Dr. Margo Green
Background
Dr. Margo Green is an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Green doesn’t hold Dr. Whitney’s work in high regard and doesn’t believe funding should be spent on studying religion.
During the events of the The Relic (1997) played by Penelope Ann Miller
Dr. Margo Green enters the Field Museum and greets Frederick Ford, the front desk security guard. Green is pulled aside by Dr. Ann Cuthbert, the director of the museum who tells her the Blaisedale foundation has delayed its rewarding of a grant and Dr. Greg Lee, another researcher at the museum has also applied for the grant. Green is told the Blaisedale’s will be at the upcoming opening for the new exhibit called Superstition. Green confronts Lee about applying for her grant, but he reminds her it isn’t her grant yet and he has every right to apply for as many grants as he wants. Dr. Cuthbert and Dr. Albert Frock decide to have fronds covered in what appears to be a fungus, and the only things in the crate sent from Whitney, incinerated. Frock does allow Green a frond to take and analyze for herself. Green tells her research group to go home while she continues to study the fungus from the frond. Green arrives back at the Field Museum the next morning and is brought to see Lt. Vincent D’Agosta. D’Agosta is introduced to Green and then he and Detective Hollingsworth walk to the crime scene. D’Agosta questions Green some more as he follows her from the animal preparation lab to Whitney’s office which was also vandalized. Green takes D’Agosta too see Perri Masai the restorative “genius” at the Field Museum. Perri tells D’Agosta the statue found in Whitney’s crate was of some sort of chimera creature. Green’s analysis shows the fungus is full of animal hormones. While walking through the Superstition exhibit Green hears a wheezing noise and runs away to the restroom. She hides in a stall and is relieved to find the wheezing sound was from an asthmatic janitor. While analyzing the fungus Green hears a noise coming from the cooler box holding the leaves, when she tips the cooler over a giant beetle crawls out, which she quickly squishes. She dissects the beetle and also does a DNA analysis. The DNA analysis shows the beetle had combined beetle and the DNA from a gecko. Green, confused asks Lee what species are in the readout and he accuses her program of being inaccurate. While reading data from Green’s computer, Frock notices all the hormones from the leaf sent by Whitney are present in the human hypothalamus. D’Agosta finds Green and Frock, however Pollux breaks free and runs off. The kothoga charges at them and they manage to shut the door in time. Green tells D’Agosta she thinks the kothoga started as something else and after eating the fungus on the leaves it changed. Frock tells Green and D’Agosta he is going to stay and he is then found and eaten by the kothoga. Green has D’Agosta lock herself into her lab where her computer finishes its analysis revealing the kothoga is Whitney. Before D’Agosta leaves he gives Green his lucky bullet. The kothoga breaks into the lab from the ceiling forcing Green to run for her life. Green enters the storage area and systematically knocks over certain vials of liquid as she passes them. She then sets the storage and lab area on fire and jumps into a vat of water and closes it shut. The kothoga then burns to death in the fire. The fire department opens the fire doors and Hollingsworth finds D’Agosta who then finds Green in the vat. Green then gives D’Agosta back his lucky bullet.
