paperwork that then someone else threw out the same day.
309	[[/folder]]
310
311	[[folder:George]]
312	!!George Boyle
313	!!!'''Played by:''' Larry Brown
314	!!!'''Killed by:''' Asphyxiation with smoke in his trailer
315
316	A Master BBQ maker who turns vegan after watching ''Film/{{Okja}}.''
317	----
318	* CainAndAbel: Is the Abel due to his brother deciding to kill him.
319	* GentleGiant: A muscular but soft-spoken and empathetic man, in contrast to his more personable but villainous brother.
320	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He shows immense regret for all the meat cooking he has done and all the animals he has killed when he turns to veganism.
321	* SinisterSuffocation: Taffy murders him by pumping the smoke from his smoker into his trailer.
322	* SkilledButNaive: Extremely knowledgeable in the area of meat preparation, but he's oblivious to his wife's affair, his brother's embezzlement, and is convinced to uproot his whole life overnight by a movie.
323	* SupremeChef: A highly regarded pitmaster known throughout Texas and beyond.
324	[[/folder]]
325
326	[[folder:Gavin]]
327	!!Gavin
328	!!!'''Played by:''' Nicholas Cirillo
329	!!!'''Killed by:''' Electrocuted with a booby-trapped amp
330
331	The new drummer for Doxxxology, a has been heavy metal band.
332	----
333	* AnimalMotifs: Gavin is compared by several characters (and himself) to a magpie: a loud enthusiastic bird that isn't very bright and grabs random shiny things to feather its nest. [[spoiler:The song he writes is little more than WordSaladLyrics assembled from random product slogans and interesting phrases he picked up on the road, set to the theme music to ''{{Series/Benson}}''.]]
334	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Gavin seems to work on a frequency of his own, watching ''{{Series/Benson}}'' religiously and making an accidental hit out of its theme tune with lyrics taken from the slogans of random objects he had on hand.
335	* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:While he's certainly more talented than the entirety of Doxxxology combined, his songwriting ability is about as sterile - his surefire hit song turns out to be a metal rendition of the ''{{Series/Benson}}'' theme, with lyrics taken from various brochure and product taglines he's seen on the tour.]]
336	* DumbAndDrummer: Gavin is a drummer, and not the brightest crayon in the box, lacking both in common sense and understanding of social cues. However, {{subverted\|Trope}} as he is revealed to be a GeniusDitz by composing the kind of hit song his band have been trying to make since "Staplehead", [[spoiler:and DoubleSubverted when said hit was a mashup of IceCreamKoan lyrics based on the snacks he ate on the road and an obvious plagiarism of the opening theme for ''{{Series/Benson}}'']].
337	* HighVoltageDeath: Gavin hits his swan song when the amp used on stage fries him.
338	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He gets on the band's nerves early on, overstepping his bounds by playing "Staplehead" against their wishes, stealing Ruby's scream, and generally being way too overbearing. But it all comes from his enthusiasm to be part of a group he worships, and he certainly doesn't deserve his fate.
339	* NoFullNameGiven: We don't learn his last name, which Charlie mentions.
340	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Goes barefoot as much as possible, even when it's clearly annoying people.
341	[[/folder]]
342
343
344	[[folder:Gabriel and Betty]]
345	!!Gabriel/"Ben Holmes"
346	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ReedBirney
347	!!!'''Killed by:''' Poisoned with sodium nitrate injection
348
349	The former leader of a hippie group and newest resident of Mossy Oaks. The home, incidentally, is where former members Irene and Joyce now live.
350	----
351	* TheAtoner: Gabriel specifically chose the same retirement home that his former conspirators stay at to apologize for leading police to their hideout. Things don't end well for him.
352	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Both Irene and Joyce agree that he had "a dick like a fire hydrant".
353	* TheMole: Gabriel introduced Irene and Joyce to a counter-cultural movement in the 70s, then ratted the group out to the cops [[spoiler:when they plotted to blow up a high school]]. Irene and Joyce aren't too happy to see him again.
354
355	!!Betty [=McKee=]
356	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KCallan
357	!!!'''Killed by:''' Blown up with a pressure cooker bomb
358
359	A stern in-home care resident of the Mossy Oaks retirement home.
360	----
361	* BoobyTrap: She gets killed when the duo plant a bomb in her pressure cooker, telling her it's a recipe.
362	* BloodlessCarnage: As she's being loaded into her body bag, her face is shown to be covered in ash after getting it close to the pressure cooker bomb when her head really should have been blown off her shoulders.
