WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Black Doves season 1.
Keira Knightley’s Netflix espionage seriesBlack Doveshints at Helen Webb’s true origin story before joining the Black Doves. Created by Joe Barton (The Lazarus Project,Giri/Haji),Black Doveshas opened to outstanding reviews, earning aperfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic scoreupon itsDecember 5, 2024 release date. Knightley (Atonement,Pirates of the Caribbean) leadsthe cast ofBlack Dovesalong with Ben Whishaw, who is best known for playing Q in Daniel Craig’s final three James Bond movies.
Black Dovesfollows Knightley’s Helen Webb, the loving and supportive wife of Andrew Buchan’s Wallace Webb, a prominent British politician. Webb is also a secret agent working for the mysterious covert spy organization known as the Black Doves, which Mrs. Reed is the head of.Black Dovesalso features a stellar supporting cast, including Sarah Lancashire’s Reed, Kathryn Hunter’s Lenny, Ella Lily Hyland’s Williams, and Omari Douglas’s Michael.
Netflix has already confirmed thatBlack Doveswill return for season 2.
Helen Implies That Her Stepfather Killed Her Mother
Black Dovesepisode 2 “A Little Black Dove” opens with a flashback scene from 2014 of Knightley’s protagonist interviewing for a translator job at a prestigious corporate firm.Helen Webb identifies herself under a different name, Daisy Bradshaw, but her interviewer knows more about Helen/Daisy than she had anticipated, including her personal family information. The interviewer reveals that Helen’s mother had died and that Helen has a stepsister who is serving a life sentence in prison.
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The interviewer dives deeper into Helen’s background and suspicious family dynamics after pointing out that she rejected an acceptance offer to Cambridge University and left the country for ten years. Helen is confronted about a woman named Bonnie Weir, who is her stepsister. Bonnie has been in prison since 2004 for killing her biological father – the same man who is implied to have killed Helen’s mother. Without overtly saying it, the interviewer implies thatHelen may have had something to do with the death of Bonnie’s dad.
Black Doves Hints Helen & Bonnie Killed Her Stepfather Together
Bonnie got caught while Helen left the country for 10 years
Bonnie went to jail after Helen’s stepfather, her father, was killed.Helen left the country for ten years after his death, which raises the suspicions of the interviewer. A plausible series of events was that Helen’s stepfather killed her mother and Helen teamed up with Bonnie to avenge her by killing Bonnie’s dad. Alternatively, Bonnie could have not been in on her father’s murder and instead was framed by Helen, who likely killed him herself and fled. Because there’s such limited information about Helen’s family inBlack Doves, it’s unclear exactly what went down between her and Bonnie other than the fact that Bonnie is in prison for life while Helen lives a posh double life as a secret agent.
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Black Doves is a suspenseful thriller released in December 2024. It follows a spy masquerading as a politician’s wife who, after discovering her lover’s murder, joins forces with an old assassin associate to uncover the truth and seek revenge.
