The end of the first season of 'Ballard' said: So was the serial killer ___? (And wait, Ballard was arrested?!?)

The rapid first season of Ballard kept the television universe of determined by Bosch And Bosch: Legacy hum. Drive from your introduction next to Titus Wellivers Harry Bosch in the legacy Finale and inspired by the adventures of the characters on the page – Michael Connelly, author of the original books, is also an executive producer of this small screen universe – Renée Ballard was brought to life by Maggie Q, who plays the experienced lapd detective with a lot of stoicism, but also a lot of sympathy for the Victims of the Cold Cases in which she works.

In the first season of the show, Ballard and her team of volunteers examined the unresolved murder of the sister of the city council in La Stadtrat and determined the name and place of a John Doe, which last a crying baby. But these cold cases among the hundreds submitted in the basement of the forgotten police department, in which Ballard and their teamwork will soon be coiling in surprising and dangerous directions.

While the culture of the LAPD -Messing and the internal boys club culture underfigured their cold case and did not respect their professional and personal surviving sexual attacks in the workplace, the department completely gave the department for a serial killer at work in the city. Ballard was to follow the evidence and determine his identity -a real TV -twist shocker -while she processed her own trauma and, oh yes, discovered a group of police officers in the league with a violent Mexican drug cartel.

So who was the serial killer in Ballard? How did the cop corruption she discovered to Connect to Ballard's own attack? And how did the season suddenly end in handcuffs with Detective Ballard? Decider has all their answers in it Ballard Season 1: End explained.

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Who was the serial killer in season 1 of Ballard?

When City Councilor Jake Pearlman (Noah Bean) promised to finance the LAPD's Cold Case Unit, it was with a personal restriction: that the murder of his younger sister Sarah from 2001, who was killed at home in her bedroom, was solved first. In dealing with Detective Ballard, Pearlman and his staff toads seem to have more and more to do with optics and political dynamics than their actual investigation. But Ballard and her team took it intensively, and soon her office shitboard jumped up. Not only with potential suspects, but also with a series of murders associated with Sarah's similar MO. Ballard almost couldn't believe what a box had revealed loose clues. “We could have a serial killer in our hands.”

Together with Thomas Laffont (John Carroll Lynch), her first partner, in her previous position at LAPD Raubheimizide, Voluntary Officers Zamira Parker (Courtney Taylor) and Ted Rawls (Michael Mosley), researcher Colleen Hatteras (Rebecca Field) and Gen-Z internship Martina Castro (Victoria Moroles), Ballard (Rebecca field) and balls (balls), ballard balls (balls), ballard balls (balls). Everyone was women, but they did not share similarities with age, ethnicity or appearance. Finally and usually when Detective Ballard followed a new surfboard on her sweet beach pad in Malibu in her sweet beach pad in Malibu, Detective Ballard presented the poisonous thinking that was wearing the murderer. All of his victims were women who advanced in their life and career. “What if our murderer punishes these women to have stepped out of their place?”

Punished because he was brought out of her perceived place? Renée Ballard met home, whose own downgrading from RHD came to cold cases after Robert Olivas (Ricardo Chavira), her colleague with robberies, the detective of robberies, officially accused, was accused due to attempted sexual assault.

Ballard and the team typical for a police procedure by twists and turns. They found a witness, Naomi Bennett (Michola Briana White), the only survivor of the serial killer attacks. And Naomi's reconstructed memories together with another DNA analysis of the evidence fell a kind of “only bomb on television”: It was the city council Jake Pearlman's own father, Gary Pearlman (Kevin Dunn), who was hidden in sight as a serial killer. Gary murdered women because he saw how they reached their career goals and became financially independent. He murdered Sarah, his own daughter, because she confronted him with his marriage of his marital infidelity. Sarah had found the memorabilia that he had kept from each victim – a few paragraphs, a tube lipstick. But the turn continued: Sarah wasn't even Gary's biological daughter because he really had an affair.

On the run before the law, Gary Pearlman hid in a dark corner of the Cold Case Unit headquarters on Detective Ballard. And he would have killed the woman responsible, who finally revealed his decades of poisonous murder if she hadn't smashed every bone in her hand with a kettlebell.

What about Olivas and the case of police corruption?

Speaking of toxicity, we knew that between Ballard and Detective Olivas in Episode 1 of the series between Ballard and Detective Olivas was going on when she closed his show boating in the Cold Case Unit. Buried that? Yes, age, sure. “I plan to bury it if you ward off your damn one.”

While Ballard worked through the trauma of Olivas to attack her just so that he would retain his RHD service and himself skated the prospect of accountability, she also learned that he attacked Zamira Parker. And Parker's sexual assault, paired with months of gas light through Olivas, led her to leave the strength, even after Detective had done with RHD.

Zamira Parker formed a bond with Renée Ballard as an intelligent, telandeshly volunteer officer of the Cold Case Unit and by sharing her personal trauma. But they also returned to Olivas and got away with his bullshit. “You are a monster,” said Parker in Episode 6 after accusing him directly of rape. “You hide it well, but I see you.” A powerful line made all the more frustrating when Olivas didn't even deny his monstness.

All in all, it wasn't exactly shocking when Robert Olivas was an even bigger piece of shit. The rape detective was also a dirty policeman who was deeply connected to the cops and cartels. When Harry Bosch makes one of him Ballard Cameo drop-ins, showed Ballard what he had found, everything she could do was a stew. Olivas, bad everywhere, just walked around here. “You have to kid me.”

Exposed to the sound investigation by Ballard and her team and with the support of Bosch, Olivas was finally arrested for his role in the corruption ring. But when the case went to the office of the da, another Bosch Universum cameo came because of Ballard's frustrations. District Prosecutor Honey “Money” Chandler (Mimi Rogers) informed the detective that she let Olivas be free after he had agreed to spill inner information. When an almost annoyed Ballard Olivas confronted his house, he mocked all arrogance behind his patronizing smile. “You think the world is fair. But it's just not.”

Ok, that's really shit. But why was Detective Ballard arrested?

Season 1 of Ballard ends with a nightly hanging in Malibus Paradise Cove, disturbed by lights and sirens. It is not the case that the series showed us that Ballard shot Olivas even though she pulled him on him when he grabbed her during her argument. Nevertheless, a black and white lapd comes to prison because of the murder of Robert Olivas.

It is a fairly large cliffhanger for the title character of a series to complete your first season in cuffs. And neither determined nor Maggie Q itself – “shows are so unnecessary” – knows whether Ballard Season 2 even happens. But the entertaining first season of Ballard Together with a team about his independently parked detective, a team that now has to spend their leader from the Hoosegow while they approach more of the many cold cases of the LAPD.

Johnny Loftus (@johnnyloftus.bsky.social) is a writer based in Chicago. As the veteran of alternative weekly trenches, his work also performed in Entertainment Weekly, PitchFork, The All Music Guide and The Village Voice.