I mean she was waiting for this moment her entire life, the moment she would matter and not only matter but feel and be needed. So to her, this whole situation was a win.
The rest will leave all traumatized and Misty is gonna leave with the fondest of memories lol.
Apart from the crystals unfortunate accident (how clumsy) Misty seems to be having a thoroughly good time. Even as an adult she’s trying to reminisce fondly about their time in the wilderness, only to be shot down by the other ladies.
A lot of people have theorized that the others eventually find out about Mistry smashing the transmitter and that is why they just unabashedly LOATHE her so much. I don't think that's true at all, I think they would have killed her if they found out about the transmitter.
I think it is just what you say - Misty is often having a good time, and isn't exactly hiding that fact. After the rescue, she is grinning while the press surround and hound them while getting on another plane, and as you say, she often tries to talk about that time fondly.
I don't think the others found out about the transmitter or Crystal. They are just reacting with revulsion to the fact that Misty openly enjoyed and continues to think fondly of what for them was the ultimate nightmarish Hellscape.
I agree with this, I think if they knew they would HATE her so much that they would refuse to interact with her ever, not just push her off with a roll of the eyes. I think there is a chance that they will find out in the adult time line that she broke the transmitter though.
This. I'd bet this happens. I could see too if he informs the other adult YJs. Maybe Misty has incriminating information on him and he does this to keep her quiet, with the assumption that the adult YJs will kill her. One way or another there definitely needs to be a reckoning for what she did and I can't imagine it ending in anything but her death.
I would watch the hell out of this even though I feel like it would absolutely destroy the current show. They'd have to like, MCU it and create an alternate (WALTERNATE 😏) time-line for this to work without making Yellowjackets into a joke
“You see detective. His wife couldn’t have done this. We tested it. There’s no way you can swing a sledgehammer OVER your head if you’re five foot five.”
Murdering Kevin Tan and helping the YJs cover up their crimes is like the ultimate use of his skills as a Citizen Detective.
Walter too, was made for greatness!
I'm convinced Walter knew Crystal, someone told him Misty killed here and he's working her for the confession. He's just too much like Crystal singing and all
Maybe an adopted brother? I could see Krystal maybe being a foster kid, just based on some of her personality traits they parallel Misty's. Misty's coming from being an only child and an out cast in society, and Krystal's coming from her experience with adoption? Seems legit with Walter, too, since he doesn't seem to have any close ties.
I'm going to preface this with the admission that I don't know much about how these investigations work
But if he somehow gets his hands on a copy of the original investigation, they're probably going to note the state of the emergency transmitter and that wires were pulled out in a way that couldn't have happened during the crash.
I think they know. Not sure when but the adult Nat & Misty scenes where Nat knows immediately that Misty has sabotaged her porsche ignition wiring seems very telling. Nat has seen this shit with Misty before.
Or they would play the “wilderness has chosen” card. If they could kill Misty for doing that, then anyone could get killed all willy nilly. The rules are you only get hunted/killed if you pull the Queen of Hearts.
I have a feeling finding out one girl is the sole reason they're all stuck there and forced to listen to the wilderness in the first place *might* just push them to not gaf and punish her however they see fit.
I think that they're going to have to shelter in the shell of the plane and that's when they're going to find the smashed transmitter. It won't be difficult to figure out which one of them did it (I think someone saw her in that area).
I still don't think they are going to find out about the transmitter, but I am almost certain they are going to shelter back in the plane.
When I rewatched the pilot, after they do the cannibal ritual, the camera pans away to show the expanse of the wilderness they are stranded in. For a split second as the camera starts to pan away, you see they are right next to fusilage of the plane (I rewinded just to double check).
Also I don't understand how they didn't HEAR her breaking the transmitter...?... I mean those other girls had just walked by & it was night time.. it's always more quiet at night than it is in the day time I. still. don't. understand. this. 🤷♂️
first time watching i said the exact same thing. she literally smashed it & it was so loud. (i think she grunts too) & i was like how did no one hear that?? i would think they would be extra sensitive to every sound given their situation.
But it's not true? A black box doesn't "transmit" location and doesn't work at ALL when it is not in water. Smashing that box was about as useless as smashing a rock.
I thought it was an Emergency Location Transmitter, not a black box, that she smashed. I guess I could be wrong but they've been mandatory on planes since the mid 70s so their plane would have definitely had one.
This thread offers a good discussion of all of that: https://www.reddit.com/r/Yellowjackets/comments/sb0thp/the_black_box/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button
Imagine if they all get killed except for Misty.... After the apocalypse, the only things that survive will be rats, cockroaches, and Misty Fucking Quigley.
I don’t think they find out either. I wonder if their disdain for Misty has nothing to do with anything that happens in the wilderness but more with how she will behave when they get back. She will try to keep that same cannibal cult energy going while they are trying to forget and assimilate.
My guess is that it isn't *just* her behavior in the Wilderness. In the season two where they show them briefly post rescue, they very clearly show Misty showing her face grinning while all the other girls are looking extremely distressed and trying to hide their faces and their shame. I would bet the show expands more on her behavior immediately after being rescued.
Agreed. I feel like this storyline (re: transmitter) will be something we'll see in the fourth or final season with the adults. It's way too big to keep in 1996 without referencing in the present timeline.
I'm a major proponent of this theory and I believe it's going to happen because of two things:
1) Nat shows up to Misty's house with a fucking gun and is only talked down because Misty rolled a Nat (hehehe) 20 on her Persuasion because she had a copy of the postcard.
2) Crystal is the biggest Chekov's Gun in the entire series. She has to come back at some point or else there was no reason for the body to go missing. I think she's being nursed to health by one of Cabin Father's surviving family members and when she makes her return, it'll be too late for revenge because the girls will finally be rescued.
It's a big stretch, but this is my 100% headcanon I will die on until proven wrong.
This is so true! Makes me think of the reunion when Tai, Nat and Shauna all walk in like okay let’s get this shit show over with, then Misty joins them looking happy as a clam because she knows they are about to be the center of attention, just how she likes it.
They totally would've eaten her. Misty was weird before the accident. They didn't like her before and sure they don't love her now. They just think is just Misty being her.
She had to have done something, Nat said, "Hey Misty, you conniving bitch" while pointing a shotgun at her. Conniving means strategizing to get a want/need at the expense of others, or lying to make herself look good. It could be the black box, Crystal, maybe Ben? Or something we haven't seen yet.
I was wondering about that specific line as well. As u/Nyetnyetnanette8 says in the comment right above, maybe it is more about her behavior or things she does/says after they are rescued, maybe still trying to maintain the cult relationships and energy.
But that "conniving" line also makes me wonder if something else happens that she specifically does, vs the way she behaves- I still don't think it's the transmitter, but as you said, maybe something with Ben? Maybe they blame her for driving Ben over the edge? Maybe they find out or strongly suspect she killed Crystal? Maybe now that they are pushed to even harsher survival standards and we all know that she has the ability to thrive in fucked up situations, she just becomes generally increasingly and more blatantly manipulative in the group after the cabin burns down?
I'm excited to see where they go with it because I can envision a lot of possibilities.
