Black Doves Season 3: What happens next after that Season 2 cliffhanger?

Dubai: Netflix’s British thriller Black Doves is back, and its second season raises the stakes more than ever.

Starring Keira Knightly as Helen Webb and Andrew Buchan as Wallace, the six episode continuation takes the audience into a deeper world of twists, turns and surprising reveals.

 The series initially follows Helen Webb, a spy for a covert organization known as the Black Doves that secretly uncovers and sells secrets to the rich and powerful.

 The first season ended with multiple loose ends, including trying to find the killer of Helen’s lover, Jason, who was killed by someone from the London underworld.

 “I think she’s a worm on a hook this season,” Knightley tells Tudum. “The stakes are getting higher and higher just as she’s at the pinnacle of her career. She’s the most exposed [and] the level of stress that she’s under is just ratcheted up.”

Season 2 begins with the disappearance of Reed. The season continues to follow Helen, as she navigates her position within the Black Doves organization. One of the biggest revelations in the season involves Katia Chernov, who is revealed to be Vita, Reed’s long-lost daughter who spent years plotting against her mother.

The finale reaches its climax during Wallace’s peace summit attacked by kestrel. Helen is caught between protecting her family and carrying out a deadly assignment against Wallace. With Vita’s true identity exposed and the peace summit disturbed, the season ends in violence and betrayal.

When the show was debating on how to end the season, they wanted Webb’s character to have no choice but to kill Wallace. “We were playing around with what the end was going to be for a long time, and it was always about trying to create this situation where you have to make a terrible choice”, says Joe Barton, Executive Producer, while speaking to Tudum.

The biggest talking point is the cliffhanger. The series builds toward Wallace finding out about Helen’s double life, then cuts out just as she’s about to tell him the truth. That leaves a door open for a third season, having Joe Barton confirm that a writer’s room is already open and expressing his enthusiasm for more. “Netflix are really behind it; they’ve said that thing, ‘We’d love to re-commission it'…I’m like, 'No one’s stopping you, you can!' We have a writers room for it,” he said on the Pilot TV podcast.