What’s KUH? Whose Boxes Did Coach Ben Find In Yellowjackets Season 3?

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Yellowjackets season 3, episodes 1 & 2.

Coach Ben Scott (Steven Krueger) makes a surprising discovery in the Yellowjackets season 3 premiere. In Yellowjackets season 2's ending, Coach Ben leaves the girls behind and goes to live in the cave where Javi Martinez (Luciano Leroux) survived during his disappearance. His decision is further reinforced after he sees that Javi has died and that the girls are preparing to eat his body. He tries to get Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) to join him, insisting that she is not like the other girls, but Natalie chooses to stay with them, and becomes their new leader.

Before Yellowjackets season 2 concludes, Coach Ben goes back to the cabin to get some matches, as he has difficulty starting a fire in the cave without them. With the cabin going up in flames that same night, Coach Ben seems most likely to be the one who set it on fire, although he denies even knowing what happened in season 3. When Yellowjackets season 3's story begins, Coach Ben is on his own, and he gets some unexpected help from what he finds in the wilderness.

Who Buried The Survival Boxes That Coach Ben Finds In Yellowjackets Season 3?

Someone Else Came Prepared To The Wilderness

Coach Ben looks shocked in Yellowjackets

Coach Ben finds a pit that contains boxes of survival items and nonperishable food items inside boxes labeled with the letters KUH. Some of the specific items in the boxes include flashlights, bear spray, batteries, peanut butter protein bars, and hot chocolate powder. This discovery is a game-changer for Coach Ben's survival as he no longer has to rely on catching on his own food and making do with his limited resources. He now has a wealth of food and other survival items at his disposal.

The survival boxes confirm that there have been other characters in the wilderness, either currently or before the plane crash. These characters were probably not unexpectedly stranded, as they were able to prepare for their time in the wilderness with items they would need for survival and protection. Since Coach Ben and the girls have not encountered any other individuals during their time in the wilderness, these supplies are more likely from long ago, and do not belong to any individuals or groups currently occupying this area of the wilderness.

What "KUH" Could Stand For In Yellowjackets

KUH May Have Parallels To A Group In Lost

While it is too early to know what KUH stands for, it probably is the acronym of a company that previously explored the wilderness, or the initials of an individual's name. Yellowjackets' mysterious symbol that appears on many of the wilderness trees and in the cabin may have been drawn by the person or group known as KUH. Whatever their work consisted of, it appears to be finished, though, with only the symbols and the survival boxes serving as reminders that they were ever there at all.

The symbol's meaning has not been revealed yet in Yellowjackets.

KUH may end up being similar to the Dharma Initiative in Lost. The Dharma Initiative came to the Island, built a community, did various experiments, and even had their own specially packed nonperishable food items. KUH may have been a group like the Dharma Initiative that came to this part of the wilderness to do experiments. If this is the case, it raises another question about what is special enough about this area of the wilderness to make KUH interested in doing research there, along with why they later abandoned this work and left their supplies behind.

Is Yellowjackets Setting Up Other Groups Living In The Wilderness?

This Would Be Another Significant Change To The Status Quo

It is more probable for KUH to be a thing of the past, but it is possible that KUH could be another group already living in the wilderness. They may have moved away from the area where the Yellowjackets characters have been and may return for their supplies later in season 3. Having the girls contend with another group of survivors would create a completely different kind of conflict than anything they have faced so far. If they feel their survival is threatened, it could be the catalyst for them to go back to being cannibalistic.

Another group does not have to be antagonistic, though, and could begin setting the stage for the eventual rescue that is beginning to draw closer in Yellowjackets.

If KUH is akin to the Dharma Initiative, perhaps another group in the wilderness, like the Others in Lost, massacred KUH. The Yellowjackets and this other group may go to war against each other, much like the conflict between Lost's Oceanic Flight 815 survivors and the Others. Perhaps Yellowjackets' pit girl will be a girl from this other group, with the teenagers cannibalizing one of them instead of another one of their own. Another group does not have to be antagonistic, though, and could begin setting the stage for the eventual rescue that is beginning to draw closer in Yellowjackets.