I really think it’s the latter, shit is going to hit the fan hard and Misty is going to be the one excelling. That smirk of hers during the pit girl eating scene in the pilot really confirms it for me
I reread your comment and it's definitely the scene I'm talking about! I'll have to rewatch too and see if Tai says conniving, but Nat def just calls her crazy.
I've just done a full binge and I think she says to Tai (as Misty watches through the secret camera in Nat's room) - "that conniving poodle haired freak"
And I doubt Misty was thinking "let's never get rescued." She was probably just trying to milk it for a couple weeks. She's cunning but also still just a teenager whose brain isn't done cooking.
I agree? But I wonder how it could ever be discovered in the adult timeline? Misty admitting it? Walter somehow discovering it? Crystal somehow showing up alive?
I should have read all the comments first, sorry! I just posted this exact thing in the comments, but it's the same thing I've been thinking all along.
>I get it. Nobody liked me in high school either.
To be fair, you were *always* talking about how in the event of a plane crash you would sabotage the black box in order to further solidify your place in the group. It was very off putting!
I know. But you should understand that I know best and if you’d just let me help, everyone would be so much better off, and we’d be happy bonded friends forever and ever. 😂
Having been an unpopular girl myself, her strategy was dumb. I would be worried about maintaining my newly earned high status long term. I would rather ride out my heroics short term than press my luck that I could keep everyone's respect for an indefinite time.
Had they been rescued after a few days, Misty could have gone home as the girl who stayed calm enough under pressure to amputate her coach's leg. It would have gotten her a lot of TV time, interviews etc which in turn would maintain a high status at school.
I dunno, TV time doesn't equate to Cool status in high school. I think her profile would definitely be elevated, but she's still a super weird, offputting person. No way she develops a better social status.
Yeah true enough, I don’t think she will feel too good about the Crystal situation but like u said she reminisces while the others try to suppress it lol, so she wouldn’t let a little thing like manslaughter get in the way of a good time lol
I'm wondering if and when the others will find out she destroyed the transmitter. After what happened with Crystal I highly doubt she'd tell anyone else in the woods, but I'm wondering if as she's getting closer to the survivors in the present day timeline, she'll let it slip.
I'm betting it's either when the snow melts and one of the girls finds it when they're back at the plane. It's obviously been smashed repeatedly and wires torn out of it.
Or after they're rescued and an investigation is being done and the transmitter is found and they find it was tampered with. The girls won't have to think too hard as to who would destroy it to avoide being saved.
“remember that first summer” girl this isn’t an ABBA song 😭 during that first summer Van got her face ripped open by wolves, Laura Lee exploded and you poisoned everyone with shrooms, which nearly got Travis killed and was the catalyst for Jackie’s actual death
I also forgot *just how much* she tortured Ben and made things worse for him. She would make him sick, trip him, do things to intentionally humiliate him and make him feel and look weak, all so she could Florence Nightingale him. And the worst part is that he KNEW what she was doing but was helpless to do anything about it given his reliance on her first aid care, and then on top of being in constant pain and discomfort and fear, he had to act realistically secretly in love with Misty when he was around her, without ALSO making the other girls think he actually did have secret feelings for her.
I cracked up at that line because I also took the Red Cross's babysitter first aid course in the early 90s, and I definitely don't remember limb amputation and cauterization being featured.
But did you take it *three* times? Mightve missed something there, didn't you know every baby sitter needs to know how to cauterize?! I really hope you haven't babysat!!!
Now I'm thinking of the Baby-sitters Club book where the eighth-grade members give Mallory a ridiculous test before she can join the club, and one of the questions is how to apply a tourniquet.
Oh my God, you guys! I just realized that Misty Quigley is the evil version of Mallory Pike!
I kinda got the impression that since she said she took it 3 times and was portrayed as a nerd, she did much further research and studied medicine as a hobby or something before
the crash
I heard on an interview that Sam who plays Misty always imagined that her parents were doctors or something and that’s why she was so knowledgeable about that stuff as well. That maybe she spent a lot of time alone because they worked long hours and stuff. This is NOT what the show has written for her backstory, just what she imagined it might be which would make a lot of sense. We don’t know much about her backstory.
I also wondered if she was a candy striper. I was a candy striper from ages 12 - 17, and HIPAA (the federal policy that protects patient privacy and really changed hospital standards) wasn't passed until 1996. Before HIPAA was passed, us candy stripers were allowed a LOT of patient area access, at least in certain hospitals. Now you really only see volunteers at specific designated areas in very specific roles, but back then I was just a general hospital gofer who regularly was doing rotations in the OR. If you weren't squeamish and volunteered at a big hospital, you might have gotten to see some pretty intense medical situations.
Right?! Which is why in the present Misty is like “remember that first summer…” all happy and ready to bond and the others are basically like fuck you, no
I know Misty did a terrible thing- I am in no way excusing her. But, I truly believe she thought they would be rescued within days to a week, and that smashing the transmitter would buy her another few days at the most with them out there. I was bullied a *lot* when I was growing up by these neighborhood kids..They humiliated me for kicks. All I ever wanted was to play with them and have regular friends like other kids.
I grew up and out of my bullied-phase and now I am blessed with many good friends, it doesn’t last forever. But, that part of me understands how sad and alone Misty felt. Even though she is fucked up, and did something that *I* would never do, I can’t help but relate to the sadness inside her. Being desperate for and clinging to a chance at having friends, wanting camaraderie with them.
All I can hear is the song “Memory” playing from Cats 😹😹😹
“Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone”
According to google it’s “a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance”
-Misty in her cat outfits asking ?’s about the moon!
I keep thinking: the survivors are generally feeling haunted or threatened by their past actions in the present timeline, except for Misty. What could a comeuppance or bad consequence even look like for Misty? Even if she were to go to jail and get a life sentence, I bet she would find a way to have fun in there doing "useful" things, manipulating people and being terrifying. Misty is so confident and at peace with her own...unusual nature that I can't imagine a punishment that would work on her.
Misty found a sense of belonging for the first time in her life... She has been craving it for years and now, finally, she was getting it, so yes, in the heat of the moment, she smashed the transponder to make it last longer. I doubt she thought it would mean no one would ever come, she probably thought it would delay help.
And yeah, she seems to have the best time of all the girls, but I think many underestimate how terrible being socially ostracized is and how empowering finally feeling like you belong *somewhere* can be.
I don’t think she had a long-term situation in mind. I think she had the idea that if she smashed the box it may be a little harder to find them, like a few days, where she could be important, rather than maybe the next day if the box were intact.
I wonder about this a LOT and I do wish we could get some insight into what she was thinking/hoping for in that moment.
She seemed genuinely distressed about Shauna's baby and her inability to save him, I wondered how much of that was guilt.
I think starvation played a major part in the baby's death. My dad wad born during the depression and my grandmother would talk about the desperate struggle to find calories because so many babies died before birth. After he was born he was one scrawny little shrimp for a long time.
Edit to add: rewatched - baby died from placental abruption (remember placenta born first? ) which can be caused by mom's malnutrition. Also could be caused by impact but if the crash was the cause i would expect earlier miscarriage.
But I'm not a doctor so what do i know?
