


After following four Class of ‘09 agents through three crucial periods in their lives, Tom Rob Smith’s series dropped an eventful finale that will have fans wondering if we’ve truly seen the last of Tayo (Brian Tyree Henry), Poet (Kate Mara), Lennix (Brian J. Smith), and Hour’s (Sepideh Moafi) stories.
In taking characters and viewers alike from intense FBI training out into the field and beyond, FX’s suspenseful Hulu thriller showed the catastrophic impacts an artificial intelligence-powered system had on the U.S. criminal justice system and the lives of the four agents. Episode 8, “Graduation,” offered a final showdown and some much-needed closure, but Poet’s storyline in particular left an opening to tell more Quantico stories down the line.
So will there be a Class of ‘09 Season 2 on Hulu? And how did Class of ‘09 Season 1 end? Here’s everything we know about the future of the FX on Hulu series.
FX’s Class of ‘09 was introduced as a limited series, which means creator Tom Rob Smith initially set out to tell Tayo, Poet, Lennix, and Hour’s story over the course of the eight episodes now available to stream.
Though we’re not quite ready to say goodbye to Class of ’09‘s brilliant group of Quantico grads just yet, and we definitely could have seen a Season 2 in which new FBI instructor Poet teaches the Class of 2034 at Quantico and continues to solve crimes with her fellow agents, a rep for the show confirmed there’s no Season 2 in the works, so Class of ’09 will remain a limited series.
Though we likely won’t be seeing a continuation, at least Episode 8, “Graduation,” was a solid series ending. Let’s recap, shall we?

As noted in Decider’s Class of ‘09 Ending Explained article, the finale kicks off with Tayo reflecting on his home invasion. He tells Poet he joined the Bureau because they killed his father and he thinks they’re trying to kill him, too. And after they use the system to learn more about the man who was sent to murder Tayo, he confronts the FBI director and asks who ordered the hit on him. The then director tells Tayo he’s stepping down early and advises him to leave as well. As we know from the future timeline, Tayo doesn’t listen and becomes FBI director. But the finale lets us know that Tayo was only allowed to keep the system if he abided by a list of exemptions; people who can never be considered suspects, including spies, diplomats, and the president.
Tayo’s decision to take the promotion wasn’t just a major ethical downfall, it also cost him his relationship with Vivienne and drove a wedge between Hour and Poet. Hour expressed her concerns with the current AI system, saying she created it as a tool to help agents make better decisions, not replace them. She asked Poet to talk Tayo out of implementing the system, but Poet supported his decision to launch (with exemptions) nationwide, and though crime was initially down, arrests skyrocketed by 2030 — not for crimes people have committed, but for crimes they’re likely to commit. The system’s data predictions led to an abundance of innocent arrests and inspired people to move to less surveilled rural areas, including a reunited Tayo and Vivienne.

In the future, 2034, the system recommends arresting Vivienne for a book she’s writing that features a collection of anti-AI accounts and Director Warren gives the green light. As the friends are scrambling for a plan, Hour asks if Tayo can get them into the original data center so she can emit an EMP pulse, shut down the servers, and reprogram the code so it can’t be altered, as Amos suggested with the card he gave Poet before he was killed. The grand plan is to eliminate the exemptions Tayo once agreed to so everyone’s equal in the eyes of the law. The Class of ’09 grads are so confident people in power won’t want to risk their own accountability that they’ll shut down the system themselves. And it turns out they were right! After Tayo tells Warren “It’s either an unbiased system or it’s off,” the system is finally deactivated, power is returned to the people, and all predictive arrests and cases based on deductions by the system are nullified immediately, which means Vivienne and the group go free.
Before the series concludes, Tayo stresses in an interview that he set out to change the country’s “incredibly biased law enforcement system into one that reflected equality” and instead inadvertently welcomed a system where every human was made a suspect first. “Many argue the bed I made at the Bureau was misguided, but for the first time in history people from different walks of life found themselves on the same side of America’s justice system together. And that’s a start,” he concludes. And as we mentioned, Poet is at Quantico teaching the Class of 2034 how to navigate one of the most challenging times in FBI history.
Though we won’t be watching Poet and the ’09 agents tackle any new missions, Class Of ‘09 is currently streaming on Hulu for any rewatch needs.