363	* TheCassandra: She ''repeatedly'' tries to warn everyone (especially Charlie) that Irene and Joyce are convicted felons, and up to no good. She herself didn't know how right she was.
364	* CastingGag: She previously played Wanetta "Great Nana" Thrombey in [[Film/KnivesOut that one mystery project]] Creator/RianJohnson did.
365	* SheKnowsTooMuch: Irene and Joyce bump her off when she tells them she plans to reveal their "sexual zapping" to the FBI. She doesn't know the zapping was actually part of their plot to murder Gabriel, but nevertheless...
366	* {{Tuckerization}}: Gets her surname from the episode's director, Lucky [=McKee=].
367	[[/folder]]
368
369	[[folder:Ava]]
370	!!Ava Graves
371	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JameelaJamil
372	!!!'''Killed by:''' Head trauma from falling down a trapdoor
373
374	Michael's wealthy British wife who founded '[=SheTrade=]', an online brokerage for women.
375	----
376	* BatmanGambit: Her friendly urging for Michael to take the role in Kathleen's play was an act, she assumed that it would turn out so awful that Michael would be turned off of acting forever. She got OutGambitted though.
377	* DeathByFallingOver[=/=]DisneyVillainDeath: Her end comes in when after running onstage to Michael for his heart pills, she falls down the trapdoor. She strikes her head on the edge of it, then falls the remaining 15 feet down to her death.
378	* INeedAFreakingDrink: She asks Charlie to help her get "absolutely shitfaced" in order to endure Kathleen's acting.
379	* MayDecemberRomance: She's noticeably a lot younger than Michael, their actors being twenty-four years apart.
380	* SelfMadeWoman: According to Michael, she created her wealth entirely on her own from her website.
381	* StatuesqueStunner: She's a beautiful woman and very tall, towering over both Kathleen and Michael.
382	* SugaryMalice: She's sweet natured and charming but is open about her disdain for Kathleen, even to her face.
383	* TrophyWife: She's one for Michael, though in a twist, she's the one with the money.
384	[[/folder]]
385
386	[[folder:Katy]]
387	!!Katy Owens
388	!!!'''Played by:''' Jasmine Aiyana Garvin
389	!!!'''Killed by:''' N/A (Injured via car crash)
390
391	The daughter of racing legend Keith Owens, and next to be in line to race.
392	----
393	* AlwaysMurder: She is the first ''attempted'' murder on the show, but manages to make a full recovery.
394	* HeroicLineage: She is a fourth generation auto racer, and, by Charlie's estimate, she's the best one yet.
395	[[/folder]]
396
397	[[folder:Arthur and Max]]
398	!!Arthur Liptin
399	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NickNolte
400	!!!'''Killed by:''' Poison administered through a cup of coffee
401
402	A legendary visual effects artist who specializes in stop motion.
403	----
404	* CoolOldGuy: A friendly man passionate about his work and understanding towards strangers like Charlie.
405	* FunWithAcronyms: LAM, the company he founded with Laura and Max, stands for Lights and Motion, but it also stands for '''L'''aura, '''A'''rthur, and '''M'''ax.
406	* HeKnowsTooMuch: He's killed by Laura after he confronts her about the footage he discovered of her murdering Lily.
407	* ItsAllMyFault: Arthur blamed himself for Lily's death for decades, believing that she was trying to please him after he berated her for hitting the panic button too often. ''The Orpheus Syndrome'' is his seemingly inadvertent attempt to work through that guilt, and it isn't until reviewing footage that he learns the truth.
408	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As a legendary visual effects artist working on a "non-narrative" feature as a labor of love, he's quite reminiscent of Phil Tippett, whose ''WebVideo/MadGod'' had just been released the previous year. Rian Johnson confirmed the comparison on Twitter.
409
410	!!Max
411	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/TimRuss
412	!!!'''Killed by:''' Suicide by leaping off a balcony after being poisoned
413
414	One of the three founders of Lights and Motion.
415	----
416	* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: When Laura poisons him, he leaps off her balcony in order to destroy his face so that she can't use it for two-factor authorization to delete the incriminating file. Unfortunately, Laura finds a work-around.
417	* FunWithAcronyms: LAM, the company he founded with Laura and Arthur, stands for Lights and Motion, but it also stands for '''L'''aura, '''A'''rthur, and '''M'''ax.
418	* HeKnowsTooMuch: He's killed by Laura after he confronts her about the footage he discovered of her murdering Lily while digitizing the company archives.