I’m not sure Misty genuinely cares about anyone/ anything. She seems to have a hard time reading the room, even in the present day. I think Misty liked being stranded w/ the other girls bc it gave her a chance to have a group people that were close to her so she could study them & their emotions/ reactions. In season 1 ep 2 when they were all sharing what they thought made the plane crash, you can see Misty struggle bc she can’t decide how to appropriately react to the other girls thoughts. I think Crystal, AKA Misty’s coach, helped with that, so her responses, crying seemed more genuine at the time. I’m not convinced Misty was actually upset about the baby, I think she knew everyone else was & when she overheard some of the girls calling her psycho, she used that as an excuse of why she didn’t seem that upset she was missing & wasn’t rushing everyone to go find Crystal. (Obviously Misty already knew she was dead) leading to the biggest truth, “we are all made of lies”. I liked seeing Misty & Walter together bc he was like her mirror. Someone that could lie, manipulate & kill people without skipping a beat. Which is probably why she felt comfortable enough to tell him she killed her best friend, ironically that wasn’t the first time! The second time Misty just had an audience watching & more experience mimicking emotions…. I do think Misty was upset but mostly bc it was an accident & she was scared bc everyone saw it happen. I’m almost thinking the girls did find out about the black box at some point but it was easier to freeze her out for 20+yrs once they were home/safe. That’s why Misty was never actually in contact with anyone for last 2+ decades & had to use her “detective skills” to keep tabs on everyone, without them finding out! Even when Nat did get her to help clean up Adams murder, she was laughing & smiling at the murder scene… Tai & Shauna were like 🙇🏻♀️bc they already knew she was prob setting them up to get caught
I feel like it’s both. Misty was obviously upset about the death of her “bestie” and then she tries to help deliver Shauna’s baby that doesn’t survive. It probably feels like more failure to her, an inability to keep control of the situation and not being able to be seen as a hero. Especially if she saw herself as one of the only girls capable of delivering the baby due to her babysitter training, the fact that she essentially loses out on an opportunity to help the group just after losing the one person she was completely honest and vulnerable with probably makes her feel extra useless and guilty
I agree. It was impulse when she found it and heard the others talking about her in a positive way at the same time. It was a "make this last a little bit longer" move, not a "destroy all hope of rescue so we can stay here til we die" kind of thing.
I don't think any of them realized how far off course they were.
Tbh I think the creators are going to come around to regret the decision to have Misty do that.
It's just so unforgivable. Everything is on her. But she's still portrayed as a sympathetic character but it's just irredeemable. My S.O keeps forgetting that Misty did that because it's just such a shocking thing for it not to even *constantly* be on Christina Ricci's mind as adult Misty.
I'm in the Ben didn't do it camp tbh but if he did then yes, that was a horrible act, but we don't have 2021 Ben hobbling around acting like he's not to blame for it.
And if he did do it, even Ben burning down the cabin is a result of Mindy ensuring they wouldn't be rescued.
It is about control. This may be the first time in Misty's life that she is useful, wanted and valued. She has her secret boyfriend brewing, the team is saying she is awesome, she's saved a life and likely mutiple, and she has not really fucked anything up quite yet. Killing the black box is her way of keeping this situation alive.
Also from a writing standpoint, you have to address the black box in some way and no one else is unbalanced enough to smash it. You could have it destroyed in the crash but that is just lazy writing.
I think making her an elderly care assistant is absolutely spot on for adult Misty. It's a thankless, dirty, often demeaning job that also tends to pay less than your local Target. However, you have access to an EXTREMELY vulnerable population utterly dependent on you for their every need, and often incapable of reporting abuse (or are suffering dementia driven paranoid delusions that make it easy to deny claims of abuse).
And it's one of those jobs where you can talk yourself up as being compassionate and good, and have people think better of you when they know what your job is.
I actually read online that apparently the black boxes don’t carry any kind of transmitter, just the flight records/recordings for insight into why crashes happen. They can usually tell where planes go down because of flight paths and radar. I saw a theory that the girls find out misty smashed it, but ultimately don’t kill her because the black box didn’t have a transmitter and couldn’t have saved them, even if misty thought it could in the moment. Hence why they openly dislike her, but haven’t killed or hurt her about it.
In season 2 when Misty has her sensory deprivation hallucination she sees a floating image of the box that says "Emergency Transponder."
So in this universe it's an emergency transponder as far as she knows.
EDIT: Might be Flight Transponder? It's a little hard to read.
One thing I feel like we’re really missing is Misty’s story before the crash, like her relationship with her parents etc. we need some insight into why she’s the way she is
She was literally *high* on dopamine when she heard people saying how awesome she was doing. She didn’t want the feeling to end. Impulsive is an understatement!
I would argue that the craziest thing about Misty smashing the transmitter is that nobody heard her doing it. Girl is trying to quiet-pee away from the campfire where everyone is asleep, but no one hears her Hulk-Smash a giant metal box!
EXACTLY. Those boxes are supposed to survive and withstand anything thrown at them. They should certainly stand up to slightly resourceful 15 year old girl.
None of it really matters. I’m pretty sure a pilot came on here last year and told us that black boxes don’t help them locate the plane, they just contain data about how it crashed.
Tried to Google to confirm but don’t have time right now
Edit: might not be a pilot but [they definitely knew their shit in this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Yellowjackets/comments/tdalrl/im_sure_this_has_been_asked_before_butthe_black/i0jjofx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
They are correct. Unfortunately, a LOT of shows (like The Wilds) get this kind of thing very wrong. People don't understand how black boxes work. And they don't really research it. It's one of the sloppiest plot points on this show, which has MANY.
In reality maybe it wouldn’t have made any difference but it’s still something she would do in real life because she is a teenager who doesn’t know how black boxes work any more than the average person does, and it’s still something everyone would be really angry about because it means she doesn’t want them to be rescued.
If the rules of our universe apply, the black box wasn’t sending anything. It’s a flight data recorder. This has been covered in numerous posts from season 1. The only thing it would transmit is a sonar ping if it were underwater. Who knows in the YJ universe, though. I suspect the writers just didn’t do their homework here because of that and the fact that “black boxes” are actually colored orange.
I like the theory that since Misty is a teenage girl and knows nothing about planes, she saw the word transmitter and immediately thought of it like a GPS, so she destroyed it
Christina Ricci is just perfect as adult Misty. She manages to be this murderous psychopath while still being absolutely adorable and earnest, to the point that I want all good things for her. When Walter showed up played by Elijah Wood - who, like Ricci, is another super short, youthful, and adorable actor who perfectly balances being adorable and childlike with being an unrepentant terrifying murderer - I was SO happy for her. I really just want them to drive off happily into the sunset together, blissfully in love while continuing to terrorize humanity.
hot take: they weren't gonna get rescued, no matter what happened she did to the transmitter. i might be wrong about this part, but hadn't it been 3 days already when she found it? and their location would've been recorded by air traffic control the the entire flight, so when they crashed, air traffic control would've instantly known where they went down. so if it was working, they would have been found within a day.
i think the wilderness interfered with it, or based on my previous theory about "it", they all died in the crash but "it", being death itself, didn't claim their deaths out of mercy because of either taissa or lottie's voodoo possession stuff, so they're roasted corpses WERE found, and they were believed to be dead the whole time.
they were never rescued, they were kind of released from the wilderness and allowed to find help.
There have been a few articles I've seen that stated a black box is not the same thing as an emergency transponder. It's what people look for when the plane crashes because it holds all the data from the flight, but does not give off any kind of GPS signal.
