Serial Mom
Soaps In Depth
July 1, 1997
Justine Kirkland, ANOTHER WORLD
Although most of Bay City would say that this madwoman was the mother of all psychos, she actually was only the mother of one - Grant. (Her other offspring was the surprisingly sane - Ryan.) During her short visit to town, she poisoned one of her exes and took over Rachel's life in order to seduce the other, Carl, Rachel's husband. Justine also decided that Grant lack Gumption to win custody of her grandson, Kirkland, away from his former wife, Vicky. Justine's solution: Abduct the boy and imprison his mother. "Justine invested in Vicky all the hated that she had accumulated over the years," explains Victoria Wyndham, who played both Rachel and her bonkers look-alike. "Vicky became a symbol of her lost life." After Justine took a tumble off a train trestle during a struggle with Ryan, she no longer had any use for a symbol of her lost life; her life really was lost.