Yellowjackets
Summary
WARNING : The following contains SPOILERS for Yellowjackets season 2 , installment 8 .
Yellowjacketsseason 2 has come to a close , with many prominent enigma being solve inYellowjacketsseason 2 , instalment 8 . The 8th episode of the horror / thriller show ’s 2nd chapter , " It Chooses , " check a shocking amount of revelations wad neatly into its 60 minutes - long runtime . The previous episode left off on a genuinely gruesome note , with the teen Shauna beating Lottie within an inch of her life for the demise of her newborn , Adam ’s body turn over up by the constabulary , and theadultYellowjacketssurvivor charactersall together again at Lottie ’s chemical compound after ten apart .
Yellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 8 chronicles the consequence of Shauna ’s ferocity in both the past and the present . AfterShauna ’s gravel Lottie inYellowjackets , Lottie is being tend to by Misty and a reluctant Mari , and it ’s clear that she ’s in a critical province . In the nowadays , the constabulary have search Shauna ’s house thanks to her association with Adam take into account them a search warranty . When Jeff was confronted with the macabre nature of Shauna ’s crimes , he most fold — nearly — and revealed to Callie that Shauna had lose their firstborn in the wild . However , the biggestYellowjacketsrevelations came from the survivor being together in the present and the past tense .
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8Starvation Is Causing The Yellowjackets To Hallucinate
While Lottie was the only one cause hallucinations in time of year 1,Yellowjacketsseason 2 consider Shauna and Ben clean up the affliction as well , much to viewers ' discombobulation . Soon , the intact squad seemed to be affected by hallucinations , but the answer as to why was n’t reveal until season 2 , instalment 8 . All theYellowjackets survivors are hallucinate because of their starving . While Ben has dissociative visions of his swain , and Shauna has foresighted conversations with deadened Jackie and a brief life-time with her baby , Akilah ’s mouse is unveil to be dead the whole fourth dimension in the installment , and Mari follows the dripping sounds to see the wall covered with blood .
When Mari backed aside from the cabin walls screaming inYellowjackets , Van assured her that she saw affair because of " the hunger . " Taissa also hallucinated two reflections of herself before shaking them off and telling Van she was lightheaded . While the wilderness probably has a hand in the group ’s sudden onset of imagination , the weightiness of the young lady ' plight is only made clearer when Van finds a leather belt in Jackie ’s luggage and adds it to their stew for protein . Naturally speaking , people in the late phase of starving can go through hallucinations , and that ’s clearly what ’s hap to the survivors .
7Misty Confirmed That Taissa Hired Jessica Roberts
Once the grownup survivors made their way to the sharing shack at Lottie ’s compound , long - hold secrets against one another soon came pour out . One of these secret was thatTaissa had hired newsperson Jessica RobertsinYellowjacketsto undercover agent on the mathematical group , and Misty killed Jessica . When the womenstarted indicate about Adam in world , Lottie quickly shuffled them out to another position so as not to have a commotion in front of her followers . Many of the survivor questioned each other accusingly out of fear of being found out about Adam ’s disposal .
When Misty tell Taissa that she did n’t need to " outsource " her efforts to find Van , she was force to spill the beans about Taissa hiring Jessica to manage selective information out of the survivors . While the group was intelligibly upset by this betrayal , Taissa stand firm in believing that she did the ripe thing to ensure that no one talked about their clock time in the wilderness , thus endangering her chance of winning the senate slipstream . The others were quick to jump on Misty for pop Jessica and keeping her locked in her basement , even though she could ’ve exposed them . ThisYellowjackets’revelation only have further fractures among the adult survivors .
6Javi Isn’t Alive In Yellowjackets' Present Timeline
Yellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 8 disclose that showrunners are n’t above keeping the unfeigned telephone number of survivor a secret , conduce to a ton of rumour surrounding the actual identity of Shauna ’s at rest devotee Adam . Many trust thatAdam was in reality an adult Javi , and writers even discussed realize this a possibility in the serial ' earliest showtime ( viaEW ) , butYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 8 , showed consultation thatJavi is n’t alive in the present timeline . While the team was running through the wilds hunt Natalie , Javi managed to get to her first and desperately seek to cover her from the others .
While trying to cross the wintry lake with the others in raging sideline , Javi light through a piece of thin ice and drowned . The group decided to take his body back for food , with Van proclaiming,“The wild chose!“This proves once and for all that Adam was n’t an adult Javi and that Javi does n’t go the events forgo the crash . Instead , he is sadly the squad ’s next cannibalized victim . While it ’s not probable , Yellowjacketsseason 3 could always unwrap that there is at least one more subsister from the wilderness , but audiences at least now bonk it ca n’t be Javi .
