Recruitment, Season 2: Ending Explained

ISLANDWen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) went through hell in season 1 final of Netflix’s RecruitingHardly to make it alive after an unusually violent mission. But season 2 of Recruiting Oops Ante even longer. Despite a shorter seasonal order (only six episodes, down from eight in season 1), the effort for Owen has been raised significantly. And man, Owen goes through the ringtone to prove himself as a worthy CIA agent.

The primary mission for Owen in Season 2 is to save the lives of Nan Hee (Sanghee Lee), who was kidnapped by Yakuza because she worked for an NGO with a distinct cryptocurrency for her bribery to help repatriate Koreans. She is the wife of the Korean NIS (National Intelligence Service) Agent Jang Kyun (Teo Yoo). It has been a quest with complications, and as the show approaches the final, it seems that there is no hope in sight. But at the end of the penultimate episode, Owen devises an impressive plan to exploit a team on the ground in Korea to get Nan Hee back from Yakuza that holds her in eastern Russia. Getting the green light from the CIA director Alton West (Nathan Fillion) is the mission a trip. Writing in Season 2 convincingly develops Owen when he comes to his own, and his negotiation with West (Fillion) proves how far he has come as an agent. Obviously, Owen has things.

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They need a boat

To perform the mission, they have to get a boat out of Korea. The only person Owen knows with a boat is his childhood love yoo jin hee (shin do-hyun) who has access to his father’s fishing boat. They secure the boat, hardly avoids Korean intelligence forces and are about to save Nan Hee. Owen and company, including Jang Kyun, Yoo Jin and CIA Agent’s Lester (Colton Dunn) and Dawn (Angel Parker), make up the company as a K&R (kidnap and ransom) and enter into an agreement to buy Nan Hee.

Nichka (Maddie Hasson), who has worked with the CIA since she killed her mother Max at the end of Season 1, has found his wife in a large locked complex and informed the team that it will be anything but impossible to extract her . But they have a plan: International law prohibits K&R companies from doing business on Russian soil. So they plan to meet on the water where they can get on the boat – one with significantly reduced Yakuza forces – and extract Kyun’s wife.

Owen and Jang Kyun take a small boat to the yacht that holds Nan Hee and refuses to reveal the money until they see hostages. Jang has a particularly challenging mission here: If he or his wife responds and reveals that they know each other, they will both be killed. Jang manages to keep his calm and approach his wife quietly. He speaks to her in Korean (a language that no one else in any of the parties speaks) and says they will get her released. In his hand he has written a message in Korean that is translated as “you don’t know me.” They manage to keep their relationship secret.

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Owen sends the signal via its watch that they have contacted hostages, but a Russian coastal boat appears, which means they cannot help and extract Owen, Jang and Nan. Getting into a firefighter in front of the Russians would have devastating personal and international complications so the mission blasts. Still, hope is not lost. When the briefcase is revealed to have no cash inside it, Owen and Jang fight for their lives. Owen manages to escape, jump out of the yacht and in the water. Under the water, he drops narrowly out of bullets flying towards him. Jang and Nan remain on the yacht. Stranded in the water with the yacht on the way back to the place where it came from, Yoo Jin’s words call in Owen’s ears: “Better to fight for love than to give up.” Owen swims against the boat and risks his life to save Jang Kyun and Nan Hee.

An ally becomes an enemy

After swam to and brutally fight out of a house with two Russian soldiers, Owen calls Lester and Dawn, who encourage him to leave the mission. Owen refuses and tells Lester and Dawn that they have died inside and that he refuses to let the human part of him die. Surprisingly, they respect his decision (despite calling it “mislead”) and offering to involve nichka to help him.

If it was just so easy! Nichka finds Owen in the Russian House and offers to help him, but she has turned on him and sold Owen to the Russian security agency (FSB) and she leads him to an airfield to be caught by FSB – the same airfield where Jang Kyun and his wife are led to. The two Brawl and Owen manage to outlast her, knock her out and lock her in the trunk of her car. Owen is determined to save Jang Kyun, and not even the extraordinarily skilled nichka can get in the way.

Meanwhile, the CIA is working hard to cover their tracks after the mission is blown up. They are trying to enter into appointments with Grace (Young-Ah Kim), a senior intelligence officer at NIS and one of their own jawns who have written to Owen since the first day. Their plans are laid out and they want to determine their failures on Owen, feel him as a junk and eliminate him to avoid international disaster.

Owen sneaks into the complex and avoids several soldiers and even a landing plane (Recruiting Have no interest in subtlety and it is the better for it). He finds Jang Kyun and his wife and starts getting them out of the complex. Which of course will not be easy. Seeing them with a sniper rifle is Dawn, an appointment was offered to take them out to pin things on Owen and improve her status in the CIA. But she’s stopped by nichka who wants to kill Owen herself. After an intense knife match, Nichka kills Dawn and throws her into the river. There will be none of the mutually safe destruction that Dawn threatened Owen with after all.

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Owen gets Jang Kyun and Nan Hee into an SUV and starts to run in safety – but Nichka stands, gun in his hand, in their way. Klokt refuses Owen to move and forces nichka to roll away before she can shoot. She comes back and starts shooting, taking the rear window of the vehicle and warning the soldiers of the complex who start shooting and chasing after the car. Owen drives the car to international waters and they have no choice but to start swimming. Impressive, Yoo Jin has traced them in his father’s fishing boat, and they move on, under heavy fire from a Russian coastguard boat.

What Owen don’t know

In the event that things were not hectic enough at this point, just when it seems that all hope is lost, a gigantic US NAVY -submarine appears (I told you Recruiting is anything but subtle!). This leads to the coastguard unit wisely withdrawing and ensuring Owen and the company’s security against every conceivable odds. Owen came into season 2 hoping to prove his value as the CIA agent after so many mistakes, and his incredible heroik in the final has made his talents impossible to ignore. A little later, and surely against Russian guns, Jang Owen thanks from the bottom of his heart; He still can’t quite believe that he and his wife have done it alive. Jang Kyun and Owen have formed an unreasonable band.

Owen, who proves his mettle as the CIA agent, gets one last game to recruit Jang Kyun as an American agent. His sales course is undeniable: go back to Korea and spend a life in prison, or come to America, start a new life with lots of money for him and his beloved, and sign up for the CIA. Jang shakes his hand and smiles and confirms his decision to go with Owen.

The episode ends on a slightly peaceful note as Owen looks at the sea and smiles. But his smile begins to disappear when they come back to America. While Owen almost on his own drew a remarkable rescue mission, the CIA tried to make more offers to pin everything on Owen and kill him – which he has no idea. What is Owen waiting when he comes back to America? Will Jang be allowed to participate in the CIA, or has Owen promised that he cannot fulfill? These are the big questions we will have to wait for answers to until Recruiting Season 3.