Place·Canon
The Pit
The stake-lined pit from the pilot's cold open — where the hunt's prey is run to death.
Updated through S3E10
A pit lined with sharpened stakes is the killing ground of the pilot's cold open. For three seasons it was a flash-forward with no context; the finale places it in the wilderness timeline.
What's confirmed in canon
S1E1Pit Girl is driven into the spiked pit and killed in the cold open.
S3E10The pit's stakes, set by Travis, kill Mari during the ritual hunt.
Where the community lands
The pit is the physical endpoint of the group's descent — a purpose-built trap that turns starvation into ritual murder. Travis sets its stakes; Mari dies on them.
Still open
Q1Does the pit stay the group's method through the final season?
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