WARNING! Major spoilers for The Babysitter: Killer Queen ahead.
McG’s sequel to 2017’s The Babysitter, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, introduced a horrific and hilarious story, but it also created a major plot hole in the original movie. Despite taking the opportunity to provide Samara Weaving’s Bee with an empathetic origin story, the sequel changed everything the original movie previously established for her character. Instead of making a deal with the devil to be strong and confident, she sold her soul to keep Phoebe (Jenna Ortega) alive following a brutal car accident. Essentially, this detail created two separate origin stories for Bee that ultimately leave a glaring plot hole that only a third movie can remedy.
The sequel features numerous returning cast members from the first movie, including Max (Robbie Amell), John (Andrew Bachelor), Sonya (Hana Mae Lee), and Allison (Bella Thorne) as well as his neighbor Melanie (Emily Alyn Lind). While McG did not announce Samara Weaving’s return, she made a surprise entrance at the end of The Babysitter: Killer Queen. After which, she tricks the entire cult into drinking tainted blood, killing them all. Her explanation was solely that she needed to protect Cole and Phoebe, but this striking change of heart warrants the question: who is Bee and is she lying about everything? Given the various plot holes the sequel created in the 2017 horror comedy, it is presumed that no one actually knows anything about Bee.
Bee begins as a smart, funny, and charismatic babysitter who frequently watches Cole Johnson (Judah Lewis) while his parents are away. One night, he discovers that she intends on using his house and blood for a cult ritual. After fighting through the night, Cole manages to stay alive only to find everyone is back with a vengeance, two years later, in The Babysitter: Killer Queen. As the first movie comes to a close, Bee tells Cole that she sold her soul in exchange for strength and courage. In the sequel, she reveals that the deal she made with the devil was actually to save Phoebe’s life. It’s most likely that Bee is lying about one of these origin stories, which may be used as a set-up for a third movie.
How The Ritual Was Different In The Babysitter
In The Babysitter, Bee tells her fellow cult members that all they need is the blood of the sacrificed mixed with the blood of an innocent. After acquiring the horrific cocktail, all that’s left for them to do is pour it on the pages of the devil’s book while reciting one of its passages. Rather than Bee having total control in The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Melanie takes over her role. Also, instead of pouring the mixture on the devil’s book, the cult must drink it from a goblet during a ritualistic ceremony.
While it is the same basic premise, it drastically alters what Bee establishes in the first movie for how the ritual must go. In fact, she states in The Babysitter that she has done this several times, and they must stick to the strict guidelines in the book. Surely, there are numerous ways to ritually sacrifice someone in order to gain one’s deepest desires, but when horror movies establish a rule, they normally stick to it. Bee could have gone against the traditional procedure knowing the dire consequences of changing it in order to save Cole and Phoebe. Though, it is far more likely that this was an oversight that inadvertently created a plot hole.
Is Bee Immortal?
Initially, Bee presented as an average teenager who somehow began dabbling in the devil’s work. By the end of The Babysitter, she tells Cole that she has been doing the ritual for several years with various kids just like him. This statement alludes to Bee being immortal, but the sequel changed that entirely. In fact, the character is likely to be in her mid to late-twenties according to her origins in The Babysitter: Killer Queen. When Phoebe nearly died at age six, Bee was still in her late teens. The sequel occurs approximately ten years after the car accident. Therefore, instead of being immortal like the first film suggests, she is actually in her twenties.
There is a lot that remains unknown about Samara Weaving’s Bee that could still make her an immortal character or even a being not of this realm. Given her return in The Babysitter: Killer Queen, it’s likely that she will never truly die. Plus, in the interim between movies, she was living in hell and interacting with the deceased members of the first installment’s cult. Perhaps Bee is an even bigger enemy than Cole could ever imagine. Since McG has confirmed that The Babysitter 3 is underway, it’s plausible that—given Weaving’s schedule—it could focus entirely on Bee.
How The Babysitter 3 Could Resolve The Existing Plot Hole
Despite the mixed reviews for The Babysitter: Killer Queen, McG is officially working on a third movie in the franchise. While he has yet to release any cast or plot details, the glaring plot holes created by the sequel must be addressed in this upcoming installment. In order to remedy them, the next movie should consider making Bee its central character and provide her with an in-depth backstory that not only corrects every major error made, but clarifies the oversights. Without these details, Bee becomes an overly complex, but underwhelming villain with no cohesive origin story.
The Babysitter created a devilish and dreamy babysitter who is seemingly intent on giving others their deepest desires in exchange for delivering their souls to the devil. However, there’s no explanation as to how she became the handler of the devil’s book nor is there any instance that would explain her drive towards assisting the other cult members. It could just be a sadistic behavioral characteristic but that makes Bee a simple villain; there could be so much more. If The Babysitter 3 features a central plot focused on Bee, it then has the opportunity to reveal that she may be the actual devil, the devil’s right hand, or an immortal human whose punishment is to serve the devil by taking souls from the realm of the living.
Regardless of the direction taken, The Babysitter 3 is the only option McG has to remedy the plot holes created by his sequel. Until then, The Babysitter and The Babysitter: Killer Queen present two very different iterations of Bee with drastically altered backstories that make watching both movies back to back quite confusing.
