“The Watcher” - Ending explained
First of all:
There will be no end of spoilers here.
Also not only to this film, but also to other films, where I see possible, but still strong connections to.
The following films will be spoiled:
Brahms — The Boy
Secret Window
Dream House
And of course the series itself.
Therefore I fade in a picture here once.
But after that there will be spoilers without end.
We will proceed as even the best detectives will do.
Therefore, I am also open to suggestions from the community or things that I may have overlooked.
So we’ll go through each character one by one.
Carter Brannock
Motive: Ferret Massacre
Yes, his ferret was killed.
By someone who was already in the building, because the security system does not give any signals.
But as we know the building is not that save as it seems.
At noon, the alarm is not on, so allegedly a dedicated actress could also enter the house, which is also considered a girl with braids.
At least this was the statement of the private detective, even if I assume that this is a lie. However, the father family did not object to the statement that the alarm system was deactivated during the day.
I estimate his probability of being the Watcher to be very low. Since he also always makes a very haphazard impression and claims very advanced in the series, what are we supposed to protect ourselves from, what’s going on?
The ferret form e is even an edividence that someone already knew that the Ferret was very important for him. And served as a gift for the move. Killing the ferret was a good plan, because this already altogether lowers the mood in the house and especially among the children.
Ellie Brannock
Motive: Stupid and disturbed teenage girl
She always made me very aggressive when watching “The Watcher”, because she completely boycotted the entire family with her solo runs and even more — she put the complete existence of the family at risk.
Apart from the fact that the father put all kinds of collateral and reserves in the house. After all, he should have learned this from his previous insolvency. Making a mistake, that happens, committing it twice is just stupid.
She definitely wants to get the attention of men and wants to be equally provocative to parents. After all, she might as well put on the lipstick at school. Instead, she walks around the house with it several times.
She has what it takes to do stupid things. I also trust that she has something to do with it, because she also found the Facebook group.
Okay, maybe the parents don’t have Facebook, but it still all seems very strange. Especially with a teenager who can not even think around the corner and the family with racism accusations, which are not even true, soiled.
The watcher is really clever. So I am sorry she is not the one we are searching for.
Dean Brannock
Motive: Psycho and money problems
He could be the right one, because he got in massive problems with the house. Besides from unwished letters.
Was his biggest fear to even get some more letters from his bank.
But in the end, even he know he can not afford the house, he was crazy obsessed by this building.
This is the point that I even see very clear matches with the literature teacher.
He was even obsessed with details in buildings.
He even wrote one of the letters.
And there was even the call from home to the motel.
This could be even used by someone else who want to split the family.
He wrote the last letter but, it was clear that he wrote it, because a specialist could see the difference in his writing.
For that reason I think he was not the writer over the whole time as well.
In the moment I saw it me came another movie in mind. It is called `Dream House ´with Daniel Craig.
In this movie the main actor was mentally ill. But we, as literally watcher, saw both point of views.
Elements like that were even used in the movie Secret Window with Johny Depp. He was searching himself in the whole movie.
Theory 1: Dean Banrock was mentally totally ill.
He got paranoia and nothing was true. Like the neighbors that were watching him or the conflicts with the neighbors.
The argument with them always seems very randomly and even like the other side could not argument right.
Like the scene where everyone was okay that the neighbor is driving with the elevator.
The elevator could be even a very strong element in the whole series. Because it was so important that the neighbors want to protect it but it was not their right do decide about things like that.
Nora Brannock
Motive: Wive who wants to revenge husband
In the series, there are quite a few stories about women being screwed over by their husbands and eventually being able to stand on their own two feet.
This is addressed by the realtor, this is addressed by the woman from the literature teacher, this is addressed by the woman in the studio and even from the private investigator.
So it’s a topic that is either very close to the hearts of the women in the area, or it’s also a point that is enough for a motif to a certain point.
What also stands for theory 1 written above is that she never saw the conflicts with the neighbors as in any way burdensome. At least never as strongly as her husband.
She did, after all, have time to enroll in the country club.
She could use it as revenge because she did know that he liquidated both of their retirement savings to buy the house, on the other hand I think that is too far fetched.
Since she is later also tracked down the realtor and thus has nothing to do with the matter in my opinion.
John Graff
Motif: Psycho serial murderer
Here I think we have to be a little careful, because it’s not one hundred percent clear that he’s really the killer. At least I have a hard time with the idea that he returns to the place where people could possibly recognize him.
Which is what happened at the meeting.
If he really is the serial killer, I found the action of the literature teacher very cool, that he asks how the family is doing.
Why he returns to this place again just makes no sense to me.
That his existence should remain unknown is also indisputable. After all, he is hiding and could be found in the tunnel.
Theodora Birch
Motif: Money for therapy
Theodora is even obsessed with the case and is spending every minute with solving the case.
And this despite the fact that she is very sick. But maybe that’s exactly why, so that she can collect money here?
I believe that rather less, because her involvement in the matter could of course pull you out of the firing line as a perpetrator, but I think she is generally too biased.
But not for nothing it is said, keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
The story which was told at the deathbed, I think is a lie. Since she knows what it’s like to despair about something. After all, she was looking for her husband’s affair for a long time.
She simply wanted to put an end to this desperate search for an unsolvable case.
Pearl Winslow
Motif: Crazy hippy construction fanatic woman
Completely turned off. What exactly she does and what she will do is never quite clear.
Since you can never quite figure her out, she might have more The Watcher abilities than she has.
