65 ending explained: what happens to Mills and Koa?
Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt in 65 (Image credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment)
The bulk of the film sees Mills trying to escort the young girl, Koa, to the other half of his crashed ship, which is embedded in a mountain 15 kilometers away.
By the time they reach the top, they’ve already encountered a number of dinosaurs, but there’s a second problem on the horizon. Aside from the variety of predators lurking around every corner, there’s also a giant asteroid on course for an imminent collision with the planet.
Against all odds, the pair reach the mountaintop. There, Koa is devastated to learn that Mills had lied to her. At the outset of their journey, he’d told her that her family was waiting at the top of the mountain in order to convince her to come on the hike to the other half of the ship.
Understandably, she’s fairly upset. To bring her back around, Mills confesses that his daughter had died. Since he’d taken the long-haul flight job to earn enough money to pay for treatment for her unknown illness, the whole thing was essentially rendered a pointless journey.
With this new common ground established, the pair are even more determined to flee together. They climb into the cockpit of the vessel and prepare to launch, but a smaller meteorite smashes into the ship and flips the escape pod over. Mills and Koa come to just in time, as two large dinosaurs emerge and begin to close in on the ship.
Koa uses Mills’ scanning device to distract some dinos long enough to help Mills kill them as they try to escape. (Image credit: Sony Pictures)
The pair work together and Mills manages to kill the two creatures before they can destroy the ship. They’re not out of the woods yet, though, as another, larger quadrupedal dinosaur — the one they’d fled into the caves from — returns to seek its revenge.
During the ensuing struggle, the dino rights the spaceship. Mills urges Koa to launch the ship whilst he leads the creature away on foot. Mills is basically out of options to fight the creature, but he lays eyes on the hot springs he stumbled on shortly after his crash. He dives past a geyser, expecting it to kill the beast, but the giant predator survives the first blast and bears down on him whilst Mills is lying on the ground.
As the beast goes to eat him, Koa rushes in to save him by stabbing the dinosaur through the eye with the large piece of bone she’d stashed in her bag earlier. Distracted, the creature thrashes in pain and stays rooted in place just long enough to take a full blast from the geyser, finishing it off and allowing the pair to escape.
With no more dinos in their immediate vicinity, the pair make their way back to the ship and get off the planet just before the asteroid strikes the planet, triggering a mass extinction event and wiping out all life on Earth.
