History Recap / YellowjacketsS1E1Pilot

* ElderAbuse: The adult Misty Quigley deliberately withholds her patient's pain medication because the woman had knocked her food train to the floor.

* HopeSpot: During the scrimmage, Taissa switches sides and plays aggressively against Allie in order to bring out the best in her and per her own words, teach her to “play under pressure”. This actually ends up working and Allie is seen stepping it up and playing more aggressively against Taissa, who looks delighted to finally see improvement from her and even remarks “Finally.” Then Taissa goes for a brutal slide tackle with disastrous results.

* HopeSpot: During the scrimmage, Taissa switches sides and plays aggressively against Allie in order to bring out the best in her and per her own words, teach her to “play under pressure”. This actually ends up working and Allie is seen upping her game and playing more aggressively against Taissa, who looks delighted to finally see improvement from her and even remarks “Finally.” Then Taissa goes for a brutal slide tackle with disastrous results.

HopeSpot: During the scrimmage, Taissa switches sides and plays aggressively against Allie in order to bring out the best in her and per her own words, teach her to “play under pressure”. This actually ends up working and Allie is seen upping her game and playing more aggressively against Taissa, who looks delighted to finally see improvement from her and even remarks “Finally.” Then Taissa goes for a brutal slide tackle with disastrous results.

Opening scene: Winter. A girl in a nightgown is running barefoot through the woods, panting and crying. She is being chased down by a bunch of people making alarming animal noises. All of a sudden, she falls into a [[SpikesOfDoom pit full of sharpened stakes]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice dies]]. We get to see her distinctive gold necklace. A silent figure, covered in furs and animal hides and wearing pink sneakers watches silently. The girl is dragged away and her body is hung upside down, throat slit.

In 1996, the Yellowjackets are an elite high school soccer team that has qualified for Nationals. Some girls are seen planning to "freeze out" Allie, a freshman player. At practice, the girls change their mind about the freeze out plan. Taissa tackles Allie, which results in Allie breaking her leg and being unable to join the team at Nationals. At a party later on, when a fight about Allie's accident (or was it!?) is just about to start, team captain Jackie puts a stop to it by making each team member go around and say what they like about each other. After the party, Jackie and her best friend Shauna are driven home by Jackie's boyfriend Jeff. He drops off Jackie first, then he and Shauna have sex in the car. She makes him swear he won't get her pregnant, or else she will train the child to hunt him down.

In 2021, Shauna, now a suburban housewife and married to Jeff (yes, ''that'' Jeff), is approached by journalist Jessica Roberts from the ''Star-Ledger'', who is encouraging her to tell her side of her story: how did a group of teenagers survive a plane crash plus 19 months in the wilderness before their rescue? Shauna gives it a pass. Later that night, after trying to bond with her daughter (and failing) and killing a rabbit (what?!), she digs up a phone from her safe.

Taissa, now married and with a child, is launching a campaign for state senator. Shauna calls Taissa and they meet late at night at a diner. They discuss Jessica Roberts, her suspicious lack of bylines, and the pact their fellow survivors made to keep quiet about their experience. Shauna gives Jessica's card to Taissa and tells her to take care of it. As Shauna puts it, if any one of the others decides to talk, "we are all fucked."

Misty is a nurse at a resting home. She goes to check on Mrs. [=DeGenaro=] one of her elderly patients, who goes out of her way to knock her food tray. Still smiling, she speculates out loud that the morphine might be upsetting her patient's stomach and deliberately withholds the patient's pain medication. With a "Don't fuck with me," she walks away. Shortly after she leaves work, unaware that Natalie is spying her.

Back to the opening scene, a bunch of people dressed in animal furs and masks roast some meat (clearly sourced from the poor girl) and sit around a fire. One of them serves it to yet another individual clad in a white robe decorated with strands of dark hair and wearing a deer antler headdress. This person, whom will be referred to in the future as the Antler Queen, gives a nod of approval. Then and only then, the others start eating. As they eat with obvious delight, the grease dribbles down their chins. When the feast is over, they all leave except for one who stays behind. She pulls off her mask and puts on glasses. It's Misty, of all people, who smiles mysteriously.

* {{Irony}}: Taissa's injury to Allie ironically saves the girl from being on the plane when it crashes. Mari morbidly points this out in the next episode.
* {{Jerkass}}: While the team is getting ready for the rally, Van is painting the team mascot on Allie's face. Allie is lamenting that she is going to have to skip prom due to Nationals and had an awesome dress. Van tells her that she can wear it next year. Allie responds by reminding Van that nobody invited ''her''.

* LoveTriangle: A [[Analysis/LoveTriangle Type Seven]] example. 1996 Jeff (a) is in a relationship with Jackie (b). Unknown to her, Jeff is also sexually involved with Shauna (c), whom Jackie calls her best friend. In the present, Jeff and Shauna are married.

The next morning, we get a montage of assorted team members getting ready: Lottie takes medication and is served breakfast all by herself in a large dining room; Laura Lee is on her knees praying; Taissa bids a casual goodbye to her parents; Natalie broods from her home in a trailer park; Van tries to shake her mother awake, and finally slaps her so she tan give Van a ride; equipment manager Misty stares impassively at a rat drowning in a swimming pool; and Shauna looks at her early-admission acceptance letter to Brown University (not Rutgers, where Jackie assumes they will attend and room together). Finally the team boards the chartered plane (courtesy of Lottie's father) that will take them to Seattle. The passengers include not just the team, but also Coach Bill Martinez, Coach Ben Scott, and Coach Martinez's two sons, Travis and Javi. Jackie lets Shauna have her necklace (a heart in a chain) for good luck and a Valium. Much later, Shauna wakes up to turbulence and chaos inside the plane. She looks outside the window and sees that the plane is about to crash.

