Lucrece Posey

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From The Wild Wild West, season 2, episode The Night of the Poisonous Posey

Portrayed by: Delphi Lawrence

Age: Early thirties

Alignment: Unrepentantly bad

The original Carmen Sandiego, Posey is a master of crime, organization, and business, and is determined to combine them in order to craft an international criminal empire. To that end, she selected criminals from around the world whom she felt were the best qualified and made them the regional leaders.

It's unknown for how long her plans were in operation, but from the set-up of the funeral parlor in Justice, Nevada, as well as everyone's familiarity with it, it seems likely that they were functioning as a group for some time and using that place as their headquarters.

After the leaders were all killed following Jim and Arte learning of the plans, Lucrece was arrested and sent to prison. She played the part of a good girl for a while, biding her time, and eventually staged a flawless prison break. Since then she's been laying low, searching for the perfect criminals to start her idea again.

Dr. Faustina's experimentation, and more especially the results, will surprise her highly. But she will welcome her old crew back, with the provision that there will be no further in-fighting among members. Snakes, however, is completely barred from returning unless he proves himself worthy.

Posey can be hard as nails one moment and playing the part of a soft, sweet creature the next. Equally skilled at using poison under her fingernails as she is with a gun, she needs no man by her side. She is perfectly capable of handling herself and has no use for romance (other than to manipulate men when necessary). However, she is aware that her long-time associate Little Pinto has feelings for her. She is not adverse to allowing this to become an on-again off-again fling between them, but only to entertain and satisfy herself, as she does not return his feelings and very likely never can.

Once in the present-day, her goal is to re-group and get everyone home as soon as possible. After realizing that it may take a while, however, she begins devising plans for her syndicate to rise in modern-day Los Angeles.

Lucrece likes order and civility among her fellow criminals. She detests finding them fighting or having been fighting. And although she's quite willing and able to kill any enemy, she strongly dislikes having the dead bodies in the room.

She doesn't feel she needs to conform to Victorian ideas of what women should and shouldn't do or wear; she prefers pants to dresses, and once she gets to modern-day Los Angeles, she is highly pleased by pants for women being common.

In spite of her feelings, however, sometimes she enjoys being treated like a woman. She appears to like and even expect courtesies from Brutus and Pinto such as taking her cloak and pulling out her chair.

She eventually discovers and acknowledges that she does love Pinto, that she can't abide the thought of him being dead, and that she wants to be his wife. Their relationship deepens and finally blossoms into a lasting marriage. Pinto is content to let Lucrece be in charge, as she always has been, and she enjoys that.

They have two children, Peter, the oldest, and Lucy.