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00:00Hi, welcome back to my channel.

00:02In this video, I will explain the ending of ICU, so, let's begin.

00:06Genres such as horror and thriller have become so oversaturated throughout the years that

00:10constant innovation is needed in storytelling to keep the audience entertained.

00:15Directed by Adam Randall and based on a screenplay by Devin Gray, ICU 2019 is one of those films

00:20that belong to both genres and still manages to be unique in its own way.

00:25It steers clear of employing jump scares to stimulate a response, focusing instead on

00:29telling a story that seems invasive and unsettling.

00:32Although the film is slightly over 90 minutes long, it can be split into three almost equal

00:37parts.

00:38The first part introduces a family who we are led to believe are the heroes of the story.

00:42The second part introduces the two so-called the Froggers and their secret life hiding

00:46in the house of the family mentioned above.

00:49In the third and final chapter, one of the most exquisite instances of bait-and-switch

00:53happens.

00:54Here is everything you might want to know about the ending, just to let you know this

00:57video will contain spoilers.

01:00Predominantly set in Lakewood, Ohio, ICU begins with the disappearance of a 10-year-old boy

01:04named Justin Witter.

01:06He was riding his bicycle through the woods near his house just like any other day when

01:09he was suddenly thrown back by an unseen force.

01:12A park ranger later found his bike but not the boy.

01:16This is the second boy who has disappeared in the recent few weeks.

01:20Michael King, who is about the same age as Justin, went missing while cycling to a corner

01:24store in the city, though the police don't initially see a connection.

01:28Greg Harper is the police detective tasked to find Justin.

01:32Greg's picture-perfect home life has been disrupted by his wife's infidelity.

01:36Jackie Harper is a therapist and, given the size of their house, an extremely successful

01:40one at that.

01:42Her affair has affected not only her relationship with her husband but also her son, Connor,

01:47who has become deeply resentful toward her.

01:49Although Greg doesn't show that he is furious over Jackie's actions in front of Connor,

01:53he has his share of outbursts when he is alone or with just Jackie.

01:57Veteran detective Spitzky joins the investigation.

02:01Fifteen years earlier, Spitzky investigated a series of abductions of boys of similar

02:05age.

02:06Only two of the boys were found alive.

02:09Spitzky believed that he caught the culprit at the time.

02:12But when he finds a green pocketknife near where Justin went missing, Spitzky starts

02:15to question the past investigation.

02:18The green pocketknives were the signature that the abductor left behind, so it irrefutably

02:22connects Justin's disappearance to these abductions 15 years earlier.

02:27This can only mean two things – Justin was kidnapped by a copycat, or the actual perpetrator

02:31is still out there.

02:33Spitzky and Greg go to speak to Braun, one of the survivors from 15 years ago, who starts

02:37screaming after seeing them.

02:39With the new evidence coming to light, the lawyer for Cole Gordon, the man Spitzky caught

02:43at the time, moves to court for a declaration of a mistrial.

02:47Meanwhile, odd things start to happen in the Harper household.

02:51Silverwares and pictures from photo frames go missing, Greg gets locked inside a closet,

02:55and a repairman claims that a girl has let him in the house.

02:58Todd, the man with whom Jackie had an affair, visits her to tell her he is in love with

03:02her.

03:03It appears that Jackie reciprocates his feelings, but she chooses her family.

03:08When he gets hit in the head by a mug, Jackie presumes that Connor has thrown it and leaves

03:12him in the basement to take Connor to school.

03:14When she returns home, she finds Todd dead and assumes her son is responsible.

03:19She informs Greg about this, and together they go to the woods to bury the body.

03:24Upon returning, they find Connor tied up in the bathtub and a green pocketknife near him.

03:29After Jackie takes Connor to the hospital, someone in a frog mask attacks Greg.

03:33The scene shifts then, and we are taken back before the start of the film.

03:37Mindy and Alec sneak into the Harper house through the garage.

03:41The rest of the film is depicted through their perspectives, revealing the truth about what

03:44is happening.

03:46Who Kidnapped Justin?

03:47The first part of the film basically establishes it as a garden variety thriller film, with

03:52Greg at the center of the narrative, a police detective whose marriage is on the verge of

03:56collapsing and who is tasked to find a dangerous kidnapper and child killer.