Opening scene: Winter. A girl in a nightgown is running barefoot through the woods, panting and crying. She is being chased down by a bunch of people making alarming animal noises. All of a sudden, she falls into a [[SpikesOfDoom pit full of sharpened stakes]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice dies]]. We get to see her distinctive gold necklace. A silent figure, covered in furs and animal hides, watches silently. The girl is dragged away and her body is hung upside down, throat slit.

In 1996, the Yellowjackets are an elite high school soccer team that has qualified for Nationals. Some girls are seen planning to "freeze out" Allie, a freshman player. At practice, the girls change their mind about the freeze out plan. Taissa tackles Allie, which results in Allie breaking her leg and being unable to join the team at Nationals. At a party later on, when a fight about Allie's accident (or was it!?) is just about to start, team captain Jackie puts a stop to it by making each team member go around and say what they like about each other. After the party, Jackie and her best friend Shauna are driven home by Jackie's boyfriend Jeff. He drops off Jackie first, then he and Shauna have sex in the car. She makes him swear he won't get her pregnant.

The next morning, the team boards the chartered plane (courtesy of team member Lottie's father) that will take them to Seattle. The passengers include not just the team, but also Coach Martinez, Coach Scott, equipment manager Misty, and Coach Martinez's two sons, Travis and Javi. Jackie lets Shauna have her chain for good luck and a Valium. Much later, Shauna wakes up to turbulence and chaos inside the plane. She looks outside the window and sees that the plane is about to crash.

In 2021, Shauna, now a suburban housewife and married to Jeff (yes, ''that'' Jeff), is approached by journalist Jessica Roberts from the Star-Ledger, who is encouraging her to tell her side of her story: how did a group of teenagers survive a plane crash plus 19 months in the wilderness before their rescue? Shauna gives it a pass. Later that night, after trying to bond with her daughter (and failing) and killing a rabbit (what?!), she digs up a phone from her safe.

Taissa, now married and with a child, is launching a campaign for state senator. Shauna calls Taissa and they meet late at night at a diner. They discuss Jessica Roberts, her suspicious lack of bylines, and the pact their fellow survivors made to keep quiet about their experience. As Shauna puts it, if any one of the others decides to talk, "we are all fucked."

Misty is a nurse at a resting home. She goes to check on one of her elderly patients, who goes out of her way to knock her food tray. Still smiling, she deliberately withholds the patient's pain medication and walks away.

* {{Jerkass}}: While the team is getting ready for the rally, Van is painting the team mascot on Allie's. Allie is lamenting that she is going to have to skip prom due to Nationals and had an awesome dress. Van tells her that she can wear it next year. Allie responds by reminding Van that nobody invited ''her''.

Opening scene: A girl in a nightgown is running around the woods in winter, panting and crying. She is being chased down by a bunch of people making alarming animal noises. All of a sudden, she falls into a [[SpikesOfDoom pit full of sharpened stakes]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice dies]]. We get to see her distinctive gold necklace. A silent figure, covered in furs and animal hides, watches silently. The girl is dragged away and her body is hung upside down, throat slit.

* LoveTriangle: A TriangRelationships/TypeSeven example. In 1996, Jeff is in a relationship with Jackie. Unknown to her, Jeff is also sexually involved with Shauna, whom Jackie calls her best friend. In the present, Jeff and Shauna are married.

* InformedFlaw: Jessica Roberts rudely asks the adult Shauna if she expected her life to end up "like this". Shauna's living a comfortable middle class lifestyle, with a nice house and a husband who's still in as good shape as his high school self, as well as not having to work herself. Granted, Jessica's grasping at straws to get Shauna to go along with her, but it seems like an odd attack. It is revealed that Shauna and Jeff are in couple's counselling, and she doesn't have many friends of her own, but that's information Jessica couldn't have known.

* LoveTriangle: A TriangRelationships/TypeSeven example. In 1996, Jeff is in a relationship with Jackie. Unknown to her, Jeff is also sexually involved with Shauna, whom Jackie calls her best friend. In the present, Jeff and Shauna are married.

''Note: the events in the episode do not appear in chronological order. The events in this recap do appear that way... mostly.

Opening scene:
A girl in a nightgown is running around the woods in winter, panting and crying. She is being chased down by a bunch of people making alarming animal noises. All of a sudden, she falls into a [[SpikesOfDoom pit full of sharpened stakes]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice dies]]. We get to see her distinctive gold necklace. A silent figure, covered in furs and animal hides, watches silently. The girl is dragged away and her body is hung upside down, throat slit.

In 2021, Shauna, now a suburban housewife and married to Jeff (yes, ''that'' Jeff), is approached by journalist Jessica Roberts from the Star-Ledger, who is encouraging her to tell her side of her story: how did a group of teenagers survive a plane crash plus 19 months in the wilderness before their rescue. Shauna gives it a pass. Later that night, after trying to bond with her daughter (and failing) and killing a rabbit (what?!), she digs up a phone from her safe.

Taissa, now married and with a child, is launching a campaign for state senator. Shauna calls Taissa and they meet late at night at a diner. They discuss Jessica Roberts, her suspicious lack of bylines, the pact their fellow survivors made to keep quiet about their experience. As Shauna puts it, if any one of them decides to talk, "we are all fucked."

Note: the events in the episode do not appear in chronological. The events in this recap are... mostly.