Mrs. Mott

'''"Anyone can have an accident."

- Mrs. Mott aka Peyton Flanders  Peyton Flanders' is a vengeful widow pretending as a babysitter and the main villainess of the 1992 thriller film The Hand That Rocks The Cradles''.

She was portrayed by actress Rebecca De Mornay.

After losing her home, husband, and baby, she goes under the alias Mrs. Peyton Mott. She is hired by the Bartel family to be their nanny. She breast feeds their baby, talks Emma into keeping secrets from her mom, hits on the husband, and tells Claire that he might be having an affair. She gets Soloman fired by planting Emma's underwear in his tool wagon. She takes care of Marlene with a greenhouse of shattering glass. Peyton then empties all of Claire's inhalers, which almost kills Claire.

Claire catches on to the truth of Peyton's true identity and punches her and fires her. But Peyton returns to the house, to take Joey and Emma and kill Michael and Claire. Soloman arrives and confronts Peyton. She's about to kill him until Claire pushes her out the window and she falls on a fence, killing her.