What To Know
- Angelo has kept the two parts of his life, his family and his hitman side, separate, but his best friend in the latter, Dutch, may have become privy to the former.
- Memory of a Killer returns for Season 2 in 2027.
Fox announced its fall premiere dates, and while Memory of a Killer Season 2 isn’t among them — it’s back in the midseason — it’s certainly on our minds, especially after the way the finale ended. Not only has Angelo’s (Patrick Dempsey) daughter, Maria (Odeya Rush), been alerted to her dad’s double life (as a suburban father and hitman), but his best friend and the one who gives him the hits to carry out, Dutch (Michael Imperioli), may also know about his other side … the exact part that he’s been trying to keep secret (and safe).
Throughout Season 1, Dutch’s nephew Joe (Richard Harmon) shadowed and learned from Angelo. In the finale, he heard about Angelo’s family during his conversation with Grant (Gina Torres) and was willing to sacrifice himself as a result. Joe survived but landed in the hospital, and while still out of it and recovering, he mentioned a “daughter” to Dutch. When Dutch broached the subject with him, Angelo played it off. Up until this point, Angelo has made sure that no one from the hitman side of his life, except for his brother, knows about his family.
Now, it’s unclear if that remains the case or if Dutch at least suspects, and it was “intentionally left a little bit unclear,” co-showrunner Aaron Zelman told TV Insider after the finale. He called that “very consistent with the dynamic between those two. There’s always a little bit of, ‘Can I trust you completely? Are you holding something back from me? Is there something you need to tell me that you’re not telling me?’ It’s all part of that dynamic that will continue in Season 2.”
While the Angelo of Season 1 didn’t see a world in which he told Dutch about his family, going forward, with the other man seemingly having “an inkling … Angelo may decide that it’s best to get ahead of it and tell him,” Zelman admitted.
If Dutch does know about his family, “it becomes a liability,” Dempsey told us. “It becomes a vulnerability. That would be Angelo’s thinking, whether Dutch feels the same way, because there is this sort of emphasis on family. You have your immediate blood family, and then you have your work family and your childhood family and all of that.”
It’s easy to imagine the second season starting with Dutch digging into Angelo behind his back and discovering he has a family, all building to either the hitman deciding to fill his friend in — perhaps after a conversation with Maria — or a confrontation during which it comes out in the heat of the moment. While Dutch did prove to Angelo that he could be trusted to help protect his family in the penultimate episode, helping when Angelo’s brother was targeted, it’s understandable, given their line of work and who Dutch is, that the sometimes-just-a-suburban father is hesitant to possibly open up his daughter — and now grandchild — to any sort of danger.
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Memory of a Killer, Season 2, 2027, Fox