Carjackers ending explained: Why did Nora break the sacred rule of not killing anyone?

Nora (Zoé Marchal) is a staff worker at the Imperial Hotel in Kamel Guemra's Carjackers, where she isn’t waiting for tips from the clients who visit—she just robs them with her crew: Steve (Bosh), Zoé (Chilla), and Prestance (Alassane Diong). They are half Robin Hoods because they rob the rich but don’t distribute the loot among the poor.

Talk about morals—this crew in Carjackers goes by the rule that no matter what, they cannot kill anyone during their heists. Maybe that’s why they’re all sweaty when, during one of their jobs, they almost kill a man. But then Nora eventually breaks the rule and kills a man (actually, two) as part of her revenge.

It’s not just Nora, her entire crew works as the hotel’s staff. Their hospitality services allow them to observe and analyze their potential targets. That place is full of ‘Richie Riches,’ and all they have to do is pick one and patiently keep tabs before they finally rob him or her.

Nora is taking revenge with a blue blood in Carjackers

The crew goes about their day serving clients and robbing them by lunch—or whenever they’re off duty. But then Nora discovers a colleague of hers was raped by Peter Vandervielt (Colin Bates), one of the hotel’s clients, and now she wants to do something about it.

Capitalism favors capitalism—or at least that’s what the Imperial Hotel management believes—as they try to suppress the matter at the request of their "important client." Nora was sizing up the gang’s next target, but this changed the plan.

Now she wants to rob Peter. But while all of this is happening in Carjackers, the Imperial Hotel has already hired an investigator, Elias (Franck Gastambide), following the string of robberies involving their clients. He suspects the threat is somewhere within the hotel. And while investigating, he eventually deduces it’s Nora.

A time for a kill, or two

Nora and the crew pull off the robbery and snatch diamonds from Peter. But wait—he’s cool about it because he had planted a tracker among the stolen goods. “Joke’s on them,” he might have thought. But wait, Pete.

Elias, now certain about the culprits, confronts the half-Robin Hood crew and does what a hitman does: kills them all—well, except Nora. Now she’s devastated and in need of guidance, so her mentor steps in and gives her the much-needed enlightenment: take revenge.

Okay! I am vengeance!

Now Carjackers sees her going after Peter—and she shoots the blue blood dead. Told you to wait, Pete! Joke's on you. Sorry, the bullets' on you.

But that’s only half the revenge. Our investigator knows she’s involved with a man romantically and uses him against her. Elias wants to know where all the money she and her crew have hidden (hmm… talk about morals).

A fight ensues, and Elias ends up being stabbed to death in Carjackers as her lover watches in horror and runs. So that’s the other half of her revenge. And now she can take a sigh of relief—alone. With her crew gone but a whole lot of money, she may choose to give it to charity (remember those morals?). Or maybe, she’ll use it to live a life her crewmates would have lived.