Travis Martinez

## Travis Martinez

* Teen
* Adult

### Aliases

Flex (by Bobby Farleigh and WHS Yellowjackets)Trav

### Relatives

Unnamed MotherBill Martinez † (father)
Javi Martinez † (younger brother)

## Appearances

### Debut

"Pilot"

> And even though my words don't mean much, I-I know I'm a liar, he always kept his word. Always. I know he didn't kill himself.
>
> Natalie to Suzie regarding Travis, "Flight of the Bumblebee"

**Travis Martinez** is a character on the Showtime original series *Yellowjackets*. He is portrayed by Kevin Alves as a teenager and Andres Soto as an adult.

## Profile

### The past

#### Crash and loss

Travis Martinez is the son of Bill Martinez, the head coach of the WHS Yellowjackets, a team of talented female soccer players bound for the nationals. Though not a member of the team himself, he nevertheless joins his father and younger brother, Javi, on the flight to the nationals. His life is turned upside-down when the plane crashes in the wilderness of Canada and his father is killed in the crash.

Following the initial shock of the crash and his father's death, Travis chastises his brother Javi, forcing him to spit out a piece of gum that his father gave him before the crash. He tells Javi that their father is the whole reason they're in this mess and now he's dead. Natalie Scatorccio, another of the crash survivors, confronts him about his treatment of his brother, but he tells her to mind her own business. Not long after this incident, Travis discovers a rifle at the cabin that the survivors have taken refuge at. Seeing him with it, the girls call him stupid for using it without knowing what he's doing, but he replies that what's stupid is them having a gun but not using it. Coach Ben Scott, the only surviving adult, then takes charge, ordering him to him hand him the gun and saying that it's a dangerous weapon and they will treat it as such.

Despite this, Coach Scott agrees that Travis is right in that they're all feeling the fact that they're out of food. He sets up a target practice competition in order to determine which of them is the best shot. Travis first calls over Javi, offering him a chance, but Javi just curses him, leading the rest of the group to mock Travis as "Flex," an old nickname. Travis then takes his own shot and scores well. Natalie then goes next, but is wide off the mark. Travis mocks her, suggesting that next time they stick to something she's good at, like folding laundry. Annoyed, Natalie takes the rifle back in hand, saying she's going again. She masters herself and proves an even better shot than Travis. Ultimately, the competition comes down to just the two of them. Travis gets four of the five targets, but misses on the fifth, causing Natalie to go again mock as "Flex." Aggravated, he points the gun at her. Scott gets him to put it down, telling him it was good shooting, but to never do that again. Natalie then gets a perfect score.

#### Hunting and romance

To their chagrin, Natalie and Travis are paired as partners, being the two best shots of the group. Coach Scott tells them that they're relying on them, which means they must rely on each other. As he asks Natalie if she understands, Travis simply takes off. Natalie pursues, telling him about some of the signs they need to look for. He, however, just keeps moving, telling her she can follow him or not, so long as she doesn't slow her down. She pursues him and they end up back at the crash site. She asks if he seriously brought them there, wondering why and he tells her it doesn't concern her. She replies that his being messed up right now doesn't give him a free pass to be a dick all the time, that they're supposed to be a team. He laughs at the notion, asking if she even knows why it is that people call him "Flex." He explains that in seventh grade, he had spinal surgery on his back. Bobby Farleigh saw his scar in the locker room and told everyone that the surgery was to have one of his ribs removed so that he could flexible enough to suck his own dick. He then starts digging at the grave they made for his father.

Stunned, Natalie asks if he's psychotic. He, however, explains that there's a ring that belonged to his grandfather. He digs and then suddenly stops, realizing that he can't do it. Natalie tells him that it's just a ring and to let it go. He, however, tells her that she doesn't get it, that he has to bring something back for Javi. Touched, she asks him which hand. She then completes the job herself, getting the ring. "So, can you suck your own dick?" she asks. "I wish," he replies, the two finally connecting. He tells her that his father was a shit dad who didn't even like him. Natalie, reflecting her own her own abusive father, tells him that it doesn't matter how terrible they are, you still miss them once they're gone. The two then go for a walk in the woods and Natalie spots a deer. Travis tells her to just breathe. She steadies herself and makes a clean shot. The two return to the cabin as heroes, though Travis gives all the credit to Natalie.

