The psychological thriller concludes with the devastating reveal that Elias had an imaginary twin brother named Lukas. In reality, it was Elias alone tormenting his mother the entire time, driven by grief and rage after the accidental death of his real brother. When Elias confronts his mother in the barn, she falls to her death in a fire he inadvertently starts, completing his spiral into madness. The ending implies Elias created the alter ego Lukas, projecting his pain over losing his brother onto his mother through acts of extreme cruelty. With his mother gone, Elias is left alone with the unresolved trauma that fractured his psyche. The finale provides a tragic twist by exposing the frightening consequences of unaddressed grief and anguish in a child’s mind. In the end, the imaginary Lukas represented the darkness consuming Elias after unspeakable loss, driving him to commit the very acts that horrified him.