Natalie Makes an Inconceivable Selection

Editor’s notice: The under recap accommodates spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 3 Episode 6.

Yellowjackets Season 3 has been noticeably slower than the previous seasons. On the one hand, tons is going on, however on the opposite, issues are transferring a heck of rather a lot slower than in prior installments. This all adjustments with Episode 6, titled “Thanksgiving (Canada).” Whereas the earlier 5 episodes had been nonetheless fascinating and at all times saved us glued, there was at all times one thing lacking from it. This week amps up each side and at last digs into the story from each angle, each character, and each potential storyline, giving us a juicy and irresistible installment crammed with returning characters, stunning reveals, and maybe essentially the most stunning twist of all.

The Sadeckis Take a Journey in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 6

Episode 6 picks up directly after the events of Episode 5, so Jeff (Warren Kole) is ready up for Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) when she comes strolling within the door after an extended day of being a citizen detective with Walter (Elijah Wood). Jeff has no concept about Lottie’s (Simone Kessell) death, and so Shauna has to interrupt the information to him, together with her suspicions that Lottie was truly murdered — along with her reasoning being that “disgraced cult members don’t simply fall down the steps and die.” Unbeknownst to her and Jeff, Callie (Sarah Desjardins) overhears them and is visibly shaken by the information that Lottie has died. The second permits us to circle again to the primary episode of the season, when Callie discovered the cassette that was delivered to Shauna. She offers it to her dad and mom and says that though she hasn’t listened to it, she thinks it might have one thing to do with Lottie’s demise. That is a right away pink flag for Shauna; first the brakes on her van, then the freezer incident, and now the cassette: Somebody is attempting to kill her.

In an try to remain protected from hurt, the Sadeckis pack up and head to a lodge known as the Jolly Hitcher, As soon as they’re settled, Jeff asks Shauna how dangerous that is, if it’s something just like the stuff that was in her journals, however Shauna hasn’t even listened to the cassette but, so she doesn’t know. No matter it’s, Jeff says, it may possibly’t be good, and that somebody undoubtedly has it out for her since they even know the place she lives. Shauna assures Jeff she gained’t let anybody damage him or Callie, after which feigns hunger-induced dizziness to get him out of the room so she will be able to make a cellphone name to Van (Lauren Ambrose), who’s presently indulging in massages at a separate lodge with Taissa (Tawny Cypress). Naturally, Van has a technique to play the cassette, which is definitely a DAT tape. Van says she has a DAT participant someplace and might deliver it over later within the week, however Shauna stresses the emergency side and asks her to trace the participant down sooner fairly than later.

What’s On the Tape in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 6?

After Van finds the DAT participant, she and Taissa meet Shauna on the Jolly Hitcher, and so they waste no time listening to it within the automobile. We solely get to listen to a short clip, which accommodates audio of the ladies screaming ferally like they’ve performed on a number of events, most frequently once they’re participating in a hunt for a wilderness sacrifice. We don’t know the place the tape is from, however Van says that the one individuals who find out about it are both them or useless, and so they’ve already dominated out Misty (Christina Ricci) as a chance. They don’t have rather more time to invest, although, as a result of Shauna quickly finds Callie’s cellphone in her purse, and discovers that Callie has set it to report their dialog all the time. She deletes the recording and leaves a bewildered Tai and Van behind as she heads again inside.

Shauna offers Callie bother for recording the dialog, however Callie says she has a right to know what’s coming for them. Shauna doesn’t agree and says she’s only a baby, however Callie throws that comment again at her and factors out she’s the identical age Shauna was out within the wilderness. This hits somewhat too near house for Shauna, and she or he sends Callie out of the room. Unbeknownst to Shauna, Callie recovers the voice memo from her cellphone’s lately deleted folder, which means she’ll be capable to pay attention to every little thing anyway.

Which Tai Is It, Anyway, in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3?

