This picture was aired - mostly, anyway - with the title "Maid for Murder" on Sunday, December 6, 2015. Just before the ending, LIFETIME suddenly cut away to a commercial and then rolled end-credits and a promo for some other feature without ever finishing "Maid for Murder". I'm surprised no one has commented on this.
shareI think that was the ending with her just driving away, unless it cut off before that for you.
shareShe drove away for a moment, yes, and then apparently reconsidered, slowed and stopped at the moment of truth ... and then the channel suddenly cut to some promos, and moments later the credits were rolling past in miniature at a mile a minute and that was it. A totally irrational place for a cutaway, let alone the end!
shareThey were being cute. They ended it there because they wanted to be ambiguous about what she did.
shareWe watched it today, August 31, 2016, and it ended with her driving away, and went to the credits without any commercial in between, so I guess that's how it was supposed to end. But it was a strange ending. 🚐🚔
shareShe stopped at a red light. No way in hell she was reconsidering going back. They were a cute couple, but he could never really stay with a confessed serial killer.
shareI'm watching it now but wasn't much left to do He saw her she knew it told the story & guess he said OK she takes the sign off the side of the truck. Her & the cat are shown driving into the sunset
shareThat is pretty much how the current Netflix version is.
I took that ending to mean we were to be left wondering exactly how perfect Nick was in being a "black and white" mindset when it came to crime.
Remember the first discussion they had about how he was so earnest in his "nobody gets off" world of policing that he'd arrest his own mother? They set up him as a guy who would never cut corners or not do what he was supposed to as a police officer.
Then at the end, he watched her drive away. In spite of us knowing about him that he was a no-exceptions cop.
That set it up for us to be left wondering if he made the call to other police to stop her and arrest her in the van -- or not.
Did Nick succumb to her and let her slide this time, violating all he believed in as a cop? Or did he follow through with his long-held principles in which he'd arrest his own mom if necessary?
We are left to ponder that at the end, I think....
I just watched it and I understand why you felt you missed something. It's not that she was driving away, it's that the end was such an abrupt cut as though it was in the middle of a scene. Usually we have a sense of a fade away with a camera pulling back, letting us see the van drive off into the traffic, and the music fade, or end the chorus, something to give us the sense of closure. That didn't happen here. It was a close up of her driving with the music playing and then is just suddenly cut. I think that was a case of bad editing or bad directing.