419	* ThanatosGambit: Upon discovering he was poisoned by Laura and that she'd use his face to unlock his computer to delete the file containing Lily's murder: He quickly decides to jump off her balcony face first to demolish it and keep her from doing so. It doesn't work for long, but you gotta give the guy points for trying.
420	[[/folder]]
421
422	[[folder:Lily]]
423	!!Lily Albern
424	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RowanBlanchard
425	!!!'''Killed by:''' Drowned in a water tank during a movie scene
426
427	An up-and-coming actress who died during the filming of the Lights and Motion production ''Dragonfish''.
428	----
429	* AccidentalMurder: For all intents and purposes, Laura really didn't mean to kill her. She was just so desperate for a good take that she sabotaged the safety mechanism.
430	[[/folder]]
431
432	[[folder:Chloe]]
433	!!Chloe Jones
434	!!!'''Played by:''' N/A
435	!!!'''Killed by:''' Method unknown (Presumably head trauma from a fall or bludgeoning)
436
437	A promising young snowboarder whose disappearance remains unsolved.
438	----
439	* NoodleIncident: The exact circumstances that led Trey to kill her are never revealed. All we gets is Trey hinting that she "went crazy on him", and given the kind of person Trey is, even that's dubious.
440	* PosthumousCharacter: Years after her disappearance, her absence still lingers in her mountain town - and in the heart of Jimmy.
441	[[/folder]]
442
443	[[folder:Jimmy]]
444	!!James "Jimmy" Silva
445	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidCastaneda
446	!!!'''Killed by:''' Shot through the forehead
447
448	Trey's childhood friend who helped him bury a body years ago.
449	----
450	* BoomHeadshot: How he's ultimately dispatched, courtesy of Trey.
451	* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: He feels very guilty that he helped Trey hide the body of his ex-girlfriend, Chloe Jones, and is not at all thrilled by the prospect of hiding even more.
452	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After spending most of the episode subservient to Trey's whims, he comes to the conclusion that Trey murdered Chloe all those years ago, and finally stands up to him declaring he's "done being [Trey's] bitch". Trey promptly shoots him in the head after.
453	* HyperCompetentSidekick: It becomes extremely clear in the episode that Trey is so impulsive and stupid that he would have been caught long ago if not for Jimmy being better at covering up his crimes than Trey could ever be.
454	[[/folder]]
455
456	[[folder:Morty]]
457	!!"Mortimer Bernstein"
458	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/StephanieHsu
459	!!!'''Killed by:''' Head smashed against car steering wheel, car pushed off of cliff
460
461	A drifter, thief, and general ne'er-do-well who gets herself (and Charlie) into a whole lot of trouble.
462	----
463	* AssholeVictim: She valued a very expensive car over justice for a murdered woman and another who would likely be dispatched by the guy she was blackmailing. Add that to the identity/credit card theft, and it's hard to be sad at her passing.
464	* BlackmailBackfire: Poor Morty makes the mistake of thinking blackmailing a suspected killer for his fancy car is going to work out in her favor.
465	* GiveMeBackMyWallet: This happens in more or less every scene between Morty and Charlie.
466	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Mortimer Bernstein" is the name on one of her stolen credit cards - we never learn her real name.
467	* [[OpportunisticBastard Opportunistic Bitch]]: It's clear Morty only really cares about herself, as her concern over Chloe's body was getting the $75K reward for information, and she then chose to blackmail Chloe's killer instead of turn his sorry ass in.
468	* StickyFingers: Morty is a compulsive thief, picking pockets almost as a reflex. Sometimes this serves her well, as when she takes Trey's gun from his back pocket. Other times, it just gets her into more trouble.
469	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If she hadn't abandoned Charlie in her car by the side of the road, Charlie wouldn't have been in the position to get hit by Trey's car, and the events of the entire episode (including Morty's own death) wouldn't have happened.
470	[[/folder]]
471
472	!Other Characters
473	[[folder:Dead Man's Hand]]
474	!!Kazimir Caine
475	An oil tycoon and one of the Frost Casino's regular whales.
476	----
477	* GreaterScopeVillain: Whatever was on his computer was so terrible it kicked off the series and led Jr. to have Cliff kill two people rather than let it be revealed.
478	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:"The Hook" reveals that Special Agent Clark was able to track down Charlie's original email containing the photo from Caine's laptop and were able to capture him.]]
479	* NothingIsScarier: Whatever was on his computer[[note]]very heavily implied to be child pornography[[/note]], which is apparently worth multiple murders by his hosts at the Sterlings' casino.
