[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for the Duster Season 1 finale.]
The primary season of Duster has come to a bittersweet finish. The finale sees the end result of this season’s occasions (and leaves just a few dangling threads for a possible Season 2 to tug from).
The episode begins with younger Nina again in Philadelphia in 1954 in the meanwhile when she first lays eyes on Ezra Saxton (Keith David) as he provides her father a tongue-lashing at his comfort retailer, and he or she unintentionally alerts them to her presence. Within the current day, Nina (Rachel Hilson) awakes in custody, with Billy (Evan Jones) torturing her for details about who else she’s been working with apart from Jim Ellis (Josh Holloway).
It doesn’t take lengthy for Jim to appreciate what has occurred to her. After returning his daughter Luna to Izzy’s (Camille Guaty) home, her physician boyfriend mentions assembly Billy on the hospital and the truth that he spoke to Sheriff Groomes (Donal Logue), who awoke from the coma. Jim, figuring out Saxton has eyes within the bureau, then alerts Nina’s associate, Awan Bitsui (Asivak Koostachin), to not go after her or else Saxton will hear about it and kill her on the spot. He and Jessica (Sofia Vassilieva) reluctantly oblige.
When confronted by Saxton himself, Nina doesn’t flinch, as an alternative providing up her causes — together with exhibiting him the content material of her locket, a photograph of her fallen father, whose demise she blames him for. Saxton reveals, although, that her father was an informant. Jim then arrives and informs Saxton that his father, Wade (Corbin Bernsen), is with Saxton’s daughter Genesis (Sydney Elisabeth). Although it’s a pleasant go to to her bar for now, as insurance coverage for Jim’s security, Wade is prepared to do what it takes if issues go mistaken. Then, Jim willfully submits to imprisonment alongside Nina.
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Undeterred by this menace, Saxton nonetheless calls up a fixer to take out Nina, and that obligation then falls to the duplicitous Agent Grant (Dan Tracy), whose motion alerts Bitsui to his true intentions. Billy and Saxton then go away Nina within the desert and take Jim to fulfill the Greek, Sal, to change Jim for the mysterious tape that’s been on the middle of the entire backdoor dealings all season lengthy.
Nina manages to narrowly keep away from being shot by Grant within the desert, however when all hope appears misplaced, Awan arrives to avoid wasting her. Then, simply after handing over Jim and taking the tape, Saxton has a change of coronary heart — apparently, it isn’t definitely worth the danger to Genesis’ life in any case — and he weapons down Sal. Now freed, Jim pledges to return for Nina if he survives the shootout, however lo, she arrives all her personal, saving Saxton from a gunman simply behind him. Nevertheless, Saxton nonetheless finally ends up taking a shot to the chest to guard Royce (Benjamin Charles Watson) from one other gunman. We don’t but know if Saxton is useless from his wounds, as Jim merely tells Genesis that her brother is within the hospital together with her father. (Misplaced within the melee are Billy, who probably received’t survive being shot by way of the attention, and several other different minions from both facet.)
Elsewhere within the episode, Izzy is profitable in convincing Bob Temple (Kevin Chamberlain) to institute some union modifications to learn ladies drivers and finish the strike, which is nice information. Nevertheless, she has some probably horrible information, too; her boyfriend can be her oncologist, and she is going to want Jim to stay round for Luna’s sake in case remedy doesn’t go effectively.
With Saxton within the hospital and her mission to implicate Saxton in a criminal offense full, Nina makes an attempt to resign from the FBI, however Abbott (Greg Grunberg) received’t settle for it. He informs her that she has been proper all alongside a couple of bureau conspiracy and that it extends additional than anybody may’ve imagined — all the way in which again to D.C. That is, in fact, a reference to the mysterious determine we haven’t met but, Xavier, whom the late Breen left a tape about earlier than he misplaced his thoughts. Abbott will want Nina to assist join the dots.
As Jim sits on the facet of the highway together with his title automobile, Nina arrives to inform him she’s staying for the top-secret investigation, and her one situation for doing so was studying about Xavier. Seems, Xavier is a code identify for a nationwide safety menace whose actual identification is Joey, the brother Jim thought was useless. And Saxton was the one to assist Joey disappear.
The season ends with Raoul’s guys opening the tape and realizing it’s the Richard Nixon Oval Workplace tapes that may develop into an notorious article of American historical past. So what may come subsequent in any case of those bombshell developments?
“I’m actually curious to fulfill Xavier,” Rachel Hilson informed TV Insider of a possible follow-up to the finale’s occasions. “And I’m to see how Nina’s position within the bureau evolves and … how she’s handled and the way she feels now that she’s not hooked up to this mission.”
“Joey simply higher not be good-looking and youthful and a much bigger star or I’m gone,” Josh Holloway additionally joked.
As for who may probably star in a Season 2 of Duster as Joey a.okay.a. Xavier, sequence cocreator LaToya Morgan teased, “Sure, we now have a bunch of nice names that we’ve been interested by… We’re so enthusiastic about the place that’s gonna take us, and hopefully, if we get a Season 2, so many enjoyable escapades to get into — all very thrilling, I believe.”
Morgan additionally teased that in the case of the long run relationship between Nina and Jim after that almost-kiss, the probabilities are limitless. “Hear, all choices are on the desk. I’ll go away it at that. We’ve had many, many discussions about it, as a result of, in fact, there’s the age distinction… however I imply, they simply have such plain chemistry. Who is aware of what can occur between them?” she mentioned. “So there’s the enjoyable of that after which, in fact, there may be Izzy and Jim, they’ve this nice on-again, off-again relationship, and there’s Luna, who’s additionally an element, and so his coronary heart can be at all times sort of there. So it’s simply enjoyable to simply play with these feelings and kind of see the place they lead us. I received’t spoil something, however I’m simply saying there might be issues that occur in Season 2.”
As for Saxton’s destiny after the taking pictures left him hospitalized, Morgan teased that the problem is “not absolutely up to now,” and there’ll be “free ends” from that case. However the greatest story going ahead shall be Joey. “Who’s Joey now? And what has he been entering into and who has he been entering into it with?” Morgan contemplated. “There are much more murky areas that we wish to peel again the layers of to essentially deepen the story and actually problem Jim and Nina’s relationship. They’ve simply kind of sort of come to a spot the place they’ve a bit little bit of belief and now, what occurs when this different X issue is thrown into the combination, so there’s a lot of good things to play with.”
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