Let’s venture to answer one of the big questions haunting the first season.
Warning: Spoilers fromYellowjacketsepisodes 19 are discussed in this article.
Then, over a drink, he starts to quote Kurt Vonnegut.
Peter Gadiot as Adam in ‘Yellowjackets’.Showtime
The cutie is well-read!
Adam is definitely pretending to be someone he’s not.
So, who is Adam, really?
Peter Gadiot as Adam in ‘Yellowjackets’.Showtime
Let’s put on our Citizen Detective caps and unpack the prevalent theories.
This article has been updated afterYellowjacketsseason 1, episode 9.
Adam is … Javi
Otherwise known as the “Adam definitely has to be Javi because …
Warren Kole as Jeff in ‘Yellowjackets’.Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME
The evidence surely seems stacked.
Here’s why the series seems to be leading us toward this reveal.
When Coach Martinez dies from the plane crash in the second episode, Shauna goes to comfort Javi.
Peter Gadiot as Adam in ‘Yellowjackets’.Showtime
She walks with him as the other girls carry the coach’s body to the gravesite.
Later by the campfire, Shauna is seen putting a sympathetic hand on the boy’s shoulder.
In episode 4, Javi finds Shauna writing in her journal by the creek during the 1996 time setting.
Perhaps this was the start of Adam’s interest in art.
During that same date, Adam playfully spurs Shauna over their mini-golf scores.
She asks why he’s even keeping track in the first place.
Did little brother pick up this tip from big bro?
In episode 6, 1996 Shauna finds Javi looking through her stuff for the hunting knife.
He says it’s for an art project.
She later finds he whittled a wolf that he placed by the window in the attic.
Then there’s the fact that Adam seems like he’s known Shauna for a while.
talk, he remarks that she’s looking to blow things up to see what happens.
The question remains if Adam is Javi, why doesn’t Shauna recognize him?
Did he undergothatmuch of a glow-up?
(I mean, we’ve all seenWill Poulter’s new Hemsworth bodforGuardians of the Galaxy.)
I’m surprised but also not surprised!”
So, for argument’s sake, let’s explore some other options.
Maybe he is, but we’ll see.
Jeff has always been a sneak.
It seems like a safe bet he’s trying to prove there’s more to him.
And who would know how to unlock his own wife’s safe better than him?
I’m sure that would also be weighing on Jeff’s mind.
So, where does Adam fit into this theory?
How would he have known that Jeff wouldn’t be home?
Unless he’s working with Jeff and already knew he wouldn’t be.
Bianca, the woman Shauna thought was his mistress, was actually one of those loan sharks.
And it also confirms that this theory about Adam working with Jeff is wrong.
But we still have one question: Why did Jeff need the journals?
It wasn’t explicitly explained, and he admitted to Shauna that he already read her journals before.
Wouldn’t he have remembered the symbol?
Maybe I’m overthinking this.
Um, no, that’s actually as crazy as it sounds.
The timeline is also off.
Shauna received an admissions letter from Brown that would’ve put her in Class of 2000.
We also know the Yellowjackets were trapped in the wild for 19 months before being rescued.
Still, the math doesn’t add up.
Callie also tells her mom that there’s no way Adam doesn’t know that Shauna’s a Yellowjacket.
She Googles her name and it’s the first thing that comes up.
Maybe Adam is just sleeping with Shauna to sell a story about their sexcapades to the highest bidder.
Is he a journalist that developed feelings for his subject?
I thought the same, but subtitles on the episode confirmed it was Lauren, not Laura.
Still, could Adam be out for vengeance against those who harmed a sibling of his in the woods?
I’d like to believe Adam is really here for Shauna, but I suppose it could be true.
Adam clearly wasn’t the blackmailer, so that theory’s out.
Adam tried to calm her down, but she ended up killing him with a knife.
So, maybe Adampoor, sweet Adamreally was with Shauna for Shauna.
And maybe he really did only lie about Pratt to impress Shauna.
Screw Callie for putting those thoughts in her head, if true!
Still, we can’t help but wonder why there was no trace of Adam online.
There’s also the matter of the person who emptied Travis' bank account and presumably also killed Travis.