480
481	!!John-O
482	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JeremyLawrence
483	An old man who lives in the same trailer park as Charlie who often tries to sell her stuff.
484	----
485	* DiscoDan: Dresses and speaks like a [[GreaserDelinquents greaser]].
486	* ReformedCriminal: Played with. He knows how to pick a lock and uses it to help Charlie search a crime scene. While he protests that he's left a life of crime behind him, [[LivingLieDetector Charlie]] still seems pretty certain he's stolen most of the stuff he's tried to sell her in the past.
487	* ThirdPersonPerson: Frequently refers to himself in the third person.
488
489	!!Matthew Parker
490	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NoahSegan
491	The local sheriff of Frost County.
492	----
493	* CastingGag: [[Film/KnivesOut Not the first time Noah Segan's played a cop in a Rian Johnson production]].
494	* DirtyCop: While the pilot has Sterling Jr. state in no uncertain terms that the police in Frost County are under Sterling Sr.'s payroll, the final episode shows Parker as a direct underling for Sr., providing intel to Cliff as he chases Charlie across the country.
495	* PetTheDog: While clearly expressing dislike for Charlie's general presence, he sincerely insists that Natalie's death ''isn't'' her fault when he assumes her motivation is guilt.
496	[[/folder]]
497
498	[[folder:The Night Shift]]
499	!!Sara
500	!!!'''Played by:''' Megan Suri
501	A mini-mart clerk who works the night shift.
502	----
503	* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Sara generally is a pretty smart kid. She likes Damian and keeps Jed at arm's length, and trusts Charlie enough to help her catch Jed in his lie. Debatably her crowning moment comes when Cliff arrives, and she quickly throws him off Charlie's scent after sensing that he's bad news.
504	* {{Goth}}: Her whole aesthetic.
505	* SmallTownBoredom: Usually bored out of her mind while at work. It’s probably why she indulges Charlie’s antics in her store.
506
507	!!Marge
508	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/HongChau
509	A runaway trucker who's been staying off-the-grid.
510	----
511	* ButchLesbian: She's a cowboy-hat-wearing, somewhat slovenly trucker who makes a pass at Charlie after stitching her up.
512	* ICallItVera: She owns a small pistol she calls "Baby Roscoe". It's the first part of how Charlie figures she didn't kill Damian, because it doesn't make sense for her to have [[BludgeonedToDeath beaten him to death]] when she had a gun.
513	* SenseiForScoundrels: Marge's experience with living off the grid is passed on to Charlie, helping her keep ahead of the surprisingly tech-savvy Cliff.
514
515	!!Abe
516	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnRatzenberger
517	A repairman running the auto-shop, and Jed's uncle.
518	----
519	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Jed doesn't take his uncle seriously, and treats him like an absent-minded guardian he could easily get up to mischief around… until Abe quietly reveals he knows Jed cut Charlie's brake-lines, which he repaired, and then just as quietly points out how it makes Jed look guilty of something worse, before taking out his hearing-aids to muffle Jed's protestations.
520	[[/folder]]
521
522	[[folder:The Stall]]
523	!!Fascist Dog
524	A dog that followed Charlie up to Boyle's Barbecue.
525	----
526	* AssholeVictim: It barges into people's cars, steals food from the barbecue, bites anyone who touches it and the only thing that makes it stop barking is right-wing conspiracy radio. Since the story is told non-linearly we don't know any of that when Taffy bludgeons him to death. But when we see the story back over from Charlie's perspective we see that it was a thoroughly unpleasant animal. And then it averts the trope anyway by having the dog recover at a vet.
527	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Taffy batters him with a piece of wood to silence his barking. He survives.
528	* TimmyInAWell: A series of yelps convinces Charlie to see through her investigation.
529	-->'''Charlie:''' Avenge you? I don't even like you.
530
531	!!Austin
532	!!!'''Played by:''' Shane Paul [=McGhie=]
533	One of Taffy's co-workers at the radio station, running his own show.
534	----
535	* LargeHamRadio: It turns out he's ''every'' "radio personality" for the station from the morning DJ to midnight jazz host to right-wing conspiracy nut.
536	* ManOfAThousandVoices: In-universe; he's a prodigious voice impressionist. [[spoiler:Which aids in him helping out Charlie in capturing the killers.]]
537
538	!!Sheriff Macdonald
539	The local sheriff and a regular at Boyle's Barbecue.
540	----
541	* FriendOnTheForce: A regular at the barbecue and a friend of Mandy's. Doesn't stop him arresting her after Austin broadcasts her EngineeredPublicConfession.
