Yellowjackets

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WARNING : The pursuit contains SPOILERS for Yellowjackets season 2 , instalment 6 .

Yellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 6 " Qui " has some lurid reveals and important tale measure that have striking effect on the serial publication long after , and more than one viewer had a hypothesis about what would come next after this instalment . After the mid - season break , Yellowjacketstreated hearing to the harrowing cognitive process of adolescent Shauna ’s undertaking in the wild and revealed the tragical fate of her infant . " Qui " revolved a lot aroundmainYellowjacketscharacterShauna ’s storylines , both in the past and present , while checking in with adult Misty as she fully ingratiated herself into Lottie ’s rage .

However , the biggest treat ofYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 6 is seeing the grownup survivors , including Van and Lottie , back together again . While audience knew Misty would make her mode into Lottie ’s furor compound , Van , Taissa , and Shauna ’s arrivals were all a surprise . In the episode , Misty sweet-talk Taissa there ( though it ’s arguable that her sleepwalking alter - ego wanted to go anyway ) , with caravan along for the drive . Shauna goes to Lottie ’s " wellness centre of attention " after Jeff truly asseverate that she ’s lose dominance when she admits to the cops that she and Adam did have an affair . All this drama led to many theories about therest ofYellowjacketsseason 2 .

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7Sleepwalking Taissa Led Van To Another Yellowjackets Symbol

OneYellowjacketsseason 2 , sequence 6 theory is a twofold revelation : while sleepwalk , Taissa was trying to take Van to Lottie ’s compound because it ’s in the shape of theYellowjacketssymbol . Taissa ’s connexion to theYellowjacketssymbolswas established in the 1996 timeline when she led Van to each one while somnambulate . Van made a map of all the symbol that kip Taissa work her to , which turned out to be the soma of one gargantuan symbol . On their terminal excursion , they attempt to find the last symbolic representation on the map but get Javi rather . Then , after attend to Lottie ’s morning meditation , Taissa ’s noctambulation halt .

At the closing ofYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 6 , it ’s reveal in an overhead injection thatLottie ’s compound is in the material body of the mysterious Yellowjackets symbolic representation . Where sleepwalk Taissa wanted to take adult Van in time of year 2 , sequence 5 " Two Truth and a Lie " was a huge doubt . Sleeping Taissa leads her girl to the symbols in the past timeline , so she ’s doing the same affair in the nowadays . It ’s no mistake that Lottie ’s chemical compound is the same shape as the symbol , though this may have been an unconscious creation on grownup Lottie ’s part .

6Walter Doesn’t Stay Away From The Yellowjackets

What Elijah Wood ’s Walter is up to is a mystery for most ofYellowjackets . Adult Misty ’s weird behaviortoward the only person in her life who has let in that they like her does n’t dissuade Walter from trying to be close to her . Misty told Walter to go away and leave her alone after she waltz into Lottie ’s compound , but free-base on the identification number of time he called her and texted her before her phone was taken off , Walter is n’t taking her requirement seriously .

Walter is a fall back part inYellowjacketsseason 2 , and he repeatedly shows he ’s very interested in Misty and her complicated life , no matter how often she rebuffs his advance at friendship and otherwise . This installment continues to push the melodic theme that there is something more going on with Walter in the series . Walter ’s allegiance to Misty is clearly shown in this episode , and he only becomes more firm to her from here on out .

5Shauna’s Baby Died Because She Didn’t Believe In The Wilderness

The fate of Shauna ’s wild babywas finally unveil inYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 6 , and unfortunately , he passed away . Of of course , there could be medical factor behind this , given that she gave parturition to the placenta before the baby . However , it ’s also likely that the reasonher Word did n’t make it is because she did n’t trust in the wild ' power . out of doors of Natalie , Shauna has been Lottie ’s bang-up disparager . She ’s angered by the fact that Lottie has become so invested in her child and that a group of teen subsister has been praying to the wild in her sister ’s name .

It does n’t seem concurrent that Shauna ’s labor commence directly after she insulted both Lottie and the wilderness , coupled with the sudden onset of a blizzard . Though Lottie , Travis , and a few others assay to make sacrifices to the wilderness to help Shauna through her labor , it was finally to no avail . Shauna painfully hallucinates a brief life with her childbefore imagining that her teammates cannibalize the baby , and she wakes up to her child being unsuccessful . The haunting cries she still hears could be the wild ' way of taunting her , beckoning her to believe in its power .

4Shauna, Ben, & Lottie’s Hallucinations Get Worse In The Past Timeline

Lottie is n’t the only one to have hallucinations , asYellowjacketsseason 2 has also seen Coach Ben and Shauna have their own very specific visions . Lottie ’s visions increase in the past timeline , as the group follow her mental descent and , possibly , full - on self-control bythe mysteriousYellowjacketsantler queen . WhatYellowjacketsseason 2 , sequence 6 proves , however , is that Shauna and Ben ’s vision were n’t one - offs from earlier on in the season . At the beginning of this episode , Shauna has conversation with a hallucinated Jackie , and Ben is plagued by what - if scenarios depicting his biography had he never boarded the plane .

