McWalter Movie Ending Explained & Recap: Does McWalter Stop Drogan?

Simon Astier’s zany French spy comedy, McWalter, follows the unhinged exploits of the titular secret agent, as the narrative pokes fun at every espionage fiction trope and exaggerates it with unabashed silliness. If movies like Johnny English and Austin Powers are the kind of things you are into, there is a good chance that you’ll find this one amusing as well. YouTuber/comedian Mister V, who plays the lead agent in the movie, wrote the character of McWalter himself—and the way he embodied the eccentricities of his creation through his performance deserves a lot of praise.

Spoilers Ahead

Why Does McWalter Go on the Run?

McWalter, the ace secret agent of the United States government’s top spy agency, Advanced Special Service, apprehends a hostage situation in a burger bun factory in the city of Baconfield after local law enforcement authorities and his colleague, Miranda, fail to neutralize the terrorists. Miranda is not fond of the showboat agent and hates his reckless, callous approach to serious situations. However, Chief Sorkin, who has known McWalter for a long while, trusts him despite his eccentric ways of handling things and is quite supportive. McWalter takes care of the terrorists with extreme ease and rampant gun violence and faces the leader of the group, Drogan. The leader, who has taken McWalter’s wife, Tracy, as hostage, with the intention to lure McWalter into coming face to face with him, is disappointed to realize that the agent can’t remember him. As it turns out, McWalter suffers from bouts of amnesia and has a hard time remembering anything—especially when he needs to. He shoots Drogan to death but fails to protect Tracy, who meets her end as a dying Drogan shoots her. 

A dejected McWalter quits the force and isolates himself from his former life until, ten months later, Advanced Special Service agents arrive at his door to summon him to the headquarters. Miranda reveals the series of bombings, which has been happening all around the world for the last few months, are seemingly linked with McWalter, as his DNA has been found in every crime scene. Even Chief Sorkin is suspecting his former top spy; as during the latest bombing, which took place in Beijing, McWalter was absent from Baconfield Club’s baseball game—something that is totally out of character for him. Before McWalter gets a chance to explain anything, the HQ gets bombed, resulting in the death of a dozen agents and Chief Sorkin getting severely injured. McWalter is branded as the prime suspect by the agency and media and has to go on the run.

Does McWalter surrender to the agency?

One of the operatives of the agency, Pollux, a McWalter fanboy, rescues him and provides him refuge, as he believes McWalter is innocent and he is being framed by someone who has gathered his DNA print from crime scenes. Pollux has found a common link between all the bombings, as he reveals a unique thermo-reactive adhesive, known as Smegma, which is made exclusively by a company of the same name in the nation of Countrystan, has been used to rig the explosives. In order to clear his name, Pollux suggests McWalter visit Countrystan and investigate the connection. Following a trail of clues, fighting off crooks hired by Smegma, and escaping from the coalition of agency operatives and Countrystan police led by Miranda, McWalter finally reaches Bermuda Island, the high seat of the shady chief of the Smegma industries. 

He is shocked to learn that Drogan is alive and he is the powerful, crooked mastermind responsible for the bombing. McWalter faces a moral crisis when he sees photographs of himself and Drogan together, which also act as evidence of his involvement in the bombings. On the other hand, Miranda returns to Baconfield as Chief Sorkin summons her after regaining his senses. Sorkin reminisces that McWalter, an abandoned orphan at a young age, dedicated himself to the service of his country to ensure no one has to face a fate similar to his. Sorkin believes he is innocent, and someone is trying to frame him to keep the agency distracted. However, Sorkin loses his life after getting trampled by marathon runners in the road; to make the ordeal even more ludicrous, Miranda couldn’t help him in time as she was adhering to the traffic rules. During Sorkin’s funeral, a dejected McWalter arrives and surrenders himself to the authorities. He too now believes that he was involved in the bombings and is prepared to accept his fate. However, Miranda, who has been going through a tough time ever since Sorkin’s death, finds out McWalter was not involved in the Beijing bombing and he was indeed present at the Baconfield game. Inspired by Sorkin’s trust in McWalter, Miranda reveals everything to Pollux, who is suddenly uninterested in helping McWalter after becoming the director of the agency. Miranda takes it upon himself to free McWalter from the prison, and the two of them apprehend a recent bombing situation where they spot the culprit trying to flee on a bike. McWalter and Miranda corner the biker, who incapacitates McWalter, causing him to have an out-of-body experience while McWalter nearly drowns in a pool. Miranda is arrested by the agency for helping McWalter. An unconscious McWalter experiences his past life flashing before his eyes and connects the dots to realize his and Drogan’s connection with the ongoing conspiracy.

