Why? Because he had previously that night swapped Harlan's medications, hoping that Marta would therefore unwittingly cause him to overdose on morphine, making her his killer and therefore making the will (which Harlan had told him about at the party) null and void. Or so we think.Īt this point, we need to consider the role of Ransom in all of this, for it is really him who is being blackmailed. This plan, however, is complicated when someone who has stolen her medical bag and has the toxicology reports from Harlan's corpse starts blackmailing Marta. He then slits his own throat to make it look like he has been murdered, hoping that the police will be so busy choosing between the many suspects they will not notice the morphine in his blood.īenoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), explaining the ending of "Knives Out" LionsgateĪfter all, most of them have a reason to kill the family patriarch after he tells them he will no longer financially support them after his 85th birthday party (this is because, as they will find out after he dies, he has changed his will to give everything to Marta). He gets Marta to make his death look like a murder from one of his murder mystery books, throwing the scent off of her and onto the rest of the Thrombeys.
In order to protect Marta from getting punished for this mistake, Harlan has an idea. In trying to give Harlan his nightly pain relief, Marta accidentally switches the bottles, giving him what she thinks is a lethal dose of morphine.
Of these two, the one who we think is innocent turns out to be the murderer (or, at least, the attempted murderer), while the one we think is the murderer turns out to be perhaps the only totally innocent person in the entire movie.Ī recap of the first explanation we get of Harlan's death, which comes about a third of the way into the film. However, of course things are more complicated than that, thanks to the joint efforts of Harlan's grandson Hugh 'Ransom' Drysdale ( Chris Evans) and Harlan's nurse Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas). Read more Rian Johnson Describes The 8 Suspects of "Knives Out"
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