It’s no secret that Taissa has not been herself this season, but it surely all involves a head in Episode 6. After she will get off the cellphone with Shauna in regards to the DAT tape, Van discovers that Taissa has ordered extravagant room service, full with lobster. Van rushes the lodge employees out of the room and calls Taissa out — Shauna is breaking down, Lottie is useless, and right here Tai is, specializing in self-care. Taissa explains that she seems like every little thing is falling aside. She’s misplaced her household, her profession, to not point out Lottie and Nat, and to high all of it off, the love of her life is battling most cancers. She will’t repair any of it, so she simply needs to really feel good for the second. Van sympathizes however says that their good friend sounded actually scared, so they should do one thing about that.

Tai jokes that Shauna is afraid of a DAT tape, and asks who even makes use of these anymore, to which Van muses about bizarre storage bands and intense birders earlier than pausing. Her face drops, and she or he tells Tai they’ve obtained to depart proper now. We later reduce to Van within the basement of Tai’s home trying via bins containing her belongings, and she or he ultimately finds the DAT participant. Nonetheless, when she finds it, the electrical energy glints, and the cellphone within the field additionally begins to ring. Confused, and somewhat frightened, Van picks it up. The voice is distorted, but it’s a voice she knows all too well: it’s Tai, and she or he’s asking for assist. Instantly, the bodily Tai comes down the steps, and Van stares at her in concern, not sure what’s going on now, however placing it apart as a way to assist Shauna.

Later that evening, once they’re in mattress, Taissa is asleep and Van is googling how lengthy DAT tapes can final outside, when unexpectedly Taissa shoots straight up in mattress. She’s panicked and out of breath and begs Van to assist her — however simply as rapidly as she says it, her face softens, and she or he sinks again down into the pillows, asking Van why she’s nonetheless awake. Now it’s clear to Van that Tai isn’t Tai anymore and ”Other Tai” has taken over; it’s only a matter of the way to save Tai from herself earlier than it’s too late.

Lisa Returns in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3

After the competitors between Walter, Shauna, and Misty in Episode 5 to investigate Lottie’s death, Walter apologizes to Misty and offers her a peace providing: Lottie’s trash. He says he couldn’t make sense of something from it, however perhaps she will be able to. Misty reveals takeout containers from a spot known as Bamboo Café, and when she appears to be like up the title, she finds that it’s the most un-Lottie restaurant ever with a 2.5 ranking, a C from the well being division, and no vegetarian choices, so there have to be another motive Lottie went there. Misty takes it upon herself to research and spots Lisa (Nicole Maines), one of many former members of Lottie’s cult, delivering takeout from the restaurant.

Misty follows Lisa and makes an attempt to talk to her, however Lisa is afraid of her — and rightfully so, contemplating the syringe that killed Natalie was meant for her initially. Misty accuses Lisa of killing Lottie, however Lisa factors out that not everybody turns their trauma into homicide like Misty does. She does, nevertheless, inform Misty every little thing she is aware of — together with that the final time she noticed Lottie, she ordered a bunch of meals and gave Lisa a $50,000 tip in an envelope that merely mentioned “I’m sorry.” Misty says that such a big tip is suspicious, however Lisa admits that after all of the dangerous issues that occurred to her, she’s discovered to take the great issues once they come. Lisa additionally tells Misty that if she nonetheless can’t imagine Lottie fell down the stairs then perhaps she ought to verify along with her personal buddies — particularly Taissa, as a result of she met with Lottie the day she died. Misty would not imagine her, however Lisa says she noticed them collectively proper exterior the restaurant.

Coach Scott Says Goodbye in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3

After having his Achilles tendon reduce on the finish of the earlier episode, Coach Scott (Steven Krueger) is just not doing properly. Positive, his life has been spared, however at what price? He’s being saved in a pen with animals, and he’s solely being saved alive as a result of Akilah (Nia Sondaya) had a imaginative and prescient that he’s their bridge house; otherwise, he’d be dead. That is no life, and he tells Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) as a lot when she brings him breakfast. He additionally begs her to kill him, or no less than deliver him a weapon so he can do it himself. He even tries goading her on by claiming he lit the cabin on hearth within the hopes it should make her mad sufficient to kill him, however she doesn’t imagine him. Each time she brings him meals, he pleads for demise, and it will get to the purpose the place she refuses to deliver him his meals as a result of she will be able to’t deal with it.

