Updated through S2E2
Ella Purnell plays Jackie Taylor, the Yellowjackets' captain and Shauna's best friend. Her social power meant nothing in the wilderness, and her isolation from the group led to her death outside the cabin in the S1 finale. She lingers in Shauna's imagination for seasons after.
What's confirmed in canon
S1Jackie clashes with the group as her captaincy loses meaning; she and Shauna's friendship curdles over Jeff and the diary.
S1E10Locked out after a fight, Jackie freezes to death in the snow.
S2E2Starving and snowed in, the team consumes Jackie's body — the first cannibalism ("Edible Complex").
Where the community lands
Jackie's death is the wilderness's first real turn — the moment the old high-school hierarchy dies with her and the group starts becoming something else. Her frozen body also delivers the show's first act of cannibalism.
Still open
Q1Does Jackie keep appearing to Shauna in the final season?
Q2Was her death an accident, or the wilderness "choosing"?
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