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Flash forward to the end, and one of the passengers onboard a rescue truck being escorted by the army is that very woman, holding her two children to her. Crippled by fear of the horrors that await outside, no one volunteers, not even David. To understand the most symbolic aspect of the ending you have to mentally rewind to early on in the crisis when an unnamed woman played by Darabont's future "Walking Dead" star Melissa McBride asks for someone in the supermarket to leave and walk home with her so she can get her two kids. The mist begins to clear and David realizes that if he had waited five more minutes he, his son, and his friends would have been saved.īut that is not the true knife through the heart. More tanks follow with armed soldiers wielding flamethrowers.

Something emerges from the mist, but it is not a monster.