extraterrestrial monsters time travel and one very long day Edge of Tomorrow has a deceptively complex story and an even more complicated ending here's what it all means understanding the ending of Edge of Tomorrow requires you to pay pretty close attention from the beginning because what the mimics are doing gets explained pretty early on and it goes by fast according to Dr Carter a mimic biologist the mimics are really like one giant interconnected organism the larger Alpha mimics act as the central nervous system and command the mimic drones these high-ranking Alphas then return information to be
processed by the central Omega mimic each time an alpha dies the Omega rolls the clock back 24 hours keeping all of their Collective knowledge intact and enabling the mimics to adjust their strategies in order to gain a definitive Victory while the alphas seem to be the decision makers of the mimics dictating the actions of the drones and determining their strategy Carter hypothesizes that since the Omega essentially functions as the brain of the mimics the only way to stop the invasion is to destroy it the problem is that thanks to their powers the mimics know about
the military's biggest weakness and they have a lot more experience than cage and vertasky in using their time Loop abilities to their advantage so they're pretty Adept at keeping the Omega safe and hidden there's a whole juicy prequel just waiting to be made in the story of Rita vertesky and the Battle of Verdun which we hear about in bits and pieces but never see from what we learn at the beginning of the film The Human battle against the mimics dragged on for five years before the United Defense Force finally claimed their first Victory the offensive
was led by Sergeant vertesky who was later nicknamed the angel of Verdun the popular version of the story is that Rita led the UDF troops to Victory due to her abilities as an exceptional Soldier but the truth is she had another advantage that no one knew about she was living in a Time Loop the first time bratasky fought the Battle of Verdun she was killed but similar to what would later happen to cage when Rita died she also managed to take an alpha with her and their blood mingled together as they both died but instead
of staying dead Rita woke up a day before Verdun she lived out that battle over and over gaining a bit more ground each time before she died after several resets Rita started experiencing visions of the Omega and she attempted to interpret them in order to destroy the brain and defeat the mimics once and for all but in the course of finally leading the UDF to victory over the mimics she was badly injured and received a blood transfusion without the mimic blood she lost both the looping ability and the visions the first time cage was dropped
into the middle of the battle in France he had no idea what he was doing he didn't even know how to turn off the safety on his gun yet he managed to survive through sheer luck however cage eventually wound up alone and on his back surrounded by mimics including a giant blue-tinged Alpha in desperation cage grabbed for a UDF incendiary device lying beside him on the ground and fired it off right as the alpha lunged for him while the resulting explosion was powerful enough to blow up the alpha it killed him as well as cage
died the blood of the alpha dripped into his open wounds passing along its link to the Omega and giving cage the same time traveling ability the alphas have as with the alphas his Consciousness was knocked back 24 hours in time since the invasion had taken place in the morning he woke up on the preceding morning when he first arrived at the Heathrow military base when you kill that Alpha you inadvertently entered the enemy's nervous system once cage and bratasky start working together Rita preps cage for what to expect he'll keep looping over and over and
eventually start experiencing visions of the Omega when that happens the two of them can use Cage's Visions to locate the Omega and destroy it when Cage's visions do start he's able to use architectural Clues to narrow the omega's location to a dam in Germany Cajun potaski spend countless Loops attempting to get from the beach in France to the dam in Germany but once cage finally reaches his destination he's horrified to realize the Omega isn't there after all it turns out that his Visions weren't a glimpse into the omega's Consciousness but rather a carefully laid trap
the Omega showed him exactly what it wanted him to see cage is greeted by an alpha and a drone with the Omega nowhere to be found while previous mimics have killed cage the instant they get a chance these mimics seem to have something else in mind instead of ripping him apart the alpha wounds cage giving him a deep gash that bleeds profusely cage realizes that this is the mimic's true plan to lure him away from his allies and then steal back the power kept in his blood although the visions of the dam in Germany proved
to be a red herring the Omega was still hunkered down in Europe just in a different country after Cajun vatasky stopped relying on his Visions to lead them where they needed to go they managed to locate the Omega through a different method using the direct link between the Omega and Alphas to pinpoint its location ultimately the real Omega is located deep beneath the Louvre in Paris France when cage vertasky and the Rogue J Squad arrive at the famous Museum they discover that the area is flooded by the same river with the Omega located underwater the
entire region is in disarray following the mimic attacks on Paris and the resulting floods so while normally there's no water underneath the Louvre in this decimated world cage has to swim the final distance down to the Omega after realizing that the Visions are not a road map to the mimic's greatest weakness Cajun vatasky are forced to reevaluate their strategy to destroy the Omega they decide instead to resort to a piece of technology Carter started developing when Rita was the one caught in the loop Carter was never able to complete this transponder since for taskey lost
