10 Burning Questions I Have After the 'Ponies' Season 1 Finale

Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for Ponies Season 1.As Season 1 of Ponies officially wraps up, things are heating up in the Cold War. Two ordinary housewives, Beatrice "Bea" Grant (Emilia Clarke) and Twila Hasbeck (Haley Lu Richardson), were accompanying their CIA agent husbands in Russia. Thinking they'd return to their normal lives one day, instead, they are told that their husbands died in a plane crash.

Not believing the CIA's story, Bea and Twila decide to look for the truth themselves by becoming covert spies. Even though they have no training or experience, their normal image helps them go unnoticed. As the season ends in flames, here are the burning questions after the Ponies Season 1 finale.

1 Why Did Eevi Snoop Around Ray's House?

Bea and Twila's office manager, Cheryl (Vic Michaelis), is not pleased when the nanny she hired turns out to be very different from what she expected. Instead of an elderly, motherly figure, a young Finnish woman named Eevi (Clare Hughes) shows up at their door. While Cheryl is clearly annoyed and suspicious, her husband Ray (Nicholas Podany) allows Eevi to stay.

Soon, it becomes clear that Eevi may have her own agenda. She is overly friendly, especially with Ray, which fuels Cheryl's jealousy. Things grow more alarming when a listening device is found under the fireplace, which Cheryl suspects Eevi planted. Eevi is later seen snooping through Ray's confidential belongings, pushing Cheryl into a panicked decision.

2 Why Did Dave Instruct Emile To Kill His Doctor?

While Bea and Twila tail Andrei Vasiliev (Artjom Gilz), their CIA handler Dane Walter (Adrian Lester) travels to West Germany. Instead of conducting field business, Dane visits his therapist, who probes a traumatic death from his past that he refuses to discuss. The session ends with what appears to be an unsettling electroconvulsive treatment.

Soon after, the same doctor meets Dane's CIA associate, Emile (Pál Mácsai), in a deserted area and hands over sensitive information. Before he can leave, Emile calmly kills him with a lethal injection. Moments later, Dane arrives and reveals that he ordered the hit himself, without any hesitation. One of the more plausible theories is that Dane is tying up some loose ends on the CIA's side.

3 Was There Even an Airplane Crash in the First Place?

When Bea and Twila are informed of their husbands' deaths, they are told the men died in a plane crash during a covert mission. The explanation feels disturbingly casual, as the CIA treats the loss like just another day in the office. Unconvinced and unsettled by the lack of transparency, the two women begin to question the official story and volunteer themselves as cover operatives.

As they dig deeper, the case only grows more confusing. Each new lead seems to contradict the original account. When Twila believes she has uncovered a major clue through one of the CIA's external informants, it only complicates what they thought they knew, and whether their husbands were actually in an airplane in the first place.

4 What Actually Happened to Chris and Tom?

The CIA claims that Chris Grant (Louis Boyer) and Tom Hasbeck (John Macmillan) died in a plane crash on KGB territory. However, Twila later learns from Vera (Tanya Ivanova) that although the men were on the plane, it never crashed. Instead, they landed on the facility, where both men were allegedly shot by the KGB.

In the Season 1 finale, Bea's grandmother, Manya Caplan (Harriet Walter), travels to Belarus to locate a long-lost friend after impersonating the now-dead Vera for the CIA. Expecting a quiet visit, she realizes she is being followed by Dane and Emile. The two take her to a hidden room, where she meets a disheveled but very much alive Chris. Tom, however, is nowhere to be found.

5 Will Bea Forgive Chris for Sleeping With Galyna?

Before going missing, Bea and Twila had very different marriages. Bea, although not a fan of leaving America to accompany Chris for his CIA work in Russia, was supportive of her husband. In return, he promised to let her chase her dreams after he was done with Russia. Meanwhile, the more hot-headed Twila despised Tom's CIA work, and their marriage was on the verge of collapse.

Simply put, it looked like Bea had a happier marriage. However, everything came crashing down when she discovered a secret tape under Chris’s pillow. When she played it, she was shocked to see a video of Chris having sex with none other than Galyna (Sophia Shkliaruk), Sasha Shevchenko's (Petro Ninovskyi) dead older sister.

6 Did Sasha Survive the Attack at Andrei's Safehouse?

Being a Russian working as a CIA associate is extremely dangerous during the Cold War, but it is a risk Sasha is willing to take. He believes his sister, Galyna, was murdered amid CIA-KGB tensions. The promise of learning the truth leads him to help the CIA, with Bea acting as his intermediary and main contact.

When Andrei finds out where Sasha lives, he begins to panic. After being attacked by several thugs, he becomes even more paranoid and asks for a cyanide pill in case the KGB captures him. In the season finale, Sasha is impaled while fighting off Andrei's associates. Although he is quickly extracted by American forces, it is unclear whether he survives the attack.

7 Why Did Andrei Kill the Sex Workers?

Forget nuclear weapons or high-tech gadgets. In Ponies, the real weapon is sex. The KGB targets this weakness among high-ranking American officials and businessmen by placing hidden cameras in hotel rooms. These cameras record men having sex with Russian sex workers, creating material that can later be used for blackmail and leverage.

Many of these women are first recruited by Andrei. After finishing their assignments, they meet him again, expecting to be paid. Instead, Andrei kills them. It becomes clear that this is not a one-time act but a pattern. By eliminating the women, he makes sure there are no witnesses and no one will talk.

8 How Did Cheryl Become a KGB Spy?

Just like Bea and Twila, Cheryl is also unassuming. The difference is that she is extremely dedicated to her job as the embassy's office manager. She is a strict Type A who presents herself as the perfect housewife, even more put-together than Bea and Twila. Any sign of incompetence is not tolerated by Cheryl, and she expects everything to be done properly.

Because she often tries to please her superiors, it is surprising when Cheryl is revealed to be the mole. Having played the housewife role so well, she is the last person anyone would suspect of working for the KGB. She even knows how to use a gun and communicate through underground tunnels.

9 How Will the CIA Cope With Its Loss?

One of Cheryl's tasks from the KGB is to plant a small detonator in the CIA office. However, as only an embassy employee, she does not have direct access to the CIA area. After shooting Eevi, Cheryl tricks the American officers into taking the device into the vault, claiming it is a spy gadget taken from Eevi.

The vault is where the CIA stores key evidence, including Andrei's boxes of blackmail material collected by Bea and Twila. When the bomb goes off, it destroys everything the CIA has gathered. To make things worse, the firefighters who arrive are actually KGB agents, and they seize what little evidence is left.

10 Are Bea and Twila Safe From the KGB?

Bea and Twila may have good intentions, but they are clearly not trained CIA agents. It has nothing to do with them being women, but with the fact that they never received proper training. Everything they learn about espionage happens on the go, and they pushed straight onto the field while still figuring things out.

The season finale shows them at their most capable, but also at their most helpless. After getting Andrei's blackmail videos and bringing a badly injured Andrei in for questioning, it seems like they finally have the upper hand. However, things quickly fall apart when the KGB corners them at gunpoint. With Dane, Ray, and Emile nowhere around, their chances of survival look very slim.