Oh no, I’ve watched this whole movie one jerky little motion at a time and now it’s stuck at the very end where Charles Durning is chasing MariLee into the bushes and WHAT HAPPENS??????????????
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Durning catches up with Mari Lee in the pumpkin field by a bulldozer/farming machine, grabs her and angrilly screams at her, "It was you! It was you!". Mari lee screams for bubba. "bubba! Bubba!"
Just then the headlights of the bulldozer is turned on, shining on Durning, and then the engine of the bulldozer turns on too. Durning lets go of Mari Lee who runs away. Durning stares at the bulldozer and then calls out "whos there?". The shovel of the bulldozer lifts up off the ground. Then he calls out, "Sam?" (neither he or us can see who is actually operating the bulldozer)
The shovel still lifts up. "Listen sam. I can explain. It was her. It was her all of the time. I'm sure of it because..." Just then the bulldozer starts rolling towards him and he calls out several more times, "Sam? Sam? Sam?". Now he begins to run away and the bulldozer (which is also towing some farming implement that slices up the pumpkins it rolls over) keeps up with him as he keeps yelling out "Sam! Sam! Sam!".
Durning falls down, gets up and starts running again, only to come face to face with a scarecrow, where he stops (the bulldozer stops too). He is stunned, blood starts coming from Durnings mouth, and Durning takes a few steps backwards from the scarecrow.
Then we are given a closeup of the scarecrows head, the camera pans down to reveal that the scarecrow is holding a pitchfork in his hands and is aimed at Durning and the tines are dripping with Durnings blood. Durning looks down at his belly which is soaked in his own blood. Obviously he ran into the pitchfork. Durning drops to his knees, still looking at the face of the scarecrow. He raises his arm, points his finger up at the scarecrow, then falls forward, dead. The camera pulls back to show the scarecrow, Durnings body, and the bulldozer all together in the same shot. Then, the engine of the bulldozer is turned off, and then the lights of the bulldozer are switched off with a loud click.
Then we see Mari Lee hiding amongst the pumpkins in the field as we hear the sound of someone walking through the pumpkin field. The sound of rustling of the dry grass.
We are then given a point of view of whomever is walking in the field towards Mari Lee who has her back to whomever is walking towards her, she turns around and looks up. We are then given, from Mari Lee's point of view, a sideview of the scarecrow that Durning came face to face with. The scarecrow turns its head to look down at us/Mari Lee. Then we are shown a close up of Mari Lee's face. Her expression changes from worry to a smile. The scarecrow bends down towards Mari Lee. Then we are given a close up of the scarecrows hand which holds a flower that he is presenting to Mari Lee. Mari Lee's hand comes into the scene, and takes hold of the flower stem which the scarecrow is still holding. Now the camera is focused on the closeup of the scarecrows hand and Mari Lees hand, both grasping the flower, and the camera remains its close up focus of both hands holding the stem of the flower, while in a voiceover we hear Mari Lee say, "Thank you, Bubba. You know what? Tomorrow, I think I will teach you a new game. Did I ever show you how to play the chasing game? Its fun. You'll like it. Its sort of like tag...". Then the end credits scroll over the close up of the scarecrows hand and mari lees hand holding the flower with the same eerie theme music that the movie opened with.
Spoiler END
The "Sam" that Durning is calling out to, you will recall, is the District Attorney who prosecuted the case, unsuccessfully, against Durning and his fellow vigilantes