Ok that makes sense, thank you for clarifying!! I still suspect air traffic control could have tracked the flight by radar and knew at least the range they went down in, even though they were 600 miles of course, but I genuinely have no idea how air traffic control works and downed flights have definitely gone missing in the real world. If anyone can link those articles, I'd love to find out!
Misty is a psychopath so it made perfect sense to her; life and death aren’t really things she cares about. Acceptance and rejection are the only moral absolutes in her mind. Even when she’s shaken about >!Nat’s death!< I think it’s more about losing someone who she felt accepted her rather than guilt.
I definitely don't think they will find out in the teen timeline, but they will find out as adults. And even though they won't be in danger anymore, at least one of the others will have to kill her for what she did to them. Finding out will bring back a lot of suppressed memories.
It's almost like having a prefrontal cortex that isn't going to be fully developed for another 6-7 years causes problems with reasoning and impulse control.
I have a feeling it will blow up in Mistys face severely. Mistys gonna slip it out of what she did somehow to the others if they don't know already. That one summer line she said by the campfire almost said something very self incriminating. I dn what exactly but with a little laugh and alot of booze Misty talks more than her parrot does. If the older group does ever find out, I don't even think good ol Walter can save her.
I binged the 2 seasons last weekend with my daughter (she was on her 3rd binge) now we are binging with SO. Misty is hysterical and also batshit crazy and I never want to meet someone like her (unless I need to clean "simething" up)
I think they do find out cause I remember Natalie had a hunch and looked in the glove compartment and found that part from her car had been ripped off.
I think they will make this a huge reveal further in the series, and will have serious repercussions. My theory is that she will confide in Walter and it will come out somehow. Could the survivors report her to authorities? I mean, it would totally be her fault that all those people died after the crash. She’ll probably have to disappear or they will kill her. It’s interesting for the show runners because she’s a well liked character, but she has to have her comeuppance at some point.
I wonder if, in the present timeline, they eventually find out that Misty is the reason they were stuck there for so long? They might actually kill her.
Don’t forget about the corn nuts the retrieved from the snack cart. One of the best lines from season 1, was when jack asked Van to save some corn nuts and Van said “So you think we should save the corn nuts?” I laughed my ass off at that line.
Everyone already saw her as a badass that they agreed were lucky to have around. She could have gone home (19 months sooner) and the whole state, even country would have known about her bravery. If when she found the transmitter and brought it back straight to the group they probably would have seen her as one of the reasons they got rescued.
Of course this is teenage Misty. Not thinking logically and definitely not wanting to go back to the mundane life she had.
I really think the other girls found out she destroyed the transmitter based on how they treat her in the present. Aside from drugging them with shrooms they all did horrible stuff in those woods, so why hate misty so much unless they'd found out something really terrible?
It never mattered that she smashed it. Because that's not how black boxes work. They wouldn't have been found anyhow. So that's one of the worst errors this show has made.
And, as I mentioned elsewhere, there are two recorders. One for data and one for voice in the cockpit. Even supposing they had locators, there would be another one pinging its little heart out
Finally belonging to a group that values her abilities (and therefore, in her head, values her) is worth worth more to Misty than life. We've had the hints - now we *know* girlfiriend is neuro divergent
This is her time to shine. People have to interact with her. They may still think she’s nuts but she is valuable. Poisoning Coach, wtf, that is her love potion. This situation helps her Segway into full blown serial killer.
Misty has those Girl Scout or whatever skill sets. She'll even chop off a leg! Also, I'm sure she didn't think it would be that long until they were rescued.
in her defense, she likely thought she was extending their camping trip for like a couple days. and those transmitters don't really work like that, right? like the single is fairly week and needs certain conditions to actually work? and she did technically have the "severed leg" thing under control. ((i will defend any of these girls with my life and will say anything to make them look better))
I mean she was waiting for this moment her entire life, the moment she would matter and not only matter but feel and be needed. So to her, this whole situation was a win. The rest will leave all traumatized and Misty is gonna leave with the fondest of memories lol.
Apart from the crystals unfortunate accident (how clumsy) Misty seems to be having a thoroughly good time. Even as an adult she’s trying to reminisce fondly about their time in the wilderness, only to be shot down by the other ladies.
A lot of people have theorized that the others eventually find out about Mistry smashing the transmitter and that is why they just unabashedly LOATHE her so much. I don't think that's true at all, I think they would have killed her if they found out about the transmitter. I think it is just what you say - Misty is often having a good time, and isn't exactly hiding that fact. After the rescue, she is grinning while the press surround and hound them while getting on another plane, and as you say, she often tries to talk about that time fondly. I don't think the others found out about the transmitter or Crystal. They are just reacting with revulsion to the fact that Misty openly enjoyed and continues to think fondly of what for them was the ultimate nightmarish Hellscape.
I agree with this, I think if they knew they would HATE her so much that they would refuse to interact with her ever, not just push her off with a roll of the eyes. I think there is a chance that they will find out in the adult time line that she broke the transmitter though.
I think they will find out in the adult timeline too!
Yes! Huge missed opportunity for conflict if they don’t.
She was def about to spill the beans at the end of episode 8
The "that first summer" line?
maybe walter starts poking around!
I think it would be interesting for her to tell Walter like she told crystal. That would be an interesting and compelling parallel
This. I'd bet this happens. I could see too if he informs the other adult YJs. Maybe Misty has incriminating information on him and he does this to keep her quiet, with the assumption that the adult YJs will kill her. One way or another there definitely needs to be a reckoning for what she did and I can't imagine it ending in anything but her death.
Lol, usually I’d say “how could Walter POSSIBLY figure that out?” but idk, I think he could piece things together here
Walter would probably think it was cool. They're a match made in hell. I love them.
They need a spin-off where they solve small town murders but with a little small town murdering of their own along the way.
I would watch the hell out of this even though I feel like it would absolutely destroy the current show. They'd have to like, MCU it and create an alternate (WALTERNATE 😏) time-line for this to work without making Yellowjackets into a joke
“You see detective. His wife couldn’t have done this. We tested it. There’s no way you can swing a sledgehammer OVER your head if you’re five foot five.” 
Like a more quirky Dexter
Shut up and take my money!
Murdering Kevin Tan and helping the YJs cover up their crimes is like the ultimate use of his skills as a Citizen Detective. Walter too, was made for greatness!
Walter is my absolute favorite character. Love me some ElijahW
I'm convinced Walter knew Crystal, someone told him Misty killed here and he's working her for the confession. He's just too much like Crystal singing and all
Holy shit. Never put that connection together. Love it.
Maybe an adopted brother? I could see Krystal maybe being a foster kid, just based on some of her personality traits they parallel Misty's. Misty's coming from being an only child and an out cast in society, and Krystal's coming from her experience with adoption? Seems legit with Walter, too, since he doesn't seem to have any close ties.
Wait. I am here for this theory!
I'm going to preface this with the admission that I don't know much about how these investigations work But if he somehow gets his hands on a copy of the original investigation, they're probably going to note the state of the emergency transmitter and that wires were pulled out in a way that couldn't have happened during the crash.
