Melanie Cross

"I should've just cocooned you, like the others! Things would've been so much better." —Melanie to Julia while strangling her

Biography
Melanie was born from an affair between Laura Cross and Don Barbara. She lived with her family in Zenith. At one point she visited the Barbara's family residence, where she played with young Barbie. Before leaving she said that her mother would love to meet him and that they will meet each other someday when Barbie is bigger. Later Melanie and her family moved to Saco Maine, where she attended High School in 1988. That year she had a relationship with Sam Verdreaux and was friends with both Lyle and Pauline. When one night she saw pink stars falling she called her friends to investigate. They found in the woods a crater with a meteorite at the core with four blue glowing handprints. They climbed down the crater and placed their hands on the glowing handprints. The meteorite emitted a glowing blue light and cracked, revealing a black egg They decided to leave, but Melanie tried to stop them, telling them that they should protect the egg. Lyle disagreed and pushed Melanie in the crater, which resulted in her death. Sam, Lyle and Pauline decided to keep her death a secret and buried her with the crater and the egg. Later she was reported missing. Her family, hoping she will return, kept her room undisturbed.

Appearances
Season 2

Heads Will Roll

Infestation Force Majeure

Revelation

Reconciliation

In the Dark Going Home

Awakening The Red Door

The Fall

Black Ice

Turn

Go Now

Season 3

Move On & But I'm Not

Redux

The Kinship

Alaska

Caged

Ejecta

Breaking Point

Plan B

Legacy

Love is a Battlefield

Incandescence The Enemy Within This Might be the Last Season for Under The Garage

Killed Victims
Ben "Benny" Drake (fatally strangled) Don Barbara (fatally strangled)

Trivia
She was one of the 4 original hands, alongside Sam Verdreaux, Pauline Verdreaux and Lyle Chumley. When Sam, Pauline, Barbie, Lyle, and Hunter May entered the garage, they ended up in the middle of the lake. This implies that the reason Melanie was in the water when she debut was because she had just entered the dome. She shares similar qualities with Angie. They both were the first of each of the four hands to be killed. Also, with Melanie's second death, they've both died at the beginning of their second season. Chronologically, Melanie is Barbie's older sister, but because of her death, Barbie is now physically older than Melanie. Melanie is currently one of the two TV characters to have their death shown through a flashback (her first death), the other being Peter Shumway. Melanie holds the title of being the only character who died two times in the series