Linda Thurstan (LWC Series)

"You can't lose faith if you've never had it in the first place"
—Linda to Bruce Miller 
Linda, also refereed to as "Doc" or "Dr. Thurstan" is a survivor of the outbreak in GWR's Lines We Cross: Survivor Stories. She is a former zoology professor at Bellarmine University
== Pre-Apocalypse==
=== Louisville, Kentucky ===
Not much is known about Linda's life before the outbreak, other than she got her doctorate at the University of Michigan and has been teaching at Bellarmine for about 13 years. Linda mentioned to C.J. that she had a friend sexually assaulted at a frat party. 
Linda had a cat named Felis, but he died a few months before the outbreak. 
=== Season 1 ===
==== "Exposure" ====
Linda was out on a walk around campus when she found a car blocking two parking spaces outside the dorm. Linda called transportation services who refused to tow the vehicle, so she ended up calling the Jefferson County Sheriff. Due to a high call value, they couldn't come out right away, so Alison agreed to wait at the dorm. 
Linda is next seen at the party, where she wants to keep an eye on things when a fight breaks out between Rose and Alison. During the fight, Alison ends up throwing Linda out of the way. Linda eventually ends up dragging Rose to a couch after Rose hits Alison with a bottle. While things are calming down and Linda was preparing to file a report with Student Conduct, Mick ended up convulsing with what was thought as a seizure, and ended up biting Alison, causing Linda to run downstairs to get police. 
However, most of the group was unable to reach 911, Alison went looking for Rose to speak to her, however, while Linda was at Rose's dorm room, the dorm was quarantined. 
Linda joined with C.J. and Richard Mandle, to search the upper floors of the building for students to bring to the 3rd floor safe area. 
==== "Descent" ====
Linda comes down with some type of sickness, so she begins to isolate herself. However, while doing so, infected break in from the other floors of the building, leading to members of the group looking for away out. While the rest of the group is going down the elevator shaft, Linda volunteers to stay behind to cover their escape due to her concerns about being ill. Officer Mandle gives Linda a gun and she covers their escape into the shaft.
Afterwords, Linda agrees then agrees to join Sylvester and Darius' plan to leave the building through the sewers. However, they group quickly comes to the realization that they needed to turn the power on, which had be previously shut off. The breaker was located outside. 
Linda volunteers to turn on the breaker, talking Hudson out of going out there himself. She exits the building while both Hudson and Darius cover her, however, after the national guard came to investigate, she made a break for the breaker, turning the building's power back on. Moments later she is held at gunpoint the national guard and arrested. She is last seen being led away in handcuffs, sweating profusely, as a gunshot rings out in the background, presumably killing Darius. 
== Personality ==
Linda appears to have little tolerance for disorder for some degree, for example, the incident with the vehicle, or the fight at the party, and seems to have nothing contempt for people she views as fraternity brothers. However, she does truly care about students at the university and ended up putting herself into harms way in order to make sure they got out of the dorm safely. 
== Killed Victims ==
* 3 Infected. 
== Relationships ==
=== C.J. ===
Linda appears to think C.J. is nuts, obviously rolling her eyes when he brought up that he watches Infowars, but Linda appears to trust him.
=== Jorge Cannli ===
Linda appears to respect Jorge and his job, though he strikes her as rather odd. 
=== Richard Mandel ===
Linda respects officer Mandel, and, in the short time he known her, seems to respect her as the other authority figure in the room. 
=== Rose Knights ===
Despite fighting with her during the party, Linda accepted Rose's apology, but still mentioning that she had to go to student conduct "once this is all over."
=== Bryce Harris ===
Linda appears to have had an open dislike for Bryce, however, when he turned, Linda seemed rather disturbed by everything that was going on.
== Appearances ==
=== Season 1 ===
Linda wears a white blouse and black blazer with the Bellarmine University logo on the chest. This is paired with pair of tan slacks and a pair of loafers. 
== Trivia ==
* Linda was set to appear in the now canceled "What Lies Beneath" 
== References ==
TBA
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