Bodkin Ending Explained: What Really Happened to the 3 Missing Characters
A mystery is only as great as its end, and Bodkin’s ending is a finale worth watching. But if you can’t wait to make it to Episode 7, don’t worry because we explain Bodkin‘s ending ahead and reveal exactly what happened to Fiona, Malachy, and more characters that spurred Netflix’s next big great mystery.
Bodkin is Netflix’s thriller series following three journalists — Gilbert, a successful podcaster from Americ; Dove, an investigative journalist from London; and Emmy, Gilbert’s podcast assistant — as they investigate a cold-case mystery about three people who went missing on the Festival of Samhain in a small Irish town named Bodkin decades prior. The three people who went missing were Fiona, a local school teacher; Malachy, the brother of a local man named Seamus; and an unidentified boy.
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So how does Bodkin end and what happened to Fiona and Malachy? Read on for Bodkin‘s ending explained and the twists that led Gilbert, Emmy, and Dove to discover the truth about what happened on the night of the Festival of Samhain so many years ago.
Bodkin ending explained
Bodkin ended with Gilbert, Dove, and Emmy learning what really happened to Fiona and Malachy. (It was revealed earlier in the season that the third missing character, an unidentified boy, was Teddy, the now-adult son of Sergeant Power.) In the Bodkin finale, Gilbert, Dove, and Emmy learn that Sean—Gilbert, Dove, and Emmy’s driver—is Fiona’s secret son with antagonist Seamus, who Mrs. Oshea, the owner of the home Gilbert, Dove, and Emmy stay in, adopted as a promise to Fiona, claiming that Sean was an adoptee from Romania.
In Episode 6, Bodkin revealed that Fiona died during childbirth and was buried on the grounds of the convent that Mrs. Oshea was a nun at. Mrs. Oshea also reveals in the finale that she’s the one who burned Sean’s car and set Seamus’ boat on fire in hopes that it would scare off the podcasters, so Seamus would never learn that he was Sean’s father.
Though Gilbert gives Mrs. Oshea his word that Seamus will never learn that Sean is his son, Gilbert later revealed the news to Seamus and told him that Mrs. Oshea faked Sean’s adoption from Romania. “I thought he was a f—ing idiot,” says Seamus, who’s spent most of Bodkin trying to kill Sean for his disagreement in his illegal eel trafficking scheme. “But he’s not… he’s my boy.”
As for Malachy, Seamus’ brother, it was also revealed that Teddy killed Malachy with a brick after they got into a fight over Fiona. Sergeant Power, Teddy’s father, helped his son get rid of Malachy’s body but while driving on the way to do so, he hit and killed a woman named Greta. He put her body into the trunk of his car and drove it in the lake, only to be found years later by the podcasters. The episode continues with Seamus telling Sean the truth about who his parents are before pointing a gun at Mrs. Oshea for lying to them for all these years. Just as Seamus is about to shoot her, Sean steps in front of Mrs. Oshea, causing Seamus to shoot of Sean’s thumb. In the chaos, the Interpol arrive to arrest Seamus for his illegal eel trafficking scheme, which leads Seamus to escape by taking Gilbert hostage.
Seamus takes Gilbert to a cage filled with explosives that he rigs up and leaves Gilbert to die. Before the explosions go off, however, Emmy and Dove find Gilbert when they hear his podcast recordings playing out in the cave. While Emmy frees Gilbert and also tries to get people celebrating the Festival of Samhain off the hill where the cave is about to explode, Dove follows Seamus and stabs the inflatable raft he planned to use to escape. Though she tries to convince Seamus to not set off the bomb, Seamus presses the detonator anyways and blows up the hill. Thankfully, Emmy was able to get everybody away safely, and Gilbert also survives.
Bodkin ends with Gilbert throwing his recorder into the water and deciding not to release the podcast on Bodkin. Emmy, for her part, interviews for a job with Dove’s boss on the special investigations desk. Dove’s story ends with her visiting the nunnery where she was raised after her mother’s heroin addiction left her without parents. A nun asks how long Dove plans to stay and reveals that she’s working on a new story about the nunnery itsself. “And people will listen to it, will they?” the nun asks, to which Dove responds, “If we can’t change the things that have happened, maybe we can change the story we tell.”
Bodkin is available to stream on Netflix.
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