Updated through S3E10
Jenna Burgess plays teen Melissa, a survivor who becomes close to Shauna in the wild. Hilary Swank plays the adult version: a woman long presumed dead who faked her suicide after coming home, changed her name, and married Hannah's daughter.
What's confirmed in canon
S3Teen Melissa grows close to Shauna in the wilderness.
S3An unnamed adult woman surveils Shauna; she kills adult Van.
S3E10She is revealed as Melissa — faked her death, changed her name, married Hannah's daughter, and left the DAT tape at Shauna's.
Where the community lands
Melissa is S3's biggest present-day reveal — living proof that more of the team survived than the survivors admit, and that the wilderness's grip outlasts the woods. She is the one tormenting Shauna with the DAT tape, and she kills Van.
Still open
Q1What does Melissa ultimately want from Shauna?
Q2Who else the survivors "buried" is secretly alive?
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