Image courtesy of ShowtimeSeason 3 of Yellowjackets‘ present-day mystery revolves around an unseen antagonist seemingly targeting the surviving team members, with Shauna Sadecki (Melanie Lynskey) positioned as the primary mark. Following Lottie Matthews’ (Simone Kessell) shocking death at the bottom of a staircase, the incidents piling up around Shauna take on an increasingly sinister quality: her car’s brakes mysteriously fail, she finds herself locked in a freezer at a nursing home, and most significantly, a mysterious cassette tape arrives at her doorstep. This DAT tape, intercepted by her daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins) in Yellowjackets Season 3 premiere, becomes the season’s central MacGuffin — a recording that contains damning evidence about what truly happened during the team’s 19-month wilderness ordeal.
After finally listening to the tape with Taissa (Tawny Cypress) and Van (Lauren Ambrose) in Episode 6, Shauna discovers it was recorded by Hannah (Ashley Sutton), a biologist who encountered the Yellowjackets during the ritualistic ceremony in which the girls consumed the flesh of Coach Ben Scott’s (Steven Krueger). Convinced that Hannah’s daughter Alex must be orchestrating these attacks as revenge, Shauna embarks on a mission to Richmond, Virginia, armed with a hunting knife and burning questions about her supposed stalker.WARNING: Spoilers below for Yellowjackets Season 3, Episode 8The truth Shauna discovers in Episode 8 shatters her paranoid nar.
