‘Windfall’ Ending Explained: How Does The Jason Segel Netflix Thriller End? (2024)

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Warning: This article contains major Windfall spoilers. (Duh!)

If you’ve ever dreamed of robbing Jeff Bezos, then Netflix’s newest thriller, Windfall—which began streaming today—is for you.

Directed by Charlie McDowell (The One I Love), with a screenplay from Andrew Kevin Walker and Justin Lader,Windfall stars Jason Segel as a nameless man—quite literally credited as “Nobody”—who breaks into the vacation home of a wealthy CEO with the intention of robbing him. Unfortunately for Segel, said CEO (Jesse Plemons) and his wife (Lily Collins) arrive at the vacation home at the same time Segel is there.

Though advertised as a “Hitchcockian thriller,” what follows is more of a play-like character study of three people trapped on a gorgeous estate. That said, McDowell does pack some action in at the very end of the movie.

If you want to know what happens, or just want to process what you just watched, read on for the Windfall plot summary and the Windfall ending explained.

WHAT IS JASON SEGEL NETFLIX MOVIE WINDFALL ABOUT? WINDFALL PLOT SUMMARY:

A wealthy CEO (Jesse Plemons) and his wife (Lily Collins)—both of whom are never given a name in the movie—arrive at their lavish vacation home in California. Unfortunately, their romantic getaway is cut-short when they discover a man (Jason Segel)—credited as “Nobody” in the script—in the midst of robbing their home.

Both Plemons and Collins are oddly calm about being robbed. Plemons offers to give Segel the cash he keeps stored in the house, which is $5,000. Segel accepts and agrees to leave—but only if he can lock Plemons and Collins in their sauna, to give himself a head start to get away.

Segel locks them in, and he is about to drive away when he spots a security camera hidden in a tree, pointed directly at him. He’s forced to go back, and, after a brief chase in the orange grove, he holds Plemons and Collins at gunpoint, using a gun he found in the vacation home. In perhaps the most collaborative robbery in history, Segel, with some help from Plemons, decides to ask for $500,000, knowing that he will now have to start a completely new life. Plemons calls his assistant to get $500,000 in cash delivered, but the soonest she can it to him is by the next afternoon.

So now the three of them have a day and a night to kill. More and more cracks are beginning to show in Plemons’ and Collins’ marriage, mostly due to the fact that the CEO is an insufferable asshole. Plemons wants to have a baby soon, but Collins seems less than enthused. We also learn that Plemons runs a company that single-handedly put a lot of American workers out of the job, though the specifics are not revealed. It’s hinted that Segel may have lost his job due to Plemons.

At night, Plemons tells Collins to get close to Segel to learn more about him. Collins does have a late-night conversation with Segel, in which she admits she is not happy in her marriage. It’s not clear if she did this because of Plemons suggestion, or of her own accord. The next morning, the gardener (played by Omar Leyvar) unexpectedly drops by. He didn’t know Plemons will be home and uses the opportunity to show his boss his idea to plant a big oak tree in the garden. When the gardener asks Plemons to sign off on the plan, Plemons writes “call 911” on the paper instead.

Segel realizes what Plemons did, and calls the gardener into the house to hold him hostage, too. Collins is furious that Plemons risked both their lives and brought another person into the mess, when they were so close to being done with it. After a long time of waiting, Plemons suddenly decides he’s going to get up and leave. He says he doesn’t believe Segel has the guts to shoot him. Seeing the gun pointed at Plemons, the gardener panics and tries to run—but he crashes into a glass door, impales himself on a shard of glass, and accidentally kills himself. It’s gruesome, and it’s disappointing that the only truly innocent character in this film would go down like that.

WHAT ARE THE WINDFALL SPOILERS? WINDFALL ENDING EXPLAINED:

After the gardener’s death, the mood in the vacation home changes. Segel is seriously considering killing both Plemons and Collins, and, for the first time, the two of them display real fear and desperation. The money arrives, and Collins is sent out to collect it.

Segel decides not to kill them and ties up both Collins and Plemons before he leaves with the money. Collins, perhaps desperate to have a connection with Segel, tells him that the tattoo she is having removed—a tattoo Segel asked about earlier in the movie—was a rose. Segel replies, “I don’t give a fuck.” If Collins was testing the waters to see if she could team up with Segel against her husband, then he firmly shut her down.

Before he leaves, Segel wants to have one last chance to tell Plemons that he thinks he’s a horrible person. While Segel does that, Collins uses a shard of glass on the floor to cut through her restraints. She breaks free just as Segel is leaving, and hits him over the head with a heavy sculpture, killing him. Then, instead of cutting her husband free, she uses the gun to shoot and kill Plemons. Finally, she wipes her prints off of the gun and carefully places it in a dead Segel’s hands. It’s a real “girl boss” moment—and by “girl boss,” I mean “cold-blooded murderer.”

In the final shot of the movie, Collins exhales and steps outside, and then just stands there. Whether she plans to wait for the authorities and pin everything on Segel, or just take the $500,000 and run, it’s not clear—but what is clear is that Collins is free of her loveless marriage, and will get a chance at a new life. The end!

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