With only three episodes left, Task pushed its characters — and viewers — to the breaking point. Episode 4 was a whirlwind of emotion, brutal violence, and narrative pivots that left nearly everyone in danger — physically and emotionally.

After last week’s devastating revelations — Tom (Mark Ruffalo) discovering there’s a mole inside the task force, and Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) admitting he’s been robbing the Dark Hearts in revenge for his brother’s death — this hour felt like the walls were closing in.

Cliff, the Sting, and the Price of Loyalty

It all starts with Tom’s new plan: use Ray’s (Peter Patrikios) phone, confiscated during last week’s arrest, to set up a fake drop and lure Cliff (Raúl Castillo) into a trap. The sting looks airtight — until the tables turn and Cliff becomes the prey.

Meanwhile, the Dark Hearts are done waiting. Their patience with Jayson (Sam Keeley) has run out, and Perry (Jamie McShane) delivers a chilling punishment after learning the real reason Jayson killed Billy (Jack Kesy): not theft, but an affair between Billy and Jayson’s wife, Eryn (Margarita Levieva). The revelation is devastating, dredging up the curse that’s been haunting the gang since the start.

Cliff, unaware of what’s coming, is ambushed, beaten to a pulp, and refuses to betray Robbie. What follows is one of the most harrowing sequences of the series so far: Jayson suffocates Cliff with plastic wrap in a very intense scene.

Cliff’s death becomes a turning point. Perry finds a key clue — the holster of Cliff’s gun matches an old photo of Billy — which shifts the investigation and puts Maeve (Emilia Jones), Billy’s daughter, directly in Perry’s sights.

Robbie, Maeve, and the Ultimatum

Robbie, meanwhile, clings to his Canada escape plan, but Maeve confronts him head-on: either he turns Sam (Ben Doherty) over to the police by morning, or she will. Maeve’s ultimatum feels like a last attempt to stop the family’s spiral into destruction.

Robbie’s scenes are marked by a heavy melancholy. He practices the father-daughter dance with Harper, trying to freeze time, but she senses what’s coming. “Just like when Mom left,” she says. The line lands like a gut punch.

But tragedy looms. If Perry truly starts investigating Maeve — or Eryn, who was passing along the information that helped Robbie and Cliff choose which houses to rob — it’s only a matter of time before he reaches Robbie. And the show makes one thing very clear: when that happens, there will be nowhere to hide.

Tom, Kathleen, and the Mole

Back at the task force, paranoia is spreading fast. Tom is determined to find the leak, and the show keeps dropping hints that Kathleen McGinty (Martha Plimpton), Tom’s boss, could be the mole. She makes a suspicious phone call (“I think we have a problem”), and the camera lingers on her as Tom reacts to the FBI sting operation going wrong. But is she really guilty, or just another red herring designed to keep us guessing?

Tom ends the episode with a glimmer of hope: a photo of Sam captured by the good Samaritan Robbie assaulted earlier. Robbie’s face is partially obscured, but the image is enough to put Tom on his trail.

Emily at Her Breaking Point

If there’s one emotional through-line that lands in this episode, it’s Emily’s. In therapy, she finally cracks, admitting what it means to be Tom’s adopted daughter. “I’m grateful… but sometimes I feel like I’m never allowed to feel anything. God forbid I ever get annoyed… I don’t feel lucky,” she says. Later, after a night out with coworkers, she comes home drunk, throws up, and lets everything out: “I’m sorry you adopted me and I ruined your perfect fucking life.” It’s raw, vicious, and cathartic — a moment we’ve been waiting for all season.

Grasso and Lizzie: A Pause in the Storm

Amid all the chaos, Task finds space for some human moments. Lizzie and Grasso, whose flirtation has been building for four episodes, finally take things further: they drink, they dance to Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape,” they kiss. But when they reach Lizzie’s apartment, Grasso hesitates — he doesn’t want to have sex in her “marriage bed.” It’s a strange, tender, and slightly comic interlude that offers a bit of lightness before we plunge back into the darkness.

An Episode Drenched in Paranoia

This is the episode where Task showed its hand: no one is safe, everyone has secrets, and the net is tightening from all directions. Robbie has lost his best friend, Tom is closing in on his identity, Maeve and Eryn are in danger, and the Dark Hearts are more violent and vengeful than ever.

Brad Ingelsby seems to be playing with the idea that paranoia is contagious — and this entire episode is about just that: who is betraying whom, who knows too much, who will survive when the smoke clears. With three episodes left, Task is clearly gearing up for an explosive finish.