The Hunting Party Season 1 Episode 4 recap: Bex and the team hunt for a deranged psychiatrist

NBC's The Hunting Party continues to explore the mysteries of The Pit in Episode 4, which opens in the past, where Dr. Ezekiel Malak is enjoying his last meal while on death row.

We learn that Malak is also one of the inmates who escaped after the fire, and he was a psychiatrist who turned into a deranged serial killer. The execution of the inmates in The Pit is shown, where they are executed but brought to life multiple times.

Meanwhile, Bex also tries to find Odell's connection to The Pit and also tracks his phone to get the GPS data for The Pit. She manages to get the satellite coordinates of the place, along with five other unknown marks.

Here is the complete recap of The Hunting Part Episode 4.

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Bex tries to figure out Dr. Ezekiel Malak's motives in The Hunting Part Episode 4

Bex and her team learn about Malak's MO in The Hunting Party Episode 4, and they learn that he would target mostly his patients and kill them by injecting them with a heavy dose of digoxin.

Meanwhile, Malak takes on his first victim after setting free, a Father in a nearby church. When Bex and her team reach his office where he was killed, they learn that Malak has upgraded his killing methods. Rather than just killing people, he is saving some of them to satisfy his godly complex of being their savior.

The team also learns Malak's new way of targeting people. He goes into a public library and targets anybody who takes his book about grief, thinking that they need his help to understand what is beyond this life. And in his mind, he is helping them achieve it.

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Bex meets a Malak's survivor in The Hunting Party Episode 4

After much investigation, Bex and her team track down Ms. Fulmer, one of Malak's survivors in The Hunting Party Episode 4. She was also injected by the psychiatrist but was saved and admitted to a hospital.

Bex meets Fulmer to know more about Malak and what he wants from the victims. She tells her that he injected her with poison multiple times and then used a defibrillator to bring her back to life. She also added that he asked her repeated questions about the near-death experience and what she saw.

After learning Malak's psychopathic actions, Bex concludes that he is trying to re-create his own experience from The Pit. He was also killed and brought back to life multiple times, and he is mimicking the action on his victims.

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Malak captures Bex in The Hunting Party Episode 4

In The Hunting Party Episode 4, Bex and her team assume that Malak must have been running short on supplies, and he would visit a hospital to re-stock. They all split up and search nearby hospitals.

Malak appears in a hospital where Bex waits for him and captures her. He takes her to the hotel room where she is staying and injects her with poison, which stops her heart momentarily. But he uses a defibrillator to bring her back to life.

After bringing her back, Malak tries to ask her questions about what she saw during her near-death experience, but instead of answering, Bex asks him about his experience in The Pit, which he does not answer. Meanwhile, Bex's team cracks her location, and soon, police cars surround the hotel. Thinking that his game is over, Malak goes into the bathroom and injects himself with the poison. Bex manages to free herself just in time and brings him back to life, and her team closes in on the psychopath.

Also Read: The Hunting Party Season 1 cast and character guide

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