What actually happens
Still waiting on those college letters
A woman named Diane Sherman has a premature baby, and the first time she sees her, the baby is in an incubator with hospital staff around. Years later Diane lives in Pasco with that daughter, Chloe, who is a teenager now. Chloe has arrhythmia, hemochromatosis, asthma and diabetes, and she cannot use her legs, so she gets around in a wheelchair, takes a lot of medication every day and is homeschooled by Diane. She spends her free time building electronics and circuit boards, and she wants to go to college. Diane seems to support the idea. Chloe has sent out applications, and nobody has written back.
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A label pasted over a label
While searching a grocery bag for chocolate, Chloe finds green pills in a bottle that carries Diane's name. When she looks at the bottle again later, a label with her own name has been stuck over the original. She tries to look up the pills, called Trigoxin, but the house has no internet connection, and Diane is watching her try. The next day Chloe calls a stranger from her mother's bedroom phone and asks him to search for it. He says it is a heart medication that comes as small red pills. At the movie theater Chloe says she is going to the bathroom and runs across the street to a pharmacy instead. The pharmacist tells her the green pills are a relaxant called Ridocaine, which was only ever approved for dogs and can paralyze a person's legs. Chloe begins to hyperventilate, and Diane runs in, sedates her and takes her home.
Escape by soldering iron
Chloe wakes up in bed, and the door to her room has been locked from the outside. Diane is out on an errand. She drags herself onto the roof, gets into her mother's bedroom after smashing the window with a soldering iron and some water, and has an asthma attack and only just manages to crawl back to her room for her inhaler. The ramp that would take her downstairs has had its power cord cut, so she throws her wheelchair down the stairs and falls after it. She is only slightly hurt, and she finds she can move one toe, since she has skipped the Ridocaine for the last few days. Outside she flags down a mail truck and Tom, the postal worker, says he will help. Then Diane arrives, and Tom tells her that Chloe is not going back with her. While he is closing the van to drive Chloe to the police, Diane ambushes him and sedates him. Chloe hyperventilates again and blacks out. She comes to down in the basement, chained to a steel pole in her wheelchair, watching Diane drag Tom's body down the hallway.
The basement, and a bottle of organophosphate
This is the scene people dread most, and it comes near the end. In the basement Chloe finds her childhood photos, in which she is walking. She also finds a death certificate belonging to a baby girl named Chloe who lived for two hours and eleven minutes, a news article about parents whose baby was taken from that same hospital, and acceptance letters from colleges that Diane never showed her. She accuses Diane of poisoning her and lying about her conditions. Diane insists that she did everything to protect Chloe, then prepares a syringe of homemade neurotoxin, which she says will make Chloe forget. Chloe crawls into a closet and locks it, then swallows a bottle of organophosphate, and that forces Diane to rush her to the hospital. After that, the story moves to the hospital.
The ending, explained
At the hospital Chloe wakes up with a breathing tube, barely able to move. Diane insists on taking her home, but the doctors refuse to discharge her until a mental health professional has seen her, since her actions were treated as a suicide attempt. A nurse brings Chloe a crayon and paper. When a code blue pulls the nurse away, Diane sneaks in with a handgun and ties Chloe to a wheelchair. The nurse returns to an empty bed and a note that reads MOM, and alerts security. Chloe moves her foot to hold the chair in place and slow Diane down. Cornered near a staircase, Diane aims the gun at the guards, and one of them shoots her in the arm and she tumbles down the stairs. Seven years on, Chloe still uses a wheelchair, although she can walk a few steps with a cane. She visits Diane, who lies in a prison infirmary bed looking much weaker. Chloe tells her about her new life: a husband named Ara, a daughter named Annie and a job as a prosthetist. Annie prefers Chloe's grandparents, which suggests Chloe has found her birth family. Before she leaves, Chloe takes out three Ridocaine pills she smuggled in and tells Diane to open wide.
The post-credits ruling
Nobody has confirmed whether Run has a scene after the credits.
✓ Spoiled safelyDog status: fine, and no dog dies in it.
Questions people ask at 1am
Is Run scary?
Yes, Run is a 5 out of 10. It is a tense thriller about a mother who controls everything her daughter takes, with some jump scares and a medium level of dread.
How does Run end?
A hospital guard shoots Diane in the arm and she ends up in a prison infirmary. Seven years later Chloe, who now has a family and a career of her own, visits and tells Diane to open wide while holding three Ridocaine pills.
Does the dog die in Run?
No, no dog dies in Run. Dogs come up only because the green pills Diane gives Chloe were approved for use in dogs.
Is there a post-credits scene in Run?
Nobody has confirmed whether Run has a scene after the credits.
Why can Chloe not walk in Run?
Diane has been giving Chloe Ridocaine, a relaxant approved only for dogs that can cause leg paralysis in a person. When Chloe goes a few days without taking it, she can move a toe again.
