Knock, Knock – As the finale of Wolf begins, young Jack Caffrey (Oscar Coleman) sneaks into Ivan’s house to look for Ewan. When he escapes the house, he leaves his shoe behind. Molina (Iwan Rheon) tells Honey (Sacha Dhawan) they can finally talk. He admits he did a lot of things while Honey was asleep. As for the coppers, he knew they were real so he used their names. Honey learns that Molina is the boss and he killed Beca to prevent her from coming to the house.

Molina wasn’t planning on killing him. He offers to let Honey leave now although he’ll have to walk. Before he can go, Molina mentions that he lives in Stroud Green. Molina knows more about Honey than he could ever imagine. He’ll drive Honey to the station after he kills every member of the family. They begin dealing with Beca’s body. Molina confesses he is worried Honey is only there because he threatened to kill his pregnant girlfriend. He believes what is important is how Honey feels about him. If he doesn’t like him, there is no point in being there. Honey claims he is just adjusting.

Honey wants to help him bury her. Then, they’ll go back to the house and kill the family. Molina says he wants to do the latter part by himself. When Honey asks what the family did to him, Molina tells him not to worry about that right now. Jack (Ukweli Roach) gets up and learns Maia Lincoln (Sian Reese-Williams) is finding out more about his swim. She doesn’t want him to get the wrong idea that she is the home-making type. They discuss Bones who likely isn’t the donkey pitch killer after all. Jack finds it odd that Kable wandered in off the street one day and spoke to her because he had seen her on television.

Jack doesn’t believe her because she never spoke on camera and never answered questions about her own cases. He suspects she is hiding something about her relationship with Kable. Maia admits the case was never going to be solved because rain had washed away the evidence and the kids weren’t talking. She met Kable when he was a witness on another case. That’s why he asked for her. Maia finally confesses that he has an alibi for the night of the murders and only confessed for attention. Since his solicitor would never find the alibi, Maia didn’t tell anyone.

She argues that they’re supposed to put people like that in prison so it doesn’t matter how they get there. Maia tells him to ask Minnet about his nest when he visits him at the prison. Jack goes to the prison to speak to Minnet Kable. He explains he is not there to get him into trouble. Jack believes Maia didn’t like him before the killings. Minnet claims he wasn’t bad before the donkey pitch although he had bad thoughts. She told him he wouldn’t go to prison for thoughts so he told her about them. He came there a lot to watch them and have the thoughts.

Jack questions whether it was a school or playground. Minnet says he had a plan and was going to keep them together because they’re sisters. He even made them a place to sleep. It was their own nest. When Jack leaves, he thinks about his brother. Honey attempts to leave the house while Molina sleeps. He changes his mind and climbs the stairs as Molina wakes up. Henry approaches Matilda (Juliet Stevenson) and tells her to be quiet. He is going to remove her cuffs and they’re going to get out of there. As he tries to help her, Matilda stabs him in the neck.

Molina hears what has happened and comes upstairs to find Honey dead. He begins laughing and takes the makeshift weapon from Matilda. Molina tells her that she killed the wrong one. She saved him the bother. Then, he informs her that today is the day she is going to die. Jack visits Paul Prody (Ciaran Joyce) and briefly speaks to his mother. Prody says he and his wife are taking a break and it didn’t seem like renting was worth it. Jack thinks they’ll get glad they got to spend the time together. They discuss Bones who has been released because he has an alibi.

Prody believes he knows something though. Matilda, Oliver (Owen Teale), and Lucia (Annes Elwy) hear Molina listening to music and breaking a glass. When he approaches Matilda, she asks him to take his violence out on her. Matilda pleads with him not to do anything to her daughter. Jack approaches Bones to speak to him about Hugo and Sophie. He reveals that Sophie and her friends had a party out on a farm a couple of weeks before they died. They hurt someone. Jack goes to Max’s place and breaks a window. He warns Max that he’ll make sure this gets public and ugly if nothing comes of it.

Emily asks what he wants. Jack wants to know more about the person who got hurt on Hugo’s farm. Molina takes Oliver to the room where Matilda used to be and where Honey’s body remains. Max tells Jack that there was a girl Hugo had been sleeping with in secret. When she turned up at the farm, a drunk Hugo flipped out. He was meant to her in hopes she would leave, but she was too stupid to take a hint. Lucia is brought into the room with Oliver. Emily explains that they tricked the girl to go into the pen they used to trap animals. They started mocking her and Hugo was showing off for Sophie. Since Sophie was encouraging him, Hugo grabbed the branding iron.

