The Believers Ending Explained: What Happens to the Friendship in the End? What Happens to Monk Dol?

The Believers Overview

Three friends, talented and motivated, find themselves defrauded when their successful game is hacked and swindled out of money. In order to repay their looming debt, they decide to get into the religion business and take over a temple to get money out of making it a business. Unfortunately, that comes with its own set of hurdles.

The Believers Ending Explained

The story starts with friends Game, Win and Dear finding out that their uber-successful overnight success of a game has found itself in deep waters after its resources were hacked and wiped clean. Now in tremendous debt at the hands of a loan shark, they try to come up with ideas to pay their debtors off and Win comes up with taking over a small temple and using it to launder cash. Considering the money is mostly unregulated and no one really looks into it, the three of them start to find out the best-suited temple.

After coming up with nothing at first, they finally find the perfect temple and make a deal with the caretaker Tang, who is close to the Abbot of the temple. As they start off by coming up with good plans to make the temple popular, they realise that they need a good monk to sell their idea and eventually land on a forest monk called Dol after being mesmerised by their sermons. Although he needs some convincing, they are eventually able to get him to come to the city with them.

Things start to pick up speed for the three, while a greedy Tang starts to sell drugs with some of the other corrupt monks in the temple. The three of them come across a few hurdles but are able to get out of it thanks to Win and Game’s clever thinking – from rival temples trying to sabotage them to the Abbot’s strict aide coming back to the temple after the Abbot’s health deteriorates, things start to slowly ebb and flow for the group. As they start slowly paying off their debts, however, Tang’s drug business gets caught and the police swarm the premises.

Although Monk Ekachai saves them from being banished this time, the three decide that they have to up their game in order to regain the temple’s dwindling popularity once more. In the meantime, Monk Dol comes back from the forest after a crisis in faith and realises that he has started having feelings for Dear. The three friends decide to sell amulets in the temple and use Monk Dol to bless them. Their plan, however, gets a slow start because people aren’t interested in buying the amulets at first until a horrible bus collision brings up an opportunity for Win.

He asks one of the survivors to market the amulet in exchange for cash and although he refuses at first, after realising that he can walk again against the judgement of the doctors, he genuinely believes in the amulet’s powers. Meanwhile, the police’s suspicions of the three don’t stop; rather, they start to look into them even more aggressively. As the amulet becomes viral, however, everyone starts to feel the pressure mounting on them.

While Game deals with Tang who has resurfaced and is now blackmailing him for money, Monk Dol opens up about his feelings for her and his plans on leaving monkhood. Suddenly, the police arrive at the temple and arrest Win and Dear while Game finds Tang dead in the latter’s secret hideout. Taken for questioning, Win and Dear can’t help but feel pressured while Monk Dol, also taken for questioning, finds out the truth about the three friends.

He is visibly heartbroken and left confused by the new revelations and questions Dear for clarification, hoping that at least she wasn’t involved in this mess but only gets a feeble apology from her. Meanwhile, Win continues to feign innocence and asks for his lawyer while the detective shows Win a document which declares Game as the monk’s aide, thus making him responsible for the embezzlement and the drug charge.

Meanwhile, Game goes to meet Ekachai, who subtly hints that he was the one who killed Tang. It turns out that he was also the one who has been keeping the Abbot sick all this time in a bid to “take care” of the temple. He threatens Game and tells him menacingly that he only wants them to spread Buddhism further, nothing else.

Soon enough, Dear and Win are also let go from the police station and they end up in front of the politician’s daughter who was a big donor of the temple. We learn from Ekachai that they want the three kids to continue doing what they were doing but at a bigger scale – at a provincial temple, because all of them are fans of their great work.

Without any options, and now with a severed arm in front of them, the three agree to continue with the schemes so as not to end up in jail… or worse. Afterwards, they return to the temple and gather their things and Dear finds Monk Dol’s letter which bids her farewell and tells her that he will strive to train himself better because falling in love with her has taught him many lessons. They eventually find out that Monk Kiw has died but at this point, they have stopped caring as well.

Meanwhile, the detective teases Win about his father but refuses to tell him further unless he gives him all the information about the corrupt practices of the politicians. He pushes him to give him information and Win is left distraught by the possibility of finally knowing about his father’s disappearance 18 years ago. Meanwhile, Dear blocks Win, planning to leave all of this behind and travel to America while Game is berated as his home as well.

In the last scene, we see Win finally getting the pieces of his father’s disappearance together from the childhood toy that he and his father made which points towards something shocking. It’s probably some sort of payment voucher that his father left behind.

The Believers is streaming on Netflix.

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