Editing Melanie Cavill (section)

== History ==
According to Melanie, she grew up on a dirt farm in eastern Pennsylvania and came from nothing. As a result, she has sympathy for the lower classes and their struggles. At some point she graduated from MIT (hinted from her MIT jacket and hat), Melanie herself and Bennett would sometime jokes about it.<ref>[[Without Their Maker]]</ref> 

She secretly took on the identity of Mr. Wilford, the head of Wilford Industries who came up with ''[[Snowpiercer]]'' when the Freeze came. Melanie lost her daughter, Alexandra, when the Freeze came. Alex was with Melanie's parents, who were supposed to board the train together, but they never made it aboard.

When ''Snowpiercer'' began its journey, Melanie, believing that Mr. Wilford's selfish desires would doom humanity, "took the train" and abandoned him to die in Chicago. Melanie subsequently posed as the real Mr. Wilford to maintain order.<ref name="revolutions" />