The Hunting Party brought season 2 to an end with a main character getting shot — before a surprise last-minute twist.
During the Thursday, May 7, episode of the hit NBC series, Bex (Melissa Roxburgh), Hassani (Patrick Sabongui) and Shane (Josh McKenzie) attempted to take down Lazarus (Kari Matchett) once they realized she was the one who blew up The Pit for her own reasons.
The showdown led to Bex getting shot and Lazarus trying to convince Shane to let her go. Luckily, Bex only got injured in the air and was able to help take Lazarus down. The trio was then left confused about whether they were still on assignment — only for Bex to get offered to be the boss of the operation.
As the potential person in charge of rounding up the inmates still at large, Bex was told that The Pit didn’t just house criminals — they created them.
The Hunting Party, which premiered in 2025, is a crime procedural about investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers in the country. The twist? The criminals escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.
Roxburgh’s character is an ex-FBI agent recruited to the task force due to her reputation as a profiler who caught the world’s most dangerous serial killers. After a past connection with Oliver (Nick Wechsler), who was killed off at the beginning of season 2, viewers have focused all their attention on Bex and Shane.
“As far as the characters go, I am always cheering for the history and the relationships where it’s like they’ve been through so much together,” Roxburgh, 33, previously told Us Weekly in February 2025. “If they do build this love story and love triangle, Shane is safe and he’s very calm and cool waters. We have the bad boy who murdered someone and he had a reason. We have the person who didn’t murder someone. We’ll see.”
More recently, the fictional relationship received the stamp of approval from Roxburgh’s Manifest costar Josh Dallas.
“I do know [about them]. I was on set and I am a huge shipper of this,” Dallas, 47, gushed exclusively to Us in April after his guest appearance on the show. “I so want this to happen and I think it would be great.”
Dallas urged for the NBC series to lean into the “slow burn” between Bex and Shane. Roxburgh couldn’t help but agree, telling Us that “slow burns are great” when it comes to onscreen love stories.
“What keeps you there episode to episode is the killer and the height of what’s going on and just the craziness of what these killers are doing,” she noted. “But I think what sticks in your brain as you continue through the show is like, ‘But will they or won’t they? What’s going on there? So I think everyone loves a will they or won’t they?’”
The Hunting Party is streaming on Peacock now.
