Season 1 of Furies is an extremely fast-paced eight episodes of exposition and action, with a lot to keep track of. This recap of all eight episodes should hopefully give you the gist of what went down, who double-crossed who, and what the future might hold for the French Netflix series.
Furies Season 1 Recap (Episodes 1-8)
Episode 1, “I work for her”
A breathless premiere introduces us to Lyna, the daughter of a crime family who has rejected Paris’s underworld for a “normal” life with her cop boyfriend, Elie. However, she still maintains a relationship with her parents, who like to make a big deal of her birthday. In a roundabout way, this changes her entire life.
As a present, Lyna’s father, the accountant of the Parisian underworld, gives her a tidy financial gift, the final few digits spelling out his nickname, “Le Boss”. Shortly after, he’s assassinated. Because of the money in her account, Lyna is sent to prison for five months. The police, particularly Captain Kaita, believe her father was killed by The Fury, and that Lyna might be able to lead them to this mysterious figure.
In prison, Lyna magically teaches herself to fight by reading a book on self-defense, and begins making her own inquiries. When she’s released, she continues them, following the money through underground casinos and heists until she’s able to find the Fury, a woman named Selma. But, apparently, Selma didn’t kill Lyna’s father, who was embezzling money from the Godfathers, presumably against his will.
At the end of the episode, Lyna utters the episode’s title, “I work for her”, having agreed to continue investigating her father’s death from within.
Episode 2, “Broken heart > Bullet in the head”
Episode 2 delivers a ton of information in a rapid-fire style, so let’s round it all up.
The Parisian underworld is controlled by six godfathers known as The Olympus: The Duke, the Trans, the Californians, Fehim, Mama, and the K Brothers. The Fury keeps everything in balance, but Mr. Parques, the head of the underworld assassins, is vying for her position.
Jelly has been cut into pieces, but before that, he had used the funds Lyna’s father embezzled to hijack one of Mama’s containers and take away one of the trafficked girls. By infiltrating Mama’s upscale but deeply sadistic brothel, Lyna discovers the girl’s name is Asma. Jelly was using her as leverage to force her craftsman father to make a gold key, which turns out to be for the Godfather’s safe.
At the end of the episode Selma is caught in an explosion, and Lyna is forced into breaking up with Elie otherwise he’ll be killed. More crucially, Simon, aka the Fixer, who has been investigating Lyna, discovers childhood photos of her with a tell-tale facial scar she no longer has. Digging further, he finds Lyna’s grave. The Lyna we know is not Darius’s daughter.
Episode 3, “I’d never have bet on you”
Selma survived being ambushed during the robbery of the Godfather’s safe, though it’s unclear why the masked assailant let her live. She thinks the item of real value in the safe is the Bible of the Six, a comprehensive account of everyone who benefits from the services of the Olympus.
Meanwhile, Fixer confronts Lyna about who she is, though he quickly realizes she had no idea she wasn’t the real Lyna. She immediately goes to her mother for answers, but she’s still mentally unstable after being in a coma following the assassination of Darius.
Herve, the son of the Trans, made sure there was no security around the safe so that the masked man could steal it. He’s ambitious and a little crazy and took matters into his own hands because he has never been given any responsibility. To get close to him Lyna has to participate in his pastime business, Death Games, which she wins.
After winning, Lyna captures Herve. He reveals that Darius took part in the scheme to try and secure enough money to protect Lyna since he was worried she’d be recruited by the Olympus because she’s “special”. As it turns out, she’s Selma’s niece and destined to be the next Fury.
Episode 4, “The Fury is like scabies”
Episode 4 reveals some more information about Selma’s family, and thus Lyna’s family. Their surname is Arago. The role of Fury has been passed down matrilineally after the Aragos were all but wiped out. But Lyna’s father, Driss, was a male, and he made quite a reputation for himself.
With Parques making a play for the role of Fury, Selma needs to get support from the other Godfathers. Her name remaining ally is Fehim. He’s also integral to decoding a message found in Jelly’s mouth since it’s encrypted with an analog system of his design. Lyna follows his pickpocket messengers back to his hideout, believing he will retain copies of the messages.
Parques sends Orso to kill Lyna, but they end up having sex instead, with Elie witnesses. Orso also tells Lyna that it was Selma who killed Driss. When she confronts Selma about this, she claims to have simply put him in prison instead.
