Lori Quaid (Sharon Stone) is the primary villainess of the 1990 film Total Recall.
History[]
Being married to Douglas Quaid's, Lori is completely devoted to him. Lori is beautiful, loves Doug dearly, and their marriage seems to be fairly passionate. But everything changes one day when Doug visits Rekall, a company specializing in memory implants. Instead of getting to "experience" a secret agent fantasy, he realizes his memory was wiped and people are trying to kill him.
Lori calms Doug down and goes to get help... and suddenly a stranger begins shooting at him. Doug fights the figure and realizes it is Lori trying to kill him. Apparently, Doug has had a memory implant before, and that includes most of the details of his life. His years of memories are fictional, even though his current job is real. Lori attempts to stall him as backup is on its way however Doug knocked her to the ground and flees. The backup squad arrives and sees Lori on the floor, One of the goons attempts to help Lori to her feet, but he is walloped by Richter, his squad leader, who tells the man "Don't touch her". Richter then uses a tracking device to see Quaid is proceeding to the subway station and orders the goons after him whilst he briefly engages in passionate kissing with her, revealing he is Lori's true husband. Richter then says for Lori to get packed as they are going back home to Mars, then proceeds to go and hunt Quaid. She is not seen for much of the film, but mentioned when Richter gets a call from Vilos Cohaagen, the Martian governor; chewing him out for attempting to kill Quaid when Richter was ordered to bring Quaid in alive. Cohaagen says "I want him back in place with Lori."
Later on, Lori gets the call to come back to work. This time, much to her dismay, she is summoned to Mars, a place she despises wholeheartedly. She has been asked to pose as the loving wife once again under the order of Ricther's boss, Vilos Cohaagen. As part of the plan, she arrives with Rekall businessman Dr. Edgemar to meet Quaid in a Martian hotel, where Edgemar explains to him that the chases he endure are part part of a secret agent memory implant gone wrong, thus he is dreaming. Lori appears at the door of Doug's hotel room, pleading lovingly with her 'husband' to stop all this bloodshed and return to her. Quaid's confusion is compounded by this sudden reappearance of the woman who was the love of his life and ended up trying to kill him in his own home. Once again, Doug distrusts what he's hearing and refuses to believe her. His suspicions were confirmed when he sees Edgemar sweating in fear, realizing that he isn't dreaming. An angry Quaid then shoots Edgemar, and Lori goes ballistic before her men storm the hotel room and restrain Quaid. Lori sadistically kicks him in the head and stomps his balls.
Before the events that took place in the movie, Lori was an agent who carried out reconnaissance and training of personnel in martial Arts, being a black belt and also a karate instructor at the agency for which she works on Mars. Not much is known about her family or her past life but it is known that she was recruited by the agency due to her skills in karate where she demonstrated a certain degree of cruelty by kicking the testicles of many men who ever trained with her and were her students which is why she is very feared in karate training.
In the dojo of the agency where she taught karate, it was very common to see her in a karate outfit, black belt and barefoot giving beatings to the agents and in more than one occasion she leave many black belts agents on the floor with pain due to her karate kicks to testicles, kicking barefoot their balls and not in sports shoes as seen in the house where she lived with hauser. She was also ritcher karate instructor, who later became her husband, falling in love with her karate skills (even though she also kicked his testicles in karate) . After that, they were secretly married at the agency.
At the climax of the film, Quaid finally punishes her for her treachery. Lori pulls a pistol on him but he is faster on the draw and shoots her in the forehead. He then declares, "Consider that a divorce."
Trivia[]
- Sharon Stone appeared as Dedre Dupres/Diane Dupres in the 1984 two-part episode "Echoes of the Mind" for the TV series "Magnum P.I.".
- Sharon Stone appeared as Julie Eland in the 1984 episode "Shots in the Dark" for the TV series "Mike Hammer".
- Sharon Stone appeared as Laurel Hedare in the 2004 film "Catwoman".
- Sharon Stone appeared as Catherine Tramell in the 1992 film "Basic Instinct", and then reprised the role in the 2005 sequel "Basic Instinct 2".