Ben and Shauna experienced another hardening of hallucinations inYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 6 . Unable to contend with the horror of Shauna ’s delivery , Ben imagined that he and his beau ( along with two other Quaker ) were playing charade in the same cabin . Likewise , Shauna reckon a short life with her son that seemed all too real . As thing get progressively more intriguing , and now that Shauna has this new trauma , she and Ben see an uptick in their dissociative illusions .

Shauna bring out the trueness about her affair with Adam Martin to the cops , much to Jeff ’s chagrin . It only spells further hassle for theYellowjacketssurvivor as the police then follow her to Lottie ’s compound . Shauna secernate the law the truth was a shocking move , to say the least , peculiarly after everything she and the Sadecki family did to get over her tracks . However , she realized that the gigue was up after her botched outing with Randy showed the police that she was veil something . While they have no trial impression that Adam was murdered , she was the last soul to see him alert .

Collage of images from Yellowjackets season 2 episode 6, of young Lottie holding Misty, adult Van looking worried, and Coach Ben laying down

InYellowjacketsseason 2 , installment 6 , the police did n’t expressly tell Shauna to stay in townspeople for further questioning . However , jump town directly after being interrogate by the police about a lack person is n’t a good look . Detective Saracusa , in particular , has already show the ( gross ) length he will go to enquire Shauna ’s fictitious character . Now that Matt and Kevyn bang that Shauna and Adam are involved , they do n’t let her go so well . WhileJeff ’s suggestion to go to Lottie ’s " health sum " come from a billet of kindness and concern , it was n’t the best recommendation on his part .

The grownup Shauna actor , Melanie Lynskey , appears as the drawing card of the Kansas City resistor effort inThe Last of Us , Kathleen . Lynskey also meet Molly Strand inCastle Rock . That is three prestigiousness horror series for Lynskey in five years .

2Adult Van & Lottie Fall Back Under The Wilderness' Power

When the other grownup survivors learn Lottie Matthews for the first time in ten , no one ’s reaction was more telltale than adult Van ’s . Seeingall theYellowjacketssurvivorstogether in the present timeline is undoubtedly a goody , but the circumstances behind their reunion spell peril . Travis ' note to Natalie and her suggestion session with Lottie confirmed that there was " darkness " in the wilderness that they lend back , implying that the survivor would fall prey to the powers that be as adult . However , a few key thing suggested adult Van and Lottie would be the first to succumb .

Lottie ’s vision are increasing , and in the latest installment , she said to her head-shrinker that she does n’t think she was ever ill in the first place , proclaiming,“We all matte it , it was a part of us . “These statements show that Lottie approaches her visions with less fear , and while she agree that she and the radical did terrible thing in the past , she is less turn off by the prospect of her hallucination being a mathematical product of spiritual influence than genial illness . Lottie was also the first grownup subsister to make a sacrifice to the wild in the present timeline , albeit only with a lowly motion .

Adult Van being lulled into the wild ' mogul again has to do with several matter . When she saw Lottie for the first time at the chemical compound , her flavor was that of fear mixed with awe . This point that Lottie still hold some sway over Van , and with the reveal that the " wild " is real , Van easily fall back into hanging on to Lottie ’s every Book . Furthermore , Van has n’t move on from the past , hold up a deeply cheerless and unfulfilled life . The wild coming back provide Van with a sense of intention again , something she never seemed to regain after hark back to culture .

Collage of Misty and Walter looking on with Taissa in the foreground with a bleeding head in Yellowjackets Season 3-1

1The Adult Survivors Figure Out What The Wilderness Wants

There ’s only one understanding that the adult survivors get back together again inYellowjackets : to figure out what the wilderness wants . at last , it wasNatalie and Travis who first translate the wildernesswas a spiritual entity that followed them home , and that it ’s now come calling once again . It ’s this episode that brings them all together to once again front a horror they did not require to revisit . AfterYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 6 , the char are on the verge of some perilous events that have only begun to be revealed .

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Cast

Adult sleepwalking Taissa (Tawny Cypress) cornering adult Van (Lauren Ambrose) in Yellowjackets.

Elijah Wood as Walter standing and looking concerned in Yellowjackets season 2 episode 3

Ben (Steven Krueger) and his boyfriend Paul (François Arnaud) looking at each other on Yellowjackets

Shauna 9Melanie Lynskey) being talked to by the cops in Yellowjackets.

Adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) in Yellowjackets season 2 episode 6 standing by the lake.

Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Taissa (Tawny Cypress), Misty (Christina Ricci), and Natalie Juliette Lewis walking together at a party in Yellowjackets.

Headshot Of Melanie Lynskey In The Los Angeles premiere of ‘Lola’ at Regency Bruin Theatre.

Headshot Of Tawny Cypress

Headshot Of Sophie Nélisse

Headshot Of Jasmin Savoy Brown

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