Adam Martin

**Adam Martin** is a character on the Showtime original series *Yellowjackets*. He is portrayed by Peter Gadiot.

## Profile

Adam Martin is a man who works in a body shop in Wiskayok, New Jersey. Shauna Sadecki accidentally rear-ends his car after he stops short. She calls him an "asshole" and he comments that it usually takes at least a few minutes of conversation for people to figure that out. She asks if he's trying to be adorable and blames him for the crash. He, however, points out that *she* rear-ended him and says that they don't need to get insurance involved. He writes the number of a body shop on her arm, saying that he has a friend there. He introduces himself as Adam.

Adam later calls Shauna, asking why she never visited the body shop. She asks how he even knows and he tells her that *he* is actually the "friend" who works there. She tells him that she really can't afford it and he tells her that he'll do it for free. She seems reluctant, given that she has a husband, but he comments that she seems like someone who doesn't play by the rules.

When Shauna discovers that her husband Jeff is apparently in an affair with a woman named Bianca, she begins her own whirlwind affair with Adam.

As Shauna's affair with Adam continues, the two of them attend a rave party on Halloween. During the party, Shauna is shocked to discover her own daughter, Callie, present at the party despite her having forbidden her to go into town. Callie, in turn, is shocked to discover her mother with a man that is apparently her "lover." Shauna leaves and takes Callie home, despite Adam's protests. In a candid moment, Callie warns Shauna that she doesn't know anything about Adam and that Adam may just be using her because he wants her story as someone who was once a Yellowjacket. The next morning, however, Callie tries to blackmail Shauna by demanding to have her curfew and such or else she'll tell Jeff about the affair. Shauna, however, shuts this down by pointing out what the consequences of a divorce would be: the money being drained from Callie's college fund to pay for a divorce lawyer and Callie being stuck at her father's flat listening to him cry into a sofa and eventually giving him advice on dating girls the same age as her.

Despite her better judgment, Shauna continues her relationship with Adam, even as she deals with the Yellowjackets themselves being blackmailed by someone. Things come to a head when, following an evening dealing with the blackmail case, Shauna finds Adam waiting outside her home early in the morning. She confronts him, asking what he's doing there, but ends up taking himself and sleeping with him in the family bed. They end up falling asleep and, that morning, Shauna is forced to hide him in a closet when Jeff comes home. Later, Callie confronts Shauna, having found an ID that Adam left behind. She again asks if she really knows anything about him, saying that despite his supposedly being an artist, she couldn't find anything about him online, not even an Instagram profile. Shauna dismisses her concerns in front of her, saying that he simply wants her for who she is.

Secretly, however, Shauna gets on the Internet herself and begins researching Adam. She can't find anything either. She even calls up the art school that he supposedly attended, trying to get background, only to learn that he never even attended that art school. She pays a visit to his flat and gets him to admit to the art school lie, but he claims everything else is true. He then manages to talk her into leaving for the weekend and spending time at a cabin he owns. However, when she gets home, she discovers glitter in the closet, glitter that got the Yellowjackets' blackmailer in the pursuit of him, and that her safe containing her journals and other documents of her 19 months in the woods following the plane crash is missing.

Shauna returns once again to Adam's flat and demands to know the truth of who he really is. He issues a flat denial, but she searches around his place and discovers, among other things, a book titled *Skin In the Game: The Unauthorized Story of Flight 2525*. He claims he only bought it after meeting her, but she doesn't believe it. Things get tense and when he moves towards her, she ends up retaliating with a knife, stabbing him to death. She then returns home, only to discover that it was, in fact, her husband Jeff who was doing the blackmailing, his furniture store in jeopardy, and that he was never actually having an affair. She reveals what happened with Adam. Despite being stunned about her affair, he offers to take the fall for her and go to jail by claiming to the police that he murdered Adam after discovering the affair. Shauna, however, says that this would ruin the Yellowjackets' lives by exposing their secrets. The two of them then come up with a plan to hide the truth by getting the other Yellowjackets to believe that it was Adam was the blackmailer, like Shauna did.

Shauna brings her fellow Yellowjackets Natalie and Taissa to the flat, showing them Adam's dead body and claiming that he was the blackmailer. They wonder just how to deal with the situation and Natalie says that she has an idea. Natalie then enlists the help of Misty Quigley, another surviving Yellowjacket who is good when it comes to this kind of coverup. Misty steals cleaning supplies from the nursing home where she works and diligently puts the group to work cleaning up the crime scene and hacking up Adam's body. She then uses the funeral of a recently deceased patient, Gloria DeGenaro, as cover by placing Adam's head and arms inside the casket to be burnt along DeGenaro's body. The plan seems to work, though later, when Shauna is watching the news with Jeff and Callie, a report comes on saying that police are searching for a man named Adam Martin whose concerned friends and family have not heard from in several days.

Following this, Misty tries to prep Shauna for the possibility of questioning by the police. She uses a voice changer to simulate a police interrogation, but Shauna fails miserably, giving weak denials to Misty's harsh questioning. Afterward, Misty tells her that the only thing you should ever say to the police is "I want my lawyer," indicating a cookie cake she baked with the phrase spelled out on top in icing. "We were careful, weren't we?" asks Shauna, but Misty tells her that she can feel that there was something that they missed. She asks Shauna if she destroyed everything that she had related to Adam as well as her own journals and Shauna lies and tells her that she did.

Back at home, Misty logs in to the citizen detective website. She discovers a forum thread about Adam Martin's disappearance, created only a little more than a half hour before. Most of it is just the usual inane theorizing, but she finds one post that greatly concerns her, by a "PuttingtheSickinForensics." The poster speculates on the existence of a "mystery lady friend," stating that he got a hold of Adam Martin's credit card records and they show a record of purchases that point in this direction, including dinner at a fancy restaurant, mini-golf and lingerie. Misty is deeply disturbed by the post.

Meanwhile, Shauna recalls that Adam mentioned having an art studio. She calls her husband, Jeff, and informs him of this. The two pay the place a visit and discover that Adam painted numerous portraits of Shauna despite her never having posed for him. The two destroy the portraits using paint thinner. Back at home, they fire up the grill and use it to burn Adam's possessions that Shauna had, including his ID, as well as Shauna's journals, cooking hot dogs as well as excuse for why they are grilling out in November. After dinner, however, Callie inspects the remains and discovers a piece of Adam's ID with his face that did not completely burn away.

## Behind the scenes

* Throughout the run of the first season of *Yellowjackets*, an extremely popular fan theory was that Adam was actually an adult Javi Martinez, one of the crash survivors of Flight 2525. The theory was buoyed by the fact that the two share a similar last name and the fact that nothing was known about Javi's fate in the present day storyline. Ultimately, however, the show's writers stated that the two were not the same character but that the possibility was one that they had actually considered, but felt would only be a cute surprise in the moment, but did not feel organically right.
* During the first season of *Yellowjackets*, it was unclear if this character's name actually was Adam Martin. Shauna is unable to find anything regarding him online by this name, yet the news report on his disappearance refers to him as "Adam Martin." Season 2 firmly establishes him as, in fact, being Adam Martin, as the police refer to him by this name, though why he seemed to have no online presence remains a mystery.

## References

1. ↑ Highfill, Samantha (March 3, 2023). A major *Yellowjackets* fan theory almost became a reality. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on March 5, 2023.