Lindy Lissons

# Summary - Season 2

Lindy Lissons is the wife of megachurch pastor, Lyle Lissons. The pair hail from Texas, where they run a megachurch that's similar to Gemstone Ministries. Lindy and Lyle are the second generation of pastors at their church, having wrestled control from Lyle's father. The ministry is a hit and Lyle is considered a rising star in the organization of megachurches. They started a timeshare resort project called Zion's Landing, which would be a beach resort in Florida for Christian families. Very wealthy like the Gemstones, they too have a penchant for ostentatious displays of affluence, through both their church services and their ranch house in Texas. Lindy and Lyle were able to get high-profile investors such as Joe Jonas roped into the project. When hosting Amber Gemstone and Jesse Gemstone at their ranch, the Lissons pitched a $10 million amount for initial investors. Knowing full well they couldn't afford that themselves, Jesse and Amber would ask Eli consistently for church funds or a loan for the resort. Eli would resist these requests, telling the pair that they could invest how they saw fit, but they would have to do it without support of himself or the church; being entirely out of their own pocket.

Lindy and Lyle would continue pressing Amber and Jesse to get Eli or the church to invest, to little avail. Lyle and Lindy display very pretentious attitudes, looking down upon their acquaintances that were less wealthy than they were, even going so far as to say that their friends that they engage in business with, are better/closer friends than those that they don't. This makes Amber and Jesse nervous, wherein they still don't have the money the Lissons are asking for. With construction deadlines looming, Jesse had to bite the bullet and admit he could not afford to invest, causing Lyle and Lindy to storm off in a huff.

Attempts to murder Eli would subsequently occur, with one time accidentally resulting in Amber and Jesse being caught in the crossfire. The assailants, dubbed the "Cycle Ninjas", were revealed later to be associated with the Lissons, having been former residents at their church's orphanage. Eventually the Ninjas would ambush Eli at rural crossroads, leading to him going to the hospital in a coma. Eventually, he would recover, but in the meantime, Jesse and Amber were acting as the lead pastors of the Gemstone church. Amber pleaded with Jesse to use his authority as *camerlengo* to invest in Zion's Landing, but Jesse refused. Once Eli fully recovered, he blessed the project and allowed it to move forward with Gemstone funds.

Lindy met with her father-in-law, who had been put in a rest home at Lyle's behest. She said that the capstone on Zion's Landing had been placed, also revealing that Zion's Landing had been a dream of the elder Lisson. Lindy sweetly presented Mr. Lisson with a gold key signifying that he could live for free on the top floor of the hotel. The elder pastor Lissons simply threw the key to the ground, saying this is a more luxuriant version of how he was pigeonholed earlier into retirement from the ministry he founded. Lindy then picked up the key and looked as if she was about to hand it to Parson Lissons, but then slapped him on the head. She and Lyle then destroyed a simple meal he had been eating at the time and stormed out of the rest home in a huff.

Months later after having a soft opening of sorts, the Lissons and Gemstones went to the beach at Zion's Landing. Lyle would confess to Jesse that he knew about journalist Thaniel Block's death and the Gemstones' involvement in it. He also told Jesse that the Cycle Ninjas were associated with his church. This led Jesse and Lyle to engage in a fistfight, where Jesse knocks Lyle out. Thinking he was dead, Jesse got his siblings and Benjamin Jason "BJ" Barnes to help him dispose of Lyle's body. Lyle wakes up and fights the siblings, until Lindy comes to the beach with a gun in hand. She threatens everyone, even kneecapping hapless BJ. She forces all the Gemstones to wade into deep waters in the Gulf of Mexico, with the exception of BJ, who is left to writhe in pain on the beach. Lindy and Lyle took advantage of everyone's immobility to flee Zion's Landing.

In the months that follow, Lindy and Lyle abscond to Alaska, living in exile in a luxurious rural cabin. However, they were being tracked by Eli's #2, Martin Imari, who was in contact with the Cycle Ninjas. The Ninjas wanted revenge on the Lissons due to Lyle's nonpayment for their earlier hit on Eli. Prior to the attack, Lindy and Lyle were watching *Young Guns,* which likely gave them the idea for a rash decision. Lyle had a quick prayer with Lindy, saying their lives are in God's hands and he loves her. Lyle then put Lindy in a wooden chest and then pushed her off the cabin balcony, expecting her to jump out and gun down the Ninjas. However, the chest disintegrated upon landing, leaving an exposed Lindy to her death via a hail of gunfire from the Ninjas. A widowered Lyle had no time to mourn his bride, as thoughts were now on trying to escape the Cycle Ninjas. Lyle fled the cabin into the tundra. One of the Ninjas notices this, but elects not to open fire, likely seeing what laid ahead. Lyle was poorly prepared for the Alaskan outback, being dressed only in a tank top, shorts and tennis shoes, and having no survival gear on his person. One day later, Lyle's dead body is seen in an undisclosed location in the tundra, having died of hypothermia. Lyle's corpse is last seen encircled by a back of timberwolves.