Warning: Contains spoilers for The Wilds season 2.

The ending location of The Wilds season 2 was revealed in Nora's map, shown in her coded sketches. The question of where the characters were figured heavily into both seasons of The Wilds so far. Both seasons of The Wilds intercut the island survival storyline with scenes of the test subjects being interviewed "post-rescue" in an interrogation facility, and The Wilds season 2 ended in a dramatic escape attempt with the shocking reveal that the teens were still trapped on an island.

While the location of the facility where the Dawn of Eve subjects were being held in The Wilds season 1 was never revealed, it was implied that it was at a secondary location to the original island. At one point, test subject Leah asked a research staff member where they were and was informed that they were on an island near Peru. The original island's location was unknown, but their destination was meant to be Hawaii.

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However, one test subject had information that was kept from the others: Nora was revealed to be working with Gretchen Klein, the mastermind behind the Dawn of Eve and Twilight of Adam experiments. Although the fact that the post-rescue facility was apparently on the same island as the Dawn of Eve and Twilight of Adam social experiments was a twist revealed in the last seconds of The Wilds season 2 finale, it was foreshadowed by Nora's map. In The Wilds' season 2 finale, Fatin realized that a series of Nora's sketches, pieced together, formed a coded map of the island, with various symbols representing different landmarks. A close examination of the symbols on the map showed the research facility on the map early in the episode, long before the final reveal, placing the teens at the end of The Wilds season 2 on the same island where they began.

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Nora disappeared at the end of season one while attempting to save her sister from an attacking shark (it was later revealed that Nora is alive at the Dawn of Eve research facility with Klein). However, she left behind a journal documenting her time on the island, and fellow subject Fatin spent much of The Wilds season 2 studying it. Nora's sketches clearly mapped out the island in a way she knew her companions would be able to decipher. When Fatin revealed Nora's map to potentially untrustworthy Shelby, they were both easily able to identify multiple landmarks, including the river, the falls, the marsh, and the springs. Also visible on the map were waves representing the ocean, leaves representing the forest, and peaks representing the mountains, along with more cryptic symbols, including a birdcage and a lightning bolt that became crucial to The Wilds season 2 biggest question.

The lightning bolt represented the research facility. The facility was perched high above the rest of the island, as the test subjects discovered when they made their escape attempt, which was consistent with the placement of the lightning bolt on the map, above a series of spreading lines reminiscent of a towering cliff, and parallel to the waterfall and a symbol that appeared similar to a craggy cliff or mountainside. In addition, the facility was the only place on the island known to generate electricity, and in the last moments of The Wilds season 2, test subject Seth blasted music from the top of the building, using the facility as a radio tower and reinforcing the appropriateness of the lightning bolt symbol.  The symbols in Nora's sketches matched the locations on the island perfectly, and the lightning bolt clearly represented the facility. Despite dialogue hinting at the contrary, the test subjects never left the island, and Nora knew it from the beginning and long before The Wilds season 2 finale twist ending.

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