Carlyn

**Carlyn** is a character slated to appear on the second season of Syfy's *Resident Alien*. She is a cousin of Kate Hawthorne and is described as being a frizzy-haired, socially-awkward, right-brained laser physicist. She pays a visit to Patience and strikes up a relationship with Harry Vanderspeigle.

Carlyn is portrayed by Alex Borstein.

## Plot summary

Carlyn comes to visit Patience at the invitation of her cousin, Kate Hawthorne. When the two go hiking in the woods, Carlyn trips and cuts her knee. Kate takes her to the home of Harry Vanderspeigle, hoping that Harry can treat Carlyn's wound. While Harry is not pleased at their presence at first, he and Carlyn seem to have a connection. Carlyn is interested in the equipment that he has sitting on his table, not realizing that he is using it to build an alien radio to contact his people. She compliments his work as being quite advanced and comments that she's never known someone who's into this stuff who wasn't also a troll. He replies that trolls live under bridges and Kate clarifies that Carlyn thinks he's handsome.

Kate later takes Carlyn to the 59, the local pub, as part of a tour of the town. There, D'Arcy Bloom suggests that they both attend a girls' night. The two are initially reluctant, but allow themselves to be talked into it. That evening, at the girls' night, Carlyn discusses her troubles with men, saying that her supervisor at the lab where she works is a real jerk who thinks that grabbing her buttocks is a job perk. She says that she thought she was never going to meet a nice guy until today. D'Arcy wonders just who she's talking about and she smiles at Harry, who has just appeared at the doorway. He winks at her.

The two sit down together and begin talking. Their conversation is loaded with strange innuendo, yet Carlyn is oddly charmed by Harry's bizarre turns of phrase. He suggests taking a tour of her lab and that she might even steal a radio diffuser. He eggs her on and she thinks that he's only joking with her. Eventually, Asta comes over and breaks up the conversation. She tells him that he's preying on her and he replies that what he's doing is seducing her so he can steal her security badge and get into her lab. She calls it a terrible plan and says that it's cruel for him to use people like that. She sends Harry away, telling Carlyn that all of the men in Patience suck also.

Despite this, Harry follows through on his plan. He uses his alien abilities to morph into Carlyn herself and takes her badge. With Asta's help, the two of them return Carlyn to New Mexico, where he uses his alien abilities to wipe her memories and replace them with thinking that after she left the bar, she just took a nap before heading home herself. He then heads to the lab where he steals the diffuser, but in the process, he encounters Carlyn's boss, who sees him as Carlyn. When he starts feeling "her" up, Harry uses his alien strength to toss him bodily all over the lab.

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Harry Seduces Carlyn To Get to Her Lab - Resident Alien (S2 E3) - SYFY
## References

1. ↑ TV Line - "*Resident Alien* Season 2 First Look: Is Alex Borstein Harry's Perfect Match?" by Nick Caruso. September 27, 2021.