Блудный сын (сериал) 2 сезон

The search for a serial killer known as "The Woodsman" might help the NYPD find one of their own.

Vivian takes Martin to a rural mansion, where she reveals her plan to psychologically break him until he accepts his new role as her "companion"; Martin resists, and she resorts to more brutal methods. Malcolm is removed from the effort to recapture his father, so he has Jessica use her connections to obtain information on Vivian, who he initially believes is a victim. Gil and the team refuse to help him, and Dani urges Malcolm to let his father die so he can finally be free of his influence. Malcolm then realizes Vivian abducted his father and allows himself to be captured as well so he can try to save him. Vivian contacts Jessica and persuades her not to tell Gil about Martin by promising she will "deal" with him. At the mansion, Martin is forced to watch as Vivian intentionally botches a surgery on Malcolm and then leaves him to die. Managing to break his bonds, Martin saves his son's life. Ainsley and Dani show up, and Vivian stabs herself and screams that the Surgeon attacked her. Fearing that Dani will shoot him, Martin steals a speedboat, loads a comatose Malcolm in it, and escapes on the open waters.

Malcolm joins the hunt for the escapees, struggling with the realization that he no longer has any control over Martin. After finding his apartment ransacked, he deduces that the fugitives need money and food and locates Friar Pete in a bowling alley. Pete tries to kill him before being shot dead, angering Malcolm as he now has no leads. Jessica unexpectedly bonds with both JT and Vivian over shared experiences of guilt and trauma. The team gets a new lead when they learn that Martin has secretly been in touch with Ainsley; this leads Malcolm and Gil to a farm where they soon realize someone is holding the owner's family hostage. Federal marshals storm the house and rescue the hostages, but when Malcolm follows them in, he only finds the other escaped inmate. The man laughs and says Martin simply told them what to do, meaning he has been leading everyone on a wild goose chase. Malcolm visits Vivian, who has been fired for her conduct, and says that he will never let his father manipulate him again. Unbeknownst to everyone, Vivian, having suffered a psychotic break, has kidnapped Martin and has her own plans for him.

Vivian begins to suspect that Friar Pete is planning something, but he blackmails her with knowledge of her affair with Martin to keep quiet. Malcolm discovers that the only witness to a brutal murder is a retired chess grandmaster suffering from agoraphobia; as he refuses to leave his apartment, Dani agrees to interview him in his home. Malcolm bonds with him after the witness reveals that he knows about the former's hidden feelings for Dani. Martin springs his secret plan by having Pete poison numerous inmates with rat poison, forcing Vivian to undo his restraints so he can help her, tricking her into giving him her keycard, and then triggering a lockdown so he, Pete, and Pete's disciple can escape. He abandons Vivian, telling her that his family matters more. Malcolm helps the witness escape from the killer when he tries to silence him, and Dani arrives in time to arrest him. Jessica is trapped in Claremont during a visit, and is forced to stab an inmate in self-defense before Gil rescues her. Malcolm finds a voicemail from his father telling him to come find him, just as Dani informs him of the breakout.

Martin is forcibly restrained on Vivian's orders after he demands that she reciprocate his love for her. Despite Gil's insistence that he take a break from work, Malcolm joins an investigation into a dismembered corpse. The victim turns out to have a connection to Edrisa: both are members of the "Killabusters", a group of amateur Internet detectives. After running into several other Killabusters, Malcolm invites them to assist. Vivian secretly visits Martin that evening, revealing that she has admired him since medical school and tried to emulate his success, only to be ignored by her peers until a reckless mistake ruined her professional career. Martin seizes the opportunity and pushes her until she gives in and has sex with him. Malcolm realizes that the killer is posing as a Killabuster and he and Edrisa are able to capture him before he finishes off his latest victim. Gil and Jessica share a dance after he agrees to help her with her memoirs. Malcolm is discussing the incident with Natalie with Dani when he accidentally mentions Endicott; shocked and frightened that she might figure out what he did, he sends her away.

Malcolm's latest case forces him to cross paths with Hoxley, who announces to the press that Endicott's murder was part of a larger conspiracy involving a network of international smugglers. Hoxley soon proves himself to be just as smart as Malcolm, deducing that Endicott was murdered in Jessica's townhouse and that Martin helped dispose of the body; however, he concludes that Malcolm, not Ainsley, stabbed Endicott. Malcolm turns his focus to solving the case: based on Hoxley's previous work, he realizes that someone is killing everyone involved with the disposal of Endicott's remains. Forced to deceive his own team, he tracks down the last remaining courier, a woman named Natalie, but comes to the realization that not only is she the real killer, she knows about his role in Endicott's murder. Malcolm stops her from killing Hoxley, but Natalie refuses to let him help her and winds up getting impaled on an anchor. A grateful Hoxley agrees with Malcolm that Natalie killed Endicott and declares so in an interview with Ainsley. Martin is confronted by Vivian for stealing; the two give into their feelings for each other and briefly kiss.

Malcolm is torn between watching out for Ainsley and taking on a complicated case involving the murder of a plastic surgeon. Ainsley disobeys her brother's instructions and refuses to hide while he has her clothing tested by Edrisa. Jessica's younger sister, Birdie, makes an unannounced visit; Jessica discovers that Birdie, needing money, has secretly written a tell-all book about her family. Unable to stop the book from being published, she decides to write and publish her own memoirs. Martin is assigned to work as a janitor in Claremont's infirmary, run by Dr. Vivian Capshaw, and bonds with her when he steps in to correct her faulty diagnosis of a patient. Malcolm saves another surgeon on the brink of death, and he and Dani learn that the killer is in fact a formerly disfigured patient who assumed a new identity in order to take revenge for her botched operation. Malcolm convinces her that letting her final victim live will be a far greater revenge. He later confronts Ainsley with his discovery that the blood on her shirt was animal, not human. Ainsley tells him that she is done being manipulated, and that Malcolm will just have to make peace with the knowledge that his sister is a murderer. In Estonia, Europol detective Simon Hoxley finds the last of Nicholas Endicott's remains.

