Emily Harris is one of the main antagonists of Holly, alongside her husband, Rodney Harris. She and Rodney are retired college professors, and now kidnap and cannibalize people who they knew personally.
Biography[]
At some point, Emily married a man named Rodney Harris and they became professors at Bell College Arts and Sciences. After retiring, Emily became sick with sciatica and Rodney gained Alzheimer's disease. Rodney realized that consuming human flesh would help their sicknesses, so he and Emily became cannibalistic serial killers. In 2013, Emily and Rodney kidnapped a professor at the college named Jorge Castro. They trapped Jorge in a cage and later killed and cannibalized him. Their next victim was a man named Cary Dressler, who worked at a bowling alley, who they kidnapped in 2015.
After cannibalizing Cary, they kidnapped a woman named Ellen Craslow, though things didn't go according to plan and it ended with Rodney shooting and killing Ellen. Later the same year, Emily and Rodney kidnapped a young man named Peter Steinman and cannibalized him. In early July of 2021, they kidnapped their next victim, one of their young workers named Bonnie Dahl. They killed and cannibalized Bonnie, whose desperate mother, Penny, hired a Finders Keepers detective named Holly Gibney to investigate Bonnie's disappearance.
Holly was initially reluctant to accept the case, but after her mother died from complications of Covid-19 and her partner has the virus too, she decided to help. Holly started investigating Bonnie's disappearance and connected her disappearance to the disappearances of Jorge, Cary, Ellen, and Peter. After speaking with some of the men from the bowling league which Rodney was a part of, Holly spoke to Rodney, and figured that he could be who she called "The Red Bank Predator." Holly found Emily and Rodney, who were doing what they usually did to kidnap a victim: Stop their van at a sidewalk and have Emily cry out that she needs help in order to lure a person nearby, who would then be tased by Rodney. Holly went over and confronted Emily and Rodney. Holly is tased by Rodney after kicking Emily and falls unconscious.
Emily and Rodney take Holly's phone and the pistol which once belonged to Bill Hodges. They trap her in the cage, though she seems to not be phased by them. Emily becomes worried that people are going to know that Holly is missing and that Holly told people that she suspected that they were the abductors. Emily gives Rodney a cyanide pill and keeps one for herself before she leaves the house. She tells Rodney that if the police arrive with a warrant, he needs to call her before taking the pill before leaving.
Emily returns home and goes into the basement to find Rodney lying dead in a puddle of his own blood, having had his throat slit by Holly with one of Bonnie's triangle earrings. Emily arrives back at the house and goes to the basement, where she finds Rodney's body and the bloody Holly. Emily grabs Bill's pistol and attempts to use it on Holly, who grabs Emily and breaks her neck. Holly is later rescued and the Harrises' house is raided by the FBI.