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Oh, and Winston’s thrown in that if John wins, the High Table has to rebuild the New York Continental that they leveled at the beginning of the movie and reinstate him as manager.

The Harbinger (Clancy Brown), the High Table parliamentarian overseeing the duel, declares that if either party doesn’t reach Sacré-Cœur, they forfeit the duel and their lives. By this point, though, Caine has displayed such prowess in combat that the odds on this matchup still feel basically even. He’s naming a blind duelist as his champion in a pistol duel with John Wick, a man whose nickname comes from the fact that he’s good enough at shooting guns to kill the Boogeyman. John’s able to select both the weapon (pistols) and the location (Sacré-Cœur), while the Marquis, crucially, sets the duel for sunrise the next morning instead of immediately, as John was hoping for.Īs his final stipulation, the Marquis exercises his right to name a champion: Caine. Round by round, John and the Marquis alternatingly flip numbered cards, with whoever turns the higher number getting to choose the rules of the duel. Each combatant names a second - John chooses Winston (natch), and the Marquis chooses Caine - and over the course of a parley, they settle on the particulars with a game of chance. High Table duel rules aren’t all that different from what you’d probably imagine the rules of a duel to be. He travels to Berlin to get himself a new “ticket” by carrying out the assassination of Killa (Scott Adkins), securing vengeance for his adoptive sister Katia (Natalia Tena), reinstatement as a member of the Ruska Roma, and of course, the right to challenge the Marquis to a duel. John essentially left the family in Chapter 3, having his “ticket torn” by Anjelica Huston’s Director in exchange for being smuggled out of New York City.

Winston encourages John to reconcile with the Ruska Roma, the tribe that adopted him as an orphaned child. But John knows enough to recognize that as a pariah in the assassin underworld, he lacks the standing to challenge the Marquis in this way. It’s here that Winston suggests a path for John to put his obligations to the Table behind him once and for all, by exploiting an archaic and mythic High Table rule: Members of the organization can challenge each other to duels. We’ll come back to that.Īfter a rather harried stay at the Osaka Continental, John and Winston reconnect. The Marquis pulls Caine (Donnie Yen) out of assassin retirement to hunt down and kill John by using his estranged daughter’s life as a bargaining chip. His first act: firing Winston, leveling the New York Continental and murdering Charon (the late Lance Reddick) as punishment for aiding Wick. They deploy the Marquis de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård) to oversee the hunt for John personally, imbued with all of their power and influence.

John’s assassination of the Elder, coupled with Winston’s (Ian McShane) admittedly obvious ploy to fake-kill John at the end of Chapter 3 by shooting him off the roof of the Continental, forces the Table to get serious about stamping out this rebellion. No luck on getting that finger back, though. John always goes back for his personal effects – he’s sentimental as hell. In the opening scene, John returns to the Elder (well, an Elder) in the Moroccan desert who “sits above the High Table.” After some doomsaying on this new Elder’s part (the recasting is quickly glossed over), John kills him and takes back the wedding ring the previous Elder took from him in Chapter 3. Play John Wick: Chapter 4 Ending ExplainedĬhapter 4 sees John Wick and his allies openly challenging the authority of the High Table.

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