The evil Lisa Wolfe
Lisa Wolfe (Jessica Lundy) is a villainess from "The One Behind the Wheel," episode 3.12 of Medium (airdate February 14, 2007). She is the mistress of plastic surgeon Thomas O'Bannon.
Lisa's affair with Thomas had been going on for three years, and during this time, Thomas was on the verge of divorce from his wife, Sandra O'Bannon (née Pinsler), who was the heiress to the Pinzler oil fortune. The couple concocted a scheme to kill Sandra and continue living off her fortune, with the plan seeing Thomas perform extensive surgeries on Lisa to make her look like a dead ringer for Sandra. One evening, Thomas and Sandra were arguing while driving down a dark road, and after Thomas tossed his lit cigarette towards the back seat, he intentionally crashed his car, injuring both husband and wife.
After the crash, the evil Lisa emerged (now completely resembling Sandra) and helped Thomas take Sandra out of the car and bury her. During this procedure, Lisa switched clothes with Sandra, and quickly noticed that she was still alive, prompting Thomas to kill her before burying her. The illicit couple were shown at the same hospital where Allison DuBois was staying, due to Allison being inhabited by Sandra's spirit. She approached Thomas and was shocked to see Lisa, who introduced herself as Sandra.
Lisa's reveal came in Allison's dreams, as she had one about the accident and a second that had Thomas calling Lisa and revealing that the "accident" was intentional, whcih also featured Thomas killing Sandra. Once Allison and Joe drove to where Sandra's body was buried, Sandra's spirit left Allison's body. At episode's end, Allison watched a news report that revealed that both Lisa and Thomas were arrested for their roles in Sandra's murder.
Trivia[]
- Lisa Wolfe is very similar to the unnamed villainess who appeared in Monk's first season finale. Both were adulteresses who had their appearances changed to look like the wives of their illicit lovers, and both were involved in the husbands' plan to kill their wives.
- Lisa's role in the scheme is also similar to that involving another Medium villainess, Harmony Fletcher, though in Harmony's case, she wasn't an adulteress and she was made to look like her lover's sister, who was their intended victim.
- Jessica Lundy later played evil actress Brenda Lake on The Inspectors, which also had Lundy playing dual roles.