Updated through S3E10
Courtney Eaton plays teen Lottie; Simone Kessell played her as an adult running a "wellness" commune. Off her medication after the crash, Lottie begins having visions the starving group comes to treat as prophecy, becoming the spiritual centre of their rituals. In the present she is killed.
What's confirmed in canon
S1–S2Lottie's visions and rituals give the starving team a framework; she becomes their de facto spiritual leader.
S3Adult Lottie, drawn back to the group, insists Callie carries "It."
S3E10Callie pushes Lottie down the stairs in anger; the "who killed Lottie" mystery resolves.
Where the community lands
Lottie embodies the show's central ambiguity: is she a genuine conduit to the wilderness, or an unmedicated girl whose delusions a desperate group weaponized into faith? Her death — at Callie's hands — closes her arc without settling the question.
Still open
Q1Were Lottie's visions ever real — or only made real by belief?
Q2Does her death end the wilderness's hold, or pass it on?
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