We are in the final episode of the second season, and Sam is still forced to go along with the suicidal plan. At the same time, Agent Zoran tries to extract more information from the man who built the bombs, but he does not make much progress.

Olivia plays Marsha’s message for Sam, in which she says she is safe, but he is still worried about his ex-wife’s security. Even though he has been “cleared” — after all, everyone now knows he was forced to take part in everything — there is still a bomb on the metro that, if detonated, could kill hundreds of innocent people. In practice, nothing has really changed.

In prison, we see that Stuart is truly behind the entire operation. By bribing guards, he manages to call the corrupt Robert Lang. In reality, he wants revenge for his brother and his mother, who were killed in the first season. His plan is to place Bailey Brown on the same metro train as Sam and blow them both up. Marsha, meanwhile, would be killed by the murderous neighbors sent after her. It is an incredibly elaborate plan that almost seems destined to fail. But the story continues.

At the control center, Olivia and Ada Winter discuss Jess, the doctor who was killed. Her real name was Mona Hakimi, a Moroccan physician trained by the military. Because she died before identifying those responsible, Olivia and Ada fail to notice the connection in one of her files. In a photograph, Mona appears standing next to Lang. For now, only we know this.

But Peter Faber is getting close. He goes to the metro station and finds it strange that the searches are still ongoing. That is when he learns that the local police are looking for a missing officer who was, in fact, murdered by Lang. Faber decides to help.

In Scotland, Marsha has collapsed from the cold and does not see the helicopter Daniel sent to rescue her.

The media begins covering the hostage situation, which makes everything even more dangerous. Daniel is getting closer to the truth. He returns to the prison and orders another search of Stuart. Unfortunately, because several officers are involved in the conspiracy, the phone Stuart used to give orders in Berlin remains hidden.

In Germany, the exchange of the hostages for Bailey Brown begins. Elsewhere, Faber helps the German police find the body of the missing officer. This significantly reduces the number of people who could have committed the crime. In other words, they have identified the infiltrator.

Bailey Brown begins pressing Lang to understand what the plan really is. He asks what will happen when he boards the train and realizes something is wrong. There is no real attempt at discretion, but he has no choice except to obey, and it becomes clear that there is no escape waiting for him. After hours beside Sam, the train driver, Otto, has become much more alert. It is Otto who notices Bailey Brown’s nervous behavior and warns Sam. Meanwhile, Faber is racing against time.

Thanks to Otto, when Lang boards the metro and delivers Bailey Brown, the doors close and the train departs. If he detonates the bomb, Lang will die as well. And he is the only one capable of triggering it. He handcuffs Bailey Brown so he cannot escape and goes after Sam, who provokes him until Lang runs out of bullets. A negotiation begins. Only then does Sam realize that Bailey Brown was never truly involved. He does not even know about Sam’s son, Kai, or what is really happening. Sam tries to grab the detonator, but he cannot. Lang escapes and detonates the train.

At the control center, everyone is in shock. Olivia decides to go to the scene.

Stuart watches everything on television and receives a call from Lang. But because the prison cell is monitored, the entire conversation is recorded. Lang knows he has been exposed and demands an immediate escape. Racing — quite literally — against time, he is pursued by Sam, who has survived and is coming after him.

In Scotland, Marsha wakes up and tries to signal her location to the police. She is rescued at the exact moment Stuart’s assassins find her. Remember how Stuart’s grandiose plan seemed full of holes? Exactly.

Surrounded by police, Lang is finally cornered by Faber. He hesitates before answering Stuart’s phone call — who by now has stopped pretending to be innocent — and is shot. Before dying, however, he asks Sam whether he wants to know who planned everything. Sam replies that he already has an idea. Only one of them is left.

Back in prison, Daniel informs an enraged Stuart that Sam and Marsha have escaped. Stuart insists that he will still kill everyone. After everything that happened this season, that is not a threat. It is a promise.

At the control center, everyone praises Clara for her work. But I still find her suspicious. Maybe I am seeing things. Either way, she goes home as a hero.

Everything finally seems calm in Berlin. Faber and Olivia talk about Lang, but Faber is only concerned about Marsha. He calls his ex-wife and says, “I’m here,e and I’m safe.”

But with Stuart still alive, is anything really over?

That is how the season of Hijack ends. Idris Elba’s charisma carries many of the loose threads of the story. And there may still be more to come, because Stuart is now even more driven by revenge.