Believing the Wilderness is "hungry" again, Lottie prepares six cups of tea, one of which contains a lethal dose of phenobarbital. 2. Key Reveals & Analysis
The episode’s title is a masterstroke of ambiguity. “It Chooses” refers ostensibly to the wilderness deity—the unseen, possibly imagined force that the girls have begun to actively worship. But the episode reveals that choice is a luxury of the living. When the group, starving and delirious, decides to let the ritual draw of the cards determine who becomes the next meal, they believe they are outsourcing morality to fate. They are not.