With Lottie (Simone Kessell) confirmed lifeless in Yellowjackets, the investigation has begun to determine who killed her. It appears unlikely that she simply fell down the steps on her personal. Naturally, fingers are pointing to the apparent suspect, Tai (Tawny Cypress), contemplating Episode 5 is even referred to as “Did Tai Do That?”
However as the women, led by Misty (Christina Ricci), dive deeper into the thriller, they uncover that there’s rather a lot about Lottie they didn’t know. Her dying might be by the hands of nearly anybody, the rationale for absolutely anything.
Yellowjackets
- Launch Date
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November 14, 2021
- Community
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Showtime, Paramount+ with Showtime
- Showrunner
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Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Jonathan Lisco
Misty Jumps Full Pressure Into an Investigation
The episode begins with Misty, the most effective characters on Yellowjackets, utilizing her beginner sleuthing abilities and connections to collect data. She visits the coroner, who she is aware of personally from her on-line citizen detective group. Having damaging data on him, she blackmails him into giving her Lottie’s private objects so she will look at them. Whereas he goes to retrieve the bag, she steals a bit of hair discovered below Lottie’s fingernail, prone to attain out to a different contact to run it for DNA.
The opposite women appear shocked to be taught that Lottie is lifeless. It doesn’t take lengthy for them to show the tables on Misty and accuse her. In any case, Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) is aware of that Misty left work early and nobody is aware of the place she went. Primarily based on how livid Misty is at this accusation, she’s unlikely the killer. Nonetheless, Misty has exhibited troubling conduct earlier than, each within the current day and in flashbacks. So whereas it’s unlikely, it’s not fully out of the realm of risk that she did it.
Going via Lottie’s private objects, Misty calls the coroner to ask concerning the cellphone, as a result of it wasn’t in there. He confirms that she didn’t have a telephone on her, which leaves Misty puzzled. She will get in her automotive, however Shauna is just not far behind, planning to comply with her. However when Shauna stops the automotive to analyze somebody who’s following her, it seems to be Walter (Elijah Wooden). They reluctantly workforce up and head to the lodge the place Lottie died, and the place Walter is aware of Misty is probably going headed as properly.
He is proper and as Misty investigates, she finds seen scratch marks on the partitions of the stairwell the place Lottie fell (or was pushed), suggesting both she tried to interrupt her fall or there was a wrestle of some sort. However she discovers one thing much more stunning.
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Lottie Was Hiding Particulars of Her Household
The large reveal within the episode is that Lottie wasn’t homeless after her compound was closed down, as she recommended to Shauna when she confirmed up on her doorstep on the lookout for a spot to remain. Somewhat, her rich father nonetheless lived within the penthouse of the constructing the place she died. What’s extra, Lottie had been staying with him for weeks. This raises critical questions as to why she confirmed up at Shauna’s home, and her motivations in attempting to get near Callie (Sarah Desjardins).
Affected by dementia and dwelling with a nurse, her father was seemingly not able to doing the deed himself and wouldn’t have any cause to take action until he someway thought she was going to convey him hurt. However it seems he doesn’t depart his penthouse suite a lot, seemingly even much less so on his personal, and to be in a darkish stairwell with out anybody noticing. So her father can nearly actually be dominated out.
Studying this data from the bellman, Misty reveals up on the door of the penthouse, pretending to be a neighbor coming by with treats and condolences. She additionally claims that Lottie was holding a package deal for her and convinces her father to let her into the condominium to search for it. She fishes round and finds a receipt in Lottie’s coat, which she stealthily steals and reads to find that Lottie withdrew $50,000 from her checking account proper earlier than she died.
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Shauna Stays Suspicious
However another person has crushed Misty there. Walter is there with Shauna posing as techs engaged on the Wi-Fi, pretending one thing is unsuitable and wishes upgrading. Together with discovering Lottie’s telephone and copying its contents to undergo later, he’s attempting to faucet into her laptop to see what she might need been as much as on the day she died, or the times main as much as it.
