Originally Posted by kane

To me it ended exactly how it needed to end. To have it be some kind of last minute surprise would have been an injustice. The story was never about uncovering some greater conspiracy and trying to shock the audience with a surprising revelation of who did it. It was a meditation on obsession, self destruction, and redemption and in the end that is what we got.

In the end they got their white whale. They were left scarred from the encounter and it cost them both greatly, and while they both are left with a little bit of a bitter taste in their mouths, they finally were able to find peace, redemption and maybe even happiness.