The end of Avatar: Fire and Ash (predictably) sees Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) brawling with guns, knives, and their fists. But is Quaritch dead at the end of their battle? Stephen Lang told us he might not be gone forever… Spoilers ahead!
At the end of Fire and Ash’s behemoth runtime of three hours and 17 minutes, Sully and his family manage to repel the Resources Development Administration once more as various clans and animals unite to drive them back from a Tulkun hunting expedition.
But the emotional part of the final battle revolves around Sully, Quaritch, and the villain’s son Spider Socorro (Jack Champion). Quaritch is still determined to bring Spider in so the RDA can figure out a way to replicate his ability to breathe normally on Pandora, but the teenager wants to stay with his adoptive family.
The impressive fight takes place over numerous floating rocks near a gravity vortex that destroyed a large portion the RDA’s forces, and it ends with Quaritch falling to his death. But is that really what happened? Dexerto quizzed Stephen Lang to ask if Quaritch is really dead…
Is Quaritch dead?
It’s easy to see why audiences might question if Quaritch is dead – he chooses to fall into a fiery inferno rather than get taken alive by Jake, Neytiri, and the rest of their forces. But Stephen Lang told us that “You don’t see him die,” and in the world of film and TV, if the audience doesn’t see a dead body, that means there’s room to come back in the future.
“Well, I mean, you don’t you don’t see him die, you just see him plummeting. Oh, people are always plummeting in Pandora! I don’t know if you know this, but people plummet constantly in Pandora,” Lang explained. “People fall off things, that’s why Eywa invented roots!”
Lang continued: “Right now, as it happened, he’s not over the jungles, he’s not over the forests of Pandora, he’s over flaming water, so it doesn’t look good… I’d say that it really doesn’t look good for Quaritch. But, you know, he’s a tough son of a gun.”
Quaritch is a tough son of a gun, and he’s already been brought back from the dead once, so it really wouldn’t be that surprising if he survives of his own accord. Or it would be quite easy for those pesky RDA scientists to revive him, since they’re the ones who started the whole Avatar program in the first place.
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