The Terminal List Dark Wolf Finale Shock Confirms Chris Pratt’s Return and Exposes Ben’s Fate
After a twist-heavy penultimate hour, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf signs off with a propulsive finale that trades shock for payoff—confirming Chris Pratt’s return, settling Ben’s fate, and snapping the story back into the timeline that launched the franchise.
Dark Wolf closes the loop the way prequels usually do: with plenty of momentum and not a ton of shock. The real jaw-droppers were in episode 7; episode 8 is the cleanup crew and the handoff to The Terminal List proper. Still, it moves, and yes, Chris Pratt shows up.
Major spoilers ahead.
Three months later: where everything stands
We pick up a quarter-year after the penultimate episode blew things open. The situation is... messy, but strategic.
- Haverford is out in the wind, not behind bars.
- Cyrus Rahimi is climbing the ladder toward becoming Iran's foreign minister.
- Ben Edwards' team is under the microscope for allegedly arming Iran with nuclear weapons.
- Ben is off-grid in the woods, solo and digging in.
The siege in the trees and the Pratt of it all
Ben's quiet exile gets loud fast. He fights off wave after wave of attackers, the kind of stacked body-count sequence that feels ripped from a John Wick or Rambo playbook. Just when it looks untenable, James Reece arrives in the flesh. Chris Pratt is back, guns up, to swing the tide.
Why is Reece there? Mo called him. Simple, clean, and very 'this is a prequel' energy.
Ben's revenge run, Haverford's endgame
With Reece reintroduced, the show pivots to Ben's to-do list. He rolls with Mo, Landry, and Tal to settle scores and reach the real target: Haverford. When Ben finally corners him, Haverford lays out the plan he's been steering toward: trigger a full-scale nuclear war as revenge because the U.S. refused to take action against Iran.
Ben doesn't pull the trigger. He has Haverford arrested instead. It's the more strategic play, and it lines up with where we know Ben's headed.
The handoff to The Terminal List
After Haverford is in custody, Ben signs on with the CIA. That's the bridge right into The Terminal List timeline, which, yes, already aired. Dark Wolf closes by slotting Ben exactly where he needs to be for the main series.
All episodes of The Terminal List: Dark Wolf are now streaming on Prime Video.