Lisa Brown is Lenny's twin sister. When they first arrive, they are staying in a squalid flat with their older brother Larry Brown, as their mother is seriously mentally ill. The other students initially quite literally turn their noses up at Lenny and Lisa, as the twins don't seem to have showered in some time. Lisa nearly gets into a fight with Kacey Barry after insulting the recently deceased Tom Clarkson, before Larry turns up saying the twins need to leave with him. However, police then arrive and find cannabis in Larry's bag and arrest him, after being tipped off by Audrey McFall, who had discovered that Larry had been growing a cannabis farm in the kitchen of the house.
Following Larry's imprisonment, Lenny and Lisa move into the schoolhouse. Not long after this, Lisa steals Audrey's cat. Lenny doesn't agree to it, but decides to go along with his sister. She is furious at Audrey for getting Larry arrested. Audrey is frantic, and posts ads online for her beloved missing cat. Lenny later leaves the cat on Audrey's desk at school, for her to find.
Still out for revenge, Lisa gets Audrey McFall's phone number, and pretends to be a married woman called Moira. She guilts Audrey into thinking her husband is ill and needs life-saving treatment, but with a hefty sum of money. Audrey realises what is going on, and that Lisa is scamming her. She continues the scam further until "Moira" asks for some money. She then confronts Lisa and they have an argument.
Not knowing what to do, Audrey calls Lenny and Lisa's grandfather, Laurence Brown, a retired military officer. He arrives at Waterloo Road without warning and demands to see his grandchildren. He is told it has to go through social services, but Audrey lets him see the twins anyway. Laurence snaps at Lisa for catfishing Audrey, and then leaves. Soon after, he returns, and walks into Audrey's class in the lecture hall dressed in full formal military dress, with his medals. He tells army stories and wows all the children. He then gets a sharp pain in his chest while arguing with Lisa, and the class ends. Lenny is worried, but Lisa is angry. She steals Laurence's medals and sells them for £50, being ripped off by the pawnbroker. Out of rage, Lisa grabs money out of the till, bites the man and tries to run off, only to be pulled back and have her teacher called. When Audrey arrives, she pays for the medals and apologises to both the pawnbroker and Lisa. When they get back to school, Lenny asks to move in with his grandfather, only if Lisa will. Lisa hugs her grandfather and tells him he is too old for them to move in, but having a grandfather would be nice. He says they can visit any time they like. Lisa then apologises to Audrey, and is forgiven in return.
In Series 10, headteacher Vaughan Fitzgerald opens a Community Café, which is visited by an old man called Mr Carmichael, whom Lisa recognises as living on the same street as the schoolhouse. She tells Shaznay that he has a big house, and so is probably quite rich. Shaznay and Lisa approach the man and ask if they can offer him any help, and he sends them on an errand to collect his new glasses from the optician and give them to him at his house. When they arrive at his house with the glasses, Lisa and Shaznay ask if he would like them to do any cleaning in his house, claiming that it is part of the service that the Community Café offers. After initially being unsure, Mr Carmichael accepts their offer, and while he goes to make them some tea, the girls search his house for things to steal, and make off with a large urn. However, when they attempt to sell the urn, they are told it still contains ashes, so they hide it in a cupboard at the school. In a surprise twist, it turns out that Mr Carmichael is a conman himself, when he turns up at Waterloo Road claiming that when the girls robbed his house, they stole £2000. After he tries to get Vaughan to pay him £2000 from the school's funds without involving the police, Vaughan realises that Carmichael is a conman and gives him his marching orders.
Later in the series, Lisa has a brief romance with anorexic student Dale Jackson, having planned to use him for sex, and Lenny walks in on them in bed together the next morning. However, later that day, Lisa explains to Lenny that they didn't actually sleep together, because Dale is impotent as a result of his eating disorder.
Lisa is last seen in Series 10 Episode 20 among the students who give speeches to parents and council members talking about how Waterloo Road has helped them, and urging the cancellation of the merger.
Personality[]
Psychologically devastated by her brother's arrest, Lisa is seen to be bitter, vengeful and arrogant. From the off, she becomes hell-bent on getting her own back on Audrey McFall for her involvement in Larry's arrest and, like Barry Barry, becomes a practical child terrorist. Although she has shown some evidence of a caring personality, she is much more frequently found bullying other pupils or causing trouble, alongside Shaznay Montrose.
Quotes[]
- "It's not your fault." (first line)
- "I don't care about your stupid match, or your stupid dead teacher!"
- Lenny: "You've gone too far. What if she finds out?"
- Lisa: "And who's gonna tell her? You? Cos if you do, we'll never see Larry again, and it'll all be your fault."
- "I wish we'd taken you for every penny you've got. And I wish we'd strangled that old cat when we had the chance!"
- Grantly: "I am your housemaster, and a teacher at your school."
- Lisa: "No you're not. You're just a feeble old man in pyjamas."
- "Sorry, we didn't mean nothing. Lez be friends!"
- "Here...I know him. Lives down the road from the schoolhouse. Massive place. I reckon he's loaded."
- "Kept me up half the night, that thing! I cannot wait until this stupid experiment is over!"
- "Look at her. She's got Fitz's kids wrapped around her little finger."
- "Stirling Uni? You've got more chance of becoming the next Pope."
- Lenny: "I don't need you to look out for me any more!"
- Lisa: "You wouldn't last two minutes at uni without me! We've always done everything together!"
- "What is it? A tour round the Wonka factory?"
- Lisa: "You should've told us about the thousand quid before, Miss!"
- Allie: "Why, would you've actually made an effort? Maybe even created something you could be proud of?"
- Shaznay: "That gets better and better every time I see it."
- Lisa: "Hmm. All a bit Fast and Furious for me." (about Dale)
- "Who cares? She's got her head shoved so far up her backside she can't see straight. She's nothing to do with us, leave it alone!"
- "After school? No Romeo and Juliet routine at lunch?"
- Lisa: "How are you now?"
- Dale: "Numb."
- Lisa: "You're probably smoking too much of this stuff."
- Lenny: "He was using you!"
- Lisa: "If you must know, I was using him. Trying to."
- "How is that freaky brother of yours, by the way? Still talking, is he?"
- "Oh, you've got to be kidding me! What's cyber-crank doing back here?!"
- "Waterloo Road took us in when we had nothing and no-one." (final line)