The action-packed drama series stars Noah Centineo as freshly graduated lawyer Owen Hendricks, who finds what he expected to be a desk job is something far more dangerous.<\/p>\n
Assigned the case of rogue asset Max Meladze (Laura Haddock), Hendricks soon finds himself in the line of fire as he frantically searches for an outcome that keeps dangerous secrets from leaking.<\/p>\n
The show comes from the mind of Alexi Hawley (The Rookie), who is clearly holding out for season 2 to continue a narrative that seems nowhere near finished.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s your breakdown of The Recruit season 1 ending on Netflix<\/a> \u2013 spoiler alert!<\/p> Owen came close to a happy(-ish) ending in The Recruit finale as he raced across Prague to be reunited with ex-girlfriend Hannah (Fivel Stewart), realising he should have listened to her from the beginning.<\/p>\n However, before they can have a heartwarming embrace, Owen is bundled into a vehicle by thugs before Hannah\u2019s very eyes, leaving her shocked and struggling to process what she\u2019s witnessed.<\/p>\n When Owen wakes up, he\u2019s tied to a chair in a dingy cellar and startled to see rogue Russian asset Max opposite him, having also been kidnapped and bound by an unknown perpetrator.<\/p>\n Moments later, that figure is revealed to be a young woman by the name of Karolina, who makes a terrifying entrance by storming in and coldly shooting Max in the chest.<\/p>\n As she slumps down in her seat \u2013 apparently lifeless \u2013 Karolina asks Owen: \u201cWho are you, and what the f**k are you doing with my mother?\u201d<\/p>\n This bombshell revelation adds an additional layer of menace to this emerging villain, although The Recruit creator Alexi Hawley would neither confirm nor deny whether she actually has just committed matricide.<\/p>\n He told TUDUM<\/a>: \u201cLook, we did the most dramatic thing you can possibly do. And we did the thing we were building to the whole time, even though the audience didn\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe story of Max and Owen is one of her being a pathological survivor. Whether she cares for him, whether she doesn\u2019t, whether she cares for her kid or doesn\u2019t \u2014 everything comes in second to her just making it to the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n Hawley continued: \u201cThat ultimately makes her a bit of a tragic figure, and so it was important to get to that point. Then, of course, the twist was powerful.<\/p>\n \u201cIn this day and age, where there\u2019s 9,000 things on television, you have to be bold, you have to go big, and I felt like we really earned that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Haddock clarified that she is in the dark when it comes to Max\u2019s fate, but wasn\u2019t happy to read the dire note on which season 1 ends, adding she was \u201clike Ross from Friends seeing his sister and Chandler making out from across the apartments\u201d.<\/p>\n One for the sitcom fans in the house.<\/p>\n In a shock reveal, mafia lieutenant Nichka Lashin revealed her true identity to be Karolina, the presumed dead daughter of Max Meladze, who appears to be just as formidable as her mother.<\/p>\n Hawley explained that she had orchestrated the nail-biting gunfight that capped off this dramatic season, as was set up by an earlier scene where Owen unwittingly encountered her in a bar.<\/p>\n \u201cShe heard her mother was back, and she was going to go take care of that,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n As for what exactly turned Karolina so fiercely against Max, we\u2019ll have to wait and see, but Hawley teased that \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of history there to mine\u201d.<\/p>\n The Recruit is available to stream on Netflix now. Check out more of our\u00a0Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Christmas double issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>subscribe now<\/strong><\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<\/strong>Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n By David Craig Published: Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 12:00 am A life hangs in the balance after the shock finale to Netflix\u2019s The Recruit, which ended on a jaw-dropping cliffhanger that demands a second season to resolve. 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