“The Tyrant” Ending Explained- Episode 4 Recap And Review
Disney+ has unveiled the 4 episodes of its newest series “The Tyrant,” here is a recap of the finale and the ending explained.
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“The Tyrant” episode 4 recap
Ja-Gyeong finds Mr. Seong who allegedly ordered the hit on her head. He says he doesn’t know and doesn’t know where Moyeong is. However, as they’re speaking, Mr. Lim barges in and shoots everyone, she barely escapes.
The two get into a heated fight and recognize each other’s competence. As they’re shooting it out and both get injured, Lim gets a text from Director Choe. He says they should just stop fighting and be on their way, something bad has happened.
Director Sa is transporting Moyeon who realizes he’s in grave danger so he showed up to where the headquarters were. Paul interferes and snatches the man away.
Now, both Director Choe and Moyeon are face to face with Paul, and Director Choe says he had to kill Moyeong for the sake of the people.
Ja-Gyeong and Lim arrive and take out cars. They get into a fight with some of Paul’s men who happen to be some sort of superior beings, as they get into a fight with one of them, he injures Ja-Gyeong badly, since she has the tyrant in her pocket near her chest, she gets hurt and the tyrant enters her body, she begin to transform.
She beats up the man and kills him, she nearly kills Lim but they decide to put on a truce as they hunt down Moyeong.
Paul and the rest arrive at the safe place, and as the safe was opened, everyone discovers the tyrant is not there, its missing. Everyone is surprised and Moyeong says he has no idea whats happening.
Paul gathers all of his men and begins shooting one by one. He tells Director Choe if he doesn’t say where it is, he’ll kill them all then him. Under pressure, Moyeong says the tyrant must’ve been taken by Ja-Gyeong.
Just then, Ja-Gyeong and Lim show up and shoot out with the men of Paul, killing almost everyone. Lim points a gun at Paul who is pointing a gun at Director Choe. The director tells him to put the gun away, Lim then shoots him as the director says he’s not afraid of picking a fight with his gang.
Meanwhile, Ja-Gyeong is still ducking it out with one of Paul’s transformer men. She transforms herself into a powerful being and they fight injuring each other badly while the director watches, eventually, Ja-Gyeong kills that man.
She then aims for Moyeong who is still alive but injured, she shoots him too.
Now, she’s up against Lim and the director. The director orders people to shine light and Ja-Gyeong is in deep pain as Lim shoots at her, they must eliminate her.
She takes control of the situation and shuts the lights and aims at Lim. Director Choe then says there is no time, she’s now government property and must escape because they will find her, the sun will come out so she should hide really well.
Director Sa shows up and threatens Director Choe as he finds out that Paul is now dead. He tries to pressure Choe into answering what happened and at that moment, Lim escapes as he shoots out and takes a dive into the ocean breaking past the window.
Choe tells Sa they’re too late, but Sa says they will pick his brain apart to get the information pressuring him, Choe then takes a hold of a gun as the men try to arrest him, he threatens to shoot Sa, but then says, ‘this time you can’t take anything from us, the tyrant is ours,’ he then shoots himself.
Lim who is at the bottom of the sea is somehow being pulled by an entity.
Back to 15 years ago
Mr. Chae is working on something as a young Ja-Gyeong enters, she looks really bad, so he offers to help her clean up and offers some food.
The end.
“The Tyrant” ending explained- FAQ
Does “The Tyrant” have a happy ending?
No, it does not. Almost everyone dies and Ja-Gyeong barely survives.
How does “The Tyrant” end?
It ends with Ja-Gyeong escaping the government as they close in on Director Choe who ends up killing himself covering up for her as he refuses to say where the tyrant is or what happened to it.
Whats The Tyrant?
Its a program that messes with the human gene, it makes some sort of super humans with superhuman strength. The government has been working on the program but on the side, Director Choe worked on some himself and the government found out and shut it down, but one last sample escaped. They hunt to find it and use Ja-Gyeong to get the safe that has the sample.
As both teams struggle to find the sample, they do not know that Ja-Gyeong who has taken the sample hostage because she cannot trust Moyeong, had it. She accidentally ends up getting possessed by it.
The Tyrant ending- review
Well… that was nice, very well made but honestly draining for the eyes, its too dark.
So originally, the director wanted this to be a movie, and through the process decided it would be better to make it a short series which I think was a better call.
I still feel there is a lot left unanswered and this could have been an even longer drama, maybe some 2 to 4 more episodes would’ve been nice. But even without them, I still think it was kind of enough, I am intrigued because I like the idea and the execution.
The way its executed is really nice. This isn’t the 1st time we’ve seen such plot of superhumans and such, but a lot of stuff are left unsaid and the way it plays out is interesting.
Its nice seeing Seon Ho play the bad guy role and they’ve done an amazing job casting Jo Yoon-Soo.
Overall, I enjoyed this short series. This is definitely one of the better Kdramas of 2024.
