Irene Smothers and Joyce Carter are supporting antagonists in the 2023 series Poker Face, acting as the main antagonists of the episode "Time of the Monkey".
Irene was portrayed by Judith Light and Joyce was portrayed by S. Epatha Merkerson.
Their Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Them Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- In their youth, they were part of a domestic terrorist group that attempted to bomb a prep school full of high school students, where the students would perform as ambassadors, which would have killed all of the students and staff. They had done this to send a message to future war criminals by killing children of the elite, event though these children were innocent. This is also very hypocritical, as to protest against war, they planned to mass murder innocent children. They are only stopped because Gabriel sold them and the rest of the group out of the police out of guilt.
- Decades later, they still see this horrific act as justified and show no remorse for what they attempted to do.
- When Gabriel comes to Mossy Oaks Retirement Home to apologize and make amends with Irene and Joyce, the pair pretend to forgive him while in actuality, they plan his murder.
- Irene fills up a syringe with sodium nitrate with Joyce wheeling Irene to the bathroom and locking the door, allowing Irene to climb out the window and up the side of the building to Gabriel's room, where she murders him in his bed by injecting him in the neck with the sodium nitrate.
- To cover up the murder, Irene swaps Gabriel's wrist monitor for her own. She and Joyce go on a trip to the zoo with the other seniors and go off privately. Joyce puts on Gabriel's wrist monitor and and Irene tasers her so that it reads on Gabriel's monitor that he had a heart attack.
- When they learn that Betty had seen them tasering each other, Betty having thought they were performing a sexual act, they decide to murder her to stop her from revealing them. They plant a bomb in her air fryer which explodes and kills her.
- When Charlie confronts them in their home about their actions and reveals what she knows, stating how she will tell the FBI, they viciously attack her, with Joyce beating on her and Irene stabbing her in the leg with a knitting needle. The pair end up beating her down and subduing her before attempting to kill her by injecting her with poison, but they are stopped by the arrival of the FBI.
- They had planted a bomb in one of the golf carts, this being the one that Charlie is riding away on while they are being arrested. Upon realizing what they had done, Charlie jumps off right in time as the golf cart explodes and the pair watch from the police car.
What Prevents Them From Being Pure Evil?[]
- As violent and deranged as they are, they genuinely care for one another. They have remained very close friends through all of their years in prison together and when Irene had been shot by police and paralyzed when they were younger, Joyce rushed to her aid. They had also previously loved Gabriel and willingly followed him, before he turned against them and they later killed him.
- While very hypocritical and delusional, they have standards against war are well-intentioned extremist, believing that bombing the school would stop future generation of warmongers, though considering the hypocrisy of their crimes, this is a minor prevention.