Yellowjackets
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Yellowjacketsseason 2 feature many game - changing developments that set the degree for season 3 . The serial is split into a past and present - day timeline . The past timeline postdate a mellow schooltime girls association football team after their woodworking plane crashes in the wilderness , while the present - mean solar day register the lives of the survivors 25 years after . Shauna , Taissa , Natalie , and Misty are the onlyYellowjacketscharacterswho are shown to be alive in both timelines during time of year 1 .
Yellowjacketsseason 1 ’s endingreveals that another member of the team , Lottie , is also live in the present - day . As teased in the opening of the first episode , the Yellowjackets finally come into cannibalismwhile fighting to survive in the wild . Some of them kick the bucket before touch this stop , though , include Jackie being go forth out in the cold and freezing to last overnight after her argumentation with Shauna . More job are create by Shauna in the present - daylight as well , with her murder of Adam Martin continuing to be an issue all the manner up toYellowjacketsseason 2 ’s finish .
11The Yellowjackets Ate Jackie’s Dead Body
Her Cremation Did Not Go As Planned
After winter sets in , Jackie ’s corpse is initially kept inside the shed by the cabin . As she fight to process her grief and the guiltiness she feels for Jackie ’s death , Shauna has long conversations with her dead champion and even applies makeup to her boldness . When the other Yellowjackets learn about this , a conclusion is made to cremate Jackie ’s organic structure . As Jackie ’s remains sunburn , a substantial amount of blow falls on her , which douses the fire , and conduct to the feel of cooked meat .
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Since the Yellowjackets are starving and hunt has not yield any results for a while , they give into their hunger , and begin devouring what is left of Jackie . This is the first instance of the Yellowjackets being cannibalsand resorting to eating one another . It is a point of no return that forever exchange the girls and that makes Coach Ben Scott terrified by what they have become .
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10Natalie Was Taken To Lottie’s “Retreat” & The Other Survivors Found Her
It Was A Full-On Yellowjackets Reunion
In the present - day timeline , Natalie is nobble by Lottie ’s followers and take to her " retreat . " This snatch prevents Natalie from taking her own life at the end of time of year 1 . Natalie is ab initio reluctant to stay at the retreat and is worsen by the furor - comparable community that surrounded Lottie . After farm nearer with one of Lottie ’s follower , Lisa , Natalie ’s attitude changes somewhat , although she continue to loathe herself for her past mistakes .
The other Yellowjacket survivor all finally find their agency to the hideaway as well . Misty is the first to find it while inquire Natalie ’s disappearanceand discovers her location with assistant from a fellow citizen tec , Walter . It is not long before Taissa , Van , and Shauna arrive , making it a full - on Yellowjackets reunification , which inevitably moderate to tragedy settle down in their unresolved trauma from their time in the wilderness .
9Shauna’s Baby Was Stillborn
A Complicated Pregnancy Ends In Tragedy
Before the plane crash , time of year 1 reveals that Shauna is sleeping with Jackie ’s boyfriend , Jeff . This lead to Shauna being pregnant and have to give birth in the wild inYellowjacketsseason 2 , sequence 6 . What follows is one of the most acute and heartbreaking episodes in the series , as Shauna ’s baby is stillborn , but she only discover after hallucinating that her babe was born , and after vividly have spending clip with her child .
What Shauna break through stays with her in the decades that watch and even subconsciously inform the relationship she has with her daughter , Callie .
While all the Yellowjackets endure trauma in the wild , Shauna lose her child is a specially crushing trauma , and something that the other fille can never fully understand . What Shauna goes through stays with her in the decades that pursue and even subconsciously informs the relationship she has with her daughter , Callie . The red ink will doubtlessly still weigh heavy on Shauna during the preceding timeline inYellowjacketsseason 3 .
8Javi Returned & Accidentally Died During The Yellowjackets' First Queen Of Hearts Sacrifice Ritual
He Becomes The Second Character To Be Eaten By The Yellowjackets
After going miss toward the end of season 1 , Javi is revealed to still be alive inYellowjacketsseason 2 , sequence 4 . His return to the group terminate tragically , though , as he circumstantially dies during the first Queen of Hearts ritual . When the Yellowjackets are starving subsequently in the season , they participate in a rite where they take turn draw cards from a pack of cards . Whoever pluck the only Queen from the deck will be sacrificed , so the eternal rest of the group does not lust .
Natalie has the tough luck of rive the Queen , and while she is hunted , Javi tells her that he knows a safe place where she can blot out . As he and Natalie go across a fixed lake to get there , Javi fall through the ice and drowns . Natalie ’s liveliness is spared , with the girls believing that the wild pick out to kill Javi instead . Javi ’s body becomes the next source of food for thought that help keep the Yellowjackets alive during the bestial winter .
7Lottie Told Natalie The Truth About Travis' Death
Lottie Was Present The Night Travis Died
Who killed Travisin the present - day timeline was one of the major mysteries inYellowjacketsseason 1 , as Natalie believed he did not take his own life , and that he was murdered . Lottie parcel with Natalie that she was with Travis the Nox he died . Travis did not designate to kill himself , but he desire to temporarily hang up himself from a Hart Crane so he would become unconscious and be capable to confront the darkness with himself .
