The Day of the JackalSeason 1 Finale: Does Bianca Catch the Jackal or Does Eddie Redmayne Run Free?

Mar. 15, 2025

Lashana Lynch as Bianca in ‘The Day of the Jackal’ (left); Eddie Redmayne as The Jackal in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.Photo:Sophie Mutevelian/Carnival Film & Television Limited; Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

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Warning: This post contains spoilers for the final two episodes ofThe Day of the Jackalseason 1.

The cat-and-mouse chase between Bianca (Lashana Lynch) and the Jackal (Eddie Redmayne) has officially come to an end.

On Thursday, Dec. 12, the final two episodes ofThe Day of the Jackalseason 1 premiered, giving fans some long-awaited answers about whether the elusive assassin was able to take out his target, UGC (Khalid Abdalla), whether Bianca was able to track him down after weeks of trying and what his wife Nuria (Úrsula Corberó) is going to do now that she’s aware of his real career.

How didThe Day of the Jackalseason 1 end?

After failing to take out UGC in Tallin, the Jackal returned home to his wife and son, and he and Nuria finally had an honest conversation about his line of work where he admitted that he kills people for money. He then made her a promise that he had one final job to finish and then he was done with being an assassin-for-hire.

Before Charles could leave to make his final attempt to kill UGC, Nuria’s brother Alvaro asks him to come to lunch with a sketchy Cuban businessman, Jimmy Tejero. Though he agreed to go, Charles instead borrowed a friend’s fishing boat and killed Jimmy from over a kilometer away with his sniper — a kill that eventually helped Bianca narrow down that the Jackal lives in Cádiz, Spain.

Khalid Abdalla as Ulle Dag Charles in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

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Bianca, meanwhile, was encouraged to take a leave of absence from MI-6 due to her refusal to give up on hunting the Jackal. Instead, she quit and walked off on her boss Isabel (Lia Williams), vowing to use her newfound free time to fix her rocky relationship with her husband Paul (Sule Rimi) and daughter Jasmine (Florisa Kamar).

Her break didn’t last long, though, as Isabel’s secret allegiance with the foreign secretary — who was also working with Timothy Winthorp, who hired the Jackal to kill UGC — was revealed, and led Isabel to encourage Bianca to go rogue, find the Jackal and take him out — all as a means of ultimately getting rid of both the elusive assassin and Bianca herself.

Desperate as ever to nail the Jackal, Bianca of course agreed to the “unsanctioned” mission and brought along Vince (Nick Blood) to Cádiz, Spain, where she’d deduced the Jackal must live based on the sniper death of Jimmy Tejero.

Nuria, meanwhile, got fed up with her husband’s deadly profession and abandoned him, taking their son Carlito with her as she fled their home.

Ursula Corbero as Nuria in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

Who dies at the end ofThe Day of the Jackalseason 1?

Lashana Lynch as Bianca in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

In episode 10, several other major characters died including Nuria’s brother Alvaro, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time as he showed up drunk at her and Charles' house just as Bianca and Vince walked in and they shot him immediately.

The Jackal heard that gunshot and after a tip from Zina (Eleanor Matsuura) that his home in Spain had been discovered, he hid from Bianca and Vince as they searched his house. Hidden in the secret room behind his two-way mirror, he finally had the chance to take in the British intelligence officer who’d been hunting him for weeks, though she of course couldn’t see him.

Eventually, he made himself known to Bianca and Vince and killed them both — Vince died first, protecting Bianca, and the Jackal then killed Bianca, too, ending their international cat-and-mouse chase with a bang (literally).

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Eddie Redmayne as the Jackal in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

Does the Jackal survive at the end of season 1?

Despite the odds, the Jackal seems to remain unkillable. After taking out Bianca and Vince, Charles rushed to the airport to try to catch his wife and son before they fled the country. As he left a voicemail for Nuria — who had thrown away her cellphone before going into the airport — Charles' car was attacked from the side and the back in a coordinated attack meant to take him out.

The episode’s final scene revealed that he survived the crash — though he didn’t emerge entirely unscathed and had an array of cuts and scars along his temple and cheek — which surprised even Zina.

Charles Dance as Timothy Winthorp in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

Is there going to be a season 2 ofThe Day of the Jackal?

The Day of the Jackalwas renewed for a season 2 in November before the first season had even finished airing.

At the end of episode 10, there were several revelations that set up new mysteries for season 2, both for the Jackal himself and for those trying to take him out.

The Jackal meanwhile turned up in Budapest to meet Zina who it looks like will be coordinating his future work in season 2. She gave him a new target: Timothy Winthorp, as she knew that he doesn’t like an unpaid debt, and Winthorp never paid up for UGC.

Though he doesn’t say no to the new target, he doesn’t exactly agree either, as his sights are firmly set on finding his wife and son before he puts the Jackal mask back on.

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The Day of the Jackalseason 1 is now streaming in full on Peacock.

source: people.com