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Elliot Ward is one of the three overarchign antagonists (alongside Max Hastings and Andie Bell) antagonist of the novel and subsequent Netflix series adaptation A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Elliot is the father of Naomi and Cara Ward, Cara being the friend of Pip Fitz-Amobi. Elliot is also one of two killers of Andie Bell and the murderer of her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who was framed for the crime.
In the series, he was portrayed by Mathew Baynton.
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Elliot grew to be a second father to Pip as she became closer to Cara. After Elliot's wife, his daughters' mother Isobel passed away, it became hard on the family. Elliot ended up setting his sights on Andie, a student he was tutoring, and by his account, they began an illicit affair. Andie was the one who broke it off, and although Elliot was upset, he didn't challenge her decision. Andie was planning to elope with her boyfriend, Sal, so she demanded money from Elliot. When he refused, she said she'd report him for statutory rape if she didn't pay him. In an altercation, Elliot shoved her, causing her head to hit a countertop. She stumbled all the way to her home, where her sister Becca finished her off in another altercation.
Elliot read in Naomi's diary that she and her friends were silenced after Max Hastings severely injured a man in a car crash. Fearing Andie's death would lead straight back to him, he used Sal as a patsy. With that, he sent a letter, blackmailing Naomi and her friends into deleting exculpatory social media posts for Sal. He then drugged Sal when he had the opportunity, wrote a false confession in his texts, and smothered him, leaving him in the woods to be framed for Andie's murder in a staged suicide.
Elliot still retained the family's old home, where she brought a homeless girl named Isla. Lying hes give her shelter for the night, he got drunk and confessed to Sal's murder to her. She made her say she didnt blame him, but when she tried to leave, he held her prisoner in the attic of the property for five years, possibly to rape her during her captivity.
Five years later, when Pip was digging up information on the case, Elliot appeared in passing when she visited the family and attended his class. But in between, Elliot was stalking Pip, sending her a printed message while she camped with Cara and her friends that said "STOP DIGGING, PIPPA". These threats crossed over with Becca's, and they became more aggressive. While Elliot pretended he wanted Pip to drop the case because everyone found it "unhealthy", he and Becca were cursing her out and threatening they were watching her in texts. It was because, with Sal's brother Ravi posing as Andie's friends, he got them to reveal she was dating a "Secret Older Guy", which was confirmed when a guestbook at the Ivy House Hotel showed Andie and Elliot stayed under the names of characters from The Great Gatsby. Pip recognized it from a scanty photo Hastings had of Andie from the hotel bathroom.
It came to a peak when Pip posted an online video, saying she'd release all the evidence she had. In retribution, Elliot let her family's dog Barney out from the backyard, shortly after which Becca ran over him with her car, even after Pip retracted her earlier video. She knew Elliot was the stalker and "Secret Older Guy" when Naomi found the phone and offered her condolences for Barney's murder through that number. She told Pip Elliot hid it behind a brick in the wall.
Pip dropped her phone in Elliot's car to track it, leading all the way back to his former home when he again went to see Isla. Pip confronted him, and he finally acted like he tried to explain himself, but he was really speaking in his own defense when he said he had a relationship with Andie and didn't mean to hurt her when he shoved her. Isla hit pipes leading from the attic to downstairs, so Pip found her there. Elliot locked them both in, where Isla told Pip Elliot confessed to murdering Sal. Thankfully, Pip told Ravi to call the police. The two ladies were rescued, and Elliot was arrested.
When Pip realized he had an alibi for murdering Barney, she questioned him. He admitted to Sal's murder, yet still in denial of his blame and blaming it on some "dark seed" that "grew" in his head, saying anyone, even Pip, might have that problem. The only thing he offered was Jason was preventing Andie from leaving, which made Pip realize Becca was Pip's other stalker and Andie's other killer, having driven Andie's car when she was already dead. Becca nearly killed Pip, but she was rescued, and Becca was arrested.
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