As the two continue to hunt together, it becomes clear that romance is blossoming between them. Coach Scott takes notice. He tells Travis that it's their business until it becomes everyone else's business, explaining that in the situation they're in, they don't need a baby to deal with. He provides Travis with a number of condoms that he brought along on the trip. Travis is confused as to why he has them, but nevertheless accepts the gift. Sometime following this, he and Natalie bring back another deer to camp. This time, however, when they cut into it, they discover that it is filled with maggots. Worried that their situation has become desperate, Taissa Turner declares her intention to head south in the hope of finding help. Travis begins making preparations to leave with the group, feeling that they need a man along to help them. Natalie, who doesn't want to go, begs Travis to stay. She tells him that she knows it's selfish, but she just wants him to be there. He agrees.

Not long after this, with the expedition group gone and everyone else away taking care of other tasks, Natalie declares it the perfect moment. She asks Travis, indirectly, if he wants to have sex. The two make out and then prepare to do the deed, Travis bringing out one of the condoms that Coach Scott provided. However, when it comes time, Travis is unable to get it up. Disgusted, he stands up, apologizes and leaves.

#### Fallout

Natalie visits Coach Scott. She asks him if he's gay, revealing that she figured it out because he never stares at the girls' boobs. When he admits to it, she shares the real reason that she asked in the first place: that she's wondering if Travis might be gay. She explains about how Travis couldn't it up. Coach Scott, however, explains that it's just something that happens sometimes. He tells her that he's seen the way that Travis looks at her and he's in deep. He tells her that he would love another chance if she was willing to give it. Meanwhile, however, team captain Jackie finds Travis and asks him why he's not out hunting. He evades answering directly, saying that Natalie is a better hunter anyway. Jackie, who is going through a situation with her best friend Shauna, then reveals that Natalie was once in a sexual relationship with Bobby Farleigh. Travis is stunned by the news.

Natalie returns to Travis, intent on putting Coach Scott's words into action. He, however, confronts her with her relationship with Farleigh. She says that she didn't tell him before because she knew how he would react. She says that she made a mistake. "Well, so did I," he says, readying himself to leave. She asks him if he's really going to ruin things over something so stupid. She then says that it's good he couldn't get it up, because this would have been a lot harder if they'd actually had sex. He leaves, slamming the door.

Following another failed attempt at getting rescued, the girls decide to have a "Doomcoming," one last big party before what they feel is their inevitable death by starvation. Before the party, Jackie tells Shauna that she doesn't intend to die a virgin and reveals that she's set her sights on Travis. Before the party, Travis helps Javi to put on a tie. At the beginning of the party, Natalie makes a half-hearted attempt to get back together with Travis, but Jackie calls him over. He and Jackie then dance together and, seeing this, Natalie takes refuge by escaping the party with Coach Scott.

#### The stag and the missing brother

Jackie and Travis make their way back to the cabin to have sex. As they do so, those who consumed the party's food, including Travis, begin to experience an altered state. Unknown to any of them, the food his been spiked with magic mushrooms that had originally been gathered by Misty Quigley with the intention of poisoning just Coach Scott, whom she is possessive of. While Jackie and Travis have sex back at the cabin, several of the girls notice their absence. Lottie Matthews declares that they should find them, that Travis doesn't belong to Jackie. They make their way back to the cabin, where they discover Jackie and Travis who have already had sex. They lock Jackie in a closet and begin abusing a confused Travis, who under the influence of the shrooms thinks that none of them are really there. Nevertheless, he escapes and Lottie shouts "The stag. We have to catch it!"

The group pursues Travis through the woods. Along the way, Shauna spots Travis's little brother Javi and tells him to run. Around the same time, Coach Scott, under the influence of the shrooms, tells Natalie that love is the whole reason they're in the woods. He tells her to find Travis and tell him how she feels, that it could save them all. The girls continue their pursuit and eventually catch Travis. They tie him up, now all imagining him to be a stag. Shauna grabs a knife and prepares to slit Travis's throat, but Natalie rushes up, shoving her aside. She asks Travis if he's alright and he tells her that he's fine.

