SEAL Team Boss Spoilers for Series Finale, Revealing Jason’s Original Ending (and What Season 8 Will Look Like) The following contains all the spoilers from the SEAL Team Season 7/series finale, now streaming on Paramount+.
Bravo Team looks a little different — and not in the way you’d expect — as a result of the many twists SEAL Team dropped on Sunday.
With Nozario in custody and Curtis taken out (by Drew, after Jason decided the traitor wasn’t worth it), Bravo returns to Vah Beach — only to quickly return for a mission in Afghanistan, with Ray tagging along. (Really?) After that mission, Jason goes on a road trip to make amends with the wife of the first man he killed. Sonny and Ray join their brother, but then their journey goes horribly wrong, and Bravo is bombarded with mortar fire and shoulder-fired missiles. A seismic explosion cuts the screen to black… then turns into a church service with everyone in uniform.
Funeral?!?! No. Wedding! For Emma and Brad, with a still-alive Jason walking the bride down the aisle. At the wedding reception, Lisa and Sonny worry more about Decker’s dilemma, and Sonny informs Stella that he’s spent half of his medical kit earnings on her and Brian.
A series of diversions follow, keeping viewers on their toes.
Davis is promoted to assistant admiral in D.C., after Sonny sneaks out of a meeting with her bosses. Rumor has it he’s given his medical kit to the Navy, in exchange for the Decker issue being resolved…? There’s a “going out” ceremony at Bulkhead for the two departing Bravo team members—Jason and Ray, right? And Ray was seen welcoming Ben to the Spenser House, so it seems like he’ll be working there with Naima, right?
No, no… and no.
As it turns out, Ray has taken over the Warfighter Health position. Sonny, he confesses to hitting Decker and in doing so gives up his trident, clearing the way for Lisa’s promotion. And Jason is inside the fence, symbolically washing the blood off his hands.
Lisa was last seen driving to D.C.… with Sonny in the passenger seat, and the two holding hands. And Jason? He’s back with Omar, Drew, and the rest of the recast Bravo. “An easy day!”
In a can’t-miss in-depth interview, TVLine asked SEAL Team showrunner Spencer Hudnut about his original ending plans, bringing up that final twist, and why a veteran of the series didn’t RSVP for Emma’s wedding.
How long have you been thinking about how you want to end the SEAL Team series?
I’ve always tried to keep that in mind, probably since Season 4, when we moved to Paramount+. There was a minute where I felt like maybe the show was going to end, but I felt like the audience deserved more. Every season since then, we’ve tried to end in a place where we’re happy to leave the characters, where they feel like they’ve made some progress or feel like they’ve settled down.
I will say that when we ended this season, at the point where it was 90% written, I had no clue that this was going to be the last season. So it was really late in the process that I realized this was going to be the last, and I really only had three acts of the finale to “land the plane.” Now, they’ve definitely done the third base in their story and their career, so we don’t have to re-arrange too much. But certainly for Jason, it’s a different ending than I had in mind at the beginning of the season.
If this isn’t the last season, what does Bravo look like going forward?
That’s going to be largely dictated by the contractual terms that you have at the end of Season 7, the actors have to make decisions…. But when I originally broke down the season, the ending of the season was Jason and Mandy going to Afghanistan to go on this journey, this path of redemption for Jason, which we then had to cram into the episode in a different way. My hope was to put them on a path where Jason is on the path to finding forgiveness and erasing the stain of war from him, but also landing in a place where we can get them in trouble to start off a potential Season 8 in a really big way.
This season is very introspective. The characters have a lot to say, a lot to talk about “thinking”….
The downtime that Jason has allowed us to get into something that I’ve talked to a lot of special agents about, about how once the “Mad Train” slows down, things from the past start to surface—and the shame that comes with that. We don’t spend a lot of time talking, as a society, about what these guys are actually doing when they go to war, which is killing, and that doesn’t bring guilt, it brings shame.
