Scott Speedman’s RJ Decker Ends Season 1 With Victor Ochoa’s Death
Scott Speedman’s RJ Decker ended Season 1 with Victor Ochoa dead in the finale’s final moments. Rob Doherty said Victor was built to go away in a ninth and final episode, turning the ending into the show’s sharpest reset point so far.
Victor Ochoa’s final episode
“Yes. Yeah. Victor was constructed to go away in a ninth and final episode, just as we kind of looked — I don’t know when we settled on it,” Doherty said. He also called the ending “a good punctuation mark at the end of our various first-season arcs,” and said it “would open us up to some bigger things if and when we rolled into a second season.”
The finale put RJ, Catherine, Mel, and Wish on Victor’s trail, while RJ and his group also learned why Victor’s son Lucas tried to steal the camera from RJ’s car. That camera held a photo showing Victor’s man helped cover up a murder across the street from a scene RJ had worked for the newspaper, which tightened the case around Victor before the episode ended.
RJ, Emi, and the holding cell
RJ and Victor eventually ended up in a holding cell, and RJ told him that his parole issue had been straightened out and that he was free to go. RJ stayed long enough to make sure Victor knew he had won, at least for now, before he and his friends celebrated and RJ danced with Emi.
That sequence matters because Victor was not simply an outside threat; he had already been pulled inside the show’s core group, and Emi was part of the cabal moving against him. Doherty said, “If you look at that from another angle, it could look like she was acting against him, and maybe this was something —Certain parties may come to believe that Emi had a hand in what happened.”
Season 2 under Victor’s shadow
“I think the people closest to him will have to find themselves under a magnifying glass,” Doherty said when asked about a potential Season 2. That points the next phase of the series away from Victor himself and toward the people who knew him best, including Emi, who now sits at the center of the suspicion cloud.
Doherty also said, “But he confessed to Emi that he maintains relationships with a lot of people that on paper he should not, but he has decided that it’s for the greater good.” Victor’s own defense, in Doherty’s words, was that it “makes Fort Lauderdale a safer city and Florida a safer state.” That leaves the show with a cleaner villain lineup, but a messier aftermath: the body is gone, and the relationship map is still live.
