Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | ENDING (RE)EXPLAINED - video Dailymotion

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Unraveling the intricate layers of the latest Benoit Blanc case! Join us as we dive deep into the shocking finale of the new Knives Out installment, "Wake Up Dead Man," re-explaining every twist, turn, and motive. From the locked-room enigma to the surprising culprits and the fate of Eve's Apple, we break down the deeper themes of faith, betrayal, and redemption. Get ready for a full explanation of this complex mystery.

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00:00What is truth? We don't know that, we don't, what exists? Does any of this exist?

00:06So, what is even happening right now?

00:09Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're re-explaining the ending of Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery,

00:16unpacking its deeper meaning and themes.

00:18Naturally, you should watch the film first, because otherwise, spoilers.

00:23This goes way beyond normal police work.

00:26This is something even I have not experienced.

00:30Wake Up Dead Man is a locked room mystery, in which a seemingly impossible crime occurs

00:34in a confined space that a perpetrator somehow infiltrates.

00:38The film references classic locked room mysteries like John Dixon Carr's The Hollow Man,

00:43Sheridan Le Fanu's A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess,

00:47and Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue,

00:50have been cited as the first locked room mysteries ever written.

00:54But what happened that night?

00:55There's not a much, much larger scheme.

01:01Yet there's arguably another that predates them all, the Bible, specifically Matthew 28,

01:06when Jesus' tomb is found empty.

01:08This case is solvable, right?

01:10I'm incapable of not solving a crime.

01:13Oh, you'll see.

01:14It's fun.

01:14Okay, that's a stretch, but it is technically a mystery that happened in a concealed room.

01:20While some believe the body was stolen, Jesus appears to his disciples,

01:24which is all the proof they need of his miraculous resurrection.

01:27A man gives a sermon.

01:33He then, in plain sight of everyone, walks into a sealed concrete box.

01:40And 30 seconds later, that man is lying dead.

01:44Of course, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks is far from a Christ-like figure.

01:48He doesn't even have a cross hanging in his church,

01:51serving as a reminder of his shamed mother, Grace,

01:54who died desperately seeking the diamond, Eve's apple.

01:57Wicks' father took the diamond's whereabouts to his grave,

02:00in more ways than one.

02:02But we're getting ahead of ourselves.

02:04One other person knew where Wicks Sr. stashed the jewel.

02:07As a little girl,

02:08Martha Delacroix saw Wicks consume the forbidden fruit before dying.

02:12Who killed Monsignor Wicks?

02:13Who killed Monsignor Wicks?

02:14All right, stop!

02:16Here's what's gonna happen.

02:17Demlock, Frick and Blanc, and I are gonna ask you all some questions,

02:19and you're gonna ask them, and we're gonna get to the bottom.

02:21Who killed Monsignor Wicks, and why?

02:24Rather than share this information with Grace,

02:26Martha taunted her before she too died.

02:29Martha carried this guilt into adulthood,

02:31getting it off her chest in confession.

02:34What Martha didn't realize was that she confessed to Monsignor Wicks,

02:37who now knows the diamond's location.

02:39This isn't the only discovery Wicks recently unearthed,

02:52as Cy Draven is revealed to be his illegitimate son.

02:55Using Eve's apple,

02:56Draven plans to fund his political career with his father by his side.

03:00Wicks decides to leave his church and his faithful flock,

03:03who would have followed him to hell.

03:05That was until he threatened to destroy all of them.

03:08You don't understand this case.

03:10You need to look at the myth that's being constructed.

03:13This gave everyone a motive when Wicks walked into another room during a sermon,

03:18suddenly dropping dead on Good Friday.

03:20Dr. Nat Sharp discovers a knife in Wicks' back with a red devil head.

03:24While many people had a reason for wanting Wicks dead,

03:27all of the suspects were in the adjacent room when it happened.

03:30It's a case that only Benoit Blanc can crack.

03:37Blanc receives help from Reverend Judd Duplentesy,

03:40who is himself a suspect.

03:42While Duplentesy has a violent past,

03:44he's dedicated his life to redemption and helping others.

03:47Who killed Monsignor Wicks, and why?

03:50And then, that's it!

03:54Now, who wants to go first?

03:56Where Duplentesy wants to bring people together,

03:59Wicks got a kick out of dividing them,

04:01only thinking about himself.

04:03Although morally superior to Wicks,

04:06Duplentesy is no angel himself,

04:08still prone to violent outbursts when pushed too far.

04:11It appears Wicks might have brought out Duplentesy's inner devil

04:14when Blanc deduces that the Reverend took the victim's flask,

04:17which went missing from the crime scene.

04:19The small space where Wicks took his dying breath

04:21isn't the only locked room mystery.

04:23A few days after Wicks dies, around Easter Sunday,

04:27another resurrection supposedly takes place.

04:30Okay, you're freaking me out now.

04:32Wicks was buried alongside his father in a sealed tomb.

04:36As Duplentesy runs through the courtyard on a rainy night,

04:39the tomb opens, and Monsignor Wicks seemingly emerges.

04:43There's some scooby-doo shit going on here.

04:46The mysterious figure punches Duplentesy's lights out.

