Shocked by the ending of the novel, Susan replies to Edward's email that asks her to suggest a time and place where they can meet while he is in Los Angeles.

He rolls onto the gun, accidentally causing it to go off, and he dies. He fires his gun in the air – presumably to let Andes know where he is – and then falls to the ground. Stumbling around, he realises Ray has died during the night of his wound, so an emotionless Tony takes his gun and staggers out of the shack. He wakes up a few hours later, unable to see. Ray calls him weak and Tony fires the gun, shooting him in the chest, but Ray manages to hit Tony in the face with a fire poker, causing him to collapse to the ground. Tony tracks Ray down to the shack where his wife and daughter were killed and confronts him with a gun. The pair abduct Ray and Lou, but while Lou is shot dead when he attempts to flee, Ray manages to escape. In the story, one of the three men who abducted and murdered Laura and India has been killed in a robbery, but two – Ray and Lou – have yet to face justice for their crime.ĭetective Andes reveals he is dying of cancer, and his wish is to bring the case to an end, outside of the law, if Tony agrees. Universal Nocturnal Animals ending explained: What happens to Edward and Susan? He manages to wander to a house and contact the police – however, when Tony and Detective Andes (Michael Shannon) discover an abandoned shack as part of their search for his family, they find the bodies of India and Laura there, raped and murdered. Those men – Ray, Lou and Turk – kidnap Laura and India and leave Tony by the roadside. Susan begins to read the novel, and the events in the dark and gripping book are played out on screen – it is the story of a man named Tony (also played by Gyllenhaal), who is on a trip with his wife Laura and teenage daughter India when they are run off the road in West Texas by three men. With it is a note saying he will be in Los Angeles and would like to meet with her. It's a book called Nocturnal Animals that he has written and dedicated to her.

A package arrives for her that contains a manuscript from her first husband, Edward (Gyllenhaal) whom she hasn't spoken to in nearly 20 years. The movie introduces us to LA art gallery owner Susan (Adams), who is lonely in her work and also in her marriage to unfaithful businessman Hutton. Based on Austin Wright's novel Tony and Susan, the psychological 2016 drama Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is known for an ambiguous ending that leaves it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions – although there are some clues throughout as to what it all means, and how it ends.

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