Elizabeth Rourke

Elizabeth Rourke is a security guard for HartLife. Her son is Nathan Rourke. She is voiced by Tara Schile.

Appearance
When picking out her new body post-reanimation, Elizabeth remarks that "it would be nice to be a size four again", implying that she was a larger size before. Afterwards the Narrator describes her body as young and nubile, and Elizabeth says it is made out of at least five corpses.

When Caligari calls her "a 5 foot, 120 pound working mom", Herbert corrects her to say Elizabeth is 5"4'.

Season One
Elizabeth worries about Nathan, who has been behaving suspiciously and doesn't have a job. She also doesn't approve of the people he spends his time with. Elizabeth urges Nathan to find a job himself before the Company assigns him one. She also confronts him with the fact that if she can find out about Nathan's illegal activities, so can the Company. She's afraid that if he keeps going on like this, he'll end up like his father.

Vice President Davenport summons her to the offices of M.U.R.D.E.R. to question her about Nathan, also disclosing that he is aware that Elizabeth spends time at work using Company resources to watch her son. He recruits her for the job of retrieving the Containment Tube as Nathan is involved and his movements are unpredictable to the Company. At first she doesn't want to take job, but agrees to make sure Chamberlain doesn't hurt her son when finding him.

Elizabeth first leads them to Al's Bar, where they overhear Neal and Nathan discussing their plans. When Neal mentions having left the Tube with someone he trusts, they make their way to Alison's residence. There they find a note about Alison's meeting at Al's Bar and realize they just missed her. Elizabeth suggests using the surveillance station in her StreetSafe office to track her down.

In her office, she interrupts Chamberlain's confrontation with Neal and Nathan. Elizabeth tries to persuade Chamberlain to not take Nathan to Data Extraction, but Chamberlain shoots her and she dies.

Later, Sandy and Clay find her body when entering the office for a job. As they leave, Dr. Herbert West arrives and comes upon her body.

Season Two
Elizabeth gets reanimated in Doctor Caligari's lab. Since she can talk and remember what happened to her Herbert remarks that all of her higher functions seem to be intact. Remembering Chamberlain, Elizabeth starts worrying about Nathan and wants to go find him. She then starts to panic when she realizes that she can't feel the rest of her body. Herbert informs her that he amputated it, as the torso was a total loss after her gunshot wound. At first Elizabeth is upset about only being a head, but Herbert informs her that she can now choose any new body she likes. Elizabeth notices that she's hungry, and remarks that "those things in the tank", Caligari's brains, look good.

Later Elizabeth and Andrew go to Al's Bar, as she's officially dead and has nowhere else to go. She gives Andrew a pep talk about finding his place in the world, and allows Andrew to call her "mom", as long as he doesn't do it in public. Elizabeth appreciates the attention her new body is getting her and is flattered by the fact that some patrons start fighting over her. When one of them starts to bleed, she gets overtaken by her Woken nature and kills, eats or injures everyone but Andrew. After snapping out of it she is appalled by what happened and she and Andrew flee the scene.

Back in Herbert's residence Elizabeth is in denial about having killed and eaten six people, as that would be inhuman and she considers herself a person. She is upset that Herbert knew about this possible risk and didn't warn her. She believes that she could've stopped this if she had been prepared. Elizabeth isn't sure how to deal with this and says she doesn't want to live like this. Aside from her Woken status, she also has no idea what happened to Nathan. Andrew reminds Elizabeth that she didn't hurt him in the bar. Elizabeth realizes that she was strong enough to hurt all those people but didn't touch Andrew because he called her "mom". She wants to use this insight to free Nathan.

The members of the Science Faire arrive at Herbert's residence. Dean Gates asks Elizabeth where Herbert keeps the "abomination". Elizabeth pretends to have no idea what they're talking about. Eventually TA Podwell threatens to inject Elizabeth with rat flu if she doesn't cooperate and tell them where it is. Elizabeth claims Herbert keeps it in an abandoned residence, but still gets injected by Podwell and collapses. As Elizabeth groans, Dean Gates remarks that she is dying.

As the Science Faire tries to take Andrew away Elizabeth wakes up and is completely feral. She kills some of the Science Faire members and leaves the residence, following the survivors. The commotion attracts the attention of the people living nearby, and Simon, and a panic breaks out. Simon attacks Elizabeth. When a tremor goes through the earth, Elizabeth stops and runs off.

Some time later Elizabeth shows up behind Chamberlain, who's threatening Caligari, Herbert and Andrew. After a brief scuffle she throws him down a putrescible waste chute. Since Elizabeth is still in her feral Woken state, Herbert, Caligari and Andrew flee. When she catches up to them she tries to attack Andrew. By pretending to be Nathan he manages to snap her out of her feral state and she comes back to herself.

After the Woken army is dealt with, Elizabeth threatens to kill Caligari if she doesn't tell her where Nathan is. Caligari says that Chamberlain is the only one who'd know where Nathan is. After Caligari leaves, Elizabeth tells Herbert to leave and never come back because of what he did to HartLife and because he turned her into a monster. She says she is starting to understand why the Company restricts science. Herbert agrees to leave because Elizabeth asked him to. He asks Andrew to come along, but Elizabeth tells him to stay here. Herbert says he hopes Elizabeth finds her son, and Elizabeth thanks him for trying to save her.

Season Three
Elizabeth is in hiding and is getting a supply of corpses from Andrew. She is frustrated with being stuck like this and gets into an argument with Andrew. She wants to leave and find Nathan, but Andrew thinks it would be too dangerous for her. They settle on making a plan and going together. Their first step will be asking Simon if he's seen Nathan's corpse.

Elizabeth and Andrew go to Simon to ask him for a ride to the Lightning Rigs, as Andrew found out that Nathan is alive and will be heading there. She wears a scarf around her face so Simon won't recognize her. After driving for hours, they realize they have been going in the wrong direction. Elizabeth refuses to turn back, set on her mission, and they crash the truck into the building at the bottom of the Ghost Rig.

After failing to pick the lock, Elizabeth rips off the steel door with her Woken-strength, scaring Simon into driving off. Inside the building, she and Andrew encounter a "ghost", Lindsey, trying to get them to leave. But Elizabeth realizes it's just a person and tries to get answers out of her, about Nathan and how to get up to the Rig. During this conversations, two Riggers arrive with the elevator, recognize Elizabeth as a Woken, grab Andrew to "save" him, and take the elevator back up again. Lindsey gives up on trying to stop Elizabeth and shows her the hidden door to the stairs leading up to the Rig, and Elizabeth leaves.

Trivia

 * Elizabeth saw another man after Nathan's father. Nathan says he was "probably an okay guy" but didn't want to hear it at the time.
 * Her D&D alignment and class would be Neutral Good Barbarian according to Jim McDoniel.