Rodney Harris is one of the two main antagonists of Holly, alongside his wife, Emily Harris. He and Emily are retired college professors, and now kidnap and cannibalize people who they knew personally.
Biography[]
At some point, Rodney Harris married a woman named Emily and they both became professors at Bell College. After retiring, Rodney later gained Alzheimer's disease and Emily became sick with sciatica. Rodney realized that consuming human flesh would help prevent their illnesses. In 2013, Rodney and Emily 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, Rodney and Emily kidnapped a young man named Peter Steinman and cannibalized him. In early July of 2021, they kidnapped their next victim, one of their workers named Bonnie Dahl. They killed and cannibalized Bonnie, whose mother, Penny, hired a private investigator named Holly Gibney to investigate Bonnie's disappearance.
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 Rodney and Emily, 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.
Rodney and Emily 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 leaves after giving Rodney a cyanide pill and telling him to call her if the police arrive with a warrant. After Emily leaves, Rodney goes down to the basement, where Holly tells him to talk about the pros of consuming human flesh. Holly starts goading Rodney, who goes towards the cage. Holly grabs a triangle earring which once belonged to Bonnie, and uses it to slice Rodney's throat open. Rodney stumbles around and falls to the floor, quickly bleeding out.
Emily later arrives home to find Rodney's body and has her neck broken by Holly. Holly is then rescued and the Harrises house is raided by the FBI.