the ability to loot before they could test it on her and Carter subsequently lost his job and had his research confiscated by the UDF after getting fired it appeared that Carter tried making a new transponder but he told vertaski it didn't work so instead they had to acquire Carter's original device which was kept in a safe and general Brigham's office while the mechanics of the transponder are left a bit fuzzy it works by making contact with the blood of an alpha through which it establishes a link to the Omega and determines the creature's location since
Cage's blood has the same properties as that of an alpha britasky was able to use the transponder on cage which is how they determined that the Omega is in Paris according to vertaski the Only Rule cage must abide by while he Loops is that if he's injured he has to make sure he dies this is the Only Rule you get injured on the field you better make sure you die she tells him that the way she lost the looping ability was through a blood transfusion causing her to conclude that blood is the key to the
ability it's never clear exactly how much blood cage could afford to lose while still holding on to his ability to reset based on his other injuries throughout the film he could definitely spare at least a pint or two without risking his link with the Omega and it's unlikely that a transfusion would have replaced every drop so it seems most likely that while some of the Alpha's blood would remain in his body a transfusion would dilute it to the point where the mimic link was severed after receiving a blood transfusion following his theft of Dr Carter's
transponder from General Brigham's office Cajun potaski realized they're all out of resets that evening is their very last chance to find the Omega and prevent the UDF invasion in France The Invasion is in reality a trap set by the mimics that will result in the ultimate and absolute defeat of humanity knowing they won't get another opportunity they enlist the help of J-Squad they fly to Paris where the area around the Louvre is completely overrun with mimics and all of J-Squad winds up sacrificing themselves in their quest to get caged in for tasky inside once they
finally made it in vertaski offers to provide a distraction that will allow cage to cover the remaining distance to the Omega they both know that neither one of them has any hope of making it out alive as an alpha kills for tasky cage gets to the edge of the water covering the Omega and begins to swim down to it holding a belt of grenades the alpha follows him and stabs him through the chest but before cage dies he pulls the pins of the grenades and drops them down to the Omega as the Omega dies it
attempts to restart the day again but it would seem that the Omega can't reset itself and instead of giving the mimics a do-over it transmits its own death back 24 hours this has the effect of killing all of the mimics a day before the Omega itself was killed throughout the movie Cajun for taskey know that if he receives a blood transfusion he'll lose the reset ability which is why they ensure that he dies each time they don't complete their goal so when he and Rita get into a car accident following their theft of the transponder
from Brigham's office and cage is given a transfusion they both realize they're on their last life but after the destruction of the Omega cage wakes up again apparently cage held on to life just long enough to get bathed in the omega's blood when the grenades went off giving him the reset ability again having that blood in his system when he died meant that when the Omega attempted to reset the day cage was reset too however unlike the mimics Cage's life wasn't dependent on the Omega so while the omega's attempted reset resulted in the deaths of
all mimics cage wasn't affected and got one last life by the end of Edge of Tomorrow we've seen cage reset countless times always at Heathrow military base on the morning before The Invasion but at the end of the film cage wakes up in a helicopter on his way to his meeting with Brigham before he was ever sent to Heathrow the different reset points can be confusing after watching cage always return to the same time previously but it makes sense as long as you understand that cage lost the reset ability before the end and then regained
it the first time cage died he reset 24 hours into the past at Heathrow the morning before The Invasion think of that moment in time at Heathrow as a video game save point every subsequent time cage died no matter how much time passed between his waking up and that particular death he always reverted to that Original Point extending the video game analogy when he lost the reset ability the saved game was deleted so the second time he gained the mimic ability he had to spin up a new game this established its own unique save point
24 hours before he killed the Omega since the Omega died in the early hours of the morning before the France Invasion cage reset to the previous morning right before he met with Brigham earlier than his arrival at Heathrow it would be easy to finish Edge of Tomorrow wondering if cage still has the ability to reset again if he died since that's what he does after defeating the Omega of course without the mimics to fight cage hopefully wouldn't find himself facing death every day but it could still be a handy ability to have in case he
were to for example accidentally get himself run over by another truck however there's no need to speculate about Cage's power since Chances Are by the end of the film he doesn't have it anymore the way that Dr Carter explains the mimic's ability to cage is that when an alpha dies the Omega resets it back to the day before the alpha isn't resetting itself and it seems to have no special abilities without the guidance of the Omega since cage essentially stepped into the role of an alpha when he died the time looping isn't his power without
an Omega around the fleeing Cage's Consciousness back in time whenever he dies cage is fated to live and die with no repeat just like the rest of us [Music] foreign [Music]
