Untamed Ending Explained: Who Really Killed Lucy Cook?
Untamed, set in the Yosemite National Park, stars Eric Bana in a key role.
Untamed, starring Eric Bana, premiered on Netflix on July 17. The murder mystery drama concluded with a shocking twist that revealed that Lucy Cook's death wasn't a murder, but a tragic sequence of events culminating in her own desperate act.
Who killed Lucy Cook?
Before discovering the truth, Untamed features a few red herrings. At first, Kyle Turner (Eric Bana) thinks Lucy's death was mostly caused by her participation in an illegal drug trade. When it turns out to be a dead end, he suspects park's wildlife management officer, Shane Maguire (Wilson Bethel) as the killer but finds him not responsible for Lucy's murder.
After requesting Lucy's parental DNA matches, Turner learns that Paul Souter (Sam Neill), his mentor and head park ranger, is Lucy's biological father. When Turner confronts Souter, he confesses to his affair with Lucy's mother but requests Turner to keep his wife in the dark. As Souter comes clean, he shares that he placed Lucy in a foster home in Nevada after her mother's abusive husband Rory grew violent towards her. But Lucy quickly got away and came back to Yosemite.
Souter didn't see her for a few years until she started extorting money from him by threatening to divulge his secret to his family. As he attempted to pursue her down on El Capitan, Souter fired a warning shot to her knee to scare her but an injured Lucy rushed to the edge and leaped to her death.
Who is Sean Sanderson and how did he die?
In addition to the mystery surrounding Lucy's passing, Turner and his ex-wife Jill are troubled by the mystery behind Sean Sanderson's disappearance. Turner gets to lead the charge on the case. It turns personal for the couple as Sanderson is the man who killed their son Caleb.
While he was arrested in the murder case, Jill didn't want to stuck in the limbo of awaiting a trial so she paid Maguire to kill Sanderson. Turner didn't know about Jill's plan and was shocked when Sanderson went missing. This revelation led to the breakdown of their marriage.
What happens to Turner in the end?
Turner doesn't make a big exit at the end of Untamed. Just a quiet, steady departure from Yosemite, the place that held his pain for so long. He leaves Vasquez the horse he taught her to ride, and for her son Gael, a worn box of Caleb's toy cars. That says more than any goodbye could. When the series began, Turner was lost, broken by grief, hovering at the edge of giving up. But somewhere along the way, something shifted. Being around Vasquez and Gael didn't fix him, but it stirred something he hadn't felt in years: a sense of purpose. Maybe even hope.
He walks away still carrying scars, but also with the strength to face whatever is next. Where is he going? No one says. What matters is he is finally moving forward.
Untamed is now streaming on Netflix.
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July 21, 2025, 19:17 IST
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