Lori Gatz (Heather Cooney) is the main villainess from "Money Maker," episode 3.06 of Rizzoli & Isles (airdate July 10, 2012). She is a nurse and the wife of school coach Doug Gatz.
Doug had been friends with hedge funds company owner Neal Murray, and it was Neal who invited Doug into his wild party lifestyle, which led to Doug having an affair with prostitute Candy Smith, who went by the name Georgette Wilkins and posed as a realtor. Lori found out about Doug's affair, and she went into a rage and planned to kill Neal, as she blamed him for her husband's cheating.
Lori was shown in the beginning of the episode posing as one of the escorts, donning a mask and preparing to engage in a sexual encounter with Neal. In actuality, Lori had snuck into catering and obtained a lethal amount of potassium chloride, which she later injected into Neal. Neal succumbed to the effects and died instantly, with Lori feigning concern to mask her pleasure over her murderous actions. Later on, while Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles were searching for the killer, the evil Lori killed Georgette by shoving her into the pool, with Georgette's head being struck during the assault. Before the murder, Lori saw Georgette's ring and tried it on, and her prints on the ring ended up revealing Lori's role.
Jane and Barry Frost appeared in one of Doug's classes to arrest Doug for embezzling from his students, and it was there that Lori's reveal as a scorned murderess occurred. Jane informed Lori that her prints were on Georgette's ring, and that she blamed Neal for ruining her life, establishing her motive for killing both of them. Lori denied the claims, but after Frost stated that he had video of Lori killing Georgette (he didn't), Lori lashed out at Doug, blaming him for her actions and stating that he couldn't let go of his school friends. Jane arrested Lori for killing Neal and Georgette.
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- "This is your fault. You couldn't let go of your high school buddies. We were happy. You let Neal drag you in; show you this life you thought you were missing. You fell in love with a whore!" (Lori Gatz blaming her husband, Doug, for her murderous actions)
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