GLASS SPOILERS: A Full Breakdown Of All The Major Twists And Plot Developments
Glass hits theaters this weekend, and this being an M. Night Shyamalan movie, you already know it's going to leave audiences with a lot to talk about! Check out our full plot breakdown after the jump...
M. Night Shyamalan's Glass is now in theaters, and we're taking a closer look at all of the biggest reveals, plot developments and twists - of which there are many!
For the most part, this won't be an opinion piece (you can check out my review here), because if I started discussing every aspect of this movie in as much detail as it really warrants I'd be here all day. Instead, it's more of a matter-of-fact breakdown of what happens - but please feel free to ask me to elaborate on any particular part of this list in the comments.
There are obviously major SPOILERS ahead, so if you haven't seen Glass yet, best return when you have.
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The Overseer
Glass picks up 15 years after the events of Unbreakable, and about a month after Split. We learn that David Dunn is still using his abilities to fight crime in the Philadelphia area, and has come to be known as The Overseer. David's son Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark) has been working alongside him, kinda like The Oracle to his Batman.
When we catch up with the duo, they're continuing their search for The Horde, who has kidnapped another group of "impure" young women to feed to The Beast.
The Rescue
Dunn gets a lead on Crumb, and encounters him in his Hedwig persona while scoping out a nearby industrial estate. After getting a vision of the unconscious cheerleaders, he follows Hedwig to the scene and frees the girls - but by then, The Beast has been unleashed.
The two do battle, but seem to be evenly matched. In the end they both crash through a window, but before they can continue the fight, they're taken into custody by Dr. Ellie Staple and the police with the aid of a light which forces Crumb to switch personalities when it flashes.
The Doctor
Dr. Staple (Sarah Paulson) takes her super-powered prisoners to a psychiatric hospital where Elijah Price - who is heavily medicated and unresponsive - is also being held. Crumb is kept at bay by the lights, while Dunn is under threat of having his room blasted by water, which, as Unbreakable fans will know, is his only weakness.
Staple hopes to convince the three men that they are suffering from a delusion which makes them believe that they're superheroes.
Casey
Casey Cooke (Anya Taylor Joy) is now living with a loving foster family, but when she hears that The Horde is in custody she decides to go and see if she can get through to Kevin Wendell Crumb. She manages to reach him very briefly, but Dennis, Patricia and Hedwig are still in control.
Staple asks Casey if she will continue visiting which she agrees to. Meanwhile, Joseph also goes to see Staple in the hopes of freeing his dad, and we find out that his mother died of cancer some years earlier.
Mr. Glass
As you probably guessed, Price has been faking all along and leaving his room at night to orchestrate his escape. He visits The Horde and convinces Patricia to help, promising another showdown between The Beast and David - but this time where the world can see what they are capable of.
Price plans to lure them to a new building on the day of its opening for their final battle. However, Staple intends to perform surgery on Elijah's frontal lobe in order to "cure" his delusions, and the procedure scheduled for the next morning.
The Escape
Ah, but Price tampered with the surgical instruments to ensure that the operation would be unsuccessful, and when a friendly orderly arrives to check on him, Elijah slits his throat with a piece of broken glass from one of the pictures on the wall.
He then frees The Horde and tells David that if he wants to stop them from killing a lot of people, he's going to have to break down the door and face them. Patricia wheels Price out through the basement, but when they encounter security, The Beast emerges and makes short work of them.
The Showdown
Dunn breaks down the door to his cell, and all of the principal characters - including Casey, Joseph and Elijah's mother - converge in front of the hospital for the big showdown.
After The Beast kills (and eats) several police officers, Dunn intervenes and the pair throw hands, finding themselves evenly matched yet again.
The Big Twist
It turns out that Crumb's father was actually on the same train that Elijah sabotaged in Unbreakable, and his loss led to the emergence of The Beast personality to protect young Kevin from his abusive mother. So, in essence, Price was responsible for creating both The Overseer and The Horde.
Joseph discovers this and tells The Beast, who had come to see Elijah as a sort of messiah for the broken. Upon finding out the truth, he snaps Elijah's collar bone and crushes his chest with a punch. He then resumes his fight with David, and they wind up hurling each other into a water tank.
The Bigger Twist
The Beast and The Overseer crash through the tank, but taking in water has left David very weak. The Beast tells him they will finish their battle at the building, but as he's leaving Casey grabs his arm and pleads with him to stop. She talks him down and manages to make Kevin emerge, but as soon as that happens a sniper takes him out - on Dr. Staple's orders!
She then has one of her men drag David to a puddle and drown him (yes, really), but before he dies she tells him to grab her hand and the truth unfolds. Staple is part of a secret organization that wants to rid the world of all super-powered individuals - hero and villain alike - and was fully prepared for this eventuality.
Not Mistakes
Kevin tells Casey that he's going to stay in the light while he slips away, as she assures him that she's his friend and gives him one final moment of compassion and comfort before he dies. Elijah's mother does the same for him as he begs for reassurance that he wasn't a mistake and had some kind of purpose. She tells him that he's remarkable as his eyes go dark.
David lies dead in a puddle while Joseph shouts at the cops.
A Larger Universe(?)
There is one final twist.
It turns out that Elijah knew about Staple all along, and his real plan was to expose her organization while revealing the existence of supers to the world at large in a suicide mission of sorts. He accomplishes this by linking the hospital's multiple cameras to an online feed, so everyone witnesses The Showdown.
The final shot sees Casey, Joseph and Elijah's mother sitting together in a train station while everyone around them reacts to the incredible footage.