What is Drogan’s Relation With McWalter?

Countrystan, infamously known as one of the poorest and most uninhabitable nations in the world, sits in the middle of a polluted ocean. Long ago, a major rift in the tectonic plate caused global catastrophe all around the world and could have resulted in the total geological collapse. At this critical juncture, the western powerhouses pressurized Countrystan to act as a drain plug on the tectonic plates, which neutralized the crisis. However, this also destroyed Countrystan’s ecology and economy in the process. Back in his younger days when McWalter grew up in an orphanage, he became good friends with a Countrystani kid, Drogan, and protected him from bullies. Drogan had a dream to free his country from the dictates of the capitalist West regime, which has perpetuated his nation’s misery by imposing on them to act as a drain plug on the tectonic plates. However, Drogan’s ideals were ridiculed by others. After McWalter was adopted by a family, Drogan became lonely and dedicated himself completely to science to alleviate his nation from its misery. Drogan’s master plan involves causing geological instability around the globe by bombing and removing the tectonic drain plug to make the nations who have so far profited off of Countrystan’s misery suffer. Drogan believes he can take control over a ruined world and use its resources to usher in a new age of glory for Countrystan.

Drogan saw McWalter’s decision to leave with his new family as an act of betrayal, and he cloned his former best friend to frame him for the bombings. The photographs McWalter saw of himself, which indicated his involvement in bombing, were of his clone. This is the reason as to why Drogan’s right-hand man, Tristan, and other crooks involved in his shady dealings considered McWalter as a familiar face. The cloning revelation also explains how Drogan was still alive, as he had sent his clone to lure McWalter and kill Tracy. 

Does McWalter Stop Drogan?

As McWalter remembers his forgotten past connection with Drogan, he is able to figure out his plan involving the removal of the drain plug and directly goes to the agency to convince Pollux to help him. McWalter’s revelations quickly convince Pollux, who decides to launch a covert mission in Countrystan to stop Drogan. McWalter, Miranda, and Pollux infiltrate one of Drogan’s socialite parties, and it is revealed that he had gathered funding for his terrorist operations from rich billionaires, who mistook his agenda with a motive of unifying nations for world peace. As Drogan removes the tectonic plate drain plug, a massive vortex originating from the mantle starts pulling everything to the center—and initiates a unification process of separated tectonic plates. 

Miranda goes to steal the trigger, which can be used to seal the drain plug, while McWalter confronts Drogan. Sharing his frustration and pain stemming from his abandonment, Drogan pits McWalter against his clone, whom the agent goofily names as WacMalter. After a grueling fight, McWalter defeats WacMalter and faces Drogan for a final showdown. However, McWalter experiences a déjà vu situation, as Drogan has held Miranda as a hostage and taken the trigger from her. 

McWalter acknowledges how much Drogan meant to him, and even though he can never forgive Drogan for having Tracy murdered, he understands how his emotional pain might have driven him to act vengefully. Drogan is moved by this honest confession and nearly drops his guard when the real McWalter emerges to take the trigger from him. Apparently, WacMalter had a change of heart and shifted his allegiance to help McWalter. However, Drogan shoots them both and takes the trigger. An injured McWalter tries to appeal to his humanity, which prompted Drogan to imagine a better future for his country in the first place, but Drogan is too far gone to be redeemed. 

McWalter is able to trick Drogan into using his hair set spray, which he uses as a fire starter by shooting at it—resulting in Drogan burning himself to death. WacMalter succumbs to the gunshot wound he sustained, much to McWalter’s dismay, and Miranda deactivates the trigger—bringing an end to the drain plug crisis. Miranda sees a vision of Sorkin’s spirit and tries to seek acknowledgement from him for adhering to his advice of following her instinct. However, Sorkin’s spirit is clueless, as he saw nothing erstwhile. 

Much later, McWalter is back in his self-exile when Pollux and Miranda approach him with the proposition of joining a new agency, Country Units For National Threats. McWalter shares his condition to join the agency, as it is revealed that he has created a bunch of his clones, and he wants them to be members of the agency as well for the partnership to work. The ending indicates that there is a possibility of McWalter’s return in a sequel entry, and this time the agency has to tolerate a dozen versions of him.

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