History Recap / YellowjacketsS2E9Storytelling

Episode's final scene: The cabin. Shauna is in the attic, writing about her feelings about not being the chosen one. Snippets: "How could it not have been me?" and "I used to think it was Jackie who made me feel invisible but..." Her musings are interrupted when she smells smoke. She yells at the others to get up, gathers her things and climbs down, still shouting. There's chaos and panic as they wake up to find the cabin is on fire. They try to escape but all the doors and the windows are stuck and won't open. Van starts kicking at the door. They grab anything they can, including blankets and the shotgun. Taissa tries to shatter the door with the ax until she succeeds. Wrapped in blankets, they run out with whatever they grabbed. Van, the last to come out, does it the nick of time, because just then parts of the ceiling start collapsing. All they can do is stare helplessly as their only shelter goes down in flames.

Lottie's quarters. Misty snoops around and finds a pill bottle with the name of Lottie's doctor. She busts open the locked closet. It contains Natalie's shotgun and the box of phones and their belongings. Just then, somebody comes in and she hides. She tries calling Walter and hears his phone ring. The "somebody" is revealed to be Walter, who came to help Misty.

Natalie's dying dream starts. She is in a darkened airplane all by herself. She can barely hear the muffled voices of the horrified others, Misty most of all. Taissa suggests calling an ambulance, but nobody has their phone on hand. "[[Music/{{Radiohead}} Street Spirit (Fade Out)]]" plays as Misty tries to hold up a swaying Natalie and lets her down on the ground. Crying, she confirms it is too late to do anything for Natalie

* ICantLookGesture: Before Shauna can bring herself to butcher Javi's body, she has to lower her headband so that it covers her eyes. As a result, she has to rely on touch to find where to cut.

* ShootTheDog: Coach Ben barricades the cabin and burns it down, likely in an attempt to save himself from the growing madness of the other survivors.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Lottie finishes her appeal for another HumanSacrifice to the adult Yellowjackets (who even with their various troubles aren't the mentally unstable, starved, scared teenagers trapped in a desperate survival situation that they were), Shauna plays along mostly to placate her and once she leaves the group immediately concludes that she's insane, initially planning to get her re-committed for mental help.

* UnwantedFalseFaith: Teen!Lottie is horrified to hear that the team have killed (well, [[MurderByInaction allowed to die]]) Javi and intend to eat him ''for her''.

The compound's woods. The hunt continues. Shauna is being chased by the others, who are whooping. Out of nowhere, a gunshot hits Lottie in the arm/shoulder area, courtesy of Callie. She orders them to get away from her mom and points the gun at Lottie. Unafraid, Lottie takes off her mask and asks Shauna if that's her daughter. Shauna tells Callie to put the gun down). Lottie appears to be in awe of Callie:

** And one set up way back in season 1 - cops have to account for all their bullets, so once three of Matt's wind up in Kevyn's body, there's really no way out for him.

-->'''Lottie:''' Natalie, it's not evil, just hungry. Just let it in.