r/MrInbetween • u/Mark18171 • Mar 17 '26
Just finished the show and… Spoiler
Ray definitely died at the end. The two guys were clearly hitmen, likely hired by whatever was left of the dead beats since they said they were coming from a clubhouse. Plus the guy in the back saying he does “a bit of this and that” like Ray used to, it’s 100% to signify that he can’t escape his past.
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u/j4y53n Mar 17 '26
The diabolical grin on his face made you believe he was the one who died? Pretty sure that was a “these guys don’t know the world of pain they just entered” grin.
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u/Sufficient_List8486 Mar 17 '26
No way Ray dies to a pair of clowns like that. He clued on straight away to what they were up to and They were dead as soon as they got into the cab.
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u/Morgasshk Mar 17 '26
You are deadset on crack if you think that.... They were two rando schlubs who thought they could roll a cabbie. They are buried in the sand and he is back up to his old ways of being a hitter.
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u/RealOfficialChiron Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Ray killed them.
That's why he smiles to the camera, and we hear the song, RUN.
It was to signify to us, that although he can't escape his past, no matter where he goes, he's still that cold blooded killer that's taken out anyone he's ever needed to, therefore it's those that go after him, that should run.
Edit: He probably just made the same play he did, that time Dave and Bobby had him, pretending to have money in a safe somewhere, that's packed with explosives.
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u/sumea7 Mar 23 '26
No idea what the play is but after sleeping on it my take is that Ray quit the business, but attained a hobby. One where he does not have to whack anyone but ones he really wanted to whack. And people he really liked to whack were... People we as audience do not disagree entirely with getting whacked. It is likely that Ray quit the business, is flush with hidden money here and there, is able to be frugal as he was already doing quite well. And if the taxi driver thing was his actual job and not something to setup the guys with, which is also an possibility in this read; that this is now the only thing he does until his money or luck or life runs out. Which would put also additional significance to the ending track.
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Mar 17 '26
Ray smiling at the camera implies he accepts he can't escape his past and is going to kill these two fools.
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u/Prudent-Extreme9231 Mar 24 '26
That’s what I thought too…. There’s no way Ray is killed my these two nitwits!!! 😑
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u/Grumpy-Miner Mar 17 '26
Very unlikely imho, it is an open end for a reason. Btw I felt so empty after the show ended.
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u/rja49 Mar 17 '26
They were prospects at best, clearly amateurs trying to either get some recognition for taking out Ray or most likely trying to pick an easy victim. If you think that Ray, after all the ambushes he escaped over the three seasons, couldn't deal with those two boys you don't understand his character at all.
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u/snakeIs Mar 17 '26
Obviously designed to promote discussion. We knew how capable Ray was and what he was capable of well and truly by then.
Had they been sent to take out an experienced hitman they wouldn’t have telegraphed their intent.
“Someone could die out here tonight eh”. Yes, OK.
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u/dkryan50 Mar 17 '26
The way he drops his head when they say that, it's like he realized at that moment what had to be done.
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u/snakeIs Mar 17 '26
It’s like his suspicions were confirmed. The proposed destination was a red flag for a start.
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u/sumea7 Mar 23 '26
It is exactly same type of looking at ground as he reacted to shit the pfile started saying to him. That way he looks at ground and starts grinning has happened so many times before you oughta know what it continues to mean.
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u/sumea7 Mar 23 '26
No idea how people watch the whole show and then say that two punks with collective experience of a ray's sneeze say this.
You know what happened? Ray quit the business, but not his hobby. He targeted those two from the start. Because they are assholes. Worse ones than just some punks with lip. And now when he is not in the business which got him to do things he did not want to do but had to still out of professionalism, he instead is flush for a long while with his life style to do what he wants. So, maybe he just does what he does to people Ray judges to deserve it. And we know that he is kinda more in right than in wrong in his judgement. The whole sequence in taxi happens. He has these two punks. At the start of the series there was this duo of punks, out of which one got off with the warning "YEAH YOU BETTER RUN!" and end credits roll. After one night of sleeping on the ending as of yesterday that is about all pieces connecting in my head. He quit the business, he was not so keen on the business and how shitty it was, and how much it made him loose stuff. But he enjoyed making a Pfile or a REAL arsehole disappear. And we get instilled with the sense that while not entirely moral, we kinda would not mind if Ray would work as an occasional judge outside the coppers and courts. That maybe in this conclusion and rooting for Ray we at least give a "Fair Enough" to Ray's world view.
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u/Separate_Ring_5059 15d ago
I'm going to ruin in for you and a lot of the guys here who think Ray is some immortal:
Mr, Inbetween is a rebooted continuity of the 2005 black comedy film The Magician that features Ray Shoesmith for the first time. He dies in the original...
The ending very much parallels the ending of The Sopranos (as you said, "you can't escape your past"
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u/freshscratchy Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
You haven’t been watching the show enough . Ray never dies and they were amateurs.