Melinda Hatcher

Melinda Hatcher was portrayed by Soo Garay in Storm of the Century.

About
She is the wife of Hatch. She has a daughter called Pippa. When Andre Linoge enchants the children to touch his magic cane, she cannot stop Pippa in her quest to touch it. Therefore, she later has to watch, how she falls unconscious like the other children.

When Linoge demands a town meeting to tell them what he wants, she goes there, too and when he demands a child from the community, she plays along with the community´s decision in giving Linoge one of their children.

She participates in the choosing of that child with the other parents and is happy, that Ralph Anderson, Molly Anderson´s son, was chosen for Linoge and not her own daughter Pippa.

Horrified because of the events surrounding Linoge and her own behaviour, she cannot sleep since then and dies later of a heart attack because of it.

Because of common grief and a mutual need Hatch marries Molly, who lost her husband because of this, three years later.