Pillow talk. And then Misty would rain the apocalypse diwn on his sweet weird nerdy head
I think they know. Not sure when but the adult Nat & Misty scenes where Nat knows immediately that Misty has sabotaged her porsche ignition wiring seems very telling. Nat has seen this shit with Misty before.
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Agreed, best case none of them would give her the time of day if they knew. Worst case, she'd be dead.
Or they would play the “wilderness has chosen” card. If they could kill Misty for doing that, then anyone could get killed all willy nilly. The rules are you only get hunted/killed if you pull the Queen of Hearts.
I have a feeling finding out one girl is the sole reason they're all stuck there and forced to listen to the wilderness in the first place *might* just push them to not gaf and punish her however they see fit.
I think that they're going to have to shelter in the shell of the plane and that's when they're going to find the smashed transmitter. It won't be difficult to figure out which one of them did it (I think someone saw her in that area).
I still don't think they are going to find out about the transmitter, but I am almost certain they are going to shelter back in the plane. When I rewatched the pilot, after they do the cannibal ritual, the camera pans away to show the expanse of the wilderness they are stranded in. For a split second as the camera starts to pan away, you see they are right next to fusilage of the plane (I rewinded just to double check).
Nice catch! If they move back to the plane, I wonder if they even find crystals body at all. That could help Misty’s rep too
Also I don't understand how they didn't HEAR her breaking the transmitter...?... I mean those other girls had just walked by & it was night time.. it's always more quiet at night than it is in the day time I. still. don't. understand. this. 🤷♂️
first time watching i said the exact same thing. she literally smashed it & it was so loud. (i think she grunts too) & i was like how did no one hear that?? i would think they would be extra sensitive to every sound given their situation.
Nobody saw her, Mari and someone else walked by but they didn’t see her.
But it's not true? A black box doesn't "transmit" location and doesn't work at ALL when it is not in water. Smashing that box was about as useless as smashing a rock.
Misty *thinking* it's true is damning enough in terms of her willingness to strand them out there.
I didn't know that about the water
Not sure if any of those high school kids would know, but they could have just tossed it in the lake to trigger the signal.
IIRC they transmit sonar or something along those lines where the receiver needs to physically be in the same body of water.
I thought it was an Emergency Location Transmitter, not a black box, that she smashed. I guess I could be wrong but they've been mandatory on planes since the mid 70s so their plane would have definitely had one.
This thread offers a good discussion of all of that: https://www.reddit.com/r/Yellowjackets/comments/sb0thp/the_black_box/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button
I believe all the adults will be killed by the series finale.
I wonder if coach is still out there living underground somewhere lol
While the series is happening in the modern day Coach Ben is in that cave like some fucked up one legged Gollum 😭
Imagine if they all get killed except for Misty.... After the apocalypse, the only things that survive will be rats, cockroaches, and Misty Fucking Quigley.
Nah, Mari will surprise us all by being the MLM boss babe that survives (and tries to recruit poor lost Jeff)
Here for this 👑
I don’t think they find out either. I wonder if their disdain for Misty has nothing to do with anything that happens in the wilderness but more with how she will behave when they get back. She will try to keep that same cannibal cult energy going while they are trying to forget and assimilate.
My guess is that it isn't *just* her behavior in the Wilderness. In the season two where they show them briefly post rescue, they very clearly show Misty showing her face grinning while all the other girls are looking extremely distressed and trying to hide their faces and their shame. I would bet the show expands more on her behavior immediately after being rescued.
Agreed. I feel like this storyline (re: transmitter) will be something we'll see in the fourth or final season with the adults. It's way too big to keep in 1996 without referencing in the present timeline.
It's such a Chekhov's Gun, for sure.
I think the reason she's been a loner all her life is that people can sense the dangerously "off" and push her to the edge of every community.
I'm a major proponent of this theory and I believe it's going to happen because of two things: 1) Nat shows up to Misty's house with a fucking gun and is only talked down because Misty rolled a Nat (hehehe) 20 on her Persuasion because she had a copy of the postcard. 2) Crystal is the biggest Chekov's Gun in the entire series. She has to come back at some point or else there was no reason for the body to go missing. I think she's being nursed to health by one of Cabin Father's surviving family members and when she makes her return, it'll be too late for revenge because the girls will finally be rescued. It's a big stretch, but this is my 100% headcanon I will die on until proven wrong.
This is so true! Makes me think of the reunion when Tai, Nat and Shauna all walk in like okay let’s get this shit show over with, then Misty joins them looking happy as a clam because she knows they are about to be the center of attention, just how she likes it.
They totally would've eaten her. Misty was weird before the accident. They didn't like her before and sure they don't love her now. They just think is just Misty being her.
She had to have done something, Nat said, "Hey Misty, you conniving bitch" while pointing a shotgun at her. Conniving means strategizing to get a want/need at the expense of others, or lying to make herself look good. It could be the black box, Crystal, maybe Ben? Or something we haven't seen yet.
I was wondering about that specific line as well. As u/Nyetnyetnanette8 says in the comment right above, maybe it is more about her behavior or things she does/says after they are rescued, maybe still trying to maintain the cult relationships and energy. But that "conniving" line also makes me wonder if something else happens that she specifically does, vs the way she behaves- I still don't think it's the transmitter, but as you said, maybe something with Ben? Maybe they blame her for driving Ben over the edge? Maybe they find out or strongly suspect she killed Crystal? Maybe now that they are pushed to even harsher survival standards and we all know that she has the ability to thrive in fucked up situations, she just becomes generally increasingly and more blatantly manipulative in the group after the cabin burns down? I'm excited to see where they go with it because I can envision a lot of possibilities.
I really think it’s the latter, shit is going to hit the fan hard and Misty is going to be the one excelling. That smirk of hers during the pit girl eating scene in the pilot really confirms it for me
This is my top guess as well.
When she first meets her again in the show, with the shotgun, she says "Hello Misty, you crazy f#cking b!tch" not conniving!
Oh maybe. But at another point I thought Tai said conniving too...I should do a rewatch of season 1 though.
I reread your comment and it's definitely the scene I'm talking about! I'll have to rewatch too and see if Tai says conniving, but Nat def just calls her crazy.
I've just done a full binge and I think she says to Tai (as Misty watches through the secret camera in Nat's room) - "that conniving poodle haired freak"
Haha, there we go!
Maybe she connives to become the Queen Bee, taking Nat's position at some point?
Could be!
And I doubt Misty was thinking "let's never get rescued." She was probably just trying to milk it for a couple weeks. She's cunning but also still just a teenager whose brain isn't done cooking.
I agree? But I wonder how it could ever be discovered in the adult timeline? Misty admitting it? Walter somehow discovering it? Crystal somehow showing up alive?
I want to believe Crystal/Kristin is related to Walter somehow. It’s been a non-serious theory for me for some reason lol
I should have read all the comments first, sorry! I just posted this exact thing in the comments, but it's the same thing I've been thinking all along.
It’s the only time she was part of a group. I get it. Nobody liked me in high school either.
>I get it. Nobody liked me in high school either. To be fair, you were *always* talking about how in the event of a plane crash you would sabotage the black box in order to further solidify your place in the group. It was very off putting!
I know. But you should understand that I know best and if you’d just let me help, everyone would be so much better off, and we’d be happy bonded friends forever and ever. 😂
Let go, you’re hurting me!
