Yellowjackets Season 3 Sounds Like It Will Pay Off The Pilot’s Biggest Character Tease

New details about the characters in Yellowjackets season 3 suggest the show will finally fulfill the pilot episode’s most shocking set-ups.

The cast has teased new details about Yellowjackets season 3, hinting that some big character set-ups from the pilot episode will finally be fulfilled. Right off the bat, the series gave audiences several huge mysteries and shocks to anticipate, as the pilot episode kicked off with moments from three different points in Yellowjackets’ timeline that the show would slowly build to. Even before introducing the soccer team pre-crash in 1996 and the survivors back home in 2021, Yellowjackets’ first scene cuts to a girl falling into a pit in a snow-covered forest, teasing the horrors to come down the line.

The past timeline has still yet to catch up to many of the teases from the present-day story, though elements such as Shauna’s pregnancy and the teens’ cannibalism are finally included by the end of Yellowjackets season 2. With the teens still having approximately a year left in the wilderness before being rescued, there’s still plenty of ground to be covered in the past timeline for Yellowjackets season 3’s story. However, by the sound of the cast members’ comments about season 3’s return, it appears Yellowjackets is quickly approaching the show’s oldest tease for the characters’ development.

Yellowjackets Season 3 Will Finally Show The Characters Teased In The Pilot

Sophie Nélisse, who plays teen Shauna in Yellowjackets’ ensemble cast, told ET that season 3 will see the younger characters become “very feral” in the wilderness. Considering the pilot episode opened with the girls hunting one another before silently participating in a fur-clad, masked, cannibalistic ritual, it was clear the teens seen pre-crash would become virtually unrecognizable later in the series. While they were still building to this point after resorting to cannibalism and creating the card game in Yellowjackets season 2, it seems season 3 will finally bring them to the feral and violent stage teased in the pilot.

With Yellowjackets season 3 expected to bring the show full circle to pay off the pilot’s wilderness survival teases, the humanity of the teens will likely become nearly nonexistent in the upcoming installments. The cast has also suggested that Yellowjackets season 3 will be the show’s bloodiest outing yet, hinting that many more characters will be sacrificed and hunted in their ritual card game. Considering Yellowjackets season 2 ended without any purposeful murders, as Javi fell through the ice before the teens could catch and kill Natalie, the descent of the teens into their “feral” stage may progress quite rapidly.

Yellowjackets Season 3 Can Finally Solve A Major Season 1 Mystery

Among the series’ biggest mysteries since the pilot is the identity of Yellowjackets’ “Pit Girl.” The pilot cuts to moments out in the wilderness when the survivors hunt down an unidentified girl, trap and kill her in a stake-lined pit, and later eat her in their cannibal ritual. It was clear that it would take a while in the series before the teens reached this point, but with the characters confirmed to be “very feral” in Yellowjackets season 3, this may finally be the time when Pit Girl’s identity is confirmed and the full context of her death is shown.

However, Pit Girl’s death occurs when the timeline is still in the depth of winter, and Yellowjackets season 2 ends with spring approaching. The scene of the survivors eating Pit Girl also features them dressed from head-to-toe in furs, hinting that another spring and summer’s worth of animal hunting will pass before then. Unless Yellowjackets season 3’s past timeline quickly covers at least another nine months or a time jump in the wilderness, the long-awaited Pit Girl reveal may not happen until season 4 or at least the very end of season 3.