'Hunters' Ending Explained: The Hunt could continue in Europe but without Al Pacino
Spoiler alert for 'Hunters'
'Hunters' is a tale about a man bringing together individuals who are interested in fighting the Nazis who snuck into the US as refugees of war after the holocaust.
Set in the 70s, the show sees Lena Olin as The Colonel trying to bring about the Fourth Reich in the US and she has the perfect plan. Al Pacino's Meyer Offerman plans on thwarting her plans with the help of his team by tracking down everyone who could possibly be a part of her evil scheme. In the process, Meyer meets Ruth Heidelbaum's grandson Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) after she gets shot by a Nazi.
At the end of what these Hunters call The Hunt, viewers saw a twist that rocked Jonah's world. Hints of what is to come were always given in different episodes, especially Episode 4, and it is this twist that has ensured that the show will have to continue without Pacino in the upcoming season.
When Jonah learns that Meyer is his Saba (grandpa), he initially hates the idea because that would mean that his Safta (grandma) was abandoned when she was pregnant. He also learns the truth about how a Nazi doctor tortured Meyer into killing 11 people to ensure that Ruth, Jonah's Safta, could be saved. He claims that this had him feeling mentally unstable and unworthy of Ruth's love leading to his decision of leaving Ruth.
This leads to an interesting bond between the grandpa and grandson. When Meyer is injured after an accident and refuses to let Jonah in on The Hunt again, Jonah decides to gift his grandfather the man who had tortured him.
Popularly addressed by everyone as The Wolf, this doctor is now in the US and works as a plastic surgeon. Jonah uses his Safta's research to track The Wolf down.
When Meyer sees the doctor tied down and gagged in his home, he is surprised. Jonah even hands his Saba a knife but is shocked when Meyer just kills his prey. Jonah is shocked because in Safta's letters she had written how Meyer had nightmares every day for a while and would speak about The Wolf. Meyer had said that he would offer a Kaddish because he believed that the monsters among us needed prayers the most.
However, in the present, Meyer did not do the same. Jonah asks him why Meyer looks confused and to this he says he doesn't remember the nightmares or what he told Safta after he woke up from one such nightmare and everything unravels from there. Meyer's secret is too heavy for Jonah to come to terms with and it also, in a way, teaches Jonah what Meyer had wanted Jonah to understand from the beginning. That sometimes, one must do what is difficult even if it is not right.
This takes Meyer out of the Hunters dynamics and the end of Season 1 also saw Sister Harriet get a call from a woman who refers to her as Rebecca. It seems as if Sister Harriet has her own mission and she is also hiding something big from the team. With Murphy dead after saving people from a bomb blast, and Mindy being too disturbed to continue with the Hunt it leaves Jonah, Sister Harriet, Lonny Flash, Roxy and Joe.
However, after Joe learned Meyer's truth, he leaves in a rage, meets with an accident and gets abducted. Sister Harriet uses this chance to push her mission to Jonah and others and tells that she got a dossier from a friend which includes information about Hitler's top rung of advisors who were lifted and transported to Europe.
So the team is now off to Europe and if Season 2 were to be confirmed, the show will see a change in location and primary cast.