Jackie, the team captain in Yellowjackets , died tragically in the wilderness after a plane crash left her and her teammates stranded. In Season 1, after a bitter fight with her best friend Shauna, Jackie left the cabin and was forced to survive outside alone during a snowstorm. She lacked survival skills and ultimately froze to death in the cold, isolated from the group
. Her death was a turning point for the group, especially for Shauna, who was deeply affected and later haunted by guilt. The loss of Jackie, who was the unofficial leader trying to maintain pre-crash social norms, led the group to descend into darker behavior, including cannibalism
. In Season 2, Jackie's frozen body was kept in a shed because the ground was too hard to bury her. Shauna would have visions of Jackie, but eventually, the group burned and cannibalized her body in a grim survival act
. Thus, Jackie’s death not only marked a shift in the survivors' dynamics but also symbolized the collapse of their former civilized world and the beginning of their brutal new reality in the wilderness
