{"id":18968,"date":"2022-07-22T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1683439"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:24:30","slug":"the-gray-man-ending-explained-how-netflix-movie-sets-up-sequels","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-gray-man-ending-explained-how-netflix-movie-sets-up-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gray Man ending explained: How Netflix movie sets up sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 22 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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It\u2019s been well documented that The Gray Man<\/a> is Netflix\u2019s most expensive original feature film to date \u2013 with more than $200 million having been spent on Joe and Anthony Russo\u2019s new action thriller.<\/p>\n

With a budget like that, you\u2019d certainly expect a few fireworks, and the film quite literally delivers on that front \u2013 with all manner of explosions as Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling take part in a gripping cat and mouse chase.<\/p>\n

Of course, when the film was first announced, the Russo brothers and Netflix outlined their desire for it to develop into the next major action franchise, so you might be wondering how the first film sets up future instalments.<\/p>\n

Read on for everything you need to know about the ending to The Gray Man, and what it means for the future \u2013 and naturally, spoilers follow<\/strong>.<\/p>

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Most of The Gray Man\u2019s runtime is essentially building up to an epic showdown between Sierra Six (Gosling) and his adversary \u2013 the psychopathic Lloyd Hansen (Evans), who has been hired by the CIA to murder him.<\/p>\n

Towards the film\u2019s latter stages, the hard-drive Sierra Six has been protecting \u2013 which contains incriminating evidence about the activities of the CIA \u2013 is stolen by another adversary. At the same time Claire (Julia Butters), the 12-year-old niece of his handler Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), has been kidnapped by Lloyd and his men.<\/p>\n

And so a massive shootout at a castle ensues, at the end of which Six\u2019s CIA ally Dani (Ana de Armas) is able to retrieve the hard-drive, before Six finally finds himself one-on-one with Lloyd \u2013 in the middle of a maze in the castle\u2019s grounds.<\/p>\n

At the star of their encounter, the villain has Claire at gunpoint but he agrees to let her go so that he can duke it out with Six. Their final battle takes place mainly with fists rather than weapons \u2013 although at one point Lloyd stabs Six and almost succeeds in drowning him, before the latter regains the upper hand and strangles him almost to death.<\/p>\n

But in the end, the final blow comes from a rather unexpected source \u2013 CIA bigwig Suzanne (Jessica Henwick), who appears on the scene and fatally shoots Lloyd in the chest. Quite a turn-up for the books given he had seemingly been working for her\u2026<\/p>\n

How The Gray Man sets up sequels<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Chris Evans and Jessica Henwick in The Gray Man Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption> Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Suzanne\u2019s decision to shoot Lloyd is crucial in terms of setting up future instalments. After she has killed him, she explains her motivations for doing so to Six: she had previously been at Harvard with both Lloyd and her boss Carmichael (Reg\u00e9-Jean Page), and the friendship between the two men had prevented her from being able to warn Carmichael about the threats Lloyd posed.<\/p>\n

Her plan now is for the dead Lloyd to take the blame for everything that has gone wrong \u2013 and she forces Six to comply by shooting him in the kneecap and insisting he returns to prison (although she does promise Claire\u2019s safety in return).<\/p>\n

Thanks to this plan, Suzanne and Carmichael are both cleared of any wrongdoing, and the latter is successful in destroying the aforementioned hard drive which contained evidence of his past misdeeds.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s also clear that Suzanne and her boss are increasingly not seeing eye to eye, especially given he has constantly undermined her throughout their careers working together \u2013 all the way back to their time at Harvard.<\/p>\n

This dynamic in their relationship seems sure to further factor into the events of the next film, when they\u2019ll undoubtedly find themselves up against Six for a second time.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because, in the very final moments of the film, we learn that Six is on the run once again \u2013 having broken out of prison, reunited himself with Claire and escaped somewhere in a black truck.<\/p>\n

As for where exactly they\u2019ve gone, we\u2019ll have to wait for the sequel to find out\u2026<\/p>\n

The Gray Man is available now on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n