The Departed Ending Explained: The Rat, the Rooftop and the Final Shot
Short answer: almost nobody survives. In the final ten minutes of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2006), undercover cop Billy Costigan finally arrests mole Colin Sullivan — only to be shot dead in an elevator by a second, hidden mole. Sullivan then kills that man, frames him as the traitor, and walks away believing he has … Read more