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Years on a working farm in a remote corner of Great Bear Island have left their mark on Molly. She’s plain-spoken, often blunt -- she sees the world for what it is. There are no illusions inhabiting Molly’s life and she likes it that way.

Other than the farm and regular subsistence hunting, simple pleasures -- tea and the wanderings of her own imagination -- keep Molly occupied.
In-game description
"There's different ways to hurt someone. Some ways heals. Other ways never do."
Molly speaking to Astrid about her past

Molly is the first non-player character encountered in Episode 3 of the story. She lives in the Pleasant Valley Farmstead.

Overview

Episode 3 begins with a cutscene of from Molly's point of view, where she finds Astrid almost dead in the snow. Molly carries Astrid back to her home, the Pleasant Valley Farmstead. Molly leaves to go hunting, and returns with meat some time later. After a tense conversation with Astrid, Molly storms out but does not return again. She later calls Astrid on the telephone to ask for help fighting off timberwolves that have cornered her and again later to offer assistance and briefly discuss a personal secret. A prisoner Molly killed is located outside Signal Hill.

Background

Much about Molly's background is unknown besides that she has seemingly been on Great Bear island for most of her life and resents the fact that she hasn't done more with her life. A cattleman's daughter and a farmer's wife, Molly has recently lost her husband to wolves, although Molly admits she allowed it to happen. Afterwards she stored the body in her basement for unknown reasons.

The bitter tone Molly uses when discussing her husband and her apparent lack of remorse may allude to possible domestic abuse going on before hand. Molly explains to Astrid over the phone at one point that "I let myself feel small so that he could feel like somebody. I gave up everything for him, and to him I didn't even exist. I let him make me small. Less than nothing." Eventually, Molly grew the desire to kill her husband, but never had the courage to do so, until the wolves arrived one day and gave her her chance. Even with a rifle in her hand, she chose to do nothing, and the wolves killed her husband and leaving her with a dim outlook on the world.

Molly eventually finds Astrid in the snow after the First Flare and nurses her back to health, though locks her inside her home to prevent her from leaving. After Astrid finds the body of Molly's husband and escapes Molly's Farmhouse, she keeps here distance from Astrid, spying on her from the hills while also hunting the male Convicts scattered across the Valley while occasionally calling Astrid over the Valley's phone party lines. She often questions why Astrid chooses to help the Crash Survivors despite gaining no recognition for her actions.

Molly is last heard on the phone from the radio tower at Signal Hill, fully confessing her hatred for her husband and believing that she and Astrid are in the same boat, now liberated from their husbands and men's oppression in general. This attitude may be the reason why Molly is hunting down the group of male prisoners that escaped from the Crashed Prison Transport Bus as she now fully committed to her misandrist mindset regarding men in general, saying that "it feels good to finally be on this side of the hunt" and "They're all going to pay now, Astrid."

Molly ends her phone call by asking Astrid if Mackenzie is "One of the good ones". Astrid says that he is, and that while things are complicated between the two of them, she would be upset to find an arrow in his back. Molly ends the phone call by saying "Then I hope to never meet him" while wishing Astrid good luck on her journey to Perseverance Mills, hoping that Astrid finds some peace for herself. Astrid in turn hopes that Molly will also find peace within herself.

Trivia

Molly and Astrid's phone calls briefly connect to the Hunting Lodge's phones in Episode 2, explaining the ringing phone.

At the beginning of Episode 4 while dragging Mackenzie across the snow, Heller and Vachon discuss a dead convict (Leclerc) found with an arrow in his back, which was most likely hinting at Molly's work.

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Update History

* UPDATE 22 October 2019 (Update):
    • Added to game.
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