Hunters season 1, episode 4 recap: The Pious Thieves

Jonah rejoins the Hunt to avenge his best friend’s murder as the Hunters plan a heist to access a safe deposit box belonging to the Nazis on Hunters.

This is how the theft of a ring, a valuable family heirloom handed down from mother to son and given in love to a woman, is also the theft of a peoples’ birthright and history on Hunters. A beautiful and tragic love story ensues, in which a man falls in love with a woman he meets in Auschwitz. They carry on a secret love affair expressed through notes and hidden gifts. They make plans to escape together. The man asks the woman to marry him and means to give her his mother’s ring, but he is shot in the escape and the ring is taken by the Nazis. No one will ever know their story or what the ring meant to them.

Offerman pays a visit to the Zurich Internation World Bank where he meets with founder Frederic Hauser (the magnificent John Noble) himself. They interact cordially as Hauser hints at the bank’s ability to keep the existence of money and personal valuables secret from those that would like to account for them. The bank was built on the back of a genocide, financed with stolen Jewish loot. So what else is the bank hiding for the Nazis?

Jonah and Carol give their statement about Booty’s death to the police, but Jonah lies and says he couldn’t see who killed him because it was too dark. He doesn’t think the police are capable of finding the murderer and Jonah wants personal payback. Just when he thought he was out of the Hunt, he gets dragged back in.

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Offerman, of course, takes Jonah in, against the objections of the rest of the Hunters. He’s likely to put the Hunt at risk, but Offerman has made it his duty to protect him. He tries to tell Jonah that personal payback is not the same as justice, that his revenge is not what the Hunt is all about. But he can’t have Jonah running off half-cocked and alone, so he lets him back on the team.

Travis waits for Jonah in his home, looking at photographs and practicing his smile. This guy is truly a psychopath. But it’s Morris who turns up first looking to talk to Jonah about Ruth and Richter’s murder. With Jonah away from home, Carol and Cheeks approach Morris and tell her about Booty’s murder. The deaths just keep stacking up and Morris doesn’t think it’s a coincidence.

She finds Jonah at Offerman’s and asks him about Ruth’s murder. She knows Jonah went after the person who killed her and she asks Jonah to come clean. He can still do the right thing. Jonah asks why the good guys always have to choose to do the right thing. But Morris can’t prove anything and Jonah doesn’t give anything away. Before she leaves, she tells Jonah that doing the right thing is what makes them the good guys.

Morris tracks down a journalist named Danny Rohr who did a few puff pieces on Offerman and then lost his job at the New York Times. He looks pretty down and out, but Morris asks him to tell her everything he knows about Offerman. She has a hunch that he’s more deeply involved in this mystery than he’s saying.

Jonah joins Harriet on stakeout duty at the bank and she tells him the story of how Ruth made a grave impression of Wilhelm Zuchs aka The Wolf while she was at Auschwitz. He saw her bravery and defiance when she put herself at risk to save that girl. So he offered her a cushy position as his personal secretary just to be near her, but she turned him down. He did not take this well, so he took his anger out on Offerman, the man Ruth loved. If Harriet knows the rest of the story, she leaves it up to Offerman to confide in Jonah.

Meanwhile, Mindy visits the bank and discovers that the public safe deposit boxes only go up to 600 and the Nazi deposit box is 630. So where are the rest of the boxes? Harriet is able to get a copy of the bank’s blueprints and they begin planning an after-hours heist. There are a few twists and turns and typical heist genre conventions, but in the end they get into the secret safe deposit box room.

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The box is empty, but Jonah discovers a secret passage leading to an undocumented basement filled with stolen Jewish valuables, including the heirloom ring whose owner’s story is lost to history. They didn’t uncover any information about the Nazi plot, but they blackmail Frederic Hauser into revealing who owns box 630. Oskar Hauptman, a sadistic Nazi doctor who faked his death 30 years ago, is the owner of the box. With his crimes uncovered and the threat of the Nazis hanging over him, Hauser commits suicide.

The Nazis’ plans are threatened when Biff persuades the secretary of commerce to table the South American trade bill, just to prove how essential he is to the Colonel and the Nazi party. He says they’d never be where they are without him and that they shouldn’t underestimate him.

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