542
543	!!Beto
544	A line cook at the barbecue.
545	----
546	* BrutalHonesty: Tells Charlie when she's leaving that it'll be easier in the barbecue kitchen without her.
547	[[/folder]]
548
549	[[folder:Rest in Metal]]
550	!!Deuteronomy
551	Doxxxology's roadie, who gets fired by Ruby Ruin midway into their tour.
552	----
553	* CoolOldGuy: An older metalhead who knows his way around an amp and is helpful to Charlie. He even stalls Cliff long enough for her to get away in the crowd.
554	* TheRoadie: Drives the band's van and helps with the equipment. He's fired by Ruby the day before Gavin's murder so he won't check the tampered amp.
555
556	!!Elsie
557	A woman running 'Murder Girl', a true crime podcast.
558	----
559	* AmateurSleuth: Runs a podcast where she tries to solve murders and has been successful enough to rent a professional recording booth and reach Season 7 of her show.
560	* ChekhovsGunman: Charlie feeds her the scoop on Doxxxology’s murder to ensure they don't escape scrutiny.
561
562	!!'Krampus'
563	The mascot of the band of the same name, who pranks showgoers in [=TikTok=] videos.
564	----
565	* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: An attempt to prank Charlie ends with her punching him in the face.
566	* ThePrankster: Films his practical jokes on unsuspecting festival goers.
567
568	!!Scott
569	A man awkwardly searching for drug dealers at the Krampus show.
570	----
571	* BaitAndSwitch: His incredibly blunt and cliché drug references make everyone around him think he's a cop. He's not. In reality, he's an actuary with Nationwide who just ''really'' sucks at buying drugs.
572	[[/folder]]
573
574	[[folder:Time of the Monkey]]
575	!!Special Agent Luca Clark
576	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/SimonHelberg
577	An FBI agent supervising Ben Holmes' witness protection.
578	----
579	* BackForTheFinale: In "The Hook", he's in charge of investigating Charlie's alleged murder of Sterling Sr., and tries to help her prove her innocence.
580	* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's a terrible liar and very squirrely but he takes Charlie's deductions seriously and proves to be pretty competent.
581	* ChekhovsGunman: Clark initially only shows up to help Charlie bring two elderly terrorists to justice, who only posed a threat for one episode. He ends up making a surprise return in the Season 1 finale to help clear Charlie's name for killing Sterling Sr.
582	* FriendOnTheForce: He's Charlie's, willing to listen to her theories and providing help where he can and advice where he can't.
583	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Used Charlie's email from "Dead Man's Hand" to take down Kazimir Caine sometime between his appearances in "Time of the Monkey" and "The Hook".
584	* RecruitersAlwaysLie: Joined the FBI because he loves his country and wants to protect it from terrorist threats. Winds up babysitting forgotten old mobsters and radicals, and resents it greatly.
585
586	!!Billy
587	An orderly at Mossy Oaks Retirement Home.
588	----
589	* NiceGuy: Just tries to do his job caring for the elderly and tries to do it well. He barely complains even when they don't make it easy for him.
590
591	!!Toto
592	A gardener at Mossy Oaks.
593	----
594	* TheStoner: Trades sodium nitrate from his gardening chemicals for the "medicinal plants" Joyce grows.
595
596	!!The Fletchers
597	A group of crime enthusiasts at the retirement home.
598	----
599	* ShoutOut: Older women with a knack for solving murder. [[Series/MurderSheWrote Need more be said?]]
600
601	!!Pervy Pete
602	A perverted resident of Mossy Oaks.
603	----
604	* DirtyOldMan: Well, how else do you get the nickname "Pervy Pete"?
605	[[/folder]]
606
607	[[folder:Exit Stage Death]]
608	!!Rebecca
609	An actress on the production of "The Ghosts of Pensacola"
610	----
611	* BlackmailBackfire: Barely averted as her reaction to figuring out Michael and Kathleen killed Ava is to blackmail them for $5 million. It never occurs to her Kathleen will figure killing her is easier and she barely escapes death thanks to Charlie.
612	* KarmaHoudini: A {{downplayed\|Trope}} example. True, we never see her get arrested or see any consequences for trying to blackmail Kathleen and Michael over the murder, but it's safe to say that since the duo are going to prison, she's not going to see a [[ShoutOut single]] [[Film/KnivesOut red dime]] of her demands.
