Lily

"I'll be able to provide solace, guidance, leadership. That's my purpose."

- Lily to Arby, "Talking Hurts"

Lily is a character on Prime Video's Utopia. She is a child of the Harvest, the identical twin of Charlotte, and raised as a potential sacrifice for the Harvest's goals. She begins to question her purpose in life after Charlotte takes on the role that she was meant to fulfill instead.

Sacrifice
Lily is escorted to the St. Louis Hotzone, the epicenter of supposed outbreak of a virus known as the Stearns Flu, and enters the tent containing her twin, Charlotte. There, the two of them are given a "last meal" by Dale Warwick, who is playing the role of their father. Dr. Kevin Christie then enters the tent, asking if they've decided. Lily replies that they were hoping he would pick and he points back and forth between them, reciting a rhyme, before choosing Charlotte. This means that Charlotte is to be killed, a supposed victim of the flu, while Lily takes her place pretending to be Charlotte, supposedly having had a miraculous recovery. Following this, she counsels Warwick when he begins showing signs of upset at Charlotte's impending death, telling him that blubbering isn't useful.  Later, Charlotte is placed in a bodybag and taken away. Warwick has a breakdown, saying that he has committed murder, and Lily repeatedly asks him a question often asked by Kevin Christie - "What have you done to earn your place in this crowded world?" She finally manages to talk him down and then the two of them put on a show for Michael Stearns, a doctor whom they are using, convincing him that his vaccine/treatment has cured "Charlotte" of the flu. He takes some samples and finds her to be completely cured. The group then exits the tent and she speaks to the crowd, urging everyone to get the vaccine. She later, in a wheelchair, takes more questions from reporters, before being urged into a car by Warwick, who chastises her, telling her to stop talking because she's supposed to be the face of the cure and not the voice of it.

New purpose
The two retreat to a home which has been set up for them by the Harvest. A large contingent of media gathers outside the home. Stearns comes to and despite Warwick telling her not to, Lily lets him inside the home. He says that he is there to oversee Lily's recovery, but Warwick tries to send him on sway, telling him that he doesn't want his daughter to be a lab rabbit and he'd like for the two of them to just be left alone. Lily seems annoyed by this, but goes along with it. Shortly after this meeting, Warwick commits suicide.

In the wake of Warwick's suicide, Lily addresses the media that have gathered outside the home. She tells them that she considers Wariwick's death to be a fresh start, saying that her relationship with her father wasn't healthy and not entirely proper. Seeing this on television, Kevin Christie goes ballistic, wondering just what it is that she's playing at. He shouts to Arby, an assassin of the Harvest, that they're the ones who make up the stories and that Lily needs to be shut down. He asks Arby if he can be the one to do that, giving Arby another chance despite his own recent rebellious behavior. Back at the house, Lily lives it up, enjoying the latest in technology and planting lipstick kisses on one of the house's walls, when Arby arrives. He asks her how much she told the police and she replies that she didn't tell them anything about Home. He asks her why she keeps talking at all, telling her that she wasn't supposed to be talking.



Lily tells Arby that she had waited all of her life to fulfill her purpose, which was to become a martyr. After Charlotte did it instead, she went out into the world and saw some many people who didn't know what their purposes were. She asks him if he can imagine this and he admits that he can't. She tells him that she couldn't help talking to them with her own words, words that she hadn't simply memorized, and he tells her she should have. She says that the world is big and she loves it. She continues that she knows Arby could kill her if he wanted to and would if the Harvest told him to because he always does what they tell him. She declares that it's time for the next generation to step up, that it's her purpose to provide guidance and leadership ten years from now when everyone starts to realize what's happening. He counters that someone can't decide their own purpose, and she replies that she thought that too. They discuss Kevin Christie and he agrees that it was wrong for Christie to have allowed him to be raised without love, but nevertheless tells Lily that he's going to take her back to him.

Arby takes Lily to Home and she asks if he's going to make her disappear. He tells her to just say the things that they tell her to say. She tells him that it's not her purpose, but he tells her to pretend. A boy brings her to Kevin Christie, who is sitting in a gazebo. The two discuss the reason why he started Home, which was to raise brave and selfless children. She tells him that she endangered Home with her reckless and selfish behavior and he asks her what they should do with her now. Sometime following this conversation, Lily is present at Home when Jessica Hyde is taken back there by Arby and watches her outside the window of her old house.

Trivia
Taylor Blim plays Lily in the episode "Order 2472." In subsequent episodes, Lily is portrayed by Hadley Robinson, the actress who portrayed the character's twin, Charlotte, int the prior episodes.