Whereas Walter and Shauna are working collectively, they’re additionally seemingly nonetheless suspicious of each other. Shauna begins to assume that possibly Walter killed Lottie for the sake of Misty, particularly since he feedback that he “is aware of what curls her toes,” and that’s a problem. Upon being accused, Walter pulls out one among his hairs and means that he’ll run his DNA towards the hair Misty discovered below Lottie’s fingers if Shauna will do the identical. However she refuses. It’s unclear if it’s because she’s responsible or simply finds him repulsive.
Shauna stays a possible suspect, with indicators pointing to Shauna being unhinged, each as a teen and within the current day, which raises suspicions. Let’s not overlook that she additionally went to New York the night time Lottie died to buy a cat that resembled a misplaced one in hopes of serving to Jeff (Warren Kole) fulfill his plan for good karma. Plus, the final time Shauna noticed Lottie alive, she had an enormous argument along with her and kicked her out of her home. Nonetheless, Shauna appears steadfast in her perception that somebody is after the Yellowjackets usually, contemplating all of the unusual issues that had been taking place to her. From her brakes not working to getting locked within the freezer, she worries she might be subsequent.
So, Did Tai Do That?
The obvious suspect, as famous, is Tai, and it doesn’t assist that she appears unaffected by Lottie’s dying. Even Van (Lauren Ambrose) is disturbed by Tai’s skill to only go on along with her day like nothing occurred, not expressing any upset concerning the lack of their good friend. Van is suspicious and questions the place Tai went the night time they’d their date in New York. She informed Van to satisfy her in New York in an hour, regardless that it was solely a 15-minute practice experience away. That leaves 45 minutes unaccounted for. Tai is adamant that she had nothing to do with Lottie’s dying, claiming she needed to prep issues, together with hiring the horse and carriage, and navigating the wildness that’s New York itself took time.
Is it doable, nevertheless, that Tai entered one among her fugue states, visited and killed Lottie, and doesn’t even keep in mind it? It’s becoming that in flashbacks in the identical episode, teenage Tai (Jasmin Savoy Brown) pulled the King of Hearts card and was tasked with executing Ben (Steven Krueger). She was having bother grappling with the thought, and Van (Liv Hewson) coached her via attempting to summon her alter-ego, the one which made her sleepwalk, to do it for her. It’s evident that proper earlier than pulling the set off, this works, and the opposite character enters Tai’s physique. If so in current day, she might very properly be the killer however doesn’t recall doing it.
One signal that the Tai who’s current proper now won’t be the “actual” Tai is when she goes to see her son Sammy (Aiden Stoxx). Regardless of being informed that he had been asking about her, oddly, he immediately turns away from her when she crouches down to speak to him. He’s scared, and it’s both primarily based on one thing she quietly stated to him, or that he senses this isn’t his mommy however another person rather more sinister.
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Might It Be Somebody Else Totally?
If Tai, Shauna, Misty, Van, even Walter, did not kill Lottie, who might it’s? It’s doable Shauna is true and it’s somebody solely totally different who’s after the Yellowjackets. If that’s the case, who? This may largely depend upon who of the ladies from the wilderness have been left standing on the finish exterior the core group, or it might be somebody associated to them ultimately.
What is clear primarily based on Lottie’s father is that he has already instructed the police to rule her dying an accident. In the event that they fail to take action, he tells Misty, their basis wouldn’t see one other dime. (It’s unclear if the previous Wall Avenue titan, nevertheless, nonetheless has the power to make such calls for in his present medical situation or simply thinks he’s doing so). If that’s the case, there’s no incentive or need for the police to analyze additional and nothing will probably be carried out about Lottie’s dying till the Yellowjackets do it.
In the event that they proceed down that path, what they uncover won’t be what they wish to hear, and will probably have implications for all of them. However it’s doable the identical might be stated if they do not proceed to try to discover the reality, particularly if the killer is somebody fully exterior their group.