Mari (Alexa Barajas) ultimately takes on the duty of bringing Coach his meals, however when she arrives she finds flies buzzing throughout him and smells one thing putrid. His face is sunken, and he appears to be like weak and sick. She realizes that he’s been stashing his meals away, uneaten, and has a few week’s price of rotten meals sitting subsequent to him. He’s on a starvation strike as a result of he simply needs to die. Lottie (Courtney Eaton) is vehemently towards the concept, as a result of they’re nonetheless holding onto what Akilah noticed in her imaginative and prescient. Later that day, Misty (Samantha Hanratty) and a number of other different members of the workforce present up in face coverings and maintain Coach down, shoving a tube down his throat and pouring meals in it so he has no alternative however to swallow. It’s brutal to observe, and when Natalie goes in to verify on him, he’s coughing up blood.

This image clearly lingers with Natalie, and we reduce to her mendacity in her hut afterward that evening, tears in her eyes. Lastly, she will get up, choosing up a knife, and heads to the place they’re preserving Coach Scott. When Travis (Kevin Alves) intercepts her, Natalie says that she has to do that, and Travis sympathizes, telling her he’ll preserve watch however to be fast as a result of the solar is rising quickly. As quickly as Coach sees the knife in Natalie’s hand, he is aware of what she’s there to do and easily says, “Please.” She struggles to comply with via, so Coach scoots nearer and thanks her simply earlier than she plunges the knife into his chest. He lets out one massive gasp and dies peacefully, letting go of all of the ache and struggling he’s been holding onto.

The Hierarchy of Energy Shifts in ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Episode 6

The workforce is awake and morning has dawned when Natalie comes stumbling out of Coach’s enclosure, fingers coated in blood. Misty is devastated, calling Nat a assassin, and rushes to Coach’s facet, arranging his physique as if he had been being laid to relaxation in correct style. In the meantime, the remainder of the workforce screams at Natalie for mercy killing him. She stands agency that it was the suitable factor to do, as a result of he’d been struggling. Melissa (Jenna Burgess) simply tells her to shut up, whereas Gen (Vanessa Prasad) shoves her to the bottom, and Van (Liv Hewson) shouts that it wasn’t her choice to make. Tai (Jasmin Savoy Brown) suggests they’ve one other trial, however Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) says there’s no want — Nat is responsible, and she or he confessed. All they want now’s to resolve what to do along with her. Lottie means that Shauna lead them going ahead.

It takes a second for this to sink in, however when it does, Shauna truly makes her first ruling fairly simply. As an alternative of being fully merciless, she says that they at all times honor those that die, so tonight, they are going to honor Coach Scott, and they’re going to give the wilderness what it needs. As for Natalie’s punishment? She’ll be the one to arrange the feast. It’s a similarly ruthless moment to the Shauna we’ve been seeing this season, as she walks Nat via getting ready Coach’s physique, however she softens simply barely when she covers his face with a chunk of fabric so Nat doesn’t have to have a look at him as she does it.

As the team has their feast to honor Coach that night, Lottie mutters that it is all flawed, and this isn’t the way it’s presupposed to occur. Somewhat earlier within the episode, she had gone to hope by the bushes, begging for the wilderness to speak to her and hearken to her, and it looks as if it is listening as a result of she begins listening to whispering and laughing — solely nobody is doing both of these issues. Lottie all of a sudden lets out a loud scream, which causes the wilderness to affix in, in the identical taunting screeches that we’ve heard all season. She encourages everybody else to affix her, and it makes the wilderness sounds even louder and extra chaotic.

Simply then, nevertheless, Lottie sees a determine simply on the sting of camp. She briefly thinks it is Coach, however that’s not potential. Instantly, she freezes, and so does everybody else, as a result of it’s individuals they’ve by no means seen earlier than. It is civilization, a approach out. Hope. Earlier than something will be mentioned, the person standing earlier than them notices Coach Scott’s head on the desk and screams, and the credit roll. Is that this actually their saving grace? Was killing Coach Scott their approach house, or will the Yellowjackets must kill once more to guard their secret?

New episodes of Yellowjackets Season 3 premiere Fridays on Showtime.