9 Excellent Strangers’ season 2 finale drops a couple of bombshell, revealing how every retreater is linked — and who’s answerable for their ache.
Warning: Spoilers beneath from 9 Excellent Strangers season 2, episode 8.
Through the Wednesday, July 2, episode of the Hulu collection, Masha (Nicole Kidman) tells everybody that their trauma is tethered to David (Mark Sturdy) and his many firms.
One after the other, the company notice that David exploited his solution to the highest and left behind a path of ache and struggling. To sort things, David vows to cease making bombs and dismantle Sign Ops’ weapons manufacturing.
Whereas Masha unravels David’s wrongdoings, Martin (Lucas Englander) spirals uncontrolled on a nasty mushrooms journey. On the top of his delusions, he grabs a gun and goes after David and Masha, whom he blames for stealing Zauberwald from him.
David, who can also be beneath the affect of psychedelics, walks out right into a snowstorm to try to get service and make good on his promise. Because the snow components, Masha finds him on a bridge after which Martin with a gun.
9 Excellent Strangers Solid. Disney/Frank Micelotta
Masha steps in entrance of the gun to guard David. Martin is listening to his late mom Dr. Helena’s (Lena Olin) voice taunting him to get revenge. He then pulls the set off, and Masha goes over the bridge.
David runs to her facet and helps her get again to the retreat the place she manages to outlive the assault. One month later, David and Masha are reunited and dealer a deal pegged to her psychedelic enterprise.
Scroll right down to see how every character is linked to David — and the place they find yourself:
Brian

Murray Bartlett. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Brian’s (Murray Bartlett) connection to David was revealed earlier this season. David owned one of many networks that always performed Brian’s Crabapple Clubhouse meltdown on a loop, additional ruining his profession. David claims he didn’t immediately oversee the protection.
After weeks of seeing his former puppet costar as a hallucination, Brian decides he wants to depart the bodily toy behind and begin recent. As soon as on the ski raise again to civilization, Agnes (Dolly De Leon) asks if he desires to entertain once more, however this time at hospitals, charity occasions, and so forth. and he says sure!
Agnes

Dolly De Leon. Disney/Reiner Bajo
In accordance with Masha, when Agnes was working beneath Mom Irene as a nun and nurse and misplaced a girl and her child, it was David’s fault. Mom Irene’s humanitarian work was funded by David’s firm, and he or she abided by strict protocols which resulted in preventable deaths — one in all which was the dying that led to Agnes’ disaster of religion.
David says his firm did an “expose” on Mom Irene, however Masha claims it was solely as a result of one other outlet was about to scoop them. Masha additionally alleges that David’s firm created the bombs after which funded the hospitals to assist clear up their messes.
Agnes leaves the Austrian Alps in regular garments, not her nun apparel. She decides to workforce up with Brian to make kids’s lives higher and proceed to do good.
Matteo

Aras Aydin, Christine Baranski and Henry Golding. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Earlier this season, viewers discovered that Matteo’s (Aras Aydin) dad and mom and siblings had been killed by a “good bomb” when he was a baby. It’s later revealed that Imogen’s father, Victoria’s (Christine Baranski) late husband, was the creator of the know-how used for the assault. Masha reveals throughout the finale that it was David’s firm who took the know-how and made it right into a weapon, making him answerable for the deaths.
Matteo stays levelheaded all through the episode, leaving the retreat with girlfriend Victoria. He and Imogen are additionally now associates.
Victoria

Christine Baranski and Annie Murphy. Disney/Reiner Bajo
After studying that David’s firm created the good bomb/missile that killed Matteo’s dad and mom, Victoria places collectively her personal items. She realizes that her late husband was “exploited” by David for his brilliance which led to his know-how getting used to homicide innocents. That guilt in the end resulted in her husband taking his life.
At season’s finish, Victoria and her daughter, Imogen (Annie Murphy), are lastly in a great place. Imogen guarantees to go to in just a few weeks and Victoria, who’s battling ALS, leaves with boyfriend and caretaker, Matteo.
Imogen

