Yellowjacketstook the construct ofLord of the Fliesand release it on its head . Instead of boys , it ’s a association football team of teenaged girls travel to subject when their carpenter’s plane crashes in the middle of the wild . They are leave behind to survive there for 19 month . The report stay to be told in the 1990s and present Clarence Day — 25 years after their rescue . Even more so than any other season , the story in time of year three is a thought - provoking examen of injury .

With the third season ending after several character ’ deaths , mysterious new figures in the wild , and the surprise insertion of another survivor , we in the end got response that have been loom since the pilot episode . These cleaning woman are far more busted than ever ideate , and the Antler Queen ’s identity operator is a shock , as are her revelations as an adult .

The hunt is on, and the Antler Queen is crowned in the wilderness

In the flashback scenes in the wild , the ladies are gearing up for the Queen of Hearts biz . They technically are n’t thirst and do n’t take to play , but they finger that the wild needs a sacrifice of someone they cherish . It has to be a hunt .

Tai ( Jasmin Savoy Brown ) convinces Van ( Liv Hewson ) to set the biz , but Shauna ( Sophie Nélisse ) is onto them . She moves spots and designedly draws a 2nd acting card to vary the count . This results in Mari ( Alexa Barajas ) pulling the fatal card instead of Hannah ( Ashley Sutton ) , who Tai and Van prove to rig it to be .

Mari is confirmed to be a “ Pit Girl , ” another character who has been teased since the buffer . She black market through the wild , desperately trying to evade seizure , at least for as long as she can . But it ’s inevitable , and when she perishes , Shauna prove insensate than anyone imagined . While the women aggrieve Mari ’s death , Shauna just asks what the hold - up is because they have a spread to prepare .

Tai, Shauna, and Lottie stand outside in the wilderness in Yellowjackets.

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Later at their balefire dinner , the horns are placed on Shauna ’s head along with a veil cut through her case , revealing her to be the mystical Antler Queen that has been rally since time of year one . Young Shauna has gone from beingthe most likable role on   Yellowjacketsto the most feared .

The remaining ladies deal with the trauma of today

Back in the present day , the extent of the harm Tai ( Tawny Cypress ) carries with her from the wilderness is actualize when she digs a grave for Van ( Lauren Ambrose ) but cuts out her heart before bury the body and eats it . That , combined with Tai ’s ongoing psychogenic fugue Department of State and visions , suggests she ’s more far die than anyone , viewers included , realized .

Lottie ( Simone Kessell ) may have been right in that there ’s darkness in Callie ( Sarah Desjardins ) , too . In a scandalous kink , Callie is the one who killed Lottie . When Callie realized that Lottie stole the tape Melissa ( Hilary Swank ) send off to Shauna ( Melanie Lynskey ) , Callie call her to get it back , but caught Lottie in the middle of one of her installment . realise how mentally mentally ill Lottie is after her hurtful Good Book , Callie advertise her female parent ’s former friend down the stairs in a scene of rage . Misty ( Christina Ricci ) compute it out and urges Callie to confess to her male parent . despairing to save his daughter from her mother ’s darkness , Jeff ( Warren Kole ) gathers their things and leave behind the sign .

Shauna is shaken when she bring back home to find her family line and their belongings gone . She pick Misty , who advises her of what Callie did . While pondering the site in her kitchen , Shauna spots something stick out from under the fridge . It ’s the note Melissa swore she included with the tape . When Callie was jump by her father while in secret give the package , the tone fall . Melissa was telling the accuracy . In the government note , Melissa asks Shauna to try and forgive herself . For what ?

Mari in the dark looking up and scared in Yellowjackets.

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Shauna crumples up the note and tosses it into the garbage electric pig . It ’s in this moment that the memories start flooding back . After breaking down , Shauna snap up her pen and starts journaling . Here , the dire truth comes out .

The final scene is a harrowing juxtaposition

The terminal vista of the season flips back and off between grownup Shauna jotting down her touch and the going - on in the wilderness 25 days earlier . As young Shauna is being crown and the ladies train to banquet on Mari ’s essence , adult Shauna writes that she believe she and the ladies felt so alive out there that they lost their “ ability for ego - reflection . ” They have n’t failed to retrieve things intelligibly because they are stop psychic trauma ; it ’s because , deep down , they were “ having so much fun . ” echo her position as the Antler Queen , Shauna reminisces about the sense of power she matte . “ I was a warrior , ” she declares . “ I was a f***ing tabby . ” It ’s a feeling Shauna misplace , and now that she remembers the adrenaline rush , it ’s metre to get that feeling back .

How does it all end ? With a massive vexer for what will hopefully be a quaternary and potential last time of year . Back in the wilderness , vernal Natalie ( Sophie Thatcher ) has tend off with the artificial satellite phone and transponder . She climbs up a mountain and desperately endeavor to get a sign . In the final moment , her pleas of “ Is anyone out there ? ” are finally answer as a crackled man ’s voice responds , “ Yes , I can hear you . ”

It would stand to reason thatYellowjackets , one of the best testify onParamount+ with Showtime ,   will bleed until it meets a meet conclusion . This would logically be when the ladies are rescued . There ’s still a lot of account to tell . In the wild , the head count want to be whittled down to only those confirmed to have survived . In the present daylight , that bit might have to be reduce further as well . Based on Shauna ’s revelation , she may be quick to do flagitious thing to ensure the mystery of the wild remain as such and , most significantly , to get back her ability and become a queen once again .

Shauna pinning Melissa down to the ground, holding a piece of skin from her arm over her mouth, Shauna’s mouth bloody in Yellowjackets.

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Who will be left by the end ? We ’ll have to await and find out ifYellowjacketsgets a 4th season refilling .

StreamYellowjacketson Paramount+ with Showtime .

Jeff and Callie sitting in a restaurant talking in Yellowjackets.

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Adult Shauna sitting at a kitchen table, arms folded in Yellowjackets.

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Young Shauna holding a pot in the wilderness in Yellowjackets.

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