The next morning, the girls wake up, dazed and confused from their experience with the shrooms. Natalie seeks out Travis, who is searching the woods for his brother, Javi, who has gone missing in the aftermath of the night before. She finds him cleaning his neck, saying that she's been looking everywhere for him and asking if he's alright. He tells her that he's better than alright, that he had sex the night before, but she tell him she doesn't care about that. She says she just needs to know that he's okay, that he had a knife to his throat. He insists he's fine, telling her that he's going to go look for Javi, and refusing her offer of help. Despite this, she pursues him and eventually once again finds him. He tells her that he can't find Javi and she suggests he might be back at the cabin. He tells her that he isn't, that something happened the night before. She again offers her help. He says he doesn't want it, and she tells him that she knows. He then tells her that he didn't want to, but he loves her. She hugs him.

#### The ongoing search

Two months later, winter has taken hold upon the Canadian wilderness. Javi is still missing and Travis goes out on daily searches for him with Natalie, the two of them searching in all directions and building up a map of the wilderness as they go. One day, they discover a skeleton and Travis at first believes it to be Javi, but it is only a fox. He suggests that they need to search out further and Natalie agrees to get up an hour earlier before sunup so that they can expand the search radius.

Natalie secretly believes that Javi must surely be dead, given the bitter cold and it having been so long. When Travis comments as much to her, she tells him that it has been two months in the cold. He then starts hyperventilating, apparently having a panic attack. Lottie comes over and leads him in a breathing exercise to calm him down. As she does so, she appears to have a vision of a tree stump, lit by candles like the ones she saw during her baptism with Laura Lee. She tells Travis that his brother is alive, that she knows he is, and he should get some rest. Natalie then takes her aside, telling her not to give Travis false hope. Lottie tells her that there is no false hope, only hope. Natalie sarcastically asks her if she read this on a fortune cookie. When Lottie replies that she says what she felt, Natalie tells her she wants her to say a lot less.

Later, Natalie and Travis again go out searching, they discover a strange clearing in which it appears moss is still growing, despite the snow. It is similar to what Lottie saw in her vision. Natalie calls it weird, but Travis doesn't seem very interested and tells her to come on.

#### Natalie's deception

Convinced that Javi is dead, Natalie puts together a ruse to convince Travis of the same. When Travis suggests splitting up one day during one of their expeditions, she agrees to it. She then finds Javi's suitcase, takes a shirt from it, and cuts her hand, using her own blood to bloody it. When she meets back up with Travis, she shows him the bloodied clothing, which seems to convince him. He is bereft, but finally agrees to return with Natalie to the cabin. There, however, much to Natalie's annoyance, Lottie continues to insist that Javi is alive. They also find that the group has made a cremation pyre for Jackie's body, so Travis places the bloodied shirt in it, bidding him goodbye. He and Natalie later have sex, but throughout, Travis has strange visions of Lottie, including imagining that it is not Natalie he is with, but rather Lottie.

That evening, the group wakes to a strange burning smell. They head outside to discover that the snow from the trees fell in such a way as to ignite the funeral pyre, causing Jackie's body to roast. Overwhelmed by the smell and near starving, surviving only on the ever-decreasing rations of bear meat, the group gives into their hunger, all of them, including Travis, feasting on Jackie's body. Only Coach Ben Scott does not give into it and partake.

In the aftermath, Natalie suggests moving the remains of Jackie's body, though Travis asks where they would move it, pointing out that they still can't bury it. Ultimately, it is decided for Natalie to take the body back to the crash site in the hopes they can bury it later. As she heads off, Travis offers to accompany her, but she refuses the offer.

#### The return of Javi

As the group continues to run low on food, an argument springs up when Mari complains about the fact that Natalie refuses to participate in Lottie's blessings. She argues that any food they have is the result of Lottie, referring to a bear which seemed to sacrifice itself to Lottie and sparrows which flew straight at the cabin, both of which she attributes to Lottie's supernatural powers. Natalie argues that she and Travis are the only people who are even trying to get them any food and that they can't help if there isn't any game to hunt. She proposes a contest, that she and Lottie both head out for the day and whoever has the most food at the end is the winter. Travis argues that Lottie isn't a hunter, but Natalie counters that according to Mari, she's better than a hunter.

