The Card Counter Ending & Final Scene Explained

Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter explores a dark storyline and its ending is even darker, and here is the Card Counter ending explained. The story revolves around William “Bill” Tell (Oscar Isaac), a gambler with a dark past. While on the casino circuit, he meets La Linda (Tiffany Haddish), who offers to front him money to be part of her stable. At first refusing, Bill soon meets Cirk (Tye Sheridan) a young, troubled man with ties to Bill’s past, namely a man named Maj. John Gordo (Willem Dafoe), and Bill agrees to work for La Linda in order to win enough earnings to set Cirk on the right path again.