Criminal Record season 2 finale explained: who dies in "Nobody Dies"?

If you've just finished the episode and need help processing what happened, or if you're midway through the season and don't mind spoilers, here's a full breakdown.

Cosmo's interrogation

The episode picks up right after Cosmo Thompson's arrest in episode 7. June Lenker and Daniel Hegarty interrogate him without legal counsel, since he's being held on suspicion of terrorism. Cosmo plays his usual games — claiming his attack plans were just ideas for online specials, denying knowledge of Marco Rivelli's flat, and pinning the bomb in the woods on Billy.

But Cosmo is, at his core, a performer rather than a soldier. When June and Hegarty lay out the reality — that the van bomb is three times the size of the one in the woods, that it could kill foreign nationals from countries with extradition treaties — Cosmo cracks. He agrees to reveal the details of three simultaneous attacks (a halal street market, a hotel housing asylum seekers, and an immigration centre) in exchange for indefinite immunity from prosecution.

The attacks are stopped — barely

June authorises the deal despite her disgust. Cosmo's intel checks out. Of the three attackers, one (referred to as Subject 5) has already been shot by police off-screen. Nigel, targeting the immigration centre, manages to drop off his backpack and nearly detonates it before armed officers shoot him dead. Kieran, tasked with blowing up the hotel, panics at the sight of the police and flees into a primary school. He ultimately surrenders, repeating that he changed his mind.

The bombs don't go off. London is safe. But the cost is enormous.

So who dies?

Leo. June's partner. After the crisis is resolved, a tearful June calls Leo. He tells her she should get her own place — their relationship has fallen apart under the weight of the job. Just when it seems like they might find a way through, Leo gets into June's car, and it explodes. Someone rigged it with a device.

Six weeks later, Cosmo is a free man, doing public "shows" and taunting Hegarty about Leo's death, hinting it was one of his fans. It's almost a confession, but vague enough that his immunity deal protects him.

What's left for June and Hegarty?

Nothing good. They're now running Cosmo as an intelligence asset instead of handing him off to the security services. Both are drinking alone. June has lost Leo. Hegarty has lost whatever remained of his personal life. The two people who spent most of the series despising each other are now the only ones left standing — and the writing heavily suggests that June has become a version of the very person she once opposed.

The finale doesn't give anyone a clean victory. It's bleak, deliberately so, and very much in line with the season's themes: sometimes the institutions meant to protect people simply can't, and the people inside those institutions pay the price.