Target: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Target Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Rogue's Gallery
Sep 15, 1978
A number of art shops have been broken into with paintings stolen to order. Bonney discovers a link to a man called Abbo and curator Jenny Wilder, who has exported paintings from f
A Good and Faithful Woman
Sep 22, 1978
Hackett and team are left in the lurch when Raymond Blake fails show to pick up £100,000 in stolen cash. Blake is met by Charlie Walker and his team who demand an 80% cut. Hackett
Queen's Pardon
Sep 29, 1978
Geoffrey Wyatt wants a Queen's Pardon for his son, who was wrongfully hanged 15 years earlier. He takes MP Jack Sissons hostage with a briefcase of explosives.
Fringe Banking
Oct 13, 1978
Millett Construction are bidding for the M58 contract. Civil servant John McCorquadale is caught in a honey trap but then killed. Hecht buys Millett and Hackett tries to find the m
Promises
Oct 20, 1978
Hackett and DC Aston are guarding informer Heslop prior to giving evidence against target criminal Collyer. Aston is killed by a bomb placed in Heslop's car. Now Heslop has gone on
The Trouble with Charlie
Oct 27, 1978
Hackett bumps into ex-girlfriend Trish Walker at the airport, who's carrying £12,000 of cocaine for Scott Taylor. While out, with Hackett, Taylor's drug deal goes wrong and an inno
Figures of Importance
Nov 3, 1978
Hackett's ex-fiancée Gemma Maskell rings him out of the blue. He's unaware that her husband is threatening her life if she doesn't return to London. The following day, she is dragg
The Run
Nov 10, 1978
A courier arriving from Frankfurt is mugged. He has on him a sample case with pure gold moldings. Hackett believes Billy Jarvis is smuggling gold and using his porn empire has a fr