Jack asks for the girl’s name. Lucia begins sobbing when she sees her father clutching his chest. We hear Oliver talking about how people underestimate his daughter. Jack finally finds Oliver’s full name. Oliver admits they sent Lucia away to a mental institution because they were embarrassed. It was the biggest mistake they ever made. It appears she met Molina there and came back ten times worse. Lucia tells Molina that life is full of surprises before they kiss. In a flashback, we see that Lucia has the branding on her thigh. Jack calls Prody to tell him about Lucia while he drives towards their house.

Jack says Lucia is at least one of the donkey pitch killers. He asks Prody to wait 30 minutes before calling for backup. Lucia begins worrying about her dog. Molina thinks most of it has gone well though. Lucia is happy and she looks forward to killing Oliver. She wants to know where her mom is. Molina tells her that Oliver botched the call to the bank so the money wasn’t transferred. Lucia complains that her brother will get all the money now. Molina suggests her mom can survive and no one will get the money right now. She is in the attic and has no idea that Lucia was involved.

They can get her to change her will before making her have a little accident. Lucia says something can happen to Kieran too. They hear the doorbell ring. Molina answers the door and Jack introduces himself. Molina pretends to be Kieran. Jack comes inside before Molina gets him some tea. When asked about Bear, Molina suggests the dog is out roaming somewhere. They talk about Beca and Kieran’s sister. Jack says Lucia would’ve been a teenager around the time of the donkey pitch killings. Jack says he heard Sophie and Hugo were great kids. He could never see how one killer could’ve done that.

Molina tries to stab Jack who is looking at blood on the table leg. Jack trips him and there is a prolonged scuffle. Jack begins choking him and telling him to drop the knife. Molina is choked to death. When Jack goes upstairs, he finds Lucia pretending to try to escape through the window. Once he learns she is Lucia, he tells her that the police are coming. Whatever they planned has failed. He tells her that Molina has died. Jack suspects Lucia likes the torture. Lucia insists she isn’t mad. She used to think someone would save her from being so unhappy but it never happened. She realized no one saves you if you don’t deserve it.

As a result, she decided to lean into being a piece of crap. Lucia believes he has to save her because he is a police officer. She lets go and falls from the ledge. Jack finds the note from Oliver who admits he saw his daughter leave the house on the night of the donkey pitch murders. Oliver hopes he can somehow make things right in death. Jack goes to the roof and finds Matilda trying to escape. He manages to stop her from falling from the edge. Then, Jack visits Colonel Frink (Karl Johnson) and offers to tell him the truth about his daughter’s death and what he decided to do.

Or, he can lie and say he did nothing at all. That doesn’t sit well with him so he decided to let Frink choose. Jack confirms the person who hurt Sophie will never hurt anyone again. Frank suggests the rest really doesn’t matter. Jack thinks he found Bear a home. After that, Jack visits the walking man (Tim Treloar) to see what he knows about his brother. The man says he knows the guy who beat his neighbor in prison and he knows what he is saying is the truth. He’ll never speak to the cops though. Ivan Penderecki had been stalking Jack’s brother prior to abducting him. He had a plan to kidnap Ewan on his way home from school.

The fight in the tree house gave Ivan an unexpected opportunity, but it would’ve happened either way. Jack wonders if it would’ve been different if he had said something. When Jack returns home, he finds a shoe sitting in front of his door. Ivan watches him destroy the tree house. The police learn there was a fingerprint on the robot toy and it was a match for Jack’s brother. Since the toy wasn’t made until 2004, it means Jack’s brother wasn’t killed in 1998. Jack burns the wood from the tree house.

 

Wolf Review

The finale of Wolf had enough twists to make it intriguing from start to finish although the villains didn’t put up much of a fight in the end. Really, certain parts of the series felt drug out until the end which felt rushed. It would’ve been nice if Molina had revealed his true identity sooner so he could’ve worked with Lucia a little longer.

Nevertheless, the series was enjoyable overall with some consistent performances despite the quirkiness of the characters. With a little more time after the reveal, Iwan Rheon and Annes Elwy could’ve done so much more with their respective roles. The finale also set up another series with Jack learning more about Ivan and his brother’s kidnapping.

There was also the revelation that Ewan’s fingerprint was found on the robot toy so he may not be dead after all. While it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, Wolf will prove to be a good journey for many viewers. At the very least, the story is compelling enough to stick with the six-episode series.

The finale scores a 6.5 out of 10. Catch up with past recaps of Wolf on Reel Mockery here. Find out how to support our independent site at this link. Learn more about advertising on Reel Mockery here.