‘Scarpetta’ Boss Unpacks That Cyclic Finale Cliffhanger and What It Means for Season 2

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season one finale of Scarpetta , “Bridge of Time, Part Two.”] Dr. Kay Scarpetta ( Nicole Kidman ) has just become the kind of cold-blooded killer that she has spent her entire life trying to bring to justice. In Prime Video’s adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling crime novels, Kay returns to the Commonwealth of Virginia to reassume the role of Chief Medical Examiner, the same office she had once occupied in her early 30s. Ambitiously told across two timelines, the eight-episode first season , adapting Cornwell’s Postmortem and Autopsy , finds Kay investigating a new female-targeting serial killer while wrestling with the guilt over a big secret that cast a dark cloud over her first major case with a similar MO decades earlier. ( Kidman plays the protagonist in the present day, while Rosy McEwen plays her in the late ’90s .) Related Stories TV Rosy McEwen on Her Alluring Role Playing a Young Nicole Kidman in 'Scarpetta' TV 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' Review: Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer Sparkle in Apple's Endearingly Offbeat Family Dramedy The seventh episode finally reveals the dark secret that has bonded Kay with her detective brother-in-law Pete Marino (played by Bobby Cannavale in the present day, and Cannavale’s real-life son Jacob Lumet in the past). In the ’90s, Kay correctly deduced that the elusive serial killer was Roy McCorckle, a 9-1-1 dispatcher who had answered all of the calls of his future female murder victims. Without any back-up, Kay went to visit Roy’s home, where she found a screaming woman gagged and bound on his bed. In the ensuing confrontation, Roy attempted to strangle Kay to death, but she managed to kill him in self-defense. However, before any ...