Ahead of\u00a0The Hunting Party<\/em><\/a> Season 2 finale, executive producers JJ Bailey<\/a> and Jake Coburn<\/a> told TV Insider<\/a> that the cliffhanger wouldn\u2019t be the same as Season 1\u2019s. That\u2019s true. We know who\u2019s dead at the end of the May 7 episode. But as Bailey noted, \u201cWe open things back up at the very end, sending our team in a new direction,\u201d and Coburn added, \u201cthe dynamic of the show and the world of the show is going to shift a little.\u201d That definitely just happened. Warning: Spoilers for\u00a0The Hunting Party<\/em> Season 2\u00a0<\/strong>finale ahead!<\/strong><\/p>\n Bex (Melissa Roxburgh<\/a>), Hassani (Patrick Sabongui<\/a>), and Shane (Josh McKenzie<\/a>) track down serial poisoner Xander Wax<\/a> (John Corbett<\/a>, who, like the show\u2019s other killer guest stars, seems to have fun in this role) as he\u2019s targeting investigative journalists who appear to be working on a story that would expose The Pit and everything\/everyone involved. (Previously, his victims had been random, and he\u2019d left neurotoxins on everyday objects like elevator buttons and sugar packets.) The theory is that Lazarus (Kari Matchett<\/a>) sent him after them, which means she could\u2019ve also alerted him to the team\u2019s presence. When Bex talks to the victim\u2019s colleague, she learns he was reading Deviations from the Normal<\/em> by Philip Beaumont, the same book she\u2019d found in Lazarus\u2019 apartment. Beaumont ran a think tank, the Institute for Human Consciousness, which has hands in government projects like The Pit. He may have created the top-secret prison.<\/p>\n Ralph Bavaro\/NBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When the team captures Xander, they get him to talk by threatening to use his own neurotoxins against him. Ever since the blast, Lazarus had been looking for an exit strategy and cut a deal with a foreign government \u2014 but he doesn\u2019t know which \u2014 for a safe harbor for herself and a handful of her \u201cmost prized\u201d inmates she believes can become the next graduates. Bex comes up with a plan to hand Xander over to Mallory (Zabryna Guevara<\/a>), not Lazarus \u2026 but she doesn\u2019t know that Lazarus has already gotten to Mallory, who\u2019s been badly beaten. When the team shows up to hand over Xander, they\u2019re horrified to find that Mallory is dead and Lazarus takes control, throwing Bex and Hassani into cells alongside the inmates she\u2019s been taking from the black site, including Amanda Weiss (Elizabeth Gillies<\/a>) and Dr. Malak (Kevin Corrigan<\/a>). Morales (Sara Garcia<\/a>) overhears on comms and mobilizes a QRF team, convincing Peck (Luke Forbes) to help them get inside in exchange for letting him go.<\/p>\n Lazarus brings her son, Shane, to another room and tells him that the life she had pre-Pit, pre-Lazarus pales in comparison to the one she has now; she thinks that his does to what it could be, too. She wants them to have a future together, seeing herself as proof that the graduate program works. They wanted to erase that program, and she refused to allow it. She was the one to blow up the Pit, though she didn\u2019t act alone.<\/p>\n Explosives are attached to the cells, with Lazarus, refusing to go back into a box, planning to make her escape with the inmates and Shane and leave Bex and Hassani behind. Shane fights back, and Morales, watching once Peck gives her access to the cameras, is able to open the cell doors. With the inmates free, a fight breaks out between them, the guards, and the team. Lazarus runs, and Bex follows.<\/p>\n During the ensuing gunfight, Bex goes down, and angry, Shane aims his gun at Lazarus. His mom refuses to go back into a box and encourages him to pull the trigger. He insists he\u2019s not a killer like her. She brings up his military record, suggesting that killing comes naturally to him and it\u2019s who he is. She thinks he\u2019s thinking about killing her, hating her for taking his \u201csweet Bex.\u201d But he fires into the air instead. Then, Bex reveals she\u2019s alive, and when Lazarus picks up a gun, she shoots her. The QRF team enters and takes control of the scene.<\/p>\n Bex is going to be fine \u2014 she just got shot in the arm \u2014 and as the team waits to hear what\u2019s next, she checks on how Shane\u2019s doing. Ask him again tomorrow. Hassani, meanwhile, is distracted by the photo he took of a news article on the journalist\u2019s wall when they found Xander in her home:\u00a0Civil Health Fund Announces New Medical Supply Push. The photo, as is obvious from the moment he stares at it, is of his wife.<\/p>\n But then he quickly has to forget about that when Philip Beaumont enters the bar. The team sits down with him, and he tells them he\u2019s been watching them and seeing where their allegiances lie. Now, he knows. He was the reporters\u2019 source; he blew the whistle on himself. Leaking the story was a desperate attempt to do the right thing. He tried for years to have The Pit shut down, put an end to the secret experiments and graduate program, and now, with Lazarus gone, he can ensure they have everything they need to finish recapturing the remaining inmates \u2014 and with Lazarus and Mallory gone, Bex is the one in charge! They\u2019re also going to be busy because it\u2019s a long list. \u201cThe Pit wasn\u2019t just treating serial killers,\u201d Beaumont explains. \u201cThey were creating them.\u201d<\/p>\n