Rebecca Merlyn

Rebecca Merlyn was a wealthy philanthropist whose main devotion was to help the less fortunate residing in the Glades. She was also the wife of Malcolm Merlyn and the mother of the late Tommy Merlyn. Rebecca's death served as the catalyst for the Undertaking.

Biography
A compassionate woman, Rebecca started up a free clinic for the low-income denizens of the Glades. It was there in 1992 that she was murdered in a mugging, when a thief shot her and stole her purse. As she laid dying in plain view, Rebecca implored the aid of people passing by, who ignored her pleas. Using the mobile telephone she had on her, Rebecca dialed her husband’s phone number, leaving him messages in which she requested his help; a preoccupied Malcolm refused to respond to his telephone’s ringing, something he would later deeply regret. Following Rebecca’s passing, Malcolm withdrew from his life at home and grew distant from his young boy, an action that strained their father-son relationship as Tommy developed into manhood. Rebecca’s clinic was eventually closed by Malcolm as he stated he could not bare to see it leveled with the rest of the Glades. Her murder currently remains unsolved.