‘Yellowjackets’ Mysteries, Theories and Answers — Photos

Who was the man in Jackie’s dream?

As Jackie was freezing to loss of life within the Season 1 finale, she had a dream through which her teammates — together with the deceased Laura Lee  — welcomed her again into the cabin. In that imaginative and prescient, a person stood in the back of the room and mentioned, “So glad you’re joining us. We’ve been waiting for you.” In the present’s press supplies, the character is known as merely “Hunter,” and some followers have theorized that he’s the person whom the ladies discovered useless within the cabin earlier within the season, and probably the identical one that beforehand piloted the small airplane that Laura Lee later tried to make use of to flee.

When TVLine requested collection creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson about whether or not the mysterious man can have significance shifting ahead, they confirmed that he would. “We definitely know who he is, yeah, and we have a whole thing [planned],” Nickerson added.

What’s the story behind the No-Eyed Man?

The slender, creepy specter was a part of Tai’s life lengthy earlier than her soccer crew crashed into the Canadian Rockies: In Season 1, Episode 3, a flashback reveals us younger Tai getting a daunting glimpse of him in a mirror as her ailing grandmother is dying. Later within the season, as she’s speaking to reporters exterior her dwelling in Episode 5, he reveals up briefly throughout the road — although if Tai sees him then, she doesn’t react. So far in Season 2, he’s led a not-in-control-of-herself Tai by means of the woods (and virtually to her loss of life) through the flashback timeline, following a path which will or will not be associated to the stick figure-like symbols carved into the timber.

Don’t anticipate a fast decision to this thriller, says Tawny Cypress, who performs Taissa as an grownup. The ghastly determine received’t “figure a lot in Season 2,” she just lately advised us. “In fact, Taissa’s whole story doesn’t figure a lot in Season 2. You’re going to have to wait at least until Season 3 to get some real answers on what’s going on with her.” If it helps in any respect, Cypress is correct there with you: “The man with no eyes, he’s a mystery to all of us at this point,” she mentioned.

Why was that one tree thawed?

When Natalie and Travis are out searching/searching for Javi, she comes throughout a tree that’s surprisingly thawed regardless of the snow and ice surrounding it. The moss is even a vibrant, summery inexperienced! The present clearly desires us to concentrate: Nat stops, appears on the tree for a second and notes how bizarre it appears.

Some followers have theorized that maybe the warmth that melted every little thing across the tree is coming from an underground supply, doubtlessly a tunnel or bunker akin to the one through which Lottie lit candles through the imaginative and prescient she had when Laura Lee baptized her in Season 1. This leads properly into our subsequent query…

UPDATE: As Coach Ben realized in Episode 8, the bottom of the tree hid the doorway to an underground hole that was heat, and that held (amongst different issues) rope and matches. Javi knew concerning the cave-like construction, too — sheltering there may be possible how he stayed alive throughout his absence from the cabin — and he was most certainly making an attempt to steer Natalie there when she was chased by the remainder of the crew in Episode 8.

Where was Javi when he was lacking?

… how within the heck did Travis’ little brother, Javier, survive within the frigid chilly with out meals or shelter for weeks on finish? The youthful Martinez was gone for 2 months after the ill-fated Doomcoming in Season 1, but he appears wholesome and complete — if unwilling/unable to speak — when he’s present in Season 2’s fourth episode.

Might Javi have hidden someplace heat, just like the aforementioned and extremely hypothetical tunnels/bunker? After all, simply moments earlier than they stumble throughout him, Van and Tai do discover that the ice within the space appears to be melting.

UPDATE: As we famous within the earlier slide, based mostly on the occasions of Episode 8, it seems that Javi was hiding out within the cave underneath the nice and cozy tree.

Who is the Antler Queen?

There’s rather a lot to counsel that the masked woman sporting the antlers within the collection’ very first episode, aka the one who appears to be in command of the barbaric means of killing and consuming one other woman, is Lottie. After all, because the collection progresses, each her supernatural leanings and her means to command loyalty have grown by the episode. The present-day timeline additionally appears to trace at Lottie’s queenly standing: She’s the chief of a cult (OK, OK, “retreat center”) who has antlers hanging on the constructing she calls dwelling.

