The evil Sarah Windsor
Sarah Windsor (Kate Burton) was a villainess from "Bad Manners," episode 2.05 of Prodigal Son (airdate February 9, 2021). She was the headmistress of the Windsor School of Etiquette.
Working alongside Sarah was a young woman named Rachel, who was introduced as her assistant. However, it was actually revealed that Rachel was Sarah's daughter; the result of a tryst between Sarah and Rachel's unnamed father. Sarah's parents disapproved of her becoming pregnant, and after Rachel was born, Sarah masked Rachel's identity as her daughter throughout her entire life, continuing to do so even after taking on Rachel as her assistant at the school.
Sarah doted on her students, one of them being Ainsley Whitly (Malcolm Bright's sister), causing Rachel to become enraged and later killing three of her students out of furious envy. Malcolm and Ainsley encountered Sarah at the school, after the former discofered that the victims had all attended Windsor. During their encounter, Sarah stated that her students were her family and had made up for the "fact" that she had no children of her own, continuing to cover up Rachel's existence as her daughter.
Later on, Sarah and Ainsley engaged in tea time before they were first interrupted by Rachel's appearance, with Sarah lashing out at Rachel for entering. A second interruption came in the form of Malcolm, who appeared at the school looking for Ainsley, as he had suspected Sarah of committing the serial killings. Sarah claimed that Ainsley wasn't at the school, but upon realizing that Rachel was behind the murders, Sarah informed Malcolm that Ainsley was in the tea room. It was afterwards that Sarah ranted and revealed that she was Rachel's mother, rambling to herself that she was in a relationship with the wrong man and that she had to remain perfect, despite everyone making mistakes.
During her maniacal rant, Sarah turned heel by activating the gas in the school, as she was set on killing not only Rachel, but herself in an insidious plan to permanently mask her familial ties to Rachel. Malcolm had caught the scent of gas, and after he and Ainsley successfully defeated Rachel, the pair ran out of the house, As Malcolm witnessed, the evil Sarah lit a match after turning on the gas, blowing up the school and killing herself and her daughter.
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- Kate Burton also played evil businesswoman Annette Cole on Law & Order: SVU, as well as the villainous Sally Langston on Scandal.