Lazarus Kills Mallory in The Hunting Party Season 2 Finale
The hunting party ended its May 7 Season 2 finale with Mallory dead and Lazarus in control of the black site. Bex and Hassani were thrown into cells, while the episode reset the show’s power structure instead of just teeing up another chase.
Bex, Hassani, and Xander Wax
Bex, Hassani, and Shane spent the finale tracking down Xander Wax, the serial poisoner who had been targeting investigative journalists tied to a story about The Pit. His method was simple and ugly: neurotoxins on everyday objects like elevator buttons and sugar packets, which made the handoff to Mallory feel like a trap before it happened.
The team captured Xander and forced him to talk by threatening to use his own neurotoxins against him. Bex then planned to hand him over to Mallory, but Lazarus had already beaten them to it. By the time the team arrived, Mallory was badly beaten and dead, and the episode had moved from pursuit to takeover.
Philip Beaumont and The Pit
Bex’s clue trail ran through a book, Deviations from the Normal by Philip Beaumont, the same title she had found in Lazarus’ apartment. Beaumont ran the Institute for Human Consciousness, the think tank tied to government projects like The Pit, which gives the finale’s poisoning plot a wider target than one prisoner transfer.
Lazarus had been looking for an exit strategy ever since the blast, and the finale showed she had one. She cut a deal with a foreign government for safe harbor for herself and a handful of her most prized inmates, then said, “I was the one to blow up the Pit,” while also making clear she did not act alone. The episode’s friction is that her escape plan depended on turning the black site into a hostage machine.
Morales and the QRF
Morales heard the situation on comms and mobilized a QRF team, then got Peck to help them get inside in exchange for letting him go. That response mattered because Lazarus had already moved inmates out of the black site, including Amanda Weiss and Dr. Malak, and had dragged Bex and Hassani into cells with them.
Explosives had been attached to the cells, and Lazarus planned to leave Bex and Hassani behind while escaping with Shane and the inmates she wanted to keep. Morales opened the cell doors after Peck gave her access to the cameras, and the result was a gunfight between inmates, guards, and the team. During the chaos, Bex went down, Shane aimed his gun at Lazarus, and she pushed him to pull the trigger before he answered, “I’m not a killer like her.”
JJ Bailey had said ahead of the finale, “We open things back up at the very end, sending our team in a new direction,” and Jake Coburn said, “the dynamic of the show and the world of the show is going to shift a little.” The episode did exactly that: it stripped the team’s leverage, put Lazarus at the center of the black site, and left Bex, Hassani, and Shane in a story that now has to start from confinement, not pursuit.