Malcolm suffers a severe concussion while investigating a murder in a decrepit hotel. He finds himself trapped in his own subconscious, which changes to reflect a world where he never found out his father's secret: Martin is a happy family man, Jessica never became an alcoholic, Ainsley is now a doctor instead of a journalist, Gil was framed as a lunatic by Martin and is now incarcerated in his place in Claremont, and Malcolm himself is a respected NYPD detective in a healthy relationship with Dani. Although he is tempted by this new reality, Malcolm continues his investigation, learning that the murderer is an elderly serial killer and stopping him. This changes nothing, however, and Malcolm is finally forced to choose between dying and being at peace or rejecting everything he ever wished for. He chooses the latter, and helps the police arrest the murderer. That night, Ainsley visits Malcolm so he can tell her the truth, only to reveal that her shirt is covered with blood.

Ainsley undermines Malcolm by interfering with an investigation into the "Debutante Slayer", a serial killer targeting students of the famous Windsor Academy for young women. Jessica, fearful of what Ainsley is capable of, contemplates sending her away to Europe. Gil and JT arrest a professional doll maker for the murders, but Malcolm determines he's not the killer. Ainsley accidentally finds one of the Slayer's victims and turns it into a promo for her network, infuriating her brother who accuses her of treating murder like a game. Ainsley retorts that Malcolm is the last person to be calling her out for such a thing. Their argument comes to a head when the real killer, the neglected daughter of the school headmistress, is revealed and Ainsley tries and fails to stab her. The headmistress commits suicide, and the daughter is taken into custody. JT chooses not to file an abuse complaint, saying he won't let hate poison him like his attacker. Jessica visits Martin and makes him promise to help her save their children.

Jerry, Martin's old cellmate, falls to his death shortly before his scheduled release. The team determines that he was actually murdered, and Malcolm is forced to work with his father as he was a witness to Jerry's death. Ainsley recovers some of her memories after seeing an identical image of the carpet Malcolm used to wrap Endicott's body and demands her brother tell her the truth about that night, which he refuses. Jessica also gets suspicious and calls Martin, who hints that something might have happened but says nothing else. Jerry's prison girlfriend, Rhonda, claims Martin killed him as part of his escape plan, but Malcolm soon realizes he was misdirected: Rhonda killed Jerry out of anger for him leaving her behind and now wants to kill Martin for "curing" him. While pursuing Rhonda, she gets the drop on him, and only Martin working together with Dani saves his life. Jessica forces Malcolm to admit the truth. Malcolm tells her never to say a word to Ainsley, or they might lose her forever.

A murder at Remington Academy, a prestigious boarding school where Malcolm was expelled in his teens, causes him to relive painful memories of an incident where a bully locked him in a closet for three days after learning his real name. The team identifies three potential suspects, all of them students; Malcolm initially believes that a teacher who had forced the students to help him sell the answers to tests is responsible, but then the real killer traps him and explains that, like him, she hates the burden of her family name and committed the murder to protect her chances of getting into a college of her choice. Malcolm activates a fire alarm to escape, but not before revealing that he deliberately tried to kill the bully by triggering his asthma before saving him after realizing that taking a life would make him no better than his father. Martin discreetly obtains two of the three keycards needed to bypass the hospital's security checkpoints. JT and his wife welcome a son.

The team investigates the ritualistic murder of a priest. Discovering that the victim was an exorcist, Malcolm determines that the killer believes themself to be possessed by a demon. After determining that the priest's last patient lacks the self-control necessary to commit the murder, he consults with Martin, who in turn consults with Friar Pete, another patient at Claremont. The killer is eventually revealed to be an art restorer working at the victim's church, driven mad by lead poisoning from the painting he was working on. With Friar Pete's help, Malcolm subdues the man by reciting the words for an exorcism. Meanwhile, JT worries he'll face harassment from other officers following his encounter with the racist cops, which proves to be true when he calls for backup only to be ignored. Jessica ends her relationship with Gil out of fear that he'll risk his life unnecessarily to protect her. Martin and Pete begin plotting to escape the hospital as Martin believes his son needs him.

Several months have passed since Endicott's death, which Malcolm covered up by disposing of the body in Estonia, a decision that has haunted him since. As the team, currently headed by JT as Gil recovers, arrest a serial killer, Malcolm learns that his father is being transferred back to Claremont as a reward for helping Riker's deal with COVID-19. The team handles a new case involving a woman being decapitated by a guillotine and her boyfriend being bricked inside a room alive; Malcolm deduces that the couple killed the woman's husband and let an innocent Hispanic youth be executed for it, and now the executioner is extracting justice. JT announces a false arrest to lure out the executioner, who goes after Malcolm; Malcolm overpowers him as Dani arrives to arrest him. As JT walks into the alleyway towards Malcolm's apartment, he assaults a cop who believes he's the killer. Malcolm and Dani save him before he gets shot. Afterwards, Malcolm visits Martin, who tells him to be proud of himself for protecting his sister. He tells Malcolm that deep down, there's a possibility he enjoyed disposing of Endicott's corpse.