The primary time we see the unusual determine (exterior of the “Yellowjackets” opening credit, a minimum of) is in a flashback to Taissa’s childhood within the present’s third episode, “The Dollhouse.” The primary flashback establishes that younger Taissa had a robust, loving connection along with her sick grandmother, who taught her to have a reasonably comforting view of the afterlife. “Dying is nothing to be afraid of,” she tells younger Taissa. “The Lord provides us our time right here, then he calls us again.” Again to the place? “To him. To heaven … With the angels.”

Within the subsequent flashback, although, issues take a darker flip. First, Taiss’s grandmother freaks out at some unseen presence within the room. Taissa asks if the angel is there, however her grandmother responds to the presence, “Do not you come over right here. I imply it, keep away.” When Taissa asks her who she’s speaking to, she says, “That man with no eyes! Do not let him take me! Do not let him take my eyes!” 

Within the last flashback, we see Taissa approaching her grandmother’s casket and curiously prying open her eyelid, solely to find that her grandmother’s eyes are gone … or a minimum of, so it seems. What Taissa really sees is an eye fixed cap, a sort of contact lens that funeral properties use to make sure the eyelids stay closed and cut back the sunken look of the attention. However between her grandmother’s horrid imaginative and prescient and the grim discovery on the funeral, it is no marvel that Taissa is haunted by the concept of a person with no eyes.

Everybody’s afraid of dying, however dying is even scarier in case you expertise what looks as if clear-cut affirmation that the afterlife is actual, and it is horrible. As an alternative of the comforting concept that angels come to peacefully take the deceased away to heaven, this second appears to verify for Taissa that the afterlife is a far, far darker place than the residing world.