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I've seen a lot of people discussing the ending and some confused so I thought I'd share my thoughts!

Why does the Real Frankie say: "Stop ruining my fucking gameshow!"

When you meet the Real Frankie in that room there’s a white board showing his plans. Which are to help keep the player alive until the final round in order to boost views. By not dying during the climatic moment you’re ruining his show.

How does the contestant survive?

Although it's not shown how the contestant survives. It's important to consider this scene is shown from the audience's perspective. Everyone watching assumed the contestant died so the broadcast ends. Which is why the credits begin to play.

We can also see this through the Real Frankie when afterwards he's watching the credits on his monitors. Along with how he's surprised when the contestant appears.

Why does the Real Frankie recruit the contestant?

When the contestant reveals they're alive this is a golden opportunity.

The broadcast is over (shown also by the TVs being turned off). It's just the contestant and the Real Frankie. Since you won, as promised, he gives you the five million dollars.

Although the Real Frankie helped the contestant survive they're the first out of hundreds to make it this far.

Real Frankie: "You're the first contestant we've ever had who won. Hundreds of people last a few seconds, a few last a couple of minutes, but you . . . you're different. I like that."

So he uses this as an opportunity to try and recruit the contestant for another round. Since contestants are disguised if they do another round the audience won’t know it’s them.

What is the contestant's motivation?

While not explained we're given clues throughout the game. Let's start with what the Real Frankie says about the contestant.

Real Frankie: “But let's be honest with ourselves for a second, contestant. We need each other. Especially you, I mean, look where you live . . ."

We're shown the contestant's apartment which is in rough condition. Along with the detail that the constant has watched prior shows:

It's important to note that the broadcast is privately funded. Most likely through people paying to access the stream and gambling thousands of dollars on it.

ANONYMOUS: "I HAVE 10,000 ON THIS GUY LET'S GO!"

For someone living in those conditions we know the contestant took a HUGE gamble for the opportunity to get on the show.

Considering they spent $3.99 X 769 boxes = $3,068.31

My theory is that the contestant's financial situation may not be the best due to gambling (or other life circumstances) so they chose to stay another round.

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Transcript:

Integrity, Houston. You are six minutes from your forty minute lunar flyby LOS (loss of signal). From all of us, it's a privilege to witness you carrying the fire past our farthest reach, thank you godspeed.

Thank you for that Jenni and thank you to all of you for allowing us the immense privilege to be on this journey together. It's quite amazing and as we go on this journey, I'm thinking about the NASA mission. To explore the unknown in air and space, to innovate for the benefit of humanity, and to inspire the world through discovery and as you've gone along on this journey with us hopefully we're doing just those things. And as we get close to the nearest point to the moon and farthest point from earth. As we continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos I'd like to remind you of one of the most important mysterious there on earth and that's love. Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command that it was to love God with all that you are and he also being a great teacher said the second is equal to it and that is to love your neighbor as yourself and so as we prepare to go out of radio communication we're still [signal briefly cuts] in the field of your love from earth and to all of you down there on earth and around earth we love you from the moon.

Houston copies, we'll see you on the other side.