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

Crime thrillers have often been formulaic. The cat-and-mouse hunt often ends with the good guys getting the bad guy, and that's certainly what the premise of HBO's Task initially led us to believe. Brad Ingelsby 's series has defied expectations, however, and it's paid off. When the show first set up Mark Ruffalo 's FBI agent Tom Brandis hunting Tom Pelphrey 's Robbie Prendergrast for his role in a series of armed robberies, we believed the story would revolve around those two until the bitter end — but the show's latest episode has changed everything .

HBO's Task has been built around the idea of good people doing bad things. Robbie’s mission was ultimately about avenging his brother Billy's ( Jack

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