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Don't make me be a bad girl.
~ Dr. Robert Elliott as "Bobbi", his female, homicidal alter ego.

Dr. Robert Elliott, also known as Bobbi, is the main antagonist of Brian De Palma's 1980 thriller film Dressed to Kill. He is a psychiatrist with a split personality, whose alter-ego is a transgender serial killer.

He was portrayed by Michael Caine, who also portrayed Michael Jennings in On Deadly Ground, Jack Carter in Get Carter, Arthur Tressler in Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2, Dr. Royer-Collard in Quills, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol, and Chester "Arthur" King in Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Biography[]

Robert Elliott is a respected psychiatrist and a transgender woman with a split personality; his female side, Bobbi, wants to become a woman, but his male side won't allow it. Bobbi punishes him by killing any woman he feels attracted to. During his transformation into Bobbi, he puts on a blonde wig and a dress; after the murder, he dresses in his regular clothes and becomes himself again. He has no idea that he and Bobbi are the same person, and believes that Bobbi is a disturbed patient who wants him to sign off on sex reassignment surgery. He claims to be married, but his wife is never seen; it is left ambiguous whether she actually exists.

During a session with his patient Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated housewife, Robert asks her what she desires that she is not getting from her husband. She then tries to seduce him, but he politely rebuffs her advances. Bobbi's anger is roused, and she follows Kate as she has a one-night stand with a stranger and stabs her to death in an elevator. Call girl Liz Blake, fresh from a tryst with a client, witnesses the murder, and unwittingly becomes Bobbi's next target.

When the police refuse to believe her story, Liz allies herself with Kate's teenage son Peter, who wants revenge for his mother's murder. They concoct a plan in which Liz would pose as Robert's patient and learn from his patient records the identity of the killer, while Peter watches from the shadows just in case Robert becomes violent. Liz comes on to Robert to distract him while looking through his files. Bobbi then becomes dominant, dressing in women's clothes and going to kill Liz. At the last second, however, police officers, who had followed Liz to Robert's office, burst in and shoot Robert/Bobbi in the shoulder, taking him into custody. Robert/Bobbi is found insane and institutionalized.

In the film's last scene, Liz has a nightmare about Robert/Bobbi escaping from the asylum and killing her.

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