![]() And there’s a hint of it as we see the dog turning off-screen. Of course, scenes of people standing over the graves of heroes who didn’t actually die is a common motif in modern action cinema, so we keep waiting for that inevitable reveal. Then he too walks away, as the camera cranes up. ![]() Winston stays behind, touches John’s grave, and mutters, “Farewell, my son,” in Russian. The King chuckles to himself as he walks away. “I never thought I’d see the day,” the King says, before asking Winston if he thinks John is in Heaven or hell. “Loving Husband,” the gravestone reads, just as John himself had requested earlier in the film. ![]() After that, we cut to New York, with Winston (Ian McShane) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), along with John’s dog, standing over his grave, where he’s been buried next to his late wife, Helen. We do, in fact, see Wick, seriously wounded and bleeding after his literal pistols-at-dawn duel with Donnie Yen’s blind assassin, Caine (not to mention an entire night of getting shot, punched, kicked, and run over by seemingly everyone in Paris), keel over, lifeless, on the steps of the Sacré-Cœur basilica. We are recirculating it now that John Wick: Chapter 4 is available to own digitally. This piece was originally published in March. That final shot and the end-credits stinger might be more closely connected than they appear. ![]()
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