Eddie Redmayne has a job to finish.

In PEOPLE’s exclusive clip from the two-episode season 1 finale of Peacock’s hit series The Day of the Jackal, Redmayne, who plays the titular assassin-for-hire, has the lives of more than just his target riding on him — and he’s willing to lay it all on the line to maintain his perfect track record.

The Jackal — or Charles, as his wife Nuria (Úrsula Corberó) calls him — is back home in Cádiz, and he has some explaining to do.

“Did you think you could live two parallel lives?” Nuria asks him.

“I honestly never thought about it,” he admits. “I’m gonna stop. It’s over. Done. Finished. It’s done.”

Nuria doesn’t exactly take his words for it though, as she knows there’s a “but” coming.

Úrsula Corberó as Nuria in ‘The Day of the Jackal’ episode 9.Peacock

“There’s one more job that I have to finish,” the Jackal admits.

“I f—ing knew it,” Nuria says in Spanish at her husband’s confession.

He insists he only needs “24 hours” for this last job — which is to successfully take out UGC (Khalid Abdalla) after a failed attempt in Tallin, Estonia — and Nuria walks away, claiming she needs a “coffee,” when really, it seems like she needs to get as far away from her husband as she can.

Eddie Redmayne in ‘The Day of the Jackal’ episode 9.Peacock

Going into the two-episode finale of the series — which is a new take on the character first introduced in Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel of the same name — the risks for the Jackal are higher than ever, as he needs to prove his worth to his latest client who hired him to take out UGC before the entrepreneur successfully launches River, a platform for economic-reckoning worldwide.

MI-6 agent Bianca (Lashana Lynch) is still hot on his tail, and Nuria and her mother and brother have learned more than he ever wanted them to about his line of work, putting his whole family — and his young son, Carlito — at risk.

Eddie Redmayne as the Jackal in ‘The Day of the Jackal’. Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited

The series, which premiered Nov. 7, was renewed for a second season last month after becoming the biggest Sky Original series ever.

Earlier this week, the series earned two Golden Globe nominations: best television series – drama; and Redmayne, 42, earned a nod for best performance by a male actor in a television series – drama.

The two-episode season finale of The Day of the Jackal premieres Thursday, Dec. 12 at 3 a.m. ET on Peacock.