How does girl gone end

Amy's plan, ideally, would end with Nick on trial for murder and eligible for the death penalty This reveal, which has earned its place as one of the best twists in recent movie history , comes with its own legendary monologue, known as the " Cool Girl " speech. Lifted directly from the novel, the monologue sees Amy musing over how the ideal girl that most men want — a "cool girl" — doesn't actually exist, since most women spend their time imagining what men must want and mimicking that impossible image as much as they possibly can, always at their own expense.

Even if you couldn't relate to Amy's crazy plan, it was easy to see why the "Cool Girl" speech became legendary. Before long, Nick realizes that he needs to stop talking to the police and start talking to a lawyer, and he hires Tanner Bolt Tyler Perry , a smooth-talking and ridiculously expensive New York attorney who typically stands behind guilt-ridden husbands.

Tanner has definitely heard his share of tall tales from accused husbands, but now that Nick is certain that Amy knows about Andie and is framing him, he spills all of that to Tanner, who's shocked but determined to figure out how they can work together to bring Amy to justice and prove Nick's innocence. As Ellen Abbott Missi Pyle , a sensationalist nighttime talk show host, continues to smear Nick's name and image to the entire country, Tanner and Nick dig up whatever dirt they can on Amy and try to rehabilitate Nick's public persona by booking him a high-profile interview with newswoman Sharon Schieber Sela Ward.

However, just as Nick sits down for the interview, Andie publicly confesses to their affair, leaving Nick and Tanner in a worse spot than they ever anticipated. As it turns out, Nick isn't the first person to invoke Amy's wrath. When he wronged Amy, she staged a sexual assault and had him registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Even while she's on the run, Amy is still exacting revenge on those that she feels deserve retribution. At a rundown motel, Amy casually befriends Greta Lola Kirke , who also seems to be on the run from something, and when the two of them settle in one night to watch Ellen Abbott's show, Amy's dark side emerges.

When Greta says that the Amy depicted on television looks like a spoiled rich girl who had it coming, Amy quietly spits in her drink, but later, Greta unwittingly gets her revenge on Amy. In an act of karmic retribution, Greta and her cohort, Jeff Boyd Holbrook , figure out that Amy has a money belt full of cash and rob her, leaving her penniless and out of options, until she remembers there's one more place where she can go.

Amy makes one quick phone call, ditches her getaway car, and heads to a nearby casino to meet her first, still-devoted love Desi Collings Neil Patrick Harris , who's ready to whisk her away — especially when she tells him how horribly abusive Nick was throughout their marriage.

Before long, he's set Amy up in his pool house with everything she needs, but it also becomes clear to Amy that Desi comes with problems of his own. During the first phase of her plan, Amy dyed her glossy blonde hair a mousy shade of brown and gained weight so that nobody would recognize her, and though he's desperate to rescue her, Desi makes it perfectly clear that he needs Amy to turn back into the woman she was before, buying her hair dye and encouraging her to exercise.

But one night, they see Nick's contrite interview with Sharon Scheiber, and Amy is filled with a new purpose — she must get back to Nick as quickly as possible. Still with Desi's blood on her, she retorts, "I'm a fighter. I fought my way back to you.

The trick of it is, they're both right. Amy is a brazen killer and Machiavellian manipulator, but going by her own twisted logic, she did it all for love. Within the movie's fictional hyper-reality, her actions actually make sense and are rather instructive thematically. Amy encourages Nick not to make any rash decisions about leaving her, saying, "Give it the night. Sleep on it. They've had a hell of a fight — a movie-length battle of wits — but love means never having to say you're sorry, and to Amy, it's as if none of it ever happened now.

There's a perverse pleasure to seeing Amy tuck Nick in and tell him she would never, ever hurt him. She sees this as their second chance at love and wants him to participate in their marriage. They form a shaky truce even as Nick secretly plans to out her as "a calculated, murderous psychopath. Using Nick's semen, which they'd kept on ice at a fertility clinic, Amy has artificially inseminated herself.

This gives her the leverage she needs to blackmail Nick into staying with her, because he doesn't want to let her raise the child alone and poison its mind.

The things Amy fabricated for her diary are presently coming true. Nobody deserves parents like these two. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Gillian Flynn. Previous Next. What's Up With the Ending? This morning he was stroking my hair and asking what else he could do for me, and I said: 'My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?

I love you. But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you. I keep thinking about it. I can't stop. I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that. In the movie, Amy doesn't get this last word. Instead, it's Nick stroking Amy's hair and reflecting on her skull, as he does in the beginning of the story. Interestingly, this is how the last chapter told from Nick's perspective ends:. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull.