Spoilers ahead for SEAL Team Season 7, Episode 9, “The Sea and the Hills.” Read at your own risk!
The penultimate episode of SEAL Team set up an intense series finale to air amid the 2024 TV schedule. That’s saying a lot, given there are already emotions flooding all over the place. It’s hard to tell how the military drama will wrap up the main characters’ stories and who might not make it out alive.
That aside, though, ahead of the final episode and on the heels of the latest one, David Boreanaz shared a sentimental post with co-star A.J. Buckley. And, yes, I’m really in my feelings.
On “The Sea and the Hills,” Bravo prepared to embark on their last op as a full team, when David Boreanaz’s Jason was called away for a task of his own: assassinating Ross Curtis, who had robbed the U.S.
Amid a stint with the United States Army Special Forces, Curtis was in Honduras in 2004 and trained with Honduran soldiers, including fentanyl drug trade operations leader Ramon Nazario.
So Bravo was once again being split up, and it’s unknown if the team will see their fearless leader again. After the episode’s debut, Boreanaz took to Instagram to share a sweet shot of him and A.J. Buckley shares a hug. Not only does that still represent Jason and Sonny saying their goodbyes but Boreanaz and Buckley symbolically parting ways as well:
Seeing the two of them hugging is very sweet and is enough to make a person emotional. It’s even more bittersweet when you consider that this was likely one of the two stars’ last times on set together, if not the last time they filmed together.
It’s honestly disappointing that the series finale will be split up Jason and Bravo, but that storytelling decision does make the stakes that much higher.
Not just because both missions are dangerous, but whoever lives could be dealing with a lot of internal conflict should their colleagues perish. With that, the final hug between Jason and Sonny feels so much more surreal and is something I didn’t need to think about, at least not right now.
It seems like David Boreanaz just can’t stop teasing what could possibly happen in the series finale. Just recently, he teased the final shot of the series, and it featured Jason in full gear, head to toe, ready as ever for whatever mission he’s on.
Now that the finale is less than a week away, it’s feeling all the more real, and I wish it didn’t.