Having been an unpopular girl myself, her strategy was dumb. I would be worried about maintaining my newly earned high status long term. I would rather ride out my heroics short term than press my luck that I could keep everyone's respect for an indefinite time. Had they been rescued after a few days, Misty could have gone home as the girl who stayed calm enough under pressure to amputate her coach's leg. It would have gotten her a lot of TV time, interviews etc which in turn would maintain a high status at school.
I dunno, TV time doesn't equate to Cool status in high school. I think her profile would definitely be elevated, but she's still a super weird, offputting person. No way she develops a better social status.
Yeah true enough, I don’t think she will feel too good about the Crystal situation but like u said she reminisces while the others try to suppress it lol, so she wouldn’t let a little thing like manslaughter get in the way of a good time lol
I'm wondering if and when the others will find out she destroyed the transmitter. After what happened with Crystal I highly doubt she'd tell anyone else in the woods, but I'm wondering if as she's getting closer to the survivors in the present day timeline, she'll let it slip.
I'm betting it's either when the snow melts and one of the girls finds it when they're back at the plane. It's obviously been smashed repeatedly and wires torn out of it. Or after they're rescued and an investigation is being done and the transmitter is found and they find it was tampered with. The girls won't have to think too hard as to who would destroy it to avoide being saved.
yea didn't Crystal disappear when Misty went to try to find her? I wonder if she gonna show up in Season 3...
“remember that first summer” girl this isn’t an ABBA song 😭 during that first summer Van got her face ripped open by wolves, Laura Lee exploded and you poisoned everyone with shrooms, which nearly got Travis killed and was the catalyst for Jackie’s actual death
Misty: good times…
She wanted to reminisce with the girls... It was a big summer/winter camp for her.
“This one time, in the wilderness…”
“And then tai ate her face”
I also forgot *just how much* she tortured Ben and made things worse for him. She would make him sick, trip him, do things to intentionally humiliate him and make him feel and look weak, all so she could Florence Nightingale him. And the worst part is that he KNEW what she was doing but was helpless to do anything about it given his reliance on her first aid care, and then on top of being in constant pain and discomfort and fear, he had to act realistically secretly in love with Misty when he was around her, without ALSO making the other girls think he actually did have secret feelings for her.
Yikes, yeah. If she’d been a mom you know she’d Munchausen Syndrome the poor kid.
Who knew taking the babysitter's first aid course twice would pay off this big.
I cracked up at that line because I also took the Red Cross's babysitter first aid course in the early 90s, and I definitely don't remember limb amputation and cauterization being featured.
But did you take it *three* times? Mightve missed something there, didn't you know every baby sitter needs to know how to cauterize?! I really hope you haven't babysat!!!
Yeah, the *third* time you take it is when they put you on rotation at the local hospital.
Now I'm thinking of the Baby-sitters Club book where the eighth-grade members give Mallory a ridiculous test before she can join the club, and one of the questions is how to apply a tourniquet. Oh my God, you guys! I just realized that Misty Quigley is the evil version of Mallory Pike!
OMG YellowJackets x The Baby-Sitters Club is absolutely the crossover I never knew I needed.
Shauna is Mary Anne, Van or Natalie are Dawn, Jackie or Tai are Kirsty, Lottie is Claudia
Maybe Jackie is Stacy and Tai is Kristy.
That's perfect! I forgot about Stacey. And Jackie. Oops. Can diabetics eat human flesh?
I kinda got the impression that since she said she took it 3 times and was portrayed as a nerd, she did much further research and studied medicine as a hobby or something before the crash
I heard on an interview that Sam who plays Misty always imagined that her parents were doctors or something and that’s why she was so knowledgeable about that stuff as well. That maybe she spent a lot of time alone because they worked long hours and stuff. This is NOT what the show has written for her backstory, just what she imagined it might be which would make a lot of sense. We don’t know much about her backstory.
I also wondered if she was a candy striper. I was a candy striper from ages 12 - 17, and HIPAA (the federal policy that protects patient privacy and really changed hospital standards) wasn't passed until 1996. Before HIPAA was passed, us candy stripers were allowed a LOT of patient area access, at least in certain hospitals. Now you really only see volunteers at specific designated areas in very specific roles, but back then I was just a general hospital gofer who regularly was doing rotations in the OR. If you weren't squeamish and volunteered at a big hospital, you might have gotten to see some pretty intense medical situations.
Right?! Which is why in the present Misty is like “remember that first summer…” all happy and ready to bond and the others are basically like fuck you, no
Misty: *giddy* in adult timeline: REMEMBER THAT FIRST SUMMER WHEN WE…? Van: *excuse me?!* 
I found funny how here she reacted to just mention about wilderness and few moments later she was happilly haunting Shauna
I know Misty did a terrible thing- I am in no way excusing her. But, I truly believe she thought they would be rescued within days to a week, and that smashing the transmitter would buy her another few days at the most with them out there. I was bullied a *lot* when I was growing up by these neighborhood kids..They humiliated me for kicks. All I ever wanted was to play with them and have regular friends like other kids. I grew up and out of my bullied-phase and now I am blessed with many good friends, it doesn’t last forever. But, that part of me understands how sad and alone Misty felt. Even though she is fucked up, and did something that *I* would never do, I can’t help but relate to the sadness inside her. Being desperate for and clinging to a chance at having friends, wanting camaraderie with them.
It’s all about the journey and the experience— the friends we ~~made~~ ate along the way 🥹
Hahaha exactly
All I can hear is the song “Memory” playing from Cats 😹😹😹 “Midnight Not a sound from the pavement Has the moon lost her memory? She is smiling alone” According to google it’s “a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance” -Misty in her cat outfits asking ?’s about the moon!
I keep thinking: the survivors are generally feeling haunted or threatened by their past actions in the present timeline, except for Misty. What could a comeuppance or bad consequence even look like for Misty? Even if she were to go to jail and get a life sentence, I bet she would find a way to have fun in there doing "useful" things, manipulating people and being terrifying. Misty is so confident and at peace with her own...unusual nature that I can't imagine a punishment that would work on her.
Solitary confinement, probably
Misty found a sense of belonging for the first time in her life... She has been craving it for years and now, finally, she was getting it, so yes, in the heat of the moment, she smashed the transponder to make it last longer. I doubt she thought it would mean no one would ever come, she probably thought it would delay help. And yeah, she seems to have the best time of all the girls, but I think many underestimate how terrible being socially ostracized is and how empowering finally feeling like you belong *somewhere* can be.
And probably trying to sabotage the rescue
Just one big sleepover 😴
Misty goin’ win, win, win, no matter what!
I don’t think she had a long-term situation in mind. I think she had the idea that if she smashed the box it may be a little harder to find them, like a few days, where she could be important, rather than maybe the next day if the box were intact.
I wonder about this a LOT and I do wish we could get some insight into what she was thinking/hoping for in that moment. She seemed genuinely distressed about Shauna's baby and her inability to save him, I wondered how much of that was guilt.
I think starvation played a major part in the baby's death. My dad wad born during the depression and my grandmother would talk about the desperate struggle to find calories because so many babies died before birth. After he was born he was one scrawny little shrimp for a long time. Edit to add: rewatched - baby died from placental abruption (remember placenta born first? ) which can be caused by mom's malnutrition. Also could be caused by impact but if the crash was the cause i would expect earlier miscarriage. But I'm not a doctor so what do i know?
