Liev Schreiber’s titular brute figuratively and quite literally buried the past in Ray Donovan‘s brutal, bloody Season 7 finale. When the dust settled, multiple characters — including at least one series regular — were left for dead.
The episode largely centered on Ray learning that his late sister Bridget was pregnant when she took her own life as a teenager some three decades ago. Ray also pieced together that the pregnancy was a byproduct of her being raped by Jim Sullivan, a discovery that forced him to confront his own complicity in her death, doomed his present-day romance with Jim’s daughter, Molly, and teed up the climactic murder of Jim himself at Ray’s hands. In the episode’s final frame, Ghost Bridget briefly pays her older brother a visit as he’s burying Jim’s corpse, symbolically closing this unresolved chapter of the series’ canon ahead of what is expected to be the Showtime series’ eighth and final season.
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Elsewhere in “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” which was co-written by showrunner David Hollander and Schreiber and directed by Hollander:
* Detective Perry agreed to release Bridget from custody after Ray saved her and Judge Scholl’s lives from Mayor Ferrati’s thugs. While Ferrati appears to be headed to prison for a long time, the police corruption piece of this storyline — and the role Perry’s boss played in it — remains very much unresolved ahead of a potential eighth season.
* As he was frequently warned, Smitty paid the ultimate price for climbing into bed with the Donovan clan: Bridget’s clueless hubby was (presumably?) slaughtered in an episode-ending gun battle involving Daryl, Bunchy, Mickey and the Sullivan brothers. I say “presumably” because, well, you never know with this show. Regardless, it’s probably safe to assume Bridget will not be moving back to L.A. anytime soon.
* In the wake of the suicide death of his new cancer-stricken BFF Dolores, Terry appeared to be thisclose to following her lead. Ultimately, he paid a visit to the Empire State Building’s observation deck to take in the view vs. his own life.
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