Russo takes the money and runs to share with his lover, Vanessa (Julia Fox from the Uncut Gems cast), who – in, arguably, the film’s most dazzling twist – shoots him dead so she can have the money all to herself, until it is abruptly swiped from her when she is pulled over by a cop who somehow knows her by name.
Probably the one other character granted a “happy” ending is Goynes, who is mercifully spared by Watkins and able to walk away with the $5,000 promised to him at the very beginning.
Meanwhile, Wertz reunites with his family who had been staying at a neighbors’ house since the incident, but is destined to continue being haunted by the consequences of his actions (another detail I will elaborate on soon).
That is because the cop was sent by Officer Joe Finney (Jon Hamm, no stranger to period pieces since leading the Mad Men cast) – the gumshoe investigating the Wertz Family’s hostage situation who is actually crooked and reports to Mike Lowen, to whom Finney promptly delivers the loot.