During the contest, Natalie discovers a massive white moose buried in a lake. The rules of the contest are abandoned as the group works alongside Natalie to try to free the moose from the lake. Ultimately, however, they are unsuccessful and Travis consoles Natalie as she sobs, watching as the moose drifts down deep into the lake. That evening, however, their relationship takes a turn for the worse when Taissa and Van arrive at the cabin, Travis's younger brother Javi with them. His survival is miraculous, but inexplicable, and when Travis asks him just how he is alive, he is completely silent in response. Meanwhile, Natalie tries to make herself scarce in the background, knowing just what she is in for.

When Lottie establishes a morning prayer club, Travis quickly joins and becomes a regular attendee. When Van asks for his help in getting Javi to talk, he tells her that he'll talk when he's ready. He shuns Natalie, refusing when she asks him to come with her to the stream to check the gill nets. Later, contradicting what he said to Van, he sits with Javi, feeding him some broth. He tells him that he doesn't have to say anything about where he was, but pleads with him to at least tell him where he was. Javi, though, only directs a brief glance at Lottie and remains silent. Natalie then tells him that Javi just needs some time. Travis, however, turns on her, asking if she doesn't think he got enough of that already. He shouts at her, saying that she planted the bloody clothes. He tells her to just say it and she admits that she did. She tells him that she didn't think Javi was alive, that it didn't make any sense. He, however, says that Javi might not be so messed up if they had found him earlier and that this is on her.

#### The wilderness's choice

Not long after this, Shauna goes into labor with the baby she has been carrying the wilderness, that of Jeff Sadecki, her . The labor does not go well and Lottie asks the group for offerings to the wilderness. Travis grabs a bone mask and places it before the fireplace, cutting open his hand and spilling blood. Lottie tells him that the wilderness recognizes his sacrifice and so does she. Ultimately, however, Shauna's baby is stillborn. In the aftermath, the blizzard that has been raging outsides stops and Travis leads a group in forcing open the cabin door, allowing the group to finally head outside for the first time in a while. Shauna's grief and rage at the loss of her baby ultimately culminates at her lashing out violently at the others. Lottie offers herself up as a punching bag for Shauna, but asks Travis to take Javi to the bedroom so he doesn't witness what's about to go down. Shauna then delivers Lottie a savage beating and kicking that leaves on her on the edge of death.

The group finds themselves at all-time low following this, on the verge of starvation and suffering hallucinations. Travis, however, finds Natalie with Javi, providing him with a pair of gloves she knitted herself. She tells him that they're not pretty and don't change color in the cold, but might help. She asks Travis if he needs anything. He says no, but tells her that she's a good person, that he's sorry for ever making her feel otherwise. Later that day, Misty reports to the group, telling them that Lottie told her that if she dies, she wants them to make use of her body to stay alive. Mari says that there's no way that she will die, that the wilderness won't let her. Travis, however, says that there's no way she's going to live if she's starving, but Natalie points out the same is true for all of them. Taissa declares that they need to find a way to survive and that it can't be Lottie.

The group comes up with a ritual. They create an altar with a candle and draw from a deck of cards featuring a Queen of Hearts with her eyes blacked out. As they all draw cards, Travis pulls an Ace of Clubs. Javi draws a King of Spades and, upon doing so, races over to Travis, hugging him. Travis tells him that he's okay, that they're okay. Immediately after this, however, Natalie draws the Queen of Hearts. At this, Shauna goes to her. She affixes a necklace to her neck - the heart-pendant necklace originally given to Shauna by Jackie. She then puts a knife to her throat, but Natalie tells her that she's going to have to look in her the eye. Shauna turns her around, again preparing to draw the knife. Just then, however, Travis leaps forward, shoving Shauna out of the way. He shouts at her to run. She does so and he tries to follow, only to restrained by a few of the girls, while the rest chase after Natalie. His brother, Javi, also manages to flee the cabin.

Left with no choice, Travis can only wait at the cabin. He is eventually released by the other girls and is delighted to see Natalie returning. His delight, however, turns to shock and horror when he sees, behind her, the rest of the girls bringing in Javi's body on a stake. Natalie tells him that it happened so fast, that the wilderness chose. What she does not explain is that Javi drowned in the frozen lake. Although she had first tried to save him, the other girls closed in on them, Misty telling her that they would kill her if she tried to save Javi. Travis goes to his little brother, sobbing, and the girls retreat inside, allowing him a moment.