However, she has a lot of information about the house, the surroundings, as well as the families.
In 1995, something must have happened that completely disturbed the brother, so that he suffered a trauma from it. She will also know more about it, as she holds her hand over the brother not blabbing anything. However, this concern should be unfounded, because after all, the brother suffered such a shock that he came to psychiatric treatment and has not spoken since.
But it´s unclear if this is true, because the brother suddenly starts talking in a neighborhood meeting.
Jasper Winslow
Motif: Wants to keep everyone away from this home
I don’t know to what extent he has always ridden the elevator. Because since 1995 there was a drastic experience for him, so that he came psychologically him treatment.
To what extent this impairment is true is unclear.
It is possible that he witnessed the murder in 1995 when he was once again riding the elevator.
It could also speak for the fact that he is “The Watcher”, since he actually logs that neighborhood meeting in writing, so one could pursue the assumption that he likes to write. After all, this could have been done by his dominant sister, but she didn’t do it.
Andrew Pierce
Motif: Appear credible
He has already received letters. However, with him it is also not quite clear how much you can trust his statements.
But that’s what makes “The Watcher” in the end. Because of the uncertainty, all the characters have to be examined. His motive for writing the letters would simply be to seem believable, so that people would believe him about what happened back then. But at the same time, that would mean that someone else has sent him letters before and he has continued this work himself. I think that’s generally unlikely for the time being.
Roger Kaplan (the literature teacher)
Motif: The teacher who founded the home letters
He has always been fascinated by houses. This also for the most diverse reasons. On the one hand, he loved the architecture, on the other hand, he hated the people who do not appreciate this architecture and changed their houses according to their ideas.
In my opinion, his love for architecture goes too far, but too far to let the letters turn evil.
After all, he always focused on the beauty of the object and was never aggressive or domineering towards people.
Mitch and Mo
Motif: Craziest neighbor you can imagine
The one night is already more than mysterious. Here I also begin to no longer understand certain actions.
Because supposedly her mentally disturbed son should be saved by the action.
Finally, both fake their death.
Here one could also have the assumption that possibly they could have received letters, but did not want to admit it, because they apparently first intended to dive completely.
Even if these neighbors of Andrew Pierce are most in the focus, I think this theory is nonsense.
Because a three year old is said to have observed the offering and passed it on in complete detail to his father. Likewise, I can’t imagine the Flanagan family celebrating an offering while they were watching the neighbor boy.
They definitely act weird and also completely over the top. But at the same time they are not present enough for me, which of course could also speak for them at the same time.
Dakota
Motif: To get cash through security
The theory is not bad at all. As a business idea definitely creative and criminal at the same time.
However, the letters would diminish or lose intensity after installation.
Because in the end, he also earns nothing from it, if people feel completely uncomfortable and then leave the house.
Similarly, it does not make sense, because he has a crush on the girl and, accordingly, is very biased and wants to guarantee the safety of the family.
Karen Calhoun
Motif: Make money through commission
First of all for all insiders: High Five, who recognized Stifller’s Mom.
I think she’s harmless.
She plays on fears, but I think she just wants to collect commissions and nothing more. With it the thing is locked in my eyes also.
You can see in the youtube video. The “official” listing.
If you are interested in a listing than you can contact her. LOL.
Carol Flanagan (Literature Teacher Ex-Wife)
Motif: Revenge
Her husband had an affair with a student. This also caused the marriage to fall apart.
Therefore, I think that all these are already reasons that she wanted to drive her husband to ruin with the letters. At the same time, I also think it’s very elaborate, because she’s not exactly the first lead you have, so you could make the husband look guilty.
Theory 2:
Possibly it is also a socially critical approach that at least the series wants to give us.
Because, believe it or not, the story is based on a true incident.
A supposedly safe place turns out not to be safe at the end of the day. One could even go so far as to say that the big house in particular naturally attracts a lot of attention. Accordingly, there is also a lot of envy and resentment.
Because in The Watcher it also becomes quite clear that very few people can afford to live in such a house. If they can, then only by doing without other things. Nevertheless, this house attracts so much envy that everyone wants to have it, even though people know how badly off they were when they lived in it. The addiction to what others have, although we only see the outside facade, is also something that is very strongly thematized in The Watcher.
Not least by the fact that the letters to the houses were created by such a thought. Because when one student asked whether one could also write this letter to one’s own house, this was answered in the negative.
Theory 3:
There is not just one “The Watcher.”
By that I don’t mean still Baywatchers with, but actually that there were some free riders.
As an example:
The real estate agent has nothing to do with this.
Earns but by the fears again and again money.
The neighbors Jasper and Pearl are for me with the main suspects. They could and will be the masterminds.
But I don’t think there is only one “The Watcher”.
John could see the chance to live in his old house again through the contact with Pearl, because she has the urge for conservatism. He knows she is the mastermind.
After all, the letters are no secret in the neighborhood. It’s clear that anyone can write such a letter, which Dean eventually showed.
This could be even the reason why every neighbor is so interested in this house, because every house will lead to the main house in the underground.
For sure you need some creepy neigbor to build a creepy network.
Nice neighbor would make parties in the underground while others want to drive with the elevator or just walking in the neighbor´s house like it is normal.
I know it will be sobering to not have a clear answer. However, I think that we have already come closer to the whole by writing it down.
Perhaps you also still have ideas and incentives.
Please let me know so that we can possibly solve the case, at least as it is on Netflix.
