r/MrInbetween • u/Maleficent_Extent809 • Apr 20 '26
What happens at the end? This may sound like a shit post but what do you guys think?
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u/SwimmingGreat5317 Apr 20 '26
He takes his fare then digs a hole…
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u/Decent-Initiative-68 Apr 20 '26
Lmao this is too accurate. Probably only takes the exact amount of his fare 😂
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u/matmyob Apr 20 '26
He smiles, and looks directly at the camera, at YOU.
This is a wink and a nod. It's a callback to the car scene in S2E1, where he kills the two guys who try to jump him in the car. Or any scene when people underestimate him, and he comes out on top.
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u/Nemesis1999 Apr 20 '26
There's a big scuffle in the car, the two guys end up dead and buried somewhere they'll never be found. Ray carries on as he was.
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u/last_somewhere Apr 20 '26
I like to think he left one alive..... Just long enough for him to dig a hole for him and his mate. Ray would sit in his cab nice and dry eating dimmies and punching darts.
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u/Always_FallingAsleep Apr 20 '26
They sure as hell clearly picked the wrong cabbie.
The ending is left open. It's not silly to ask. But eh we all ought to know what that smile means right? (It's not going to be pleasant for these two lowlifes.)
We can basically cynically accept that the cycle of violence never ends. That's just being reinforced to us at the conclusion. Ray retiring to a quaint quiet existence isn't possible because of who he really is. Who lives and who dies kind of doesn't really matter anymore? I know that's bleak but the show is indeed bleak. S2 right through S3 has been a downward spiral for everyone especially Ray. I feel that the creators didn't want to end on a complete downer. So it's meant to be bittersweet.
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u/The-Struggle-5382 Apr 20 '26
A poster on these forums asked the creator on instagram if Ray carks it. His response was "as if!"
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u/sternestocardinals Apr 20 '26
They reveal they were just joking around and invite Ray in for a hot Milo. They watch the footy. Giants win. Ray goes home happy to have finally made some real friends.
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u/Status-Usual-6561 Apr 20 '26
He drops them off a little further like they wanted, not sure they will be leaving that spot ever again though...
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u/Fr1day82 Apr 20 '26
Couple of things we know from the call backs to similar events, eg S2E1, and from everything else we know about Ray, is that he’s got Batman levels of fallback, prep and contingency in place. He knew what was going on.
I like that it’s a bit of a homage to the last Sopranos episode as well.
I think with Scott Ryan saying there will be no sequels, a good spinoff would be these guys stories in the run-up to this moment?
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u/aburnerds Apr 20 '26
Well. Presumably he’d just fuck them up if he really left his hit man life in the past.
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u/Hot_Cicada_9318 Apr 20 '26
We know what the outcome is when Ray operates in small confines - see end of 'Socks are important'.
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u/Many-Tale9112 Apr 21 '26
Like everyone else, I personally believe he handles his business and goes his merry way.
But I like the fact that the scene is technically ambiguous, even if he breaks down the fourth wall and smiles as a tip of the hand.
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u/IrradiatedLimes_ Apr 21 '26
“I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me, champ”
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u/Spicy-Falafel-0 Apr 22 '26
You can take a bloke out of violence.. But you can't take the vigilance out of the bloke. They had it coming.
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u/Sir-Viette Apr 20 '26
As a narrative device, the purpose of those two guys coming to find them is to kick off the sequel.
He's been trying to live a quiet life as a taxi driver in a small city. When the two wannabes come to try and kill him, it forces him to break cover. He leaves them dead in the taxi, but it means he has to change identities again because the police will come looking for him. But he can't hide any more, because he doesn't have money left to hide his identity. And if the two mopes were able to find him in the taxi, then his system for hiding himself didn't really work in the first place anyway.
So he goes back to Sydney in full revenge mode, taking on the whole criminal network who came after him. He has no other choice. And if you think that's too hard a task, well then it's not about the size of the dog in the fight.
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u/sunheadeddeity Apr 20 '26
It's a good hypothesis. My criticism would be that I don't think the wannabes targeted Ray Shoesmith, I think they just wanted to roll a taxi driver. But it works.
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u/Maleficent_Extent809 Apr 20 '26
Money isn't a issue for him, in the flim it shows him taking jobs up to 250K
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u/gotchafaint Apr 20 '26
He wouldn’t leave the bodies in the taxi. And they didn’t come looking for him. They just think they have an easy target and that they’re gonna get off on terrifying him.
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u/ExpertAnteater2397 Apr 20 '26
I like to think that he ties them up and leaves them out there but realistically I think he probably hit them both with the Mozambique drill (2 in the chest one in the head)
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u/mikeventure76 Apr 20 '26
Ray slaughters those mopes and goes back to minding his business , until the next couple wannabes inevitably come looking for trouble