Tiger King: 12 Unanswered Questions Season 2 Must Answer
6. What Happened To Joe Exotic's PETA Complaints?
In the final episode of the series, Joe's new husband, Dillon Passage, gathered a significant amount of information to pass on to PETA in a seeming act of retribution against those who 'framed' his husband.
Presumably the information provided was designed to incriminate a number of those Joe blamed for his incarceration, most notably Jeff Lowe, and quite possible Carole Baskin. The final episode inferred that PETA was chasing this up, with a strong inference made by the filmmakers that more charges would follow. One would think that this would be one plot point a second series would follow closely, especially with PETA already having inspected Doc Antle's facilities.
A secondary topic to be explored in regards the information given to PETA relates to Joe's relationship with Doc Artle himself. As we viewed Dillon collecting the information, the shot picked up information that appeared to be an invoice of some sort related to Doc Artle. As filmmaker Eric Goode mentioned the information, Dillon quickly removed the paperwork from the 'evidence'.
But what information did this paperwork contain? Was it an invoice of some description? And why would Joe have instructed his husband to remove that information? There always seemed to be a friendship of sorts between the Doc and Joe, but this information seemed to suggest that the relationship went a lot further. And there is no other person who deserves greater exploration of his shady history in a future series than the other Tiger King, the Doc himself.