‘Yellowjackets’ Stars on Filming [SPOILER]’s ‘Heartbreaking’ Death in Episode 6 and Why It Needed to Happen That Way
variety.comMichaela Zee SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Yellowjackets” Season 3, Episode 6, titled “Thanksgiving (Canada),” streaming now on Paramount+ with Showtime.
Goodbye, Coach. After narrowly avoiding death in last week’s episode of “Yellowjackets” because — as Akilah (Nia Sondaya) tells the group after snorting cave fumes and seeing a vision, “He’s our bridge home” — it turns out Coach Ben Scott (Steven Krueger) didn’t make it out of the wilderness after all.
In the sixth episode of Season 3, the 1990s timeline begins with a montage of Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) bringing meals to Coach Scott, who is imprisoned in the animal pen.
During her visits, he pitches multiple ways for her to kill him, including bringing him a knife so her “hands can stay clean” or using the gun since it “would be quick, painless,” but she ignores his pleas — telling him to eat instead. “There’s no way that I’m taking away their hope of going home, or your hope of going home,” Natalie says.
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