Emily (Tamara Hope) is the hidden main villainess from the pilot episode of The CW's Beauty and the Beast (airdate October 11, 2012). She is the assistant to Ashley Webster, the editor-in-chief of the NYC Beauty Magazine.
However, Emily was one of four revealed mistresses of Ashley's husband, Alex--a fashion photographer. She was the only one of the four to end up pregnant with Alex's child, and she wanted to continue her illicit relationship with Alex. Emily was informed by Alex that a prenuptial agreement stood in the way of them being together, as Ashley would get everything if he was caught cheating. It was later revealed that there was no such prenup, but with the lie fresh in her mind, Emily saw Ashley as an obstacle and decided to kill her.
Emily laced Ashley's bottle of hair dye with nicotine, and once Ashley used the dye, she immediately succumbed to the poison, despite Vincent Keller's attempt to save her. Ashley's murder brought Catherine Chandler and Tess Vargas on the case, and in an attempt to cover her tracks, the evil Emily attempted to label Chloe London as Ashley's killer, using Chloe's hatred of Ashley as motive. However, after learning that the nicotine was in the bottle of hair dye, as well as Alex's affairs, Catherine and Tess returned to the workplace and confronted Emily, who stated that she was serving as Chloe's assistant due to Chloe taking Ashley's position. As revealed by Catherine, the villainess signed out on Ashley's bottle of dye, and she was also pregnant. Emily stated that she lost the baby, but she did admit to killing Ashley so she could be with Alex. Tess later handcuffed and arrested Emily for Ashley's murder.
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- Emily was Beauty and the Beast's very first main one-shot villainess.
- Emily is similar to Jennifer, the villainess from The Closer's second episode. Both were women engaged in affairs with married men, and both were sharing said married man with multiple women. In addition, both women were deceived into believing that a prenuptial agreement kept them from being with their lovers, leading them to kill the wives of their lovers to achieve their goal. A third similarity was that each villainess was pregnant with her lover's child.