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  1. #1. The Pale Blue Eye Spoilers: What Happened?
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The Pale Blue Eye Spoilers: Things To Catch Up

Searching for The Pale Blue Eye spoilers? A West Point cadet who committed suicide by hanging himself has had his heart mysteriously stolen from his body at the coroner's office. The military asks private investigator Augustus Landor to investigate the matter for them. As he gets closer, he sees that it isn't a suicide but a murder. As the coroner, the doctor claims to have inspected the body and determined that Landor is telling the truth.
Landor's daughter has gone missing, and he drinks beer instead of coffee to get through the day. He reluctantly agrees when the military asks him to look into the killing. His initial inquiry is directed against the cadet who came upon the body. Even though it appeared that the man had hanged himself, the cadet thought it odd that his legs were touching the floor.

#1. The Pale Blue Eye Spoilers: What Happened?

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Later, a cadet approaches Landor to express his appreciation for hearing him talk about some of the conclusions he had reached on his own. Later that night, Landor sees the same cadet at the bar; he introduces himself as E.A. Poe. Poe, under the influence of alcohol, gives Landor another piece of information. As such, Landor enlists Poe's assistance in his investigation of the Military Academy.
An instant later, Poe expresses his full and hearty approbation. A cow and a sheep are slain, and their hearts are extracted. According to Landor, whoever did this is fascinated by the supernatural. Landor uncovers the ritual site, complete with the torn heart. To help Poe with his supernatural concerns, he suggests Poe speak with a certain professor. In that place, they learn that a witch hunter has found a way to live forever: by eating the heart of a man who has been hung.

 

Meanwhile, Landor can't stop thinking about where his daughter may be. Poe fits in with his familiar gang, which includes the man everyone suspects of practicing black magic. The medical examiner and coroner's son, Artemus Marquis. To show his appreciation, Artemus invites Poe over for supper after reading some of the poet's funny lyrics. There, the stunning beauty of Artemus' sister, Lea, stuns him.  The other gentleman Ballinger overhears this and cautions Poe about approaching a woman as attractive as Lea.
Landor walks upon them at this critical juncture, saving Poe's life by untying his hands. Ballinger's body is found hours later with a knife wound to the chest. The highest-ranking officials at the institution blame Poe for the crimes because he disagrees with the two victims. Landor doubted that Poe was guilty, but he pressed the issue, prompting Poe to admit that he and the victim had been friends. The Marquis has invited Landor and Poe to dine with him.

#2. Ending Explained

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As a preliminary test of Poe's trustworthiness, Landor had handed him a letter fragment written in the deceased man's hand. Poe was told to meet Landor at the location of the crime in a handwritten letter. Poe can piece together the truth of what happened and the motivation for the killings from these two accounts. Poe learns that three Academy students sexually abused his daughter with the help of a woman he encounters at a bar that is familiar with Landor.
She finally succumbed to her pain and jumped off a cliff. Landor, enraged, decided he had to kill all three men. The jewelry his daughter had stolen from the scene provided the evidence he needed to frame the first man. As with Ballinger, Landor tortured him into disclosing his friends before killing them, and then he disposed of the remains to make it appear like the work of a satanic cult so that no one would suspect him. That's why the third person had skipped out on the Academy.

 

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In the last scene of "The Pale Blue Eye," a frail and melancholy Landor tells Poe that he wishes he had met Mattie that night so that they might have started a genuine family. Devastated that the man he once looked up to had made fun of him, Poe destroys the paper that would have provided evidence to convict Landor of murder and bids him farewell as he leaves the crime site.
Poe did not think poorly of Lea, but he could never forgive Landor for his role in Lea's unfortunate death. Poe frequently references nightmare visitation from his mother, who passed away while he was a child. Poe took Lea's claimed dictation of a poem while he was sleeping as a sign that she would one day become his girlfriend and committed himself wholly to her. Since he has only had one buddy during the past few years, Landor should be allowed to rest in peace.
At the end of the film, after killing the two men, Landor lets his daughter walk free so that he may rest comfortably, hoping that the third will have to carry the weight of someone constantly being on his back for the rest of his life. Standing where his daughter had been when she plunged back down the cliff, Landor releases the white ribbon he had held near to him at all times as a sign of acceptance, leaving us with the terrifying potential that he may do the same till the very end.

 

While Landor is unhappy and lonely, he accepts his terrible existence after meeting Poe and passing judgment on the cruel, savage men responsible for his daughter's damage. Can we assume that Landor is thinking of taking his own life?
here's a chance he's only survived this long to get even, but now that he's freed from his grief and rage, he can finally start living again. Maybe he'll try his hand as a detective once again. Let's say he was successful in making peace with Poe. According to Poe, our lack of affection for the departed causes them to haunt us.
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