Muzzle: City Of Wolves Ending Explained And Full Story: How Does Argos Help Jake Kill Totec? 

Dogs in films, as we know, can turn into very heartbreaking stories in no time. I dread seeing a cutie appear only to fear for its life. Well, take an equally adorable and badass veteran who lives for dogs and trains them for a living. John Stalberg Jr.’s “Muzzle: City of Wolves” is the direct sequel to the first part, and even though you don’t really need to watch it to get this film, you can find the recap here. Aaron Eckhart is a charmer through and through, and with his sidekick being a ferocious pawed animal, I don’t see any reason to not love this film. It’s entertaining, there’s the constant threat of the dog dying, and there’s a man who takes himself as God, determined to kill everybody on his path. It’s a simple story of choosing between the good and the evil, and it doesn’t get any better than this.

Spoilers Ahead

The film opens with the new villain, Totec, the leader of the Santa Muerta cartel, killing a man with some ferocious dogs shredding him apart. Totec feels that he’s a god himself and worships the female folk saint Santa Muerte, which translates to “Our Lady of Holy Death.” He has got eyes everywhere, and he’s bought practically half the people in the town to get revenge from Jake Rosser. Coming to Jake, he’s now retired from the police force and trains dogs for the K9 unit. Jake now has a kid with Mia, and they are living a pretty good life, as Mia claims that Jake is now even sleeping well at night. Socks, from the last film, has now become a full-on house pet, while Jake’s new companion in battle is Argos, who’s been trained to become a narcotics dog. But their seemingly perfect life comes to a halt when an intruder attacks Jake, and even though Jake is able to fight him off with the help of four of his canine companions, just as he walks outside the house, a bomb explodes, killing Socks and the other dogs. Socks’ death takes a really bad toll on Jake, and Argos refuses to leave his side when he goes to scatter Socks’ ashes. Meanwhile, the LAPD is investigating Jake for the blast, and he also overhears Mia talking to someone, where she mentions that she’s getting exhausted trying to support him through it all. With the mortgage and his business loans, Jake doesn’t get help from the insurance company either. He meets Detective Cutler, and she tells Jake that the cartel is after him for his antiques in the prequel and that the new leader is nothing less than a demon, who kidnaps the families of people and puts their corpses on display in the middle of the town if he feels like it. 

Jake meets Cutler at a taco restaurant, where she reveals that her mother is also kidnapped by the cartel, and it’s a setup. The staff of the restaurant turns out to be Totec’s puppets, and one of them hands a gun to Jake, and a bullet along with it. A round of Russian roulette follows, with stakes laid out in the ugliest way possible: survive the first trigger and Jake’s son lives; make it through the second and his wife lives; the third, Cutler walks; and if he somehow survives the fourth, even Argos gets to live. Jake does survive four rounds, and when a customer knocks on the door, Jake uses the opportunity to shoot the negotiator of the cartel. Argos quickly jumps on another goon to bite his head off, and when Jake commands Argos to attack another guy, you see the dog is traumatized from his friends dying and refuses to attack. Jake does manage to kill the last of the men and make it out in one of their pickup trucks. Jake calls the cop in charge of the security of the house to make sure Mia and his kid are safe, and soon, Totec himself calls Jake. The pickup explodes, and Jake somehow jumps out of the car with Argos in time. A cop named Beekman arrests Jake and puts Argos in the hands of animal control. When Jake tries to save Argos, Beekman hits Jake on the head and knocks him out. Upon opening his eyes, he finds himself cuffed in a hospital bed, and Beekman tells the nurse, Liz, that Jake is a terrorist, a white supremacist. But Jake manages to get a coin out of his pocket to uncuff himself, and when Beekman reveals that he’s working for Totec, he’s not even surprised. Beekman offers Jake a drink that will kill him quietly, but Jake uses the handcuff to take Beekman down and escapes. On his way out, he tells Liz that Beekman is a dirty cop, but the innocent nurse chooses to believe Beekman instead, who gives her the same drink Jake warned her about, before suffocating her with a pillow to make sure the finger points to Jake. He wipes the blood off the floor and tells his wife to run away with their kids. Totec warns Beekman that he must get Jake by any means. While the news channels portray Jake as a terrorist, and forensic psychiatrists try to understand his mind on live TV, Jake is on the run trying to save his family and his missing dog. Argos is in the shelter, about to be euthanized, but he uses his brain to break free from the cage, and he makes a run for his life with a muzzle on his face. Argos is adorable, and I’m proud of this dog. Crying emoji here. 

Now completely controlled by Totec, Beekman shows up outside the gas station where Jake was trying to convince the teenage cashier, Doug, to let him take some gas. But when Doug thinks Beekman is a cop who’s going to save him from the intruder, Beekman immediately guns the poor boy down. Beekman then repeats Totec’s gospels, which makes absolutely no sense, and then, instead of killing Jake, who’s already dropped his weapon because Beekman is holding Cutler hostage, Totec asks Beekman to burn himself down if he wants to save his family. All this mysterious man wants is to prove a point nobody is getting, and Beekman pours a generous amount of oil all over himself. On the other hand, good boy Argos sniffs his way through the whole city to find his handler, and he bites Beekman and comes back to Jake. Beekman is now on fire, and Jake tries to save an injured Cutler who’s bleeding out. But Cutler does tell Jake to throw his belt away, which has been bugged all along to track him down. 

On his way to the hospital, Mia calls Jake, who tells him that the cop who was stationed outside has been killed. Mia is terrified for her and her son’s life, and Jake is near enough to save her. But just as the ambulance makes its way to Jake’s street, Mia’s phone starts beeping, and a car crashes into the ambulance. Jake and Argos are still alive and kicking, but they barely escape the sniper, Totec himself. Jake, Mia, and Cutler take shelter in an old neighbor’s house, and Totec kills the old man as soon as we see him. His wife is devastated, and Jake somehow keeps everyone alive from Totec’s shooting spree. When Totec steps inside the house, he shoots the old woman from point-blank. But Argos uses the best of his instincts to bite Totec just enough to make him drop his gun, and that gives Jake the time to fire multiple rounds on his body. Totec dies while saying that gods don’t die, and he might be right, but he’s no god. At the end of the film, we do not know what happens to Argos, but we do see Mia visiting Jake in prison, which indicates how rotten the system really is. The man got attacked by the cartel, and it’s him who ends up in jail. Mia and Jake have very different ideas of love and how to live their lives, and even though Jake wants her to leave him, she’d rather not live if it has to be that way. Mia is surely going nowhere, and she’s going to raise their kid until Jake makes it out of the prison.