Watching Task requires a strong heart. For five episodes, we’ve watched violence escalate as Robbie kept twisting his elaborate plan of revenge and escape — but there were never many ways out. His fate was always written, yet before the story ends next week, there are more unexpected losses to mourn.

We open with the FBI, the Dark Hearts, and Robbie trapped in a deadly ambush in the woods. Tom, who’s been hunting Robbie, wants to save him as much as arrest him — to protect him in his own conflicted way. But Jayson, as always, acts on impulse and bloodlust. Perry urges caution, but Jayson fires first. What we expected to be tense turns into pure despair.

The team splits: Tom goes after Robbie, Grasso stays with Lizzie — protecting her while secretly serving the Dark Hearts — and Aleah and Kathryn regroup elsewhere. There are casualties among the bikers, but Robbie saves Tom during the crossfire. When Robbie lures Perry and Jayson away, only Jayson follows, and Tom, after knocking Perry unconscious, runs after Robbie — desperate to save him.

Then, the episode takes on the haunting tone of its title. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a river” comes from a poem by the Persian mystic Rumi. The line means: “Beyond the ideas of good and evil, there is a river. I’ll meet you there.” It’s about transcendence — that space beyond morality, where forgiveness and loss meet. And that’s precisely what this episode is about: Robbie’s final crossing, his moment of surrender and clarity.

He had told Tom he had a plan. So when he throws the bag into the river — seemingly full of drug money — it’s more than a provocation. It’s a clue. Jayson doesn’t realize it, and in their brutal fight, he stabs Robbie. Just as he’s about to strike again, Tom intervenes. The villains flee, leaving Robbie bleeding out.

Meanwhile, Kathryn is injured, and Lizzie, partially deafened after Grasso’s gun fires too close to her ear, tries to reach the car for help. But she’s in the wrong place at the worst possible time. Even though Grasso runs to save her, Perry and Jayson hit her with their car. She dies in his arms. And Robbie, too, dies on his way to the hospital. All of this unfolds within the first twenty minutes — relentless and devastating.

The fallout is immediate. The Task Force is disbanded. Sam is in custody, and the case returns to the local police. Perry and Jayson are on the run. With multiple agents dead, everyone is under investigation. Aleah is furious. Grasso, broken with grief, seems to share her rage — but there’s more to his guilt than sorrow.

Tom lies to protect Sam but keeps his promise to Robbie. He does everything he can to save Maeve. She admits she only lied because she was dragged into her uncle’s chaos and feared her cousins would lose their father. She’s released, but far from safe. When Tom asks about Cliff, she reveals that he and her uncle were sent to a different meeting point than the one arranged by the FBI. Tom pieces it together: the mole is Grasso. Kathryn confirms it’s possible — he had been a suspect before. She urges Tom to let the system handle it, but we know he won’t.

The episode balances tragedy and tenderness. Robbie dies, but his last vision is of sunlight — leaping into the quarry with his brother Billy. It’s no longer about crime or escape. It’s about legacy. As Tom Pelphrey said in an interview, “Robbie realizes he might have to sacrifice himself to give Maeve and the kids a better life.” Director Salli Richardson-Whitfield added, “That’s why we love him so much — because his love is real, even if the road to it is tragic.”

Showrunner Brad Ingelsby revealed that the episode’s final moment — Robbie swimming peacefully — was added in post-production “to give emotional closure.” It’s like a sigh after the storm, or a glimpse of the afterlife. Robbie won.

Back in the present, Grasso drowns in guilt, pressured by the Dark Hearts to maintain the lie. When Tom visits him, their conversation is tense but coded — both men circling the truth. Tom leaves with one quiet warning: he’s coming for him.

Meanwhile, Maeve receives a visit from the girlfriend of Cliff’s friend — the man Robbie sought out for help. The woman hands her a bag identical to the one full of drugs, only this one is packed with cash. The real money. Robbie had outsmarted them all. Perry and Jayson recover the decoy bag, filled with newspapers about Canada, realizing too late that they were tricked. Robbie’s final plan worked: Maeve and the children are safe, for now.

But the nightmare isn’t over. The river keeps flowing — that place beyond right and wrong, where Robbie’s story ends, and everyone else’s begins.