Teenage Bounty Hunters Season 1 Cliffhanger Ending Explained

Warning: SPOILERS for Teenage Bounty Hunters Season 1.

Teenage Bounty Huntersseason 1 ended with a shocking revelation that Netflix’s action-satire series gradually built towards: Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini) and Sterling (Maddie Phillips) Wesley found out that their mother Debbie (Virginia Willams) has an identical twin named Dana and Sterling is really Dana’s daughter. This also means that after believing they were fraternal twins all of their lives, Blair and Sterling are actually cousins.

Dana kidnapped Sterling in Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters‘ season 1 finale, “Something Sour Patch”, which was the culmination of Blair and Sterling’s investigation into their parents’ secrets. Dana planned to skip town and flee with Sterling to Mexico, only to attempt to hold her daughter for ransom when Blair and Bowser Jenkins (Kadeem Hardison) tracked them down. Bowser shot and wounded Dana’s boyfriend and accomplice Levi (James McMenamin) before Debbie and her husband Anderson (Mackenzie Astin) arrived to stop Dana from escaping with Sterling. This showdown finally brought to light the truth Debbie and Anderson had been hiding from their daughters throughout Teenage Bounty Hunters season 1.

But beyond the questions Blair and Sterling had about their parents’ lies, the girls’ love lives also, sadly, hit major roadblocks when both of their relationships ended. On top of that, Bowser and the Wesley girls had a falling out and the gruff bounty hunter was prepared to leave Atlanta – and Sterling and Blair – behind to start over in Florida. All the while, John Stevens (Pierce Lackey), the father of Sterling’s rival-turned-girlfriend April (Devon Hales), who was also the first skip the Wesley girls collared by themselves, is free from prison and wants retribution. Here is the breakdown of the action-packed and emotional ending of Teenage Bounty Hunters season 1.

How Debbie’s Twin Dana Is Sterling’s Real Mother

The bombshell Dana dropped at the end of Teenage Bounty Hunters season 1 changes everything: Not only are Debbie and Dana identical twins but it turns out Sterling and Blair aren’t fraternal twins – they’re cousins who Debbie and Anderson raised as twin sisters. This certainly raises a slew of questions but the biggest clue is that in Dana’s wanted poster, she was last seen on 6/27/2004 in front of Douglas County Health and Wellness Clinic – 16 years ago, which must mean it was soon after Sterling was born (likely in that clinic). Dana went into hiding ever since to avoid the police but she has been hitting her rich sister up for cash periodically. But Dana decided to kidnap Sterling and then Levi decided to blackmail the Wesleys for more money.

Blair was told she was older than Sterling, which she probably is, and when Debbie and Anderson took baby Sterling in, they just raised her as Blair’s twin sharing Blair’s birthday. But this also means Debbie and Dana were pregnant at the same time, and Anderson is Blair’s father but we don’t know who Sterling’s real father is. There are a lot of missing details that come with Dana’s reveal that Teenage Bounty Hunters season 2 needs to explain, but it seems clear from how Dana was fixated on Sterling and only Sterling that she’s not Blair’s mother as well and that Blair belongs to Debbie.

But then again, if Blair and Sterling aren’t twins, how are they able to do their psychic “Twin Thing” side conversations that only they can hear? Perhaps, even as cousins, they simply inherited the ability from their mothers, who are identical twins.

The Lies Blair And Sterling’s Parents Told Them Explained

Debbie and Anderson’s marriage had been buckling from the pressures of maintaining their lies to Blair and Sterling, and recently, everything was exacerbated by Dana demanding more money from them coupled with Anderson quitting his job. But just as Blair continually sensed her parents were being deceitful, Debbie and Anderson upped their lies to throw the twins off the scent of the truth. Here’s the rundown of their story to fool the twins.

Blair and Sterling always believed they were fraternal twins and that their strict but loving and God-fearing mother was a former beauty queen who grew up in Savannah, Georgia. Debbie’s parents also died in a plane crash in the Appalachian mountains. In Teenage Bounty Hunters episode 7, “Cleave or Whatever”, Debbie and Anderson go all-in on their cover story in the guise of the truth after Anderson snapped at Blair for interrogating him during their hunting excursion. With a shoebox of photos and memorabilia as “proof”, Debbie gave details about her life in Savannah and her regrets about telling her parents she hated them before they died, but Blair still sensed it wasn’t true, especially the photo of teenage Debbie outside Hobo’s Ham dated “Savannah, GA 1996”.

