“Hunting Party” Season 2, Episode 9 turns on Colette Akins, the woman played by Piper Perabo, and on the voices in her head that helped make her a killer. Titled “Colette Akins,” the episode shows how a life shaped by a funeral home, family resentment and a father she adored became the engine for a string of murders — and now a fresh abduction spree.
Colette grew up in her family’s funeral home and idolized her father while hating her abusive older sister, Liza. Liza blamed Colette for their mother’s death in childbirth, and after the father died, Colette began hearing his disembodied voice command her to kill Liza and ten more victims. She buried those victims in coffins with unrelated bodies, making them difficult to trace until Doctor Fairfax performed an experimental surgery that removed the voice from her head.
The case only becomes solvable when the team forces that “father’s” voice back into Colette’s cell so she will reveal where the bodies are hidden. That same voice is also what is now pushing the present-day Colette to look for replacements. In this episode, she kidnaps a group of people with strong singing voices so they can recreate the lullabies her father used to sing to her, a clue that the fix was never a cure so much as a pause.
That matters because the show has made a habit this season of pairing grotesque killers with a broader story about Shane and Colonel Lazarus. The previous episode featured a murderer who turned victims into shoes, while Shane took the unusually personal step of having dinner with his mother. This hour keeps both tracks moving. Shane defends Lazarus, and Hassani learns that Lazarus fast-tracked Shane’s application to the Pit and knew about their relationship far longer than Hassani had said.
The result is an episode that keeps its focus on Colette but widens the damage around her. Her story is not just about what made her kill; it is about how quickly a so-called fix can fail, and how little distance there is in this season between the monsters of the week and the people running the larger game. The question now is not whether Colette has changed. It is how many more lives she can still put at risk before anyone stops her again.
