With all episode of The Consultant<\/a> now available on Prime Video<\/a>, it\u2019s fair to say the eight episode run is absolutely chock full of mysteries and twists.<\/p>\n While the series leaves a lot unanswered and left up to interpretation, there are some specific answers given as to what\u2019s behind the mysterious and creepy goings-on at CompWare.<\/p>\n But just who is Christoph Waltz\u2019s character Regus Patoff? Why did the boss of CompWare hire him? And what happened to Patti?<\/p>\n Read on for everything you need to know about the ending of The Consultant.<\/p>\n This article contains mature themes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n At the very start of the season, Patoff arrives immediately after Sang, the boss of CompWare, dies. He says that he was hired as a consultant to improve business at CompWare \u2013 in fact, he has the contract to prove it.<\/p>\n However, in hacking into the CCTV, CompWare employees Craig and Elaine find out there is something more, something far darker, going on. They see that Sang did indeed sign the contract after having a meeting with Patoff, and that after doing so he had fellated Patoff in his office, seemingly having been broken down over the course of a short interaction with the man.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t until midway through the season that we find out just what happened in that meeting. It turns out that Patoff arrived without an appointment, and waited all day to see Sang.<\/p>\n Once in the meeting Patoff revealed that he knew CompWare was in financial trouble and was mere weeks away from going out of business. He also knew that Sang was suicidal and desperate to secure his own legacy, having reached such acclaim and success at a young age.<\/p>\n Patoff revealed that he could offer him a very specific service \u2013 he would come into the company as a consultant to improve its business and secure Sang\u2019s legacy, but only after Sang was dead.<\/p>\n Sang signed the contract and Patoff said he would return soon \u2013 after all, now he knew his legacy would be secured, there was no reason for Sang to stay alive.<\/p>\n Patoff offered him an additional service to arrange his death for him, which Sang agreed to. It seems that Sang\u2019s death at the start of the series, being shot by a child who was visiting the office, was somehow arranged by Patoff.<\/p>\n Patoff said he would usually charge a fee for this service, but given the state of the company\u2019s finances, would wave it as long as Sang fellated him \u2013 showing his obsession for power and dominance, and his ability to manipulate people.<\/p>\n While it had at first seemed that Patoff might have murdered Sang\u2019s mother, who arrived at CompWare intending to shut it down, it turned out he had actually set her up in a flat, taught her English and given her Patti\u2019s phone on which to play Mr Sang\u2019s Jungle Odyssey, the company\u2019s new game.<\/p>\n Craig and Elaine found this out when Craig got a text from his fianc\u00e9e Patti\u2019s phone asking for money, a text sent by Mama Sang which was meant for Patoff.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, although it initially seemed that Patoff was seducing Patti, he had in fact set her to work in the records room, seemingly through some sort of hypnosis or mind-control. She was completing and typing out records on the company\u2019s staff, including Craig.<\/p>\n Patoff certainly seems to have the ability to manipulate people\u2019s will. For instance, the final level of his game, Mr Sang\u2019s Jungle Odyssey, appeared to be so difficult that it drove (almost) anyone who played it to self-harm through sheer anger.<\/p>\n Midway through the series, Craig tracks down Frank Flores, who he is told has answers regarding Regus Patoff. He finds that Frank is a gold merchant, who was tasked by Patoff time and again through the use of intermediaries to create a gold skeleton, bone by bone, piece by piece.<\/p>\n The workload and intensity of the jobs took a toll on Frank and he didn\u2019t leave the house for a year after completing the skull, during which time his passing trade disappeared, the neighbourhood died out and his wife left him.<\/p>\n As Craig is leaving Frank\u2019s shop it is trashed by three invading goons, all wearing exotic animal masks \u2013 inkeeping with the theme of CompWare\u2019s new game, Mr Sang\u2019s Jungle Odyssey.<\/p>\n Craig escapes but what happened to Frank is unclear. Elaine says a fatal robbery hasn\u2019t been reported on the news, suggesting it was somehow in Craig\u2019s mind \u2013 or Patoff has covered it up. Craig\u2019s house was also broken into around this time, making him paranoid.<\/p>\n In the final episode, we find out just what became of the gold pieces. Craig faces off with Patoff on the glass bridge next to his office, and after Patoff taunts him, Craig smashes the bridge with a mallet, sending Patoff plummeting to the ground.<\/p>\n He survives and later is seen to have got away, but one of his toes is severed. Craig picks it up and dissects it, finding inside, you guessed it \u2013 a solid gold bone. He had the gold skeleton inside of him all along.<\/p>\n In all honesty \u2013 who knows? By the end of the series things aren\u2019t much clearer than they were at the start. We know his name is fake \u2013 it\u2019s taken from the side of a postage box, saying \u201cregistered at the United States patent office\u201d. We know he appears to have a gold skeleton, made in pieces by Frank Flores (explaining Patoff\u2019s weight and his struggle going up glass stairs).<\/p>\n We also know he does what he did at CompWare time and again. He also offered his services to Pterodactyl Robotics at the end of the series, which is a company initially set up to develop the first \u201chumanoid workforce\u201d. Is Patoff a robot? Again, it\u2019s unclear.<\/p>\n In the end the real twist of the story is that, in actual fact, beyond these mysteries he does actually seem to be what he says he is \u2013 a consultant, offering a specific service which he follows through on.<\/p>\n He did improve business at CompWare. He did secure Sang\u2019s legacy, through the success of Mr Sang\u2019s Odyssey and his constant presence in the building (he had a statue made of him).<\/p>\n He also scouted out a new manager. It appears that he was first testing Craig, but quickly found him to be unsuitable and easily broken. Instead, he settled on Elaine, who proved herself to be ruthless and willing to do anything to succeed, after she arranged to have an elephant let free on the streets of LA.<\/p> In the end Patoff left Sang\u2019s former office with Elaine\u2019s name engraved on the outside \u2013 clearly marking her out as his chosen successor.<\/p>\n A final tag scene showed us that the boy who murdered Sang was able to complete the final level of Mr Sang\u2019s Jungle Odyssey, revealing that inside the golden egg at the end was, in fact, a gold skeleton. What any of that means, well\u2026 you\u2019re on your own with that one.<\/p> Why did Sang hire Regus Patoff?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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