613	* MirrorCharacter: She is introduced as an (overly) sensitive GranolaGirl who is on the receiving end of Kathleen's unreasonable rants. But when she realizes that Michael and Kathleen killed Ava, she proves to be equally greedy (immediately trying to get rich off the event instead of reporting it) and narcissistic (expressing more anger at the two's plot distracting the audience from her acting than the murder). She even mirror's Kathleen's earlier "fucking millennials" insult by calling the two boomers.
614	* PlotAllergy: Kathleen almost tricks Rebecca into eating peanuts, which she's deadly allergic to but luckily, Charlie stops her.
615	* SkewedPriorities: Is more angry that Kathleen and Michael's staged argument upstaged her big monologue than she is that it was used to give them an alibi in murdering Ava.
616	* TooDumbToLive: She thought it was a good idea to confront two murderers in their private dressing room, before having to share a stage with them when she flat-out told Kathleen earlier that her dog's treats could lethally trigger her PlotAllergy. Morality aside, that blackmail request could have been delivered after the show. And even after her murder is foiled by Charlie, she only responds by doubling her blackmail demand.
617
618	!!Phil
619	The stage manager at Seneca Lake Dinner Theater.
620	----
621	* SlippingAMickey: Kathleen and Michael drug him so he'll be out cold during the night of Ava's murder, allowing Michael to tamper with the stage trap door.
622	* TheScapegoat: Kathleen and Michael are willing to end his career as a stage manager and let him think his negligence led to a woman's death.
623
624	!!Jeremy
625	A waiter at the dinner theater.
626	----
627	* ProfessionalButtKisser: His attempts to praise Kathleen's acting go ignored, while Charlie's criticism is acknowledged.
628
629	!!Harry
630	The replacement stage manager.
631	----
632	* YouAreInCommandNow: After Ava's death, he goes from errand boy to stage manager and is woefully unprepared for the amount of stress that comes with it.
633
634	!!Sheriff Ed
635	The local sheriff at Seneca Lake, and a "Spooky and the Cop" fan.
636	[[/folder]]
637
638	[[folder:The Future of the Sport]]
639	!!Jean [=McDowell=]
640	A worker at Kamelot Karts Fun Center, current owner of [=McDowell=] and Sons towing, and Davis' mom.
641	----
642	* StrugglingSingleMother: Runs a small business and supports Davis as he's trying to start his racing career.
643
644	!!Randy
645	A worker at Kamelot Karts Fun Center and a stock car racing enthusiast.
646	----
647	* BumblingSidekick: Is Davis' right-hand man and a source of comic relief.
648
649	!!Donna Owens
650	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LeslieSilva
651	Keith's wife and Katy's mom.
652	----
653	* IronicEcho: Uses Charlie's catchphrase to call "bullshit" on Keith's lie and convinces him to publicly confess.
654	[[/folder]]
655
656	[[folder:The Orpheus Syndrome]]
657	!!Raoul
658	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LuisGuzman
659	The head archivist of Lights and Motion and a friend to its three founders.
660	----
661	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he'd never given Arthur the reels of Lily's death then his murder at Laura's hands never would've happened. But, she would've also probably gotten away with it.
662	[[/folder]]
663
664	[[folder:Escape from Shit Mountain]]
665	!!Officer Buckley
666	The probation officer in charge of Trey's house arrest.
667
668	!!Luke
669	A man whom Charlie has a fling with on Magic Mountain.
670	----
671	* MrFanservice: We don't learn all that much about him, but damn if he isn't easy on the eyes. One look at him with his shirt off is enough to send Charlie into a summer fling with him, vowing to never leave until the onset of winter changes her mind.
672	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what happened to him between summer and [[TimeSkip the main events of the episode]].
673
674	!!Stan
675	A gas station receptionist.
676	[[/folder]]
677
678	[[folder:The Hook]]
679	!!Emily Cale
680	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CleaDuvall
681	Charlie's estranged sister.
682	----
683	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling who settled down, put down roots, and has a daughter. While Charlie is the foolish sibling who always breezes on down the road.
684
685	!!Shasta Cale
686	Emily's daughter and Charlie's niece.
687
688	!!Beatrix Hasp
689	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/RheaPerlman
690	A rival mob boss that Sterling Sr. wants out of the way.
691	----
692	* TheDon: She's the head of the Hasp Family and the Five Families criminal syndicate.
693	* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:She's the one who has a hit placed on Sterling Sr., though outside of hiring Cliff for the job she doesn't take an active role in the final episode until the end.]]
694	[[/folder]]

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