‘The invisible agent’: ending explained Who is the one pulling the strings?

‘The invisible agent’ has already arrived on Netflix after a week of limited release in theaters for those who couldn’t wait to see this action movie starring Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and Ryan Gosling. The film, directed by the Russo Brothers, comes with the nickname of “the most expensive movie in Netflix history”. Perhaps for this reason, as we expected, more than a round movie, we have a franchise beginning with many loose ends, with many similarities to Bourne but with a more eighties humor, which promises and should sequels.

Although there is no post-credits scene (in this the Russos have not lived up to their Marvelite past), the film leaves many questions in the air in that convoluted plot of CIA assassinations. Perhaps that is why it is normal that at the end of the film one ends up with quite a few doubts. We will not lie to you, for most of us we will simply have to wait until there is a sequel (guaranteed by the foreseeable success except for a huge surprise), but there are others that are fixed with a careful review of the film and its ending.

With the Russo brothers behind the scenes, it’s no surprise that a big future is planned for ‘The Gray Man,’ which has now landed on Netflix. Therefore, given these plot gaps, it is worth wondering if we will have ‘The invisible agent 2’, the sequel with Ryan Gosling.

Here are spoilers for ‘The Invisible Agent’

‘The invisible agent’ (Netflix): ending explained

To get to the end, you have to start at the beginning. In the initial mission, Sierra Six, Gosling’s character, discovers that the head of the CIA, Carmichael (Regé-jean Page) has ordered him to kill another Sierra, in this case the 4. With his death he gives him a chip with some important data that we will later discover that leave Carmichael in a very bad place.

With the help of Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas), a CIA agent whom Carmichael touches too much, and Margaret Cahill (Alfre Woodward), they clarify that these actions are not just Carmichael’s, but that there must be someone in the highest spheres that he is using Charmichael for these activities.

Someone very powerful is pulling the strings.

Carmichael has two friends from Harvard College who may have something to do, as a trio, with this mysterious shadow boss. The first is Jessica Henwick’s character, Suzanne Brewer, a CIA agent who seems more restrained and honest but turns out to be, quite simply, more calculating. The other is the psychopathic and private murderer played by Chris Evans and who, except for a huge surprise, dies at the end of the film between Six and Brewer herself.

The chip soon ceases to be the central McGuffin of the film to shoot for something more emotional, more ‘Tyler Rake’, Donald Fitzroy’s heart-sick niece (Billy Bob Thornton), who before retiring held Carmichael’s position. In fact, remember, she was “forced” into retirement. Both the CIA information chip and Claire (Julia Butters) are Six’s objects of contention. However, the film drifts towards the family relationship of its protagonist, which ends up giving more importance to his paternal bond with Fitzroy and almost as an older brother with Claire.

Here is another important loose end. When Dani Miranda asks Seis to say why he went to jail, we discover that he had a Butcher-like father in ‘The Boys’, a violent macho who pitted him against his brother. In the end, Six ended the life of his father. Of his brother, also trained to kill, we don’t know (for now) anything. Surely in a sequel he will appear soon, perhaps he has gone the real wrong way…

At the end of the film we see how Brewer seems to save Six’s life and put all the blame on Hansen, who he shoots. However, we soon discover that he only does it to continue taking advantage of Six and keeps Claire, along with Carmichael, kidnapped. After Dani Miranda warns Carmichael that if she touches the girl she’ll come after him, it doesn’t take long for Six to rescue her from her.

It remains up in the air if Miranda helps Six in this second rescue that ends the movie. Also if before Brewer and Carmichael destroyed the asset someone did some trick, some switch, to be able to finish them off. We still don’t know, however, who is the person who pulls the strings and protects Carmichael.

In the book this “old man” that scares the evil trio from Harvard is named Kaz, an intelligence chief from Washington DC. However, the sequel could go another way.

You know, the last person to pick on the old man ended up floating in the Potomac.

We also don’t think it was the end of the mercenary Avik San (Dhanush), who betrays Hansen and seems to have principles. He could be an ally to Miranda and Six in future adventures.

And it is that the Russo Brothers have left many loose threads. They already warned:

We definitely envision a larger narrative universe to which this film is our introduction. Part of what we like about storytelling is that we like long, elaborate narratives, and we tried to build something that could be further explored. Part of our effort to do that was also the size of the set. We have a lot of characters in the movie played by a lot of wonderful actors, and we hope that the public will be interested in following a lot of them.

‘The invisible agent’ (‘The Gray Man’) is now available on Netflix.