Poker Face season 2 premiere ending explained: Is Charlie finally free from the mob?
Natasha Lyonne's Charlie Cale returns for Poker Face season 2 premiere. The "mystery-of-the-week series" about someone with an uncanny ability to find out when someone is lying kicks off its second season on Peacock with an eventful triple-header filled with killers and liars. Meanwhile, Charlie just wants to lay low, still trying to evade the mob which has been trying to track her.
However, towards the end of Poker Face season 2 episode 2, queenpin Beatrix Hasp (played by Rhea Perlman) shows up out of nowhere in the backseat of her car, holding her at gunpoint. It appears that no matter how Charlie tries to run away, mob business will still find her.
At the end of the Poker Face season 2 premiere, Charlie teaming up with Beatrix becomes the reason she can finally run free from the mob. She's free to live her life without having to look back on her shoulder or dodge bullets, but it might not be the end of her crime-solving yet.
Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers for Poker Face season 2. Reader's discretion is advised.
Poker Face season 2 premiere wraps up Charlie's mob story
The Poker Face season 2 premiere concludes Charlie's ties to the mob, with Beatrix agreeing to call off the hit he put on her head. However, it doesn't happen easily for the protagonist. She spends two episodes on the run from the mob and another episode being brought back into the messy mob: being held at gunpoint, dodging bullets, and being held hostage.
The new season picks up from the events of season 1 finale, with Charlie hitting the road. After she refuses Beatrix Hasp's offer to work for her, becoming a criminal, Beatrix is on her tail, and so are her assassins, as seen in the Poker Face season 2 premiere. Charlie hops from one place to another, running away from the mob, but they always seem to find her.
In episode 2, someone has finally caught up to her, and it turns out to be Beatrix herself. While fleeing the fire at the funeral home, the queenpin from season 1 shows up out of nowhere in the backseat of her car. She holds Charlie at gunpoint, forcing the protagonist to do her bidding. She wants her to sniff out the mole in her crew.
It turns out that Beatrix is fleeing as both the FBI and the Southwest Syndicate are on the hunt for her. But before she decides to hop aboard the plane, her getaway, she wants Charlie to use her lie-detecting skills to find out the traitor in case the plane was a setup. At the safe house, there are three men awaiting Charlie's scrutiny, but she clears them all.
Meanwhile, she isn't sure about Beatrix's husband's allegiances, although she doesn't tell the mob boss about it. With the clear-all, they decide to board the plane, with Charlie going first as Beatrix's precaution. While Beatrix hides in the plane's cockpit, her FBI agent's friend Luca suggests the Feds surround Beatrix and her men.
A whole ruckus ensues, which ends with Beatrix holding Charlie hostage and demanding a plane for her escape. She's also holding the identity of her mole in the FBI as leverage. Danny, feeling threatened by the possibility that Beatrix would out him, gets into the plane. However, Luca is already there trying to negotiate.
With Luca fighting against his friend, another chaos ensues. In the end, the real mole is revealed and goes into witness protection. But before she goes, Luca asks her to call off the hit she put on Charlie, which she agrees to do. Without the mob after her, Charlie is finally free.
Poker Face season 2 premiere teases Charlie's next adventure
Without the hit on her head, Charlie is now free to go on whatever adventures she wants. There's no looking back on her shoulders anymore, and she would no longer have to flee every time Beatrix's killers find her. Hence, at the end of the Poker Face season 2 premiere, she pulls out a map and points at a random location as her new destination.
Charlie hops into her Plymouth Barracuda and is off to her new beginning without her enemies chasing her. However, the teaser in the end hints that her murder mystery adventures are not done yet. There's still a lot of screaming and killing waiting for her on the horizon.
Poker Face season 2 premiere: Danny is arrested, Jeffrey is dead
With Danny's desperation to keep the mob boss from revealing that he's the rat in the FBI, he eventually outs himself in the Poker Face season 2 premiere. At that point, Beartrix is ready to give him up after realizing that Danny is the reason Jeffrey is dead. She is devastated to find out that her husband, Jeffrey, has been Luca's mole in the mob.
As for Danny's hand in Jeffrey's death, he's the one who places the live bullet among the blank rounds in Luca's gun. The plan is that Luca will shoot Jeffrey during the ambush, and Jeffrey will pretend to die. There are supposedly only blank rounds, so Jeffrey's shirt is fitted with fake blood to make it look like he's bleeding.
However, after Danny discovers that Jeffrey can identify him as the mole, he puts one live round in Luca's gun. It has been his plan to kill Jeffrey all along. After the ambush, Luca tries to wake Jeffrey up, only to realize that he's not faking his death. He's actually dead, and with his informant dead by his own hands, Luca is benched for the rest of the operation.
After the commotion between Luca and Danny inside the plane, the latter is arrested. Poker Face season 2 premiere ends with Danny in handcuffs. While he tries to bribe Charlie with a lot of money to say that Luca is the real rat and not him, Charlie isn't swayed.
Catch the first three episodes of the Poker Face season 2 premiere now streaming on Peacock.
