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End of Watch

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End of Watch	comment	End of Watch is a 2016 Detective Fiction/horror novel by Stephen King, and is the final book in the trilogy centering around mass murderer Brady Hartsfield and retired detective Bill Hodges.By all accounts, Brady Hartsfield is nonfunctional — while no longer completely comatose, he's barely able to communicate or move. However, his mind is far more active than he lets on, and he has sinister plans to finish the work he started in Mr. Mercedes and get revenge on the meddlesome cop who ruined his life.Preceded by Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers and followed by The Outsider (2018) and Holly.
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End of Watch / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
End of Watch / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Compared to the previous two books. Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers were both fairly grounded in reality, with no supernatural elements. This book, however, introduces telepathy, and the powers that come with it. This trend continues in The Outsider (2018), which features an Eldritch Abomination.
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End of Watch / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
End of Watch / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Hartsfield's death is, fittingly enough, perhaps one of the most gruesome ones in King's mythos: suicide after being functionally torn in half by a snowplow.
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End of Watch / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
End of Watch / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The rather annoying text alert that Holly put on his phone (a pane of glass breaking, followed by a voice shouting "THATS A HOMERUN!") ends up saving Hodges during the climax; it snaps him out of the Zappit-induced hypnosis just as Brady is about to take over his body.
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End of Watch / int_24d34dea	type	Gassy Scare
End of Watch / int_24d34dea	comment	Gassy Scare: At the start of the story, 2 ambulance drivers named Rob Martin and Jason Rapsis are sent to check on a man named Harvey Galen, who is suffering from severe chest pains. However, after a few belches and "a trombone blast from the nether regions that had his social X-ray of a wife booking for the kitchen", he already feels much better.
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End of Watch / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
End of Watch / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Brady, surprisingly, feels some regret towards having to destroy Dr. Babineau's core consciousness when he permanently takes over the latter's body, comparing it to ISIS destroying ancient and irreplaceable monuments.
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End of Watch / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
End of Watch / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Brady is finally defeated once and for all and dies at his own hand, but not before killing at least another fourteen people. Hodges succumbs to his cancer during a Time Skip in the epilogue, but goes out peacefully, with Holly and Jerome resolving to survive him and make good of their lives.
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End of Watch / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
End of Watch / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: Brady eventually uses his new Grand Theft Me abilities to permanently take over Dr. Babineau's body, and he plans to keep doing this with other host bodies in the future to endlessly extend his life.
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End of Watch / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
End of Watch / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted by Pete, Hodges's former partner, who does what he can to help. Played straight by Isabelle, Pete's current partner, who is more concerned with advancing her career, and would rather ignore the case to avoid the risk of looking bad by being unable to solve it.
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End of Watch / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
End of Watch / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: This happens to the unfortunate people who have the rigged Zappit games, as Brady can project himself into their minds through the Fishing Hole demo and convince them to kill themselves.
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End of Watch / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
End of Watch / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: An absurd combination of layers of clothes and objects in her breast pockets saves Freddi when she's shot by the Brady-possessed Babineau. It's enough to make one wonder if King took a bit of inspiration from a certain old Bull Moose.
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End of Watch / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
End of Watch / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Al Brooks and Dr. Babineau have their minds corrupted and eventually overwritten by Brady.
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End of Watch / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
End of Watch / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Brady Hartsfield, whose career as a serial killer began with a gruesome vehicular massacre and ended with a telepathically induced suicide epidemic, is forced to kill himself after being crushed beneath a snowplow.
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End of Watch / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
End of Watch / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Jerome hits Brady dead-on with a snowplow at the end of the book. With loving, amazingly graphic detail, the treads rip him violently in half.
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End of Watch / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
End of Watch / int_9e1beee3	comment	90% of Your Brain: Holly theorizes that this might be the source of Brady's sudden telepathic abilities, and that she probably unlocked this dormant 90% of his brain when she bashed his skull with the Happy Slapper.
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End of Watch / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
End of Watch / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Hodges is diagnosed with extremely advanced pancreatic cancer, and is given only a year or two at best. He is beginning treatment at the start of the epilogue, but dies roughly eight months later.
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End of Watch / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
End of Watch / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: Done with almost hilarious ceremony. Thanks to a combination of stuffed pockets and pure, insane coincidence, out-and-proud lesbian Freddi Linklatter survives to the end of the story despite being shot point-blank in the chest by Brady.
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End of Watch / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
End of Watch / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Or rather, Snowplow Fu. Turns out Brady was right all along: payback really is a bitch.
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End of Watch / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
End of Watch / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: Brady gains the ability to project his consciousness into other people who are in a hypnotic trance. What causes this is never made clear, but it's implied to be a side effect of the experimental drug Babineau was testing on him.
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End of Watch / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
End of Watch / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out : Room 217. Also, Freddie's full name is Frederica Bimmel Linklatter.
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End of Watch / int_e22feb9c	type	Mind-Control Device
End of Watch / int_e22feb9c	comment	Mind-Control Device: The Zappit game machines. The loading screen for the Fishing Hole game is known to have a hypnotic effect which Hartsfield uses to take over some people's minds and induce others to commit suicide.
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End of Watch / int_e38abd0f	type	Embarrassing Ringtone
End of Watch / int_e38abd0f	comment	Embarrassing Ringtone: The annoying text alert message Holly installed on Hodges phone.
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End of Watch / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
End of Watch / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Jerome, in the climax, arrives just in time with a snowplow to save Hodges and Holly from Brady.
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