--- title: Yellowjackets Episode 6: Co-Showrunner Breaks Down Drama description: Jonathan Lisco speaks about the creative decisions behind a long-simmering question the show answered in the sixth episode of its second season. canonical: https://time.com/6276016/yellowjackets-season-2-episode-6-shauna-birth/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-05-05T05:01:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T15:48:44.873Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Yellowjackets' Co-Showrunner on Heartbreaking Sixth Episode of Season 2 og:description: Jonathan Lisco speaks about the creative decisions behind a long-simmering question the show answered in the sixth episode of its second season og:url: https://time.com/6276016/yellowjackets-season-2-episode-6-shauna-birth/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt010baf469fb9a6e6/698a3c7047ca386c8f3bab9f/Yellowjackets_205_0182_R.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Yellowjackets - Two Truths and a Lie og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Yellowjackets' Co-Showrunner on Heartbreaking Sixth Episode of Season 2 twitter:description: Jonathan Lisco speaks about the creative decisions behind a long-simmering question the show answered in the sixth episode of its second season twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt010baf469fb9a6e6/698a3c7047ca386c8f3bab9f/Yellowjackets_205_0182_R.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Yellowjackets_ Co-Showrunner Breaks Down Heartbreaking Sixth Episode of Season 2 > Sponsored content. 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Did the baby grow up to become Shauna’s now-six-feet-under lover Adam (Peter Gadiot) in season 1? Did the team members eat the baby after it was born? Is the baby hiding out somewhere, waiting to surprise the remaining survivors 25 years later? But in the sixth episode of season 2, audiences learned the baby’s fate is more commonplace than any of the most outlandish theories—although it is no less traumatic and tragic for Shauna. After a long and difficult labor that sees Shauna risk bleeding out and dying (even though viewers know she survived), her son is ultimately stillborn. But before this information is revealed in the episode, _Yellowjackets_ delivers a fake-out sequence that ends in Shauna’s—and many fans’—worst nightmare. While giving birth, Shauna passes out and hallucinates her son being born alive and well. In her hallucination, she begins trying to care for him as best as she can given the dire circumstances. Then, after a few odd interactions with her teammates, Shauna finds them feasting on her baby, just like they did to Jackie (Ella Purnell) earlier in the season. **Read more:** [Yellowjackets ](https://time.com/6267284/yellowjackets-cannibalism-jackie/)[_Finally Went There. Let’s Talk About It_](https://time.com/6267284/yellowjackets-cannibalism-jackie/) Only then does Shauna actually wake up, and realize she dreamed the whole thing. Her baby did not survive the birth. While the _Yellowjackets_ writers considered having the team actually eat the baby, they walked away from the option pretty early on, according to co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco. “If the baby were to be born and then they were to use it for survival, it would be very, very hard to swallow,” he tells TIME. “Not just because it’s difficult to accept, but because it didn’t feel like the right Shauna story to tell.” Instead, Shauna losing the baby helps to better explain her character development. In its present timeline, _Yellowjackets_ closely follows adult Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) and the difficult relationship she has with her daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins). “Shauna can’t allow herself to fully love the child that she has in the present,” Lisco says. “It made a lot more sense that what has prevented her from getting close to and embracing the maternal relationship with Callie is the trauma she went through.” As for what went into the decision to trick the audience into believing that the team really did eat Shauna’s baby while she was desperately trying to keep him alive, Lisco says it fit with the show’s tendency to use an unreliable narrator to [illuminate a deeper truth](https://time.com/6266844/yellowjackets-the-power-matriarchy-tv/). “We felt it would be more poignant if she were to have that reverie of the baby actually surviving and then lose it,” he says. The guilt Shauna carries over the role she played in encouraging the team to eat Jackie’s corpse also influences her nightmare, according to Lisco. “She feels this great self-recrimination from eating her best friend,” he says. “And that’s so intense, that it made sense to us that when she passes out, she would have this terrifying, haunting vision that harkens back to what she went through with Jackie.” The events of episode 6 will mark a definitive turning point for the team as things spiral further out of control in _Yellowjackets_ Season 2. “The death of the baby is also the death of something that everyone had pinned their hopes on, and that was distracting them from losing their minds and the idea that they’re not being rescued,” Lisco says. “That is grim. 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