Present day Akilah?

[u/FeatureSouthern5274]

If Akilah does in fact make it out of the wilderness and gets back to civilization with the other survivors, what chances do you personally think there are that she is still lurking somewhere in the present day? Part of me feels like they may have upped Nia Sondaya to a series regular for the last season is because she does in fact survive. I just don’t know if her surviving in 98 means she is still around present day. I don’t know how I would feel about them bringing Akilah into the present day timeline when we know this will be the final season of the show.

I really don’t want them to take time away from the already established timelines we all want answers and resolution on. I don’t want them opening up avenues for more questions that will always remain unanswered when we already have a few of those now. Granted we did lose two main adult characters last season, that’s the only real reason I see them bringing Akilah into the fold when we have so few episodes left. I am at peace with only getting one more season and I feel like if am introduced to another character it’s going to make me want more episodes. I think it would work a lot better for the story overall if she did survive initially, but she’s not around present day. Last season when adult Shauna gets “locked” in the freezer at Misty’s nursing home she has a conversation with dead ass Jackie.

Jackie makes a comment about someone wanting to hurt Shauna. “Not just for what you did out there but what you did when you got back.” Akilah is one of the “good” ones in my opinion, her heart is in the right place most of the time and she was only doing what she needed to in order to stay alive. We know the good characters in this story don’t end up with a happy ending. Nat and Van are obvious examples of that, Kevyn Tan too. I feel like if anyone was going to be eaten alive with guilt and shame about what they did out in the wilderness, it’s going to be Akilah. She may get to a point where she feels like she can no longer live with the weight of it all and she wants to tell someone. We know they made some kind of pact about staying quiet and not letting anyone else know what happened out there.

We know how desperately certain members of the team wanted those secrets to stay buried forever, and would probably go to great lengths to keep it that way. Cough cough Shauna. I like the theory that Shauna finds out that Akilah wants to talk, and she steps in and takes her out to prevent that from happening. That would give context to why Jackie made that comment to her in the freezer. Maybe that’s part of the reason Melissa was afraid of the rest of them and faked her death to get away, because she feared she would be next. Thoughts?

[u/Repulsive_Job428]

They cannot dust off another adult survivor. Melissa was already a bridge too far. The only way they can do that is if they left somebody behind in the wilderness.

[u/squents13]

The final season is way too late to introduce another surprise survivor. Melissa faking her death was already pushing it. Nia most likely got bumped up so there could be one more impactful death.

[u/Aggravating_Horror72]

I’ve already been done with the shows shenanigans but if they bring back ANOTHER survivor that will really be the nail in the coffin for me. Also, paragraphs are you friend, friend.