The Tourist season 2 sees Elliot and Helen going to Ireland in the hope of discovering Elliot’s past. The second season is now streaming on Netflix.
Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers
Plot summary
Fourteen months after the events of the first season, Helen gives Elliot a letter that was delivered to the police station while he was still recovering in the hospital.
Someone named Tommy sent the letter from Ireland, claiming to know Elliot. Helen believes that it is time for Elliot to uncover his past that he has forgotten.
Elliot and Helen go to Ireland to meet Tommy, and soon after, Elliot gets kidnapped. It turns out that Elliot’s real name is Eugene Cassidy, and his mother, whom he does not remember, also lives here.
Helen reports the kidnapping to the Garda. Detective Sergeant Ruairi Slater will be helping Helen find Elliot.
The siblings who kidnapped Elliot, Donal and Orla McDonnell, send a picture of Elliot to his mother, Niamh, who comes to the police station to question Ruairi about it.
Niamh meets Helen, who tells her about Elliot losing his memory. Niamh has not heard from Elliot for the past seven years since he left without a word.
Helen learns about an age-old family feud between the McDonnells and the Cassidys, two crime families led by Frank McDonnell and Niamh, respectively.
Additionally, it was Lena who sent the letter that brought Elliot to Ireland, as she has joined hands with Donal to make Elliot pay for what he did to her in the past.
When Niamh discovers that Donal kidnapped her son, she retaliates by killing one of Donal’s cousins, unaware that Helen followed her, escalating tension between the two families.
Meanwhile, Elliot manages to escape and it is Donal’s son, Fergal, who helps him. Fergal also tells Elliot that Niamh is his mother.
Helen finds a ring in Elliot’s bag and finds out that he intends to marry her. She then starts going through the information that the police have on Elliot’s kidnapping.
A DNA report tells her that Fergal is Elliot’s son. When Helen goes to inform Ruairi about the same, she finds out that Ruairi has been keeping his wife’s corpse in his basement.
His wife died of cancer, and since then, he has been playing house with a doll that he dresses as his wife. As Helen now knows his secret, Ruairi kidnaps her.
Meanwhile, Helen’s ex-husband, Ethan, has been trying to be a better man. He comes to Ireland to apologize to Helen and show her that he has changed.
He meets Elliot, and the two of them look for Helen together. However, Helen manages to return on her own by dressing up as Ruairi’s wife and helping him get closure.
Ruairi lets Helen go and promises to turn himself in, but before he does that, he meets Ethan. The two men become friends and help each other move on from their mistakes.
Elliot not only meets his mother, who recounts how his older brother, Joe, died in her arms, but also reunites with Helen.
Helen tells Elliot that Fergal is his son. Elliot wants to contact him, but Frank will only allow it if Elliot brings him a bag that his father left him.
After the cargo plane carrying that bag crashed, a man named Elliot Stanley dived into the water to retrieve it. Niamh had accompanied him.
Niamh killed Elliot and stole the bag. She buried it in the middle of nowhere. It has been years since Frank’s father passed away, but he is still looking for the bag.
When Elliot asks Niamh about the bag, Niamh claims that Frank is lying. She then tells Elliot that Frank killed her brother when he tried to extend a peace offering to end the family feud.
At the same time, Fergal finds out that Elliot, not Donal, is his father. To keep Fergal safe, his mother, Claire, sends him away for some time.
Frank and Donal now want Fergal to prove himself as a McDonnell. As a result, Fergal asks Elliot to meet him at a location where McDonnell men are lying in wait to ambush him.
Upon realizing that Fergal has set him up, Elliot goes to confront him. However, Donal had anticipated this move, allowing him to kidnap Elliot and Helen once again.
Apart from Donal, who wants to kill Elliot because his wife cheated on him with Elliot, Lena also wants to take revenge on Elliot. Lena shoots Helen to make Elliot suffer.
However, Elliot manages to escape with Helen. He rushes her to the hospital, and she survives but remains in a coma.
Helen keeps dreaming about a life with Elliot, which is overshadowed by her relentless pursuit to uncover his past, driven by her need to know whether Elliot is a good person or not.
While Helen is unconscious, Claire pays Elliot a visit. She tells Elliot that he left after getting Claire pregnant to protect Claire and their child from Donal.
Claire wants Elliot to kill Donal, aware that Donal will not rest until he kills Elliot. As Donal abuses Claire, she will help Elliot kill him.
After a failed attempt, Elliot manages to kidnap Donal and take him to an abandoned building. Donal tells Elliot that this is the place where Joe was killed.
Donal admits that years ago, he mistook Joe for Elliot and killed him. Despite that, Elliot does not kill Donal. Meanwhile, Helen wakes up in the hospital.
Ending explained:
Helen breaks up with Elliot
Soon after waking up, Helen learns about Donal’s death and suspects that Elliot killed him, given Elliot’s absence when she woke up.
Elliot admits that he lied to her about his whereabouts but insists that he did not kill Donal. However, Helen does not believe him.
On top of that, Elliot is arrested for Donal’s murder, as a gun is found with Elliot’s prints on it. Helen realizes that she does not truly know him, so she no longer trusts him.
She has no way of knowing whether he used to be a good person or a criminal who ruined lives and killed without qualms.
Helen still loves him, but her dream made her realize that love is not enough. As a result, Helen breaks up with Elliot.
On the brink of war
While Elliot is in prison, Frank cannot kill him, so he gets him released. He then asks Fergal to take revenge on Elliot for Donal’s death.
Fergal then approaches Elliot and asks for his help. As Elliot wants to do the right thing now, he decides to help his son.
Fergal needs a place where he will be safe from Frank, so Elliot takes him to his mother’s pub. However, Fergal is not welcome there.
Niamh sees him as a threat. It is revealed that she was the one who killed Donal and let Elliot be blamed for it.
Niamh calls Frank to the pub, and both the families prepare for an all-out war. When Frank arrives there, he brings a bomb with him.
Fergal was supposed to bring the bomb to the pub and harm the Cassidys, but he failed Frank, who is now taking matters into his own hands.
Frank is ready to kill himself as well as everyone else present there if the Cassidys do not let him leave with Fergal.
What did Niamh steal?
Helen is going back home. At the airport, she meets Ethan and Ruairi, and Ruairi tells her that Elliot is being targeted by Frank.
Instead of leaving, Helen then decides to find the bag that Frank’s father left for him. She meets Elliot Stanley’s wife and comes to know about the taxi service that the diver used on the day he died.
Ethan and Ruairi help her investigate, and they eventually find the place where the taxi dropped Elliot Stanley. From there, they find the bag that Niamh stole and buried.
The bag contains the love letters that Frank’s father wrote to Niamh’s mother. Helen then goes to Niamh’s pub and hands them over to Frank.
She informs him that Niamh is his sister and that Niamh hid the letters because she did not want him to find out the truth.
An unexpected twist
Niamh attempts to kill Helen for bringing the truth to light, but Elliot intervenes and stops her. Enraged, Niamh storms out of the pub.
Although she refrains from killing anyone and allows Frank to leave unharmed, Niamh refuses to let go of the past; there is too much history between the two families
Elliot and Helen get back together. Six months later, they are seen living together. Helen is a private investigator now.
Elliot gets a file on himself. Someone tracked him down and sent it to him, but he has yet to read it. He offers to give Helen the file.
However, Helen no longer needs to know about his past to know who he is. Since Elliot also does not care to know about his past, he burns the file.
As the file burns, it is revealed that Eugene Cassidy, who is now Elliot, used to be a special agent.