All too soon, Natalie, Shauna, Taissa and Van return outside, intending to begin the process of preparing Javi's body for them to cannibalize. "No," Travis pleads weakly, but it is clear to him that he can do nothing stop them. "I'm sorry," he tells Javi, getting up and heading back inside the cabin. Eventually, Van comes back in as well, her, Natalie and Taissa having returned at Shauna's urging. Travis tells her that she should be ashamed. She, however, replies that she isn't. "The fact that you can even say that..." he starts, but she reiterates that she's not ashamed. She tells him that she's glad she's alive, like she is. She tells him that she doesn't think that any of them who are still there should ever be ashamed of that. She tells him to let his brother save him, that after everything he went through, he owes him that.

Shauna enters the cabin with the meat from Javi's body, holding up Javi's heart. She calls for Travis. Teary-eyed, he takes a wolf-carving made by Javi and places it on a shelf by some candles. He takes the heart from Shauna, bites down into it, and then sets it upon a cooking skillet, the others piling meat atop it.

After everyone has eaten their share, Lottie returns to the group, having recovered some of her strength. She tells them that she never wanted to be the leader, that the wilderness only chose her because she knew how to listen, but that she can't hear it anymore. She says that it doesn't need her anymore, that they all learned how to listen. She tells them that it already chose a new leader, that there's no other way to explain that it wouldn't allow them to kill Natalie. She bows to Natalie as their new leader and each of them pay tribute in turn, Travis being the second-to-last before Shauna. He takes one of her hands in his, placing it against his chest, before walking away. That evening, the cabin burns down. Although the group all manages to escape, with many of their supplies, they can only stand and watch, Travis positioned behind Natalie, as their refuge throughout the long months burns to nothing but ash.

### The present

#### A tragic fate

Around 25 years later, Travis has gone off the grid and moved far away from the town of Wiskayok, New Jersey, where many of the survivors of the plane crash have still been living. His new identity, however, is discovered by Misty Quigley, who has been digging into the backgrounds of the survivors after having received a mysterious postcard picturing a scenic landscape with the phrase "Wish you were here!" and a strange symbol they all saw in the wilderness on the back.

Misty, along with Natalie, travels to the shack where she has discovered that Travis is living. The two of them break in and discover that Travis is working for minimum wage at a place called Willow Brook Ranch. Before they can investigate any further, however, they are arrested by a cop who was in the area and discovered their break-in. Misty gets them bailed out and Natalie decides that they should go investigate the ranch. Upon arriving, however, they discover Travis's dead body hanging from the rafters of a barn. Seeing it, Natalie breaks down sobbing, but Misty guides her back to the car and they bolt before the rapidly approaching police can find and arrest them again. On the road, Misty shares something else that she discovered at the shack: a note which reads "Tell Nat she was right." Misty asks Natalie if she knows what she was right about. Natalie replies that she doesn't, but that she does know this for sure: Travis didn't kill himself.

Natalie decides to investigate Travis's death, largely by herself, though sometimes aided by Misty, as well their former classmate, Kevyn Tan, who is now working as a detective. Natalie convinces Kevyn to give her the details on Travis's toxicology report, which shows that he wasn't on anything before he died. Wanting more, however, she speaks with Misty, who has a contact, Stallion99, in the online citizen detective community. She asks Misty to contact Stallion99 in order to hack Kevin's e-mail. Misty agrees to do so, though it takes some prodding due to Natalie having previously given her the cold shoulder.

Misty reports back to Natalie, telling her that there's a problem. She explains that while Stallion99 is willing to provide the info, he's spooked about the idea of hacking a cop and therefore wants an in-person meeting. Natalie agrees to a meeting at a restaurant and when they get there, they put together a plan. They enter the restaurant and Stallion99 is startled upon seeing Natalie, expecting Misty to have come alone. Natalie asks him what he wants and he tells her that he wants in, that he looked up the person in the file he got for them and he "doesn't exist." Natalie tells him to just give them the file, but he asks what it's worth to them. In response, Misty pulls out a mug of gasoline and pours it on his pants. Natalie then pulls out a lighter, threatening to light his penis on fire if he doesn't hand over the file. Stunned, he does.

