Black Doves season 2 saw Helen forced to face a huge ultimatum.
Helen Webb faced a dilemma in Black Doves season 2(Image: NETFLIX)
Black Doves dropped some major bombshells about Reed’s past in season 2.
Netflix’s hit spy thriller Black Doves is back with a second outing and the series opened with some shocking revelations as Helen Webb’s (played by Keira Knightley) handler Reed (Sarah Lancashire) disappeared at the end of the first episode. The season continued to follow Helen and her best friend Sam (Ben Whishaw) as they attempted to find out who took Reed and what she was hiding.
WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS SPOILERS
One of the biggest revelations was Reed’s involvement in a historic mission in Berlin, which went disastrously wrong due to Reed’s rash actions. Wildflower had been Reed’s codename during the operation, and viewers witnessed the seasoned undercover agent’s past secrets unravel through various flashbacks.
Fans also discovered that whilst in Berlin, Reed had a daughter called Vita, who went missing after the botched mission. Here is all you need to know about what happened at the end of Black Doves season two.
Helen told Wallace the truth
Away from Reed’s storyline, newly appointed Prime Minister Wallace (Andrew Buchan) was growing suspicious of his wife after officer Jim Perryman (Adam Best) warned him that Helen was not who she said she was. Perryman had received tip-offs about Helen’s true identity, which he passed on to Wallace.
One of the biggest pieces of evidence that exposed Helen was a photo of her best friend Sam, who had been present at the killing of Russian oligarch Alexi Chernov (Goran Kostić). Alexi had been poisoned by Sam and fellow agent Eleanor (Gabrielle Creevy) during a dinner with Wallace and Helen. Wallace immediately recognised Sam and therefore confronted Helen about her real identity.
Later, when Reed’s daughter Vita (Sylvia Hoeks) threatened Helen with the deaths of her children, she admitted she had hidden a lot from him and he was right to have been suspicious of her, but in that moment, he needed to trust her.
Wallace lied for Helen when Perryman asked him what had happened between them both, so he chose to protect her rather than give her up. As the season ended, Wallace and Helen were seen sitting down to talk about Helen’s identity when the screen cut to black.
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Reed’s daughter Vita was unveiled
In the final episode, it appeared Sam, who had been tasked with killing Reed under rogue organisation Kestrel’s orders, had completed his mission. He was offered a place at Kestrel, which he rejected, as it transpired he had actually handed Reed over to Kestrel alive.
During an attack at the peace summit, Alexi Chernov’s wife Katia (Hoeks) was captured and taken to where Reed was being held. In a major twist, it was revealed Katia was in fact Reed’s estranged daughter, Vita, who had come back to get revenge on her mother for abandoning her as a child.
Vita explained how she had been forced to grow up in a Soviet orphanage and she wanted to make the Black Doves pay. In another vengeful act, she told Helen to kill her husband, the Prime Minister, and own up to who she really was, otherwise her children would die.
Her son and daughter’s childminder, Marie (Molly Chesworth), was a rat Reed had planted to get inside information about the family, and Katia used this as a threat against Helen, who she knew would never put her children at risk. Helen pretended to shoot Wallace before she and Sam let him escape and went to save her children from Marie.
Meanwhile, agents Williams (Ella Lily Hyland), Eleanor and Laila (Ambika Mod) took on Kestrel to save Reed, and she managed to get away unscathed. She found her injured daughter, who asked why she never looked for her.
Reed admitted she’d hoped her daughter had just become a normal person and she wanted her to have peace, which she would never have with Reed in her life. After being caught in the crossfire, Vita died from her injuries.
With the immediate threats out of the picture, Sam proposed that he, Helen and her children run away, but Helen knew she wasn’t out of the woods yet. Sadly, Sam was not of the same mindset, and he told Helen he was leaving as he had no reason to stay.
While Sam was seen returning to Italy, Reed asked Helen to take down Kestrel leader Patrick (Sam Riley). Viewers will have to wait and see whether Helen completes her mission, confesses all to Wallace, and Sam returns to offer assistance once more.
Black Doves season 2 is on Netflix