Overview
Susan Cairn is a former high-school target of Amanda Bannington and Katherine Bannington in A Cancellation. Amanda recognizes her by her CVS pharmacy badge and the star-shaped port-wine stain birthmark on her left cheek.
Susan is small, blonde, seen professionally dressed, and about Amanda’s age. Amanda remembers mocking Susan by name and face for years while pretending Susan did not exist.
Encounter with Amanda
After Amanda’s Netflix audition, Susan recognizes Amanda in a parking garage and addresses her by name. Amanda flees into her Polestar. Through the windshield, she sees Susan crying into a tissue, which pulls Amanda’s past cruelty into the present.
Surviving Amanda Bannington
Susan becomes the first public source in Surviving Amanda Bannington. In Sapphire Van Ness’s trailer and first episode, Susan is presented as a birthmarked pharmacist and speaks about Amanda’s list of schoolmates who were not good enough for performing arts. Her interview frames the cruel origins of Susie Sparkles and gives Amanda’s old behavior a public victim.