Human Target Season 2 Episode 2 Review The Wife S Tale

2.2 The Wife’s Tale After Chance pretends to be a blind date to get close to the target, Rebecca Brooks (Molly Parker), we are treated to some epic scenes involving the assassin who is hired to kill her. Needless to say, he would give Ezio Auditore a run for his money! The team and Rebecca then try to figure out why her husband was killed and why she’s now a target. This leads to a shootout at the university where Rebecca works, and leads to the best use of a fire extinguisher I think I’ve ever seen. Guerrero and Ames manage to figure out that Rebecca’s husband was blackmailing a company, which is why he was killed. The first season of Human Target was quite light on back story for the most part and this season slowly seems to be addressing that. In this episode we get a direct look at what Chance used to do, something we haven’t seen much of before, and some of the consequences of it. Throughout the episode, we begin to see how much Chance’s past haunts him and the lengths he’ll go to to ease that guilt. The episode also uses the (let’s face it) pretty poor narrative device of Guerrero having broken his glasses to team him up with Ames, as he needs a driver. This does lead to the funniest scenes of the episode, such as when Ames pretends to be Guerrero’s girlfriend to lift a phone from Donnelly and my favourite line: “Want to hear a joke about your brother? The punchline is he drives off a bridge.” Although her inclusion in the episode is a little tenuous, it does lay down the first bricks of an interesting relationship between Guerrero and Ames that could be incredibly amusing, as the characters play off of each other very well. Overall, this was another good episode which has continued the show’s slightly more serious edge this season. We see a bit more of Chance’s history and how it sent him down the road he’s on. It’ll be interesting to see where it leads if they keep this up. With Janet Montgomery (Ames) now added to the permanent cas,t we should also get to see a lot more of her and Guerrero sparring. Hopefully, they can keep up the quality the show has had so far and I look forward to next week’s episode, where Ames promises to take centre stage. Read our review of the season 2 opener, Ilsa Pucci, here. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here.

title: “Human Target Season 2 Episode 2 Review The Wife S Tale” ShowToc: true date: “2025-07-08” author: “Cecilia Hickman”

2.2 The Wife’s Tale After Chance pretends to be a blind date to get close to the target, Rebecca Brooks (Molly Parker), we are treated to some epic scenes involving the assassin who is hired to kill her. Needless to say, he would give Ezio Auditore a run for his money! The team and Rebecca then try to figure out why her husband was killed and why she’s now a target. This leads to a shootout at the university where Rebecca works, and leads to the best use of a fire extinguisher I think I’ve ever seen. Guerrero and Ames manage to figure out that Rebecca’s husband was blackmailing a company, which is why he was killed. The first season of Human Target was quite light on back story for the most part and this season slowly seems to be addressing that. In this episode we get a direct look at what Chance used to do, something we haven’t seen much of before, and some of the consequences of it. Throughout the episode, we begin to see how much Chance’s past haunts him and the lengths he’ll go to to ease that guilt. The episode also uses the (let’s face it) pretty poor narrative device of Guerrero having broken his glasses to team him up with Ames, as he needs a driver. This does lead to the funniest scenes of the episode, such as when Ames pretends to be Guerrero’s girlfriend to lift a phone from Donnelly and my favourite line: “Want to hear a joke about your brother? The punchline is he drives off a bridge.” Although her inclusion in the episode is a little tenuous, it does lay down the first bricks of an interesting relationship between Guerrero and Ames that could be incredibly amusing, as the characters play off of each other very well. Overall, this was another good episode which has continued the show’s slightly more serious edge this season. We see a bit more of Chance’s history and how it sent him down the road he’s on. It’ll be interesting to see where it leads if they keep this up. With Janet Montgomery (Ames) now added to the permanent cas,t we should also get to see a lot more of her and Guerrero sparring. Hopefully, they can keep up the quality the show has had so far and I look forward to next week’s episode, where Ames promises to take centre stage. Read our review of the season 2 opener, Ilsa Pucci, here. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here.