The Terminal List Season 2 plot reveals and character identities

The second season of the Prime Video series ‘The Terminal List’, based on Jack Carr’s ‘True Believer’, concludes with major revelations regarding the protagonist James Reece’s family and his adversaries. The season finale, titled ‘Parents and Children’, identifies Ivan Zarkov as ‘the Colonel’, a Russian ultranationalist operating a network of espionage and corruption.

Zarkov’s motivations are personal, stemming from the death of his brother, Victor Zarkov, during a 1972 military operation in Vietnam involving James Reece’s father, Thomas Reece. The season’s climax in Odessa, Ukraine, involved a plot to assassinate the Russian president to favor the rise of Vasili Andrenov, Zarkov’s nephew, while simultaneously targeting James Reece.

While Reece survives the events in Ukraine and receives a presidential pardon from the United States, the season leaves several narrative threads open, including the mystery surrounding his father’s death and the future of his medical treatment.