Brady re-emerges from hiding for one final gambit

And here we are at the final climax the big event.

Funnily enough, every character pursuing the Mercedes killer thinks their task is already done.

Every character except Bill Hodges, of course.

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In the real world, Bill asks Pete if he thinks Brady is really dead.

Plus, they couldnt find any dental records for Brady, preventing a positive identification of the male corpse.

Thankfully, it doesnt take them too long to piece things together.

Thanks to some ultraviolet scanning, Izzy spots the marks of blood on the wall.

The game is back on.

As the police see it, there are two possible targets for Bradys final attack.

But Bill isnt so sure.

Brady, of course, is alive and (relatively) well.

He calls her a medic, and in exchange she tells him that Brady has shaved his head.

They do, leaving Bill and Brady as the only two left standing.

Without Brady noticing, she sneaks up behind him and starts beating him over the head with it.

When Bill wakes up in the hospital, we get a montage of where everyone else has ended up.

Of course, theres one last person Bill needs to check in on.

Before he leaves, he visits Bradys room one last time.

The doctor there informs him that Brady will probably never wake again.

But then, the record rights itself, and the song starts playing completely Bradys not quite dead.

Im not sure how I feel about this finale.

Mercedesdenied us a real cathartic fight between Bill and Brady.