I’m Still Piecing Together How ‘Wolfs’ Ends
It’s a simple cleanup job. Stay calm, dispose of the dead body, and escape unseen. Or so that’s what we thought. In the new Apple TV+ crime comedy Wolfs, the “cleaner” (played by George Clooney) has no idea that he’s walking into a giant trap.
Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) directed the film, which stars Clooney as a lone-wolf fixer and Brad Pitt as another “wolf” who is called in to do the same exact job. Why? Well, the movie eventually gets there in its final moments—but not before starting a gang war over stolen drugs. If you’ve finished the film and still don’t know what the hell happened, then you’re in the right place.
What Happens in Wolfs?
The story starts when a district attorney named Margaret (Amy Ryan) has a one-night stand in a hotel that goes horribly wrong. Her date (played by Austin Abrams) takes some drugs and jumps on the bed, then he trips and falls into the bar cart. He’s unconscious, bloody, and presumed dead. Freaking out, she calls a number given to her by a trusted friend that leads to a professional cleaner (Clooney)—someone who will make her little problem go away. Shortly after he arrives, the situation gets more complicated when another cleaner (Pitt) shows up. The hotel room is equipped with secret security cameras that record their every move. So the hotel manager called in her own cleaner (Pitt) to clean up the first cleaner’s (Clooney) mess.
With me so far? We’re just getting started. Pitt’s character finds four massive packages of drugs in the dead man’s backpack. This, obviously, complicates things. Not only must they get rid of the body, but now they must return the drugs as well. But whose drugs are these? Thankfully, the dead man wakes up—as it turns out, he wasn’t dead. He can lead them to the source.
Sadly, he only gives the two even more problems. The drugs aren’t even his. He’s subbing in as a delivery mule for his friend, because his friend’s mom just passed away. He’s supposed to hand the drugs over to a gangster named Legrange, but the address for the meetup spot will be sent to a pager kept at a bar. So Clooney and Pitt must take this person to the bar to retrieve the pager, get the address, and drop off the drugs, then most likely kill him to cover their tracks. In the rest of Wolfs, that’s pretty much what happens. There’s a minor hitch at the bar when the two cleaners run into a violent Croatian gangster they both worked for in the past, but you’ll later find out that this is all part of the plan as well.
How Does Wolfs End?
When the trio finally make it to the drop-off point, a massive shootout goes down. The Croatian gangsters followed them, but Legrange’s men get confused. All the gangsters kill each other. Only the two cleaners and their new friend remain. Feeling bad for him, Clooney’s character lets the kid live, and they drop him off at home.
At a diner the next morning, Pitt’s character continues to find it suspicious that there was a tracker in one of the drug packages. Then he says a line to Clooney’s character that the person who first hired him told him before he took the job. Clooney realizes that it’s the same thing his contact said to him. So...they must have the same contact.
The whole operation was a setup, right from the very beginning. Though the plans kept changing thanks to countless variables, the night was always supposed to end with a shootout that left all parties dead, including both sets of gangsters, the drug mule, and the two cleaners. Since they both knew of the events that transpired that night, it’s only natural that they, too, would have to die.
But why go to all this effort just to kill two cleaners who are already off the grid? Why does their contact want all these gangsters killed, and how was the district attorney involved? From there, the plot swerves out of control. Honestly, I don’t even have all the answers. As Pitt’s and Clooney’s cleaners mull over the details at a diner, they spout many possibilities while talking at the same time.
There’s one theory that stands out. “I know a DA who’s tough on crime,” Pitt’s cleaner says. “People get arrested…clean up drug money. Great things to come.” Does that mean the district attorney set all this up to make it look like she executed a successful takedown of drug-related gang activity in the city? Possibly! As they finally piece the events of that night together, new killers surround the diner to finish the job. Maybe we’ll find out what really happened if the two fixers survive long enough to make Wolfs 2.
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