Brenda Lowe – The episode begins at a hunting store in Billings, Montana with Earl Hicks (Jeremy Jones) watching Brenda Lowe (Colleen Foy). When Brenda leaves the store, Earl follows her and offers her a ride. She takes it.
In Cheyenne, Wyoming, on their way to work, Jacob Hassani (Patrick Sabonguil) asks Rebecca ‘Bex’ Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) if Oliver Odell has said anything to her about the blast. She tells him that they haven’t really talked about it. He tells her to talk to him because he needs to know the truth about what happened. Bex is shocked to hear that Hassani thinks Odell has something to do with the blast. Hassani says that he is not necessarily saying Odell had anything to do with the blast but he has proven that he is the type of person that will cross the line.
At JM Webb Air Force Base, Odell asks to speak with Bex. He asks her if she trusts Hassani. She says that she does but he is CIA. Odell then asks if Hassani trusts her. When she asks why, he tells her that Hassani is looking for someone to take the blame for the blast. Their conversation doesn’t go much further thanks to Jennifer Morales (Sara Garcia) interrupting with news of a hit.
Elsewhere, Earl and Brenda introduce themselves to each other. After learning that there isn’t a Mr. Brenda and she is camping alone, he takes her to a lookout spot. At the same time, Odell and the team are watching the surveillance footage from the hunting store and talking about the killer. At the lookout spot, Earl talks Brenda into getting out of the truck and stretching her legs. While Brenda kills Earl, Odell profiles her back at the Air Base.
While in the air, Bex, Hassani, and Shane Florence (Josh Mckenzie) watch Brenda’s psych tapes from The Pit. She talks about feeding hunters to her wolves. After this, Bex tells the team that Brenda used an inheritance to buy thousands of acres of land in Montana to rehabilitate the gray wolf population. As they go through her profile, they also notice a note that says her aggressive tendencies declined through REP. When Bex asks Odell what REP is, he claims he doesn’t know. He does, however, tell the team about the traffic camera picking up Brenda catching a ride with Earl. Odell also pinged Earl’s phone at the mile 6 marker at Route 84.
Shane reads the signs and replays the murder for the team at the crime scene. To Bex, the whole thing doesn’t make sense because Brenda turned her back on society. Bex calls Odell to ask him what changed with Brenda at The Pit. He tells her that hopefully, it doesn’t matter because he knows where Brenda is. Morales fills the team in on Brenda using the payphone off Route 287. Although they don’t have audio yet, they do know Brenda contacted Ronald Goodman (Sean Millington).
When the team makes it to Ronald’s hangar, Brenda isn’t there and he tells them that the phone call from Brenda was a wrong number. Bex watches the footage of Brenda making the phone call from the pay phone and realizes that Brenda is excited while dialing. This leads to the team discovering that Brenda was trying to contact the person who had the number before Ronald.
Odell and Morales learn that the phone number previously belonged to William Gosman Esquire, Brenda’s lawyer. They suspect Brenda has ill will towards her lawyer but Bex isn’t buying it. This is when Bex finds out that in Brenda’s letters to her lawyer, she asked him to make sure that her sacred land was put into a nature conservancy. Instead, it was sold off and turned into a sub-division.
A man is shown hunting in the woods and when he kills a wolf Brenda comes out to congratulate him. He also slices his leg, He manages to get away and call 911 but Brenda eventually catches up to him and kills him. Shortly after this, Bex and the team are listening to the 911 call. Not long after that, they meet with a Forestry agent who takes them to the body.
At the second crime scene, Shane realizes that Brenda has moved the body to its final resting location on purpose. Seconds after this, Brenda’s voice appears over the Forestry Agent’s radio. Bex takes the radio and tells Brenda who she is and why she’s there. All Brenda wants to know is what happened to her land. While taking, Shane spots Brenda’s location, which causes the Forestry Agent to draw his gun, but before he can fully get it out, Brenda shoots him. The team returns fire and goes after her. When they find Brenda’s perch, Shane realizes that they must have clipped her because there is blood. They track her to a small creek and lose her there.