Selma regains the support of the Olympus by exposing and killing Fehim, while Lyna gets a copy of Jelly’s message. Selma also visits Driss in jail, and he implies she’s hiding something from Lyna.
At the end of the episode, Parques stabs Orso for failing to kill Lyna and buries him in a shallow grave.
Episode 5, “Hello, my love”
Lyna goes to see Driss in prison, which forms the framing device for this episode. Cutting back seven days, we see her resume her relationship with Elie, and both survive an assassination attempt on Lyna orchestrated by Parques.
Selma wants to send Lyna away for her own protection. In the present, Driss implies that Darius began embezzling the money because he knew Selma was coming to reclaim her heir, and he wanted to protect her from that life.
At the end of the episode, though, Lyna figures out that Driss’s imprisonment is all a ruse and that he has set her up. He is the masked man. She manages to fight off all the guards and escape, trying to warn Selma she’s being set up, but it’s too late.
Finally, we see Orso dig himself free from the grave that Parques buried him in. However, he remains the man’s pet, kept in a cage like a dog.
Episode 6, “Nature abhors a vacuum”
Selma is, apparently, dead. Lyna tries to take over as Fury, working with Fixer and Mud Man, but Parques is making his move. Meanwhile. Driss is wiping out the surviving Godfathers, starting with the K Brothers.
While Driss tries to manipulate Lyna into siding with him, she figures out that Selma is still alive. When Parques is appointed Fury, it becomes obvious that this was all part of Driss’s plan. The Furies are given access to the deepest secrets of the Olympus, including the location of the mine, a moving train that doubles as the Godfathers’ secret vault. It contains more money than the Bank of France.
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It’s Orso who tells Lyna this after turning on Parques. Lyna kills the latter, and in a big move, informs Captain Keita. She, Selma, and Driss are all arrested.
At the end of the episode, the Olympus activate Damocles.
Episode 7, “Where are the knives?”
The penultimate episode is mostly a stand-off, an elongated action scene that builds a lot of tension and punctuates it with bouts of violence.
After the convoy transporting the Furies is ambushed, Lyna, Selma, Driss, Elie, and Keita are forced to take shelter and tentatively work together. Fixer and Mud Man are on their way but remain a while out, so the others have to defend themselves against attacks by Damocles, a mercenary outfit that refuses to work for money but instead calls in favors whenever they feel like it.
Orso also arrives for the stand-off, making things pretty tense between him and Elie.
During this, Griss tells Lyna that Selma killed her mother. During the confusion of the fight, he’s able to escape with the location of the mine, and Elie is forced to kill Keita to prevent her from killing Lyna.
At the end of the episode, Lyna confronts Selma about killing her mother. However, she says that she didn’t – even though she should’ve. Lyna’s mother, Kahina, was an undercover cop. The revelation drove Driss mad, and he butchered her whole family looking for her after she disappeared. With the mine, he’ll finally be able to find out where she’s hiding.
Episode 8, “Namaste, a*****e”
The finale also employs a framing device – Selma is talking to someone off-screen, narrating the events of the final episode.
Much of it takes place on the mine, with Lyna and Selma fighting their way through and discovering that there is a bomb on board. At the same time, Fixer and Mud Man try to track down where Driss’s men are stashing the pilfered loot, courtesy of the tracker Fixer put on Lyna’s phone, and Elie and Orso have to work together to try and control the train remotely.
Eventually, the train stops at a decommissioned station, the bomb is disarmed, and Driss flees. He takes a bullet from Lyna during the escape, but she doesn’t realize it.
By the time Selma catches up to Driss, he’s already on death’s door. We find out that it was Selma who killed Kahina’s family in order to cover up the mistakes she had made as Fury, allowing an undercover cop to get so close to the Olympus. Driss is the only person left alive who knows this. He begs Selma to kill him before Lyna’s bullet does, so she doesn’t have to live with the guilt. Selma does so.
Lyna can’t be with either Elie or Orso. Instead, she and Selma are going to look for her mother. At the end of the episode it is revealed that in the framing device, Selma has been talking to the surviving members of the Olympus. However, when she takes a step forward, she realizes they’re all dead. Suddenly, Damocles agents emerge from the shadows. The mercenary group has taken over the Olympus, and now Selma and Lyna have to work for them.
That was our recap of Furies Season 1 (Episodes 1-8). What did you think of the season overall? Let us know in the comments.
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