Joker 2: Folie à Deux (2024) - Ending Scene - Joker Death (HD)

Joker: Folie à Deux Ending Explained with Director Todd Phillips - Arthur Fleck is dead but, it would seem, the real Joker is born. While the court is in recess, Arthur – his Joker makeup mostly removed – calls Lee’s home and sings to her on her answering machine. The scene then cuts to Lee listening to Arthur’s call as it is recorded. She raises a snub-nosed revolver to her head but the scene cuts back to Arthur. Is this another of his fantasies or did Lee really commit suicide? Back in the courtroom, Arthur is preparing to face his sentencing (the state is seeking the death penalty). Arthur starts to burst into uncontrollable laughter, which sets off a victim’s father who attacks Arthur. Bailiffs break it up and one guard pulls Arthur away from the melee towards the window. That’s when a massive explosion rips through the courthouse, killing many and sending Arthur hurtling toward the jury box. We later find out that one of Joker’s supporters set off a car bomb outside the courthouse. Arthur comes to a few moments later, rattled but largely uninjured. We see Harvey Dent conscious but almost catatonic from shock, the left side of his face bloodied in a nod to his eventual Two-Face alter ego. Arthur crawls out of the hole that’s been blasted into the side of the courthouse and staggers into the street. Debris is everywhere and the air is thick with ash and dust. Arthur is recognized by a supporter in full Joker cosplay who drags him away to a cab driven by another supporter wearing a clown mask. The two are gleeful that someone blew up the courthouse. They tell Arthur to keep his head down in the backseat as fire engines speed past. Arthur flees the cab once it stops at an intersection, sprinting away from the two supporters who chase after him pleading for him to return. As evening comes, Arthur arrives back to his former neighborhood. He ascends that steep set of stairs he famously danced on in the first movie. He sees Lee, with a new, shorter hairdo, smoking on t