Harlan Coben’s Lazarus Ending Explained: In this Prime Video series, a forensic psychologist finds himself solving cold cases when his father dies under mysterious circumstances, and he starts to get visions.
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Lazarus Prime Video Cast
Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Alexandra Roach, David Fynn, Karla Crome, Kate Ashfield, Edward Hogg, Jack Deam, Amanda Root, Lex Shrapnel, Roisin Gallagher, Curtis Tennant, Eloise Caruthers-Little, Ewan Horrocks, Sianad Gregory, Narinder Samra, Cal-I-Jonel, Leon Ockenden, Jaouhar Ben Ayed, Keith Bartlett, Rupert Young, Virge Gilchrist, Lloyd Lai, Misha Duncan-Barry, Paddy C. Courtney, Gemskii, Lucy Chambers, Leni Zieglmeier, Joseph Mason-Coombs, Charlie Mann, Cormac De Bhál, Cal Connor, Shareesa Valentine, Shannon Murray, Saba Amini
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Lazarus Series Directors
Wayne Che Yip, Nicole Volavka, Daniel O’Hara
The horror-thriller miniseries has 6 episodes, each with a runtime of around 45 minutes.
Harlan Coben’s Lazarus Ending Explained
The episode opens with Joel Lazarus getting the news that his father has died, and the mysterious circumstance leaves him confused. When he comes back to his father’s house, one holding a myriad of painful memories for him, he starts to see visions, especially of an old case surrounding one of his father’s old clients, Cassandra, who has been missing since 1999. These visions led Joel to discover where she went and resulting in him finding Neil’s dead body behind a false wall in her old apartment.
He has been getting visions of his father asking him to solve his own murder as well. He opens up about his thoughts to Seth, who, of course, doesn’t believe him. However, Joel continues to get visions of his father as he tries to figure out why he is seeing his visions and whether there is any connection with Sutton’s murder.
As things start to get progressively worse, he starts to see visions of Sutton as well and desperately tries to stop her from walking to her death. Of course, that doesn’t work. He eventually goes to see Sutton’s boyfriend at the time, Billy, to get some answers. He vehemently disagrees that something untoward happened between him and Sutton and refuses to take the blame. After Joel gets his father’s gunshot analysis report, which states that it was self-inflicted, Joel promises to get to the bottom of all the murders, as he is convinced that whoever killed his father killed Cassandra and Sutton as well.
What are the symbols that Joel sees everywhere?
Joel starts to notice the image of a tool everywhere, the more he digs into Sutton, Cassandra and his father’s deaths. He quickly realises that Billy might have some knowledge about it, and when confronted, he opens up about the symbols representing doors to the next world and that his father was interested in learning more about it. Through his conversation, Joel also learns that on the night of Sutton’s death, Billy had made out with Jenna to make her jealous, leaving Joel shocked.
Who killed Sutton and the others?
Joel figures out that his father helped hide Neil’s body after Cassandra killed him, and is left distraught. As he investigates further, he realises that there are a lot of things that are common among Sutton’s death and those of Jonathan’s professional cases. He soon starts to focus on Billy, and as more and more people end up dead, but realises that Billy couldn’t have killed Jonathan because he was in rehab at the time of his murder.
As he and Jenna watch a home video from their childhood, Joel has the shocking revelation that the killer might be another friend, Sam Olsen, after he spots the same soft toy in the video that Sam seemingly has in his home. Apparently, she had given him the toy when they were children, but that’s not possible since the toy is clearly in Sutton’s room when she was much older.
The police try to find Sam to question him, but are unsuccessful. However, they do find odd pictures of underwear in his belongings that leave them a bit confused. Eventually, a bit more digging proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was Sam after all, and the police start to look for him.
What happens afterwards?
Joel finds Sam with Aiden before the police, and the two have a scuffle. Sam tells him that he killed Sutton because she was “asking for it,” and he eventually killed her when she rejected him. There are also severe psychological issues in the back of this situation, which resulted in him committing these crimes. The two get into a scuffle, and Joel stops short of killing him when Aiden calls out ot him.
Is Sam also Jonathan’s killer?
In a rather surprising twist, it turns out that Sam has an alibi for when Jonathan died and, thus, couldn’t have been his killer. Joel starts to see visions once again, this time of Imogen Carswood, who was killed by Arlo Jones, one of his patients. He speaks to him, and he points him towards Alison, who could’ve been the real murderer. Digging deeper into it, Joel finds more and more threads connecting Alison to all of the crimes.
Who is the real killer?
In a shocking twist, it turns out that it’s Jonathan who is the real killer, who has been working with Alison to kill people and then blame it on others. It’s a shocking twist that Joel learns after Alison is killed in an accident. Alison is the one who asked Jonathan to kill himself, and, after some thought, he does do so. Joel is left devastated at the reveal and eventually tells Jenna. She hears all the couscelling tapes of her father’s and it’s revealed that Joel had done the same as well, and his visions are simply a manifestation of these tapes.
What happens in the end?
In the end, Joel goes to meet Laura and finds her door open. Concerned, he walks in and finds the house in disarray only to run into Aidan, who had a bloody sythe in his hand. With Jonathan’s words that sons eventually become their dads running in his mind, Joel looks on, horrified.
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