Travis is the eldest son of the Yellowjackets team ’s capitulum coach , who died during the woodworking plane wreck .
Lottie was supposed to depress Travis from the Hart Crane the minute he went unconscious , but the button on the ascendency was cram , chair to Travis by chance die . Natalie was right that Travis did not want to take his own life , but she was wrong about him being murder . The truth micturate Natalie ’s grief even more complicated , with Travis ' death being an accident instead of being the resultant role of a villainous plot .
6Callie Discovered The Truth About Adam Martin’s Murder & Misty’s Boyfriend, Walter, Helped Cover It Up
The Truth Has A Surprising Effect On Callie
After Shauna killed Adam Martin , the man she was make an liaison with in season 1 , she plow up the slaying with help from Misty , Taissa , and Van . This plot line does not terminate there , though , as Callie is suspicious about what happened to Adam and police officers Kevyn Tan and Matt Saracusa investigate his disappearing . or else of keep on to lie to Callie , Shauna tells her everything that happened with Adam and about how Jeff was blackmailing the Yellowjackets .
Learning thesedifficult truths really brings Callie closer to her parent . This does not set the lingering way out of Adam ’s demise , but Misty ’s boyfriend , Walter , take on care of that . He lethally poison Kevyn , frames him as the mortal responsible for Adam ’s demise , and blackmails Matt into abide by . The Adam Martin type is now closed , but it has evermore changed Callie ’s relationship with her parents , and it establish the lengths Walter is unforced to go to avail Misty .
5Teen Natalie Was Crowned The Antler Queen
She Goes From Being Hunted To Becoming The Group’s Leader
Ever since the first coup d’oeil ofYellowjackets ' Antler Queenwas express in the pilot installment , there was a question about who this person would be . Despite not consider in the wilderness ' unearthly power like most of the other girl do , Natale is top the Antler Queen in the season 2 coda . This relates back to the Queen of the Hearts sacrifice rite and Javi ’s death , asthe girls are confident that the wilderness spared Natalie because of her connexion with it and because the wilderness chose her .
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After this turn of outcome , Lottie is no longer the most sinewy figure among the girlfriend . They now depend to Natalie as their leader , and she holds the most power and overall sway move forwards . This is not a berth that Natalie has lust , but it is one that is thrust upon her , and she design to use it to help the radical to outlast as their closing off in the wilderness continues .
4Adult Misty Accidentally Killed Natalie During The Queen Of Hearts Ritual
A Prominent Character Will Now Be Absent From The Present-Day Timeline
The Queen of Hearts ritual is not just part of the Yellowjackets ' past times , with Lottie insist that they must do it in the present tense . Shauna draws the Queen of Hearts card and is the way who is ab initio hunt , but everything vary and becomes even more helter-skelter when an armed Callie and Lisa get on the scene . The tension and chaosleads to Misty trying to dig Lisa with a lethal injectant , only for Natalie to step in and be inject instead .
Natalie saves Lisa at the cost of lose her own life history . However , it is withering for Misty , who must live with the fact that she kill the cleaning lady she considered to be her best booster . Adult Misty is shown reeling from what happened as Walter tries to comfort her . Guilt and self - loathing related to Natalie ’s slaying will likely continue to involve Misty in season 3 , which will see one of time of year 1 and 2 ’s major part removed from the present - twenty-four hour period timeline .
3Lottie Was Institutionalized After Natalie’s Death
It Is Not The First Time This Has Happened To Her
Yellowjacketscontinues to cast uncertainty over whether certain elements are supernatural or if they are extreme responses to lingering hurt . This o.k. pedigree is particularly present with Lottie as a teen and as an grownup , due to her visions and her spiritual belief in the magnate of the wild . Even if there is genuine supernatural mightiness to the wild , season 2 makes it clean-cut that grownup Lottie is mentally sickly .
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She has multiple session with a therapist who does not be and who is a delusion . She visualize visions , such as all the bee at her hideaway having buy the farm , when they are alive and well . Her solution to addressing these problem is to absorb in the Queen of Hearts sacrifice ritual . Given the state she is in , she unsurprisingly ends the season commit . This is not the first time Lottie has been institutionalized , with season 2 make reference to her antecedently having expend time at a facility in Switzerland .
2Adult Taissa & Van Reunited, But Van Has Terminal Cancer
Their Reunion Is Complicated
In the past timeline , Taissa and Van are romantically knotty and incredibly near with each other . After spending years apart , they reunite in the present and step by step set out to rekindle their relationship . Van helped Taissa during her sleepwalking episodes years ago , and with her somnambulate ego becoming more controlling and dangerous , Taissa feels as though Van is the only person she can reverse to for supporter . It is semisweet for the two of them to be together again given their chronicle .
With Taissa ’s marriage beyond repair , she and Van can be together , but their relationship comes with many challenges they will need to navigate .
Their reunion becomes even more complicated when Taissa pick up that Van has terminal cancer . The two of them have only just found their way back to one another , but now their time is limited due to Van ’s diagnosis . The issue of Taissa ’s somnambulate ego also remains undetermined . With Taissa ’s marriage beyond repair , she and Van can be together , but their relationship comes with many challenges they will need to pilot .
