Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Task Episode 6.

It's not an exaggeration to say that all roads have led to this point in Brad Ingelsby 's HBO crime drama Task — although it may have come as a surprise to some viewers when the series chose to put arguably its biggest showdown yet in the penultimate episode, rather than waiting one more week until the finale. The show has already proven that it's willing to break some of television's most long-defined rules , though, by finally bringing FBI agent Tom Brandis ( Mark Ruffalo ) and wayward criminal Robbie Prendergrast ( Tom Pelphrey ) into each other's direct orbit in Episode 5 , so maybe this storytelling decision shouldn't be all that surprising. What proves shocking in this week's hour, titled "Out

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