[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Terminal List: Dark Wolf finale.]
On the earth of The Terminal Listing: Darkish Wolf,, loyalty, like the foundations of engagement, is versatile. And on this unusual shadow world of the CIA, there seems to be nobody to belief.
In Episode 6, “Pawns and Kings,” the mission to take the nuclear bearings off the board takes a harmful flip. Jed Haverford (Robert Knowledge) captures and kills Vahid Rahimi (Hadi Khanjanpour), claiming he’s the elusive “Shepherd.”
Appearing on Haverford’s orders, the crew prepares to swap the bearings with fakes and ship them to the Iranians at a personal airstrip. Nevertheless, when the trade takes place, the crew discovers the bearings are actual, simply as Tal Varon (Shiraz Tzarfati) uncovers that Shepherd continues to be alive and identifies him as Cyrus Rahimi (Alain Ali Washnevsky), Vahid’s brother. Her pressing message — “The Shepherd is alive. CYRUS RAHIMI. DO NOT TRUST HAVERFORD.” — confirms they’ve been double-crossed. Realizing the betrayal, Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch) declares, “Even a pawn can take down a king,” earlier than the crew opens hearth on Saedi’s airplane, sparking a bloody firefight that leaves the Iranian minister useless.
Within the aftermath, Haverford frames Ben, Mo (Dar Salim), Landry (Luke Hemsworth), and Raife (Tom Hopper) as rogue operatives working for Iran, successfully making them his scapegoats and placing them on the run. The betrayal shakes the crew to its core: Raife grows disillusioned and questions whether or not their mission nonetheless has ethical weight, Tal defies Mossad orders to proceed pursuing the reality about Shepherd, and Ben, hardened by the deception, begins to rework. Now not a soldier, not a CIA operative, and betrayed by his savior and commander, Ben is slowly eroding from the within out, changing into the Edwards audiences get to know in The Terminal Listing.
In Episode 7, “The Wolf You Feed,” a cocky Haverford delivers his “testimony” whereas Raife presents his facet of the story at CIA headquarters in Langley. Raife pleads his case, insisting that Haverford is the true villain, however the former crew chief savors his victory, assured that nothing can contact him.
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In the meantime, Ben writes to James Reece (Chris Pratt), laying naked his contempt for the forms that shattered his religion in his nation, his comrades, and the system meant to guard them. “Somebody has to carry them accountable,” he declares. And he does.
Ben units his plan into movement. Camped in a secluded cabin within the mountains exterior Tehran, he lures in Iranian forces despatched to seize him. They consider they’ve him trapped, however Ben turns the ambush right into a bloodbath. As reinforcements push up the winding highway, his hidden defenses remodel the route into an ambush. When the troopers lastly breach the cabin set to Pink Floyd’s “Mind Harm,” Ben’s counterattack ignites. Utilizing secret tunnels and pre-set explosives, he obliterates the models despatched to kill him, then bolts for the treeline to carry them off alone. He takes heavy hearth once they pursue on foot and is almost overrun, till Reece and his brothers arrive, dragging him again from the brink. “You’re the undisputed heavyweight champion of pissing folks off,” Reece feedback.
Ben tells him the bearings are buried within the farmhouse and orders Reece to get them to the Company — and to retrieve Tahl’s proof to clear their names. Ben has different fish to fry.
The second section begins: Ben and his crew methodically dismantle Haverford’s community, killing his allies one after the other till Haverford stands alone, precisely the place Ben needs him.
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In a gathering at Haverford’s abode, the 2 males have a heart-to-heart. Haverford tells Ben that after the occasions in Vietnam — and later what occurred in Lebanon — he got here to grasp that Iran at all times appeared to learn from U.S. involvement. It was when he concluded that the US was nothing greater than a “paper tiger,” proving by inaction that terrorism labored. In Haverford’s warped mindset, beginning a conflict was the one method to save lives and strike again at a hostile regime.
Haverford is a person damaged by conflict, whose good intentions have been twisted into a way of justice that has curdled into obsession, and what started as a mission to guard others has turn out to be a campaign that threatens to destroy every little thing he as soon as hoped to avoid wasting.
Talking to TV Insider, Robert Knowledge mentioned the second when the 2 brokers of chaos met and what that meant when it comes to a pivotal character second for Ben Edwards.
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“There are two darkish wolves,” mentioned Knowledge. “The precariousness of [Ben’s] life as a darkish operator, and it’s revealed in that final speech the place I say we’re alike. We’re the identical guys. So I dwell in that world, and I’ve dwelled in that world for 20 years, and I’ve performed lots of ruthless and unspeakable issues to get nearer to my mission, the way in which that you simply see Vaheed, who’s my asset’s brother, and the way I simply took care of him.”
“[Haverford] knew the right way to push [Ben’s] buttons. Or I believed I did,” defined Knowledge. “They’re two ships passing in a darkish evening, and neither considered one of them are heroic.”
Ben leaves Haverford to face his destiny because the telltale glow of pink cruiser lights closes in. Together with his mission full, he turns himself over to the authorities.
Greater than a 12 months passes earlier than Ben accepts the reality: He can by no means be a civilian and have an extraordinary life ever once more. A quiet life doesn’t exist for him. So, he returns to interview for a spot within the CIA’s Floor Department, to the one world he’s ever actually identified. When requested why he’s returning, Ben responds in truth: “As a result of I belong right here.” With that reply, he begins the sluggish, inevitable transformation into the Darkish Wolf audiences acknowledge from The Terminal Listing.
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