{"id":45090,"date":"2024-02-02T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1983937"},"modified":"2024-02-02T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:02:27","slug":"argylle-ending-explained-is-it-set-in-the-kingsman-universe","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/argylle-ending-explained-is-it-set-in-the-kingsman-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Argylle ending explained: Is it set in the Kingsman universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new film from Matthew Vaughn posed a lot of questions ahead of its release. <\/p>

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

Published: Friday, 02 February 2024 at 10:30 AM<\/p>

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*Warning: Spoilers for Argylle ahead.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew Vaughn\u2019s new film Argylle<\/a> is now showing in UK cinemas \u2013 and it\u2019s safe to say the film posed a lot of questions ahead of its release.<\/p>\n

Just who is <\/em>the real Agent Argylle? Does the film have anything to do with Vaughn\u2019s Kingsman franchise? Who is the mysterious Elly Conway who wrote the book Argylle is inspired by? What does Taylor Swift<\/a> have to do with it all?<\/p>\n

Well, the film doesn\u2019t quite answer all of these mysteries but it does clear up a fair few of them, as well as teeing up some new questions of its own.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve seen the film and need some clarification \u2013 read on to have the Argylle ending explained. But if you\u2019re yet to watch it, be warned: there are obviously major spoilers ahead<\/strong>.<\/p>

Who is the real Agent Argylle?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Bryce Dallas Howard is Elly Conway with Samuel L Jackson in ARGYLLE, directed by Matthew Vaughn.<\/span><\/figcaption> Universal<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Before we get to the ending, we should first address the question that was on every film fan\u2019s lips after watching the trailer: just who is the real Agent Argylle?<\/p>\n

In the trailer, we are introduced to spy novelist Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard), who is struggling to come up with the ending of the latest novel in her popular Argylle series when she gets swept up in a very real espionage plot.<\/p>\n

It ends with Samuel L Jackson\u2019s character telling her that there is actually a real<\/em> Agent Argylle to whom he will now introduce her \u2013 but, naturally, the trailer opts not to give the big reveal away.<\/p>\n

Well, the actual answer is that the real Agent Argylle is none other than Elly Conway herself: before the film started she had been a highly successful spy but had been involved in a nasty accident and subsequently lost all of her memory.<\/p>\n

And her name as a spy? Agent Rachel Kyle, or agent R Kyle. R Kyle = Argylle. Get it?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, it turns out that she has been manipulated by an evil organisation known as The Division \u2013 including agents posing as her parents (Bryan Cranston and Catherine O\u2019Hara) \u2013 to write her spy novels, and she is unknowingly drawing on her real memories to do so.<\/p>\n

The plan was for her to eventually give away the location of a file that incriminated the organisation and which she had been about to obtain shortly before the accident which had resulted in her memory loss.<\/p>\n

Argylle ending explained: How did Keira survive?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Ariana DeBose as Keira in Argylle<\/span><\/figcaption> Universal<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

At the end of the film \u2013 following an explosive, extremely colourful action set-piece on a ship that serves as The Division\u2019s HQ \u2013 Elly\/Rachel and Aidan (Sam Rockwell) have got their hands on the file and are in the process of sending it to their boss, former CIA director Alfred Solomon (Samuel L Jackson).<\/p>\n

But just as they are in the process of sending it, Ruth (O\u2019Hara) reappears and starts to play music from a music box that had previously been used to brainwash Elly\/Rachel while she was recovering from her accident.<\/p>\n

This allows her to essentially hypnotise and manipulate her, and once she has done, so she orders her to kill Aidan and stop the file from being sent.<\/p>\n

Elly\/Rachel obliges and a struggle ensues, but just as it looks like The Division is going to succeed and she is about to crush Sam\u2019s skull under her boot, Keira (Ariana DeBose) \u2013 the good guys\u2019s erstwhile colleague who had long been thought dead \u2013 appears from nowhere and shoots Ruth, breaking the hypnosis and allowing them to send the file after all.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Keira had survived a previous mission because the bullet that had hit her had passed through a very specific part of her heart which meant her wound was not fatal.<\/p>\n

Elly\/Rachel explains that this is the same way that she\u2019d brought back a character in her novels who had been based on Keira, and she\u2019d done so based on a tip from a fan. And it turns out that that fan was none other than Keira herself!<\/p>\n

Argylle post-credits scene: Is it set in the Kingsman universe?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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After the film ends, there is one more twist, thanks to an intriguing post-credits scene.<\/p>\n

The scene takes place in a pub named The King\u2019s Man, and shows us a young man (Louis Partridge) who introduces himself as \u2018Aubrey Argylle\u2019, following which we are told that a film based on the first Argylle novel is coming soon.<\/p>\n

Due to the pub\u2019s name, we can probably assume that this film \u2013 if it is really happening \u2013 will also have ties to Vaughn\u2019s Kingsman films, and therefore combine the two universes.<\/p>\n

This had first been suggested by Vaughn back in August last year, when he explained during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a> that he had plans for Kingsman and Argylle to crossover.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just like the challenge of launching new intellectual property (IP),\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s harder, but it\u2019s more fun. Argylle, as I said, we\u2019ve got the book coming out\u2026and we have an Argylle 2 planned. So, there is a universe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do\u2026 [What] Marvel [is to] superheroes, we want to be to spies. We\u2019ve got the Kingsman on the right. Argylle is on the left. We\u2019ve got an idea for something in the middle, as well. We\u2019ve got these competing franchises in a galaxy that one day might meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presumably, the film teased in the credits scene \u2013 about the Aubrey Argylle who appears in Conway\u2019s books \u2013 is the \u201csomething in the middle\u201d Vaughn refers to here. We\u2019ll keep you updated when more information emerges on that front\u2026<\/p>\n