SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “The Cottage,” the season finale of FX’s “ The Veil ,” now streaming on Hulu. Whoever says you can’t go home again has probably been watching “The Veil.” In the finale of FX’s espionage series, Imogen ( Elisabeth Moss ) reluctantly heads to the last place she ever wanted to be again –– the home of Michael Althorp (James Purefoy), her late father’s friend, her former lover/mentor and the kind of English rich man who can turn the tide of wars or start them.
This mysterious man, who had so far only appeared in flashbacks, is Imogen’s only hope of getting new passports for Adilah (Yumna Marwan), from whom she is still trying to coax information about the looming ISIS bombing of a United States ship. The series has operated on a global scale up to this point, but the finale is almost claustrophobic in its focus on the mind games between Imogen and Michael, who taught her everything she knows. He’s the only person who can shake her off her deep-rooted axis, something he does the second they arrive at his humble cottage –– i.
e. the largest estate you’ve seen this side of Downton Abbey. “But what’s really exciting to me is that there is this constant feeling and thought in the back of your mind that she was always moving toward that house from the beginning — and I love that,” Moss tells Variety .
“Like, I always wondered if that was her design the entire time.” Imogen will hand over th.