#### Blackmail

The file, however, proves frustratingly unhelpful when it comes to finding any real leads on Travis's case. It does, however, reveal that there was candlewax underneath Travis's body which, when connected together, makes up a strange symbol that the crash survivors all saw in the woods. Natalie calls it messed up, more convinced than ever that he didn't commit suicide because he "didn't believe in any of it." Around the same time, the surviving Yellowjackets are blackmailed with a demand for $50,000. They hatch a plan to try to catch the blackmailer, Natalie particularly eager because she believes that the blackmailer is likely also connected with Travis's murder. Ultimately, however, the blackmailer gets away, leaving the group at square one and Natlaie even worse off, as she is the one who put up the blackmail money. Stymied, she very nearly falls back into her cocaine habit, when she is interrupted by Misty, who has been spying on her via hidden camera. Misty stops her from doing the cocaine by doing it herself instead. She also reveals an important piece of information: that she's learned that somebody emptied Travis's bank account *after* he died.

Natalie eagerly seizes on this piece of information. She calls up Travis's bank, hoping to wheedle the information out of them, but is told that they can only give information about the bank account of someone who is deceased to a family member. Enraged, she shouts at them, then throws the phone, begging them to just help her. She then notices some cocaine Misty missed and snorts it. Natalie, however, quickly springs back, deciding to put a new plan into action. She visits a Narcotics Anonymous meeting where she seeks out her one-time sponsor, Suzie, who has recently gotten a promotion at the bank where she works. Suzie is not happy to see her, but Natalie gets her to agree to a meeting at a café. There, she asks her if she remembers that guy that she always used to talk about. "Trevor?" replies Suzie, and Natalie corrects her, explaining that the police believe Travis committed suicide. She tells Suzie that she knows he didn't do that because when she was on the brink, he made her swear that she would never do that and promised her the same. She tells Suzie that she knows her word isn't worth anything, but that Travis always kept his. Suzie says that she believes her and Natalie explains about that somebody closed Travis's bank account after he died. She tells Suzie that she needs her to find out who that was.

#### The banker and the kidnapping

Suzie is sympathetic, but tells her that she can't release personal information to someone who isn't family, that it could get her fired. Natalie says that she thought she'd say that. She tells her that if that's the case, she'll have to call the bank and reveal that the two of them used to feed their habits by selling her customers' information to identity thieves. Suzie curses the day she met Natalie, but knows that she has no choice. She gets to work and though Natalie is eager for information, she ends up having to send her a text telling her to chill, that she's still working on it. Meanwhile, Natalie gets a call from Taissa telling her that Shauna found the blackmailer.

The two proceed to the address that Shauna gave them only to discover that Shauna has done more than find the blackmailer, she's killed him. Secretly, however, the man, Adam Martin, is just a random guy she met and had an affair with, while the real blackmailer is her husband, Jeff. Natalie is livid that Shauna has killed him, as she had hoped to get information out of him about Travis's murder. Aided by Misty Quigley, the group proceeds with a plan to cover up the crime. As Natalie and Shauna work together to dismember his corpse, Natalie jabs at Shauna about her having killed him. Shauna, however, suggests that there is no connection, that maybe Travis really did just commit suicide. Natalie is dubious of the idea, but Shauna tells her that she knows what the emptiness and the paranoia is like. She says that maybe Travis just couldn't live with it and that it's time for Natalie to forgive him.

Natalie attends the 25th anniversary reunion of the Wiskayok High School class of 1996, Misty's condition for her helping with the cover-up. While there, she stares at a picture of Travis in a memorial to those lost. She talks with Kevyn Tan, saying that he really did kill himself, which Kevyn agrees with. Following the reunion, Natalie sits in bed back at her hotel room and grabs a rifle, preparing to commit suicide. Before she can bring herself to pull the trigger, however, a group of four individuals burst into the room and kidnap her. One of them is wearing a pendant bearing the strange symbol from the woods. As Natalie struggles against them, Suzie calls her cellphone, with the call going to voicemail. She tells her that she did what she asked and looked into who emptied Travis's bank account. She continues that she thinks someone is following her. "Who the fuck is Lottie Matthews?" she asks.

