‘Furious’ Finale: Emmy Rossum and Creator Elizabeth Meriwether on That Final Shot, Who Killed Isabel and How Alice’s Decisions Will Affect Season 2

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Hart Island,” the Season 1 finale of “ Furious ,” now streaming on Hulu.

So what’s the deal with Alice’s little smile at the end of “Furious”? Emmy Rossum ’s pleased expression, as happy as we’ve seen Alice throughout “Furious,” is the final image that she and series creator Elizabeth Meriwether deliver to the audience. Not forever, though: Hulu announced last week that “Furious” has been renewed for Season 2.

The smile is in answer to a question posed by Catherine (Lola Petticrew), the serial killer Alice has hunted all season in her capacity as an FBI agent. Earlier in the season, Catherine gave Alice a pep talk about how wonderful it feels to kill men who prey upon women and girls. Now imprisoned, and having figured out that Alice murdered the Jeffrey Epstein-coded predator Jay Easton (Peter McRobbie), Catherine asks insistently, “I said , did you like the way it felt?”

The Season 1 finale mostly takes place at the Easton estate in Connecticut, after Alice essentially sends Catherine there at the end of the previous episode. Emma Easton (Hope Davis) has put her father, Jay, who’s whining about his predicament, to bed, and plots with FBI special agent Ed George (Danny McCarthy) to destroy all the evidence. Catherine, hellbent on learning who killed her friend Isabel (Larissa Campos), quietly enters the greenhouse to confront Emma, who shoots her. But even injured, Catherine is beginning to remember things. When Alice arrives, Catherine says, “You wanted me to come here because you wanted me to kill him,” to which Alice replies, “We don’t get to decide what someone’s punishment will be.”

That’s when Catherine delivers the monologue that seemingly changes Alice’s mind on that issue, as Catherine describes how she felt when killing the men who enabled their alpha, Jay Easton. “When I’m killing him, it’s like I’m eating him,” Catherine says, as Alice listens intently on the other side of the wall, mirroring her. “Like, I’m swallowing him, like everything he’s ever done is disappearing inside me, and I have all the fucking power in the world, and they don’t want us to have that. They wanna take that from us. But I want you to feel it.”