04:00As per this narrative, Alec is the copycat, and Gordon is indeed the real abductor and

04:04killer from all those years ago.

04:07After the shift in perspective, the film continues to adhere to this narrative as we see things

04:11from Mindy's point of view.

04:13She has no ulterior motive to be there except to be a frogger and make a documentary out

04:17of it.

04:18She even starts suspecting Alec when his behavior becomes increasingly erratic.

04:23One of the rules of frogging is not to disturb the lives of the residents of the house.

04:27Alec is the one who takes the silverware and the photos, locks Greg inside the closet,

04:31throws the mug that hits Todd, and ties Connor up in the bathtub.

04:35It isn't until she sees Greg killing Todd that Mindy, and us, the audience, starts reassessing

04:40her beliefs.

04:42This is when the deconstruction of those typical thriller tropes begins.

04:46Greg is revealed to be the killer from 15 years ago.

04:49The reason Braun started screaming earlier in the film is that he recognized Greg.

04:53In the present day, Greg kidnapped both Justin and Michael and kept them in the trailer that

04:57Mindy finds.

04:59In the climactic scene, he kills Mindy and nearly succeeds in killing Alec to portray

05:03them as copycats.

05:05As he tells Alec, he has plans to claim that Alec and Mindy came after him knowing he was

05:09the lead detective investigating the case.

05:12This would have given him the perfect ending according to the original narrative, but Alec

05:16manages to grab the gun while he is busy adding details to his tale and shoots him dead.

05:21Who is Alec?

05:22The answer to this question lies in the final scene of the movie.

05:26After Alec kills Greg, Spitzky arrives and shoots him in the shoulder.

05:30Alec recognizes and addresses him as Detective Spitzky, implying that he has already met

05:34the older man.

05:36As Spitzky and the other officers go through Greg's things, they realize he was the original

05:40kidnapper and killer.

05:42Soon enough, Jackie and Connor return to find their home filled with police officers,

05:46and Justin and Michael are rescued.

05:48As Alec is placed in an ambulance, he recalls the first time he met Greg.

05:53Braun was with him, and they were as young as Michael and Justin are now.

05:57Alec is Greg's other surviving victim.

06:00During the climactic scene, Greg believes that he has knocked out Alec, so he leaves

06:03him on the floor to go and set things up in such a way that will make him seem like a

06:07victim.

06:08However, when he turns back, he finds Alec is not on the floor but pointing a gun at

06:12him.

06:13Even at this point, Greg is fairly confident that he will come out of the situation alive.

06:18He tells Alec of his plans to frame him and Mindy as copycats as police sirens can be

06:22heard in the distance.

06:24But his confidence evaporates when Alec steps into the light and Greg sees him for the first

06:28time.

06:30He recognizes Alec and realizes that he is about to die.

06:33Why does Alec wear a frog mask?

06:36The answer to this is given in that final scene mentioned above.

06:39Alec earlier tells Mindy that he chose the frog mask because the word frog sounds similar

06:44to frogging, a real-life thing where people live in strangers' homes without their knowledge.

06:49In reality, this is tied to his childhood and that first meeting with Greg.

06:53There was something in Alec's back pocket during that encounter with Greg.

06:57It can be either a toy or a pencil head.

06:59Either way, it seems that the mask is connected to his childhood and symbolizes the innocence

07:04he lost.

07:05He likely brought the frog mask with him when he came to the Harper house with Mindy to

07:09eulogize that innocence and exact revenge.

07:12Why does Greg leave green pocket knives as his signature?

07:16Like most other psychotic and serial criminals, Greg has a signature.

07:20He leaves a green pocket knife at each one of his crime scenes.

07:24It's likely tied to his past.

07:26Monsters like Greg are rarely born but may through unusual circumstances, often severe

07:31trauma.

07:32Greg alludes to this when he realizes who Alec is and pleads to the younger man.

07:36In response, Alec says he doesn't care in significantly more colorful words before killing

07:40Greg.

07:41So, this remains an unanswered aspect of the narrative.

07:45However, the way the story is told, it doesn't need to be answered.

07:49The focus in ICU is on different things.

07:52It's enough to know that there is a possibility that Greg's use of the green pocket knife

07:56as his signature is tied to the monster he became.

07:59That's all for now folks.

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