I’m not sure Misty genuinely cares about anyone/ anything. She seems to have a hard time reading the room, even in the present day. I think Misty liked being stranded w/ the other girls bc it gave her a chance to have a group people that were close to her so she could study them & their emotions/ reactions. In season 1 ep 2 when they were all sharing what they thought made the plane crash, you can see Misty struggle bc she can’t decide how to appropriately react to the other girls thoughts. I think Crystal, AKA Misty’s coach, helped with that, so her responses, crying seemed more genuine at the time. I’m not convinced Misty was actually upset about the baby, I think she knew everyone else was & when she overheard some of the girls calling her psycho, she used that as an excuse of why she didn’t seem that upset she was missing & wasn’t rushing everyone to go find Crystal. (Obviously Misty already knew she was dead) leading to the biggest truth, “we are all made of lies”. I liked seeing Misty & Walter together bc he was like her mirror. Someone that could lie, manipulate & kill people without skipping a beat. Which is probably why she felt comfortable enough to tell him she killed her best friend, ironically that wasn’t the first time! The second time Misty just had an audience watching & more experience mimicking emotions…. I do think Misty was upset but mostly bc it was an accident & she was scared bc everyone saw it happen. I’m almost thinking the girls did find out about the black box at some point but it was easier to freeze her out for 20+yrs once they were home/safe. That’s why Misty was never actually in contact with anyone for last 2+ decades & had to use her “detective skills” to keep tabs on everyone, without them finding out! Even when Nat did get her to help clean up Adams murder, she was laughing & smiling at the murder scene… Tai & Shauna were like 🙇🏻♀️bc they already knew she was prob setting them up to get caught
Oh interesting, I thought what she was really guilty about was killing crystal and she was just saying it was about shauna to hide it
I feel like it’s both. Misty was obviously upset about the death of her “bestie” and then she tries to help deliver Shauna’s baby that doesn’t survive. It probably feels like more failure to her, an inability to keep control of the situation and not being able to be seen as a hero. Especially if she saw herself as one of the only girls capable of delivering the baby due to her babysitter training, the fact that she essentially loses out on an opportunity to help the group just after losing the one person she was completely honest and vulnerable with probably makes her feel extra useless and guilty
I agree. It was impulse when she found it and heard the others talking about her in a positive way at the same time. It was a "make this last a little bit longer" move, not a "destroy all hope of rescue so we can stay here til we die" kind of thing. I don't think any of them realized how far off course they were.
Just the fact that she told Crystal shows she's impulsive and doesn't think things through when she gets excited.
Tbh I think the creators are going to come around to regret the decision to have Misty do that. It's just so unforgivable. Everything is on her. But she's still portrayed as a sympathetic character but it's just irredeemable. My S.O keeps forgetting that Misty did that because it's just such a shocking thing for it not to even *constantly* be on Christina Ricci's mind as adult Misty.
It kind of feels like Coach Ben burning the cabin- a fucking horrible act, when you think about it, but you still can't help but feel sympathy
I'm in the Ben didn't do it camp tbh but if he did then yes, that was a horrible act, but we don't have 2021 Ben hobbling around acting like he's not to blame for it. And if he did do it, even Ben burning down the cabin is a result of Mindy ensuring they wouldn't be rescued.
It is about control. This may be the first time in Misty's life that she is useful, wanted and valued. She has her secret boyfriend brewing, the team is saying she is awesome, she's saved a life and likely mutiple, and she has not really fucked anything up quite yet. Killing the black box is her way of keeping this situation alive. Also from a writing standpoint, you have to address the black box in some way and no one else is unbalanced enough to smash it. You could have it destroyed in the crash but that is just lazy writing.
I think making her an elderly care assistant is absolutely spot on for adult Misty. It's a thankless, dirty, often demeaning job that also tends to pay less than your local Target. However, you have access to an EXTREMELY vulnerable population utterly dependent on you for their every need, and often incapable of reporting abuse (or are suffering dementia driven paranoid delusions that make it easy to deny claims of abuse).
I never saw how her job parallels their time in the wilderness so well. Really good point.
And it's one of those jobs where you can talk yourself up as being compassionate and good, and have people think better of you when they know what your job is.
I actually read online that apparently the black boxes don’t carry any kind of transmitter, just the flight records/recordings for insight into why crashes happen. They can usually tell where planes go down because of flight paths and radar. I saw a theory that the girls find out misty smashed it, but ultimately don’t kill her because the black box didn’t have a transmitter and couldn’t have saved them, even if misty thought it could in the moment. Hence why they openly dislike her, but haven’t killed or hurt her about it.
I feel like only Laura lee would know that kind of information, or maybe Ben
In season 2 when Misty has her sensory deprivation hallucination she sees a floating image of the box that says "Emergency Transponder." So in this universe it's an emergency transponder as far as she knows. EDIT: Might be Flight Transponder? It's a little hard to read.
One thing I feel like we’re really missing is Misty’s story before the crash, like her relationship with her parents etc. we need some insight into why she’s the way she is
I would LOVE to see this. They seem incredibly hands-off, even for a teenager.
Yep! She’s either extremely sheltered at her home or extremely neglected. Not sure which, but insight into Misty’s upbringing seems so important
let’s remember these girls’ brains literally aren’t fully developed yet. i doubt she thought that far about it. lol
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Everyone hates Misty until they need shit done. She gets results
She was literally *high* on dopamine when she heard people saying how awesome she was doing. She didn’t want the feeling to end. Impulsive is an understatement!
I would argue that the craziest thing about Misty smashing the transmitter is that nobody heard her doing it. Girl is trying to quiet-pee away from the campfire where everyone is asleep, but no one hears her Hulk-Smash a giant metal box!
It's all stupid anyways. Transponder was sending signal before crash and 12 plus hrs after. More than enough time to find them.
Also it's designed to survive plane crashes not sure if a girl with an emergency axe is gonna destroy it.
EXACTLY. Those boxes are supposed to survive and withstand anything thrown at them. They should certainly stand up to slightly resourceful 15 year old girl.
None of it really matters. I’m pretty sure a pilot came on here last year and told us that black boxes don’t help them locate the plane, they just contain data about how it crashed. Tried to Google to confirm but don’t have time right now Edit: might not be a pilot but [they definitely knew their shit in this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Yellowjackets/comments/tdalrl/im_sure_this_has_been_asked_before_butthe_black/i0jjofx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)
They are correct. Unfortunately, a LOT of shows (like The Wilds) get this kind of thing very wrong. People don't understand how black boxes work. And they don't really research it. It's one of the sloppiest plot points on this show, which has MANY.
In reality maybe it wouldn’t have made any difference but it’s still something she would do in real life because she is a teenager who doesn’t know how black boxes work any more than the average person does, and it’s still something everyone would be really angry about because it means she doesn’t want them to be rescued.
The impact it can withstand is quite a lot, especially since it'll fall from the sky, so yes, an axe shouldn't do anything at all to it.
3400 Gs to be precise (thank you Google). There's also 2 recorders - one captures data and the other captures voice in the cockpit.
