Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 4 of Task.
As this week’s episode of Task came to an upsetting close, there was no denying the walls seemed to be closing in on Robbie (Tom Pelphrey). But, given there are still three installments of the HBO crime drama to go, we have to assume things won’t pan out exactly like they currently seem they might.
Following a bait and switch that resulted in Cliff (Raúl Castillo) being captured and tortured to death by Jayson (Sam Keeley) and his Dark Hearts crew, Perry (Jamie McShane) went to work trying to identify the original owner of the gun they found in Cliff’s car after Jayson drove him off the side of the road while he was waiting to make the drug deal. Since finding out the gun that killed Dark Hearts member Warren Clarke (Joshua Dye) at the trap house robbery gone wrong once belonged to one of their own, Perry has been on a mission to figure out who inside the biker gang was feeding information to the thieves. And his research paid off, as the episode’s closing moments showed him matching the gun’s holster to an old photo of Robby’s dead brother Billy (Jack Kesy) wearing the same one. Unfortunately, his focus then switched to the other person in the picture: Billy’s daughter Maeve (Emilia Jones).
In the hours leading up to Robbie and Cliff’s failed rendezvous with the supposed drug connect of Cliff’s squirrelly former cellmate Ray (Peter Patrikios), Maeve gave Robbie the ultimatum that if he didn’t turn Sam (Ben Lewis Doherty) over to the cops by the following morning, she would do it herself. But what if that would-be good deed lands her even more squarely in the vengeful sights of Perry and the Dark Hearts?
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This all seems really bad for Eryn (Margarita Levieva) as well, whom Perry already accused of being the gang’s rat after…
