After a wait of three years, Hunter Season 2 was finally released on Prime Video. So was the wait worth it? Hunter Season 1 received mixed reviews from audiences, and critics and have left plenty of questions. We already know that Hunter Season 2 is the show’s final season, tying up the storyline from season one. So did Hunter Season 2 satisfy the audiences?
In this article, we are going to break down what we saw in season two of Hunters and provide a full explanation of Hunter Season 2 Ending so that you understand everything that happened.
Hunter Season 1 follows a group of Nazi Hunters in an alternate timeline of history in the 1970s. In the final moments of season one, we see Jonah kill Mayor Offerman, finding out that he was actually Wolf. We also see Joe kidnap and watch him come face to face with an old age Adolf Hitler. Hunter Season 2 picks up right where it left off, following the group through the unique alternate history. So let’s dive into our list of questions breaking down season 2.
Hunter Season 2 Explained
Starting with number one, who do we see in hunters season two? Produced by horror film producer Jordan Peele, Hunters returns with most of the same cast and crew that we saw from the original season, including our main group of Hunters. Logan Lerman returns as Jonah, Tiffany Boone is Roxy Jones, Carol Kane is Mindy Markowitz, Josh Radnor as Lonny Flash, and Louie Ozawa returns as Joe.
Along with our original crew of Hunters, Jerrika Hinton comes back as Agent Millie Mortis, and Kate Mulvany returns as Sister Harriet. Season two also has the return of Travis Lelch, played by Greg Auston. Colonel Eva Braun played by Lena Olin and with the additions of Adolf Hitler, played by Udo Kier.
Even though we saw Detective Mayor Offerman die at the end of season one, we still see plenty of Al Pacino in Season 2 thanks to flashbacks and time jumping. And with a picture of who we saw in season 2, let’s do a quick rundown of the events with question #2.
What happened in Hunter Season 2?
Season two of Hunters jumps around in time quite a bit, covering multiple time frames to give us full context for season one and expand the original story. The season opens in 1972 Germany with Jennifer Jason Leigh’s Chava Apeelbaum interrogating the shop owner, wanting to learn more about the whereabouts of someone called the Ghost. This scene raises our eyebrows from the start. Especially with its gruesome ending.
Then we jump straight into the back story of Mayor Offerman, starting in 1975, two years before we saw him die in the first season. His back story covers his secret and the steps he takes to prevent his true identity from being found out. The other timeline is said in 1979 when we find our team of Hunters in season 2. The group has been apart for two years because of some group conflict.
However, they decided to put aside their differences and reunite for one key goal: Finding Adolf Hitler. To do so, the group takes a journey to Argentina to take him down once and for all. Still, they have to battle their internal conflict and distress along the way. This time, agent Millie is a friend of the group instead of an adversary, and Jonah becomes the central piece of our storyline.
Hitler, meanwhile, is planning to return to politics with the help of Eva Braun and Travis Leich. Eventually, though, the team tracks it down. After a shootout to bring him in, the situation finally ends with Agent Morris walking Hitler into the American embassy in Uruguay for him to be taken to justice.
And this brings us to the final episode of Hunter Season 2. However, the season finale features a wild series of twists and turns, so the ending needs to be explained, bringing us to question #3.
What Happened At The End Of Hunter Season 2?
At the end of Hunters season two, we think we are finally about to see justice as Hitler has been hunted down and is put to trial by an International Criminal tribunal. Although it should be an open and shut case, we still see a lot of Nazi sympathizers outside the courthouse, and there are questions about the loyalties of those presiding over the case. Specifically Wolfgang Mueller from Germany, who is rumored to be a Nazi sympathizer himself and quickly gets in detention, with the lawyer prosecuting.
Altogether, we still fear that there is a possibility that there will not be enough evidence to bring Hitler to justice. During in the trial, we see multiple moral questions and conversations between the two attorneys who are both Jewish. The prosecutor questions the ability of the defense attorney to protect Hitler, while the defense attorney believes that even he has a right to a fair trial.
At one point, Hitler is allowed to take the stand for questioning and the prosecutor is able to twist Hitler’s ego against him to get him to confess. In the end, Hitler is found guilty to the relief of the world. Still, even after the trial, the thread is not over. This is where the twists begin.
On the way to his holding, Hitler has a heart attack, or so it seems. After the end of the trial, he secretly took his cyanide pill causing the episode. On the way to the hospital, the driver of the ambulance turns out to be a Nazi sympathizer and takes Hitler to an underground compound, blowing up a bridge to escape the motorcade and the hunters chasing behind.
Here we find Eva and Travis. Eva wants to kill Hitler, cover it up as an escape, and take his role as the leader of the movement. Saying quote “succession starts now”, Eva orders Travis to shoot Hitler but Travis shoots were instead. And then he tries to escape with Hitler saying that he has amassed an army and wants Hitler to anoint him as the new leader of the movement.
This all culminates in a shootout on the rooftop while waiting for a helicopter as Jonah tries to stop Hitler and Travis from getting away. Jonah gets shot by Travis but Joe comes to his rescue, shooting Travis before he can kill Jonah for good. The police stop the Nazi guards and find Hitler, but Travis gets away. This escape seems to signify the continuation of the Nazi movement even past the arrest of Hitler.
Hunter Season 2 Ending Explained
The final episode is also mixed with flashbacks following Ruth, Jonas’s grandmother. It follows the story of .ayor and Ruth hunting for a Nazi named Heinz Richter. However, Mayor calls Richter and warns him of an attack leading to her murder. We don’t know the true motive of this deception tactic. Maybe he was afraid that Ruth had figured him out.
Finally, we are flashbacks to Jonah mourning the death of Ruth two months later and the Mayor being there to console him. However genuine it might have been, the rest of the story starts to wrap up. Billy gets a call saying that she is going to be honored, but she is still grappling with the guilt of having shot Prince, and confessing to the murder, but they ignore it.
We get to see Jonah and Clara get married with the whole crew present minus Joe, who’s off traveling on his motorcycle. At the wedding, Jonah and Millie, reassure each other that they are good people and not monsters despite their guilt.
We also get closure seeing Hitler locked up in a scene where Hitler is given a meal by a guard and called by his inmate number, by which he becomes incredibly upset. Here we see Hitler reduced to a number in the same way that so many victims were in the Holocaust, giving him a taste of his own medicine.
Throughout Season 2, Jonah questions whether or not he still wants to continue hunting Nazis, even telling Harriet at the end that he is “out of the game”. However, Harriet tells Jonah that Ruth was murdered by Heinz Richter and the order was given by the Wolf. Showing him the phone records from the toy shop, she says to him, “evil doesn’t rest Jonah, evil doesn’t retire. So why should we?”
In the final scene of the season, we see Jonah staring at an older man in a cafe. As Jonah keeps staring the man grows increasingly uncomfortable as if he has been figured out. This scene gives us a hint that Jonah hasn’t stopped hunting after all.
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