As with similarly crime-adjacent Netflix show Good Girls, Teenage Bounty Hunters wraps family drama with twisty revelations and secret lives. After the girls traveled to Nandina, GA, and they found out about Dana’s wanted poster (which they believed was their mom) for first-degree arson, Debbie and Anderson still lied to Blair and Sterling that Debbie fell in with “an extreme crowd” and made mistakes in her youth. Debbie continued covering for Dana’s crimes until Dana kidnapped Sterling, at which point Anderson finally confessed to Blair that it was Dana who burned down the abortion clinic and they’ve been covering for her ever since. But Dana began extorting them for more money so they planned to pay Dana off and send her to Mexico (they even found her a place to live and gave her Anderson’s truck) until Dana kidnapped Sterling.

Miles Turned Out To Be The Person Blair Was Afraid To Be – But She Loves Him

Blair was left broken-hearted by her breakup with Miles and she found out that he never even told his parents about her when she went to their home to confess her love. In Teenage Bounty Hunters episode 4, “Basically Pluto”, Blair panicked when Miles appeared at her house to be the valet for her mom’s book club. As a rich, white girl, Blair worried that Miles working as an employee placed them on an uneven social footing, but that was also before Blair found out Miles was also rich.

However, Miles kept his relationship with Blair a secret, he resented all of the times she deceived him, and he decided that he didn’t want to raise the ire of her state senator mother by telling her he was dating the wealthy daughter of white Republicans. It’s a heartbreaking inversion but Blair still loves Miles even though she’s profoundly disappointed that he turned out to be the person she was afraid she was all along. It remains to be seen if Blair will forgive Miles and try to get back together with him in Teenage Bounty Hunters season 2 when it returns to Netflix.

Why April Won’t Admit She’s Gay To Be With Sterling

Teenage Bounty Hunters joins the ranks of Netflix’s LGBTQ+ shows thanks to the focus on April and Sterling’s sexuality. Sterling’s sexual awakening and accepting her attraction to April was Teenage Bounty Hunters’ sweetest and most surprising story, but that only makes April’s decision to reject Sterling, and her refusal to publicly own her sexuality, all the more heartwrenching. For an admittedly nervous person, Sterling became admirably fearless when it came to wanting to be open about being with April, but this terrified April, who couldn’t bring herself to be publicly honest about being gay.

April admits her parents are “hateful bigots” and she fears being ostracized by them and by the conservative Christian community so she has to hide the truth about her own sexuality, especially from her father, John. Unfortunately, this means April will pretend to be interested in Sterling’s ex-boyfriend Luke (Spencer House), who even asked Sterl for permission to date April. April seems resigned to be unhappy and keep pretending to be someone she isn’t to please her parents and the Christian community, but Sterling and April’s love story begs to be continued and even given more focus by Netflix in Teenage Bounty Hunters season 2.

How Teenage Bounty Hunters Sets Up Season 2

Obviously, the revelation about Dana being Sterling’s mother and what that means for the Wesley family is at the forefront of Teenage Bounty Hunters season 2 but the series also left some other major lingering threads. Before Bowser joined Blair to rescue Sterling, he was resigned to leave Atlanta and return to Florida. Bowser fired Blair and Sterling and was ready to give up on wanting to be with Yolanda (Shirley Rumierk) since she was dating rival bounty hunter Terrance Coin (Method Man). But even after they saved Sterling, Bowser’s future as a bounty hunter/frozen yogurt entrepreneur in Atlanta – and whether he’ll take Blair and Sterling back as his proteges – remains up in the air.

But the return of April’s father John Stevens is also a threat to Blair and Sterling. The Wesley twins collared John, who was hiding out in his lakehouse after beating up a prostitute and going on the lam – in fact, he was the first skip Sterling and Blair captured themselves without Bowser’s help. April doesn’t know Sterling and her sister were the ones who collared her father or that they’re bounty hunters. But instead of going to prison, John Stevens went to trial, was cleared of all charges, and returned home. Sterling found out because April told her that her dad asked about Sterling and Blair; no doubt John Stevens will be after revenge in Teenage Bounty Hunters season 2 when it returns to Netflix – which may force Blair and Wesley to come clean about their double lives as part-time bounty hunters.

Teenage Bounty Huntersis available to stream on Netflix.

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