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5Javi Survived For Months Living Under The Symbol Tree
The dubiousness of how Javi survived in the wilderness by from the group has prompted several intriguingYellowjacketsJavi hypothesis . However , Yellowjacketsseason 2 , installment 8 finally solved the mystery story whenBen discovered Javi ’s hideaway underneath one of the symbol trees . Javi ’s words and Natalie ’s admit she saw Javi bowing to a symbol tree by the creek caused Ben to take action . He made his crutches more snow - friendly , and with the help of Javi ’s drawing , he journeyed out to find the renowned symbolisation tree . After clearing aside some of the coppice , he learn that there was an opening beneath its roots .
4The Yellowjackets' Survivors Created A Ritual To Claim The Next Victim
The very first mystery story set up in theYellowjacketsseries premiere was how the young woman descended into what come along to be ritualized cannibalism , and season 2 , episode 8 eventually showed how that came to be . Previously , the girl had eaten those dead of natural causes , like Jackie , and conversed about the possibility of eating others if they were to fail . Finally , however , the hunger had gotten so bad for the team that Taissa made a stand for their survival . What ensued was the official ritual of the squad that became their personal method for all the following putting to death in the series .
Whoever select the Queen of Hearts arbitrarily from their posting deck of cards is the next victimand must give up their body to be consumed . After placing Jackie ’s necklace on the victim , as the butcher , Shauna kill and dresses the body , and then the squad will have their feast . This does n’t go concord to plan the first time around , as Natalie , who draw the fatal card , runs off and Javi dies instead . However , it ’s safe to assume the pursuit will become a born part of the operation . see how the squad descended into such an routine was one ofYellowjackets ' most puzzling mysteries , and now there ’s at long last an solvent .
3Jackie’s Necklace Marks The Latest Victim
Another ofYellowjackets’most puzzling consequence was seeingJackie ’s necklace on the infamous " cavity girl " killedin episode 1 . This prompt several theory and questions , with many mentation that the pit girl was Jackie or that the necklace would become something like the titular conch inLord of the Flies , whichYellowjacketsis loosely based on . However , season 2 , episode 8 , revealed thatthe necklace marks the dupe for consumptionwhen Natalie draws the Queen of Hearts card and Shauna puts the necklace on her .
Since Jackie was the first to be eaten , her necklace has become a symbolic representation among the chemical group . It is essentially the fall guy of death and eventual consumption , something to identify who the wild has chosen to die . It ’s incredibly symbolic and an index number that many of the team opt to consider that Jackie was the first " ritual killing " give to the squad by the wilderness , as proven by Shauna ’s seam before eating Jackie , saying,“She desire us to . “It ’s sure one agency to compartmentalize precisely what the survivor have devolve into doing , and it explains why the stone pit girl was wear out it in episode 1 .
2Javi’s Death Affected Nat & Travis' Future Relationship
Adult Natalie and Travis ' kinship in the present tense has been described as toxic by the rest of the survivors , and Javi ’s death finally explain what made their dynamic so complicated . At first , it seemed that the shared trauma of 19 months in the wild and construction drug addiction were the condemning screw thread that made Natalie and Travis so frightful for one another in the present tense . However , it always seemed like there was something even more complex burp beneath the surface thatYellowjacketshad yet to search . It was n’t until Javi ’s last and the shocking nature of Natalie ’s involvement ( or miss thereof ) in it that evidenced the dead on target reason .
Just before Natalie chose the fateful Queen of Hearts , Travis forgave her for faking Javi ’s deathand apologise for how he treated her . When she was prefer , he attempted to save her by fight the others off and tell her to operate . Javi try out to save her , but she let him swim when Misty told her that the group would obliterate her for attempt to salve him . When the team render to wipe out his beat brother , and Travis ascertain out Natalie could ’ve save him , it destroys their relationship .
1The Wilderness Wants To Kill Another Adult Survivor
Lottie revealswhat the wild wants inYellowjacketsseason 2 , episode 8 : to take another subsister . SinceTravis ' disastrous wilderness line in time of year 2 , episode 2 , audiences have been champ at the bit to figure out exactly what the dark entity is after . It ’s clearly been affecting the grownup survivors ' lives : Taissa ’s sleepwalk alter self has returned , Shauna almost defeat two barren people , Misty bolt down Jessica , Van is a joyless shell of her former ego , Natalie is self-destructive , and Lottie has disturbing visions . After what Lottie depict as trying everything to make the entity go aside , she resigns to the fact that the wild wants to claim another life .
Lottie poison a cupful with a phenobarbital concoction , which Misty ironically comment was used in the mass felo-de-se of the Heaven ’s Gate furor , and offers to find fault last . Nonetheless , she enforce that someone in the group must kick the bucket , but the wilderness will ultimately choose , as it always does inYellowjackets .
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