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So, did the supermarket manager and the mechanic survive?

posted 8 years ago by HarveyManfredSinJohn
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What does everyone else think?

Do you think they were rescued by the military before the other monsters could get to them? The last time we see Bud Brown (the supermarket manager) and Jim Grondin (the mechanic played by William Sadler) they'll still alive and holed up within the supermarket, and it's implied, that of the main characters, they're possibly the only ones, along with David Drayton (and I'm pretty sure he's borderline suicidal by the very end), and the woman played by Melissa McBride and that woman's child.

In which case, I must say I always find it interesting when random and relatively minor, even slightly unsympathetic characters (the manager was okay, but Grondin, the mechanic was a bit of a jerk and one of Mrs. Carmody's disciples), make it to the end alive (since the horror movie cliché is that generally everyone but the hero/heroine, and possibly their boyfriend/girlfriend, and family, ends up dead).

[–] debunkerboy 8 years ago

Probably rescued, but who can say for sure. Since there was a rescue in that area (hence McBride's survival). As long as the store people didn't do anything rash they probably made it. We do know that the monsters didn't invade closed structures where the mist had not penetrated. We can only hope that someone told the authorities about the in-store crimes perpetrated by Carmody and her flock of bloodthirsty nitwits.

[–] HarveyManfredSinJohn 8 years ago

We can only hope that someone told the authorities about the in-store crimes perpetrated by Carmody and her flock of bloodthirsty nitwits.

Perhaps, but these people were acting out of desperation and intense fear. Of course that doesn't justify their actions, and it makes them total cowards, but they were hardly operating under 'normal' circumstances. But if you're right, I guess the store manager would be okay since I don't believe he was ever one of Carmody's braindead followers. In fact, along with McBride's character and daughter, I guess the store manager is the only one who walks away from the whole ordeal relatively unscathed (even though he only barely made it back alive to the store, after his attempt to escape with the others).

Drayton killed his own son and the weak-minded Grondin became one of Carmody's most vicious disciples, so even though they're both alive, they're still pretty much damned whether they deserve it, as Grodin does, or not, as is the case with the tragic and sympathetic Drayton.