Obliterated follows an elite forces team getting back to the field to save Las Vegas from a nuclear threat, after learning they didn’t succeed in doing so the first time. The series is currently streaming on Netflix.
Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers
Plot summary
After thwarting a Russian arms dealer’s sale of a five-kiloton explosive, a special forces team celebrates the success with a raunchy party. However, word soon comes from the top that the nuke they seized was a fake.
Now the team must regain composure to the best of their ability, and race against time to thwart the real deal and save Las Vegas from getting obliterated. The team grills Koslov, the arms dealer, before heading off to track down Litvin, Koslov’s courier.
Paul, the pilot of the team, struggles with the effects of psychedelics he unintentionally consumed at the party, bringing their chopper crashing down and setting the team back by a lot.
The team reunites and heads off to the Lake House, where Litvin is kidnapped and forced to hand over the bomb by the buyer Maddox, who has run out of patience. The three parties confront each other as Maddox runs off with the bomb.
This setback causes the team to split up as Ava Winters and Chad McKnight separately proceed with the investigations. They reunite and reconcile, as they contend with a shocking revelation that sets them back again.
The FBI takes over the case but their ultimate failure gives way to the CIA special team to continue their operation and get a hold of the bomb and the one who envisions an obliterated Vegas.
Obliterated ending explained in detail:
Who is Ivan Koslov?
Ivan Koslov is a Russian arms dealer who is in Las Vegas to sell a five-kiloton explosive with a ferocious potency to level up Vegas and cause an aftermath of even more traffic and horrifying.
To play the US government and its intelligentsia’s efforts to stop him, he sets up a deal with a crypto entrepreneur and sells him a fake nuke, while keeping the genuine article to be later sold to the real buyer.
Koslov’s father was killed in an airstrike and Ava Winters, leader of the CIA’s Elite Tactical Unit suggests in her briefing that Koslov has held a grudge ever since that airstrike that reportedly also took away his mother and sister as collateral.
What is Maddox’s objective?
Wade Maddox is the real buyer while Koslov has set up the deal of the portable nuke briefcase. He is a former private military contractor who also worked missions for the CIA.
In 2009, he fell off the radar completely and was presumed dead, until the team of agents in Obliterated found him trying to acquire a nuke with an army of disposal. It’s later shown that he’s a part of a larger shadowy group.
His objective was to trigger a civil war in the United States of America by bombing Las Vegas, which would, according to his plan, rile up the two opposite sides of the political spectrum enough to cause the war.
Who is Lana?
Lana is found at the Realto Hotel in Vegas, chained to a bed in BDSM gear inside Ivan Koslov’s room when the CIA elite unit thwarts his deal and eventually arrests him.
She is taken into custody at Area 52, where she tells Ava that she just thought that Ivan was some rich guy who liked to party and she ended up sleeping with him while totally unaware of his real identity.
Ava later lets her tag along because she can recognize the people at Koslov’s party and his trusted men. She does help out the team and even manages to make Ivan help them with a secret code Maddox uses.
However, in a shocking twist at the end of episode 6 of Obliterated, she is revealed to be Ivan Koslov’s sister, Anastasia Koslov. She was presumed dead so information on her was nil, but she clearly survived the airstrike that killed her parents.
She went on to grow up in America, away from he brother Ivan who grew up in Russia. They reunited later and ever since Anastasia has been very protective of him and concerned for his safety.
She has been a Russian Sleeper agent who’s been combat training all her life, which makes her a lethal force to be reckoned with.
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