SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Night of the Hunter,” the Season 2 finale of “Your Friends & Neighbors,” now streaming on Apple TV.
“Your Friends & Neighbors” now has one fewer neighbor.
Leading up to the Season 2 finale, James Marsden’s shady billionaire Owen Ashe had tripped and fallen in his own house, just after shooting up drugs and chasing Coop (Jon Hamm), Barney (Hoon Lee) and Nick (Mark Tallman) with a loaded gun. Ashe went berserk after Coop refused to help invest and launder his dirty money, a decision that also landed him kidnapped and tied up by mysterious henchmen. (Whose henchmen we still don’t know for sure.)
The three friends declared Ashe dead, loading him into an Escalade with plans to avoid the cops and bury his body. The authorities will assume Ashe fled Westmont Village and disappeared, they believe. But on their nighttime drive, Ashe suddenly wakes up, causing a full-on brawl inside the vehicle until Nick veers off the road, plunging the car into a lake. Only three men emerge from the water: Coop, Barney and Nick.
Setting up what will certainly be the central conflict driving Season 3, Coop echoes a Benjamin Franklin quote: “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” Samantha (Olivia Munn), too, knows Ashe is dead. Elena (Aimee Carrero) has opened the Westmont Village door to shady characters, jeopardizing her business with Coop. And Mel (Amanda Peet) has a mysterious revelation of sorts, surely to be explored in future episodes.
