At the center of Wolfs' massive twists are George Clooney and Brad Pitt's professional fixers hired to cover up a murder.
Apple TV+'s new Jon Watts-directed action movie revolves around the story of the aforementioned fixers, rivals who are forced to work together as they scramble against time to clean up a mess that is not theirs to begin with.
Wolfs premiered on Apple TV+ on September 27.
Wolfs Film Summary & Twists Explained
Wolfs starts with a young man's (Austin Abrams) accidental death inside the hotel room of the Manhattan District Attorney, Margaret (Amy Ryan).
Margaret decides to call a number given to her by a trusted ally dedicated to covering up anything. This leads her to secure the services of a professional fixer (George Clooney).
Fixer #1 swiftly arrives at the hotel to finish the job as quickly as possible. The first step is to ask for details about the man so that he can help cover Margaret's tracks.
It is revealed that the man was invited by Margaret to her hotel room for a potential one-night stand, but things went sideways after he got high on drugs and fell through a glass table.
While they are going over the details, another fixer (Brad Pitt) also arrives to finish the job. The only problem is Margaret did not hire him.
It turns out that the hotel's owner, Pamela Dowd-Henry (voiced by Frances McDormand), hired Fixer #2 to protect her business' reputation after she witnessed everything via the hidden cameras planted in the room.
Both fixers consider themselves lone wolves, meaning they work best alone.
However, Margaret and Pam urge the pair to work together to protect their reputations while blackmailing the fixers since the surveillance footage captured everything, including their arrival.
Fixer #1 helps Margaret with an alibi, and she promptly leaves after changing clothes.
Wait, Is the Kid Still Alive?
While cleaning up the mess and making sure that the hotel room has no evidence, Fixer #2 (aka Pam's man) finds the young man's backpack with a stash of drugs inside.
Fixer #1 (aka Margaret's man) realizes that the drugs are a problem since the stash's owner could come looking for them. Pam advises them to find the owner since she doesn't want the group knocking on her hotel and damaging her business.
The two fixers argue over their game plan, and their constant bickering cements the idea that they want to outwit each other and find the best possible scenario to get the job done as cleanly as possible.
The pair transport the kid's body to his car via a luggage cart, but they later realize that the kid is still alive. He just passed out after overdosing on drugs.
Who Is the Owner of the Drugs?
After knocking the kid out, the fixers head over to an underground medical specialist named June (Poorna Jagannathan) to piece together the identity of the owner of the drugs.
Margaret's man speculates that the owner could be the Albanian mafia after learning about the story of losing their huge shipment of drugs. However, he initially dismisses his theory.
Before extracting the information, the kid escapes, and the fixers chase him throughout the city, eventually capturing him.
The kid spills crucial information about the drugs, telling the fixers that the drugs are owned by Lagrange, one of the biggest drug runners in the city.
His friend and one of Lagrange's men, Diego, gave him the drugs to deliver to a location that would be sent to his pager.
The problem is that the pager is inside a club where a wedding afterparty is happening. One of the guests is a Croatian mobster named Dmitri (Zlatko Buric), who has had issues with the fixers before.
The kid retrieves the pager to find the location, and the fixers convince Dmitri that they are not working together, allowing them to leave unharmed.
However, Dmitri's bodyguard notices their guns are alike, realizing they are "buddies."
Did the Kid Deliver the Drugs?
The fixers realize that the kid needs to finish the job by letting him deliver the drugs to the assigned location, even if it means that the young man could end up dead.
Things go south after the Albanians ambush the drop at Lagrange's warehouse, leading to an all-out gang war where everyone is killed.
The fixers are also in a bind after Dmitri's bodyguards shoot their car. They engage in a shootout, with the pair working together to defeat their enemies.
After the whole fiasco, the kid manages to survive by hiding inside a trunk, and they bring him home after deciding not to kill him.
Wolfs Ending Explained: Did the Fixers Die?
Wolfs ends with the two fixers realizing that they have been set up. As they recount the events of the evening, Fixer #1 asks how the hotel owner, Pam, convinced Fixer #2 to work with him.
He tells him the same phrase that he told Margaret, "You take a job, you give your word, and that word is the measure of a man."
This revelation made them realize that the "guy" who told Pam and Margaret to contact them was the same person who hired them, and this individual wanted them gone for some reason.
It appears that their "guy" wants them to take the fall since he knew about the drugs after realizing that the kid can't make the drop because he's dead.
After eating breakfast at a diner, they notice that they are surrounded by armed men who are about to kill them. Before engaging in another gunfight, the pair agree to tell each other their names if they survive.
The movie ends on an ambiguous note, with the pair shooting at their enemies, leaving fans to speculate if they make it out alive.
Thankfully, Apple Original Films’ head of features, Matt Dentler, revealed in a statement (via Deadline) in August 2024 before its limited theatrical release that a sequel for Wolfs is already in the works:
"Releasing the movie to theaters before making it widely available to Apple TV+ customers brings the best of both worlds to audiences, and we’re excited to see fans embrace the movie as we start working with [director] Jon [Watts] on the sequel."
With a sequel on its way, it's safe to assume that the two fixers survive and live to fight another day. After setting them up, they need to seek revenge against their mysterious employer.
Wolfs is streaming on Apple TV+.
