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Warning : Spoilers ahead for Yellowjackets season 3 , episode 8!Well , I guess I was fooled byYellowjacketsafter season 3 tried to convince viewers that Gen and Melissa were dead . While Gen may in reality be dead , we now be intimate that Melissa is very much active , thanks to a major crook inYellowjacketsseason 3 , episode 8 . Before that , there had been no acknowledgment of Melissa in the modern - Clarence Day timeline , implying that she died at some point in the wilderness . Then , the show casually revealed the deaths of Gen and Melissa while Shauna , Taissa , Van , and Misty decided to track down Hannah ’s daughter , believing she direct the wilderness recording .
Not only doesYellowjacketsconfirm the eighth survivorwith Melissa ’s appearance , but the show also confirms a popular theory that Hilary Swank was range to play the adult version of Melissa . Whereas Joel McHale joinedYellowjackets ' castto play a polar role in the ' 90s timeline , Swank ’s antecedently undisclosed purpose has turn out to be crucial to the grownup storyline . yield , the details surrounding Swank ’s role come afterYellowjacketstotally fake us out .
Yellowjackets Season 3 Revealed Melissa Is Alive Just One Episode After Saying She Was Dead
Melissa Faked Her Death At Some Point After The Rescue
InYellowjacketsseason 3 , episode 7 , Tai , Van , and Misty contemplated who would have sent the tape recording to Shauna . Tai mentioned that Gen and Melissa notably got close to Hannah in the wilderness , suggesting they may have keep start the tape , but Van interjected by say , " they ’re both dead . " Just one sequence after , we learn thatVan ’s command is n’t incisively true , since Melissa is live inYellowjackets ' grownup timeline . Even though Shauna had a strange reaction to Van ’s remark in the former instalment , it seems like she really had no clue that Melissa was alive .
Melissa also total in contact with Hannah ’s grownup daughter , Alex , and the two fell in erotic love , get conjoin , and are now raise a youngster together .
The others thought Melissa was dead and attended her funeral , but Melissa reveals that she faked her suicide and embarked on a new life as a woman named Kelly . Melissa also came in contact with Hannah ’s adult daughter , Alex , and the two fell in love life , got espouse , and are now raising a kid together . However , Melissa has n’t told her wife about her true indistinguishability and connectedness to Hannah , attempting to erase that share of her life . Still , she has obviously been keeping some tab on the other Yellowjackets since she knew about Natalie ’s death and Lottie ’s cult .
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Is Hilary Swank’s Melissa The One Really Stalking Shauna?
Is Melissa Telling Shauna The Truth?
In addition to fall forYellowjacketsseason 3 ’s death fakeout , I also sham the reveal put an end to Melissa being Shauna ’s stalker . While there ’s been grounds that Hannah ’s girl could be the sneak , especially since she has the motif , Melissa is the one who send Shauna the tape transcription from the wilderness . She reveals that the tape has been haunt her , and the only way she could fully move on from her past would be to get rid of the recordings . However , Melissa claim that she was n’t responsible for the other scourge involving Shauna inYellowjacketsseason 3 .
New characters in the wild have made saving feel viable for the first prison term in Yellowjackets , but not all fibre want to act on this road .
If Melissa was n’t the one who mess up with the car , locked Shauna in the freezer , and left the phone in the restaurant , it could mean three thing : either someone else is Shauna ’s stalker , Shauna is paranoid , or Melissa is lying . Considering Melissa ’s attempt to snaffle her knife to attack , Shauna has more reason to trust that Melissa is the stalker . Rather than carry on spill the beans , Shauna trap her down , takes a pungency from Melissa ’s branch , and tells her former teammate to eat the piece of flesh . Unfortunately , theYellowjacketsseason 3 episode end before we find the rest of their reunion .
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