Daniel Faber

Daniel Faber belongs to the hidden adult world behind the show's central mystery — one of the researchers monitoring the stranded girls from afar, convinced their suffering serves a larger purpose. He speaks in the calm, rehearsed language of belief and justification, treating manipulation as necessity and calling it science.

Sullivan plays him with an unsettling reasonableness — no mustache-twirling, just a man who has talked himself into cruelty as virtue. The show uses him to interrogate its own premise, letting his certainty curdle into something the audience has to actively resist agreeing with, which is far creepier than obvious villainy.