Warning: spoilers ahead.
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The Ready or Not 2 ending is pretty much predictable if you’ve seen (and liked) the first movie. I mean, there’s no way the filmmakers would not let Grace survive at the end of it, right? But then again, it is possible since we have Faith in the picture. It could simply be a passing-of-the-torch type of thing in case directors Matt Bertinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet decide to surprise audiences and actually kill Grace. The directing duo would know how to pull it off well after what they did to Scream.
Ready or Not 2 took off literally minutes after the events of the first movie. After surviving the Le Domas’ family’s deadly game of hide-and-seek, Grace made it to dawn. She steps out of the mansion, covered in blood and chunks of what remains of her in-laws and lights a cigarette. Exhaustion and her injuries caught up with her and she collapses on the ground.
She wakes up in a hospital, cuffed and considered a person of interest in the investigation involving the mysterious events at the Le Domas mansion. She also discovers her estranged sister, Faith, who she forgot to remove as her emergency contact.
What she didn’t know was a new game is starting and she’s still a part of it. A new set of families are currently preparing for another hunt. But one family decided to break the rules and went ahead and tried to ambush Grace at the hospital. That failed. Grace comes to a shocking realization that her nightmare isn’t over.
And she isn’t wrong.
So what happens at the end of the movie?
Grace proposes to Titus Danforth to save her and sister
In an early scene, Wan Chen Xing admits to Grace she doesn’t want to kill her but instead wants to work with her. At the start of the movie, when the families were activated, Wan Chen was seen calling someone, giving out the instructions “assemble all my lawyers.”
Now, inside the banquet hall, she reveals that her lawyers found a loophole in the by laws that says the Bride can marry into any of the family in the Council. The Bride not only ends the hunt, she also gets to share with the power as the family will automatically take the High Seat. She refused initially because she didn’t want to sell her soul to the Devil.
But in the final act, Faith was captured by the Danforth twins and Titus was so ready to kill her. Grace remembered that detail and used that to save her sister. She proposed marriage to Titus.
At this point in the movie, Titus is no longer the weak, younger twin brother. There’s murder in his eyes and he’s craving for the taste of violence. A few moments earlier, Ursula tells Grace and Faith to kill him when they were cornered in gunpoint. Ursula later claims she was just stalling but somehow it made Titus wary of his twin sister. It was since this moment we see a shift in Titus. He became more violent. There’s a lot more fury in his eyes.
So Titus accepts Grace’s proposal for marriage. She and Faith were spared from the kill. Ursula tried to convince Grace to work with her in reigning in Titus; Titus overhears their conversation so he kills his twin sister. “There’s no rule about killing a family member,” he tells Grace.
At the ceremony, Grace and Titus took their vows. Titus was given the sigil as the new High Seat of the Council. But that was only for a moment because Grace takes a pen and repeatedly stabs Titus in the jugular, killing him. She now becomes the new High Seat.
So what does this mean?
After confirming with the Lawyer, she basically runs the world now. She holds all the power to make any decisions as the only living Danforth (aside from cousin Kip). But her first official act was to remove herself from the organization. Now that the seat is empty again, anyone from the remaining families and even those present have a claim to the throne. As long as they wear the ring.
The only problem is, Grace threw the ring down the pit (where her late husband’s body lie). And since there are only three minutes before dawn, someone must get it because if no one is wearing the ring by that time, Le Bail will not be pleased. And that usually means someone ends up exploding.
By the end of the movie, everyone, except the Lawyer and the MacCaullay sisters get out of the lodge intact. Grace and Faith, together with their new pet goat, walk out of the Danforth property, eager to start a new life together.
Did Grace get away scot-free?
As the legal head of the Danforth family, it seems like Grace is now a very wealthy woman. Although she relinquished any power she inherited from her husband, it’s most likely that she retains everything else. Besides, there’s no one to claim the Danforth wealth. What we’re sure of is that she owns the hotel and resort and the telephone company.
Not only that, a few hours ago, she was the only individual who has legal claim to the fortunes of the Le Domas family. This makes her a very, very rich woman.
Should there be a Ready or Not 3, it seems unlikely Grace plays a part in a new hunt. Unless a new loophole in the by laws is discovered. Could it be also possible that since everyone who had a claim to the High Seat is dead, her being the only survivor overrides her recusal. Another possibility is a new set of families will be chosen by the Lawyer and Grace can play a role in it.
If ever another movie happens, it would be nice to see how all her newfound wealth will come into play.
What happens to the Lawyer?
For some reason, the Lawyer is immune to the spontaneous combustion that happens to every member of the Council. His smile at the end is cryptic. It’s interesting how despite having a significant role within the organization, he doesn’t seem fazed by the fact that the entire Council has been obliterated. Isn’t he afraid of Mr. Le Bail’s wrath? Or does he gain something from everyone’s demise? Maybe it catapults him to a higher, more powerful position?
Did Martina die?
After becoming the official head of the Rajan clan, she chose to leave the Danforth lodge. But it seems like she didn’t break any rule that would warrant a sudden death. It’s very likely, however, that when everyone died in the end, she must have, too.
Who now holds the High Seat?
Since Grace withdrew her membership in the Council and everyone is dead, no one is the official High Seat. With the seat empty, the only other possible candidate would be the Lawyer. It is also very possible that no clause on the by laws exist about this scenario since, as the Lawyer said, they haven’t explored the possibility of someone giving up that much power.
Since everyone’s gone, there is officially no Council. Only Grace and the Lawyer remain. And Mr. Le Bail. But no one’s stopping him from assembling a new set since there’s no shortage of evil rich families in the world today, is it?
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is still playing in cinemas.