That mentioned: Plenty can occur between now and then within the flashback timeline, so it’s utterly potential that one other woman can and will assume the spiky crown. All we all know for positive is that it isn’t Misty, who’s proven taking off a totally different masks on the finish of that sequence within the collection premiere.

UPDATE: The occasions of the Season 2 finale point out that Natalie was an Antler Queen — however was she the Antler Queen we see within the collection premiere? (Christina Ricci positive thinks so.)

Who’s the woman within the pit?

Early guesses on this one pointed to Jackie, on condition that the woman who’s chased to her loss of life within the collection’ premiere is sporting Jackie’s gold necklace. But the jewellery has modified palms a couple of instances since then: Jackie put it on a scared Shauna on the airplane (“It’s basically a good-luck charm. Now, nothing can touch you.” Eep!), and Lottie made positive that Shauna got here into possession of it after Jackie died. Given the pit sufferer’s hair and pores and skin coloration and total construct, we’re guessing that possibly Mari winds up impaled on the backside of the opening?

Have we met all the survivors?

In addition to the women within the picture above, we additionally know that Van, Lottie and Travis survived the crew’s trial within the wilderness, although Travis is not with us. That leaves a giant query mark regarding Mari, Crystal, Gen, Akilah, Melissa, Javi and Coach Ben. A rewatch of the slide present at the highschool reunion within the Season 1 finale doesn’t shed many clues, however are you able to actually depend on accuracy in a multimedia presentation constructed by somebody who begins their speech with, “Worddefinition.net defines a reunion as a union that is happening again”?

Why is Mari the one one that can hear dripping within the cabin?

Maybe we’ve simply been studying an excessive amount of Outlander. But there’s a Scottish superstition that claims the sound of dripping water in a home portends an imminent loss of life… and that’s all we are able to take into consideration each time Mari is the one one within the cabin who hears that incessant, and as-yet unidentified, sound.

UPDATE: In Episode 8, Tai additionally hears the dripping noise, and then Mari hallucinates blood dripping from the wall the place the noticed, knives and different sharp devices are stored.

What does that image imply?

The image that confirmed up on the blackmail notes (good contact, Jeff) additionally seems carved into timber within the Canadian wilderness and is, the truth is, the form through which these carved timber are laid out. But what the heck does it imply? Is it a method of safety, like Lottie guessed? An invocation of evil, as others have puzzled? And, uh, what is that form, precisely?

What occurred to Shauna’s child?

Callie, an adolescent, is simply too younger to be the infant that Shauna’s carrying within the wilderness. (That child can be in its mid-20s at present.) And it’s now a matter of document that the survivors received’t chow down on the toddler if/when it’s born. Phew. So… what turns into of Jeff and Shauna’s love baby? Might we get to satisfy the littlest survivor within the present-day storyline sometime?

UPDATE: In Episode 6, Shauna has a stillbirth; her son didn’t survive. Given that it looks like she delivered the placenta first, it seems that she suffered a placental abruption.

Is the supernatural actually at play?

Yes, there is likely to be some otherworldly entity insinuating itself into the hearts and minds of the crash survivors, and that entity is likely to be robust sufficient to take care of a lifelong presence. But when you think about what we all know to be true — that these women are scared and ravenous, and that a few of them had psychological well being points lengthy earlier than they boarded that non-public jet — isn’t it simply as believable (if no more so) that circumstance and coincidence are making them suppose, hear, see and really feel issues that aren’t actually there?

That mentioned: All of that stuff that occurred when Lottie all of the sudden began talking French and then smashed her head into the window on the seance? Creepy as hell.

UPDATE: The Season 2 finale options this interplay between Shauna and Lottie that we expect is somewhat attention-grabbing. Lottie is referring to the wilderness and its sway over the crew. SHAUNA: You know there’s no “it,” proper? It was simply us! LOTTIE: Is there a distinction?