WARNING: Major spoilers for Season 1 Finale ahead.

In Cadiz, Nuria gets a phone call from an Inspector to inform her that brother Alvaro has been taken in for questioning over the death of the gangster The Jackal killed. Fearing he’ll talk, she calls her husband, who is still trying to slip out of Croatia undetected.

When he’s stopped by police, he initially plays along, but impatience gets the better of him and he flees, prompting a high speed chase around the streets of Split. He evades them, just, but later flips his car.

The Jackal is pulled to safety just in time by a passerby. But knowing the police are on their way, he steals the friendly stranger’s car at gunpoint.

He later abandons it and hitches a ride with two elderly English caravanners, claiming he needs to get to a hospital. He then holds them at gunpoint and makes them drive him to the Montenegro border. He promises not to use it as long as he gets to where he needs to go

In New York, Winthrop and his team celebrate the death of UDC as the news breaks, but he then notes to Leonora there are “loose ends to be considered”.

Bianca is raging at the death of UDC, and at MI6 speaks to Isabel once again, stating his death is the exact same way the gangster in Spain died so feels they are connected. Isabel refuses to keep the case open, so Bianca quits, which Isabel is pleased by. After Bianca leaves, the foreign secretary arrives, and informs Isabel that “their friends” want to capture The Jackal now the deed is done. He informs her to let Bianca deal with The Jackal, then let them deal with Bianca.

Nuria bails out Alvaro and says she never wants to see him again for putting her family at risk. She angers him before driving off by comparing him to their father.

Bianca visits Paul at his lecturing halls at university, asking him to come home. She tells him she’s leaving MI6 for him and their family, and while he’s sceptical she talks him around. That night, with the family reunited, they have dinner, but are interrupted by Isabel who talks Bianca into pursuing The Jackal once again “under the radar”. She initially says no, but is clearly thinking about it. Paul angrily tells her to go, knowing she wouldn’t let it go.

That evening, The Jackal and the caravanners end up pulling up for the night, and the wife panics and stabs him. With no other option, despite coming to like them both, he shoots the couple dead. Weeping, he calls Nuria and plans a trip with her away from everyone, telling her he loves her. But she can tell he’s in trouble.

Bianca and Vince arrive in Cadiz, and head to talk to the investigator in charge of the gangster’s murder case. When they realise Alvaro’s connection to a “rich English man”, the pair realise it’s The Jackal and demand an address.

They duo descend on The Jackal’s villa, and wait for him to arrive. Bianca wants the Jackal taken alive, as she wants to know the truth behind everything that’s happened, and who he was really working for.

Via computer, The Jackal demands the money from Zina, who calls Leonara to inform her he’s made contact. Leonara promises the prompt payment, as well as a finders fee for Zina, but Zina senses something is wrong. Rather than wait in her hotel room as she’s instructed, she instead makes a break for it. She’s right - a man was sent there to kill her.

Panicked about what the future holds and with no sign of The Jackal, Nuria packs up a bag, plus as much cash as she can grab from his vault, and then flees with their son.

As The Jackal arrives back in Spain, he hires a car, but leaves the suitcase he’s been carrying at arrivals. Once he arrives at the villa, he finds the home empty, and Zina calls to warn him MI6 knows where he is. Panicking, he decides to pack and flee too.

As Bianca and Vince move in, they are disturbed by Alvaro, who arrives drunk at the property demanding to see Nuria. He pulls a gun on them both and is shot dead. Knowing there’s no way out, The Jackal shuts off the power to the house, and locks himself in his vault in order to avoid detection. The mirror the vault hides behind is two way, and for a moment, Bianca seems to have spotted him, but she doesn’t.

Setting off an alarm in his house prompts The Jackal to investigate, and he shoots Vince dead. Bianca puts up a fight, and they finally get to talk, with her calling him Duggan. In the discussion as they try and hunt the other down, they both acknowledge they’re in their positions as they like to win. She offers to help him find Nuria, and says it doesn’t have to end this way, but he says it does, gets the edge on her, and shoots her dead.

But as The Jackal gets away and tries to get to Nuria, promising to find her, he is hit by a speeding car.

A few days later Osi is back at MI6, where Isabel has been made chief. The duo reflect on Bianca and Vincent’s deaths, with Isabel claiming Bianca “went rogue”. It’s later revealed that before she died, Bianca had told Osi she went to find The Jackal on Isabel’s instruction. He deletes the message, and then appears to go back to work.

In Budapest, the Jackal has survived miraculously and meets with Zina at a park. Winthrop has failed to pay either of them, instead paying to have them both killed. Joe they’re alive, Zina wants to go after Winthrop and his associates. He agrees - but first he wants to find his family. With that, he disappears into the crowd.

At the end of this season, Bianca is officially killed in action – with Eddie Redmayne admitting he was sad to see Lashana Lynch, who plays her, go.

While they shared little screen time, Lashana and Eddie were both co-executive producers on the project, as well as the stars going head to head.

“I adore Lashana. One of my great sadnesses of this job is because of the structure of the piece and the way it's framed, we literally got to spend, I think, two days out of eight months on set together,” Eddie explains.

“We were always shooting on different units, and our friendship was sort of bound, really, by producing the piece and the joys and the complications that came with that.

“But she has brought all of her wit, her drive, her passion and her experience to create a character that is so unique and is so complex. In many ways they sort of mirror each other, these two characters, their obsession with the job they do, the fact that has become an intrinsic part of who they are, their want to try and marry a home life with this obsession that kind of infects all parts of them. It's been a real treat getting to work with her.”

Weeks before the finale, it was confirmed that season two will be going ahead – which is great news for viewers, considering there are a number of threads still to be tied up.

“What we know about the Jackal is that unpaid debts aren't good things. He has a minor obsessive personality, so I don't think that Winthrop is gonna be let off that easily, but I think he makes it clear that his priority is to find the love of his life and his child,” says Eddie.

“It's a really beautiful scene, I think, hopefully it gives the audience a little peek into the future as well, like where The Jackal's going. The things he still has to do, the things that are left unsaid and undone with Nuria that he has to go and deal with. Hopefully they should be a way to end, but also kind of leave the door ajar for a beginning, too.”

“For me, what I love about the ending is it again, feels rooted in something classic to this genre, in a beautiful city, on a bench with these two figures chatting, these two small figures in and amongst a mass of people,” Eddie adds.

“And there's a little question mark, and there's the tease, and then there's invisibility. There's the ghost like quality to him, but he can just disappear, whether we get to go again or not. I hope that gives a certain catharsis either way.”

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