Annie Murphy. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Whereas Victoria tries to defend her daughter from the reality, it doesn’t take lengthy for her to attach the dots. Imogen punches David sq. within the face, blaming him for her father’s suicide.
Whereas Imogen doesn’t like David, she remains to be keen on his son, Peter (Henry Golding), whom she slept with earlier within the retreat. As Imogen and Peter half methods, they share their emotions for each other and resolve it’s not goodbye. (Regardless that they reside on separate continents.)
Wolfie

Maisie Richardson-Sellers. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Masha discovers that one in all David’s charities, Sign Op, determined to drag scholarships to younger musicians, one in all which was Wolfie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), after a change in state tax regulation left them and not using a tax write-off.
“Everybody in the entire program needed to drop out,” Wolfie says. David argues he has nothing to do with what charities they fund — and blames the system for Wolfie’s desires being blown up.
When the experiment ends, Wolfie breaks up with Tina (King Princess) regardless of initially coming to the retreat to assist her recover from her concern of enjoying piano.
Tina

King Princess. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Technically David didn’t unsuitable Tina, however defunding Wolfie’s scholarship led to her girlfriend’s monetary hardships. Tina was solely a part of the expertise due to Wolfie.
Earlier than leaving Zauberwald, Tina and Wolfie break up. Though she’s unhappy, Tina begins to play piano once more, seemingly curing herself of the ailment she had upon arrival. Tina and Masha even have a heart-to-heart about her journey and the way proficient she is as a performer in a surprisingly candy second.
Peter

Henry Golding. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Peter got here on the retreat to bond along with his father, whom he claims deserted him and by no means made time to be current amid his globe-trotting, empire-building life. Whereas the pair do have just a few highs, Peter agrees with the remainder of the group that David must dismantle his weapons’ work. Peter additionally calls his dad a narcissist and claims he’s pretending to really feel regret.
Peter leaves the retreat at odds along with his dad — however in the identical automotive. He’s in an excellent higher place with Imogen. Peter guarantees to ship his household’s non-public jet to get her from New York anytime she desires to go to him in London.
Martin

Lucas Englander. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Regardless that Martin goes off the deep finish whereas on a nasty journey and shoots Masha, the 2 make amends earlier than seasons’ finish. Masha offers Martin the retreat, which was his birthright, and tells him she believes he can run it with out her.
David

Mark Sturdy. Disney/Reiner Bajo
Whereas getting grilled by the retreaters, David claims he loves his son, Peter, “with all my coronary heart,” and tells everybody he’ll do higher. Nonetheless, as soon as Masha wakes up following the capturing he tells her desires to rethink working collectively — and the thought of stopping his weapons division.
Masha lets him depart the retreat however then leaks a video recording of him promising to cease making bombs to the media. One month later, David makes good on the promise and will get out of weapon manufacturing.
He later reveals his internet value has gone down $1 billion however he nonetheless desires to be concerned with Masha’s journey of psychedelics. Masha declines his supply, however he threatens to blackmail her with movies from the retreat that present her negligence. In response, she agrees to enter enterprise with him, they usually kiss.
Masha

Nicole Kidman. Disney/Reiner Bajo
After getting shot, Masha sees her late daughter, Tatiana (Emílie Páclová), and realizes she has to let her go to lastly transfer ahead. Tatiana says, “Goodbye mommy,” and Masha wakes up on the retreat. The subsequent morning, Masha accepts Martin’s apology for capturing her.
She then releases a video of David so he has to cease making bombs and eventually take accountability for his actions. The next month, Masha agrees to satisfy David at a McDonalds — a nod to their one-night stand in Prague — and he blackmails her into working with him.
Masha teases that he’ll be “caught” along with her now, particularly as a result of they’re “household.” She reluctantly agrees to the deal and playfully says, “I do,” earlier than kissing David.