This article contains spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The long-awaited next installment of the Knives Out murder mystery series finally hit Netflix on the 23rd of December, and many fans who loved the first film agreed that the Glass Onion definitely did not disappoint! The newest Benoit Blanc (played by James Bond's Daniel Craig) adventure follows the detective to a private island party, hosted by the rich and illustrious Miles Bron, the leader of the ‘disrupters'.

This rag-tag bunch of frenemies, still desperately clinging to the success and fortune that Miles brought them in their youth, are willing to do anything to keep it, even once a murder is committed. Similarly to the original Knives Out narrative, one murder is committed, which quickly leads to a second murder in order to cover the criminal tracks and get rid of the only person who could expose the mastermind behind it all.

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There is blackmail, there is subterfuge, and most of all there is the one good-hearted person among a crowd of selfish and depraved narcissists (brought to life by an increasingly star-studded cast) who is willing to help detective Blanc solve the mystery. There were several hints and clues throughout the movie that pointed towards the solution to all of Blanc’s questions, and some of the most astute audience members may have noticed hints like the Fibonacci sequence in the puzzle box invitations containing the red square that will later be revealed as the hidden letter, or the towel wrapped around Andi’s (who is later revealed to be Helen’s) head to hide their different hair colors.

Glass Onion Napkin

The movie cleverly laces so many of these little Easter eggs into the body of the film, the pineapple allergy, the Hindenburg warning, the failsafe to trigger the Mona Lisa protection being removed, and all of these subtle things have a part to play in the complex but ultimately incredibly satisfying ending.

The first biggest twist of the movie, is when it is found out that Andi was murdered but staged to look like a suicide, and that it is actually her twin sister Helen who has employed Benoit Blanc and accompanied him in disguise to the island in order to be his inside-man. The subsequent murder of Duke (played by Dave Bautista) just as that of Fran the housekeeper in the original Knives Out film, is to get rid of the only person who witnessed or figured out the crime that was committed.

Helen, Glass Onion’s fierce and plucky version of Knives Out's Marta, helps Blanc solve the mystery of her sister’s murder, by finding the red envelope that contains the original napkin that held the creation of the Alpha concept that made Miles and all of the disrupters rich and successful in the first place. The napkin, originally drawn in Andi’s hand on a ‘Glass Onion’ stamped napkin from the pub that was their old haunt, was the missing piece in a trial that awarded sole ownership of the company to Miles and ruined Andi’s name and her life forever.

In an agonizingly frustrating turn of events, Miles sets the napkin alight, destroying the only evidence that Andi was the true brain behind the Alpha company, and also eliminating any tether that could have tied Miles to her murder. In the original trial, the disrupters all perjured themselves on the witness stand and lied to protect Miles so that he would keep endorsing their various pursuits financially, and the same thing happens again when Helen pleas with them to stand by her and admit that they saw him burn the napkin.

Glass Onion

There is nothing that Blanc can do, all physical evidence has been destroyed, and just as it looks as though Miles is about to get away with it, the detective hands Helen a shard of the Klear fuel crystal that Miles has blackmailed Lionel Toussant and Claire Debella (played by Agatha: Coven of Chaos star Kathryn Hahn) into creating. Here’s where the Hindenburg reference comes in. The entire Glass Onion is powered by the Hydrogen fuel, which means that all Helen has to do is set a big enough fire to reach the vents in the ceiling and blow up the onion from the inside. But how does this ending get Helen and her sister’s murder any justice?

The answer lies in the Mona Lisa, which Miles has rented from the Louvre in Paris to help finance them during the difficult times of the Covid-19 Pandemic (which helped Netflix acquire the Knives Out sequels). When Helen pushes the trigger to remove the protective glass from the world’s most famous painting, it is engulfed in flames, and destroyed forever. The monetary value of the Mona Lisa is enough to financially ruin even the richest man like Miles, but its value is far beyond its pecuniary worth, as it has an entire world of history behind it. Thus, Helen is finally able to get justice for her sister. Although she cannot prove that he murdered Andi, that he stole the original idea for Alpha and fabricated his version of the Napkin, or that he killed Duke to cover all of this up, the destruction of the Mona Lisa which has been entrusted to Miles is enough to get him arrested.

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Plus, it destroys his wealth, which means that he no longer has the financial backing he needs to control and blackmail all of his disrupters, who subsequently turn against him one by one and agree to testify in court that they saw him burn the napkin, that they watched him grab Duke's gun, and that they saw him leave Andi's house on the night that she was murdered. Thus, Miles goes down for all of the crimes he committed, the disrupters get away with small charges for perjury, but get to escape the troublesome businesses and projects that they had been tied into, Helen gets the satisfaction of justice (and probably transferred the remaining wealth from Alpha once it is proved that Miles stole the idea from her sister in the first place) and Benoit Blanc gets another successful mystery case wrapped up.

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