The Golden Boy

The Golden Boy is a humanoid entity created by the Maudlings to hunt down and capture Suzy Tan.

The Creel Bay Drownings
Throughout season 2, citizens of the town are found washed up on the shore of Creel Bay. Police Officer Ángel Hernandez stakes out the lake and discovers that people are walking into the lake and drowning themselves, seemingly in a trance-like state. When Ángel tackles an entranced man before he can enter the water, the man fights back, repeatedly yelling "she needs her ball!", an apparent reference to the Princess and the Frog fairytale in which as princess loses her golden ball down a well. At the end of season 2, a woman walks up out of the bay, coughing up water and collapses at the feet of the Maudling Project Manager Deemlind. Deemlind pries open her hand and removes a small golden sphere.

The trance-induced drownings make the police investigation of the Sunset Murders more difficult, as the Sunset Killer has also been disposing of the bodies of his victims in the lake. Police Officer Rosa Hernandez is eventually able to disentangle the two sets of bodies, as the Sunset Killer's victims died of strangulation and blunt force trauma whereas the drowning victims' bodies show no signs of violent struggle.

Chrysalis Phase and Birth
Near the beginning of season 3, DEA Agent Ahmed Rahman is captured by the Maudlings and force-fed the golden sphere. Over the next few days, his body swells into the shape of a large golden chrysalis, then splits open to reveal the fully-formed Golden Boy entity.

Appearance and Psychic Abilities
The Golden Boy has the appearance of a teenage boy with sparkly metallic skin. Almost all humans who come into contact with him immediately trust him and treat him as their own child. In his presence, humans are overcome with a desire to nurture him, feeding him all of the food in their homes, which he gladly accepts. The Golden Boy's excessive food consumption may explain his extreme density. In one scene, he tried to cross a freeway and is hit by a car. The car is demolished but the Golden Boy is unharmed; the fatally wounded driver crawls out of the wreckage and uses the last of his strength to give the Golden Boy a blood-soaked doughnut.

Speed Stop Encounter and Demise
While under the sway of the Golden Boy's psychic manipulation field, Suzy Tan steals a car and drives them both towards the Maudling compound. They stop for gas at the Speed Stop were Jonah Mays works. Jonah, immune to the Golden Boy's psychic radiation due to the steel plate in his head, recognizes the Golden Boy from the conspiracy message boards he frequents and attempts to kill him with a shotgun. The Golden Boy is seemingly unharmed and walks slowly but steadily towards Jonah as Jonah backs away, firing and reloading his shot gun repeatedly until he is out of shells. The Godlen Boy headbutts him in the chest and shatters his sternum, but in his pursuit of Jonah he had walked far enough away that Suzy had fallen outside of his radius of effect. Suzy runs into the wilderness and he chases after her. When Suzy sees that he has trouble walking in mud due to his extreme density, she lures him into the marshland. Unable to gain traction, he sinks into the mud and she escapes.