Annie Knight

For other uses of Annie, see Annie (disambiguation).

Knight, Annie

Appeared in Secrets in Death (mid-February, 2061) and mentioned in Leverage in Death (early March, 2061)

Personal Information

• Eyes: Direct, dark brown
• Relationships: Terrance Bicford (cohab of nineteen years); Carly Ellison (bio-mother/deceased); unnamed aunt/mother; Abe Knight (adoptive father); unnamed stepbrother and stepsister (kids from her aunt and Abe Knight); unnamed maternal grandparents
• Occupation: Founder of Knight Productions

Interesting Facts

• According to Trina, she was the queen of talk screen and practically built Talk TV with her own self. It was the top-rated late-night talk show twelve years running, and Trina really liked Knight at Night, another late night talk show.
• Recorded Knight at Night from four to five-thirty, and then it was broadcast later.
• Annie had decided to stop paying blackmail the previous day, the day Larinda Mars was murdered; her next payment was due in a week and she had planned to send a message instead and then reveal the secret Mars was blackmailing her with. She had her attorney come over and told him everything, then heard about the murder. She had last heard from Mars a week ago – she would get contacted two weeks before payments were due with the location and amount in a semi-cryptic message, like “There had to be eight thousand people at the party” or “I feel as if I’ve walked seven thousand miles in these shoes” – always between seven and nine thousand dollars. Mars wanted them to be seen together having drinks as if they were friends, but Knight refused to meet with her, always sending the money by messenger. She used Du Vin or Gino’s, with the Russian Tea Room once or twice, and this had been going on for 21 months.
• Annie’s birth mother, Carly Ellison, was a prostitute, but she (Annie) was raised by her mother’s sister. Annie didn’t know this until Ellison showed up when Annie was thirteen, threatened to take her unless her parents (Annie’s grandparents) paid her $10,000. Annie was angry and shocked, and tracked Ellison down at a party. When a man solicited her, offering to pay her a hundred for a two-fer, her mother and the man pulled her into an alley and started to go at her. The man hit Ellison, backslapped her away, and she hit him, He started waving a knife around, and then Annie grabbed the knife and stabbed him in the throat. Ellison was laughing and Annie ran home. Her aunt/real mother bagged her clothes and they were going to go to the police in the morning but there was a media report about a man and a woman found dead in an alley, multiple stab wounds on both.
• Annie didn’t know if she killed him or if Ellison did, and if he killed Ellison before bleeding to death, but the report said it appeared they’d fought, both of them high on illegals, and they’d succumbed to their injuries. Annie’s mother burned the clothes she’d been wearing, saying it wouldn’t change anything to go to the police, and it was her fault for not being honest with Annie to begin with. They moved back home, and when she was sixteen, her mother married Abe Knight, and they both took his name. She told him everything, and they built a good life, with two more kids. She planned to go back to St. Louis, Missouri that weekend to tell them Mars had been blackmailing them and to talk to the police, “to take that weapon out of Larinda’s hand.”
• Eve said she would check with St. Louis, review the facts and the evidence, and the investigative steps in the two deaths. She asked for her files, and a copy of her home security feed for the night Mars was murdered. If she thought an arrest was in order she would give her twenty-four hours per Knight’s request. Off the record Eve told Annie “If you’ve told me the truth, if you haven’t left out any salient details or slanted the angles, no one’s going to arrest or prosecute you for defending yourself against an assault, or arrest or prosecute the woman who protected her minor child from additional trauma.”
• Eve researched the case and came to the same conclusion – they killed each other, sloppily and stupidly, because they were high and pissed off. Carly Ellison died because she dragged a thirteen-year-old girl into an alley so she could make some money by allowing a junkie to rape her. She told Annie she wasn’t responsible for what happened in that alley, and Larinda Mars knew that also but exploited her anyway.

YANNI

• She was called Angela Knight in Leverage in Death.