Much like Sugar’s first season, its second installment followed Colin Farrell’s John Sugar, a Los Angeles private investigator, as he pursued a case that led him to some very dark places—while also tracking Sugar’s experiences as an alien living undercover on Earth.
The extraterrestrial reveal was a major twist in season one, explaining things about the main character that didn’t quite add up while also rewriting the entire show’s DNA. Then, after Sugar solved the case of a movie mogul’s missing granddaughter (who was actually the man’s daughter, though it wasn’t as sleazy as that sounds), he had to grapple with his decision to stay behind when the rest of the aliens sharing his “observe and report” mission abruptly departed for home. It wasn’t their choice, but rather a last resort. Someone had become aware of their clandestine presence and very much wanted them to leave. The question of who was behind this anti-alien push haunts Sugar as season two gets started, though his initial quest is to find the only other ET left on Earth: Henry, a man with information about Sugar’s long-missing and very beloved sister, Djen. That source becomes a literal dead end in the first few minutes of the season two opener; Sugar finds Henry deeply depressed and dying by his own hand. He perishes before giving Sugar any new information, though he does amplify the worry that Sugar himself will feel the mental anguish of “assimilation,” something everyone from their planet fears.