#### Lottie's tale

Natalie wakes up in a small cabin in the woods, shackled to a bed. One of the kidnappers, also wearing a pendant with the symbol, opens the door and brings her food and water. She frees one of her arms to allow her to consume it. Later, when the kidnapper returns, Natalie gets the jump on her by stabbing her with a fork and renders her unconscious, then frees herself from the other handcuff. She escapes the cabin and evades pursuit in the woods of what a sign states is "Camp Green Pine." She eventually discovers Lottie leading a strange ritual. She threatens her with a spike made from a tree branch, asking her why she shouldn't cave her head in. "Because I have a message for you. From Travis," she tells her.

Lottie explains that after Travis died, she was worried that Natalie might do something stupid. She sent her friends to keep an eye on her and they stopped her from killing herself. She explains that Travis called her the night that he died, telling her that the wilderness had come back to haunt him and that he knew what he had to do. She asked him what he meant, but he simply hung up, so she panicked and drove all night until she reached him, finding him a mess, terrified and paranoid. He told her that he needed to get close to death, that both she and Van saw something when they almost died and that it was the only way to confront the darkness and find out what it wanted.

Lottie continues that she told him to stop reliving things, that he was in the vise grip of his trauma. She thought she had gotten through to him, but exhausted, she fell asleep. When she woke up, he was gone, having left instructions on how to get into his bank account and the note reading "Tell Nat she was right." She drove as fast as she could to Willow Brook Ranch, finding in him the barn with candles around arranged in the shape of the symbol, his neck rigged to a crane. Cursing, she asked him what he was doing and he told her that he was going to hang himself until he passed out, so that he could talk to the darkness. She told him not to push the button, but he warned her if she didn't help him, he would just do it himself instead. Left with no choice, she agreed, stating that she would lower him back down the moment he went unconscious. Unfortunately, however, the remote's batteries failed and Travis died instead.

Natalie questions Lottie's story, stating that there is something that Lottie is not telling her. Lottie tells her that there is nothing more to it, that was simply a horrendous accident. Lottie, however, recalls having had a vision during that time, in which she flashbacked to her baptism with Laura Lee and heard her chanting the phrase "Put your faith in him, your guiding light," followed by Laura Lee seeming to change into a dead and rotting form. She tells Natalie that she didn't kill Travis, that she was trying to save him. Natalie tells her that it's funny, that any time she tries to save someone, bad stuff happens. She tells her that she's going to expose her.

#### The darkness

Rather than leaving, however, Natalie remains on Lottie's compound with the apparent goal of gathering information to use against her. She eventually gains access to Lottie's cabin and finds that the is keeping the personal cell phones as well as various financial and personal documents of the community's members. When, however, she confronts the community members about this in front of Lottie, they tell her that they already know. They give this all up willingly before joining. Lottie then tells Natalie that she won't find what she's looking for there because what she's looking for is in her head.

Lottie reminds Natalie that Travis had said she was right about something. She asks her if she doesn't want to know what that is, saying that she certainly does. She continues that she wanted to know what Travis was going through and Natalie argues that she already knows, that she started it. She tells her that this may be true, but that she needs to know and that she knows how they can figure it out.

Taking a small flashlight, Lottie hypnotizes Natalie. She asks her to listen to her voice and to go back and picture herself the last time that she saw Travis alive. Natalie does so and tells Lottie that the two of them were at a beach. Travis had just gotten a new girlfriend and part of her wanted to ruin it, but another part of her just missed him. Lottie asks her what happened next and she tells her that it was the same thing that always happened.

Natalie ended up overdosing on heroin. As the paramedics came to revive her, she had a vision: the crash of Flight 2525, except that they were all dead in their seats, the visage of the Antler Queen looming over them. "We weren't alone out there," Natalie tells Lottie, saying that they brought back the darkness that was out there with them, or in them. This was what she was right about.

## Trivia

* Travis is one of only three male characters known to have survived the plane crash, along with his brother Javi and Coach Ben Scott.
* In the first season of *Yellowjackets* Andres Soto appears as the adult Travis Martinez only briefly as a voice on the phone and seen from a distance as the character's hanging corpse in "The Dollhouse," as well as very briefly in visions of Natalie's. The adult version of the character is first properly seen in flashbacks of Lottie Matthews and later of Natalie Scatorccio seen in the second season episode "Edible Complex."