The plot and its " twist ending " are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of situational irony.

As the novel develops, his brother's escape from a mental hospital and impending return lead on to a violent ending and a twist that undermines all that Frank believed about himself.

Shortly afterward, in a twist of events, everyone that Nico and Jacks arrested is suddenly let go at the request of Federal officials, and Nico is asked to stand down, not to mention the fact that the priest of Nico ’ s parish is killed in an explosion as a Mass is ending.

The man goes to a psychiatrist and, after the session, the twist ending ( a device which Serling became known for using ) reveals the " patient " had died at Pearl Harbor, and the psychiatrist was the one actually having the vivid dreams.

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Even though the villain's body count is only two, the film's " whodunit " plot structure, knife-wielding and mentally disturbed killer, twist ending and ' stalking ' camera technique proved influential on films to come.

This movie is cited as having introduced the twist ending in cinema.

A twist ending reveals that Francis ' flashback, however, is actually his fantasy: he, Jane and Cesare are all in fact inmates of the insane asylum, and the man he says is Caligari is his asylum doctor, who, after this revelation of the source of his patient's delusion, says that now he will be able to cure Francis.

In the final episode, a twist ending is given, that the Earth of the Thirteenth Tribe is not " our " Earth, but rather that " our " Earth is named after the original Earth.

It is one of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre.

In a twist ending, the game's Narrator ( David Ogden Stiers ) and Belhifet are revealed to be one and the same ; the demon implies that his mandatory century of imprisonment ( after his defeat at the hands of the Player's party ) is close to an end and that he will soon walk the Prime Material Plane once more ....

The destruction of the Lucifer in the subspace between the Sol and Delta Serpentis jump nodes marks a twist in the ending ; the subspace corridor is destroyed and Sol is cut off from the Terran survivors outside who must face the possibility of meeting the Shivans again.

The very first serial was Hampton Wick ( 1971 ) written by Barker, which began as a pastiche of costume dramas about a governess called Henrietta Beckett, played by Madeline Smith, with the Ronnies playing a wide variety of other characters, but had a neat twist ending that turned this notion on its head.

This twist ending forces readers to reconsider their point of view and experience of the story.

The novel's twist ending suggests that Martin actually drowned shortly after his ship was sunk.

A campaign that begins on the Earth, includes a voyage by ether liner to Mars, and concludes with a twist ending.

In the story's twist ending, the daughter reveals that she obtained it from their slave, Rayhan.

The television show Lost has made effective use of the flashforward technique, beginning at the end of season three with a twist ending in the episode " Through the Looking Glass ".

The revelation of its impact on privacy comprises part of its twist ending.

The police procedural film, often with a surprise twist ending, has also remained a vital format with Cruising ( 1980 ), Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), The Dead Pool ( 1988 ), Mortal Thoughts ( 1991 ), Rising Sun ( 1993 ), Striking Distance ( 1993 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ), Lone Star ( 1996 ), Under Suspicion ( 2000 ), Blood Work ( 2002 ), Mindhunters ( 2004 ), and Righteous Kill ( 2008 ).

By the time the 2000s came, the strip was still going strong, but with a slight twist to the usual ending of the strip ; rather than Ernest being jilted by Daisy for another man, Ernest usually ended up being beaten up, falling from a great height, or otherwise suffering some painful misfortune, which usually put him in traction.

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The play is also known for its twist ending, which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre.

There was the freshness of color, the freedom of perception, the lack of self-consciousness, but with a twist that made the forms leap from the page and smack you in the eye.

Hazred could come from the Persian or Arabic word " Hazrat " meaning Great Lord with a twist that makes it sound like " red " and " hazard " both indicative of danger.

By a strange twist, the Benedictines were not a mendicant order, but a stable, monastery-based order, and single-volume breviaries are rare from this early period.

b ) Edge-on view of the central two β strands in a, showing the righthanded twist and the pleat of Cαs and sidechains that alternately stick out in opposite directions from the sheet.

These adopt a style of storytelling rather than specific characters from their sources, usually with a knowing or ironic twist.

In the course of requesting a veritable library of reading matter from home, Seymour predicts his brother's success as a writer as well as his own death and condemns the ironic " twist " endings in the stories of Anatole France, twist endings being an early Salinger device.

When seen from above, the twist can be clockwise ( right yarn over left ) or counterclockwise ( left yarn over right ); these are denoted as right-and left-plaited stitches, respectively.

The chirality induces a finite azimuthal twist from one layer to the next, producing a spiral twisting of the molecular axis along the layer normal.

However, the overall twist of nucleosomal DNA is only 10. 2 bp per turn, varying from a value of 9. 4 to 10. 9 bp per turn.

One can replace any round of ( or add a round to ) a stud poker game with a twist round, in which each player is offered the option to replace exactly one card in his hand with a new one from the remaining deck stub.

Osteomalacia is the term used to describe a similar condition occurring in adults, generally due to a deficiency of vitamin D. The origin of the word " rickets " is probably from the Old English dialect word ' wrickken ', to twist.

Sailmakers may introduce sail twist in the design of the sail, where the head of the sail is set at a different angle of attack from the foot of the sail in order to change the lift distribution with height.

In a bizarre twist of fate, Elijah Pierson died, and Robert Matthews and Truth were accused of stealing from and poisoning him.

; Street Surfing: A split deck board connected by a spring rod to allow each half of the board to twist independently from the other, each side only having 1 caster wheel, allowing for tight maneuvers and self propulsion.

It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs.

Line twist in spinning reels can occur from the spin of an attached lure, the action of the wire bail against the line when engaged by the crank handle, or even retrieval of line that is under load ( spinning reel users normally pump the rod up and down, then retrieve the slack line to avoid line twist and stress on internal components ).

The word ' torture ' comes from the French torture, originating in the Late Latin tortura and ultimately deriving the past participle of torquere meaning ' to twist '.

This new twist on his identity in turn further diverged the character from Marvel's character.

It can be more tricky to snug-up, since both lines emerge from the same side of the hitch, but it has less tendency to twist under load.

She cannot create, but only copy, twist and change things from the real world when constructing her version of it.

Strophe ( ; Greek στροφή, turn, bend, twist, see also phrase ) is a concept in versification which properly means a turn, as from one foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.