Kate is later told that the Russian orphanage Esther came from has no record of her ever being there. Later that night, Esther threatens to cut Daniel's genitals off if he tells anyone what he saw. Daniel sees Esther and Max descending from his treehouse from behind a rock, not knowing they hid the hammer there. She forces Max to help her hide the body and the hammer. Esther overhears this and later kills Sister Abigail by bludgeoning her with a hammer. Sister Abigail ,the head of the orphanage, warns Kate and John about Esther's tendency to be around when things go wrong. Max saw Esther shove the girl, but covers for Esther by saying that the girl slipped. A few days later Esther sees Brenda at the playground and pushes her off a playground slide, breaking Brenda's ankle. As Esther tries to quickly pick up the pages, Brenda notices the collar on her neck and tries to grab it and Esther freaks out and screams. A few days later, Brenda once again teases Esther for carrying a bible to school and throws it and has some pages fall out of it. Browning, but John doesn't want to make all that fuss about "one little dirty word."Įsther first day as school is not made easy for her as a classmate named Brenda teases Esther about her odd fashion. Kate wants to bring her to a therapist, Dr. This of course shocks Kate as Esther is displaying far more knowledge of sex and its slang than would be expected for a child her age. One night, Esther walks in on Kate and John having sex.The next day Kate tries to explain what happened and says that when parents love each other very much and Esther simply says "I know they fuck". The Coleman's younger daughter Max who is deaf and communicates with sign language, embraces Esther almost immediately, their son Daniel (Jimmy Bennett) is somewhat less welcoming. She easily charms them both and after some consideration they decided to adopt her. Kate and John Coleman visit their local orphanage in an effort to help their family recover from hard times. Leena is continuing her efforts to find romantic/physical love in the only form she understands - a father figure. After this family, she was taken in by an American orphanage where she eventually met the Colemans. Eventually, she tried to seduce the father, and when that failed, she killed him and his family and set fire to the house. She escaped the hospital and tricked an American family into adopting her. Continued struggling against her restraints caused scarring on her wrists and neck. Leena was one of Saarne's most violent patients, forcing the staff to keep her in a straitjacket that she was constantly fighting to get out of. When the police caught her, she pretended to be a child to avoid jail time and was sent to the orphanage, where she found her first family of victims and later moved on to the Colemans. Eventually she managed to escape, then unknowingly continued to allow herself to be abused by becoming a prostitute for wealthy pedophiles for years. She was subsequently caught and eventually placed in a mental institution (the Saarne Institute). She was pushed into insanity and killed both her father and his girlfriend. When her father took on a new sexual partner, he informed Leena that it was because she would "never be a real woman". She was sexually abused by her father from infancy. Because she is physically not quite a grown woman and not quite a child, it is hard for her to have an adult relationship with a "normal" man, which is one of the things she yearns for. Leena suffers from a pituitary disorder that causes her to be a proportional dwarf. ![]() The choice of the name "Esther", alludes to the Biblical figure who was once an orphan and became Queen of Persia, multiple mentions of heaven, and carrying her male victim's pictures around inside an old Bible suggests that she is somewhat influenced by Judeo-Christian concepts - though clearly not on moral level. Is apparently able to learn languages very quickly. She can easily induce fear, empathy, and even admiration (as we see during her first interaction with the Colemans) when it suits her ambitions. She is highly intelligent, highly manipulative, superficially charming when needed, and lacks remorse. Leena Klammer) is a woman who could be defined as a violent and deluded psychopath.
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