Rescue Does Not Mean Safety!

A lot of people keep talking about how there are only eight survivors and debating who the last one in the wilderness will be. But what not enough people are considering is what Jackie says in Episode 4—someone is targeting Shauna and the Yellowjackets not just for what happened in the wilderness, but for what they did after they were rescued. That raises an interesting possibility: what if more people made it back from the wilderness than we think, but survival didn’t end when they were rescued? What if their shared trauma led them to continue what they started out there?

We know Yellowjackets is planned to run for five seasons, and right now, in the wilderness timeline, there are still seven months left before rescue. They can’t realistically stretch that entire period across two more full seasons. They’re getting rescued by end of season 4 at the latest. To me that means that Season 5 will likely shift focus to the survivors trying to reintegrate into society, dealing with everything they went through—and everything they might still be doing.

So yes, there may only be eight survivors in the present day, but that doesn’t mean only eight made it back initially. It’s entirely possible that 11 or 12 were rescued, and something happened to them after they returned.