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Everyone's favorite dog-loving killing machine is back for his highly anticipated threequel,
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and now we've been left to piece together the puzzle of another pulse-pounding final
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act.
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Here's the ending of John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, explained.
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Parabellum follows the satisfying formula of the previous Wick flicks, so the amped-up
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events of Act 3 don't come as a total surprise.
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In Morocco, The Elder, the bigwig in The High Table, a super-serious worldwide council of
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crime lords, kicks off the film's final act by giving Wick a choice.
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He can kill Continental NYC manager and Wick ally Winston and live his remaining days as
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a High Table hitman.
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Or he can die in the Sahara.
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After a gruesome act of solidarity, slicing off his ring finger and giving his wedding
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band to The Elder, Wick heads to the Continental, where a surprising switcheroo awaits him,
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courtesy of The High Table.
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Every Wick fan knows that there are two rules in the Wickverse that carry serious consequences
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if they're broken: not honoring a "marker" which is a blood-bound oath and, most importantly,
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conducting assassination business on any Continental property around the globe.
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In Chapter 3's closing act, a mysterious figure known as The Adjudicator voids the latter
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law, declaring the NYC Continental as "deconsecrated" in order to send heavily armored High Table
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thugs into the hotel.
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These super-soldiers are tasked with taking down John Wick, since Wick chose not to take
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down Winston, despite the whole cutting-off-his-own-ring-finger thing.
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This armored assault doesn't work, of course, and, after much fancily-choreographed grappling,
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Wick defeats the High Table goons and The Adjudicator's hired assassin, Zero, and his
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blade-happy crew.
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After the dust settles, The Adjudicator agrees to let Winston stay in the safety of the hotel,
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but lets Winston know that Wick is still very much a thorn in the High Table's side.
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What Winston does next is a bit ambiguous, but it sure looks like betrayal at first glance:
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In the swanky rooftop garden of the Continental, last seen in Chapter 2, Winston suddenly shoots
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Wick several times, causing him to fall to the alley below.
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Did Winston really intend to kill Wick?
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It's left unclear, but there's certainly an argument to be made that Winston would have
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just shot Wick in the head if he truly wanted him dead, instead of shooting him in the bulletproof
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suit he received from The Elder.
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Plus there's the Tick Tock Man all-too-conveniently waiting nearby to help escort Wick's body
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away, not to mention the exchange between Continental concierge Charon and Winston where
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Charon assures his boss that everything's "in place."
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Winston's plan, it appears, was to fake Wick's death with the help of The Bowery King and
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then use Wick to try and take down The High Table.
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With this in mind, and Wick's fall being somewhat slowed by awnings outside the Continental,
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a building Winston knows better than anyone, Wick's survival at the end can't just be a
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case of good fortune.
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Further evidence of this risky plan comes early, when Wick strategically shoots an underworld
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doctor in such a manner that it appears as if he was trying to kill him, but he's left
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alive.
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If Wick knows how to convincingly fake-kill somebody, Winston probably does as well.
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Bottom line: If Winston wants to take down The High Table, he knows the only man capable
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of it is Wick, the unstoppable "boogeyman" every trained killer knows and respects.
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The real question is whether or not Wick, who genuinely seemed surprised when he was
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shot by Winston, was in on it.
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Did Wick fake his reaction?
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Did Wick and Winston work this all out off-screen, during, say, the "DECONSECRATED" montage featuring
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the Mad Men-meets-Suicide Girls receptionists?
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We don't know for sure, but it's a safe bet that Winston chose to save Wick's life by
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faking his death, at least temporarily.
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With no evidence of his demise, Wick's in the same place he was at the end of Chapter
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2: excommunicated and wanted by every killer-for-hire in the Wickverse.
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But this time, Wick appears to be done running, and is likely eager to turn the tide against
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the all-powerful High Table.
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As Charon puts it to Winston after Wick's rooftop tumble: "Well played, sir."
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After Winston's supposed betrayal, Wick's fate is unknown to The High Table until The
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Adjudicator sees that the super assassin's body has gone missing.
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In a twist that everybody and their pitbull saw coming, it turns out that Wick is alive,
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having found refuge in The Bowery King's new hideout.
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The Bowery King, sliced seven times by Zero, a callback to when he hooked Wick up with
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seven bullets back in Chapter 2, tells Wick he's "pissed off."
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Wick agrees with that sentiment, setting up what's sure to be another beautifully choreographed
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and absurdly violent installment in John Wick: Chapter 4.
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Nothing's official regarding John Wick 4 yet, but director Chad Stahelski told Entertainment
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Weekly in 2018 that the Wick well hasn't run dry.
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"If people go see the movie, and it makes money, and they came back to us, Keanu and
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I have ideas for days."
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Interestingly enough, Stahelski later told Indiewire that, despite all appearances, the
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end of John Wick 3 wasn't necessarily intended as a cliffhanger.
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The trusty Wick formula, according to Stahelski, demands that when the end credits roll, Wick
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is either left alive and hunted by the deadliest people on the planet, or he's dead as a doornail.
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"There's no escape for you."
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The director told Indiewire,
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"Do you think he's going to ride off into the f---ing sunset?
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He's killed 300 f--king people and he's just going to [walk away], everything's okay?
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If you're this f---ing guy, if this guy really exist[ed], how is this guy's day going to
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end?
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He's f---ed for the rest of his life.
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It's just a matter of time."
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The somewhat ambiguous ending to Chapter 3 will likely get cleared up in Act 1 of John
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Wick 4.
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But until then, our artisanal gold coins are on Winston waging a "skirmish," with Wick's
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help, on the seemingly invincible High Table.
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"You've got a nasty surprise comin'."
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