While Hassani argues with the rangers about sending Brenda’s picture and name out to social media, Bex finds his tablet with the footage of Odell. She only gets a second to look at it because Odell calls her. She asks him what Brenda said about her lawyer writing to her in The Pit. Odell says that she was delusion but Bex doesn’t buy it. When he refuses to say more, she says that she guesses they’ll have to go to someone with more authority. Madam Attorney General Elizabeth Mallory (Zabryna Guevara) just happens to be sitting right next to Odell and chimes in.
Elizabeth tells the team that Brenda was part of a breakthrough study in regimented behavioral dynamics called Eden Protocol. The goal was to satisfy the patient’s deepest psychological desires and create their idealized world. The purpose was to lower their defenses and help them better heal. This is why Brenda had thought her lawyer had turned her land into a wildlife preserve for the wolves. The conversation doesn’t get any further than this because one of the Forestry agents tells the team that they had a break-in at one of their stations.
By the time the team makes it to the station, Brenda is long gone, but it doesn’t take them long to learn that she used the computer to find the location of several chipped wolves. Bex suspects that Brenda is going after her pack. The only problem is the chipped wolves are now dead and buried. Brenda doesn’t handle this so well when she discovers it and heads to the Spire Rock Campground 3 miles away.
While on their way to the location of the chipped wolves, Bex tells the team that Brenda will likely have a full psychotic break when she discovers the truth about her wolves.
Brenda is already at the campsite by the time Ranger Zeke (Trevor Jones) arrives but she doesn’t come out of hiding and kill him until he asks the campers to leave. Odell and the team at the Air Force Base intercept one of the camper’s 911 phone calls regarding the incident. Odell calls and alerts Bex of the location.
At the third crime scene, Bex and Hassani try to get the Ranger to call off the cavalry but he refuses. Shane picks up a trail and they follow it, but find nothing at first. When they split up, Bex finds Brenda, who is holding two teenagers hostage. Bex manages to talk her into letting the kids go by dropping her gun and promising to tell her who killed her wolves. Bex tells Brenda that she didn’t buy the land because she wanted to be free. She bought it because she wanted to kill and on the land she could do it freely. Brenda doesn’t handle this well and she handles it even worse when Bex tells her that she killed her own wolves.
After telling Brenda that, Bex makes a dash for her weapon. She manages to dodge Brenda’s shot, get her weapon, and put a bullet in her right arm. Hassani hears the shot while the two of them fight it out. It isn’t long before he and Shane join her and they apprehend Brenda.
The team celebrates their win on the plane with drinks. Hassani asks Bex if she has plans when they return home because he has something he wants to run by her. Seconds later they are sitting in a real bar drinking. She asks him why he has footage of Odell on his tablet. Instead of answering, he asks her what she knows about what Odell did after getting fired from the FBI. She says that she assumed he went to The Pit, but he tells her that Odell had 2 years of missing time before he went to The Pit. She tells him that she is surprised that he didn’t take 10 years after killing that monster. Hassani asks her if she watched any of the footage and before she can answer he gives her the option of watching the footage. Even after seeing the footage, Bex refuses to believe that Odell was involved in the blast.
The episode ends with Odell meeting with a woman and giving her the flash drive that he supposedly downloaded before the blast.
The Hunting Party Review
This episode felt incredibly drawn out, but I am glad that we are finally getting somewhere with the main storyline. So, Odell did take the footage. We just don’t know why he did yet. I am almost betting it will be something like someone holding something over his head. As for the episode, there honestly isn’t much to say other than this was a typical episode.
There was a twist at the beginning that caught me off guard. I was expecting the escapee to be a guy, but I should have known from the title of the episode. The camping scenes were a bit overly dark and too hard to tell what was going on, but other than that there isn’t much to say. I’d have to give the episode a 4.9 out of 10.
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