Hunters season 1, episode 6 recap: Ruth 1:16

In the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on Offerman, the Hunters continue their search for the Ghost while Mindy and Murray’s daughter gets married.

While Harriet drives Moritz Ehrlich away from the party that became a murder scene, she thinks back to when she was forced to leave her father during the war on Hunters. She was one of the children evacuated from Germany and relocated to England.

Meanwhile, the Hunters believe that Harriet has betrayed them and that her actions are related to the car bomb meant for Offerman. As the Hunters hide out at Murray and Mindy’s, Offerman stitches up a cut on Jonah’s arm. Even in all this chaos, with a war practically at their doorstep, Offerman insists that Jonah stay back to attend the wedding of Murray and Mindy’s daughter.

The Hunt is as much about life as it is about death. “It is a great tragedy to me not to celebrate the things we do have,” says Offerman. Jonah is incredulous and impatient, feeling like they’re wasting precious time, but Offerman is insistent. Jonah stays for the wedding and will recite a traditional prayer.

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Joe meets with an old army friend who was the victim of experiments at Edgewood. The whole thing is classified so he’s hoping his buddy can provide the name of the director of medicine who ran the experiments, but his friend is practically catatonic from whatever was done to him. He can’t communicate verbally, but he can draw. He’s able to write the doctor’s name for him: Timothy Randall is the Ghost.

Lonny meets up with his own contact to have the mysterious book translated. It’s a reprinting of an old sci-fi novel called Vril, in which a master race that lives underground plans a revolution to take over the entire world. Sounds like something the Nazis would love. The original Vril was taken as inspiration by the Nazis, but this version has been updated with instructions, a manual for the coming race. A Fourth Reich.

Jonah finds time to meet up with Cheeks, offer an apology, and explain the whole Nazi Hunter thing to him. At the wedding, Jonah struggles with the traditional prayer so makes a genuine speech of his own and recites a prayer he often heard Ruth say. It is beautiful and he finally understands what Offerman meant about the importance of celebrating life and honoring their rituals in the face of defeat. He also finds out that Offerman is probably his grandfather, but he doesn’t end up having time to look into that.

Amy’s wedding brings up memories for Murray and Mindy of their lost son Aaron. When they were all transported to the camps and the Nazis wanted to separate them for processing, Murray and Mindy knew better than to let Aaron out of their sight. Unfortunately, the Nazis became impatient with the delay the argument was causing and shot Aaron rather than make the exception. The man who killed their son was Moritz Ehrlich.

It turns out that Harriet remembered the name from their story and her supposed betrayal was so she could bring Ehrlich directly to Murray and Mindy as a sort of wedding gift.

Morris meets with Danny Rohr again to get him to connect her with his contact. When she didn’t come back from the bathroom the other night he thought she skipped out on him, but it really just took her an hour to get up off the floor after getting beat up. Danny sets up a meeting for her, but he’s done with her after that.

Danny’s contact confirms everything Morris has been told, that there are thousands of Nazis living in America and that they were all brought in secretly by the United States government to staff their science and military programs. It’s messed up, but true. It was called Operation Paperclip. Unfortunately, the contact won’t risk his life on the chance that any files lead back to him, so Morris still doesn’t have any proof.

Morris takes her story to her boss at the FBI. It sounds crazy, but he believes her. But he takes her off the case because he believes her and thinks she’s in over her head. Heck, he thinks it’s probably above his paygrade. Morris is properly scared, so she goes home and breaks up with Maria to keep her safe.

Understandably, Biff’s flip flop on the South American trade bill annoys the Secretary of Commerce, who went out of her way for him to convince President Carter to put a hold on the bill. When he asks her to flip on her own position that he talked her into in the first place, she refuses. Now when they sit down to a meeting with the President, Biff can throw her under the bus without having his name associated with any kind of indecision. He makes a moving speech that convinces Carter to lift the sanctions.

Offerman returns home after the wedding to find that the Ark has been set on fire. Travis and Tobias broke in and destroyed the Hunters’ archive. He’s able to put the fire out, but it doesn’t look like much is salvageable.

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