Pratik Handore
‘Chucky’ tells the story of the eponymous serial killer doll as he tries to turn innocent teenagers into murderers. However, Chucky also has a larger hand to play, and his master plan comes to light in the season finale. Jake, Lexy, and Devon rely on Andy and Kyle for help, but quickly find themselves on their own in the explosive finale that claims many lives.
In the end, the teenagers get a satisfying ending, but the episode leaves plenty of questions unanswered. Here’s everything you need to know about the conclusion of ‘Chucky’ season 1, including some answers about the fates of our favorite characters. SPOILERS AHEAD!
Chucky Season 1 Finale Recap
‘Chucky’ season 1 episode 8 is titled ‘An Affair to Dismember.’ It picks up right after the previous entry, with Andy arriving at the Wheeler residence. Junior and Chucky have teamed up after Junior killed his father. Junior hides his father’s dead body and deals with Andy. At Lexy’s house, Jake and Lexy prepare to save Devon but are attacked by a Chucky doll. Kyle arrives in the nick of time and saves them. Before heading out to save Devon, she renders the teenagers unconscious to keep them out of harm’s way.
At Charles Lee Ray’s childhood home, Junior and Chucky meet with Tiffany (possessing Jennifer Tilly’s body) and Chucky (possessing Nica Pierce’s body). Chucky explains that he needed an innocent person to turn into a killer to respawn his cult. Junior killing his father has brought to life the various Good Guy dolls Tiffany has collected on Chucky’s behalf. However, when Chucky neglects Tiffany, she kills the doll. Tiffany drugs Nica and prepares to execute the final part of her and Chucky’s plan. She booby traps the house with explosives before leaving.
Andy arrives at the house and rescues Devon. However, Kyle enters the house and ends up triggering the explosives, leading to a blast. The following morning, Lexy and Jake see the news of the explosion and assume Devon is dead along with Andy and Kyle. However, Devon survived as he managed to escape moments before the blast. Jake and Devon reunite.
At the town’s charity screening of ‘Frankenstein,’ Chucky kills Lexy’s dad and other audience members, causing a commotion. Backstage, Junior and Chucky try to convince Lexy to join them. However, when Chucky threatens Lexy, Junior kills him and dies in the process. In the hall, Jake engages in a scuffle with the other Chucky and kills him. The episode ends with Lexy, Jake, and Devon gathering at Junior’s grave to pay their respects.
Chucky Season 1 Ending: Are All the Chucky Dolls Gone From Hackensack? Is Chucky Dead?
Over the course of the season, we have seen Chucky can be more than a handful despite being just a doll. It is extremely difficult to kill him, but surprisingly, Chucky dies four times in the season finale. Well, to be precise, four different versions of Chucky die in the episode. The episode establishes that despite each Good Guy doll that is alive being essentially a form of Chucky, they depict a certain level of individualism.
Earlier in the episode, Kyle kills a version of Chucky to save Lexy and Jake. Later, Tiffany and Andy kill the Chucky doll who had been tormenting Jake and Lexy from the start. A second version becomes Junior’s companion shortly after he leaves the house with Tiffany, while another becomes Caroline’s companion. Both these versions are killed off by Jake and Junior in the final act.
In the episode, as a part of the charity event, Tiffany donates the various Good Guy dolls to needy children across the country. In the aftermath of Chucky’s carnage at the screening, the dolls are transported to the airport, implying that Chucky will soon terrorize the entire country. One of the dolls exclaims that his ultimate goal is to take over the whole country, and Chucky has taken his first step towards that goal by sending versions of himself from coast to coast. However, for now, it appears that Hackensack is free from the dolls.
Are Nica, Andy, and Kyle Dead?
During the season finale, Andy Barclay, the sworn enemy of Chucky, comes face to face with his nemesis once again. However, their confrontation is a tragedy waiting to happen as Kyle and Andy both end up getting caught in the explosion at the house. The duo is assumed dead until the very last moments, when Andy surprisingly shows up to take control of the truck transporting the Chucky dolls to the airport.
It seems that Andy survived the blast, but Kyle’s fate is left undetermined. Andy is held hostage by the Tiffany doll, who is hiding along with the Chucky dolls. She forces Andy to drive to the airport, thus implying that Chucky’s plan succeeds. On the other hand, Kyle might have survived the explosion but is likely in worse shape than Andy, which would explain why she doesn’t show up again.
Elsewhere, poor Nica’s struggles continue, and this time her ordeal is much more tragic. In the episode, Tiffany drugs Nica and drives her away from the house. We do not see Nica again until the very end, wherein Tiffany ensures Chucky will not take over Nica’s body again. For doing so, Tiffany has amputated Nica’s arms and legs. It is arguably a fate worse than death for Nica, who just can’t seem to find a way out of the chaos Chucky has brought into her life.
Who is the Person at the End?
The season finale leaves one trick up its sleeve for the very end. In the closing moments, Jake, Devon, and Lexy assemble at Junior’s grave and introspect on the events they have recently gone through and survived together. In the distance, we see Miss Fairchild waiting for the children, implying that she is looking after them. However, as the camera pans out, in the final shot, we see someone watching the kids from afar and is wearing a black glove on their right hand. The identity of the person remains a mystery as we cut to a fourth-wall-breaking conversation with Chucky.
One of the most likely candidates who could be that the mysterious person is Andy. After all, in the episode, we see him sporting a similar black pair of gloves while driving the truck full of Chucky dolls. Could he have returned to the town to warn the teenagers about Chucky’s reemergence? As strong as that possibility is, the scene has a very sinister tone, meaning it might not be Andy who is watching the teenagers.
Another candidate is Glen/Glenda, Chucky’s genderfluid off-spring, who has been precariously missing from the fold in the first season. Some viewers suspect that Miss Fairchild is secretly Glen/Glenda, and her presence on the scene helps strengthen this theory. Only time will tell who the mystery person is, but it is clear that Jake and his friends aren’t out of danger just yet.
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