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| “ | Why would you live somewhere you're not wanted? Seriously? | „ |
| ~ Betty to Lucky. |
Elizabeth "Betty" Wendell is one of the two main antagonists (alongside The Black Hat Man) of Covenant, the first season of the 2021 Amazon Prime horror anthology Them. She is the de facto leader of the East Compton housewives who serves as the ringleader of the all-white neighborhood's harassment campaign against the African-American Emory family who had just moved in.
She was portrayed by Alison Pill, who also portrayed Ivy Mayfair-Richards in American Horror Story: Cult.
Biography[]
In 1953, Betty lives in East Compton, California, with her husband Clarke, with whom she has been trying to have a baby. Behind Clarke's back, Betty has been having an affair with the milkman, George Bell. When the Emory family moves in directly across the street, Betty and her neighbors stare at them in shock and disgust because of the Emory family's race, but Betty forces a smile and waves at them. The very first night, Betty and the other neighbors meet up and share racist jokes and conspiracy theories about the Emorys and discuss plans to drive them out of the neighborhood.
Led by Betty, the neighbors commit a string of harassment incidents and disgusting hate crimes against the Emorys, such as blaring loud music outside of their house for hours, leaving blackface dolls on their property, and burning racial slurs into their lawn. Naturally, this leads Betty and the Emory family matriarch, Lucky, to have a very combative relationship, with the latter confronting the former for her bigotry and taunting her for her inability to have kids with her husband, who is implied to be a closeted gay man, much to Betty's anger.
Betty gives a rousing speech at an HOA meeting in an attempt to encourage her neighbors to escalate their harassment into violence, which a lot of her neighbors prove to be on board with. Among those who don't want to engage in violence is Betty's pregnant friend Midge, who would rather simply move out of the neighborhood. Betty, becomes upset with Midge, due to believing that she will sell her home to a second African-American family, and her envy because of her own inability to get pregnant, and spitefully puts sugar in Midge's gas tank.
Later, Lucky slaps Betty when Betty calls her the n-word, which enrages her enough to go to call George, believing he is also obsessed with getting rid of the Emorys because he always listened to her rant about them and agreed. Betty intends to convince George to murder Lucky in revenge for her slapping her, but George drugs her and holds her captive in a bunker, revealing that he has been obsessed with her. Betty tries to play along with George's delusion and pretends to be in love with him, but attempts to escape when George isn't looking. As she runs through the field to escape, George shoots her, realizing that she doesn't love him.
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