The Revenant Ending

I left off in the Revenant where Glass had just escaped the Indians by floating down a river. He finally got off the river and hobbled onto the land.

There he met a friendly Indian, who told him “Revenge is in the Creator’s hands.” The Indian gave him food and traveled with him, but French in the area found the Indian and hung him. Glass then snuck into the French’s camp, planning to steal a horse. However, the French had a young Indian woman hostage as a sex slave, and she was being used by the horses. Glass snuck up behind them, gave the Indian woman a knife, and told her to keep the Frenchman silent. Glass then stole a horse and rode away, and the Indian cut off the Frenchman’s testicles and escaped. Glass escaped successfully with the horse. However, the next day the French and Indians found Glass and he barely escaped with the horse, but by doing so both Glass and the horse fell off a cliff. As a blizzard was coming, Glass had only one choice to survive: he gutted the dead horse, and climbed inside the horse’s dead carcass to survive the cold night. However, at this time someone showed up at the Fort that Fitzgerald and Bridger were at with Glass’ canteen that Bridger had left him. Realizing that Glass was alive, a party was sent out and took Glass back to the fort. However, Fitzgerald stole the fort’s money and some weapons and a horse and escaped. Glass tracked down Fitzgerald and fought him in a graphic and brutal encounter. However, the Indian’s saying “revenge is in the hands of the Creator” drifted into Glass’ head, and he threw the severely wounded Fitzgerald into the river, where the Indians grabbed him and brutally murdered him. The Indians then walked right by Glass, with the woman whom he had saved from the French, supposedly Powaqa. Glass was once again severely wounded, but he saw the ghost of his deceased wife, finally feeling the peace to die happily before the screen cuts black.

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