Lottie lets Shauna do something quite shocking at the end of Yellowjackets season 2, episode 7, but why did the teen let it happen that way?
The ending of Yellowjackets season 2, episode 7, saw a brutal scene between teens Lottie and Shauna; here’s why Lottie let her do that to her. A depressive haze hung over most of the survivors for the seventh installment of season 2, as it picks up directly after the events that culminated in Shauna’s baby dying and the team stuck in the cabin to wait out a snowstorm. Much like Jackie’s corpse, Shauna held on to her newborn’s body before going outside alone and burying him in a makeshift grave while solemnly swearing that it’s “me and you against the world.”
Shauna’s outpouring of grief didn’t end there as she went to the meat shed and fruitlessly tried talking to Jackie again, only to collapse into sobs when her dead best friend’s apparition didn’t appear. Teen Shauna spent most of the episode wandering in sorrow before returning to the cabin and violently assaulting Misty for humming “Lightning Crashes” by Live. The team tried to hold her back as she screamed at them for eating her baby in her vision, but she fought them off — and then Lottie stepped forward. Lottie held her hands behind her back and let Shauna beat her to a pulp. Here’s why.
Lottie Knows Shauna Needs Someone To Blame For Her Baby’s Death In Yellowjackets
Lottie’s actions may seem strange, but her words before letting Shauna wail on her provide insight into the incident: “I know there’s a lot of pain right now, but you need to let it out.” Lottie instinctively knew that Shauna needed someone to blame for the fate of her child, and she played the sacrificial lamb. Before performing a beat down on Lottie, Shauna quickly accused the rest of the group of killing her baby. First, she declared that Misty killed her baby, and then when the team defended Misty, she turned on the rest of them and referenced her hallucination in which the Yellowjackets cannibalized him.
While Jackie’s death deeply informed Shauna’s character, the fate of Shauna’s baby also played a major role in who Shauna is today and how she deals with her live daughter. It’s important to note that Shauna, out of everyone in the wilderness, has lost the most. She already feels partially responsible, if not wholly responsible, for Jackie’s death. To place the blame for another death on her shoulders might be too much for her already-fragile psyche to bear, so she blames the rest of the Yellowjackets team. Lottie senses this through her outburst and takes her pain away by letting Shauna physically attack her with reckless abandon.
Did Lottie Think She Failed Shauna & The Baby?
While the entire team on Yellowjackets was excited at the prospect of having a baby around, no one was more dedicated to the fate of Shauna’s baby than Lottie. She began morning meditations expressly to prepare the group to bring a new life into the world. She gifted Shauna with the baby blanket and even rightly predicted that Shauna’s baby would be a boy. It was to the point that Shauna was disturbed by how invested Lottie had become with her baby, so it’s very possible that Lottie does feel a sense of guilt over what happened and failure over the infant’s loss of life.
Lottie’s Laura Lee vision suggests that she feels a certain sense of remorse and responsibility for the deaths that have happened in the wilderness. Though Lottie’s line about the wilderness “hearing them” and giving them what they wanted because Shauna ultimately lived suggests that she sees the wilderness as responsible for life and death, her acting as a martyr for the rest of the group indicates that she feels some guilt in the matter. Out of everyone, Lottie is the most connected to the wilderness on Yellowjackets, and she may feel guilt over being unable to sway its wishes.
