08-04-2025
Did the Hunting Party Finale Leave You Demanding a Renewal? Grade Season 1 of the NBC Drama
The following contains spoilers from 's April 7 Season 1 finale.
NBC's The Hunting Party closed out its 10-episode freshman run with a hunt for Jenna Wells aka 'The Killer Chemist' (which is not really the catchy nickname that the characters made it out to be).
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Played by Happy Endings alum Eliza Coupe, Jenna was a 'zero empathy' Pit inmate who'd been given the maximum dose of James Whitmore's mysterious psychotropic cocktail. As a result, the onetime pharmacist basically developed a form of DID in which she truly believed she was her look-alike victims.
Jenna targeted a cater waiter and then posed as her to infiltrate a posh event held at Whitmore Industries. There, she poisoned dozens of guests who toppled to the floor like a path of dominoes, but left Whitmore himself standing.
When Bex, Shane and Jacob stormed the place, Whitmore wound up ordering his goons to draw their guns on the feds, so that he could take Jenna, his 'work of art,' for himself. A shootout followed, in which Jacob took a bullet to the torso. Whitmore wound up dying anyway — poisoned by a small 'patch' Jenna slaps onto the back of victims' necks — and Jenna got away.
After Jacob was rushed to the hospital, Bex rang Morales to get the number for Jacob's wife, so that she could be updated. Morales sent Bex's jaw dropping to the floor with the fact that Hassani's wife had died — two years ago — and that is why he's been Stateside since.
Jenna next targeted Bex, sneaking into the fed's motel room to snatch her phone, badge and gun (and a stock 'FBI' blazer for good measure), and dosing her wattle bottle before skedaddling. Coming out of the shower, Bex caught on and raced to the team's now-decommissioned base, where Jenna (now sporting soft Bex-y waves) was getting the drop on Odell.
Along the way, Bex alerted Shane and told him to meet her there — but he was faced with a dilemma, when he learned that Dr. Dulles had come out of his coma and as such could maybe ID the voice of Shane's mom, seen/heard on one of those VHS tapes.
At HQ, Jenna had Odell at gunpoint, ordering him to delete from the government mainframe all signs of her post-Pit existence. Bex, lurking in the shadows while waiting on backup, couldn't quite get a shot at Jenna, but someone did — Shane, who had chosen the team over learning about his mom. (Know who did get the 411 on Shane's mother, though? Morales, who used voice ID software to discover that the unseen woman was/is … Colonel Lazarus! Do we care?)
Jenna was dead on the floor at HQ, but she had already dosed Odell with one of her trademark patches, causing him to gush blood from the nose and start to fade fast in a teary Bex's arms. Fearing the worst, Bex opened up about thinking often about him and their 'daughter' Sam….
What did you think about 's freshman finale, its curious Jacob reveal and the identity of Shane's mother? Are you clamoring for a Season 2, or are you actually kinda good?Best of TVLine
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