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Nick Wechsler as Oliver Odell in “The Hunting Party.”David Astorga\/NBC<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing that we sort of faced was creatively, it was hard to involve [Oliver] in the field and to find stories that felt like it really serviced what we wanted to do with the character and with Bex,\u201d Bailey explained. His fellow executive producer Jake Coburn also weighed in on the decision. <\/p>\n
\u201cI would say that I think the character [of Oliver], he was so intricately tied to [Bex\u2019s] past, and at a certain point, we processed a lot of that story and emotion. And it felt like going forward, we were more looking in terms of the characters that were going to be part of her future story, and felt like we\u2019d squeezed all the juice from the relationship that we could,\u201d Coburn said.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/b>HBO renews beloved series before next season even airs<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Hunting Party\u201d follows Bex, a former FBI profiler who resumes the job after a secret underground prison called The Pit explodes, releasing the nation\u2019s most dangerous serial killers back into society. Roxburgh, who plays Bex, didn\u2019t know Wechsler would be written off the show when they filmed the dramatic season 1 finale.<\/p>\n \u201c[It was] left on a cliffhanger, so I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, maybe there\u2019s hope that he\u2019s not dead.\u2019 Because the Bex-Odell storyline, I feel like it needed something; it needed closure,\u201d Roxburgh told TVLine. \u201cSo, I was really hoping [he\u2019d live]. But you know what? It\u2019s a great plot twist, I think, that coming into season 2 and finding out that the cliffhanger \u2026 audiences will be more inclined to tune in because I think that they weren\u2019t expecting that.\u201d<\/p>\n During season 2, Bex reassembles her team to continue hunting the escaped serial killers. The mysterious Eve Lazarus (Kari Matchett), who was a former Pit inmate, is now the team leader. Roxburgh told Collider<\/a> that Bex and her teammates are \u201calways going to be suspicious\u201d of Lazarus, whose backstory remains a mystery. <\/p>\n