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First Kill Season 1 Ending Explained (In Detail)

Warning: SPOILERS for First Kill season 1 ahead.

The First Kill season 1 ending leaves many questions to be answered and a couple of shocking betrayals by central and supporting characters, delivering a satisfying end to the first chapter of the series. Netflix’s mystery horror TV show was released on the streaming platform on June 10, adding to the streaming giant’s supernatural catalog. While it’s unknown if First Kill season 2 will happen, the show ended season 1 with some twists and questions that will need to be answered sooner rather than later, especially for the consequences it set up for some characters to deal with.

Based on a short story by V. E. Schwab that appeared in the anthology series Vampires Never Get Old: Tales With Fresh Bite, First Kill season 1 introduces to a monsters-ridden Savannah Juliette Atwood Fairmont (The Conjuring 3’s Sarah Catherine Hook) and Calliope “Cal” Burns (Imani Lewis), respectively a vampire and vampire hunter. Throughout First Kill season 1, the attraction they feel for each other in the Netflix vampire drama becomes undeniable, and it ends up affecting their daily lives as Juliette and Cal are willing to risk their families’ status to be together. Their relationship suffers a blow as when their families interact, something terrible always happens, especially if Elinor (Gracie Dzienny), Juliette’s older sister, has a hand in it.

The First Kill season 1 ending sets up a potentially much more interesting season 2, especially for the ethical ramifications of some characters’ actions when in a position of difficulty. Elinor’s arrest, Oliver’s secret horde of monsters, and the potential interference of both the Guild and the Legacy Council in Savannah’s messy affairs all spell disaster for the Fairmont and Burns’ families if the show gets renewed. Here’s the First Kill season 1 ending, explained in detail.

Talia’s Betrayal Will Have Major Consequences For The Burns Family

Throughout First Kill season 1, the Guild of Hunters is quite controlling of the Burns family, not showing the trust the group supposedly had in all the hunters of Cal’s family. Even before Cal begins showing an interest in Juliette, they don’t tell the Burns how to deal with Legacy vampires, letting them lead an attack on a mansion full of dangerous vampires who cannot be killed with regular vampire-hunting weapons. Juliette transforming Theo into a vampire to let him not die may not be a moral quandary for most of the Burns, who stop viewing him as a family member and only see a monster after his First Kill season 1 transformation, but Talia’s (Aubin Wise) choice of letting him out and bringing him to Oliver (Dylan McNamara) to let him teach him how to be a vampire will cause friction. Not only will Jack (The Punisher’s Jason R. Moore) not forgive her decision easily, but Talia’s actions may even strain the Burns’ relationship with the Guild more, who doesn’t have any reason to trust them again after Cal and Juliette’s obvious relationship.

Why Does Oliver’s House Have So Many Monsters? What Are His True Intentions?

Oliver’s conflictual story with his family is nebulous at best when he’s first mentioned in First Kill season 1. He often repeats he wants to get his revenge on the Atwood-Fairmonts for how they treated him, shipping him off to Prague years before. He mentions explicitly in First Kill season 1 that he wants vengeance over Elinor for manipulating their parents into believing he was a thoughtless and destructive monster while she was the least empathetic Fairmont sibling. Even after he finally gets his revenge on Elinor, convincing Juliette to give him the keys to their sister’s murder garage, he still decides to stay in Savannah with his partner Carmen (Doom Patrol season 3’s Walnette Marie Santiago). What pokes even more holes in his story is the fact he and Carmen kill and make a zombie out of Ashley Stanton, unleashing panic over Savannah. Oliver and Carmen’s welcome to Theo reveals a horde of monsters safely hidden in their gardens, suggesting that, other than getting revenge on his family, Oliver may even want Savannah to be ruled by chaos.

First Kill Season 2 Will Have To Explore Cal’s Morals

Cal spends the beginning of First Kill season 1 trying to understand Juliette and lure her into a trap in order to get her first kill, which would cement her role as a hunter. She is so certain that vampires are monsters that cannot be reasoned with, leading to Cal and Juliette’s first kiss, where Juliette bites her and Cal impales her. After their dreams connect and they get to know each other, though, Cal starts not to listen to reason even when it’s her brother Apollo (Young Rock’s Dominic Goodman) suggesting his views. Cal becomes certain in a matter of days that Juliette would never hurt her and that she may be a monster, but she’s not a real one.

There was never any gray in how she viewed monsters before in the Netflix drama series, and Cal still sees other monsters as such – so much that when Theo is turned, she doesn’t recognize him. Cal still views monsters as irredeemable by the First Kill season 1 ending, despite spending a good chunk of it believing in Juliette and her strength to fight her hunger for her blood. First Kill season 2 would need to address Cal’s morals, as not only they change every couple of episodes, they also differ from what her mother Talia believes, as she chooses to save Theo from certain death at the hand of her husband, promising a more nuanced season 2 if it were to happen.

Is Elinor The Fairmonts’ Biggest Threat?

Margot (Lost and Once Upon A Time’s Elizabeth Mitchell) is left unfazed by her eldest daughter Elinor’s arrest, despite Elinor’s penchant for draining humans and using her power to confuse their minds making this potentially a dangerous situation for the Netflix drama series to focus in on. Elinor often states her final goal to be power – so to finally become Keeper of the Malkia, she may stay put in jail and not act out – but she is still the biggest threat to the Fairmonts by the time of the First Kill season 1 ending. Ultimately, Oliver ends up upsetting her when he visits her at the police station. Before his visit, Elinor’s belief that her family may save her is unshakable, but after it, it wavers. Because of Elinor’s power and ruthlessness, she could potentially jeopardize the Fairmonts in both their worlds, human and supernatural alike, by either revealing her family’s condition as vampires or killing the entire police department and attracting the humans’ attention to the supernatural world.

First Kill Season 1 Ending Sets Up The Atwood Lineage Losing The Malkia

American Crime Story alum Sarah Catherine Hook’s Juliette may not care about her family’s power games with the Legacy Council, but much of her privilege in the supernatural, vampire filled universe of First Kill comes from the Atwood matriarchy having protected the Malkia serpent for centuries. With Malkia Keeper Davina (Polly Draper) eaten by Sebastian (Will Swenson), and Keeper-in-Waiting Elinor arrested, the only other Keeper-in-Waiting is Margot. As Margot chose to marry Sebastian instead of marrying one from another Legacy family, the whole Legacy Council detests her. Considering the unrest in Savannah caused a Legacy meeting to be called sooner than expected, the Atwood will likely lose the Malkia and their influence with it if a First Kill season 2 were to go ahead.