Warning: This post contains spoilers for Task Episode 6.
Within the first 20 minutes of the sixth and penultimate episode of Task, both PSP Lizzie Stover (Alison Oliver) and Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Pelphrey) are dead. Robbie was stabbed by his Dark Hearts nemesis Jayson (Sam Keeley) and ultimately bled out in the car as Tom (Mark Ruffalo) attempted to rush him to the hospital. Lizzie, meanwhile, who couldn’t hear after a bullet discharged next to hear ear, was run over by Jayson and Perry (Jamie McShane) as they sped away from the crime scene after County Detective-turned-Dark Hearts mole Anthony Grasso (Fabien Frankel) allowed them to go free.
It was certainly a depressing opening to the episode, and things only got more tense from there.
Following the shootout at Bushkill, the FBI launched a probe into the task force to investigate whether there was someone on the inside feeding information to the Dark Hearts. We, of course, already know this was Grasso, who we also learned was grandfathered into his mole role by County Chief Michael Dorsey (Raphael Sbarge). Lizzie’s death appeared to send Grasso into a spiral of regret, but Dorsey ordered him to keep it together so they could get out of the situation unscathed.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that she was the one who turned Sam (Ben Lewis Doherty) over to the cops, Maeve (Emilia Jones) was being detained for questioning about her role in his kidnapping. After hearing what Maeve had to say about why she didn’t immediately turn Sam in, the district attorney told Tom she wanted to move forward with charging her. But Tom managed to convince her she was going to have a hard time getting a jury to agree Maeve was guilty of anything—not to mention that doing so would leave the two kids now in her sole care to the system. Maeve was allowed to go free and returned home to Harper (Kennedy Moyer) and Wyatt (Oliver Eisenson), and Tom was able to fulfill…
