Spoiler alert: This story contains spoilers from “Hart Island,” the Season 1 finale of “Furious,” now streaming on Hulu.
“Furious” ends with Alice, played by Emmy Rossum, wearing her most openly satisfied smile of the season. The expression is the final image that Rossum and series creator Elizabeth Meriwether leave viewers with—at least for now. Hulu announced last week that “Furious” has been renewed for Season 2.
Alice’s smile answers a question from Catherine (Lola Petticrew), the serial killer and target Alice has pursued all season in her role as an FBI agent. Earlier in the series, Catherine encouraged Alice to embrace the feeling of killing men who prey on women and girls. Now imprisoned and realizing that Alice killed the Jeffrey Epstein-coded predator Jay Easton (Peter McRobbie), Catherine repeatedly asks, “I said, did you like the way it felt?”
What happens in the “Furious” Season 1 finale?
Most of the Season 1 finale unfolds at the Easton estate in Connecticut, after Alice effectively sends Catherine there at the end of the previous episode. Emma Easton (Hope Davis) puts her father, Jay, to bed as he complains about his situation, then works with FBI Special Agent Ed George (Danny McCarthy) to destroy the evidence against them.
Catherine, determined to discover who killed her friend Isabel (Larissa Campos), secretly enters the greenhouse to confront Emma. Emma shoots her, but Catherine begins recovering key memories despite her injuries. When Alice arrives, Catherine tells her, “You wanted me to come here because you wanted me to kill him,” and Alice responds, “We don’t get to decide what someone’s punishment will be.”
Catherine’s response appears to change Alice’s view. She describes the power she felt while killing the men who served Jay Easton, saying, “When I’m killing him, it’s like I’m eating him,” as Alice listens intently from the other side of the wall. Catherine continues, “Like, I’m swallowing him, like everything he’s ever done is disappearing inside me, and I have all the fucking power in the world, and they don’t want us to have that. They wanna take that from us. But I want you to feel it.”
With a handgun, Catherine goes upstairs to Jay’s secret room and finds Emma inside. Alice stops Catherine before she can shoot. Catherine’s memories then return in full: She remembers that she killed Isabel by injecting her with drugs, the same method she used with her more recent victims.
In Isabel’s case, however, Catherine was accelerating an inevitable death. After a horrific night with Easton and his friends, Isabel was in extreme pain and had started bleeding heavily because of a complication from recently giving birth. “She asked me to,” a devastated Catherine tells Alice through tears as Alice handcuffs her and the two hold hands.
Outside, Nora (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) exposes Ed’s years-long collaboration with Jay. Ed shouts, “It was one dead girl! And she would have died anyway.”
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