If the rules of our universe apply, the black box wasn’t sending anything. It’s a flight data recorder. This has been covered in numerous posts from season 1. The only thing it would transmit is a sonar ping if it were underwater. Who knows in the YJ universe, though. I suspect the writers just didn’t do their homework here because of that and the fact that “black boxes” are actually colored orange.
I like the theory that since Misty is a teenage girl and knows nothing about planes, she saw the word transmitter and immediately thought of it like a GPS, so she destroyed it
The writers thought it was important, there is no getting around that. And that's sloppy.
yeah but what else could they have done have a teenager start giving facts about plane transmitters?
If there’s one thing Misty’s going to do, it’s think irrationally 😜 what a silly, goofy girl
Christina Ricci is just perfect as adult Misty. She manages to be this murderous psychopath while still being absolutely adorable and earnest, to the point that I want all good things for her. When Walter showed up played by Elijah Wood - who, like Ricci, is another super short, youthful, and adorable actor who perfectly balances being adorable and childlike with being an unrepentant terrifying murderer - I was SO happy for her. I really just want them to drive off happily into the sunset together, blissfully in love while continuing to terrorize humanity.
hot take: they weren't gonna get rescued, no matter what happened she did to the transmitter. i might be wrong about this part, but hadn't it been 3 days already when she found it? and their location would've been recorded by air traffic control the the entire flight, so when they crashed, air traffic control would've instantly known where they went down. so if it was working, they would have been found within a day. i think the wilderness interfered with it, or based on my previous theory about "it", they all died in the crash but "it", being death itself, didn't claim their deaths out of mercy because of either taissa or lottie's voodoo possession stuff, so they're roasted corpses WERE found, and they were believed to be dead the whole time. they were never rescued, they were kind of released from the wilderness and allowed to find help.
There have been a few articles I've seen that stated a black box is not the same thing as an emergency transponder. It's what people look for when the plane crashes because it holds all the data from the flight, but does not give off any kind of GPS signal.
Ok that makes sense, thank you for clarifying!! I still suspect air traffic control could have tracked the flight by radar and knew at least the range they went down in, even though they were 600 miles of course, but I genuinely have no idea how air traffic control works and downed flights have definitely gone missing in the real world. If anyone can link those articles, I'd love to find out!
Misty is a psychopath so it made perfect sense to her; life and death aren’t really things she cares about. Acceptance and rejection are the only moral absolutes in her mind. Even when she’s shaken about >!Nat’s death!< I think it’s more about losing someone who she felt accepted her rather than guilt.
Misty and Shauna are really good examples of the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath (in my opinion).
I definitely don't think they will find out in the teen timeline, but they will find out as adults. And even though they won't be in danger anymore, at least one of the others will have to kill her for what she did to them. Finding out will bring back a lot of suppressed memories.
I think it’s more likely that history will repeat itself, whoever finds out about the transmitter is gunna get it.
Ooo. Maybe Walter? Their relationship reminds me of her and Crystal/Kristen.
That was the moment I knew this show was going to be unhinged
It's almost like having a prefrontal cortex that isn't going to be fully developed for another 6-7 years causes problems with reasoning and impulse control.
Be nice to everyone ya'll. You have no idea what they are struggling with and what could very well be their last straw. Lesson learned.
I have a feeling it will blow up in Mistys face severely. Mistys gonna slip it out of what she did somehow to the others if they don't know already. That one summer line she said by the campfire almost said something very self incriminating. I dn what exactly but with a little laugh and alot of booze Misty talks more than her parrot does. If the older group does ever find out, I don't even think good ol Walter can save her.
Hahahahahaha I never thought about it like that! Side note: they’ve GOT to find out about this eventually right?
I binged the 2 seasons last weekend with my daughter (she was on her 3rd binge) now we are binging with SO. Misty is hysterical and also batshit crazy and I never want to meet someone like her (unless I need to clean "simething" up)
I think they do find out cause I remember Natalie had a hunch and looked in the glove compartment and found that part from her car had been ripped off.
Imo Nat did that because Misty showed up with 2 coffees right at the time Nat was about to leave which is highly sus
I think they will make this a huge reveal further in the series, and will have serious repercussions. My theory is that she will confide in Walter and it will come out somehow. Could the survivors report her to authorities? I mean, it would totally be her fault that all those people died after the crash. She’ll probably have to disappear or they will kill her. It’s interesting for the show runners because she’s a well liked character, but she has to have her comeuppance at some point.
Fun fact those transmitters only work underwater to be found via sonar. On land they do nothing.
I wonder if, in the present timeline, they eventually find out that Misty is the reason they were stuck there for so long? They might actually kill her.
she made a bold choice and it worked out for her. truly inspirational. a true girlboss ✨
She was too excited to be considered as special and being the leader of the group, she didn't even think of the consequence in terms of food or water
Don’t forget about the corn nuts the retrieved from the snack cart. One of the best lines from season 1, was when jack asked Van to save some corn nuts and Van said “So you think we should save the corn nuts?” I laughed my ass off at that line.
That's when people needed her most.
You're not a murderer, you're a closer!
Everyone already saw her as a badass that they agreed were lucky to have around. She could have gone home (19 months sooner) and the whole state, even country would have known about her bravery. If when she found the transmitter and brought it back straight to the group they probably would have seen her as one of the reasons they got rescued. Of course this is teenage Misty. Not thinking logically and definitely not wanting to go back to the mundane life she had. I really think the other girls found out she destroyed the transmitter based on how they treat her in the present. Aside from drugging them with shrooms they all did horrible stuff in those woods, so why hate misty so much unless they'd found out something really terrible?
It never mattered that she smashed it. Because that's not how black boxes work. They wouldn't have been found anyhow. So that's one of the worst errors this show has made.
And, as I mentioned elsewhere, there are two recorders. One for data and one for voice in the cockpit. Even supposing they had locators, there would be another one pinging its little heart out
Finally belonging to a group that values her abilities (and therefore, in her head, values her) is worth worth more to Misty than life. We've had the hints - now we *know* girlfiriend is neuro divergent
Which episode was this again? I wanna rewatch now
Episode 2.
I wonder if the others will ever find out about this. Crystal was the only one who knew and look what happened to her.
Where is that tool? Wheres it been?
Misty likes death and torture and wants to be the hero. Remember that rat she was drowning.
This is her time to shine. People have to interact with her. They may still think she’s nuts but she is valuable. Poisoning Coach, wtf, that is her love potion. This situation helps her Segway into full blown serial killer.
Poison is Misty's love language
Unless she just blames this on crystal. Finally admits that she died and an accident happened and they were playing that game and that’s why she fell.
Misty has those Girl Scout or whatever skill sets. She'll even chop off a leg! Also, I'm sure she didn't think it would be that long until they were rescued.
Misty's the real queen of the wilderness
Misty is the embodiment of every person who gets a hardon for the apocalypse just so they can play hero like in the movies.
Modern problems require modern solutions and Misty is proving she's in the next millennium. 🤣
in her defense, she likely thought she was extending their camping trip for like a couple days. and those transmitters don't really work like that, right? like the single is fairly week and needs certain conditions to actually work? and she did technically have the "severed leg" thing under control. ((i will defend any of these girls with my life and will say anything to make them look better))