Natasha Lyonne’s dog Rootbeer is a star in ‘Poker Face’ season 2 finale

This article contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of Poker Face, “The End of the Road.”

A (canine) star is born in this week’s Poker Face season 2 finale.

That performing pooch just happens to be leading lady and executive producer Natasha Lyonne’s 15-year-old maltipoo, Rootbeer, who adorably pops up at the end of the episode, and even gets her own credit afterwards as “the scamp.”

To recap, the finale picks up where the prior episode left off, with Charlie (Lyonne) and Alex (Patti Harrison) on the run to find Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman), whom they believe is the only person who can help clear Alex’s name for the murder of Beatrix’s son, Kirby (Haley Joel Osment).

When they make it to the safe house where Hasp is living, Charlie learns that Alex is really the elusive assassin known as the Iguana, who actually was responsible for the scheme to kill Beatrix’s son in an elaborate attempt to find and kill Beatrix to stop her from testifying against the mob families. To that end, she is successful, and Beatrix is found shot dead in her living room. Much to Charlie’s horror, she also learns that Alex is essentially the Moriarty to her Sherlock — the one person who has the ability to lie to Charlie.

Right as Alex is about to kill Charlie, the fire she set earlier in the house finally sets off the fire alarm, thus alerting the FBI to the location of the safe house. Alex kidnaps Charlie and drives the two of them away in Charlie’s beloved Barracuda. A prolonged car chase sequence ends very Thelma & Louise-style, with the car driven off the edge of a cliff.

Charlie manages to dive out the side door in the nick of time, and Agent Luca Clark (Simon Helberg) eventually finds and saves her from the cliff’s edge. He has some bad news though: He tells her that, because of everything that happened, she is unfortunately now wanted by the FBI, but he helps give her a head start. When the remains of the Barracuda are found later, the FBI finds no bodies in the car, insinuating that somehow the Iguana is still out there, too.

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Later, on the side of the road, Charlie finds a small dog — Rootbeer! — wandering in the middle of the highway. She promptly scoops her up and together the two new companions hitchhike in an 18-wheeler, and the season ends with Charlie once more on the run, but this time from the feds and not the mob.

The scene with Lyonne’s beloved pup sounds a bit familiar. Lyonne told Entertainment Weekly for our Poker Face cover that Rootbeer was just 5 months old when the Orange Is the New Black alum “kidnapped her” and started bringing the dog to the set of the Netflix hit. As for her pup’s antics on the Poker Face set, “Rootbeer is what you call a nepo baby,” Lyonne said. “I’ve never had that joy, but I’m glad that she does by proxy. She does a real good job, Rootbeer.”