04:50When he awakens, Duplentesy finds the body of Samson,

04:53the groundskeeper by his side.

04:55Everyone thinks I did it.

04:56I didn't do it.

04:57While the evidence against Duplentesy is piling up,

05:00Blanc eventually turns his attention to the real culprit,

05:03Dr. Sharp,

05:04whose skeleton is discovered in his basement,

05:07alongside Wicks' unearthed corpse.

05:09Blanc pieces together that Sharp poisoned Wicks' flask.

05:12The blood and red devil head were already planted on Wicks before he died,

05:16being triggered after he took a swig from his flask.

05:20Sharp proceeded to insert the knife while inspecting the body.

05:23Although Sharp was unable to reclaim the flask before Duplentesy got to it,

05:27everything else was going to plan.

05:29What is truth?

05:30We don't know that.

05:31We don't...

05:31What exists?

05:32Does any of this exist?

05:34Sharp didn't work alone.

05:36An unsuspecting Samson was convinced to be buried in the tomb in Wicks' place.

05:40Once inside, Samson grabbed Eve's apple from Wicks' senior skeleton,

05:44where it had lain all these decades.

05:46A security camera would capture Samson, disguised as Wicks,

05:50emerging from the tomb, making it look like a miracle.

05:53What they didn't count on was Duplentesy arriving on the scene.

05:57Samson knocked Duplentesy out before he got a good look at his face,

06:00but Sharp wasn't content sharing Eve's apple.

06:03He stabbed Samson and set the unconscious Duplentesy up as the murderer.

06:07A perfectly impossible crime.

06:12This case is solvable, right?

06:14I'm incapable of not solving a crime.

06:17So you'll see.

06:18Yet there's still the matter of how Sharp ended up in a tub with his flesh melted off.

06:22Blanc has the explanation, but he chooses not to say it.

06:26For man or reason, this is the Holy Grail.

06:30Although Blanc isn't a man of faith,

06:31his experience with Duplentesy has shown him how religion can have a positive effect on people.

06:36In the hands of greedy and manipulative false prophets like Wicks,

06:40it can be weaponized.

06:42With a leader like Duplentesy showing people the way, though,

06:45it can bring comfort, redemption, and closure.

06:48Blanc thus decides to let the only remaining accomplice confess.

06:52Once the other suspects exit the church,

06:54Martha spills her soul to Duplentesy and Blanc.

06:57She conspired with Sharp to kill Wicks and take Eve's apple.

07:01Wicks had a vast family fortune.

07:03Killing Samson wasn't part of the plan.

07:08Martha had convinced Samson to participate in the scheme.

07:11He went along, no questions asked.

07:13Samson placed his faith in Martha,

07:15who felt as if she had let an innocent man down.

07:18Martha knew that if Sharp killed Samson, she'd follow.

07:21Dropping by Sharp's house,

07:23Martha pieced together that he spiked her tea.

07:25With his back turned, Martha switched the glasses,

07:28causing Sharp to inadvertently poison himself.

07:30She disposed of the body and snatched Eve's apple.

07:33But Martha can't live with what she's done.

07:36Blanc can see in Martha's eyes that she's poisoned herself.

07:39As much as Blanc enjoys explaining things,

07:41he gives Martha the courtesy of being able to confess her greatest sins before departing this earth.

07:46Martha's fate is similar to that of Ernestine in The Hollow Man.

07:55In that novel, the housekeeper is revealed to have been an accomplice.

07:58She confesses her involvement before taking her life.

08:01The only loose end is what Martha did with Eve's apple.

08:04Duplentisi and Blanc needn't look far,

08:06as Martha drops it after she succumbs to the poison.

08:10Blanc chooses to turn a blind eye,

08:11letting Duplentisi decide what to do with Eve's apple.

08:14The diamond might be Cy Draven's inheritance,

08:17but he'll surely use it to buy as many votes as possible as he climbs the political ladder.

08:22Duplentisi has seen how men like Wick's can ruin lives,

08:25even with a small platform.

08:27Draven would continue his father's example on a national scale.

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08:53Although Draven and his attorneys are suspicious,

08:57they can't prove that Duplentisi took the apple.

08:59Duplentisi resists the temptation to use the diamond for his own gain.

09:03Like the actual apple that Eve bit into,

09:05it's better left untouched by all.

09:08The impossible crime.

09:10Taking over Wick's church,

09:12Duplentisi finally constructs a large cross to hang.

09:15Inside the heart of Jesus lies Eve's apple,

09:18which is where it shall remain.

09:19In doing so, Duplentisi also brings Grace back into the church.

09:23There's just one more mystery.

09:25Where was Hugh Grant's Philip during all of this?

09:27We gotta get him to at least make another cameo in the fourth film.

09:31Yes, is this Benoit Blanc's residence?

09:35Um, what is this regarding?

09:36Well, his office was closed and I really need to speak with him.

09:41It's urgent.

09:42Please.

09:45Blanc?

09:46Is someone here for you?

09:47With a box!

09:50What did you think of Wake Up, Dead Man?

09:52Let us know in the comments.

09:53Of course!

10:12You're welcome.

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