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Ella Miyazaki is the secondary antagonist of the Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "Great Barrier". She is a young Japanese-American jewel thief who commits a series of robberies and murders at the behest of her lover, criminal mastermind Nicole Wallace.
She was portrayed by Grace Hsu.
Biography[]
Ella is the black sheep of a prominent Japanese-American family; the daughter of two affluent college professors, she disappoints them by dropping out of high school and making a blue-collar living as a bike messenger. At some point, she enters a relationship with Nicole Wallace, a con artist and serial killer who quickly isolates her from her family by manipulating her into writing cruel letters to her parents declaring that she wants nothing to do with them.
Wallace sends Ella and another of her accomplices, Zach Thaler, to case a jewelry store; Ella is disguised as a Japanese businesswoman and Thaler as her translator. After they steal three jewels, they throw away their outfits, and Zach dies in the middle of the thoroughfare, poisoned by Wallace.
NYPD Major Case Squad Detective Robert Goren - Wallace's archnemesis - and his partner Detective Alexandra Eames trace Thaler's death back to Ella. After further research into Ella's behaviors, such as the posing in the window and the frequent checking of her phone, they learn that someone is orchestrating her crimes.
Wallace manipulates Ella into trying to kill her ex-husband Gavin Haynes. After finally tracking Ella down, Goren finds Ella is very difficult to phase, until Eames learns that Nicole wanted Gavin dead because he knew about her past.
Goren reveals Nicole's secret to Ella - that, years earlier, Nicole murdered her own daughter by snapping her neck. After Goren intimates that Wallace feels a compulsion to kill anyone who gets close to her, Ella realizes that she is next. Goren and Eames convince her to wear a wire to get Wallace to say something incriminating, as there is no actual evidence to tie her to any crime. However, after the staged meeting transpires, Wallace realizes that Ella has turned on her, and kills her by throwing her from a window before faking her own death.
Victims[]
Indirect[]
- Zach Thaler: Injected with succynlchlorine by Nicole Wallace.
Attempted[]
- Gavin Haynes: Attempted to suffocate in an elevator.
External links[]
- Ella Miyazaki on the Law & Order Wiki
