**Warning: spoilers ahead**
The latest Knives Out film Wake Up Dead Man is streaming now, but how does Benoit Blanc solve the murder? Find out below.
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Daniel Craig returns as the southern detective in the film, as he tries to solve another mysterious killing connected to a charismatic priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) and his devout congregation.
Director Rian Johnson returns from the previous two films and this time the starry cast includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack and Thomas Haden Church.
After a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and a brief theatrical run in the last few weeks, Wake Up Dead Man landed on Netflix on Friday (December 12). Check out the trailer below.
It follows on from the 2019 original Knives Out and the 2022 follow up Glass Onion, and Johnson has expressed his desire to return to the universe once again in the future.
In a four-star review of Wake Up Dead Man, NME wrote: “While it’s a little over-elaborate – at 140 minutes, you might well call it ‘The Long Good Friday’ – it’s impossible not to be amused by Craig doing a Scooby Doo impression (no, really) or Scott’s author beset by fans who all look like John Goodman in The Big Lebowski. With Josh O’Connor also absolutely terrific as the punch-drunk priest, Johnson’s mystery movie will be a perfect fireside companion when it hits Netflix in early December. Guaranteed, you won’t find a more fiendish film this winter.”
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery ending explained: how does Benoit Blanc solve the murder?
Blanc is enlisted to investigate the death of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, who was found stabbed inside a side-room in his church as he is in the middle of delivering a service. The detective works alongside the local police chief and O’Connor’s priest to dissect the crime.
The apparent dagger had a devil-head ornament at its crown that O’Connor’s character Jud Duplenticy had taken from a local bar and thrown through the church window. Blanc discovers that a second ornament had also been plucked from the bar, and deduces that Jeremy Renner’s Dr. Nat Sharp had been the one to seize it.
Blanc ascertains that Sharp had planted the dagger, with the ornament atop it, into Wicks’ robe, along with a blood capsule. By lacing Wicks’ drinks flask with tranquiliser, Sharp arranged for the capsule to burst, making it appear that he had been stabbed. Posing as an attending doctor, he used a moment of privacy to stab him for real.
After Blanc reveals the plot, Glenn Close’s Martha Delacroix interrupts his revelation to confess that she orchestrated a plan to stage Wicks’ fake resurrection. She knew that the church’s fortune was contained in a jewel that was swallowed by Wicks’ grandfather when she was a child and hatched a plan to enter the Wicks family tomb to extract it.
As Martha continues her confession, it becomes clear that she has taken a poison and she dies in Duplenticy’s arms and the jewel falls from her hand. One year later, as Duplenticy holds his first mass, it is revealed that he has housed the jewel in a Christ figure at the head of the church.
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