Madeline Sawyer (The Wrong Student)

Madeline Sawyer
The psychotic Madeline Sawyer
Background Information
Origin	The Wrong Student
Actress	Evanne Friedmann
Character Information
Hair Colour	Brunette
Role	Obsessive High School Student
Goal	To seek a friendship with Coach Dominic while she's having a crush on him, and threatening the lives of Coach Dominic and Amber Halligan
Fate	Arrested

Madeline "Maddie" Sawyer (Evanne Friedmann) is the main villainess from the 2017 Lifetime film, The Wrong Student, the third film of The Wrong film series (airdate March 11, 2017).

Introduction

Maddie is an emancipated 18-year-old student, her parents having died a couple of years ago. She is the best friend of one of the protagonists, Amber Halligan, and they were on the soccer team together.

Events

Maddie harbored a crush on her and Amber's coach, Dominic Antal; a crush which is actually revealed as an obsession when various photos of Dominic are seen all posted all over her bedroom wall. When she witnessed Coach Hendricks threatening to fire Dominic, Maddie--seeing her as an obstacle--poisoned Hendricks and later locked her in her office while she succumbed, all the while taunting her by holding her medication. After Dominic announced that Hendricks was in a coma, Maddie gained his attention by feigning an injury. While she was tended to in the locker room, Maddie attempted to seduce Dominic by undressing in front of him.

Maddie had noticed Riley Jones, her former flame, warning Amber about Maddie. While she stalked Dominic during his date with Amber's aunt, Kelly, the villainess noticed Riley in her room investigating via a security camera she had set up, prompting her to confront Riley. Maddie (posing as Amber) sent Riley a text to meet her at a park, where she forced Riley to admit that he was warning Amber about her. After that, Maddie stabbed Riley to death because he was in her room and saw evidence of her obsession with Dominic.

Maddie's next target was Kelly, and in her villainous quest, she hurled a rock through Kelly's window, which had a message warning her to stay away from Dominic. She again attempted to seduce Dominic after she called him to pick her up from a party, but after being turned down again, Maddie went into a rage while revealing her true feelings and obsession for him. After she saw Dominic with Kelly through a camera she secretly installed at the house, Maddie became angry and destroyed Kelly's office.

As Kelly came to realize that Maddie was behind both acts, Maddie broke into the house while Amber was alone and confronted her with a knife, ranting how she was lonely ever since her parents died and thought Dominic could fill the void in her life. When Amber tried to run, Maddie put the knife against her throat. When Dominic came over to stop Maddie, he found her standing in front of a tied up and gagged Amber. Maddie broke down, accusing Dominic of throwing her aside like trash, and revealed that when Kelly came to the house, Maddie intended to kill herself and all three of them--Amber, Kelly, and Dominic--as revenge for Dominic rejecting her, and for the intention to die with her obsession at her side. Dominic attempted to plead Maddie to stop, but she mindlessly and cold-heartedly refused and declared that she would do anything to win his love, including killing people.

During the middle of her ranting, however, Maddie was unaware that Kelly had snuck into the house. She hit Maddie in the head with a pan, allowing her to be subdued until the police (who knew about every single one of Kelly's crimes) arrive. Desperate to avoid being sent to prison, Maddie attempted to get Kelly to kill her, saying it's what she deserves. However, Kelly refused, stating that the real punishment Maddie deserved was to live with all the villainous atrocities she committed. Hearing this, Maddie then broke down in tears at the prospect of spending a life in prison without Dominic as the police arrive to arrest and convict her of all her crimes.

Trivia

• This was Evanne Friedmann's very first Lifetime film and first villainous role.
• Madeline Sawyer was The Wrong film series' very first full villainess.
• Madeline is similar to fellow villainess Kyla Wilde from 2018's My Teacher, My Obsession. Both are students who have an obsessive crush on teachers that are looking an eye for and having befriend a classmate from school to make friends with. One such difference on taking a love interest: Madeline never resorted into seduction, Kyla did.