Next week: The hunt begins. Bring a bucket. What did you think of the baby sequence? Is Lottie a savior or a parasite? Sound off in the comments—and please, no spoilers for Episode 7.
Travis, broken by the loss of his son (yes, he considered the baby his), is ready to die. Lottie stops him, not with kindness, but with logic. “We need to eat.” The body is right there. The baby never took a breath. Is it a person? Or is it meat?
The episode dances on that needle for ten agonizing minutes. Misty prepares the fire. Van says the “prayer” to the wilderness. And one by one, they eat. Not with savagery, but with tears. Shauna, hallucinating her baby alive and nursing, looks down to see a charred finger in her mouth.
If you’re watching on a standard stream, rewind. Get the WEB-DL. Turn the brightness up. Look at their faces. The horror isn’t the act itself. It’s how much they still love each other while doing it.
