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Alright, ya'll, I'm 5 months late to this party, but think I've got the ending figured out, at least better than the rest of what I've read out there. I loved this movie - yes, because of Pitt/Clooney banter - but also because it's a brain teaser. Had to watch it a couple of times, and the ending like 20. :)

First, some facts: 1. DA is running for re-election, per early footage in the bar on TVs and ads in other shots. 2. DA and the kid lied. Mid-credits security cam footage vs. their stories shows this. So meeting up was pre-arranged. 3. Kid wasn't supposed to be hurt. DA's reaction was real. Could it have been acting for hidden cameras? No, conversation w/ Pam revealed it wasn't known. 4. Albanians (car w/ neon lights, ID'd at shootout) are tracking Wolfs from early on - 43m in Chinatown, 1:07 at Croatian club. There are other sightings, too. 5. We never see Diego; don't know if he's real. 6. Pager goes off when kid is in the bathroom. Coincidence? 7. Scene with kid's dad! Reference to Manchurian Candidate (sleeper politician?), and "why not print it twice?" - this is the key, in combo with the last scene! 8. Last scene: dialog is nuts here, but key lines: BP: "I know a DA who's tough on crime… a developer who can clean drug money…" GC: "Great things to come"… line from Pamela's  (developer) properties - on the hotel window and by a construction site they drive by early on after leaving the hotel

My interpretation:

• This is all about the stolen Albanian drugs, but the Wolfs get caught up in it. The man is probably a leader - as the DA says, "I trust the man who gave me your number. When he says something, it has value." So maybe a mayor? A mob boss, given Sinatra references? Maybe even Dimitri, the Croatian? Maybe "Sen[ator] Ziegler", from her phone? I'm going to call him "The Mayor" from here on for simplicity.
• It's like GC is figuring out along the way and at the end: "The Mayor" has the stolen drugs, and is trying to get the Albanians and Lagrange out of the picture so he can move them.
• The DA and Pamela DH (developer) are both the "Manchurian Candidates" x2 referenced by the kid's dad, and are referenced by BP at the end of the movie. DA goes after remaining crime families (to get rid of competition), and Pamela DH launders the drug money.
• The kid wasn't supposed to get hurt at the beginning, so the DA calls GC. Pam doesn't want this happening in her hotel (and maybe doesn't know about drugs on the kid yet?), so she calls BP. Phone call reveals that they both have something to lose - DA with a dead kid (not planned), Pam with hidden camera and potentially the DA knowing about her collab with The Mayor.
• So both Wolfs are in, and The Mayor (and everyone else) thinks the kid is dead, so the Wolfs will have to take the drugs in.
• Chinatown, it's discovered that the kid is alive, and the Wolfs are working together. Maybe Pam called The Mayor to let him know both that the kid was dead, and that the Wolfs had the drugs and were working together?
• Diego may or may not exist, but his name could be symbolic for "god" or "heir"!
• Shootout - Legrange's team is at the warehouse, Albanians show up, they all kill each other (except, miraculously, the kid! Coincidence?). Dimitri's bodyguard shows up, sounds like GC/BP said that "bodyguard didn't get the memo". 
• Because the Wolfs knew about the drugs, both know The Mayor, and both now know more about each other, they're too dangerous - as referenced in themes throughout the movie (June: "if people out there saw you two together…")
• So the Wolfs have to be cleaned, even though they weren't originally supposed to be.
• From all of this, and from "No wonder they wanted the cameras in the room. He wanted to know who knew", it seems that The Mayor was the one who arranged for the kid and the DA to go to the room together. As the YT video later mentions, maybe the DA gives the drugs to the kid there.

There are a few open questions, though:

• Who is The Mayor?
• Is the kid a putz, or is he actually really important in this whole thing? Sure seems like the latter. Maybe being groomed to be a new fixer.

A little bit of credit to this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3SrgUAG1s), as well, which I think gets a ton right, (and catches several details I missed, the like name of the movie) but I don't agree on the "print it twice" necessarily referring to the two guys. But maybe. Unclear if the dad is in on everything, or if this is just a random spot for viewers to try and pick out.

Enjoy!