Lisa

**Lisa** is a character on Showtime's *Yellowjackets*. She appears throughout the program's second season in a recurring role. She is portrayed by Nicole Maines.

## Profile

Lisa suffers from depression and has tried more than once to commit suicide. At some point, she joined the "intentional community" run by Lottie Matthews, both looking for help and to escape her controlling mother. She was at one point on heavy medication, but describes herself as having been weaned off it after joining the community. Although she still struggles with her depression, she states that she is doing better and is not currently suicidal. Like the other followers of Lottie, she is normally seen wearing clothing of the color heliotrope, as well as a pendant featuring the symbol. She also wears a nosering.

## History

Lisa is part of a group of Lottie's followers whom Lottie sends to keep tabs on Natalie Scatorccio following the death of Travis Martinez. When it becomes clear that Natalie is about to commit suicide, she and the others burst into her hotel room, kidnapping her and whisking her away to Lottie's compound.

Following this, Lisa is assigned to bring Natalie a meal in the room where they are keeping her. Natalie talks her into letting her free of one of the handcuffs in order to better eat. She gains her confidence, but later uses that against her when she returns, stabbing her in the face with a fork and escaping.

After finding Lottie and discovering why she brought her there, Natalie decides to remain on the compound in order to try to get dirt on Lottie in the hopes of exposing her. When she attends a group session, Lottie tries to get her to open up about her past, but when she refuses, she calls up Lisa instead. She states that Natalie hurt Lisa, asking her how it made her feel. Natalie comments that it "seems gratuitous," but Lottie shushes her. Lisa says that she felt fear and disappointment, that she thought that Natalie knew they were there to help her. Natale replies that she doesn't need anybody's help and, aggravated, Lisa shouts that they saved her life. She apologizes for getting upset, but Lottie tells her that it's okay, that she's said before that she has trouble with expressing her anger. She tells her to explore it, and to hurt Natalie back if she feels the need to. Lisa, however, hugs Natalie, telling her that she forgives her.

Natalie decides to accompany Lisa on a trip to the farmer's market, stating to Lottie that she feels that she owes her for forgiving her. Lottie agrees, asking Natalie to let Lisa drive as she doesn't often get the chance to do so. On the way there, Lisa asks that they stop at her place, as she wants to see her fish, the 14th Gilly. The two have a discussion about the community's rules, or lack thereof, Lisa saying that it isn't exactly forbidden to leave or to visit family, but that Lottie says that their anchors should be at the compound.

The visit to Lisa's mother does not go well. She proves to be as controlling as always, dismissive of Lisa's claims of having weaned herself off her medication and telling her that she could not be responsible for a fish because it would just die due to her negligence after she killed herself. Natalie tried to stick up for Lisa, but she rebuffed her, telling her she wasn't helping. After they were back in the car, however, Natalie revealed to Lisa that she has swallowed the fish, giving it to her. They then visit a bar, where Natalie tells Lisa that if she wants to kill herself to do so, but she doesn't seem to her like somebody who wants to anymore. When Lisa then asks Natalie if she still wants to kill herself, she tells her "not today."

Through her continued snooping, Natalie discovers that Lottie is keeping the personal cell phones of the members of the community, as well as various personal and financial documents. She confronts the group, telling them that Lottie is lying to them, but they tell her that they already know, that they give it all up willingly when they join. Natalie shouts that Lottie is clinically insane and that her delusions have hurt people, but Lisa tells her that she should know better than anyone that you can't define a person based on their past.

Natalie later warns Lisa away from her. She tells her she's poison, that she killed her best friend - that she thought it was Lottie but it was actually her. Lisa tells Natalie that it's never anybody else's fault. She says that there isn't anything she could have said to Travis, that it was something that was already in him. Natalie, however, argues that whatever was in Travis is in her too. She tells her that they did so much terrible stuff in the woods and that it may have been to survive, but she doesn't think that they deserved to. Later, Lisa comes to Natalie with her fish, telling her to take it for the day. Natalie tells her she doesn't want her fish, that she shouldn't be responsible for another life. Lisa, however, tells her that she should, at least for today. Later, after Lisa is gone, Natalie briefly pulls the fish from the water and attempts to kill it. She, however, is unable to go through with the deed, returning the fish to the water and feeding it.