For all the international stakes of the Black Doves season 2 finale, the tensest moments really came down to family. Can any spy and/or assassin have a family, found or otherwise? Won’t they all have to kill or be killed in the end?
Here’s where Helen (Kiera Knightley), Sam (Ben Whishaw), and Reed (Sarah Lancashire) stand at the end of Black Doves season 2. This season, while Helen starts to wonder that she’s been sidelined as a “spy wife” and abandoned by Reed, Sam has been given a peculiar kill list by an organization called Kestrel. He has to check it off in order to avoid jail time, or worse, but the names all seem to be connected to the Black Doves of old.
This leads Sam and Helen to learn more about Reed, their employer. Then, we learn in final episode that the last person on Sam’s list is Reed herself. The finale drags out the penultimate episode’s cliffhanger at the beginning of the finale.
As it turns out, even though Reed was the fourth and final person on Sam’s list, he did not kill her. He turned her in to Patrick (Sam Riley) alive. That was enough to satisfy his contract, pay his debt, keep him out of jail, and destroy the evidence that Patrick has against Helen.
Sam then attends the funeral of Jerry (Samuel Barnett), the concierge he was sleeping with and had to murder because of this mess. There is truly no rest for the wicked. The rival bird-themed agency that Patrick works for easily recruits the rogue Black Dove.
She’s anxious to cause chaos again after getting sidelined to a desk gig. Oh right... there is a political storyline on this show. It’s easy to forget that when most of the action revolves around spies and assassins who don’t necessarily color inside partisan lines.
Extract — continue reading at the source.
