| “ | Oh, please. I've never heard anything so ridiculous. I mean, nobody could blackmail me. My life is an open book. I've never done anything wrong. | „ |
| ~ Mrs. Peacock |
Mrs. Peacock is a major character in the 1985 film Clue, being the main antagonist of Ending B, and a supporting antagonist in Ending C.
She was portrayed by the late Eileen Brenner.
Biography[]
Mrs. Peacock was the wife of an unknown United States senator. (Though Wadsworth calls him "Senator Peacock", this is clearly a fake name, as it is stated all of the names used by the dinner guests are pseudonyms.) Mrs. Peacock accepted bribes from domestic lobbyists in order to deliver their opinions to her husband while holding back the opinions of others. Once her husband became involved with a top secret fusion bomb project, she started accepting bribes from an unknown foreign power (implied to be China) to give them information on the project.
Mr. Boddy found out about Peacock's corruption thanks to her cook, Mrs. Ho, and he began blackmailing her. Later on, Mr. Boddy's butler Wadsworth invited her and five others to his mansion along with all of his informants. Mr. Boddy supplied the group with weapons and told them to kill Wadsworth and he would let them out of their blackmail. Boddy was killed instead, followed by many other guests who were all later revealed to be his informants.
Ending B[]
In Ending B, Mrs. Peacock was the mastermind behind all of the murders. She first murdered Mr. Boddy as her blackmailer. She then recognized Boddy's cook, Mrs. Ho, as being her own cook, which Wadsworth was tipped off to as Peacock had stated that the meal they shared was one of her favorites, and while monkey's brains are quite popular in Cantonese cuisine, they are seldom to be found in Washington D.C.
Though Peacock didn't have any real connection to any of the other victims, she was smart enough to deduce that if her own cook was here, then all of the other guests must also be in some way connected to Boddy, and she didn't want any of his network of informants to survive on the chance that they might know information about her.
Wadsworth revealed all of this to Mrs. Peacock. She threatened to kill the rest of the party guests as well, but Wadsworth talked her down saying that it would look suspicious if she was the only survivor, and that they all owed her a debt of gratitude anyway for freeing them from their blackmailer. After singing her out with a round of "She's A Jolly Good Fellow", he revealed to the others that he was an undercover FBI agent. Mrs. Peacock was arrested, and Wadsworth declared that "like the mounties, we always get our man!" Mr. Green reacted with shock at the apparent revelation that Mrs. Peacock was a man and was slapped for his foolishness.
Ending C[]
In Ending C, Mrs. Peacock only killed the cook, who she recognized as being her own cook and the one who informed on her to Mr. Boddy. At the end, Wadsworth revealed himself as the true Mr. Boddy, with the man they killed being merely his butler. He revealed that he set all of this up in order to dispose of his informants while also getting even more blackmail material at the same time.
Mr. Green revealed himself as an undercover FBI agent, shooting and killing Wadsworth before opening the mansion doors to let the FBI come in and arrest everyone, including Peacock.
Trivia[]
- Although Mrs. Peacock doesn't wear her namesake color in the film, her tan and gold outfit is the color of a peahen (a female peacock) and she wears peahen feathers in her hair.
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