Fair Play has a long-winded ending, commencing at a celebration proper after the convention the place Luke has created a scene. Emily finds him on the occasion in a less-than-presentable state, and so they have a violent confrontation in entrance of everybody there, which then turns into a personal showdown within the restaurant rest room. One factor results in one other and the duo change into intimate, however Emily quickly begins to really feel uncomfortable and asks Luke to cease, which he doesn’t, assaulting her after which disappearing from the scene.
Emily makes good together with her boss the subsequent day, having determined to interrupt issues off with Luke after the assault. She proceeds to lie about having been stalked by Luke and asserting that there was no relationship between them.
When she returns house, she finds Luke packing as much as go reside together with his brother, unrepentant about his actions the earlier night. It is then that the facility dynamic adjustments and Emily decides to reply with the identical calculated cruelty as the type Luke has subjected her to all through Fair Play, chopping Luke down little by little till he’s begging for forgiveness, bleeding from the literal cuts she has inflicted upon him as revenge for the psychological and bodily trauma he has wreaked upon her. Finally, having gotten out of Luke precisely the apology and request for forgiveness that she wished, Emily orders him to wash his blood off the ground of the residence and get out.
The ending of Fair Play is much less in regards to the settling of scores and extra in regards to the reassertion of the company a girl like Emily would usually maintain on to doggedly however which, on this case, she has let go of so as to maintain the peace in a relationship that seems to be on the cusp of one thing extra long-lasting. When the connection has clearly collapsed past redemption in her eyes, she claws her means again to a place of energy and self-respect, now unafraid of damaging her vital different.
