‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3, episode 1 brings us again to the all-important pit

The pit! The pit! It all the time comes again to the pit in Yellowjackets.

We’re formally again within the wilderness with the arrival of Season 3 of Showtime’s teen cannibalism drama, and in episode 1, there is a throwback to the very first episode of Season 1. Yep, we have lastly discovered the all-important pit, the location of the thriller Pit Lady’s grisly demise.

Wait, what is the pit in Yellowjackets once more?

Within the opening scene of Yellowjackets Season 1, we see a lady working for her life by means of the snow as a wild rumpus echoes by means of the bushes. She falls right into a deep, stake-lined pit and is impaled. Importantly, she’s carrying a heart-shaped necklace we be taught initially belonged to Jackie (Ella Purnell). Jackie had given the necklace to Shauna (Sophie Nélisse), who then makes it a ritual merchandise in Season 2, to be worn by whoever attracts the Queen of Hearts card to be sacrificed and eaten. The identification of the necklace-wearing Pit Lady has but to be revealed, but it surely’s now clear that she drew the damned card.

The place do we discover the pit in Season 3? 

Although this second was brutal, it was only a sport. However the FORESHADOWING.
Credit score: Kailey Schwerman / Paramount+ with Showtime

Now, within the opening scene of Yellowjackets Season 3, we see a terrified Mari (Alexa Barajas) chased by means of the woods, a ruse revealed to be a mere sport of “Capture the Flag.” It’s each a intelligent throwback to Season 1’s opening scene and a foreshadowing of what is forward on this episode — and it is particularly attention-grabbing as lots of on-line theories level to Mari presumably being the Pit Lady, because it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not she made it out of the wilderness.

About 25 minutes into the episode, we reunite with Coach Ben (Steven Krueger), who’s been surviving solo within the wilderness after ditching the workforce final season, horrified by their pivot to cannibalism. He stumbles throughout a pit coated by wood planks, and inside it finds a cargo container beneath a tarp that is filled with survival provides. Greatest guess? It was most likely dug by the hunter who owned the cabin the Yellowjackets took shelter in till it was burned down (extra on that under). 

After pulling the whole lot out of it, Ben re-covers the pit with the tarp, grime, and leaves, then leaves bait on high of it, hoping for a deer to fall in. Later within the episode, having stormed off from camp after her battle with Shauna, Mari falls into the disguised pit and breaks her leg.

What’s Coach Ben’s plan?

Ben has had fairly a time of it, what with having his leg amputated by a teen, experiencing emotionally draining hallucinations from hunger, and nearly taking his personal life. Ben lastly fled the cabin in Season 2, horrified by the workforce’s human feasts. He is been surviving by himself for months, by means of winter, spring, and now summer season. However along with his absence and open disdain for the workforce’s consuming of each other, he is additionally a first-rate suspect for the massive occasion of the Season 2 finale.

As we see in a scene between Natalie (Sophie Thatcher), Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown), Gen (Vanessa Prasad), and Van (Liv Hewson), the workforce suspect Ben of being the one who burned down the cabin final season in retaliation for his or her cannibalism. They’re nonetheless on the lookout for him, however he is just about presumed useless by the Yellowjackets. However then we see the coach very a lot alive, setting small animal traps within the woods — clearly how he is been surviving this lengthy.

When he sees it is Mari caught within the pit, not a deer, it is laborious to evaluate Ben’s response past pure shock. What’s Ben’s plan now? Will he succumb to the Yellowjackets’ penchant for human haute delicacies? Will he seize or launch Mari, and why? At this level, something might occur.

However what we do know from Season 1? The Yellowjackets will ultimately discover the pit and line it with stakes.

Yellowjackets Season 3 is streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime from Feb. 14, with new episodes weekly.